What the corpus says about Freaks (1932)

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Freaks (1932) and wants to know what to watch next.

Below is what people who love movies said on three podcasts (Blank Check, The Rewatchables, The Big Picture) about Freaks (1932) and the films around it, one line each. Every line starts with where it came from, in brackets: [show · episode · time · speaker (how sure we are it was them)]. A [pairs] line says how often two films were put side by side. A [speaker] line says what that person likes. A [bits] line lists a show's running bits: a format, not an opinion.

[The Rewatchables · 'The Player' · 0:37:01 · Wesley Morris (0.60)] The Player ↔ Freaks · craft · Wesley notes Griffin knows his movies, citing him talking Freaks with Lyle Lovett's detective. · "he's like conversant in freaks enough to like, you know, talk to Freaky Lyle Lovett."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Game · 1:04:58 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] The Game ↔ The Player · programming · Two 90s satirical thrillers about soulless titans of industry caught in a trap of their own design. · "In terms of like 90s, uh, sort of vaguely satirical thrillers"
[The Rewatchables · 'The Player' · 0:03:46 · Bill Simmons (0.95)] The Player ⇒ The Larry Sanders Show (the host's read) · lineage · Bill asks whether The Player is ground zero for the meta-Hollywood strain that runs through Larry Sanders and Curb. · "Larry Sanders and Curb your enthusiasm and all these different things we've had over the 30 years."
[The Rewatchables · 'The Player' · 0:04:08 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Singin' in the Rain ⇒ The Player (the host's read) · lineage · Sean says movies about movies go back long before The Player, e.g. Singin' in the Rain, but this one is far more inside the joke. · "Going back to singing in the rain."
[The Rewatchables · 'The Player' · 1:07:08 · Wesley Morris (0.80)] The Long Goodbye ⇒ The Player (the host's read) · lineage · Wesley reads Greta Scacchi's character as an echo of Nina van Pallandt's ice queen in The Long Goodbye, itself a riff on noir femmes fatales. · "that character is a an echo of another Altman character, the Nina Van Palant character in the longabai"
[The Rewatchables · 'The Player' · 1:27:11 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] The Player ↔ Network · lineage · In the meta-Hollywood movies discussion, Network, Argo, Tropic Thunder and Bamboozled are floated as the nearest cousins, none as acidic. · "But you have never seen a movie this acidic about, you know, the, and also involving the, the level of fit."
[The Rewatchables · 'The Player' · 0:39:15 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] The Player ↔ The Larry Sanders Show · theme · Both treat agents and executives as the villains; Odenkirk's Larry Sanders finale line calls back to Griffin's wish to eliminate the writer and actors. · "So then in Larry Sanders, in the last episode, Bob Odenkirk, who plays, um, Sander's agent"
[The Rewatchables · 'The Player' · 0:57:57 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] The Player ↔ Pretty Woman · theme · The recurring pitch-as-mashup joke (Out of Africa meets Pretty Woman) and the running Julia Roberts and Bruce Willis casting gag. · "How Julia Roberts and Bruce Willis get suggested for every movie is just a funny running bit."
[The Rewatchables · 'The Player' · 1:10:45 · Wesley Morris (0.70)] Greta Scacchi ↔ The Player · theme · Wesley says the 'quirky artist' love-interest type in The Player is a cliche that will soon be replaced by teachers and gallerists. · "But that character is soon going to be like in movies."
[speaker] Wesley Morris · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ · Loves Marisa Tomei, the grits scene, and the clothes; is a sucker for Fran Drescher. Dislikes car-driving-away endings and thinks the film has done harm by encouraging self-representation. · stances: Tomei deserved the Oscar; Race in courtroom movies matters, and this one is warmly integrated; The Nanny is basically Mona Lisa Vito
[bits] The Rewatchables: Apex Mountain (The moment a star peaks; where on the mountain a performance sits); Who Won the Movie (The hosts name the person who came out of the film best off); The Ebert review (Roger Ebert's original review and star rating read aloud. Ebert is cited, never on the show); Casting what-ifs (Who was almost cast, or who should have been); Most rewatchable scene (The scene each host would stop on while flipping channels); Aged best / aged worst (What holds up and what does not); Picking Nits (The little things in a film the hosts love that they don't think totally work: the nits); Double feature (The film each host would pair it with; a programming pick)

Recommend three to six films, and only films that appear in these lines. A series, a TV film, or a franchise counts too when a line recommends it or pairs it with Freaks (1932); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Freaks (1932) itself. For each one, give one short reason in your own words and say whose reason it is: the show, named exactly as the brackets name it, and the speaker when the line names one (an "unknown" speaker is just the show). If the lines are thin, say so plainly rather than stretching them.

Keep a contrast a contrast. When a line sets two films apart, the reason is how they differ; never turn it into a way they're alike. A line with ⇒ puts the source first and what drew on it second, and one marked "the maker said so" is still the host reporting it: say who said it, and never state an influence as fact.

You know only what's on these lines. Add no fact they don't state: not who directed a film, not what kind of film it is, not when it came out, unless a line says so. Say nothing about the store or how anything rents here.

Talk the way a clerk talks to a customer at the counter: plain text, titles written plainly with no asterisks or other markup, no headings, no lists of more than six, no JSON.