What the corpus says about Lolita (1962)

The 49 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 · Lolita · 1:20:10 · unknown (0.00)] Lolita → Dr. Strangelove · programming · Unlike Strangelove, Lolita had no prior Kubrick-Sellers connection. · "Because it's not like Strange Love where you're like, okay, there's a pre-existing connection now."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita · 1:44:25 · unknown (0.00)] Lolita ↔ Lolita (Adrian Lyne version) · lineage · The Lyne version does what Kubrick's could not and is called boring and unsuccessful. · "there's the line movie that does everything he couldn't do."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita · 1:47:47 · unknown (0.30)] Lolita (1955 novel) ⇒ Lolita (the host's read) · lineage · The 1962 film is adapted from Nabokov's novel; the speaker reads Crowther's review saying the film keeps the names and a resemblance of plot. · "They made a movie from a script in which the characters have the same name as the characters in the book, and the plot bears a resemblance to the original"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Gone Girl · 2:18:15 · unknown (0.30)] Lolita ⇒ Gone Girl (the maker said so: In the commentary) · theme · On the commentary Fincher says he wanted a Claire Quilty type for Desi and found it in Neil Patrick Harris. · "Fincher said he wanted a Claire quilty type and he's like, what's a modern Claire quilty type?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita · 0:27:45 · unknown (0.00)] Lolita ↔ The Thing · theme · Quilty is compared to the shapeless menace of John Carpenter's The Thing. · "No, I'm saying he's like the thing, like John Carpenter's the thing."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita · 0:51:25 · Fran Hoepfner (0.60)] Lolita ↔ The Lobster · theme · The code-dodging dialogue gave the speaker the feel of The Lobster, a movie with a weirdly agreed-upon reality. · "The more I started to see it as like, oh, this feels like the lobster."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita · 1:25:20 · unknown (0.00)] Lolita ↔ Universal Monster movies · theme · Mason's confessional scenes feel like a Universal monster monologuing about his curse. · "Those Mason scenes feel like Universal Monster shit where it's like the guy monologuing about his affliction"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita · 1:10:44 · unknown (0.30)] Lolita (1955 novel) ↔ Lolita · craft · Kubrick's stated reason for restructuring: the novel's narrative interest drops once Humbert gets Lolita into bed. · "Kubrick's take, says, the main problem with the book is, and even with the film is the main narrative interest initially boils down to Will Humbrick, get Lolita into bed."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita · 1:28:23 · unknown (0.30)] West Side Story ↔ Lolita · craft · West Side Story music was played on set to make Shelley Winters cry. · "And so they would play like West Side Story music to make Shelley Winters cry."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita · 0:11:47 · unknown (0.00)] Spartacus ↔ Lolita · career · Spartacus, Kubrick's biggest hit, is offered as one reason he got to make Lolita. · "So that's one reason he probably gets to make a lead."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita · 0:40:30 · unknown (0.30)] The Killing ↔ Lolita · industry · Harris sold his rights to The Killing to raise the money to buy Lolita's rights. · "Um, has to sell his rights to the killing."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita · 1:35:18 · unknown (0.00)] Lolita ↔ Hail, Caesar! · industry · Studio executives pitching Hays-code fixes sound like Hail, Caesar!. · "it makes me think of like Hail Caesar or whatever."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita · 2:09:11 · unknown (0.00)] That Touch of Mink ↔ Lolita · industry · The weekend Lolita opened at number five, That Touch of Mink was number one. · "No, number one at the box office, Griffin."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita · 2:10:10 · unknown (0.00)] Advise and Consent ↔ Lolita · industry · Advise and Consent, a Preminger political drama, was number two that weekend. · "Number 2 at the box office is a political drama."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita · 2:11:42 · unknown (0.00)] West Side Story ↔ Lolita · industry · West Side Story was still number three in its 37th week. · "It's in its 37th week of complete box office domination."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita · 2:13:23 · unknown (0.00)] Boys' Night Out ↔ Lolita · industry · Boys' Night Out, number four, is the kind of premise the Hays-era could allow. · "This is exactly what you could do in the haze coat."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Dr. Strangelove... · 0:18:08 · Griffin Newman (0.45)] Lolita ↔ Dr. Strangelove · business context · The speaker says the takeaway from Lolita was that Sellers maybe saved it commercially, so the studio wanted more Sellers for a Kubrick film. · "the takeaway from Lolita was like, sellers maybe saved that movie commercially."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita · 0:21:00 · unknown (0.00)] Lolita → Lolita (Adrian Lyne version) · answer film · Lyne's voiceover lifts the novel's language, described as the move if you want to do the anti-Kubrick Lolita 30 years later. · "which feels like the smart move to do if you're trying to do the anti-Kubric Lolita, like 30 years later."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita · 0:39:25 · unknown (0.30)] One-Eyed Jacks ↔ Lolita · left to make · Kubrick quit One-Eyed Jacks, announcing he was leaving to do Lolita. · "He announced like, I'm leaving to do Lolita."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita · 1:00:23 · unknown (0.00)] Lolita ↔ Dr. Strangelove · improvised method · Sellers improvised on set in both films and Kubrick folded the best improvisations into the script. · "so a lot of that is just sellers, which is going to be the same with Strange Love."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita · 1:17:43 · unknown (0.00)] Lolita (Adrian Lyne version) ↔ Lolita · restores what Kubrick cut · The Lyne film opens on Humbert's childhood backstory, which the Kubrick film removes. · "Which the Adrian line movie, like front loads."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita · 1:20:56 · unknown (0.00)] Lolita → Dr. Strangelove · multiple-Sellers template · The speaker says Lolita is where the multiple-Sellers-characters hit began, which is odd given Lolita comes first. · "It's kind of odd that this is the one that creates that."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita · 1:22:07 · unknown (0.00)] Lolita ↔ Nope · off-screen events · Both films put their biggest events off screen and tell them in talk. · "the nope thing where you're like, oh, like the biggest events are happening off screen and you're both telling us and not."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita · 1:40:09 · unknown (0.30)] Lolita (1955 novel) ↔ Lolita · what the code changed · Kubrick says the film could not portray the obsession, so it implies Humbert loves her from the start. · "Whereas in the, he says, in my film, the fact that his sexual obsession could not be portrayed at all, just implies that he's in love with her from the start."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita · 0:41:05 · unknown (0.30)] Stanley Kubrick ↔ Lolita · lineage · Kubrick (per the dossier) places Lolita in the lineage of illicit love stories like Romeo and Juliet. · "If you consider Romeo and Juliet, Anna Karenina, Madame Bovary, the red and the black."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita · 1:53:21 · unknown (0.00)] Lolita ↔ Wes Anderson · craft · The Lolita Ya-Ya song is called something that would fit in a Wes Anderson movie. · "this would be in a fucking Wes Anderson movie."

