What the corpus says about Singin' in the Rain (1952)

The 38 lines php artisan corpus:ask hands a model, in the order it gets them, and nothing else. The model writes a clerk's answer from these and only these.

What was said about it (11)

[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 Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 1:13:47 · unknown (0.30)] Singin' in the Rain ⇒ Babylon (the host's read) · lineage · A speaker calls the sound-stage scene a direct Singin' in the Rain homage, 'on steroids times a 1000'. · "Again, like a very, very direct homage."
[The Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 2:51:30 · unknown (0.30)] Singin' in the Rain ⇒ Babylon (the host's read) · lineage · The speaker says Babylon is deliberately built around Singin' in the Rain, with specific scenes mirrored on purpose. · "But it is so intentionally built around singing in the rain that I do think the mirroring of the specific scenes are intentional."
[The Big Picture · The 2022 Movie Draft · 0:55:28 · Amanda Dobbins (0.90)] Singin' in the Rain ⇒ Downton Abbey: A New Era (the host's read) · theme · The Downton film's film-within-a-film plot, with Lady Mary dubbing a silent star, is a pure crib from Singin' in the Rain. · "it's just pure crib from singing in the rain, but it starts as a silent film and then, you know, they go to see uh, the jazz singer"
[The Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 1:14:54 · unknown (0.30)] Singin' in the Rain ⇒ Babylon (the host's read) · theme · The silent-to-sound struggle scene in Babylon echoes Singin' in the Rain, down to the actress who cannot find the microphone. · "And that is a huge echo of singing in the rain."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:52:14 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40)] Frances Ha ↔ Singin' in the Rain · theme · Both are listed as feel-good picks about movement and joy: the pirouette to Modern Love versus dancing. · "the scene of Greta Gerwig pirouetting down to modern love"
[The Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 0:48:21 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Singin' in the Rain ⇒ Babylon (the host's read) · craft · Babylon's walk-on bar scene mirrors the flashback that opens Singin' in the Rain, where Don Lockwood gets a walk-on. · "Um, Don Lockwood gets a walk on part in a bar in that like in that flashback to start the movie."
[The Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 1:44:09 · unknown (0.30)] Singin' in the Rain ⇒ Babylon (the host's read) · craft · A Babylon moment is said to echo Don and Kathy Selden from Singin' in the Rain. · "Also, echoes of Don and Kathy Selden."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:54:19 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Singin' in the Rain ↔ Frances Ha · verdict · Speaker judges these movies by whether they involuntarily smile at the screen. · "At some point, I judge these movies by like, do I just involuntarily smile at the screen."
[The Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 0:56:43 · unknown (0.30)] Clara Bow ⇒ Singin' in the Rain (the host's read) · theme · A speaker says part of the Lena Lamont / Clara Bow type of brassy outsider star is historically real, and Nellie fits it. · "Well, I think like a little bit of the Lena Lamont Clara Beau stuff is real."
[Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange · 1:35:37 · unknown (0.30)] Malcolm McDowell ↔ Singin' in the Rain · improvised use · McDowell says he began singing the song when Kubrick asked if he could dance, and Kubrick bought the rights at once. · "And so I began to sing a singing in the rain, and Stanley burst out laughing."

Films put beside it more than once (2)

[pairs] Singin' in the Rain ↔ Babylon · said 5 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Singin' in the Rain ↔ Frances Ha · said 2 times in 1 episode

Fun items about it (3)

[The Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 1:39:15 · unknown (0.30)] Singin' in the Rain · fun · Makeup trivia: 1920s-30s screen stars look otherworldly because of heavy pancake, blush and lipstick, as with Al Jolson in The Jazz Singer. · "I think that's important because when you look at images of screen stars from that time, and they look otherworldly because they're wearing so much pancake and so much blush and so much, so much lipstick."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:54:35 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Singin' in the Rain · fun · Speaker saved it for the night before surgery as medicine. · "I had surgery last year."
[Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange · 1:35:44 · unknown (0.30)] Singin' in the Rain · fun · McDowell says the song was his idea in the writer's-house scene; Kubrick phoned New York and bought the rights at once. · "He went to Bournwood Studio, telephoned New York, and purchased the rights to the music immediately."

