What the corpus says about The Lost City of Z

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished The Lost City of Z 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 Lost City of Z 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 Lost City of Z’ Director James Gray | The Big Picture · 0:06:45 · James Gray (0.90)] The Lost City of Z ↔ Fitzcarraldo · lineage · Gray places Fitzcarraldo with Aguirre and Apocalypse Now as the famous painful jungle shoots his own film risks resembling. · "the thing about Fitzgaraldo, which sits, you know, sort of in the firmament, along with Agira, the wrath of God, and Apocalypse Now"
[The Big Picture · ‘The Lost City of Z’ Director James Gray | The Big Picture · 0:11:43 · James Gray (0.80)] The Lost City of Z ↔ Apocalypse Now · contrast · Coppola's shoot ran about 270 days against Gray's four months, though Gray says four months is still punishing. · "We were there for 4 months."
[The Big Picture · ‘The Lost City of Z’ Director James Gray | The Big Picture · 0:24:12 · James Gray (0.90)] The Lost City of Z ↔ Adaptation · contrast · Gray rejected a postmodern retelling like Adaptation, already done well, for a classical epic. · "I had seen a kind of postmodern retelling, you know, adaptation, for example, with Nicholas Cage, which is a beautiful film"
[The Big Picture · ‘The Lost City of Z’ Director James Gray | The Big Picture · 0:24:31 · James Gray (0.90)] David Lean ⇒ The Lost City of Z (the maker said so: Gray, the director, speaking on the show) · lineage · Gray wanted an old-fashioned English-language epic in the style of David Lean or Coppola. · "a movie in the style almost of like David Lean or Francis Ford Coppola or something like that"
[The Big Picture · ‘The Lost City of Z’ Director James Gray | The Big Picture · 0:00:34 · Sean Fennessey (0.90)] The Lost City of Z ↔ James Gray · career · Sean says the film resembles Gray's earlier work yet differs from it. · "This is a beautiful movie that is very similar to some of your movies, but also very different."
[The Big Picture · ‘The Lost City of Z’ Director James Gray | The Big Picture · 0:01:21 · James Gray (0.90)] Brad Pitt ↔ The Lost City of Z · people · Pitt, Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner, the producers, sent Gray the book though nothing in his work suggested jungle fit. · "Brad Pitt and DD Guard and Jeremy Kleiner, who are the producers of the movie, why they sent it to me"
[The Big Picture · ‘The Lost City of Z’ Director James Gray | The Big Picture · 0:26:31 · Sean Fennessey (0.90)] The Lost City of Z ↔ Amazon · industry · Sean raises Amazon releasing the film as a sign of the changing industry. · "I'm curious that you've partnered with Amazon to release the movie."
[The Big Picture · ‘The Lost City of Z’ Director James Gray | The Big Picture · 0:28:06 · James Gray (0.90)] The Lost City of Z ↔ Amazon · industry · Gray says the future is Amazon and Netflix, home viewing, and mourns the lost communal experience. · "is a world which is Amazon and Netflix, where Essentially, you mostly watch these things at home on your 60 or 70 inch television."
[The Big Picture · ‘The Lost City of Z’ Director James Gray | The Big Picture · 0:01:54 · James Gray (0.90)] The Lost City of Z · fun · The part of the book that hooked Gray was Fawcett's father, an alcoholic who ruined two family fortunes. · "And it says his father was an alcoholic who destroyed not one but 2 family fortunes."
[The Big Picture · ‘The Lost City of Z’ Director James Gray | The Big Picture · 0:02:38 · James Gray (0.90)] The Lost City of Z · fun · A friend told Gray the explorer is a metaphor for directing. · "a metaphor for movie directing"
[The Big Picture · ‘The Lost City of Z’ Director James Gray | The Big Picture · 0:05:26 · James Gray (0.90)] The Lost City of Z · fun · Gray went to where Fawcett was, found it clear-cut for soybeans, and had to invent the reality. · "And you look around and you think this is Nebraska."
[The Big Picture · ‘The Lost City of Z’ Director James Gray | The Big Picture · 0:08:48 · James Gray (0.90)] The Lost City of Z · fun · On set, Gray asked about crocodiles; the producer said none, then it was a black caiman, which his editor said was worse. · "He said, Mr. James is not a crocodile."
