What the corpus says about The Irishman (2019)

The 60 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 (26)

[The Big Picture · The Oscars Schedule Changes, and Andrew Garfield On ‘Under the Silver Lake’ | Interview · 0:25:52 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] The Irishman ↔ A Star Is Born · programming · Producer Bobby suggests The Irishman is this year's A Star Is Born for the hosts' Oscar obsession. · "perhaps the Irishman is this year's a star is born for us."
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 0:37:52 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] A Bronx Tale ↔ The Irishman · theme · De Niro's refusal to intellectualize acting is tied to his Irishman interviews where he just goes in on Trump. · "he'll be like an actor's round table for the Irishman"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Return of the Jedi · 0:41:43 · unknown (0.30)] Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker ↔ The Irishman · craft · Rise of Skywalker had to de-age Ian McDiarmid the way The Irishman did. · "For Rise of Skywalker, they had to de-age him Irishman style."
[The Big Picture · The Snubs and Surprises of the 92nd Academy Award Nominations | The Oscars Show · 0:08:04 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Parasite ↔ The Irishman · contrast · Parasite's craft nominations without acting nominations contrast with the star-driven recognition of The Irishman and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. · "maybe not the same kind of Hollywoodized star mastery that a movie like The Irishman or Once Upon a Time in Hollywood receives."
[The Big Picture · The Snubs and Surprises of the 92nd Academy Award Nominations | The Oscars Show · 0:23:56 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Uncut Gems ↔ The Irishman · contrast · Only one slot exists for a mob/crime film or an epic war film, and the Irishman and 1917 took them. · "if you have the Irishman and you have 1917, that kind of more, there's a, it's a Scorsese mob surf flick and a, and an epic war film."
[The Big Picture · The Snubs and Surprises of the 92nd Academy Award Nominations | The Oscars Show · 0:43:02 · Sean Fennessey (0.45)] The Irishman ↔ Black Panther · contrast · Cultural interest in The Irishman may not match that of Black Panther. · "the sort of cultural interest in that movie is as high as it was in something like Black Panther."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Doctor Sleep · 0:18:06 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Doctor Sleep ↔ The Irishman · people · The two arrived the same month, one casting new actors for Nicholson and company, the other de-aging the originals. · "This movie comes out right around the same time as the Irishman."
[The Big Picture · Our Alternative Academy Awards | The Oscars Show · 0:47:26 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] The Irishman ↔ Portrait of a Lady on Fire · verdict · Best ending: Irishman's landing justifies everything before it; Portrait's ending moves Amanda; Parasite is also argued; they pick three different endings. · "It not only sticks to the landing, but the landing justifies everything that came before."
[The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 1:30:57 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Killers of the Flower Moon ↔ The Irishman · industry · Predicts an Irishman-style awards run: many nominations, few wins. · "Okay, so you think it'll be an Irishman situation? I do."
[The Big Picture · Emergency Mailbag: The Oscars Are Streaming and Hollywood Is Fighting Over Trolls | The Big Picture · 1:00:49 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] The Irishman ↔ Marriage Story · industry · Irishman, Marriage Story and Roma were positioned as theatrical releases, which got voters to buy in. · "The Irishman and Marriage Story and Roma as well were positioned as theatrical releases."
[The Big Picture · The 10 Best Horror Movies of the Decade | The Big Picture · 1:41:19 · unknown (Alexander or Karaszewski) (0.40)] Dolomite Is My Name ↔ The Irishman · industry · They count Dolomite Is My Name among the ambitious films Netflix is making alongside The Irishman and Marriage Story. · "they're making the Irishman."
[The Big Picture · Oscars 2019: Instant Reactions to ‘Green Book’ and the Two Warring Academies | The Oscars Show · 0:23:48 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Roma ↔ The Irishman · industry · A Netflix ad for The Irishman put 'in theaters' first, which the speaker reads as the new paradigm for how movies are seen. · "There was a notable commercial in the middle of this show for the Irishman, a new film from Netflix, and Martin Scorsese that you pointed out."
