What the corpus says about Anatomy of a Murder (1959)

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Anatomy of a Murder (1959) 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 Anatomy of a Murder (1959) 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 · Star 80 · 0:07:34 · Julie Klausner (0.50)] Star 80 ↔ Anatomy of a Murder · theme · Concern for the ruined man instead of the woman echoes Anatomy of a Murder's rape-trial rhetoric. · "That reminds me of an anatomy of murder when they're prosecuting the, they're like, let's think about ruining a man's life before we convict this person of rape"
[The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 0:49:25 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Anatomy of a Murder ↔ The Verdict · contrast · Anatomy is cynical; it is not about who wins but who was on trial, a red herring verdict. · "Like the movie is not about who wins and who loses"
[The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 0:48:51 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Anatomy of a Murder ↔ Saul Bass · craft · Bass made the indelible opening title sequence. · "Saul Bass, the great title sequence creator"
[The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 0:48:59 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Anatomy of a Murder ↔ Duke Ellington · craft · Ellington's score is one of the enduring movie soundtracks, and he appears in the film. · "one of the enduring movie soundtracks of all time"
[The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 0:46:20 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Anatomy of a Murder ↔ George C. Scott · people · Scott plays the out-of-town prosecutor and echoes the checklist's big-shot opponent. · "He's the out of town prosecutor that you were mentioning earlier"
[The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 0:48:10 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Anatomy of a Murder ↔ Otto Preminger · people · Directed by Preminger, arguably the most important filmmaker of his day. · "arguably the most important filmmaker of his time"
[The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 0:47:00 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] Anatomy of a Murder · fun · Walk away wondering who the hero was. · "you walk away wondering who the hero of the movie is"
[The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 0:50:29 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70)] Anatomy of a Murder · fun · Judge and counsel debate the word panties, because the key evidence is a pair of panties. · "whether you can use the word panties"
[Blank Check · Star 80 · 0:02:35 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Star 80 ↔ Taxi Driver · theme · Every scene of Star 80 is likened to the porno scene in Taxi Driver turned up to 75. · "Like every scene of this movie is like the porno scene in Taxi Driver, but amped up to 75."
[The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 1:07:27 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] The Verdict ⇒ A Few Good Men (the host's read) · lineage · You cannot have A Few Good Men without The Verdict; everything on the courtroom checklist comes from it. · "you really, really cannot have a few good men without having the verdict"
[Blank Check · Star 80 · 0:02:45 · David Sims (0.50)] Star 80 ↔ Boogie Nights · theme · Star 80 produces the same turn-it-off discomfort as the firecracker scene in Boogie Nights. · "Combined with the firework, the firecracker scene in boogie nights."
[The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 1:08:58 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] The Verdict ⇒ The Firm (the host's read) · lineage · The Verdict is foundational for the Grisham underdog stories. · "foundational for a lot of the Grisham stories"
[Blank Check · Star 80 · 0:33:34 · Julie Klausner (0.50)] Star 80 ↔ A Clockwork Orange · theme · Kael's charge that Clockwork Orange was prurient and pitied only Alex is applied to Star 80 and Snyder. · "I think the only sympathy that you see from the filmmaker is with Paul Snyder."
[Blank Check · The Color of Money · 1:47:47 · unknown (0.30)] The Color of Money ↔ The Verdict · craft · Both are ranked on the podium of burnished-wood movies. · "I call that the greatest burnished wood movie of all time. This one has a, but this is in on the podium with that."
[Blank Check · Star 80 · 1:16:03 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Star 80 ↔ Kate Plays Christine · theme · Kate Plays Christine is cited as a film about the compulsion to tell tragic victims' stories and play them. · "it is a movie about an actor trying to play a tragic, you know, a person who killed herself on news."
[Blank Check · Star 80 · 1:23:50 · David Sims (0.40)] Star 80 ↔ Cabaret · theme · Fosse's female characters like Sally Bowles and Honey Bruce got rich interior life, which Star 80 lacks. · "I would even argue, honey, Bruce, like, you know, who really is, like, pretty wonderful."
[Blank Check · Star 80 · 1:28:09 · unknown (0.30)] Star 80 ↔ Peeping Tom · theme · Peeping Tom was also savaged on release but was later vindicated, unlike Star 80. · "Except Peeping Tom is like eventually kind of vindicated and this people were like, no, fuck you."
[Blank Check · Star 80 · 0:32:03 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Lenny ⇒ Star 80 (the host's read) · craft · Star 80's interview framing/superstructure echoes Lenny's, and Lenny is the origin of the Chevy-Chase-style voice. · "This movie, you have the interview, this sort of superstructure that he loves so much"
[Blank Check · Star 80 · 0:52:19 · host (Griffin Newman or David Sims, unattributed) (0.40)] Star 80 ↔ Sven Nykvist · craft · Fosse brought in the European master Nykvist to shoot Star 80 rather than his usual cinematographer. · "Like, so it's Fosse working with a great cinematographer, but not someone he knows."
[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] Julie Klausner · latest sketch, Blank Check · Star 80 · A serious Fosse devotee who loves Cabaret, All That Jazz, Sweet Charity and Liza with a Z, and praises collaborations with women. She finds Star 80 powerful but ugly, a prurient pornographic film made by a man who will not look at the victim, and she is haunted by it. · stances: Star 80 is powerful but not great and not fabulous; It sexualizes violence against Stratton with no female point of view; Judge creative men by how they collaborate with women; Sweet Charity ranks above Star 80; Cabaret's restraint with Liza shows Fosse's best instincts
[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
[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)

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 Anatomy of a Murder (1959); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Anatomy of a Murder (1959) 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.

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