What the corpus says about Barry Lyndon (1975)

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 (23)

[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."
[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 · 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."
[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 · Barry Lyndon · 0:14:27 · unknown (0.30)] Barry Lyndon ↔ A Clockwork Orange · contrast · Barry Lyndon is warmer than the cold, sharp films on either side of it (2001, Clockwork Orange, Shining, Full Metal Jacket). · "And especially if you look at it being buttressed by 2001 Clockwork Orange on one side, Shining Full Metal Jacket on the other side."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 0:18:43 · Sarah Marshall (0.90)] Paths of Glory ↔ Barry Lyndon · contrast · Sarah picked Paths of Glory over Barry Lyndon, which she loves but finds taxing to watch. · "I do love Barry Lyndon, but like, just the idea of watching it, you just like kind of, You know, it's like taxing in a different way."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining · 0:43:10 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Barry Lyndon ↔ The Shining · career · Kubrick needed a commercial genre play after the Barry Lyndon flop. · "off of Barry Linden was a flop"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Barry Lyndon · 0:19:28 · unknown (0.30)] Napoleon (Kubrick's unmade film) → Barry Lyndon · career · A host says Barry Lyndon comes out of Kubrick's failed attempt to make Napoleon; later the hosts deny the research was reused. · "obviously, it's after Clockwork Orange, and right, it comes out of he's trying to make Napoleon."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Barry Lyndon · 2:00:38 · unknown (0.30)] Barry Lyndon ↔ The Shining · career · Kubrick's next movie after Barry Lyndon was The Shining, a swerve toward a bestseller. · "His next movie was The Shining."
[Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange · 1:11:06 · unknown (0.40)] A Clockwork Orange ↔ Barry Lyndon · career · After the violent X-rated hit, Kubrick makes a three-hour candlelit film about a loser scamming into high society. · "To make a 3 hour movie about just like a foolish loser who scams his way into Uppercrust society and it'll all be lit by candles."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Barry Lyndon · 0:32:18 · unknown (0.30)] The Driver ↔ Barry Lyndon · people · In The Driver O'Neal is again asked to give nothing and look good. · "The only other movie I like him in is the driver, and that is a similar, which is that is that, sorry, that is after Barry Lyndon."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Barry Lyndon · 0:58:16 · unknown (0.30)] A Clockwork Orange ↔ Barry Lyndon · people · Kubrick reused actors across Clockwork Orange, Barry Lyndon and The Shining. · "There's a lot of overlap with Clockwork Orange in these casts."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Barry Lyndon · 1:14:15 · unknown (0.30)] Cabaret ⇒ Barry Lyndon (the host's read) · people · Kubrick cast Berenson after loving her in Cabaret. · "Yeah, he loved her in cabaret."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Zodiac · 0:29:06 · Leslye Headland (0.85)] Barry Lyndon ↔ Zodiac · live-in movie · Leslye compares Zodiac, a movie she can live inside, to Barry Lyndon. · "It's like it's like Barry Linden for me."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut · 2:37:41 · unknown (0.30)] Barry Lyndon ↔ Eyes Wide Shut · lenses and lighting · Kubrick briefly considered the Barry Lyndon lenses for a similar warm lighting scheme but film speeds had moved on. · "he briefly considered using the Barry Linden lenses for this because he knew he wanted to have a similar lighting scheme."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Barry Lyndon · 0:20:58 · Karina Longworth (0.40)] Napoleon (Kubrick's unmade film) ↔ Barry Lyndon · research reuse (denied) · A host says the common belief that Kubrick moved his Napoleon research into Barry Lyndon is not true. · "I think people have long thought that Lyndon like took his Napoleon research and started putting it into Linden, but that's not true at all."
[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."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Barry Lyndon · 1:48:31 · unknown (0.30)] The Chieftains ↔ Barry Lyndon · craft · The film has no score, just 18th century music, including The Chieftains. · "The Chieftains? Yes."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Barry Lyndon · 1:48:55 · David Sims (0.40)] Leonard Rosenman ↔ Barry Lyndon · craft · Rosenman helped pick the classical music and won the Oscar for adapted score. · "So Leonard Roseman won and he was the guy who helped pick the classical music."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Barry Lyndon · 0:03:27 · unknown (0.30)] Noah Baumbach ↔ Barry Lyndon · people · Barry Lyndon was on Baumbach's director-select list, which the speaker says makes more sense after White Noise. · "The Bombach list was Barry Linden high and low mash network shoot the piano player world according to GARP."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Barry Lyndon · 0:30:15 · unknown (0.30)] Ryan O'Neal ↔ Barry Lyndon · people · The star's own insecurity matches the character. · "you're casting a guy who basically feels the way that Barry Lindon does."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Barry Lyndon · 0:33:32 · unknown (0.30)] David Fincher ↔ Barry Lyndon · people · Fincher's reported rule of casting for the core quality (Rooney Mara) is compared to Kubrick casting O'Neal. · "And it's like that's the Ryan O'Neill casting here."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Barry Lyndon · 0:58:23 · unknown (0.30)] Barry Lyndon ↔ Monty Python · comic register · The supporting cast play in a Monty Python key while Barry stays straight. · "But it does feel like all these supporting actors are giving Monty Python performances."

