What the corpus says about Eyes Wide Shut (1999)

The 60 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 (26)

[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 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 · 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"
[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?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut · 0:40:51 · unknown (0.30)] Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy ⇒ Eyes Wide Shut (the host's read) · lineage · The speaker offers that the phrase 'eyes wide shut' may come from the le Carre novel. · "It may have been inspired from Tinker Teal or Soldier Spy."
[The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:55:18 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Minority Report ↔ Eyes Wide Shut · theme · How-is-that-a-job category: Minority Report's eyeball seller, Milich's costume shop in Eyes Wide Shut. · "Like the dude in minority report who just sells new eyeballs to Tom Cruise."
[The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:56:21 · unknown (0.40)] Eyes Wide Shut ↔ 8mm · theme · Eyes Wide Shut's costume shop and 8MM's Joaquin Phoenix working at an adult store are jobs that know the dark world. · "Actually, now that we're talking about this, the Joaquin Phoenix, an 8 millimeter."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut · 0:43:21 · unknown (0.30)] Armageddon Time ↔ Eyes Wide Shut · theme · The Harfords are compared to the aspirational James Gray family. · "the platonic ideal of like the James Gray family in Armageddon time"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut · 1:17:48 · unknown (0.30)] Michael Clayton ↔ Eyes Wide Shut · theme · Bill Harford is called in like the Michael Clayton of physicians to clean up rich people's messes. · "the Michael Clayton of physicians to clean up rich people's messes."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut · 1:58:38 · unknown (0.30)] Sleep No More (theater production) ↔ Eyes Wide Shut · theme · A speaker says the staged-ritual reading of the orgy makes it basically Sleep No More. · "It's basically sleep no more"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Barry Lyndon · 1:49:39 · unknown (0.30)] Barry Lyndon ↔ Eyes Wide Shut · craft · Kubrick repeats and uses every music cue powerfully in both films. · "I mean, that's what eyes wide shut as well."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky · 0:46:45 · unknown (0.40)] Vanilla Sky ↔ Eyes Wide Shut · craft · Cruise in masks again, soon after Eyes Wide Shut. · "right after eyes wide shut too."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut · 2:00:36 · unknown (0.30)] Showgirls ↔ Eyes Wide Shut · contrast · Verhoeven makes nudity upsetting while Eyes Wide Shut makes it feel like nature photography. · "Our showgirls episode you talked about Pearl Verhoven's attack on the breast."
[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 Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 0:28:48 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Magnolia ↔ Eyes Wide Shut · career · Both are directors riffing on Cruise's fame and persona, and are his big acting-year pair in 1999. · "puts him in a position to do all of that and also comment on it and play with the idea of Tom Cruise."
[The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 0:33:49 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Eyes Wide Shut ↔ Edge of Tomorrow · career · Edge of Tomorrow is a blockbuster version of Eyes Wide Shut and Magnolia where the hero keeps failing and dying. · "Edge of Tomorrow, for example, is kind of like a newfangled,"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut · 0:48:00 · unknown (0.30)] Eyes Wide Shut ↔ Vanilla Sky · career · Vanilla Sky is the outlier in Cruise's run after Eyes Wide Shut, seen as a bid for commercial work. · "It's just fascinating the vanilla sky."
[The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ · 0:28:00 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] After Hours ↔ Eyes Wide Shut · people · Bill cites Kubrick pressing Cruise and Kidman emotionally on Eyes Wide Shut. · "what he did to Cruz and Kidman, where he was just clearly trying to break them emotionally"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut · 1:15:49 · unknown (0.30)] Tootsie ↔ Eyes Wide Shut · people · Hoffman cast Pollack to be intimidated, and Pollack is similarly a director Cruise defers to. · "And similarly, it's very smart to cast Pollock in this because Pollock is a director who's worked with Cruz before."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut · 1:21:07 · unknown (0.30)] Eyes Wide Shut ↔ Magnolia · people · The speaker says Magnolia is the only other Cruise movie where reality distorts around him while he clutches at control. · "The only other movie that fits that description for Cruz is Magnolia, which he was filmed right after."
[The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 1:32:37 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40)] Eyes Wide Shut ↔ Magnolia · verdict · Forced to cut between them, one host expects Eyes Wide Shut and Magnolia choice but both stay. · "You're going to make me choose between eyes wet shut and magnolia then."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club · 1:56:25 · unknown (0.40)] Eyes Wide Shut ↔ Fight Club · industry · Entertainment Tonight did an exclusive trailer premiere for both Eyes Wide Shut and Fight Club. · "do the exclusive premiere of the trailer, which they also did for Eyes Wide Shut"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut · 1:09:46 · unknown (0.30)] Don't Worry Darling ↔ Eyes Wide Shut · industry · Both were sold on mystique and rumors about what happened on set. · "It just, it sort of was a, don't worry, darling, of its time where people were so fascinated by all the different stories"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut · 1:06:03 · unknown (0.30)] Eyes Wide Shut ⇒ Phantom Thread (the host's read) · lesson learned · The speaker feels PTA took lessons from visiting the Kubrick set about small crews. · "Like, it feels like PTA sort of learned some lessons from being on the set that took years to see Ben."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut · 1:53:28 · unknown (0.30)] After Hours ↔ Eyes Wide Shut · one crazy night · The speaker pairs the two one-crazy-night New York movies and notes Kubrick adored After Hours. · "interesting to look at this movie against, uh, after hours in certain ways, right?"