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:41:40 · unknown (0.40)] The Irishman ↔ The Wolf of Wall Street · what-if · The Irishman would have been worthy but is more divisive. · "I think the Irishman is also would have been worthy of exploration."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards · 1:24:57 · Ben Hosley (0.55)] The Irishman ↔ The Irishman · what-if · Ben: remake with babies as tiny gangsters; De Niro could crush moving like a baby. · "How about the baby Irish man?"
[Blank Check · Ricki and the Flash · 0:13:15 · unknown (0.30)] Holiday in the Wild ↔ The Irishman · viewership claim · Rob Lowe claimed his Netflix elephant movie had more views than The Irishman. · "my dumb little movie that I made about elephants in Africa had more viewers than Irishmen"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Departed’ · 0:52:21 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] The Departed ↔ The Irishman · Whitey Bulger movie · Scorsese's next gangster movie with De Niro, Pacino and Pesci would be de-aged digitally and paid for by Netflix. · "It's De Niro Pacino and Joe Pesci."
[The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back · 0:43:46 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] The Power of the Dog ↔ The Irishman · Criterion route · Streamer films reach boutique labels: Power of the Dog went to Criterion right away. · "Like the power of the dog going to the criterion collection right away is interesting."
[The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back · 1:03:00 · Tim Simons (0.45)] Killers of the Flower Moon ↔ The Irishman · Criterion route · Hope Killers gets a Criterion partnership like The Irishman did; Apple films otherwise have no physical release. · "At some point there will be like a criterion partnership like they did with the Irishman."
[The Big Picture · ‘The Killer’ Is Cold-Blooded Genius. And Something More · 0:55:08 · Adam Nayman (0.80)] Roma ↔ The Irishman · Netflix canon problem · Roma and The Irishman are year-end conversation films that still don't seem to belong to the real canon, even Criterion-released. · "these movies don't seem to belong to the real canon, even when some of the Netflix movies get put out on a really physical form of canonization like criterion"
[The Big Picture · ‘The Killer’ Is Cold-Blooded Genius. And Something More · 0:56:25 · Amanda Dobbins (0.55)] The Killer ↔ The Irishman · streamer master-work · The Killer, Roma, The Irishman and Killers of the Flower Moon are master filmmakers' self-reflective work enabled by streamer power. · "those are all films from quote unquote master filmmakers who are responding to their own work and life and experience and they're using the outsized corporate power of a streaming service to do so."
[The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 0:51:06 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Killers of the Flower Moon ↔ The Irishman · convergence · Both bring together all themes Scorsese cares about. · "This is a convergence movie, in the way that so many of these movies are convergence, but silence is a convergence movie. The Irishman is a convergence movie."
[The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 0:58:41 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Killers of the Flower Moon ↔ The Irishman · late-period reflection · Both are gut-punch late-period re-examinations of his career and life. · "especially Irishmen and this film, which I think are just absolutely, like, gut punch"
[The Big Picture · The Oscars Schedule Changes, and Andrew Garfield On ‘Under the Silver Lake’ | Interview · 0:27:58 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] The Irishman ↔ Netflix · programming · Sean assumes the Irishman has a contractual theatrical release while the other Netflix films might not. · "I assume the Irishman has something contractually that says they'll do that."
[The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ · 0:31:21 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Joe Pesci ↔ The Irishman · career · The wig theme continues: Pesci is the greatest wig actor, and The Irishman acknowledges the hair piece. · "He's the greatest wig actor."
[The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 1:08:54 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Robert De Niro ↔ The Irishman · career · De Niro's 21st-century highs include The Irishman, where he plays an interior role. · "he's wonderful in the Irishman. And the Irishman, he has kind of an odd role. It's a very interior role"
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 1:22:39 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Joe Pesci ↔ The Irishman · people · Pesci's calm, quiet, smirking cameo is like his Irishman character 26 years early. · "Pesci doing his Irishman character."