Films put beside it more than once (5)

[pairs] Barry Lyndon ↔ Eyes Wide Shut · said 3 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] Barry Lyndon ↔ A Clockwork Orange · said 3 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] Barry Lyndon ↔ The Shining · said 2 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] Barry Lyndon ↔ Napoleon (Kubrick's unmade film) · said 2 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Barry Lyndon ↔ Paper Moon · said 2 times in 1 episode

Fun items about it (6)

[Blank Check — Patreon · Barry Lyndon · 0:01:48 · unknown (0.30)] Barry Lyndon · fun · The movie ends on an epilogue title card that the hosts treat as the whole point: none of it matters, everyone ends up dead anyway. · "Like title card saying, what does this fucking matter?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Barry Lyndon · 0:17:28 · Karina Longworth (0.85)] Barry Lyndon · fun · Karina worked at a video store and hogged the two-tape Barry Lyndon for weeks, so nobody could rent it. · "You didn't have to check them out on the computer. And I just kept it at my house for a really long time because I just kind of kept watching it."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Barry Lyndon · 0:26:25 · unknown (0.30)] Barry Lyndon · fun · The ending was Kubrick's own invention; in Thackeray's book Bullingdon beats Barry up and Barry dies a drunk in prison. Kubrick wanted a duel in a barn with pigeons. · "And he really liked the idea of having a big duel in a barn with pigeons."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Barry Lyndon · 0:47:04 · unknown (0.30)] Barry Lyndon · fun · The ribbon scene runs on far longer than expected and tells you the film is a comedy; Karina's friend asked what she had put on. · "The ribbon scene is, you know, the moment where I was surprised by how immediately the movie is playing fully in a comedic realm because Kubrick just lets that scene go on forever."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Barry Lyndon · 0:56:53 · unknown (0.30)] Barry Lyndon · fun · Captain Feeney, the highwayman who robs Barry, was a real highwayman whose autobiography Thackeray loved enough to put him in the book. · "is a real highwayman who wrote an autobiography, the Thackeray loved so much that he was like, I'm going to put you in my book."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Barry Lyndon · 1:02:02 · unknown (0.30)] Barry Lyndon · fun · Barry is a hermit crab of status, always looking for the next shell, which sums up the first act. · "Right, he's like a hermit crab of status."