Films put beside it more than once (5)

[pairs] Eyes Wide Shut ↔ Magnolia · said 3 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] Eyes Wide Shut ↔ Barry Lyndon · said 3 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] Eyes Wide Shut ↔ Vanilla Sky · said 2 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] Eyes Wide Shut ↔ After Hours · said 2 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] Eyes Wide Shut ↔ Babygirl · said 2 times in 1 episode

Fun items about it (6)

[The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 1:12:07 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Eyes Wide Shut · fun · Sean's pick for a day on a historic set: a long shoot, one of the greatest filmmakers, two stars in the midst of a marriage, and some of the wildest scenes ever shot. · "just some of the wildest scenes ever shot in the history of movies occur in that film."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut · 0:03:04 · unknown (0.30)] Eyes Wide Shut · fun · Owen Gleiberman's pan called the film a dream already analyzed on a shrink's couch; one speaker says that is exactly why it works for them. · "has an oddly formal closed off quality, like a dream that has already been analyzed on a shrinks couch."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut · 0:12:33 · unknown (0.30)] Eyes Wide Shut · fun · The film sits on a Sight and Sound top ten ballot; one filmmaker, Mia Hansen-Love, put it on her 2012 ballot. · "One director put eyes wide shot on their 2012 ballot."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut · 0:17:49 · unknown (0.30)] Eyes Wide Shut · fun · Unrated cut is on Netflix but not Apple. The R-rated version has digital robed figures placed in front of sex acts; contractually Kubrick had to deliver an R. · "Is there any chance Netflix has the nastier cut and they did?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut · 0:33:27 · unknown (0.30)] Eyes Wide Shut · fun · The Schnitzler novella is a slender 110 pages and tracks the movie so closely the speaker jokes it predicted Epstein-era stories. · "it's a slender tomb, like 110 pages."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut · 0:42:01 · unknown (0.30)] Eyes Wide Shut · fun · Kubrick wanted a screenwriter who would crank out raw material for him to turn to gold, per Raphael's quote. · "He does not want and never wanted a collaborator."

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (15)