Films put beside it more than once (4)

[pairs] Lolita ↔ Dr. Strangelove · said 4 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] Lolita ↔ Lolita (Adrian Lyne version) · said 3 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Lolita ↔ Lolita (1955 novel) · said 3 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Lolita ↔ West Side Story · said 2 times in 1 episode

Fun items about it (6)

[Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita · 0:01:50 · unknown (0.00)] Lolita · fun · The 'normal guy' scene is both funny and skin-crawling. · "I think it's both. Like, it is very funny, but it does make my skin crawl where the tension of it is like unbearable."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita · 0:12:00 · unknown (0.00)] Lolita · fun · The tagline 'How did they ever make a movie of Lolita?' is praised as one of the all-time greats, and later said to beat the movie itself. · "Look, this movie does have one of, if not the single greatest tagline of all time."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita · 0:26:50 · unknown (0.00)] Lolita · fun · Kubrick moved the Quilty killing to the top so the second half would not deflate. · "But it's why he moved the quilty killing up to the top of the movie is he's like, otherwise, the balloon is deflated and then something shocking happens at the end."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita · 0:50:59 · Fran Hoepfner (0.60)] Lolita · fun · At Film Forum the audience split into reverence, cursed object, and bafflement. · "And there were, I could feel there are people who are just like, reverence, Kubrick, masterpiece, obviously."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita · 1:00:32 · unknown (0.00)] Lolita · fun · Sellers' improvisations were folded back into the script by rewriting, the same method used for Dr. Strangelove. · "The retro writing where he would like take sellers, improvs and then pick the right ones and go like, that's now part of the script."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita · 1:00:46 · unknown (0.00)] Lolita · fun · The film's one Oscar nomination went to Nabokov for the screenplay. · "The film's only Oscar nomination."

