What the corpus says about Babygirl (2024)

The 57 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 (24)

[The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 2:35:20 · Halina Reijn (0.90)] Babygirl ↔ The Brutalist · programming · Reijn's last great thing seen is The Brutalist; Sean agrees it is his favorite of the year. · "I am obsessed with the brutalists."
[The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 0:24:49 · unknown (0.30)] Eyes Wide Shut ⇒ Babygirl (the host's read) · lineage · The stoned late-night bedroom lecture after the rave echoes Eyes Wide Shut. · "Nice callback to eyes wide shut and lecturing Tom Cruise in the bedroom while stoned out of their minds."
[The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 0:29:26 · Amanda Dobbins (0.55)] Babygirl ↔ Secretary · lineage · The film that Babygirl is most often compared to. · "The movie that I've seen this movie compared to quite often is Secretary, have you seen Secretary?"
[The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 2:16:04 · Halina Reijn (0.90)] Basic Instinct ⇒ Babygirl (the maker said so: Halina Reijn, interviewed on the episode) · lineage · Reijn set out to converse with the 90s and early-2000s sexual thrillers she loved but found sexist. · "I wanted to be in conversation with all the sexual thrillers that I so loved in the 90s and the early 2000s, but then I also thought were incredibly sexist and not human."
[The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 0:03:29 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40)] Babygirl ↔ Hedda Gabler · theme · A speaker reads the movie's edges as Hedda Gabler-style constructs (transcript garbled). · "the further you get to the sides of some of the head of gabbler constructs, some of the robot concepts."
[The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 0:18:51 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Babygirl ↔ The Substance · theme · Same year as The Substance; both are women-made films confronting an actress's aging, one literal, one metaphorical. · "it's an interesting time for this movie to come along in the same year as the substance where that movie makes the metaphorical literal."
[The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 1:40:50 · unknown (0.35)] Babygirl ↔ The Killing of a Sacred Deer · theme · Both give Kidman characters with distinctive sexual habits. · "This movie, and Baby Girl have something in common about how Nicole Kidman's characters like to have sex."
[The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 0:29:33 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Babygirl ↔ Secretary · craft · A wide shot in the motel scene immediately recalls Secretary. · "There is like a, like a beautiful wide shot that you immediately do think of secretary."
[The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 0:05:10 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Babygirl ↔ Basic Instinct · contrast · Babygirl is divisive because it borrows the erotic-thriller look but is not Basic Instinct. · "One of the reasons why I think it's so divisive is, this is not basic instinct."
[The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 0:05:14 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Babygirl ↔ Fatal Attraction · contrast · Babygirl has no murder and no killer; the stakes are a career, unlike Fatal Attraction. · "You know, this is not fatal attraction."
[The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 0:05:32 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Babygirl ↔ Basic Instinct · contrast · No Sharon Stone throat-slashing here; the thriller stakes are only a fall from power. · "there's no Sharon Stone slashing someone's throat."
[The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 0:05:42 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Babygirl ↔ Fatal Attraction · contrast · It lacks even the mania of the bunny-boiler Glenn Close film. · "It doesn't even have the mania of like the rabbit with Clint close."
[The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 2:16:30 · Halina Reijn (0.90)] Babygirl ↔ Fatal Attraction · contrast · Reijn made a thriller where every character is ambiguous, unlike the villain and angel of Fatal Attraction. · "I like there is in fatal attraction or so I really wanted to create my own path in that sense."
[The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 1:08:56 · unknown (0.35)] Eyes Wide Shut ↔ Babygirl · career · Kidman's Eyes Wide Shut work reads as an early beginning of the capstone that is Babygirl; the two films are in conversation. · "a nice little beginning of the capstone to baby girl."
[The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 2:06:29 · Halina Reijn (0.90)] Babygirl ↔ Bodies Bodies Bodies · career · Blending tension and laughter was the same tonal search she began on Bodies Bodies Bodies. · "that with bodies, of course, we also really had to search for that."
