What the corpus says about The Piano (1993)

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished The Piano (1993) 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 The Piano (1993) 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 · An Angel at My Table · 0:13:46 · David Sims (0.50)] An Angel at My Table ↔ The Piano · career · The next film is The Piano, where Campion becomes the first woman to win the Palme d'Or. · "it's also the movie after this is, uh, the piano, where she becomes the 1st woman to win the palm door."
[Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut · 0:07:38 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35)] In the Cut ↔ The Piano · people · The hosts note Campion's earlier film The Piano has been covered already in the miniseries. · "It's also funny now that the piano is behind us and we're covering in the cut."
[Blank Check · An Angel at My Table · 1:12:48 · David Sims (0.30)] Stuart Driver ↔ The Piano · craft · A speaker names Stuart Driver (as transcribed) as the person who shot The Piano, in the run-up to the film. · "Yeah, sorry, Stuart Driver shot."
[Blank Check · An Angel at My Table · 1:13:38 · David Sims (0.40)] The Piano ↔ Philip Glass · craft · The Piano's score is like a Philip Glass score: if you dislike it you are in trouble. · "it's kind of like a Philip Glass score, something where it's like, if you don't like it, you're in trouble"
[Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut · 0:55:23 · Jourdain Searles (0.50)] Holly Hunter ↔ The Piano · career · Hunter and Kidman did their provocative roles (The Piano, Dead Calm) early, so audiences accepted them. · "Holly Hunter did the piano early on."
[Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut · 1:18:57 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35)] Jane Campion ↔ The Piano · career · The Piano worked wonders despite Hunter's unlikely casting; In the Cut did not. · "it is just kind of astonishing that the piano worked so well."
[Blank Check · An Angel at My Table · 1:13:32 · Dana Stevens (0.70)] Michael Nyman ↔ The Piano · people · Dana thinks the score is overused and imposing, a major problem for her. · "I dont like the music by, is it by Michael Nyman?"
[Blank Check · An Angel at My Table · 1:13:59 · Dana Stevens (0.60)] Holly Hunter ↔ The Piano · people · Dana praises the imagery, Hunter, Keitel and script. · "Holly Hunter, Harvey Keitel, all of that stuff, the storytelling."
[Blank Check · An Angel at My Table · 0:19:54 · David Sims (0.45)] An Angel at My Table ⇒ Barry Jenkins (the host's read) · lineage · Speaker wonders whether Jenkins referenced Angel when making Moonlight. · "I wonder if Barry Jenkins, like references at all in working on Moonlight"
[Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut · 0:07:38 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35)] Jane Campion ↔ In the Cut · programming · Today's episode of the Campion miniseries; the piano is behind them and In the Cut is next. · "It's also funny now that the piano is behind us and we're covering in the cut."
[Blank Check · An Angel at My Table · 1:21:11 · David Sims (0.40)] An Angel at My Table ↔ Sweetie · theme · Both films have doofy, non-villainous, two-dimensional men and boys. · "both very good at those sorts of doofy men where they're not even villainous sort of, but they're just sort of like painfully, uh, awkward"
[Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut · 0:09:37 · Griffin Newman (0.60)] In the Cut ↔ Hulk · programming · Both were 2003 films that were derided on release; Hulk is called David's derided film of the year. · "It was your derided film of 2000."
[Blank Check · An Angel at My Table · 0:16:07 · Dana Stevens (0.90)] An Angel at My Table ↔ Picnic at Hanging Rock · craft · The gauzy distance, fades to black and mystery of the childhood chapter recall Picnic at Hanging Rock. · "Peter Weir's picnic and Hanging Rock, which I think this movie has something in common with"
[Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut · 0:13:38 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35)] Unfaithful ↔ In the Cut · programming · Unfaithful is described as closing out the erotic-thriller era that In the Cut lands at the tail end of. · "And unfaithful is him kind of closing the loop a little bit. And it's like that era is done."
