What the corpus says about The Killing (1956)

The 54 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 (26)

  1. [The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ · 0:47:05 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] The Killing ⇒ Reservoir Dogs (the maker said so: a Tarantino quote the host reads) · lineage · Tarantino said Reservoir Dogs was his version of Kubrick's heist film, without meaning it as a ripoff. · "but I did think of it as my killing, my take on that kind of heist movie."
  2. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing · 0:05:46 · David Sims (0.40)] Clean Break (novel) ⇒ The Killing (the host's read) · lineage · The film is the screen version of the novel Clean Break. · "Clean Break was the name of the book."
  3. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing · 1:28:00 · David Sims (0.35)] The Killing ⇒ The Dark Knight (the host's read) · lineage · The clown mask is said to look basically like the Joker mask Nolan pays homage to in The Dark Knight. · "Nolan obviously pays homage to in the Dark Knight"
  4. [Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 0:41:29 · unknown (0.40)] Paths of Glory ↔ The Killing · craft · The overcomplicated hard-boiled dialogue of the rewrite is the kind that rules in The Killing. · "that's like the kind of dialogue that like rules in the killing."
  5. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing · 0:19:39 · David Sims (0.40)] The Killing ↔ Day of the Fight · craft · The racetrack footage reminds the speaker of Day of the Fight and Kubrick's Look magazine work. · "It reminds me of, you know, a lot of Kubrick stuff like Day of the Fight"
  6. [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."
  7. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing · 1:08:38 · Patton Oswalt (0.40)] The Killing ↔ Giant · contrast · The Killing's little low-budget kind stands against the bloated epics (Giant, King and I, Ten Commandments) of the era. · "all the great movies from this era are these little low budget"
  8. [Blank Check — Patreon · Dr. Strangelove... · 0:58:51 · David Sims (0.45)] Dr. Strangelove ↔ The Killing · people · Kubrick brought in Sterling Hayden from The Killing for Ripper. · "okay, and then he brings in Sterling Hayden from the killing."
  9. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing · 0:17:01 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] The Killing ↔ Crime Wave · people · Hayden and Carey both appear in Crime Wave and The Killing. · "he's in crime wave, obviously."
  10. [Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita · 0:40:30 · unknown (0.30)] The Killing ↔ Lolita · industry · Harris sold his rights to The Killing to raise the money to buy Lolita's rights. · "Um, has to sell his rights to the killing."
  11. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing · 0:18:40 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] The Killing ↔ Marty · industry · United Artists compared the film to Marty as a low-budget A picture. · "United Artists sort of compares it to Marty"
  12. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing · 1:31:50 · Patton Oswalt (0.40)] The Killing ↔ The Searchers · industry · The Searchers topped the box office the week of release, a hit with a Dell comics tie-in. · "it was a big hit and it like had like a Dell comics tie in"
  13. [Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus · 0:39:11 · David Sims (0.50)] The Killing ⇒ One-Eyed Jacks (the host's read) · led to · Brando had seen The Killing and Paths of Glory and wanted Kubrick to direct his western. · "Marlon Brando had seen the killing and had seen paths of glory and thought Kubrick was great."
  14. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing · 0:05:59 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] The Killing ↔ Deathbed: The Bed That Eats · title bit · Bed of Fear leads to Patton's Deathbed riff and the title debate. · "one of my favorite routines of yours of all time"
  15. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing · 0:09:09 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] The Killing ↔ Evil Dead · title · The Killing as a title is like The Evil Dead; obvious words on a poster. · "what we talked about with the evil dead"
  16. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing · 0:10:16 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Fear and Desire ↔ The Killing · first real film · Kubrick disowned Fear and Desire and treated Killer's Kiss as a warm-up, so The Killing is the first film he respects. · "this is probably the 1st movie, Kubrick respects in his filmography"
  17. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing · 0:20:52 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] The Killing ↔ Eyes Wide Shut · trajectory · Kubrick goes from documentary reality to building his own fake New York by Eyes Wide Shut. · "by the time you get to eyes wide shut and he has no interest in capturing reality"
  18. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing · 0:41:16 · Patton Oswalt (0.45)] The Killing ↔ Charley Varrick · same dream · Johnny Clay wants to vanish and live quietly on the money, like Matthau in Charley Varrick, though Matthau seems to want a nap. · "He has the same dreams as like as Walter Mathow and Charlie Varick"
  19. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing · 0:46:12 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] The Killing ↔ Magnolia · narration · The Killing's ominous narrator recalls the Ricky Jay narration that opens Magnolia. · "it reminds me a lot of the Ricky J narration at the beginning of Magnolia"
  20. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing · 0:47:13 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] The Killing ↔ Network · narration · The narrator's too-slick, removed vibe recalls the narrator in Network. · "I forget who does the narration in network, but he has that same sort of vibe"
  21. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing · 0:56:25 · Patton Oswalt (0.55)] The Killing ↔ Taxi Driver · modern noir · Patton calls Murder by Contract chilling and unsettling and not like earlier noir, and says the same of The Killing as one of the most modern noirs. · "this is one of the noirs that feels the most modern to me"
  22. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing · 1:05:46 · Patton Oswalt (0.35)] The Killing ⇒ Paths of Glory (the host's read) · led to · Kirk Douglas saw The Killing and wanted that director for Paths of Glory. · "And then didn't Kirk Douglas see this and went, oh, this is paths of glory."
  23. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing · 1:06:16 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] The Killing ↔ Bandido · double bill · UA released The Killing on a double bill with Bandido. · "they put it on a double bill with Bandido"
  24. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing · 1:14:48 · Patton Oswalt (0.50)] Goodfellas ↔ The Killing · documentary realism · Scorsese had the wig-shop owner shoot the real ad, the same real-over-polish instinct as Kubrick. · "directors who really respect the documentary feel and the realism almost to a fault"
  25. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing · 1:29:48 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] The Killing ↔ A Simple Plan · heist gone wrong · Ben thinks he would have pulled off the heist in both The Killing and A Simple Plan. · "Pat, when we covered Sam Remi's a simple plan on this movie, Ben texted us"
  26. [Blank Check — Patreon · Fear & Desire / Killer's Kiss · 1:21:52 · unknown (0.30)] The Killing ↔ Killer's Kiss · successor · The Killing puts all of this in a cooler package with better actors. · "The killing kind of just like puts all of this in a cooler package with better actors, no offense to the actors."