[The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 1:57:46 · Amanda Dobbins (0.45)] Babygirl ↔ Destroyer · verdict · Amanda wants both Destroyer and Babygirl in; women can have it all. · "What if I want Destroyer and Baby Girl?"
[The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 1:58:06 · Sean Fennessey (0.45)] Babygirl ↔ Dead Calm · verdict · The speaker would rather rewatch Dead Calm than Babygirl. · "It's good, but like I would rather watch Dead Come than Baby Girl again."
[The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 0:36:48 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Babygirl ↔ We Live in Time · industry · A24 is finding female audiences: We Live in Time was huge with women and Babygirl would be too. · "You know, we live in time was huge with female moviegoers in this movie, obviously, would be true."
[The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 2:00:30 · unknown (0.30)] Babygirl ↔ Nicole Kidman · programming · A listener vote for the last spot is floated. · "What do you think if we put these other 10 things up for the public and they can have the 11th spot?"
[The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 0:31:25 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40)] Babygirl ↔ INXS · craft · A needle drop, 'Never Tear Us Apart', lands when the affair starts hitting hard; Reijn later calls it a song from Kidman's character's generation. · "In excess never tear us apart. I think is the song that hits when their affair starts really hitting hard."
[The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 0:31:31 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Babygirl ↔ Robyn · craft · 'Dancing on My Own' is a much-used song that still feels appropriate in Babygirl. · "Robin's dancing on my own, which has been used quite often in the last 10 years."
[The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 2:33:19 · Halina Reijn (0.90)] George Michael ⇒ Babygirl (the maker said so: Halina Reijn, interviewed on the episode) · craft · Reijn chose Father Figure before writing: a younger man acting fatherly over an older woman with the power. · "I thought, 0 my god, father figure has all these elements, and if you play that, under a scene where this younger man acts fatherly over this older woman that has all the power, that could be so interesting."
[The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 2:34:20 · Halina Reijn (0.85)] Babygirl ↔ Yellow Claw · craft · The rave, the film's climax, was made by Dutch DJs Yellow Claw to be the young people's world. · "rave, uh, composed or do you call that composed created by my friends of Yellow Claw?"
[The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 1:49:23 · unknown (0.35)] Babygirl ↔ Nicole Kidman · verdict · New films are rarely put in the Hall of Fame right away; yellow. · "We very rarely put the new one in."

Films put beside it more than once (4)

[pairs] Babygirl ↔ Basic Instinct · said 3 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Babygirl ↔ Fatal Attraction · said 3 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Babygirl ↔ Eyes Wide Shut · said 2 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Babygirl ↔ Secretary · said 2 times in 1 episode

Fun items about it (6)

[The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 0:06:30 · Amanda Dobbins (0.45)] Babygirl · fun · The film opens on Kidman's orgasm sounds piped in loud; in one screening nobody made a noise for a long time, in another people laughed. · "And those sounds are like piped in loud and there's nothing else, no one else was making any noise for a very long time."
[The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 0:07:30 · unknown (0.30)] Babygirl · fun · Computer-safety gripe: after watching porn on a shared-house laptop she just closes the lid without closing the tab. · "She she doesn't hit stop and close the tab."
[The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 0:10:44 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Babygirl · fun · Dickinson is two heads taller than the other interns in the bullpen, dressed in hand-me-down Brooks Brothers. · "And my guy is 2 heads dollar than anyone else."
[The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 0:13:40 · unknown (0.30)] Babygirl · fun · He tells the CEO not to have coffee after noon; she says she has had seven. · "Seven. Seven."
[The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 2:07:22 · Sean Fennessey (0.90)] Babygirl · fun · The dog-and-cookie scene: Samuel calms a dog with a cookie, then offers her one. In Sean's screening that is where the laughter started. · "In my screening, that's when everyone started laughing was the, do you want one scene with the cookie?"