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

[Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club · 2:43:02 · unknown (0.35)] A Clockwork Orange ↔ Fight Club · programming · Fight Club is called the Clockwork Orange of another generation, an Edge Lord pick. · "This is kind of the clockwork Orange for another generation."
[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 Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 1:31:19 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] The Shining ⇒ Doctor Sleep (the host's read) · lineage · Doctor Sleep uses grown-up Danny and a new generation, Abra Stone. · "Using a familiar figure from the original film in Danny, the grown up Danny"
[The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ · 0:22:08 · Adam Nayman (0.55)] A Clockwork Orange ⇒ Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (the host's read) · lineage · The contrapuntal needle drop descends from Singin' in the Rain in Clockwork Orange and Stuck in the Middle with You in Reservoir Dogs. · "all the way back to singing in the rain in Clockwork Orange or stuck in the middle with you in, in, in, in Reservoir dogs."
[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."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Doctor Sleep · 0:03:31 · David Sims (0.90)] Stephen King ↔ The Shining · lineage · The film is a Kubrick film King hated, which sits under the whole project. · "trying to do the thing Stephen King hated"
[Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange · 1:20:24 · unknown (0.30)] Anthony Burgess ⇒ A Clockwork Orange (the host's read) · lineage · The film adapts Burgess's novel, and Kubrick found he had to change very little. · "Kubrick reads the book and is like, I didn't have to do much."
[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 · Doctor Sleep · 0:12:41 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] The Shining ⇒ Doctor Sleep (the host's read) · lineage · Doctor Sleep is the sequel to Kubrick's The Shining, which is the whole sell and the whole problem. · "You're doing a sequel to The Shining."
[Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange · 1:22:36 · Alex Ross Perry (0.60)] Vinyl ↔ A Clockwork Orange · lineage · The speakers note there is an unwatchable Warhol version of this same book. · "Well, of course, you know, you mentioned Warhol, but of course there's the unwatchable Warhol version of this book."
[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"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining · 0:09:27 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Stephen King ⇒ The Shining (the host's read) · lineage · The film is the second Stephen King novel adaptation, after Carrie. · "This is the 2nd Stephen King film adaptation."
[Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange · 1:28:51 · Alex Ross Perry (0.80)] A Clockwork Orange ⇒ Her Smell (the maker said so: Alex Ross Perry, the writer of Her Smell, speaking on this episode) · lineage · The speaker says the film's five-act structure was a huge inspiration while writing Her Smell. · "This movie, I think, and this was a huge inspiration in when I was writing her smell."
[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."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining · 0:58:43 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] The Shining ⇒ Doctor Sleep (the host's read) · lineage · Doctor Sleep is the sequel to The Shining. · "Dr. Sleep, the sequel to, which I feel like is actually a better movie"
[Blank Check · Star 80 · 0:33:34 · Julie Klausner (0.50)] Star 80 ↔ A Clockwork Orange · theme · Kael's charge that Clockwork Orange was prurient and pitied only Alex is applied to Star 80 and Snyder. · "I think the only sympathy that you see from the filmmaker is with Paul Snyder."
[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 · The Shining · 2:06:41 · David Sims (0.45)] The Shining ⇒ Bobby's World (TV) (the host's read) · lineage · The Bobby's World opening of Bobby on a big wheel is called an homage to The Shining. · "And it's so clearly has to be an homage to this"

Who said it, by their latest sketch (5)

[speaker] Karina Longworth · latest sketch, Blank Check — Patreon · Barry Lyndon · Barry Lyndon is one of her three favorite movies; she watched it often in her twenties via two VHS tapes. Loves its comedy and its warmth, and thinks Kubrick's other films are funny too. Hates having to name one favorite movie. · stances: Nearly all of Kubrick's films are satires; O'Neal is the best application of him in any movie; She sees Barry differently at 42 than as a teenager
[speaker] David Sims · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Prepares history: novel, casting, budgets, box office. Reveres the film and thinks it reads as a normal ground-level story. A sucker for Hollywood deal backstory and box office game. · stances: Praises Keitel and Dafoe casting; Respects Scorsese's persistence and Corman discipline; The film is now well regarded though not 'canonical Marty'
[speaker] Griffin Newman · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Calls Last Temptation his college-era favorite Scorsese; loves Scorsese's smaller 80s and the film's closing transcendence and Gabriel score. Cannot stand fundamentalist outrage at it. A sucker for casting trivia and Tom Cruise-silliness. · stances: Hot take: Last Temptation structurally mirrors New York, New York as a better version; Outrage over the film is stupid; it is respectful to Jesus; Scorsese's smaller 80s work beats his later baroque phases
[speaker] Leslye Headland · latest sketch, Blank Check — Patreon · Zodiac · Loves Zodiac as part of a Mount Rushmore (Zodiac, The Shining, Back to the Future, The Apartment) and watched it daily at a low point in her life. Adores blocking and staging as the true mark of the greats, loves Fincher's digital photography, and sees Fight Club as an evergreen Strangelove-style satire. Also a fan of L.A. Confidential as a nook-and-cranny movie. · stances: Zodiac is a masterpiece and a movie to live inside; Fincher's real genius is blocking and staging, not flash; Fight Club is a durable satire; Digital can look gorgeous
[speaker] Sarah Marshall · latest sketch, Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · Loves legal dramas, horror, Predator and action movies; calls Paths of Glory her personal Kubrick and a formative film seen once at the Portland Art Museum. Dislikes performative female characters in movies uninterested in women; prefers sincere shortcomings. · stances: Paths of Glory is about injustice and a truthful legal drama; Prefers movies that admit they are about men; Won't call her show criticism; love has to be part of the conversation about movies

