What the corpus says about Pearl (2022)

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Pearl (2022) 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 Pearl (2022) 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 Big Picture · The 2022 Movie Draft · 0:59:10 · unknown (0.40)] X ⇒ Pearl (the host's read) · lineage · Pearl was cooked up by Ti West and Mia Goth while stuck in a faraway place during the shoot of X. · "Pearl being a movie that Tai West and Mia Goth just cooked up because they were stuck in, I think, Australia or maybe New Zealand during the production of X"
[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 Big Picture · The 2022 Movie Draft · 0:57:41 · Amanda Dobbins (0.90)] Pearl ↔ X · prequel and trilogy · Amanda watched Pearl because she promised to see MaXXXine and so caught up on X and Pearl. · "which I saw because I promised to watch Maxine. And then I was like, well, I got to watch the 1st two."
[The Big Picture · The 2022 Movie Draft · 0:58:33 · Amanda Dobbins (0.90)] Mia Goth ↔ Pearl · people · Amanda calls it Goth's best performance and amusingly gnarly rather than freaking-out gnarly. · "Great Mia Goth performance, even when it gets gnarly."
[pairs] Pearl ↔ X · said 2 times in 1 episode
[The Big Picture · The 2022 Movie Draft · 0:59:10 · unknown (0.40)] Pearl · fun · Ti West and Mia Goth cooked it up while stuck far away during X, a positive outcome of the 2020 and 2021 struggles. · "also one of those really a weirdly positive outcome of the struggles of 2020 and 2021."
[The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ · 0:55:42 · Sean Fennessey (0.45)] X ↔ Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma · lineage · After X, Pearl and MaXXXine the self-referential riffing on rape revenge and slasher films hit a dead end, and Miasma rebuilds the bridge. · "we have kind of gotten to the conclusive point of self-referential riffing on rape revenge and slasher films"
[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 · 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 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 ‘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 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 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 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."
[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
[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)

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 Pearl (2022); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Pearl (2022) 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.