[The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 2:10:25 · Halina Reijn (0.90)] Babygirl · fun · Reijn writes by playing all the parts herself in her little house. · "No, I write very much, um, I just play all the parts."

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

[The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 1:30:06 · Bill Simmons (0.30)] Internal Affairs ↔ Basic Instinct · lineage · Offered as a double-feature partner for Internal Affairs: a Basic Instinct coded movie. · "Pretty good coded, basic instinct coded movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ · 1:32:10 · Mallory Rubin (0.45)] The War of the Roses ↔ Fatal Attraction · programming · Pair an erotic-thriller double with Roses for a full day of 80s marriage trouble. · "I think that should be like we get an erotic thriller with both of them and then we watch this"
[The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:57:26 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Tom Cruise ↔ Eyes Wide Shut · programming · If Cruise would answer everything, the Rewatchables pick is Eyes Wide Shut. · "I would do eyes-wise shut."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Edge’ · 0:21:57 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Basic Instinct ⇒ Color of Night (the host's read) · theme · Bruce Willis's Color of Night was another Basic Instinct era noir with a famous full-frontal moment. · "Everyone, remember Bruce Willis did that movie where he showed his penis?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Domestic Disturbance’ · 0:04:54 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Fatal Attraction ⇒ Domestic Disturbance (the host's read) · lineage · Domestic Disturbance is the late, bad entry in the 'from hell' thriller cycle that began with Fatal Attraction. · "We had this really good run that starts with fatal fatal attraction into the 80s."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Barry Lyndon · 0:13:57 · unknown (0.30)] Barry Lyndon ↔ Eyes Wide Shut · programming · These two Kubrick films feel warm to the speaker compared with the rest. · "But Barry Lyndon and Eyes Wide Shut are the 2 that feel like they sort of cut through to me on a deeper level, where I feel genuine warmth and affection for them."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Edge’ · 0:22:30 · Van Lathan (0.60)] Basic Instinct ⇒ Body of Evidence (the host's read) · theme · Mid-90s sexy noir all followed Basic Instinct; Madonna's version was a spoof-level bust. · "That was literally like a basic instinct spoof."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Game · 0:28:09 · David Sims (0.40)] The Game ↔ Fatal Attraction · theme · Fincher, in the dossier, lists the Fatal Attraction adulterer among Douglas's friction. · "The adulterer from Fatal Attraction."
[The Big Picture · Janicza Bravo and Brett Gelman Channel Rejection and Anxiety to Make ‘Lemon’ | The Big Picture · 0:04:44 · Alison Herman (0.85)] Eyes Wide Shut ⇒ Juneteenth (Atlanta episode) (the host's read) · lineage · Donald Glover's character describes the party as a Spike-directed reboot of Eyes Wide Shut. · "this is like a spikely directed reboot of eyes wide shut"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ · 0:48:57 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] The Ice Storm ↔ Basic Instinct · theme · Ryan says mass media (Basic Instinct) taught him about sex, like the kids learning from TV in this film. · "mass media had taught me like the basic instinct and whatnot had taught me everything I needed to know."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut · 0:33:04 · unknown (0.30)] Kirk Douglas ⇒ Eyes Wide Shut (the maker said so) · lineage · Kirk Douglas claims he handed Kubrick the novella during their Paths of Glory or Spartacus fights. · "Kirk Douglas claims he gave it to him during one of their like shared therapy sessions"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ · 1:13:20 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Do the Right Thing ↔ Basic Instinct · theme · Basic Instinct raised concern about its effect, a different kind of fear than Do the Right Thing. · "There was concern, though, about whether or not basic instinct was going to what effect it was going to have."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut · 0:33:21 · unknown (0.30)] Ruth Sobotka → Eyes Wide Shut · lineage · Others guess Kubrick's Austrian second wife may have given him the Austrian novel. · "Maybe she gave it to him."