[Blank Check — Patreon · Barry Lyndon · 0:24:16 · unknown (0.30)] William Makepeace Thackeray ⇒ Barry Lyndon (the host's read) · lineage · Kubrick adapted Thackeray's novel Barry Lyndon into the film. · "versus just reading Barry Lindon once and then going, oh, I could just adapt this."
[The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:06:52 · unknown (0.40)] Eddington ↔ Magnolia · lineage · Austin Butler's televangelist recalls Tom Cruise in Magnolia. · "strong shades of Tom Cruise and Magnolia from Austin Butler there"
[Blank Check · After Hours · 2:18:42 · unknown host (0.35)] After Hours ↔ Dallas Buyers Club · programming · Dallas Buyers Club would pair with After Hours as an AIDS-era double feature. · "It'd be a great double feature with after hours."
[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?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky · 0:51:56 · unknown (0.40)] Vanilla Sky ↔ Stargate · programming · Running joke: Ben's favorite movie Stargate was the first film with a website. · "The 1st movie, the 1st website was for Ben Hosley's favorite movie, Stargate."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Barry Lyndon · 1:43:01 · unknown (0.30)] Paper Moon ↔ Barry Lyndon · theme · O'Neal's con-man father in Paper Moon is set against Barry as a father. · "Compare this character to Moses Prey in Paper Moon, a guy who does not want to be a father because the idea of being a father is having to settle down and live a respectable life"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Curious Case of Benjamin Button · 1:44:06 · unknown (0.30)] Magnolia ↔ The Curious Case of Benjamin Button · theme · The car-accident sequence feels a little like Magnolia, but the film is the anti-Magnolia on connectedness. · "This is sort of the anti-magnolia, which is like Ricky J is saying, like, surely these things mean something."
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 3:12:46 · unknown (0.40)] Yellowbeard ↔ After Hours · programming · Cheech and Chong in Yellowbeard and After Hours are reserved for future Mel Damski and Scorsese series. · "we'd want to save that for Martin Scorsese and Mel Damski series."
[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."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky · 1:45:35 · unknown (0.40)] The Royal Tenenbaums ↔ Vanilla Sky · programming · Tenenbaums opened the same week as Vanilla Sky in 5 theaters and averaged $55,000. · "Tenenbaums comes out that very week on 5 theaters and it grosses $276,000"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Barry Lyndon · 0:34:17 · Karina Longworth (0.40)] Paper Moon ↔ Barry Lyndon · craft · O'Neal's lack of presence lets the actress in each of his films pop out. · "Yeah, but in a weird way, that sets up really good, interesting female performances."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:22:38 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] The Royal Tenenbaums ↔ Magnolia · craft · Both blend European-cinema love with music-video sensibility and lead with musical taste. · "it's basically like criterion MTV. They have the sensibility and the style of music videos"
[The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ · 1:14:08 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] After Hours ↔ Pee-wee's Big Adventure · programming · Tim Burton left After Hours the same year he made Pee-wee; both are about a manchild in a strange world finding salvation going home. · "about a manchild, thrust into a world he doesn't understand, seeking something he can't get, and eventually finding salvation by going back home."
[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 Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 1:09:45 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Open Your Eyes ⇒ Vanilla Sky (the host's read) · lineage · Cruise adapted Abre los Ojos into Vanilla Sky, a bold move he does not make today. · "adapted Aubrey Los Ojos into Vanilla Sky"

Who said it, by their latest sketch (5)

[speaker] Bill Simmons · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · Loves the Friday series as a communal, rental-era memory and tells childhood stories about the ads and theaters. Likes casting what-ifs and sports analogies for everything. Skeptical of horror at Christmas and of anything that wastes the premise. · stances: Friday the 13th is not the best entry but the origin story had to be told; Friday 2 is a leap over the original
[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] Alison Herman · latest sketch, The Big Picture · Janicza Bravo and Brett Gelman Channel Rejection and Anxiety to Make ‘Lemon’ | The Big Picture · Loves Atlanta, Catastrophe and You're the Worst, especially warmth beneath the cringe. Cannot watch such scenes without muting or opening another tab. Notices staging details like low-angle shots. · stances: Juneteenth is the emotional climax of Atlanta season one; Cringe comedy works when partners share the embarrassment
[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
[speaker] Chris Ryan · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · A franchise and genre scholar who likes Jason, the early sequels, and Manhattan; attention to trivia, tropes and critic reception. Treats slashers as a canon with tiers. · stances: Parts 1, 2, 4 and Manhattan are the good ones; The series finds its legs at 4

The shows' running bits (3)

[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] Blank Check: The box office game (Guessing the film's opening weekend and what it was up against); The sung theme ("Blank Check with Griffin and David", sung; the transcriber garbles it)
[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 Eyes Wide Shut (1999) 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 Eyes Wide Shut (1999) 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.

