What the corpus says about Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Picnic at Hanging Rock (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 Picnic at Hanging Rock (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 · Fearless · 1:06:54 · David Sims (0.40)] Fearless ↔ Picnic at Hanging Rock · craft · Fearless captures an uncanny mood with invisible craft the way Picnic at Hanging Rock does. · "And it has a little bit of that picnic at hanging rock thing where you're like, what is this mood he's captured?"
[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 · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · 2:45:57 · unknown (0.40)] Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World ↔ Picnic at Hanging Rock · weir-patience · Weir's patience, where nothing seems to happen until something suddenly does, runs through Witness, Hanging Rock and this film. · "there are definitely moments in witness, certainly in hanging rock, where you're just like, oh, yeah, I guess nothing's going to happen."
[Blank Check · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · 1:26:42 · David Sims (0.40)] Russell Boyd ↔ Picnic at Hanging Rock · people · Boyd shot Picnic, Last Wave, Gallipoli and Year of Living Dangerously for Weir; he and Weir reunited by chance on an airplane for this film. · "Peter Weir made his 1st 4 films or no, 4 of his early films, though, with Russell Boyd, picnic, uh, wave, Gallipoli dangerously."
[Blank Check · An Angel at My Table · 0:16:07 · Dana Stevens (0.90)] Peter Weir ↔ Picnic at Hanging Rock · people · Dana attributes Picnic at Hanging Rock to Peter Weir. · "Peter Weir's picnic and Hanging Rock"
[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 · 2025 March Madness Update 1 · 0:48:14 · unknown (0.40)] Peter Weir ↔ Fearless · programming · A host has not seen Fearless and is obsessed with plane crashes. · "the most intense plane crash scene in a movie."
[Blank Check · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · 0:40:33 · David Sims (0.60)] Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World ↔ Hornblower (TV films) · programming · Britons grew up on Hornblower in the 90s; it is the near-only other Napoleonic naval storytelling, and Griffin's friend was steered to it as a substitute. · "I want to watch like a master and commander thing, but not master and commander because I've seen enough master and commander."
[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 · Fearless · 1:11:17 · David Sims (0.50)] Rafael Yglesias ⇒ Fearless (the host's read) · lineage · Weir loved the unpublished-novel first-draft script, adapted by its own author. · "He adapts his own unpublished book."
[Blank Check · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · 0:16:54 · David Sims (0.50)] Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World ↔ The Truman Show · theme · Asked how the studio sold a Weir boat movie, the hosts note the poster could not say 'from the director of The Truman Show' but both films have sailing scenes. · "They do both have sailing scenes."
[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 · Fearless · 0:50:16 · Tim Simons (0.45)] Fearless ↔ Unbreakable · theme · Both are about a man recovering from an accident that left him untouched; Bruce Willis would have fit, but was not ready. · "sort of a similar idea of a guy who's kind of like, fucking nothing happened to me, like, and who is recovering from an accident."
[Blank Check · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · 0:41:35 · unknown (0.40)] Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World ↔ Waterloo · theme · Napoleonic-era films from the 40s to 60s were mostly about land war, like Waterloo, so naval ones are scarce. · "I think most of the Napoleonic stuff back then, it's more the land."
[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 · Fearless · 1:13:28 · David Sims (0.40)] Fearless ↔ Hero · theme · Hero, the year before, also asks what happens to people who walk out of a crash alive. · "What happens to the people who walk off walk out of a crash alive?"
[Blank Check · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · 2:10:24 · unknown (0.45)] Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World ↔ Star Trek (franchise, generally) · theme · The 'are you being too prideful?' friend who can challenge the captain is a Star Trek trope; Maturin/Aubrey is different from Kirk and Bones because they are a marriage. · "any fucking Star Trek has that too, of like, there's the one guy who can say like, captain."
[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 · Fearless · 2:28:08 · unknown (0.30)] Fearless ↔ Kickin' It Old Skool · theme · A coma movie where a man wakes into a new reality is joked to be the Fearless of the 2000s. · "kind of the fearless of the 2000s?"
[Blank Check · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · 2:11:27 · David Sims (0.50)] Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World ↔ Star Trek (franchise, generally) · theme · The San Francisco Chronicle's negative review said the leads' interaction was reminiscent of the Star Trek characters in later sequels, meant as a criticism of preening cutesiness. · "Their interaction takes on a preening quality, reminiscent of the interaction of the Star Trek characters 4 or 5 movies down the line."
[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 · Fearless · 0:52:17 · Tim Simons (0.40)] Fearless ⇒ Tron: Legacy (the host's read) · craft · The 1993 Bridges look was the reference for the de-aged CGI Bridges in Tron: Legacy. · "I believe that this was the main visual reference for creepy CGI Jeff Bridges and Tron Legacy."
[Blank Check · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · 2:24:13 · John Hodgman (0.90)] Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World ↔ Moby-Dick · theme · Hodgman, mid-read of Moby-Dick, says the Pequod crew, like this crew, are so far from civilization that land taboos break and ships become their own societies. · "how the crew of the Pequod, which is a much smaller crew because they don't have gunners on it. a whaling boat."
[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 · Fearless · 1:14:34 · unknown (0.30)] Fearless ↔ Sully · craft · Sully uses the same crash-in-flashback structure Weir chose for Fearless. · "Sully does basically the same thing."
[Blank Check · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · 2:26:59 · unknown (0.40)] Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World ↔ Cabin Boy · theme · The film's 12-year-old midshipmen and literal ship boys recall Cabin Boy, whose joke is an adult man doing a cabin boy's job. · "that's the joke of cabin boy, much like get a life is like, what if an adult man was doing this thing?"
[Blank Check · Fearless · 2:32:45 · David Sims (0.50)] Fearless ↔ Allen Daviau · craft · The speaker praises how Fearless looks, a film about absorbing textures and the feeling in the air, tied to Daviau shooting it. · "this film looks incredible and this is a movie that needs to just look good because it's so much about like absorbing textures of things and and the space and the feeling in the air"
[Blank Check · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · 1:28:32 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Russell Boyd ↔ Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · craft · Boyd, back with Weir after years apart, won the Oscar for this film's cinematography. · "And of course, Russell Boyd won the office."
[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] 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'
[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)

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