Films put beside it more than once (2)

  1. [pairs] The Killing ↔ Paths of Glory · said 2 times in 2 episodes
  2. [pairs] The Killing ↔ Fear and Desire · said 2 times in 1 episode

Fun items about it (6)

  1. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing · 0:05:48 · Griffin Newman (0.60)] The Killing · fun · A working title for the film was Bed of Fear, which sets Patton off on his Deathbed routine. · "But one of the titles, one of the working titles that apparently was close to happening for this movie, I don't know if you know this, was bed of fear."
  2. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing · 0:19:53 · David Sims (0.40)] The Killing · fun · The racetrack documentary footage was shot behind cinematographer Ballard's back. · "He went behind his back."
  3. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing · 0:50:17 · Patton Oswalt (0.40)] The Killing · fun · In the airport scene the baggage staff are the only two people in the film who don't know it's a noir. · "those 2 actors are the only 2 people in this entire film who don't know they're in an AWAR film."
  4. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing · 0:52:47 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] The Killing · fun · Audiences hated the studio-demanded chronological cut even more, so the jumbled timeline went back in. · "They test screen it and the audiences hate it even more when it's in the right order."
  5. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing · 1:05:01 · Griffin Newman (0.45)] The Killing · fun · UA's Max Youngstein ranked Kubrick and Harris 'not far from the bottom' of their producer-filmmaker teams. · "And Max said, not far from the bottom."
  6. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing · 1:06:30 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] The Killing · fun · Time predicted it would 'make a killing at the cash booth'; Wikipedia's next line is a loss of $130,000. · "going to make a killing at the cash booth"

