What the corpus says about Citizen Kane (1941)

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 (14)

[The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 0:50:25 · Amanda Dobbins (0.80)] Citizen Kane ↔ Casablanca · programming · Younger viewers resist classics because they feel they must watch five canonical films first; a recent episode showed they refuse Citizen Kane even on streaming. · "we just went through a whole episode where people refuse to watch Citizen Kane on streaming."
[The Big Picture · Emergency Mailbag: The Oscars Are Streaming and Hollywood Is Fighting Over Trolls | The Big Picture · 0:58:09 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Citizen Kane ⇒ Mank (the host's read) · lineage · Mank is partly inspired by Pauline Kael's essay on who truly authored Citizen Kane. · "it's in part inspired by that very famous Pauline Kale, story raising Kane, about the true authorship of Citizen Kane"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Mank · 1:13:08 · David Sims (0.80)] Citizen Kane ⇒ Mank (the maker said so: David's interview with cinematographer Erik Messerschmidt) · lineage · Messerschmidt told the interviewer he wanted low, deep-focus photography evoking Citizen Kane, not noir. · "He's like, no, I want to do it low to the ground, lots of deep focus, evoking citizen Kane."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Mank · 1:10:06 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Citizen Kane ↔ Mank · craft · Like Citizen Kane, Mank has a complicated relationship to its lead; Mank mirrors the attitude of the man himself. · "Yeah, as much as Citizen Kane, the movie has a very complicated relationship to its lead character."
[The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 0:15:24 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] The Martian ↔ Citizen Kane · contrast · The Martian is meant to be a balm, not an object of heavy analysis, unlike a Citizen Kane. · "the Martian is a movie that's supposed to make people feel good, and it's supposed to be a bomb for you"
[Blank Check · Raging Bull · 2:02:33 · unknown host (0.30)] Raging Bull ↔ Citizen Kane · industry · Critics like Pauline Kael panning Raging Bull is compared to audiences not getting Citizen Kane at the time. · "Yeah, people didn't get Citizen Kane at the time."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 1:16:00 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] The Royal Tenenbaums ↔ Citizen Kane · industry · Ambersons is Welles's follow-up to Kane and the movie taken away from him. · "Orson Wells' infamous 2nd feature, his movie after Citizen Kane, and the movie that was taken away from him."
[The Big Picture · ‘Fast 9’ and the ‘Fast & Furious’ Rankings · 0:27:34 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85)] Fast Five ↔ Citizen Kane · industry · Amanda says the franchise has room alongside Citizen Kane. · "And is it Citizen Kane?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · David Fincher Music Videos · 1:17:07 · unknown (0.40)] Citizen Kane ⇒ Oh Father (Madonna video) (the host's read) · tribute · Oh Father is called Fincher's first Citizen Kane tribute. · "This was his 1st Citizen Kane tribute."
[The Big Picture · Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster · 0:21:06 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Errol Morris ↔ Citizen Kane · programming · The Academy hired Errol Morris for short documentaries, one of which produced Donald Trump misreading Citizen Kane. · "he completely misreads Citizen Kane and misunderstands it and then kind of sort of predicts his own future in some respects"
[Blank Check · Sherlock Jr. / The Navigator · 2:20:28 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Roddy McDowall ↔ Citizen Kane · industry · Griffin says he used to think the Roddy McDowall film shouldn't have beaten Citizen Kane, then saw it and changed his mind. · "oh, that's the movie that shouldn't have beaten Season K."
[Blank Check · Sherlock Jr. / The Navigator · 0:25:20 · James Urbaniak (0.85)] Robert Altman ↔ Citizen Kane · dismissed · Altman told Urbaniak he never thought Citizen Kane was that great. · "I never thought Citizen K was that great."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Mank · 0:39:21 · David Sims (0.40)] William Randolph Hearst ⇒ Citizen Kane (the host's read) · subject · Mankiewicz's script was a thinly veiled attack on his friend Hearst. · "I'm going to make fun of my my pal, Jordan, you know, William Randall first."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Mank · 0:41:24 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Herman Mankiewicz ⇒ Citizen Kane (the host's read) · adapting lived experience · Sean says Citizen Kane is Welles adapting an experience Herman Mankiewicz had inside the Hearst circle. · "so in a way, this is him adapting an experience that Herman Mankowitz had"

Films put beside it more than once (1)

[pairs] Citizen Kane ↔ Mank · said 3 times in 2 episodes

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (25)

[The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 1:54:31 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] The Trial of the Chicago 7 ↔ Mank · programming · Chicago 7 is a big fat fastball for the Oscars alongside Mank, Nomadland and Hillbilly Elegy. · "this is a big fat, fastball right down the middle."