[The Big Picture · ‘The Lost City of Z’ Director James Gray | The Big Picture · 0:10:24 · James Gray (0.90)] The Lost City of Z · fun · Shooting at night, the river rose and swamped the set within seconds; the cameraman ran with the camera over his head. · "within 30 seconds, The biggest rush of water I have ever seen came and overtook not just the set, but all of us."
[The Big Picture · ‘The Lost City of Z’ Director James Gray | The Big Picture · 0:12:30 · James Gray (0.90)] The Lost City of Z · fun · After two weeks in the jungle Gray wanted dumplings from Din Tai Fung. · "the dumplings sent to you from Din Tai Fung with the soy sauce"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood’ Live From Sundance · 0:37:25 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Apocalypse Now ⇒ Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (the host's read) · lineage · The dogs at Spahn Ranch play the role of the Duvall helicopters, constantly present and disorienting. · "He wanted the dogs to be the helicopters."
[The Big Picture · ‘The Lost City of Z’ Director James Gray | The Big Picture · 0:07:04 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Fitzcarraldo ↔ Burden of Dreams · craft · A documentary about the making of Fitzcarraldo, which Sean names. · "Yeah, Bird of Dream, sure."
[The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 1:00:36 · Brian Raftery (0.90)] Apocalypse Now ⇒ Saving Private Ryan (the host's read) · lineage · Two decades of Apocalypse Now, Platoon and Born made Ryan's grit necessary. · "By the time Saving Private Ryan was released, moviegoers have spent two decades being confronted by the likes of Apocalypse Now in Platoon and born in the Fourth of July."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Return of the Jedi · 1:46:41 · unknown (0.30)] Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi ↔ Apocalypse Now · lineage · The Ewok guerrilla war ties to Lucas's Vietnam interest; he was supposed to make Apocalypse Now before handing it to Coppola. · "George Lucas is supposed to make apocalypse now, right?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 1:08:01 · unknown (0.00)] Samuel L. Jackson ↔ Apocalypse Now · theme · Jackson's performance transcends its memes like hearing Satisfaction for real, which then plays in Apocalypse Now. · "It's like you've heard it a 1000000000 times."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 1:08:13 · unidentified host (0.30)] The Rolling Stones ↔ Apocalypse Now · craft · The speaker heard "Satisfaction" play in Apocalypse Now at a recent screening and compares hearing it fresh to hearing Jackson's performance fresh. · "And satisfaction plays in that movie and I was like, this song's fucking good, man."
[The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 0:38:38 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Gladiator II ↔ Apocalypse Now · craft · Sean demands real animals, citing the tiger in Apocalypse Now. · "You're not responding like the way Frederick Forrest responds to the tiger in apocalypse now"
[The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back · 0:59:42 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Apocalypse Now ↔ Apocalypse Now · craft · Watching Apocalypse Now with TV speakers on a streaming service loses the artistic intent. · "if you want to watch Apocalypse Now, you don't want to watch it with your TV speakers on a streaming service."
[The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 0:50:27 · Brian Raftery (0.90)] Apocalypse Now ⇒ Dead Presidents (the host's read) · craft · The Hughes brothers kept an Apocalypse Now poster; the film borrows its helicopter shots. · "The directors were big time movie obsessives, who kept an apocalypse now poster on the wall of their Hollywood studio."
[speaker] James Gray · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘The Lost City of Z’ Director James Gray | The Big Picture · Loves classical, big-canvas cinema: Coppola, Lean, Hitchcock, Kubrick, Fellini, Scorsese. Believes in the communal theater experience and the 90 to 120 minute feature. Wary of testing-driven, branded product; admires directors who build a name as a brand. Respects TV (Sopranos, Breaking Bad) but calls it a different muscle. · stances: Films should be personal, not formula; audiences catch up later; Failure is the norm; stay Zen and keep trying; Theatrical viewing is better than a phone or computer; sad about its decline; Movies are not beholden to literal historical fact; Wants to keep making features rather than go to TV
[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 The Lost City of Z; name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend The Lost City of Z 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.