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (14)

  1. [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."
  2. [The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 1:32:52 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Paths of Glory ↔ Rashomon · programming · Bonus recommendations that are not strictly courtroom movies. · "Paths of Glory the other day, which I don't think is a great courtroom movie"
  3. [Blank Check — Patreon · Gone Girl · 0:36:35 · unknown (0.30)] A Simple Plan ⇒ Gone Girl (the maker said so) · lineage · Flynn used A Simple Plan as her model for adapting her own novel, then worried she could not match it. · "And she said, so I tried to use that as a model and then I freaked myself out because I was like, well, this is too good. I won't do this well."
  4. [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."
  5. [Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 1:46:21 · David Sims (0.75)] Paths of Glory ↔ The Bridge on the River Kwai · programming · Box office game: Kwai, the 1957 Best Picture winner, was number one the week Paths of Glory went wide. · "number one at the box office, the week, the paths of glory goes wide, is the best picture winner of 1957"
  6. [The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 0:55:16 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Sam Raimi ↔ A Simple Plan · craft · Raimi repeatedly makes characters' own choices, not the system, the cause of their ruin, as in A Simple Plan. · "Like in a simple plan, he does this."
  7. [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?"
  8. [Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 0:22:29 · David Sims (0.40)] Paths of Glory ↔ Dr. Strangelove · lineage · Strangelove is the nearest thing Kubrick made to Paths of Glory afterward, both being people talking through absurdity. · "the closest thing he's made to this since this is Strangelove, because Strangelove is also people talking through absurdity by and large"
  9. [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"
  10. [Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 0:25:11 · unknown (0.30)] Paths of Glory ⇒ The Wire (the maker said so: David Simon cites it regularly) · lineage · David Simon reportedly cites Paths of Glory as the number one influence on The Wire: institutions chewing up the people on the ground. · "David Simon cites this regularly as the number one influence on the wire?"
  11. [Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 0:25:22 · unknown (0.30)] Paths of Glory ⇒ David Simon (the maker said so: David Simon cites it regularly) · lineage · The speaker calls Paths of Glory a Rosetta Stone for Simon's stories of institutions versus the people below. · "this is the sort of Rosetta Stone, if you will, for him."
  12. [Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 0:33:38 · David Sims (0.70)] Humphrey Cobb ⇒ Paths of Glory (the host's read) · lineage · Paths of Glory is based on Cobb's novel, which Kubrick read in high school and never forgot. · "Humphrey Cobb's novel pads of glory."
  13. [Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 1:45:25 · David Sims (0.50)] Paths of Glory ↔ Spartacus · lineage · Kubrick makes Spartacus next partly because Paths of Glory made him no money. · "Which is one reason he's going to Spartacus because he really needs to make some money."
  14. [Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange · 0:47:20 · Alex Ross Perry (0.60)] Paths of Glory ↔ Full Metal Jacket · theme · The firing squad of Paths of Glory is set against the sniper of Full Metal Jacket as the gun advances. · "Well, what's the difference between the firing squat, the end of paths of glory and the sniper at the end of Full Metal Jacket?"

Who said it, by their latest sketch (4)

  1. [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
  2. [speaker] Patton Oswalt · latest sketch, Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing · Watches The Killing repeatedly, loves noir and character actors, Timothy Carey stories, Matthau in Pelham 123, Albert Brooks and Adam Sandler's dramatic work, Shudder and the Corman-style ecosystem. Hates the method and the auteur theory. · stances: The method and the auteur theory both get in the way of the work; The Killing's characters are small-time crooks who aren't smart enough; Titles do real work, the killing is a double meaning; Genre outsiders like Shudder directors will be the next filmmakers
  3. [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'
  4. [speaker] Bill Simmons · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · Loves the Friday series as a communal, rental-era memory and tells childhood stories about the ads and theaters. Likes casting what-ifs and sports analogies for everything. Skeptical of horror at Christmas and of anything that wastes the premise. · stances: Friday the 13th is not the best entry but the origin story had to be told; Friday 2 is a leap over the original