[The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 1:33:55 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Evil Dead ↔ Casablanca · lineage · Evil Dead has been ripped off so many times it is foundational, like Casablanca. · "it's like Casablanca at this point."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Thor · 1:50:54 · David Sims (0.50)] Thor ↔ Fast Five · programming · Thor's opening was the Memorial Day-season release, with Fast Five as the number two film in its 2nd weekend. · "Number 2 is one of the best movies of this year."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 1:44:35 · Van Lathan (0.45)] Rocky ↔ Raging Bull · programming · Another double-feature choice, Raging Bull, picked by one host. · "I go Raging Bull."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Mank · 0:48:09 · Griffin Newman (0.60)] Jack Fincher ⇒ Mank (the maker said so: Fincher's own account as read from the dossier (outlet not named)) · lineage · Fincher's father wrote the original Mank script, which David set aside until years later. · "I'm handed this script that my dad wrote about all powerful directors ruining storytelling"
[The Big Picture · ‘A Minecraft Movie’ Is the Most Important Movie of the Year So Far. And These Flicks Are the Best … · 0:56:42 · Sean Fennessey (0.65)] Casablanca ⇒ The Good German (the host's read) · lineage · The Good German is an exercise in post-Casablanca style filmmaking. · "It is a kind of exercise in a post-Casablanca style of filmmaking."
[The Big Picture · ‘Fast 9’ and the ‘Fast & Furious’ Rankings · 0:05:46 · Shea Serrano (0.90)] Fast Five ↔ The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift · lineage · Justin Lin sets the franchise on its trajectory in Tokyo Drift, seeds it in Fast & Furious, and perfects it in Fast Five. · "He figures it out perfectly in fast five."
[Blank Check · Raging Bull · 1:55:42 · unknown host (0.30)] Raging Bull ⇒ The King of Comedy (the host's read) · lineage · King of Comedy is a part-2 of sorts about a delusional comedian, echoing LaMotta's stand-up, and is part of a De Niro trilogy with Taxi Driver. · "There's the king of comedy, the spiritual sequel to Raging Bull."
[The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 0:02:38 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Mank ↔ David Fincher · craft · Fincher shot and cut Mank to look like a 1940s film. · "he has shot this film to look like a film from the 1940s and the trailer has been cut to look like a film from the 1940s"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Return of the Jedi · 0:13:00 · unknown (0.30)] Casablanca ⇒ Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi (the host's read) · lineage · Jabba's court is conceived as Sydney Greenstreet crossed with Casablanca. · "The concept is he's sort of like Sidney Green Street and then Casablanca, yeah."
[The Big Picture · ‘Fast 9’ and the ‘Fast & Furious’ Rankings · 0:29:54 · Shea Serrano (0.75)] The Fast and the Furious ↔ Fast Five · lineage · Coming in at Fast Five and then going back to the first film feels like a different planet, like finding Jay-Z's Reasonable Doubt after Vol. 2. · "If you come in at fast five, and then you go back and watch The Fast and the Furious."
[Blank Check · Raging Bull · 1:58:33 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (0.40)] Italianamerican ⇒ Raging Bull (the host's read) · lineage · Scorsese's parents fighting in Italianamerican and American Boy taught him the rhythm replicated in Raging Bull's family fight scenes. · "And so much of his parents fighting in Italian American is the feeling of the family fight scenes in this movie."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Killer · 0:13:02 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Ren Klyce ↔ Mank · craft · The Killer's sound designer also did Mank; the speaker talked to him for both. · "Talk to him too for Mank."
[The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:18:22 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Home Alone ↔ Casablanca · theme · For a kid in 1990, Home Alone was as monumental as Casablanca or the Wizard of Oz. · "for me, at this time, Home Alone was Casablanca"
[The Big Picture · ‘Fast 9’ and the ‘Fast & Furious’ Rankings · 0:38:26 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70)] Fast Five ⇒ Fast and Furious 6 (the host's read) · lineage · Fast 6 plays post Fast Five with the cargo plane set piece. · "That's when they do the whole thing with the cargo plane."
