What the corpus says about Following

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Following 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 Following 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.

[Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead · 0:49:25 · unknown (0.35)] Eraserhead ↔ Following · craft · Nolan's debut was made like Eraserhead, piecemeal with day-job actors, and Lynch became a guy for people with limited resources. · "made his film in a similar way, and I don't know if he's ever cited Lynch being the inspiration"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Fear & Desire / Killer's Kiss · 0:39:36 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Fear and Desire ↔ Following · rough first film · Following is the speaker's good example of a rough, interesting debut like this one. · "Like, well, I think following is a good version of this."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing · 0:10:54 · David Sims (0.40)] Christopher Nolan ↔ Following · does not disown early work · Nolan, unlike Kubrick, does not disown his rough-draft first feature. · "Christopher Nolan doesn't disown following"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead · 0:02:39 · Griffin Newman (0.30)] Eraserhead ⇒ Devo (the host's read) · lineage · Devo covered the Eraserhead song and played it live for a while. · "Devo covered that song?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 0:23:34 · David Sims (0.50)] Stanley Kubrick ↔ Fear and Desire · lineage · Kubrick's four explicit war movies are Strangelove, Fear and Desire, Full Metal Jacket and Paths of Glory. · "This strange love, fear and desire, and full metal jacket."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead · 0:02:45 · David Sims (0.30)] Eraserhead ⇒ Modest Mouse (the host's read) · lineage · Modest Mouse is named among the bands who covered the Eraserhead song. · "Modest mouse. Modest mouse."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Fear & Desire / Killer's Kiss · 0:43:13 · unknown (0.30)] Fear and Desire ↔ Top Gun: Maverick · theme · The unnamed enemy is like Top Gun Maverick's war without a country. · "it almost feels like a Top Gun Maverick thing of just, like, just let me tell a story about war without, like, being anything."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead · 0:02:47 · David Sims (0.30)] Eraserhead ⇒ The Meteors (the host's read) · lineage · The Meteors are named among the bands who covered the Eraserhead song. · "The meteors would do it."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Fear & Desire / Killer's Kiss · 0:49:04 · unknown (0.30)] Fear and Desire ↔ La Grande Illusion · theme · Cutting to the generals feels like Grand Illusion. · "But it almost feels like a grand illusion thing where you like, you then cut to the office and you stay in their perspective for a while, you know?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead · 0:02:53 · David Sims (0.30)] Eraserhead ⇒ The Pixies (the host's read) · lineage · The Pixies covered the Eraserhead song, on one of the John Peel records. · "Yeah, the pixies, it's on one of the John Peel records, I think."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing · 0:20:29 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] The Killing ↔ Fear and Desire · craft · The Killing's documentary feel recalls Fear and Desire and Kubrick's earlier work. · "Fear and desire feels very documentary-esque."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead · 1:01:14 · unknown (0.30)] Eraserhead ↔ Buster Keaton · lineage · Henry is a nightmare version of a Keaton-style put-upon silent comedy hero. · "He's like a nightmare version of like a Buster Keaton character, whatever."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Fear & Desire / Killer's Kiss · 0:02:18 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Fear and Desire ↔ The Twilight Zone · craft · The opening narration feels like the Twilight Zone. · "that intro, narration, despite not making perfect sense, feels very Twilight Zone"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead · 1:25:38 · unknown (0.30)] Eraserhead ↔ Roy Orbison · lineage · The 50s-60s weepy ballad style, Roy Orbison type music, recurs through Lynch's work. · "Obviously, the sort of Roy Orbison type music recurs throughout his"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead · 1:29:21 · unknown (0.30)] Eraserhead ⇒ Alien (the host's read) · lineage · The gooey animatronic creature work in Alien and later films may trace back to Eraserhead. · "I mean, the thought that comes to mind is, um, alien."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead · 1:29:28 · David Sims (0.45)] Eraserhead ⇒ H.R. Giger (the maker said so: Giger says it was one of his big eye-opening moments) · lineage · Giger called Eraserhead one of his big eye-opening moments, and Lynch later accused him of stealing his ideas. · "H.R. Gigger, loves this movie, says it's one of his, like, you know, big eye-opening moments in his life"
[speaker] David Sims · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Prepares history: novel, casting, budgets, box office. Reveres the film and thinks it reads as a normal ground-level story. A sucker for Hollywood deal backstory and box office game. · stances: Praises Keitel and Dafoe casting; Respects Scorsese's persistence and Corman discipline; The film is now well regarded though not 'canonical Marty'
[speaker] Griffin Newman · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Calls Last Temptation his college-era favorite Scorsese; loves Scorsese's smaller 80s and the film's closing transcendence and Gabriel score. Cannot stand fundamentalist outrage at it. A sucker for casting trivia and Tom Cruise-silliness. · stances: Hot take: Last Temptation structurally mirrors New York, New York as a better version; Outrage over the film is stupid; it is respectful to Jesus; Scorsese's smaller 80s work beats his later baroque phases

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 Following; name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Following 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.