The shows' running bits (2)

  1. [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)
  2. [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 The Killing (1956) 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 The Killing (1956) 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 · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ · 0:47:05 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] The Killing ⇒ Reservoir Dogs (the maker said so: a Tarantino quote the host reads) · lineage · Tarantino said Reservoir Dogs was his version of Kubrick's heist film, without meaning it as a ripoff. · "but I did think of it as my killing, my take on that kind of heist movie."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing · 0:05:46 · David Sims (0.40)] Clean Break (novel) ⇒ The Killing (the host's read) · lineage · The film is the screen version of the novel Clean Break. · "Clean Break was the name of the book."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing · 1:28:00 · David Sims (0.35)] The Killing ⇒ The Dark Knight (the host's read) · lineage · The clown mask is said to look basically like the Joker mask Nolan pays homage to in The Dark Knight. · "Nolan obviously pays homage to in the Dark Knight"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 0:41:29 · unknown (0.40)] Paths of Glory ↔ The Killing · craft · The overcomplicated hard-boiled dialogue of the rewrite is the kind that rules in The Killing. · "that's like the kind of dialogue that like rules in the killing."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing · 0:19:39 · David Sims (0.40)] The Killing ↔ Day of the Fight · craft · The racetrack footage reminds the speaker of Day of the Fight and Kubrick's Look magazine work. · "It reminds me of, you know, a lot of Kubrick stuff like Day of the Fight"
[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 · The Killing · 1:08:38 · Patton Oswalt (0.40)] The Killing ↔ Giant · contrast · The Killing's little low-budget kind stands against the bloated epics (Giant, King and I, Ten Commandments) of the era. · "all the great movies from this era are these little low budget"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Dr. Strangelove... · 0:58:51 · David Sims (0.45)] Dr. Strangelove ↔ The Killing · people · Kubrick brought in Sterling Hayden from The Killing for Ripper. · "okay, and then he brings in Sterling Hayden from the killing."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing · 0:17:01 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] The Killing ↔ Crime Wave · people · Hayden and Carey both appear in Crime Wave and The Killing. · "he's in crime wave, obviously."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita · 0:40:30 · unknown (0.30)] The Killing ↔ Lolita · industry · Harris sold his rights to The Killing to raise the money to buy Lolita's rights. · "Um, has to sell his rights to the killing."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing · 0:18:40 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] The Killing ↔ Marty · industry · United Artists compared the film to Marty as a low-budget A picture. · "United Artists sort of compares it to Marty"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing · 1:31:50 · Patton Oswalt (0.40)] The Killing ↔ The Searchers · industry · The Searchers topped the box office the week of release, a hit with a Dell comics tie-in. · "it was a big hit and it like had like a Dell comics tie in"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus · 0:39:11 · David Sims (0.50)] The Killing ⇒ One-Eyed Jacks (the host's read) · led to · Brando had seen The Killing and Paths of Glory and wanted Kubrick to direct his western. · "Marlon Brando had seen the killing and had seen paths of glory and thought Kubrick was great."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing · 0:05:59 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] The Killing ↔ Deathbed: The Bed That Eats · title bit · Bed of Fear leads to Patton's Deathbed riff and the title debate. · "one of my favorite routines of yours of all time"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing · 0:09:09 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] The Killing ↔ Evil Dead · title · The Killing as a title is like The Evil Dead; obvious words on a poster. · "what we talked about with the evil dead"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing · 0:10:16 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Fear and Desire ↔ The Killing · first real film · Kubrick disowned Fear and Desire and treated Killer's Kiss as a warm-up, so The Killing is the first film he respects. · "this is probably the 1st movie, Kubrick respects in his filmography"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing · 0:20:52 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] The Killing ↔ Eyes Wide Shut · trajectory · Kubrick goes from documentary