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (10)

[Blank Check — Patreon · Dr. Strangelove... · 0:48:54 · David Sims (0.55)] Red Alert (novel) ⇒ Dr. Strangelove (the host's read) · lineage · The speaker says Dr. Strangelove is based on Peter George's serious nuclear thriller Red Alert. · "so he scoops up this book called Red Alert, which is, of course, what Dr. Strangelove is based on by Peter George that is a serious nuclear thriller."
[The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · 1:17:19 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] West Side Story ⇒ Mamma Mia! (the host's read) · craft · In Dancing Queen, Baranski and Streep's chiffon skirts allow one Jerome Robbins-style moment that echoes West Side Story. · "they do like one Jerome Robbins, like, uh, sachet moment."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita · 2:10:22 · unknown (0.00)] Saul Bass ↔ Advise and Consent · craft · Advise and Consent has a Saul Bass poster. · "It does have a badass soul bass poster"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Dr. Strangelove... · 0:53:55 · David Sims (0.60)] Dr. Strangelove ⇒ Zucker Brothers (the host's read) · lineage · Speaker had a breakthrough that Strangelove must have been a big influence on the Zucker brothers and Jim Abrahams. · "I did finally have the breakthrough watching this of how much of an influence this movie must have been on the Zucker Brothers and John Abrahams."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Dr. Strangelove... · 1:28:44 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Bob Newhart ⇒ Dr. Strangelove (the host's read) · lineage · Speaker feels Newhart's one-sided phone-call format and his 1960 albums were a heavy influence on the President's call with the Soviet premier. · "I feel like a heavy influence on the way the president's phone call with Russia play out in this movie."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 0:22:29 · David Sims (0.40)] Paths of Glory ↔ Dr. Strangelove · lineage · Strangelove is the nearest thing Kubrick made to Paths of Glory afterward, both being people talking through absurdity. · "the closest thing he's made to this since this is Strangelove, because Strangelove is also people talking through absurdity by and large"
[Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange · 0:47:02 · Alex Ross Perry (0.50)] Dr. Strangelove ↔ A Clockwork Orange · theme · Strangelove, 2001, and this film are the clearest examples of his theme of technology that hastens man's downfall. · "Dr. Strangelove in 2001. And this movie are very literal examples of that, of that theme for sure."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Dr. Strangelove... · 0:29:22 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Dr. Strangelove ↔ Tootsie · theme · Speaker says Strangelove and Tootsie are both extremely funny but feel important to the industry. · "Well, this movie and Totsie have a lot in common, right?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Dr. Strangelove... · 0:31:14 · unknown (0.30)] Dr. Strangelove ↔ Network · theme · Network is called another movie that gets an impossible tone right, with dramatic actors rather than comedians. · "But that's another movie that's similarly like this gets sort of an impossible tone right."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Dr. Strangelove... · 2:01:46 · David Sims (0.75)] Dr. Strangelove ↔ Seven Days in May · theme · Seven Days in May is a serious political thriller with a similar vibe about the military clashing with the president. · "It's another political thriller with kind of a similar vibe, but it's serious,"

Who said it, by their latest sketch (2)

[speaker] Fran Hoepfner · latest sketch, Blank Check — Patreon · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · Read the Millennium books for the episode and is wading through the denser sequels; admires Rooney Mara and finds the Spider's Web reboot ill advised. A sucker for Daniel Craig in glasses and a sweater. · stances: Rooney Mara is so good; Spider's Web was a bad idea; Craig is a babe here.
[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