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (18)

[The Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 1:53:26 · unknown (0.30)] Babylon ↔ Snack Shack · programming · A pool-snacks tangent leads to a recommendation of Snack Shack, produced by Rian Johnson's T Street. · "Um, Basically being released independently is produced by Ryan Johnson's company, T Street, and it's a, here we see Margot Robbie losing her nerve and breaking down."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:53:10 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Greta Gerwig ↔ Frances Ha · craft · Gerwig collaborated with Baumbach to put the ambition and yearning of New York in your 20s on film. · "you can feel Greta Gerwig collaborating with Noah Baumback and finding that sensation"
[The Big Picture · The 2022 Movie Draft · 0:57:53 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85)] Downton Abbey: A New Era ↔ Babylon · theme · Both 2022 films are about the silent-to-sound transition in movies. · "this completes the trilogy of silent film transition in movies this year between Babylon, Downton, Abbey, and New Era, and Pearl."
[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 Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 2:30:05 · unknown (0.30)] Babylon ↔ Road House · programming · After a crocodile-fear tangent triggered by Babylon's crocodile scene, a speaker pushes Roadhouse for its crocodile scene. · "I mean, they're just... pretty exciting crocodile scene."
[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 Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 3:06:12 · unknown (0.30)] Zack Snyder's Justice League ⇒ Babylon (the maker said so: the hosts' own account of the show) · lineage · The Snyder Cut watch-along, born of a lost bet, started the show's watch-along concept that led to this one. · "The Snyder, the Snyder Cut thing was a bet that we lost, that Sean was like, if that, that's how the watch along concept started."
[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 Big Picture · The 2022 Movie Draft · 0:57:53 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85)] Pearl ↔ Babylon · theme · Amanda says Pearl completes a trilogy of 2022 films about the transition to silent film, with Babylon and Downton Abbey: A New Era. · "this completes the trilogy of silent film transition in movies this year between Babylon, Downton, Abbey, and New Era, and Pearl."
[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 Big Picture · The 2022 Movie Draft · 0:57:53 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85)] Downton Abbey: A New Era ↔ Babylon · theme · Both 2022 films are about the silent-to-sound transition in movies. · "this completes the trilogy of silent film transition in movies this year between Babylon, Downton, Abbey, and New Era, and Pearl."
[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 Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 0:15:13 · unknown (0.30)] Brad Pitt ↔ Babylon · theme · Babylon is called a smart use of Brad Pitt's skills, with the movie-star persona built in. · "This is a very smart utilization of Brad Pitt's skills."
[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 Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 1:00:58 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Samara Weaving ↔ Babylon · theme · Samara Weaving and Margot Robbie are likened to Vertigo-style mirrors of each other. · "Uh, the kind of Samara weaving Margot Robbie, like being, being like vertigo mirrors to one another."
[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."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:59:04 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Miami Vice ↔ Babylon · theme · Chris likes reclamation projects, films that critics first dismissed, as he does Miami Vice. · "I like reclamation projects."
[The Rewatchables · 'The Player' · 1:24:23 · Wesley Morris (0.80)] The Player ↔ Jean-Luc Godard · theme · Wesley says withholding the nudity you paid to see is a Godardian frustration of the male gaze. · "it's very Godartian, that, that kind of frustration of the, of, I mean, let's just go there for 12nd."

Who said it, by their latest sketch (2)

[speaker] Amanda Dobbins · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · Loves The Strangers' withholding craft and a good tense horror film without gore, but likes fun, communal movies like Mamma Mia. She dislikes supernatural or gory horror, which irritates her more than it scares her. She is a sucker for stars and for Googling a movie mid-recording. · stances: The Strangers is scary because of what it doesn't show or explain; Ending explanation weakens it; no answer would be better; Prefers 'withholding' filmmaking; Defends Mamma Mia as joyful and intentional
[speaker] Sean Fennessey · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · Loves gory, funny, fast genre movies with craft and confidence, especially 87-minute films that never overstay. Can't stand ponderous elevated horror that fills out its runtime with introspection and sad family history. A sucker for the Carpenter-era lineage, Die Hard homages, and directors who break studio dogma. · stances: Resident Evil is one of the best films of the year; Horror movies have become a drag; fun genre experiences are needed; Short running times are a virtue; Video-game films work best when great filmmakers get creative license

The shows' running bits (2)

[bits] The Big Picture: Drafts (Hosts and guests draft films in rounds; every pick is a recommendation with an argument); Hall of Fame (A star's or director's best, ranked and argued); Countdowns (Ranked lists, top five or top ten)
[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)