[Blank Check · Raging Bull · 1:08:55 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (0.40)] Rocky ⇒ Raging Bull (the maker said so) · theme · Scorsese shot in black and white to differentiate from Rocky-era bright red-white-and-blue boxing movies, and producer Winkler produced both. · "Number one, I want to differentiate from the Rockies and all the other sort of boxing movies right now."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Mank · 2:03:48 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] The Lost Weekend ⇒ Mank (the host's read) · craft · The election-night drunk sequence in Mank is called self-consciously reminiscent of The Lost Weekend. · "almost self-consciously reminiscent of the last the lost weekend"
[The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 1:21:59 · Mike Mills (0.90)] Come On, Come On ↔ Casablanca · craft · The framing in clean single shots is like Casablanca. · "It's like, it's like out of Casablanca or something."
[The Big Picture · ‘Fast 9’ and the ‘Fast & Furious’ Rankings · 0:44:25 · Shea Serrano (0.90)] The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift ↔ Fast Five · lineage · Shea realizes Tokyo Drift is the keystone: remove it and the rest falls apart. · "If that's that's the one movie, if you take it out, all of the rest of it falls apart."
[Blank Check · Raging Bull · 1:55:47 · unknown host (0.30)] Raging Bull ↔ Taxi Driver · theme · The speaker groups Taxi Driver, Raging Bull and King of Comedy as De Niro plumbing damaged psychologies. · "It's part of a trilogy with Taxi Driver."
[The Big Picture · ‘Fast 9’ and the ‘Fast & Furious’ Rankings · 0:12:39 · Shea Serrano (0.90)] The Fast and the Furious ↔ Fast Five · theme · Family is why the first, fifth and seventh are the best entries. · "That's why the 1st one was so effective."
[Blank Check · Raging Bull · 0:59:47 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (0.40)] Raging Bull ↔ Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story · craft · Schrader's draft intercut a whole life like the later Dewey Cox style that many biopics now follow, before Raging Bull used bookends and one flashback. · "Dewey Cox style originally was more the structure of the movie."
[The Big Picture · ‘Fast 9’ and the ‘Fast & Furious’ Rankings · 0:34:56 · Sean Fennessey (0.90)] Hobbs & Shaw ↔ Fast Five · theme · Sean expects the franchise to become expansion titles because Statham and Diesel do not want to make movies together. · "clearly Jason Statham and Vin Diesel don't necessarily want to make a lot of movies together"
[Blank Check · Raging Bull · 1:33:33 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (0.40)] Raging Bull ↔ Midnight Cowboy · craft · Midnight Cowboy has an innocent at the center to balance Ratso; Raging Bull is the Rizzo movie with no such cushion. · "But this is the Razzo Rizzo movie, sort of, and again, another reason, they don't they can't make this today."
[The Big Picture · ‘Fast 9’ and the ‘Fast & Furious’ Rankings · 0:30:41 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85)] Fast Five ↔ Furious 7 · craft · Amanda defends Fast Five over Furious 7 by the Rio safe-drag set piece. · "Like they took the safe out of the wall and then they just dragged it through the city and then they switched it to another safe."

Who said it, by their latest sketch (6)

[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
[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] Chris Ryan · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · A franchise and genre scholar who likes Jason, the early sequels, and Manhattan; attention to trivia, tropes and critic reception. Treats slashers as a canon with tiers. · stances: Parts 1, 2, 4 and Manhattan are the good ones; The series finds its legs at 4
[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] James Urbaniak · latest sketch, Blank Check · Sherlock Jr. / The Navigator · Loves old-timey stuff, the history and styles of acting, Robert Altman, Tony Randall and the Simpsons-quoting camaraderie of fellow nerds. He admires Keaton as a non-indicating, anti-sentimental, serene and modern performer, favoring cool restraint over Chaplin's warmth. He dislikes hammy over-indication and is a sucker for the specific, throwaway behavioral bit. · stances: Keaton is modern, clean, streamlined and the ultimate non-indicator; Keaton is cool where Chaplin is warm and practical where Chaplin is showy; Silent acting streams coexisted: naturalistic and semaphore; Seeing a Spielberg shoot revealed that great directors create an environment that allows things to happen

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 Citizen Kane (1941) 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 Citizen Kane (1941) 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 · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 0:50:25 · Amanda Dobbins (0.80)] Citizen Kane ↔ Casablanca · programming · Younger viewers resist classics because they feel they must watch five canonical films first; a recent episode showed they refuse Citizen Kane even on streaming. · "we just went through a whole episode where people refuse to watch Citizen Kane on streaming."