[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 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 · 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"
[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?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut · 0:40:51 · unknown (0.30)] Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy ⇒ Eyes Wide Shut (the host's read) · lineage · The speaker offers that the phrase 'eyes wide shut' may come from the le Carre novel. · "It may have been inspired from Tinker Teal or Soldier Spy."
[The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:55:18 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Minority Report ↔ Eyes Wide Shut · theme · How-is-that-a-job category: Minority Report's eyeball seller, Milich's costume shop in Eyes Wide Shut. · "Like the dude in minority report who just sells new eyeballs to Tom Cruise."
[The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:56:21 · unknown (0.40)] Eyes Wide Shut ↔ 8mm · theme · Eyes Wide Shut's costume shop and 8MM's Joaquin Phoenix working at an adult store are jobs that know the dark world. · "Actually, now that we're talking about this, the Joaquin Phoenix, an 8 millimeter."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut · 0:43:21 · unknown (0.30)] Armageddon Time ↔ Eyes Wide Shut · theme · The Harfords are compared to the aspirational James Gray family. · "the platonic ideal of like the James Gray family in Armageddon time"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut · 1:17:48 · unknown (0.30)] Michael Clayton ↔ Eyes Wide Shut · theme · Bill Harford is called in like the Michael Clayton of physicians to clean up rich people's messes. · "the Michael Clayton of physicians to clean up rich people's messes."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut · 1:58:38 · unknown (0.30)] Sleep No More (theater production) ↔ Eyes Wide Shut · theme · A speaker says the staged-ritual reading of the orgy makes it basically Sleep No More. · "It's basically sleep no more"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Barry Lyndon · 1:49:39 · unknown (0.30)] Barry Lyndon ↔ Eyes Wide Shut · craft · Kubrick repeats and uses every music cue powerfully in both films. · "I mean, that's what eyes wide shut as well."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky · 0:46:45 · unknown (0.40)] Vanilla Sky ↔ Eyes Wide Shut · craft · Cruise in masks again, soon after Eyes Wide Shut. · "right after eyes wide shut too."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut · 2:00:36 · unknown (0.30)] Showgirls ↔ Eyes Wide Shut · contrast · Verhoeven makes nudity upsetting while Eyes Wide Shut makes it feel like nature photography. · "Our showgirls episode you talked about Pearl Verhoven's attack on the breast."
[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 Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 0:28:48 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Magnolia ↔ Eyes Wide Shut · career · Both are directors riffing on Cruise's fame and persona, and are his big acting-year pair in 1999. · "puts him in a position to do all of that and also comment on it and play with the idea of Tom Cruise."
[The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 0:33:49 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Eyes Wide Shut ↔ Edge of Tomorrow · career · Edge of Tomorrow is a blockbuster version of Eyes Wide Shut and Magnolia where the hero keeps failing and dying. · "Edge of Tomorrow, for example, is kind of like a newfangled,"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut · 0:48:00 · unknown (0.30)] Eyes Wide Shut ↔ Vanilla Sky · career · Vanilla Sky is the outlier in Cruise's run after Eyes Wide Shut, seen as a bid for commercial work. · "It's just fascinating the vanilla sky."
[The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ · 0:28:00 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] After Hours ↔ Eyes Wide Shut · people · Bill cites Kubrick pressing Cruise and Kidman emotionally on Eyes Wide Shut. · "what he did to Cruz and Kidman, where he was just clearly trying to break them emotionally"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut · 1:15:49 · unknown (0.30)] Tootsie ↔ Eyes Wide Shut · people · Hoffman cast Pollack to be intimidated, and Pollack is similarly a director Cruise defers to. · "And similarly, it's very smart to cast Pollock in this because Pollock is a director who's worked with Cruz before."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut · 1:21:07 · unknown (0.30)] Eyes Wide Shut ↔ Magnolia · people · The speaker says Magnolia is the only other Cruise movie where reality distorts around him while he clutches at control. · "The only other movie that fits that description for Cruz is Magnolia, which he was filmed right after."