The shows' running bits (1)

[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)

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 Lolita (1962) 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 Lolita (1962) 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 · Lolita · 1:20:10 · unknown (0.00)] Lolita → Dr. Strangelove · programming · Unlike Strangelove, Lolita had no prior Kubrick-Sellers connection. · "Because it's not like Strange Love where you're like, okay, there's a pre-existing connection now."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita · 1:44:25 · unknown (0.00)] Lolita ↔ Lolita (Adrian Lyne version) · lineage · The Lyne version does what Kubrick's could not and is called boring and unsuccessful. · "there's the line movie that does everything he couldn't do."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita · 1:47:47 · unknown (0.30)] Lolita (1955 novel) ⇒ Lolita (the host's read) · lineage · The 1962 film is adapted from Nabokov's novel; the speaker reads Crowther's review saying the film keeps the names and a resemblance of plot. · "They made a movie from a script in which the characters have the same name as the characters in the book, and the plot bears a resemblance to the original"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Gone Girl · 2:18:15 · unknown (0.30)] Lolita ⇒ Gone Girl (the maker said so: In the commentary) · theme · On the commentary Fincher says he wanted a Claire Quilty type for Desi and found it in Neil Patrick Harris. · "Fincher said he wanted a Claire quilty type and he's like, what's a modern Claire quilty type?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita · 0:27:45 · unknown (0.00)] Lolita ↔ The Thing · theme · Quilty is compared to the shapeless menace of John Carpenter's The Thing. · "No, I'm saying he's like the thing, like John Carpenter's the thing."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita · 0:51:25 · Fran Hoepfner (0.60)] Lolita ↔ The Lobster · theme · The code-dodging dialogue gave the speaker the feel of The Lobster, a movie with a weirdly agreed-upon reality. · "The more I started to see it as like, oh, this feels like the lobster."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita · 1:25:20 · unknown (0.00)] Lolita ↔ Universal Monster movies · theme · Mason's confessional scenes feel like a Universal monster monologuing about his curse. · "Those Mason scenes feel like Universal Monster shit where it's like the guy monologuing about his affliction"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita · 1:10:44 · unknown (0.30)] Lolita (1955 novel) ↔ Lolita · craft · Kubrick's stated reason for restructuring: the novel's narrative interest drops once Humbert gets Lolita into bed. · "Kubrick's take, says, the main problem with the book is, and even with the film is the main narrative interest initially boils down to Will Humbrick, get Lolita into bed."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita · 1:28:23 · unknown (0.30)] West Side Story ↔ Lolita · craft · West Side Story music was played on set to make Shelley Winters cry. · "And so they would play like West Side Story music to make Shelley Winters cry."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita · 0:11:47 · unknown (0.00)] Spartacus ↔ Lolita · career · Spartacus, Kubrick's biggest hit, is offered as one reason he got to make Lolita. · "So that's one reason he probably gets to make a lead."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita · 0:40:30 · unknown (0.30)] The Killing ↔ Lolita · industry · Harris sold his rights to The Killing to raise the money to buy Lolita's rights. · "Um, has to sell his rights to the killing."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita · 1:35:18 · unknown (0.00)] Lolita ↔ Hail, Caesar! · industry · Studio executives pitching Hays-code fixes sound like Hail, Caesar!. · "it makes me think of like Hail Caesar or whatever."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita · 2:09:11 · unknown (0.00)] That Touch of Mink ↔ Lolita · industry · The weekend Lolita opened at number five, That Touch of Mink was number one. · "No, number one at the box office, Griffin."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita · 2:10:10 · unknown (0.00)] Advise and Consent ↔ Lolita · industry · Advise and Consent, a Preminger political drama, was number two that weekend. · "Number 2 at the box office is a political drama."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita · 2:11:42 · unknown (0.00)] West Side Story ↔ Lolita · industry · West Side Story was still number three in its 37th week. · "It's in its 37th week of complete box office domination."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita · 2:13:23 · unknown (0.00)] Boys' Night Out ↔ Lolita · industry · Boys' Night Out, number four, is the kind of premise the Hays-era could allow. · "This is exactly what you could do in the haze coat."