[The Big Picture · Emergency Mailbag: The Oscars Are Streaming and Hollywood Is Fighting Over Trolls | The Big Picture · 0:58:09 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Citizen Kane ⇒ Mank (the host's read) · lineage · Mank is partly inspired by Pauline Kael's essay on who truly authored Citizen Kane. · "it's in part inspired by that very famous Pauline Kale, story raising Kane, about the true authorship of Citizen Kane"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Mank · 1:13:08 · David Sims (0.80)] Citizen Kane ⇒ Mank (the maker said so: David's interview with cinematographer Erik Messerschmidt) · lineage · Messerschmidt told the interviewer he wanted low, deep-focus photography evoking Citizen Kane, not noir. · "He's like, no, I want to do it low to the ground, lots of deep focus, evoking citizen Kane."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Mank · 1:10:06 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Citizen Kane ↔ Mank · craft · Like Citizen Kane, Mank has a complicated relationship to its lead; Mank mirrors the attitude of the man himself. · "Yeah, as much as Citizen Kane, the movie has a very complicated relationship to its lead character."
[The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 0:15:24 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] The Martian ↔ Citizen Kane · contrast · The Martian is meant to be a balm, not an object of heavy analysis, unlike a Citizen Kane. · "the Martian is a movie that's supposed to make people feel good, and it's supposed to be a bomb for you"
[Blank Check · Raging Bull · 2:02:33 · unknown host (0.30)] Raging Bull ↔ Citizen Kane · industry · Critics like Pauline Kael panning Raging Bull is compared to audiences not getting Citizen Kane at the time. · "Yeah, people didn't get Citizen Kane at the time."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 1:16:00 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] The Royal Tenenbaums ↔ Citizen Kane · industry · Ambersons is Welles's follow-up to Kane and the movie taken away from him. · "Orson Wells' infamous 2nd feature, his movie after Citizen Kane, and the movie that was taken away from him."
[The Big Picture · ‘Fast 9’ and the ‘Fast & Furious’ Rankings · 0:27:34 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85)] Fast Five ↔ Citizen Kane · industry · Amanda says the franchise has room alongside Citizen Kane. · "And is it Citizen Kane?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · David Fincher Music Videos · 1:17:07 · unknown (0.40)] Citizen Kane ⇒ Oh Father (Madonna video) (the host's read) · tribute · Oh Father is called Fincher's first Citizen Kane tribute. · "This was his 1st Citizen Kane tribute."
[The Big Picture · Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster · 0:21:06 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Errol Morris ↔ Citizen Kane · programming · The Academy hired Errol Morris for short documentaries, one of which produced Donald Trump misreading Citizen Kane. · "he completely misreads Citizen Kane and misunderstands it and then kind of sort of predicts his own future in some respects"
[Blank Check · Sherlock Jr. / The Navigator · 2:20:28 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Roddy McDowall ↔ Citizen Kane · industry · Griffin says he used to think the Roddy McDowall film shouldn't have beaten Citizen Kane, then saw it and changed his mind. · "oh, that's the movie that shouldn't have beaten Season K."
[Blank Check · Sherlock Jr. / The Navigator · 0:25:20 · James Urbaniak (0.85)] Robert Altman ↔ Citizen Kane · dismissed · Altman told Urbaniak he never thought Citizen Kane was that great. · "I never thought Citizen K was that great."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Mank · 0:39:21 · David Sims (0.40)] William Randolph Hearst ⇒ Citizen Kane (the host's read) · subject · Mankiewicz's script was a thinly veiled attack on his friend Hearst. · "I'm going to make fun of my my pal, Jordan, you know, William Randall first."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Mank · 0:41:24 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Herman Mankiewicz ⇒ Citizen Kane (the host's read) · adapting lived experience · Sean says Citizen Kane is Welles adapting an experience Herman Mankiewicz had inside the Hearst circle. · "so in a way, this is him adapting an experience that Herman Mankowitz had"
[pairs] Citizen Kane ↔ Mank · said 3 times in 2 episodes
[The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 1:54:31 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] The Trial of the Chicago 7 ↔ Mank · programming · Chicago 7 is a big fat fastball for the Oscars alongside Mank, Nomadland and Hillbilly Elegy. · "this is a big fat, fastball right down the middle."
