What the corpus says about Frances Ha

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Frances Ha 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 Frances Ha 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 · ‘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 · ‘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 · ‘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"
[pairs] Frances Ha ↔ Singin' in the Rain · said 2 times in 1 episode
[The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:52:00 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Frances Ha · fun · Speaker was the same age as Frances in New York; the movie made by two people falling in love. · "this is a movie made by 2 people who were very clearly falling in love as it was being made"
[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 · 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."
[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 · 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."
[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)
[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 Frances Ha; name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Frances Ha 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.