The whole prompt

As the model gets it, from app/Ai/Prompts/CorpusAsk.md

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Singin' in the Rain (1952) 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 Singin' in the Rain (1952) 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' · 0:04:08 · 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 Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 1:13:47 · unknown (0.30)] Singin' in the Rain ⇒ Babylon (the host's read) · lineage · A speaker calls the sound-stage scene a direct Singin' in the Rain homage, 'on steroids times a 1000'. · "Again, like a very, very direct homage."
[The Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 2:51:30 · unknown (0.30)] Singin' in the Rain ⇒ Babylon (the host's read) · lineage · The speaker says Babylon is deliberately built around Singin' in the Rain, with specific scenes mirrored on purpose. · "But it is so intentionally built around singing in the rain that I do think the mirroring of the specific scenes are intentional."
[The Big Picture · The 2022 Movie Draft · 0:55:28 · Amanda Dobbins (0.90)] Singin' in the Rain ⇒ Downton Abbey: A New Era (the host's read) · theme · The Downton film's film-within-a-film plot, with Lady Mary dubbing a silent star, is a pure crib from Singin' in the Rain. · "it's just pure crib from singing in the rain, but it starts as a silent film and then, you know, they go to see uh, the jazz singer"
[The Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 1:14:54 · unknown (0.30)] Singin' in the Rain ⇒ Babylon (the host's read) · theme · The silent-to-sound struggle scene in Babylon echoes Singin' in the Rain, down to the actress who cannot find the microphone. · "And that is a huge echo of singing in the rain."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:52:14 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40)] Frances Ha ↔ Singin' in the Rain · theme · Both are listed as feel-good picks about movement and joy: the pirouette to Modern Love versus dancing. · "the scene of Greta Gerwig pirouetting down to modern love"
[The Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 0:48:21 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Singin' in the Rain ⇒ Babylon (the host's read) · craft · Babylon's walk-on bar scene mirrors the flashback that opens Singin' in the Rain, where Don Lockwood gets a walk-on. · "Um, Don Lockwood gets a walk on part in a bar in that like in that flashback to start the movie."
[The Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 1:44:09 · unknown (0.30)] Singin' in the Rain ⇒ Babylon (the host's read) · craft · A Babylon moment is said to echo Don and Kathy Selden from Singin' in the Rain. · "Also, echoes of Don and Kathy Selden."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:54:19 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Singin' in the Rain ↔ Frances Ha · verdict · Speaker judges these movies by whether they involuntarily smile at the screen. · "At some point, I judge these movies by like, do I just involuntarily smile at the screen."
[The Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 0:56:43 · unknown (0.30)] Clara Bow ⇒ Singin' in the Rain (the host's read) · theme · A speaker says part of the Lena Lamont / Clara Bow type of brassy outsider star is historically real, and Nellie fits it. · "Well, I think like a little bit of the Lena Lamont Clara Beau stuff is real."
[Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange · 1:35:37 · unknown (0.30)] Malcolm McDowell ↔ Singin' in the Rain · improvised use · McDowell says he began singing the song when Kubrick asked if he could dance, and Kubrick bought the rights at once. · "And so I began to sing a singing in the rain, and Stanley burst out laughing."
[pairs] Singin' in the Rain ↔ Babylon · said 5 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Singin' in the Rain ↔ Frances Ha · said 2 times in 1 episode
[The Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 1:39:15 · unknown (0.30)] Singin' in the Rain · fun · Makeup trivia: 1920s-30s screen stars look otherworldly because of heavy pancake, blush and lipstick, as with Al Jolson in The Jazz Singer. · "I think that's important because when you look at images of screen stars from that time, and they look otherworldly because they're wearing so much pancake and so much blush and so much, so much lipstick."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:54:35 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Singin' in the Rain · fun · Speaker saved it for the night before surgery as medicine. · "I had surgery last year."
[Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange · 1:35:44 · unknown (0.30)] Singin' in the Rain · fun · McDowell says the song was his idea in the writer's-house scene; Kubrick phoned New York and bought the rights at once. · "He went to Bournwood Studio, telephoned New York, and purchased the rights to the music immediately."
[The Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 1:53:26 · unknown (0.30)] Babylon ↔ Snack Shack · programming · A pool-snacks tangent leads to a recommendation of Snack Shack, produced by Rian Johnson's T Street. · "Um, Basically being released independently is produced by Ryan Johnson's company, T Street, and it's a, here we see Margot Robbie losing her nerve and breaking down."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:53:10 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Greta Gerwig ↔ Frances Ha · craft · Gerwig collaborated with Baumbach to put the ambition and yearning of New York in your 20s on film. · "you can feel Greta Gerwig collaborating with Noah Baumback and finding that sensation"