[The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 1:33:55 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Evil Dead ↔ Casablanca · lineage · Evil Dead has been ripped off so many times it is foundational, like Casablanca. · "it's like Casablanca at this point."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Thor · 1:50:54 · David Sims (0.50)] Thor ↔ Fast Five · programming · Thor's opening was the Memorial Day-season release, with Fast Five as the number two film in its 2nd weekend. · "Number 2 is one of the best movies of this year."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 1:44:35 · Van Lathan (0.45)] Rocky ↔ Raging Bull · programming · Another double-feature choice, Raging Bull, picked by one host. · "I go Raging Bull."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Mank · 0:48:09 · Griffin Newman (0.60)] Jack Fincher ⇒ Mank (the maker said so: Fincher's own account as read from the dossier (outlet not named)) · lineage · Fincher's father wrote the original Mank script, which David set aside until years later. · "I'm handed this script that my dad wrote about all powerful directors ruining storytelling"
[The Big Picture · ‘A Minecraft Movie’ Is the Most Important Movie of the Year So Far. And These Flicks Are the Best … · 0:56:42 · Sean Fennessey (0.65)] Casablanca ⇒ The Good German (the host's read) · lineage · The Good German is an exercise in post-Casablanca style filmmaking. · "It is a kind of exercise in a post-Casablanca style of filmmaking."
[The Big Picture · ‘Fast 9’ and the ‘Fast & Furious’ Rankings · 0:05:46 · Shea Serrano (0.90)] Fast Five ↔ The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift · lineage · Justin Lin sets the franchise on its trajectory in Tokyo Drift, seeds it in Fast & Furious, and perfects it in Fast Five. · "He figures it out perfectly in fast five."
[Blank Check · Raging Bull · 1:55:42 · unknown host (0.30)] Raging Bull ⇒ The King of Comedy (the host's read) · lineage · King of Comedy is a part-2 of sorts about a delusional comedian, echoing LaMotta's stand-up, and is part of a De Niro trilogy with Taxi Driver. · "There's the king of comedy, the spiritual sequel to Raging Bull."
[The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 0:02:38 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Mank ↔ David Fincher · craft · Fincher shot and cut Mank to look like a 1940s film. · "he has shot this film to look like a film from the 1940s and the trailer has been cut to look like a film from the 1940s"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Return of the Jedi · 0:13:00 · unknown (0.30)] Casablanca ⇒ Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi (the host's read) · lineage · Jabba's court is conceived as Sydney Greenstreet crossed with Casablanca. · "The concept is he's sort of like Sidney Green Street and then Casablanca, yeah."
[The Big Picture · ‘Fast 9’ and the ‘Fast & Furious’ Rankings · 0:29:54 · Shea Serrano (0.75)] The Fast and the Furious ↔ Fast Five · lineage · Coming in at Fast Five and then going back to the first film feels like a different planet, like finding Jay-Z's Reasonable Doubt after Vol. 2. · "If you come in at fast five, and then you go back and watch The Fast and the Furious."
[Blank Check · Raging Bull · 1:58:33 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (0.40)] Italianamerican ⇒ Raging Bull (the host's read) · lineage · Scorsese's parents fighting in Italianamerican and American Boy taught him the rhythm replicated in Raging Bull's family fight scenes. · "And so much of his parents fighting in Italian American is the feeling of the family fight scenes in this movie."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Killer · 0:13:02 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Ren Klyce ↔ Mank · craft · The Killer's sound designer also did Mank; the speaker talked to him for both. · "Talk to him too for Mank."
[The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:18:22 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Home Alone ↔ Casablanca · theme · For a kid in 1990, Home Alone was as monumental as Casablanca or the Wizard of Oz. · "for me, at this time, Home Alone was Casablanca"
[The Big Picture · ‘Fast 9’ and the ‘Fast & Furious’ Rankings · 0:38:26 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70)] Fast Five ⇒ Fast and Furious 6 (the host's read) · lineage · Fast 6 plays post Fast Five with the cargo plane set piece. · "That's when they do the whole thing with the cargo plane."