[Blank Check · An Angel at My Table · 0:19:54 · David Sims (0.45)] An Angel at My Table ↔ Moonlight · craft · Three-actor, three-part handoff with continuity of performance; Moonlight also made on a compressed schedule. · "there's a similar sort of handoff quality to it and a continuity of performance"
[Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut · 0:13:49 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35)] In the Cut ↔ Swimming Pool · programming · Swimming Pool is the only other notable erotic thriller of 2003. · "the only other one in 2003 of any note is the French movie swimming pool, which is a pretty good movie."
[Blank Check · An Angel at My Table · 0:52:10 · Dana Stevens (0.35)] Annie ↔ An Angel at My Table · craft · Janet Frame, in her red cardigan and curly red hair, looks like Annie, which makes viewers root for her. · "she kind of looks like Australian little orphan Annie."
[Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut · 0:51:40 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35)] In the Cut ↔ Hollow Man · programming · The DVD box set pairing In the Cut with Hollow Man, Flatliners, Abandon and Trapped is called a blank-checky set. · "It is a weirdly blank checky box set."
[Blank Check · An Angel at My Table · 0:56:44 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] An Angel at My Table ↔ Sweetie · craft · Sweetie's saturated children's-film look survives in Angel only in the Janet character's costume and hair. · "it's like an adult film that has the aesthetics of a children's film."
[Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut · 0:52:19 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35)] In the Cut ↔ Paul Verhoeven · programming · The box set mixes a Campion, a Verhoeven, a Schumacher and an Aja. · "It's just wild that it's a campion, a Verhoven, a Schumacher, a fucking Agoya."
[Blank Check · An Angel at My Table · 0:58:25 · Dana Stevens (0.50)] An Angel at My Table ↔ The Power of the Dog · craft · Production design is a major part of Campion's project in both, communicating class without exposition. · "in power of the dog, this past year where production design is a huge part of what informs Campion's project."
[Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut · 1:34:30 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35)] In the Cut ↔ Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King · programming · 2003 was crowded: Lord of the Rings, Lost in Translation, Kill Bill, Finding Nemo and more. · "because that's the year, obviously, of like Lord of the Rings."
[Blank Check · An Angel at My Table · 1:01:31 · unknown (0.30)] An Angel at My Table ↔ Two Friends · craft · Speaker notes Campion films that do not operate like normal narratives, citing a backward-narrative film (transcribed 'Two friends'). · "Two friends has this weird backward narrative?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut · 1:35:27 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35)] In the Cut ↔ Sideways · programming · Sideways, the following year, was a TIFF launch; In the Cut was not. · "Because the following year is sideways."
[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] Dana Stevens · latest sketch, Blank Check · An Angel at My Table · Loves Campion's evocative, elusive style and the film as a coming-of-age story about an artist; says she maybe loves Bright Star slightly more. Distrusts crude biopic cliches and Cuckoo's Nest. Dislikes the piano score's imposing clang. A sucker for production design, performance continuity, and mystery. · stances: Angel is one of the best coming-of-age movies about an artist; Angel and Bright Star are two of the best literary biopics; Criticized The Piano's score; Prefers mysteries that remain unexplained
[speaker] Jourdain Searles · latest sketch, Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut · A film critic and Bad Romance host who calls herself an In the Cut scholar and a longtime Jane Campion fan. Loves erotic thrillers, sexual frankness, and movies that like women's bodies; sees the film's backlash as puritanism and a refusal to let Meg Ryan be a woman with wants. Cannot stand Dennis Quaid or Russell Crowe, and is a sucker for the Matrix sequels. · stances: In the Cut is well made and 'badly made' is factually untrue; The backlash was about America's puritanism and about not wanting Meg Ryan to be a sexual adult; Erotic thrillers by women, and chemistry casting, should come back; The loudest voices reclaiming it are women because they find it hot
[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)

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 The Piano (1993); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend The Piano (1993) 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.