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 Barry Lyndon (1975) 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 Barry Lyndon (1975) 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."
[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 · 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."
[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 · Barry Lyndon · 0:14:27 · unknown (0.30)] Barry Lyndon ↔ A Clockwork Orange · contrast · Barry Lyndon is warmer than the cold, sharp films on either side of it (2001, Clockwork Orange, Shining, Full Metal Jacket). · "And especially if you look at it being buttressed by 2001 Clockwork Orange on one side, Shining Full Metal Jacket on the other side."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 0:18:43 · Sarah Marshall (0.90)] Paths of Glory ↔ Barry Lyndon · contrast · Sarah picked Paths of Glory over Barry Lyndon, which she loves but finds taxing to watch. · "I do love Barry Lyndon, but like, just the idea of watching it, you just like kind of, You know, it's like taxing in a different way."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining · 0:43:10 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Barry Lyndon ↔ The Shining · career · Kubrick needed a commercial genre play after the Barry Lyndon flop. · "off of Barry Linden was a flop"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Barry Lyndon · 0:19:28 · unknown (0.30)] Napoleon (Kubrick's unmade film) → Barry Lyndon · career · A host says Barry Lyndon comes out of Kubrick's failed attempt to make Napoleon; later the hosts deny the research was reused. · "obviously, it's after Clockwork Orange, and right, it comes out of he's trying to make Napoleon."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Barry Lyndon · 2:00:38 · unknown (0.30)] Barry Lyndon ↔ The Shining · career · Kubrick's next movie after Barry Lyndon was The Shining, a swerve toward a bestseller. · "His next movie was The Shining."
[Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange · 1:11:06 · unknown (0.40)] A Clockwork Orange ↔ Barry Lyndon · career · After the violent X-rated hit, Kubrick makes a three-hour candlelit film about a loser scamming into high society. · "To make a 3 hour movie about just like a foolish loser who scams his way into Uppercrust society and it'll all be lit by candles."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Barry Lyndon · 0:32:18 · unknown (0.30)] The Driver ↔ Barry Lyndon · people · In The Driver O'Neal is again asked to give nothing and look good. · "The only other movie I like him in is the driver, and that is a similar, which is that is that, sorry, that is after Barry Lyndon."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Barry Lyndon · 0:58:16 · unknown (0.30)] A Clockwork Orange ↔ Barry Lyndon · people · Kubrick reused actors across Clockwork Orange, Barry Lyndon and The Shining. · "There's a lot of overlap with Clockwork Orange in these casts."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Barry Lyndon · 1:14:15 · unknown (0.30)] Cabaret ⇒ Barry Lyndon (the host's read) · people · Kubrick cast Berenson after loving her in Cabaret. · "Yeah, he loved her in cabaret."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Zodiac · 0:29:06 · Leslye Headland (0.85)] Barry Lyndon ↔ Zodiac · live-in movie · Leslye compares Zodiac, a movie she can live inside, to Barry Lyndon. · "It's like it's like Barry Linden for me."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut · 2:37:41 · unknown (0.30)] Barry Lyndon ↔ Eyes Wide Shut · lenses and lighting · Kubrick briefly considered the Barry Lyndon lenses for a similar warm lighting scheme but film speeds had moved on. · "he briefly considered using the Barry Linden lenses for this because he knew he wanted to have a similar lighting scheme."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Barry Lyndon · 0:20:58 · Karina Longworth (0.40)] Napoleon (Kubrick's unmade film) ↔ Barry Lyndon · research reuse (denied) · A host says the common belief that Kubrick moved his Napoleon research into Barry Lyndon is not true. · "I think people have long thought that Lyndon like took his Napoleon research and started putting it into Linden, but that's not true at all."
[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."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Barry Lyndon · 1:48:31 · unknown (0.30)] The Chieftains ↔ Barry Lyndon · craft · The film has no score, just 18th century music, including The Chieftains. · "The Chieftains? Yes."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Barry Lyndon · 1:48:55 · David Sims (0.40)] Leonard Rosenman ↔ Barry Lyndon · craft · Rosenman helped pick the classical music and won the Oscar for adapted score. · "So Leonard Roseman won and he was the guy who helped pick the classical music."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Barry Lyndon · 0:03:27 · unknown (0.30)] Noah Baumbach ↔ Barry Lyndon · people · Barry Lyndon was on Baumbach's director-select list, which the speaker says makes more sense after White Noise. · "The Bombach list was Barry Linden high and low mash network shoot the piano player world according to GARP."