[The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 0:45:18 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Decision to Leave ↔ Basic Instinct · theme · Sean likens Decision to Leave to Park's version of Basic Instinct, a perfectly directed little romantic noir. · "I liked this one as like his basic instinct, you know, like, this is a perfectly directed little romantic noir."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut · 0:33:31 · unknown (0.30)] Arthur Schnitzler ⇒ Eyes Wide Shut (the host's read) · lineage · The speaker says the novel is very close to the film, so close that its plot beats are nearly one to one. · "And it is very similar to eyes wide shut."
[Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut · 1:15:22 · Jourdain Searles (0.50)] In the Cut ↔ Basic Instinct · craft · In the Cut's sex scenes are very intimate and real, unlike Basic Instinct's. · "The sex is very intimate and real."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut · 0:37:01 · unknown (0.30)] Dream Story (Traumnovelle, the Schnitzler novella) ⇒ Eyes Wide Shut (the host's read) · lineage · The speakers note the film's credit says inspired by, not adapted from, Schnitzler's novella. · "It's not adapted from Schnitzler."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut · 0:38:46 · unknown (0.30)] Modern Romance ⇒ Eyes Wide Shut (the maker said so: Kubrick's call to Albert Brooks, 'that famous story') · lineage · Kubrick reached out to Albert Brooks after Modern Romance because he wanted to bottle that dynamic of men and women. · "if you like reached out to Albert Brooks after seeing modern romance and said, like, Brit, and he was like, how did you do this?"

Who said it, by their latest sketch (3)

[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
[speaker] Halina Reijn · latest sketch, The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · Loves the 90s sexual thrillers but thinks they were sexist; calls humor a Trojan horse for dark material, prefers suggestion to two bodies just moving, and loves George Michael's Father Figure as her life anthem. Fan of A24's willingness to follow her into dark ideas, and a self-described prude from radical hippies. Last great thing she saw was The Brutalist. · stances: Babygirl is a comedy of manners about power, sex and generations; America allows her to dream big while Europe weighs her down with history; Wanted a feminist film that includes masculinity
[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

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 Babygirl (2024) 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 Babygirl (2024) 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 Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 2:35:20 · Halina Reijn (0.90)] Babygirl ↔ The Brutalist · programming · Reijn's last great thing seen is The Brutalist; Sean agrees it is his favorite of the year. · "I am obsessed with the brutalists."
[The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 0:24:49 · unknown (0.30)] Eyes Wide Shut ⇒ Babygirl (the host's read) · lineage · The stoned late-night bedroom lecture after the rave echoes Eyes Wide Shut. · "Nice callback to eyes wide shut and lecturing Tom Cruise in the bedroom while stoned out of their minds."
[The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 0:29:26 · Amanda Dobbins (0.55)] Babygirl ↔ Secretary · lineage · The film that Babygirl is most often compared to. · "The movie that I've seen this movie compared to quite often is Secretary, have you seen Secretary?"
[The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 2:16:04 · Halina Reijn (0.90)] Basic Instinct ⇒ Babygirl (the maker said so: Halina Reijn, interviewed on the episode) · lineage · Reijn set out to converse with the 90s and early-2000s sexual thrillers she loved but found sexist. · "I wanted to be in conversation with all the sexual thrillers that I so loved in the 90s and the early 2000s, but then I also thought were incredibly sexist and not human."
[The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 0:03:29 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40)] Babygirl ↔ Hedda Gabler · theme · A speaker reads the movie's edges as Hedda Gabler-style constructs (transcript garbled). · "the further you get to the sides of some of the head of gabbler constructs, some of the robot concepts."
[The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 0:18:51 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Babygirl ↔ The Substance · theme · Same year as The Substance; both are women-made films confronting an actress's aging, one literal, one metaphorical. · "it's an interesting time for this movie to come along in the same year as the substance where that movie makes the metaphorical literal."