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Dr. Strangelove... · 0:18:08 · Griffin Newman (0.45)] Lolita ↔ Dr. Strangelove · business context · The speaker says the takeaway from Lolita was that Sellers maybe saved it commercially, so the studio wanted more Sellers for a Kubrick film. · "the takeaway from Lolita was like, sellers maybe saved that movie commercially."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita · 0:21:00 · unknown (0.00)] Lolita → Lolita (Adrian Lyne version) · answer film · Lyne's voiceover lifts the novel's language, described as the move if you want to do the anti-Kubrick Lolita 30 years later. · "which feels like the smart move to do if you're trying to do the anti-Kubric Lolita, like 30 years later."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita · 0:39:25 · unknown (0.30)] One-Eyed Jacks ↔ Lolita · left to make · Kubrick quit One-Eyed Jacks, announcing he was leaving to do Lolita. · "He announced like, I'm leaving to do Lolita."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita · 1:00:23 · unknown (0.00)] Lolita ↔ Dr. Strangelove · improvised method · Sellers improvised on set in both films and Kubrick folded the best improvisations into the script. · "so a lot of that is just sellers, which is going to be the same with Strange Love."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita · 1:17:43 · unknown (0.00)] Lolita (Adrian Lyne version) ↔ Lolita · restores what Kubrick cut · The Lyne film opens on Humbert's childhood backstory, which the Kubrick film removes. · "Which the Adrian line movie, like front loads."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita · 1:20:56 · unknown (0.00)] Lolita → Dr. Strangelove · multiple-Sellers template · The speaker says Lolita is where the multiple-Sellers-characters hit began, which is odd given Lolita comes first. · "It's kind of odd that this is the one that creates that."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita · 1:22:07 · unknown (0.00)] Lolita ↔ Nope · off-screen events · Both films put their biggest events off screen and tell them in talk. · "the nope thing where you're like, oh, like the biggest events are happening off screen and you're both telling us and not."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita · 1:40:09 · unknown (0.30)] Lolita (1955 novel) ↔ Lolita · what the code changed · Kubrick says the film could not portray the obsession, so it implies Humbert loves her from the start. · "Whereas in the, he says, in my film, the fact that his sexual obsession could not be portrayed at all, just implies that he's in love with her from the start."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita · 0:41:05 · unknown (0.30)] Stanley Kubrick ↔ Lolita · lineage · Kubrick (per the dossier) places Lolita in the lineage of illicit love stories like Romeo and Juliet. · "If you consider Romeo and Juliet, Anna Karenina, Madame Bovary, the red and the black."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita · 1:53:21 · unknown (0.00)] Lolita ↔ Wes Anderson · craft · The Lolita Ya-Ya song is called something that would fit in a Wes Anderson movie. · "this would be in a fucking Wes Anderson movie."
[pairs] Lolita ↔ Dr. Strangelove · said 4 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] Lolita ↔ Lolita (Adrian Lyne version) · said 3 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Lolita ↔ Lolita (1955 novel) · said 3 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Lolita ↔ West Side Story · said 2 times in 1 episode
[Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita · 0:01:50 · unknown (0.00)] Lolita · fun · The 'normal guy' scene is both funny and skin-crawling. · "I think it's both. Like, it is very funny, but it does make my skin crawl where the tension of it is like unbearable."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita · 0:12:00 · unknown (0.00)] Lolita · fun · The tagline 'How did they ever make a movie of Lolita?' is praised as one of the all-time greats, and later said to beat the movie itself. · "Look, this movie does have one of, if not the single greatest tagline of all time."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita · 0:26:50 · unknown (0.00)] Lolita · fun · Kubrick moved the Quilty killing to the top so the second half would not deflate. · "But it's why he moved the quilty killing up to the top of the movie is he's like, otherwise, the balloon is deflated and then something shocking happens at the end."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita · 0:50:59 · Fran Hoepfner (0.60)] Lolita · fun · At Film Forum the audience split into reverence, cursed object, and bafflement. · "And there were, I could feel there are people who are just like, reverence, Kubrick, masterpiece, obviously."