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Barry Lyndon · 0:30:15 · unknown (0.30)] Ryan O'Neal ↔ Barry Lyndon · people · The star's own insecurity matches the character. · "you're casting a guy who basically feels the way that Barry Lindon does."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Barry Lyndon · 0:33:32 · unknown (0.30)] David Fincher ↔ Barry Lyndon · people · Fincher's reported rule of casting for the core quality (Rooney Mara) is compared to Kubrick casting O'Neal. · "And it's like that's the Ryan O'Neill casting here."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Barry Lyndon · 0:58:23 · unknown (0.30)] Barry Lyndon ↔ Monty Python · comic register · The supporting cast play in a Monty Python key while Barry stays straight. · "But it does feel like all these supporting actors are giving Monty Python performances."
[pairs] Barry Lyndon ↔ Eyes Wide Shut · said 3 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] Barry Lyndon ↔ A Clockwork Orange · said 3 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] Barry Lyndon ↔ The Shining · said 2 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] Barry Lyndon ↔ Napoleon (Kubrick's unmade film) · said 2 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Barry Lyndon ↔ Paper Moon · said 2 times in 1 episode
[Blank Check — Patreon · Barry Lyndon · 0:01:48 · unknown (0.30)] Barry Lyndon · fun · The movie ends on an epilogue title card that the hosts treat as the whole point: none of it matters, everyone ends up dead anyway. · "Like title card saying, what does this fucking matter?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Barry Lyndon · 0:17:28 · Karina Longworth (0.85)] Barry Lyndon · fun · Karina worked at a video store and hogged the two-tape Barry Lyndon for weeks, so nobody could rent it. · "You didn't have to check them out on the computer. And I just kept it at my house for a really long time because I just kind of kept watching it."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Barry Lyndon · 0:26:25 · unknown (0.30)] Barry Lyndon · fun · The ending was Kubrick's own invention; in Thackeray's book Bullingdon beats Barry up and Barry dies a drunk in prison. Kubrick wanted a duel in a barn with pigeons. · "And he really liked the idea of having a big duel in a barn with pigeons."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Barry Lyndon · 0:47:04 · unknown (0.30)] Barry Lyndon · fun · The ribbon scene runs on far longer than expected and tells you the film is a comedy; Karina's friend asked what she had put on. · "The ribbon scene is, you know, the moment where I was surprised by how immediately the movie is playing fully in a comedic realm because Kubrick just lets that scene go on forever."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Barry Lyndon · 0:56:53 · unknown (0.30)] Barry Lyndon · fun · Captain Feeney, the highwayman who robs Barry, was a real highwayman whose autobiography Thackeray loved enough to put him in the book. · "is a real highwayman who wrote an autobiography, the Thackeray loved so much that he was like, I'm going to put you in my book."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Barry Lyndon · 1:02:02 · unknown (0.30)] Barry Lyndon · fun · Barry is a hermit crab of status, always looking for the next shell, which sums up the first act. · "Right, he's like a hermit crab of status."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club · 2:43:02 · unknown (0.35)] A Clockwork Orange ↔ Fight Club · programming · Fight Club is called the Clockwork Orange of another generation, an Edge Lord pick. · "This is kind of the clockwork Orange for another generation."
[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 Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 1:31:19 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] The Shining ⇒ Doctor Sleep (the host's read) · lineage · Doctor Sleep uses grown-up Danny and a new generation, Abra Stone. · "Using a familiar figure from the original film in Danny, the grown up Danny"
[The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ · 0:22:08 · Adam Nayman (0.55)] A Clockwork Orange ⇒ Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (the host's read) · lineage · The contrapuntal needle drop descends from Singin' in the Rain in Clockwork Orange and Stuck in the Middle with You in Reservoir Dogs. · "all the way back to singing in the rain in Clockwork Orange or stuck in the middle with you in, in, in, in Reservoir dogs."
[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."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Doctor Sleep · 0:03:31 · David Sims (0.90)] Stephen King ↔ The Shining · lineage · The film is a Kubrick film King hated, which sits under the whole project. · "trying to do the thing Stephen King hated"
[Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange · 1:20:24 · unknown (0.30)] Anthony Burgess ⇒ A Clockwork Orange (the host's read) · lineage · The film adapts Burgess's novel, and Kubrick found he had to change very little. · "Kubrick reads the book and is like, I didn't have to do much."