[The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 1:32:37 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40)] Eyes Wide Shut ↔ Magnolia · verdict · Forced to cut between them, one host expects Eyes Wide Shut and Magnolia choice but both stay. · "You're going to make me choose between eyes wet shut and magnolia then."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club · 1:56:25 · unknown (0.40)] Eyes Wide Shut ↔ Fight Club · industry · Entertainment Tonight did an exclusive trailer premiere for both Eyes Wide Shut and Fight Club. · "do the exclusive premiere of the trailer, which they also did for Eyes Wide Shut"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut · 1:09:46 · unknown (0.30)] Don't Worry Darling ↔ Eyes Wide Shut · industry · Both were sold on mystique and rumors about what happened on set. · "It just, it sort of was a, don't worry, darling, of its time where people were so fascinated by all the different stories"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut · 1:06:03 · unknown (0.30)] Eyes Wide Shut ⇒ Phantom Thread (the host's read) · lesson learned · The speaker feels PTA took lessons from visiting the Kubrick set about small crews. · "Like, it feels like PTA sort of learned some lessons from being on the set that took years to see Ben."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut · 1:53:28 · unknown (0.30)] After Hours ↔ Eyes Wide Shut · one crazy night · The speaker pairs the two one-crazy-night New York movies and notes Kubrick adored After Hours. · "interesting to look at this movie against, uh, after hours in certain ways, right?"
[pairs] Eyes Wide Shut ↔ Magnolia · said 3 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] Eyes Wide Shut ↔ Barry Lyndon · said 3 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] Eyes Wide Shut ↔ Vanilla Sky · said 2 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] Eyes Wide Shut ↔ After Hours · said 2 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] Eyes Wide Shut ↔ Babygirl · said 2 times in 1 episode
[The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 1:12:07 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Eyes Wide Shut · fun · Sean's pick for a day on a historic set: a long shoot, one of the greatest filmmakers, two stars in the midst of a marriage, and some of the wildest scenes ever shot. · "just some of the wildest scenes ever shot in the history of movies occur in that film."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut · 0:03:04 · unknown (0.30)] Eyes Wide Shut · fun · Owen Gleiberman's pan called the film a dream already analyzed on a shrink's couch; one speaker says that is exactly why it works for them. · "has an oddly formal closed off quality, like a dream that has already been analyzed on a shrinks couch."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut · 0:12:33 · unknown (0.30)] Eyes Wide Shut · fun · The film sits on a Sight and Sound top ten ballot; one filmmaker, Mia Hansen-Love, put it on her 2012 ballot. · "One director put eyes wide shot on their 2012 ballot."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut · 0:17:49 · unknown (0.30)] Eyes Wide Shut · fun · Unrated cut is on Netflix but not Apple. The R-rated version has digital robed figures placed in front of sex acts; contractually Kubrick had to deliver an R. · "Is there any chance Netflix has the nastier cut and they did?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut · 0:33:27 · unknown (0.30)] Eyes Wide Shut · fun · The Schnitzler novella is a slender 110 pages and tracks the movie so closely the speaker jokes it predicted Epstein-era stories. · "it's a slender tomb, like 110 pages."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut · 0:42:01 · unknown (0.30)] Eyes Wide Shut · fun · Kubrick wanted a screenwriter who would crank out raw material for him to turn to gold, per Raphael's quote. · "He does not want and never wanted a collaborator."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Barry Lyndon · 0:24:16 · unknown (0.30)] William Makepeace Thackeray ⇒ Barry Lyndon (the host's read) · lineage · Kubrick adapted Thackeray's novel Barry Lyndon into the film. · "versus just reading Barry Lindon once and then going, oh, I could just adapt this."
[The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:06:52 · unknown (0.40)] Eddington ↔ Magnolia · lineage · Austin Butler's televangelist recalls Tom Cruise in Magnolia. · "strong shades of Tom Cruise and Magnolia from Austin Butler there"
[Blank Check · After Hours · 2:18:42 · unknown host (0.35)] After Hours ↔ Dallas Buyers Club · programming · Dallas Buyers Club would pair with After Hours as an AIDS-era double feature. · "It'd be a great double feature with after hours."