reality to building his own fake New York by Eyes Wide Shut. · "by the time you get to eyes wide shut and he has no interest in capturing reality"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing · 0:41:16 · Patton Oswalt (0.45)] The Killing ↔ Charley Varrick · same dream · Johnny Clay wants to vanish and live quietly on the money, like Matthau in Charley Varrick, though Matthau seems to want a nap. · "He has the same dreams as like as Walter Mathow and Charlie Varick"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing · 0:46:12 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] The Killing ↔ Magnolia · narration · The Killing's ominous narrator recalls the Ricky Jay narration that opens Magnolia. · "it reminds me a lot of the Ricky J narration at the beginning of Magnolia"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing · 0:47:13 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] The Killing ↔ Network · narration · The narrator's too-slick, removed vibe recalls the narrator in Network. · "I forget who does the narration in network, but he has that same sort of vibe"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing · 0:56:25 · Patton Oswalt (0.55)] The Killing ↔ Taxi Driver · modern noir · Patton calls Murder by Contract chilling and unsettling and not like earlier noir, and says the same of The Killing as one of the most modern noirs. · "this is one of the noirs that feels the most modern to me"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing · 1:05:46 · Patton Oswalt (0.35)] The Killing ⇒ Paths of Glory (the host's read) · led to · Kirk Douglas saw The Killing and wanted that director for Paths of Glory. · "And then didn't Kirk Douglas see this and went, oh, this is paths of glory."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing · 1:06:16 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] The Killing ↔ Bandido · double bill · UA released The Killing on a double bill with Bandido. · "they put it on a double bill with Bandido"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing · 1:14:48 · Patton Oswalt (0.50)] Goodfellas ↔ The Killing · documentary realism · Scorsese had the wig-shop owner shoot the real ad, the same real-over-polish instinct as Kubrick. · "directors who really respect the documentary feel and the realism almost to a fault"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing · 1:29:48 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] The Killing ↔ A Simple Plan · heist gone wrong · Ben thinks he would have pulled off the heist in both The Killing and A Simple Plan. · "Pat, when we covered Sam Remi's a simple plan on this movie, Ben texted us"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Fear & Desire / Killer's Kiss · 1:21:52 · unknown (0.30)] The Killing ↔ Killer's Kiss · successor · The Killing puts all of this in a cooler package with better actors. · "The killing kind of just like puts all of this in a cooler package with better actors, no offense to the actors."
[pairs] The Killing ↔ Paths of Glory · said 2 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] The Killing ↔ Fear and Desire · said 2 times in 1 episode
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing · 0:05:48 · Griffin Newman (0.60)] The Killing · fun · A working title for the film was Bed of Fear, which sets Patton off on his Deathbed routine. · "But one of the titles, one of the working titles that apparently was close to happening for this movie, I don't know if you know this, was bed of fear."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing · 0:19:53 · David Sims (0.40)] The Killing · fun · The racetrack documentary footage was shot behind cinematographer Ballard's back. · "He went behind his back."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing · 0:50:17 · Patton Oswalt (0.40)] The Killing · fun · In the airport scene the baggage staff are the only two people in the film who don't know it's a noir. · "those 2 actors are the only 2 people in this entire film who don't know they're in an AWAR film."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing · 0:52:47 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] The Killing · fun · Audiences hated the studio-demanded chronological cut even more, so the jumbled timeline went back in. · "They test screen it and the audiences hate it even more when it's in the right order."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing · 1:05:01 · Griffin Newman (0.45)] The Killing · fun · UA's Max Youngstein ranked Kubrick and Harris 'not far from the bottom' of their producer-filmmaker teams. · "And Max said, not far from the bottom."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing · 1:06:30 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] The Killing · fun · Time predicted it would 'make a killing at the cash booth'; Wikipedia's next line is a loss of $130,000. · "going to make a killing at the cash booth"
