What the corpus says about If Beale Street Could Talk (2018)

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished If Beale Street Could Talk (2018) 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 If Beale Street Could Talk (2018) and the films around it, one line each. Every line starts with where it came from, in brackets: [show · episode · time · speaker (how sure we are it was them)]. A [pairs] line says how often two films were put side by side. A [speaker] line says what that person likes. A [bits] line lists a show's running bits: a format, not an opinion.

[The Big Picture · Instant Reactions to a Truly Ludicrous Golden Globes | The Oscars Show · 0:16:02 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Bohemian Rhapsody ↔ If Beale Street Could Talk · industry · PGA nominating Bohemian Rhapsody while omitting Beale Street worries the speakers for Beale Street's Oscar chances. · "What does this do for Beale Street?"
[The Big Picture · Instant Reactions to a Truly Ludicrous Golden Globes | The Oscars Show · 0:16:45 · Amanda Dobbins (0.45)] Beasts of the Southern Wild ↔ If Beale Street Could Talk · industry · The Academy sometimes goes where the PGA does not, as with Beasts of the Southern Wild, so Beale Street could still make it. · "sometimes you have Bisa of the Southern Wild, which is like not on the PJs radar."
[The Big Picture · Oscars 2019: Instant Reactions to ‘Green Book’ and the Two Warring Academies | The Oscars Show · 0:55:11 · unknown (0.40)] Nicholas Britell ↔ If Beale Street Could Talk · verdict · Both hosts voted with their hearts for Britell's Beale Street score. · "we both picked Nicholas Brattel."
[The Big Picture · Instant Reactions to a Truly Ludicrous Golden Globes | The Oscars Show · 0:55:50 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Regina King ↔ If Beale Street Could Talk · verdict · King's win was the one where critics' favorite got rewarded, since she won most of the critics awards. · "Regina King to me was the one person who I was like, this is a small film."
[The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 0:27:53 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Rocketman ↔ Bohemian Rhapsody · theme · Rocketman was paired with Bohemian Rhapsody for obvious reasons but has faded from conversation. · "Obviously, it's Rocket Man has been paired with Bohemian Rhapsody for obvious reasons, but Rocket Man just doesn't come up."
[The Big Picture · Oscars 2019: Instant Reactions to ‘Green Book’ and the Two Warring Academies | The Oscars Show · 0:14:08 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Bohemian Rhapsody ↔ The Pianist · theme · Rami Malek's win reminds the speaker of Adrien Brody's win for The Pianist, a film by a controversial filmmaker with a sordid past. · "I thought a bit of Adrian Brody winning for the pianist, which was also made by a controversial controversial filmmaker with a sordid past."
[The Big Picture · Instant Reactions to a Truly Ludicrous Golden Globes | The Oscars Show · 0:08:31 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Green Book ↔ Bohemian Rhapsody · theme · Both wins read as 'I had a nice time at the movies' rewards rather than judgments of quality. · "feel a little bit like, you know what? I had a nice time at the movies."
[The Big Picture · Instant Reactions to a Truly Ludicrous Golden Globes | The Oscars Show · 0:30:29 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] A Star Is Born ↔ Bohemian Rhapsody · theme · Star's schmaltz and old-fashionedness were expected to lift it, but that is what the night rewarded in Bohemian Rhapsody and Green Book. · "it's the schmaltiness and old-fashionedness of Bohemian Rhapsody and Green book that we're really discussing tonight."
[The Big Picture · Oscars 2019: Instant Reactions to ‘Green Book’ and the Two Warring Academies | The Oscars Show · 0:14:30 · Sean Fennessey (0.45)] Rami Malek ↔ Bohemian Rhapsody · craft · Notes the clip shown for Malek's win was him lip-syncing, undercutting the acting case. · "the clip they used to show us was him lip syncing"
[The Big Picture · Oscars 2019: Instant Reactions to ‘Green Book’ and the Two Warring Academies | The Oscars Show · 0:52:51 · unknown (0.40)] Green Book ↔ Bohemian Rhapsody · craft · Argues Green Book's editing is better than Bohemian Rhapsody's, which won film editing. · "I think, honestly, the editing and green book is better than the editing in Bohemian Rhapsody."
[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] Amanda Dobbins · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · Loves The Strangers' withholding craft and a good tense horror film without gore, but likes fun, communal movies like Mamma Mia. She dislikes supernatural or gory horror, which irritates her more than it scares her. She is a sucker for stars and for Googling a movie mid-recording. · stances: The Strangers is scary because of what it doesn't show or explain; Ending explanation weakens it; no answer would be better; Prefers 'withholding' filmmaking; Defends Mamma Mia as joyful and intentional
[bits] The Big Picture: Drafts (Hosts and guests draft films in rounds; every pick is a recommendation with an argument); Hall of Fame (A star's or director's best, ranked and argued); Countdowns (Ranked lists, top five or top ten)

Recommend three to six films, and only films that appear in these lines. A series, a TV film, or a franchise counts too when a line recommends it or pairs it with If Beale Street Could Talk (2018); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend If Beale Street Could Talk (2018) 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.