[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?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky · 0:51:56 · unknown (0.40)] Vanilla Sky ↔ Stargate · programming · Running joke: Ben's favorite movie Stargate was the first film with a website. · "The 1st movie, the 1st website was for Ben Hosley's favorite movie, Stargate."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Barry Lyndon · 1:43:01 · unknown (0.30)] Paper Moon ↔ Barry Lyndon · theme · O'Neal's con-man father in Paper Moon is set against Barry as a father. · "Compare this character to Moses Prey in Paper Moon, a guy who does not want to be a father because the idea of being a father is having to settle down and live a respectable life"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Curious Case of Benjamin Button · 1:44:06 · unknown (0.30)] Magnolia ↔ The Curious Case of Benjamin Button · theme · The car-accident sequence feels a little like Magnolia, but the film is the anti-Magnolia on connectedness. · "This is sort of the anti-magnolia, which is like Ricky J is saying, like, surely these things mean something."
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 3:12:46 · unknown (0.40)] Yellowbeard ↔ After Hours · programming · Cheech and Chong in Yellowbeard and After Hours are reserved for future Mel Damski and Scorsese series. · "we'd want to save that for Martin Scorsese and Mel Damski series."
[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."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky · 1:45:35 · unknown (0.40)] The Royal Tenenbaums ↔ Vanilla Sky · programming · Tenenbaums opened the same week as Vanilla Sky in 5 theaters and averaged $55,000. · "Tenenbaums comes out that very week on 5 theaters and it grosses $276,000"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Barry Lyndon · 0:34:17 · Karina Longworth (0.40)] Paper Moon ↔ Barry Lyndon · craft · O'Neal's lack of presence lets the actress in each of his films pop out. · "Yeah, but in a weird way, that sets up really good, interesting female performances."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:22:38 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] The Royal Tenenbaums ↔ Magnolia · craft · Both blend European-cinema love with music-video sensibility and lead with musical taste. · "it's basically like criterion MTV. They have the sensibility and the style of music videos"
[The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ · 1:14:08 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] After Hours ↔ Pee-wee's Big Adventure · programming · Tim Burton left After Hours the same year he made Pee-wee; both are about a manchild in a strange world finding salvation going home. · "about a manchild, thrust into a world he doesn't understand, seeking something he can't get, and eventually finding salvation by going back home."
[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 Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 1:09:45 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Open Your Eyes ⇒ Vanilla Sky (the host's read) · lineage · Cruise adapted Abre los Ojos into Vanilla Sky, a bold move he does not make today. · "adapted Aubrey Los Ojos into Vanilla Sky"
[speaker] Bill Simmons · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · Loves the Friday series as a communal, rental-era memory and tells childhood stories about the ads and theaters. Likes casting what-ifs and sports analogies for everything. Skeptical of horror at Christmas and of anything that wastes the premise. · stances: Friday the 13th is not the best entry but the origin story had to be told; Friday 2 is a leap over the original
[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] Alison Herman · latest sketch, The Big Picture · Janicza Bravo and Brett Gelman Channel Rejection and Anxiety to Make ‘Lemon’ | The Big Picture · Loves Atlanta, Catastrophe and You're the Worst, especially warmth beneath the cringe. Cannot watch such scenes without muting or opening another tab. Notices staging details like low-angle shots. · stances: Juneteenth is the emotional climax of Atlanta season one; Cringe comedy works when partners share the embarrassment
[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
[speaker] Chris Ryan · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · A franchise and genre scholar who likes Jason, the early sequels, and Manhattan; attention to trivia, tropes and critic reception. Treats slashers as a canon with tiers. · stances: Parts 1, 2, 4 and Manhattan are the good ones; The series finds its legs at 4
[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] Blank Check: The box office game (Guessing the film's opening weekend and what it was up against); The sung theme ("Blank Check with Griffin and David", sung; the transcriber garbles it)
[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 Eyes Wide Shut (1999); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Eyes Wide Shut (1999) 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.