[The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 1:40:50 · unknown (0.35)] Babygirl ↔ The Killing of a Sacred Deer · theme · Both give Kidman characters with distinctive sexual habits. · "This movie, and Baby Girl have something in common about how Nicole Kidman's characters like to have sex."
[The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 0:29:33 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Babygirl ↔ Secretary · craft · A wide shot in the motel scene immediately recalls Secretary. · "There is like a, like a beautiful wide shot that you immediately do think of secretary."
[The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 0:05:10 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Babygirl ↔ Basic Instinct · contrast · Babygirl is divisive because it borrows the erotic-thriller look but is not Basic Instinct. · "One of the reasons why I think it's so divisive is, this is not basic instinct."
[The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 0:05:14 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Babygirl ↔ Fatal Attraction · contrast · Babygirl has no murder and no killer; the stakes are a career, unlike Fatal Attraction. · "You know, this is not fatal attraction."
[The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 0:05:32 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Babygirl ↔ Basic Instinct · contrast · No Sharon Stone throat-slashing here; the thriller stakes are only a fall from power. · "there's no Sharon Stone slashing someone's throat."
[The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 0:05:42 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Babygirl ↔ Fatal Attraction · contrast · It lacks even the mania of the bunny-boiler Glenn Close film. · "It doesn't even have the mania of like the rabbit with Clint close."
[The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 2:16:30 · Halina Reijn (0.90)] Babygirl ↔ Fatal Attraction · contrast · Reijn made a thriller where every character is ambiguous, unlike the villain and angel of Fatal Attraction. · "I like there is in fatal attraction or so I really wanted to create my own path in that sense."
[The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 1:08:56 · unknown (0.35)] Eyes Wide Shut ↔ Babygirl · career · Kidman's Eyes Wide Shut work reads as an early beginning of the capstone that is Babygirl; the two films are in conversation. · "a nice little beginning of the capstone to baby girl."
[The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 2:06:29 · Halina Reijn (0.90)] Babygirl ↔ Bodies Bodies Bodies · career · Blending tension and laughter was the same tonal search she began on Bodies Bodies Bodies. · "that with bodies, of course, we also really had to search for that."
[The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 1:57:46 · Amanda Dobbins (0.45)] Babygirl ↔ Destroyer · verdict · Amanda wants both Destroyer and Babygirl in; women can have it all. · "What if I want Destroyer and Baby Girl?"
[The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 1:58:06 · Sean Fennessey (0.45)] Babygirl ↔ Dead Calm · verdict · The speaker would rather rewatch Dead Calm than Babygirl. · "It's good, but like I would rather watch Dead Come than Baby Girl again."
[The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 0:36:48 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Babygirl ↔ We Live in Time · industry · A24 is finding female audiences: We Live in Time was huge with women and Babygirl would be too. · "You know, we live in time was huge with female moviegoers in this movie, obviously, would be true."
[The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 2:00:30 · unknown (0.30)] Babygirl ↔ Nicole Kidman · programming · A listener vote for the last spot is floated. · "What do you think if we put these other 10 things up for the public and they can have the 11th spot?"
[The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 0:31:25 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40)] Babygirl ↔ INXS · craft · A needle drop, 'Never Tear Us Apart', lands when the affair starts hitting hard; Reijn later calls it a song from Kidman's character's generation. · "In excess never tear us apart. I think is the song that hits when their affair starts really hitting hard."
[The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 0:31:31 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Babygirl ↔ Robyn · craft · 'Dancing on My Own' is a much-used song that still feels appropriate in Babygirl. · "Robin's dancing on my own, which has been used quite often in the last 10 years."
[The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 2:33:19 · Halina Reijn (0.90)] George Michael ⇒ Babygirl (the maker said so: Halina Reijn, interviewed on the episode) · craft · Reijn chose Father Figure before writing: a younger man acting fatherly over an older woman with the power. · "I thought, 0 my god, father figure has all these elements, and if you play that, under a scene where this younger man acts fatherly over this older woman that has all the power, that could be so interesting."