[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."
[The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 1:32:52 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Paths of Glory ↔ Rashomon · programming · Bonus recommendations that are not strictly courtroom movies. · "Paths of Glory the other day, which I don't think is a great courtroom movie"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Gone Girl · 0:36:35 · unknown (0.30)] A Simple Plan ⇒ Gone Girl (the maker said so) · lineage · Flynn used A Simple Plan as her model for adapting her own novel, then worried she could not match it. · "And she said, so I tried to use that as a model and then I freaked myself out because I was like, well, this is too good. I won't do this well."
[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 · Paths of Glory · 1:46:21 · David Sims (0.75)] Paths of Glory ↔ The Bridge on the River Kwai · programming · Box office game: Kwai, the 1957 Best Picture winner, was number one the week Paths of Glory went wide. · "number one at the box office, the week, the paths of glory goes wide, is the best picture winner of 1957"
[The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 0:55:16 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Sam Raimi ↔ A Simple Plan · craft · Raimi repeatedly makes characters' own choices, not the system, the cause of their ruin, as in A Simple Plan. · "Like in a simple plan, he does this."
[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 · Paths of Glory · 0:22:29 · David Sims (0.40)] Paths of Glory ↔ Dr. Strangelove · lineage · Strangelove is the nearest thing Kubrick made to Paths of Glory afterward, both being people talking through absurdity. · "the closest thing he's made to this since this is Strangelove, because Strangelove is also people talking through absurdity by and large"
[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 · Paths of Glory · 0:25:11 · unknown (0.30)] Paths of Glory ⇒ The Wire (the maker said so: David Simon cites it regularly) · lineage · David Simon reportedly cites Paths of Glory as the number one influence on The Wire: institutions chewing up the people on the ground. · "David Simon cites this regularly as the number one influence on the wire?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 0:25:22 · unknown (0.30)] Paths of Glory ⇒ David Simon (the maker said so: David Simon cites it regularly) · lineage · The speaker calls Paths of Glory a Rosetta Stone for Simon's stories of institutions versus the people below. · "this is the sort of Rosetta Stone, if you will, for him."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 0:33:38 · David Sims (0.70)] Humphrey Cobb ⇒ Paths of Glory (the host's read) · lineage · Paths of Glory is based on Cobb's novel, which Kubrick read in high school and never forgot. · "Humphrey Cobb's novel pads of glory."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 1:45:25 · David Sims (0.50)] Paths of Glory ↔ Spartacus · lineage · Kubrick makes Spartacus next partly because Paths of Glory made him no money. · "Which is one reason he's going to Spartacus because he really needs to make some money."
[Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange · 0:47:20 · Alex Ross Perry (0.60)] Paths of Glory ↔ Full Metal Jacket · theme · The firing squad of Paths of Glory is set against the sniper of Full Metal Jacket as the gun advances. · "Well, what's the difference between the firing squat, the end of paths of glory and the sniper at the end of Full Metal Jacket?"
[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
[speaker] Patton Oswalt · latest sketch, Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing · Watches The Killing repeatedly, loves noir and character actors, Timothy Carey stories, Matthau in Pelham 123, Albert Brooks and Adam Sandler's dramatic work, Shudder and the Corman-style ecosystem. Hates the method and the auteur theory. · stances: The method and the auteur theory both get in the way of the work; The Killing's characters are small-time crooks who aren't smart enough; Titles do real work, the killing is a double meaning; Genre outsiders like Shudder directors will be the next filmmakers
[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] Bill Simmons · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · Loves the Friday series as a communal, rental-era memory and tells childhood stories about the ads and theaters. Likes casting what-ifs and sports analogies for everything. Skeptical of horror at Christmas and of anything that wastes the premise. · stances: Friday the 13th is not the best entry but the origin story had to be told; Friday 2 is a leap over the original
[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 The Killing (1956); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend The Killing (1956) 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.