[The Big Picture · The 2022 Movie Draft · 0:57:53 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85)] Downton Abbey: A New Era ↔ Babylon · theme · Both 2022 films are about the silent-to-sound transition in movies. · "this completes the trilogy of silent film transition in movies this year between Babylon, Downton, Abbey, and New Era, and Pearl."
[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 Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 2:30:05 · unknown (0.30)] Babylon ↔ Road House · programming · After a crocodile-fear tangent triggered by Babylon's crocodile scene, a speaker pushes Roadhouse for its crocodile scene. · "I mean, they're just... pretty exciting crocodile scene."
[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 Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 3:06:12 · unknown (0.30)] Zack Snyder's Justice League ⇒ Babylon (the maker said so: the hosts' own account of the show) · lineage · The Snyder Cut watch-along, born of a lost bet, started the show's watch-along concept that led to this one. · "The Snyder, the Snyder Cut thing was a bet that we lost, that Sean was like, if that, that's how the watch along concept started."
[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 Big Picture · The 2022 Movie Draft · 0:57:53 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85)] Pearl ↔ Babylon · theme · Amanda says Pearl completes a trilogy of 2022 films about the transition to silent film, with Babylon and Downton Abbey: A New Era. · "this completes the trilogy of silent film transition in movies this year between Babylon, Downton, Abbey, and New Era, and Pearl."
[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 Big Picture · The 2022 Movie Draft · 0:57:53 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85)] Downton Abbey: A New Era ↔ Babylon · theme · Both 2022 films are about the silent-to-sound transition in movies. · "this completes the trilogy of silent film transition in movies this year between Babylon, Downton, Abbey, and New Era, and Pearl."
[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 Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 0:15:13 · unknown (0.30)] Brad Pitt ↔ Babylon · theme · Babylon is called a smart use of Brad Pitt's skills, with the movie-star persona built in. · "This is a very smart utilization of Brad Pitt's skills."
[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 Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 1:00:58 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Samara Weaving ↔ Babylon · theme · Samara Weaving and Margot Robbie are likened to Vertigo-style mirrors of each other. · "Uh, the kind of Samara weaving Margot Robbie, like being, being like vertigo mirrors to one another."
[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."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:59:04 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Miami Vice ↔ Babylon · theme · Chris likes reclamation projects, films that critics first dismissed, as he does Miami Vice. · "I like reclamation projects."
[The Rewatchables · 'The Player' · 1:24:23 · Wesley Morris (0.80)] The Player ↔ Jean-Luc Godard · theme · Wesley says withholding the nudity you paid to see is a Godardian frustration of the male gaze. · "it's very Godartian, that, that kind of frustration of the, of, I mean, let's just go there for 12nd."
[speaker] Amanda Dobbins · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · Loves The Strangers' withholding craft and a good tense horror film without gore, but likes fun, communal movies like Mamma Mia. She dislikes supernatural or gory horror, which irritates her more than it scares her. She is a sucker for stars and for Googling a movie mid-recording. · stances: The Strangers is scary because of what it doesn't show or explain; Ending explanation weakens it; no answer would be better; Prefers 'withholding' filmmaking; Defends Mamma Mia as joyful and intentional
[speaker] Sean Fennessey · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · Loves gory, funny, fast genre movies with craft and confidence, especially 87-minute films that never overstay. Can't stand ponderous elevated horror that fills out its runtime with introspection and sad family history. A sucker for the Carpenter-era lineage, Die Hard homages, and directors who break studio dogma. · stances: Resident Evil is one of the best films of the year; Horror movies have become a drag; fun genre experiences are needed; Short running times are a virtue; Video-game films work best when great filmmakers get creative license
[bits] The Big Picture: Drafts (Hosts and guests draft films in rounds; every pick is a recommendation with an argument); Hall of Fame (A star's or director's best, ranked and argued); Countdowns (Ranked lists, top five or top ten)
[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 Singin' in the Rain (1952); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Singin' in the Rain (1952) 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.