[The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 2:34:20 · Halina Reijn (0.85)] Babygirl ↔ Yellow Claw · craft · The rave, the film's climax, was made by Dutch DJs Yellow Claw to be the young people's world. · "rave, uh, composed or do you call that composed created by my friends of Yellow Claw?"
[The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 1:49:23 · unknown (0.35)] Babygirl ↔ Nicole Kidman · verdict · New films are rarely put in the Hall of Fame right away; yellow. · "We very rarely put the new one in."
[pairs] Babygirl ↔ Basic Instinct · said 3 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Babygirl ↔ Fatal Attraction · said 3 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Babygirl ↔ Eyes Wide Shut · said 2 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Babygirl ↔ Secretary · said 2 times in 1 episode
[The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 0:06:30 · Amanda Dobbins (0.45)] Babygirl · fun · The film opens on Kidman's orgasm sounds piped in loud; in one screening nobody made a noise for a long time, in another people laughed. · "And those sounds are like piped in loud and there's nothing else, no one else was making any noise for a very long time."
[The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 0:07:30 · unknown (0.30)] Babygirl · fun · Computer-safety gripe: after watching porn on a shared-house laptop she just closes the lid without closing the tab. · "She she doesn't hit stop and close the tab."
[The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 0:10:44 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Babygirl · fun · Dickinson is two heads taller than the other interns in the bullpen, dressed in hand-me-down Brooks Brothers. · "And my guy is 2 heads dollar than anyone else."
[The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 0:13:40 · unknown (0.30)] Babygirl · fun · He tells the CEO not to have coffee after noon; she says she has had seven. · "Seven. Seven."
[The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 2:07:22 · Sean Fennessey (0.90)] Babygirl · fun · The dog-and-cookie scene: Samuel calms a dog with a cookie, then offers her one. In Sean's screening that is where the laughter started. · "In my screening, that's when everyone started laughing was the, do you want one scene with the cookie?"
[The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 2:10:25 · Halina Reijn (0.90)] Babygirl · fun · Reijn writes by playing all the parts herself in her little house. · "No, I write very much, um, I just play all the parts."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 1:30:06 · Bill Simmons (0.30)] Internal Affairs ↔ Basic Instinct · lineage · Offered as a double-feature partner for Internal Affairs: a Basic Instinct coded movie. · "Pretty good coded, basic instinct coded movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ · 1:32:10 · Mallory Rubin (0.45)] The War of the Roses ↔ Fatal Attraction · programming · Pair an erotic-thriller double with Roses for a full day of 80s marriage trouble. · "I think that should be like we get an erotic thriller with both of them and then we watch this"
[The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:57:26 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Tom Cruise ↔ Eyes Wide Shut · programming · If Cruise would answer everything, the Rewatchables pick is Eyes Wide Shut. · "I would do eyes-wise shut."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Edge’ · 0:21:57 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Basic Instinct ⇒ Color of Night (the host's read) · theme · Bruce Willis's Color of Night was another Basic Instinct era noir with a famous full-frontal moment. · "Everyone, remember Bruce Willis did that movie where he showed his penis?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Domestic Disturbance’ · 0:04:54 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Fatal Attraction ⇒ Domestic Disturbance (the host's read) · lineage · Domestic Disturbance is the late, bad entry in the 'from hell' thriller cycle that began with Fatal Attraction. · "We had this really good run that starts with fatal fatal attraction into the 80s."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Barry Lyndon · 0:13:57 · unknown (0.30)] Barry Lyndon ↔ Eyes Wide Shut · programming · These two Kubrick films feel warm to the speaker compared with the rest. · "But Barry Lyndon and Eyes Wide Shut are the 2 that feel like they sort of cut through to me on a deeper level, where I feel genuine warmth and affection for them."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Edge’ · 0:22:30 · Van Lathan (0.60)] Basic Instinct ⇒ Body of Evidence (the host's read) · theme · Mid-90s sexy noir all followed Basic Instinct; Madonna's version was a spoof-level bust. · "That was literally like a basic instinct spoof."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Game · 0:28:09 · David Sims (0.40)] The Game ↔ Fatal Attraction · theme · Fincher, in the dossier, lists the Fatal Attraction adulterer among Douglas's friction. · "The adulterer from Fatal Attraction."