[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 · Doctor Sleep · 0:12:41 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] The Shining ⇒ Doctor Sleep (the host's read) · lineage · Doctor Sleep is the sequel to Kubrick's The Shining, which is the whole sell and the whole problem. · "You're doing a sequel to The Shining."
[Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange · 1:22:36 · Alex Ross Perry (0.60)] Vinyl ↔ A Clockwork Orange · lineage · The speakers note there is an unwatchable Warhol version of this same book. · "Well, of course, you know, you mentioned Warhol, but of course there's the unwatchable Warhol version of this book."
[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"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining · 0:09:27 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Stephen King ⇒ The Shining (the host's read) · lineage · The film is the second Stephen King novel adaptation, after Carrie. · "This is the 2nd Stephen King film adaptation."
[Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange · 1:28:51 · Alex Ross Perry (0.80)] A Clockwork Orange ⇒ Her Smell (the maker said so: Alex Ross Perry, the writer of Her Smell, speaking on this episode) · lineage · The speaker says the film's five-act structure was a huge inspiration while writing Her Smell. · "This movie, I think, and this was a huge inspiration in when I was writing her smell."
[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."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining · 0:58:43 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] The Shining ⇒ Doctor Sleep (the host's read) · lineage · Doctor Sleep is the sequel to The Shining. · "Dr. Sleep, the sequel to, which I feel like is actually a better movie"
[Blank Check · Star 80 · 0:33:34 · Julie Klausner (0.50)] Star 80 ↔ A Clockwork Orange · theme · Kael's charge that Clockwork Orange was prurient and pitied only Alex is applied to Star 80 and Snyder. · "I think the only sympathy that you see from the filmmaker is with Paul Snyder."
[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 · The Shining · 2:06:41 · David Sims (0.45)] The Shining ⇒ Bobby's World (TV) (the host's read) · lineage · The Bobby's World opening of Bobby on a big wheel is called an homage to The Shining. · "And it's so clearly has to be an homage to this"
[speaker] Karina Longworth · latest sketch, Blank Check — Patreon · Barry Lyndon · Barry Lyndon is one of her three favorite movies; she watched it often in her twenties via two VHS tapes. Loves its comedy and its warmth, and thinks Kubrick's other films are funny too. Hates having to name one favorite movie. · stances: Nearly all of Kubrick's films are satires; O'Neal is the best application of him in any movie; She sees Barry differently at 42 than as a teenager
[speaker] David Sims · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Prepares history: novel, casting, budgets, box office. Reveres the film and thinks it reads as a normal ground-level story. A sucker for Hollywood deal backstory and box office game. · stances: Praises Keitel and Dafoe casting; Respects Scorsese's persistence and Corman discipline; The film is now well regarded though not 'canonical Marty'
[speaker] Griffin Newman · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Calls Last Temptation his college-era favorite Scorsese; loves Scorsese's smaller 80s and the film's closing transcendence and Gabriel score. Cannot stand fundamentalist outrage at it. A sucker for casting trivia and Tom Cruise-silliness. · stances: Hot take: Last Temptation structurally mirrors New York, New York as a better version; Outrage over the film is stupid; it is respectful to Jesus; Scorsese's smaller 80s work beats his later baroque phases
[speaker] Leslye Headland · latest sketch, Blank Check — Patreon · Zodiac · Loves Zodiac as part of a Mount Rushmore (Zodiac, The Shining, Back to the Future, The Apartment) and watched it daily at a low point in her life. Adores blocking and staging as the true mark of the greats, loves Fincher's digital photography, and sees Fight Club as an evergreen Strangelove-style satire. Also a fan of L.A. Confidential as a nook-and-cranny movie. · stances: Zodiac is a masterpiece and a movie to live inside; Fincher's real genius is blocking and staging, not flash; Fight Club is a durable satire; Digital can look gorgeous
[speaker] Sarah Marshall · latest sketch, Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · Loves legal dramas, horror, Predator and action movies; calls Paths of Glory her personal Kubrick and a formative film seen once at the Portland Art Museum. Dislikes performative female characters in movies uninterested in women; prefers sincere shortcomings. · stances: Paths of Glory is about injustice and a truthful legal drama; Prefers movies that admit they are about men; Won't call her show criticism; love has to be part of the conversation about movies
[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 Barry Lyndon (1975); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Barry Lyndon (1975) 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.