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita · 1:00:32 · unknown (0.00)] Lolita · fun · Sellers' improvisations were folded back into the script by rewriting, the same method used for Dr. Strangelove. · "The retro writing where he would like take sellers, improvs and then pick the right ones and go like, that's now part of the script."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita · 1:00:46 · unknown (0.00)] Lolita · fun · The film's one Oscar nomination went to Nabokov for the screenplay. · "The film's only Oscar nomination."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Dr. Strangelove... · 0:48:54 · David Sims (0.55)] Red Alert (novel) ⇒ Dr. Strangelove (the host's read) · lineage · The speaker says Dr. Strangelove is based on Peter George's serious nuclear thriller Red Alert. · "so he scoops up this book called Red Alert, which is, of course, what Dr. Strangelove is based on by Peter George that is a serious nuclear thriller."
[The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · 1:17:19 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] West Side Story ⇒ Mamma Mia! (the host's read) · craft · In Dancing Queen, Baranski and Streep's chiffon skirts allow one Jerome Robbins-style moment that echoes West Side Story. · "they do like one Jerome Robbins, like, uh, sachet moment."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita · 2:10:22 · unknown (0.00)] Saul Bass ↔ Advise and Consent · craft · Advise and Consent has a Saul Bass poster. · "It does have a badass soul bass poster"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Dr. Strangelove... · 0:53:55 · David Sims (0.60)] Dr. Strangelove ⇒ Zucker Brothers (the host's read) · lineage · Speaker had a breakthrough that Strangelove must have been a big influence on the Zucker brothers and Jim Abrahams. · "I did finally have the breakthrough watching this of how much of an influence this movie must have been on the Zucker Brothers and John Abrahams."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Dr. Strangelove... · 1:28:44 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Bob Newhart ⇒ Dr. Strangelove (the host's read) · lineage · Speaker feels Newhart's one-sided phone-call format and his 1960 albums were a heavy influence on the President's call with the Soviet premier. · "I feel like a heavy influence on the way the president's phone call with Russia play out in this movie."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 0:22:29 · David Sims (0.40)] Paths of Glory ↔ Dr. Strangelove · lineage · Strangelove is the nearest thing Kubrick made to Paths of Glory afterward, both being people talking through absurdity. · "the closest thing he's made to this since this is Strangelove, because Strangelove is also people talking through absurdity by and large"
[Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange · 0:47:02 · Alex Ross Perry (0.50)] Dr. Strangelove ↔ A Clockwork Orange · theme · Strangelove, 2001, and this film are the clearest examples of his theme of technology that hastens man's downfall. · "Dr. Strangelove in 2001. And this movie are very literal examples of that, of that theme for sure."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Dr. Strangelove... · 0:29:22 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Dr. Strangelove ↔ Tootsie · theme · Speaker says Strangelove and Tootsie are both extremely funny but feel important to the industry. · "Well, this movie and Totsie have a lot in common, right?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Dr. Strangelove... · 0:31:14 · unknown (0.30)] Dr. Strangelove ↔ Network · theme · Network is called another movie that gets an impossible tone right, with dramatic actors rather than comedians. · "But that's another movie that's similarly like this gets sort of an impossible tone right."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Dr. Strangelove... · 2:01:46 · David Sims (0.75)] Dr. Strangelove ↔ Seven Days in May · theme · Seven Days in May is a serious political thriller with a similar vibe about the military clashing with the president. · "It's another political thriller with kind of a similar vibe, but it's serious,"
[speaker] Fran Hoepfner · latest sketch, Blank Check — Patreon · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · Read the Millennium books for the episode and is wading through the denser sequels; admires Rooney Mara and finds the Spider's Web reboot ill advised. A sucker for Daniel Craig in glasses and a sweater. · stances: Rooney Mara is so good; Spider's Web was a bad idea; Craig is a babe here.
[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
[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 Lolita (1962); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Lolita (1962) 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.