[Blank Check · Raging Bull · 1:08:55 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (0.40)] Rocky ⇒ Raging Bull (the maker said so) · theme · Scorsese shot in black and white to differentiate from Rocky-era bright red-white-and-blue boxing movies, and producer Winkler produced both. · "Number one, I want to differentiate from the Rockies and all the other sort of boxing movies right now."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Mank · 2:03:48 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] The Lost Weekend ⇒ Mank (the host's read) · craft · The election-night drunk sequence in Mank is called self-consciously reminiscent of The Lost Weekend. · "almost self-consciously reminiscent of the last the lost weekend"
[The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 1:21:59 · Mike Mills (0.90)] Come On, Come On ↔ Casablanca · craft · The framing in clean single shots is like Casablanca. · "It's like, it's like out of Casablanca or something."
[The Big Picture · ‘Fast 9’ and the ‘Fast & Furious’ Rankings · 0:44:25 · Shea Serrano (0.90)] The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift ↔ Fast Five · lineage · Shea realizes Tokyo Drift is the keystone: remove it and the rest falls apart. · "If that's that's the one movie, if you take it out, all of the rest of it falls apart."
[Blank Check · Raging Bull · 1:55:47 · unknown host (0.30)] Raging Bull ↔ Taxi Driver · theme · The speaker groups Taxi Driver, Raging Bull and King of Comedy as De Niro plumbing damaged psychologies. · "It's part of a trilogy with Taxi Driver."
[The Big Picture · ‘Fast 9’ and the ‘Fast & Furious’ Rankings · 0:12:39 · Shea Serrano (0.90)] The Fast and the Furious ↔ Fast Five · theme · Family is why the first, fifth and seventh are the best entries. · "That's why the 1st one was so effective."
[Blank Check · Raging Bull · 0:59:47 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (0.40)] Raging Bull ↔ Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story · craft · Schrader's draft intercut a whole life like the later Dewey Cox style that many biopics now follow, before Raging Bull used bookends and one flashback. · "Dewey Cox style originally was more the structure of the movie."
[The Big Picture · ‘Fast 9’ and the ‘Fast & Furious’ Rankings · 0:34:56 · Sean Fennessey (0.90)] Hobbs & Shaw ↔ Fast Five · theme · Sean expects the franchise to become expansion titles because Statham and Diesel do not want to make movies together. · "clearly Jason Statham and Vin Diesel don't necessarily want to make a lot of movies together"
[Blank Check · Raging Bull · 1:33:33 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (0.40)] Raging Bull ↔ Midnight Cowboy · craft · Midnight Cowboy has an innocent at the center to balance Ratso; Raging Bull is the Rizzo movie with no such cushion. · "But this is the Razzo Rizzo movie, sort of, and again, another reason, they don't they can't make this today."
[The Big Picture · ‘Fast 9’ and the ‘Fast & Furious’ Rankings · 0:30:41 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85)] Fast Five ↔ Furious 7 · craft · Amanda defends Fast Five over Furious 7 by the Rio safe-drag set piece. · "Like they took the safe out of the wall and then they just dragged it through the city and then they switched it to another safe."
[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
[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] Chris Ryan · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · A franchise and genre scholar who likes Jason, the early sequels, and Manhattan; attention to trivia, tropes and critic reception. Treats slashers as a canon with tiers. · stances: Parts 1, 2, 4 and Manhattan are the good ones; The series finds its legs at 4
[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] James Urbaniak · latest sketch, Blank Check · Sherlock Jr. / The Navigator · Loves old-timey stuff, the history and styles of acting, Robert Altman, Tony Randall and the Simpsons-quoting camaraderie of fellow nerds. He admires Keaton as a non-indicating, anti-sentimental, serene and modern performer, favoring cool restraint over Chaplin's warmth. He dislikes hammy over-indication and is a sucker for the specific, throwaway behavioral bit. · stances: Keaton is modern, clean, streamlined and the ultimate non-indicator; Keaton is cool where Chaplin is warm and practical where Chaplin is showy; Silent acting streams coexisted: naturalistic and semaphore; Seeing a Spielberg shoot revealed that great directors create an environment that allows things to happen
[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 Citizen Kane (1941); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Citizen Kane (1941) 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.