[The Big Picture · Janicza Bravo and Brett Gelman Channel Rejection and Anxiety to Make ‘Lemon’ | The Big Picture · 0:04:44 · Alison Herman (0.85)] Eyes Wide Shut ⇒ Juneteenth (Atlanta episode) (the host's read) · lineage · Donald Glover's character describes the party as a Spike-directed reboot of Eyes Wide Shut. · "this is like a spikely directed reboot of eyes wide shut"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ · 0:48:57 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] The Ice Storm ↔ Basic Instinct · theme · Ryan says mass media (Basic Instinct) taught him about sex, like the kids learning from TV in this film. · "mass media had taught me like the basic instinct and whatnot had taught me everything I needed to know."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut · 0:33:04 · unknown (0.30)] Kirk Douglas ⇒ Eyes Wide Shut (the maker said so) · lineage · Kirk Douglas claims he handed Kubrick the novella during their Paths of Glory or Spartacus fights. · "Kirk Douglas claims he gave it to him during one of their like shared therapy sessions"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ · 1:13:20 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Do the Right Thing ↔ Basic Instinct · theme · Basic Instinct raised concern about its effect, a different kind of fear than Do the Right Thing. · "There was concern, though, about whether or not basic instinct was going to what effect it was going to have."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut · 0:33:21 · unknown (0.30)] Ruth Sobotka → Eyes Wide Shut · lineage · Others guess Kubrick's Austrian second wife may have given him the Austrian novel. · "Maybe she gave it to him."
[The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 0:45:18 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Decision to Leave ↔ Basic Instinct · theme · Sean likens Decision to Leave to Park's version of Basic Instinct, a perfectly directed little romantic noir. · "I liked this one as like his basic instinct, you know, like, this is a perfectly directed little romantic noir."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut · 0:33:31 · unknown (0.30)] Arthur Schnitzler ⇒ Eyes Wide Shut (the host's read) · lineage · The speaker says the novel is very close to the film, so close that its plot beats are nearly one to one. · "And it is very similar to eyes wide shut."
[Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut · 1:15:22 · Jourdain Searles (0.50)] In the Cut ↔ Basic Instinct · craft · In the Cut's sex scenes are very intimate and real, unlike Basic Instinct's. · "The sex is very intimate and real."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut · 0:37:01 · unknown (0.30)] Dream Story (Traumnovelle, the Schnitzler novella) ⇒ Eyes Wide Shut (the host's read) · lineage · The speakers note the film's credit says inspired by, not adapted from, Schnitzler's novella. · "It's not adapted from Schnitzler."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut · 0:38:46 · unknown (0.30)] Modern Romance ⇒ Eyes Wide Shut (the maker said so: Kubrick's call to Albert Brooks, 'that famous story') · lineage · Kubrick reached out to Albert Brooks after Modern Romance because he wanted to bottle that dynamic of men and women. · "if you like reached out to Albert Brooks after seeing modern romance and said, like, Brit, and he was like, how did you do this?"
[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
[speaker] Halina Reijn · latest sketch, The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · Loves the 90s sexual thrillers but thinks they were sexist; calls humor a Trojan horse for dark material, prefers suggestion to two bodies just moving, and loves George Michael's Father Figure as her life anthem. Fan of A24's willingness to follow her into dark ideas, and a self-described prude from radical hippies. Last great thing she saw was The Brutalist. · stances: Babygirl is a comedy of manners about power, sex and generations; America allows her to dream big while Europe weighs her down with history; Wanted a feminist film that includes masculinity
[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 Babygirl (2024); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Babygirl (2024) 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.