What the corpus says about Hedda Gabler

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Hedda Gabler 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 Hedda Gabler 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’ · 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’ · 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’ · 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’ · 0:18:51 · 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."
[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 Hedda Gabler; name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Hedda Gabler 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.