Films put beside it more than once (2)

[pairs] The Irishman ↔ Killers of the Flower Moon · said 4 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] The Irishman ↔ Roma · said 2 times in 2 episodes

Fun items about it (1)

[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:05:29 · unknown (0.40)] The Irishman · fun · Dobbins calls The Irishman the most underrated film on the list and says the people who dislike it are wrong. · "Which I think is the most underrated film on this list."

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (22)

[The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 1:18:30 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40)] Killers of the Flower Moon ↔ Silence · programming · Amanda watched Silence the day before and went straight to Killers. · "I watched silence yesterday and immediately went to sit down with you to watch Killers of the Flower Moon"
[The Big Picture · ‘Captain Marvel’ Is a ’90s Nostalgia Play. Did It Work? | Exit Survey · 0:27:52 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Captain Marvel ↔ Roma · theme · Recreating childhood wholesale is hard, which is why Roma was such a great movie. · "That's why Roma was such a great movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 1:42:19 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] A Bronx Tale ↔ This Boy's Life · programming · Ryan's and Simmons' double-feature choice is This Boy's Life, not a fun night in. · "It's not a very pleasant one, but it's boys' life."
[The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ · 0:54:17 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Mean Girls ↔ A Star Is Born · lineage · The speaker is fine with a new auteur remaking a beloved thing every 20 years, as with Star Is Born / Star Wars-style retellings, here giving the social-media generation its own Mean Girls. · "every 20 years another Otour comes along and is like, I've got a take on this."
[The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture · 0:49:22 · David Shoemaker (0.40)] Black Panther ↔ Avengers: Infinity War · programming · Black Panther looks like the best bet to carry the MCU into the next phase after Infinity War. · "Black Panther certainly looks to be the best bet to carry the series into phase four"
[The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 0:35:48 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Titanic ⇒ Killers of the Flower Moon (the host's read) · lineage · The car make-out scene is a funny Titanic callback. · "I thought there was a really funny callback to Titanic when they're making out in the car."
[The Big Picture · Oscars 2019: Instant Reactions to ‘Green Book’ and the Two Warring Academies | The Oscars Show · 0:23:11 · unknown (0.40)] Roma ↔ Black Panther · theme · Two Black Panther craft wins early made the night feel like one Hollywood, with Roma and Netflix bursting both. · "I was like, okay, the 2 Hollywoods, that's definitely the theme, but in the middle kind of bursting the two, is is Roma and Netflix"
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 1:42:31 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] A Bronx Tale ↔ Rocco and His Brothers · programming · A Visconti-style Italian neorealist film is suggested as the other double feature. · "Give me some Visconti."
[The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting · 0:27:47 · Stephen Merchant (0.95)] A Star Is Born ⇒ Fighting with My Family (the maker said so: Merchant in this interview) · lineage · Merchant says he thought about A Star Is Born, the rags to riches story, as much as the sports side. · "I was thinking as much about films like, you know, like a Star is Born"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War · 0:25:32 · Griffin Newman (0.70)] Black Panther ↔ Avengers: Infinity War · programming · Griffin loved Black Panther just before, then felt Infinity War was one Marvel movie too big. · "Having, you know, loved Black Panther, which came out right before this."
[The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 1:00:16 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Killers of the Flower Moon ↔ Kundun · lineage · An American version of the desolate landscapes and haunting spirituality of Kundun, Silence, Last Temptation. · "it is him doing an American version in some ways of what he did in Kundun, in silence, and last temptation of Christ"
[The Big Picture · Oscars 2019: Instant Reactions to ‘Green Book’ and the Two Warring Academies | The Oscars Show · 0:53:03 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Alfonso Cuaron ↔ Roma · craft · The cinematography Oscar went to Roma and to Cuarón, who shot his own film. · "This, of course, went to Roma, Alfonso Coron."
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 0:23:20 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] A Bronx Tale ⇒ The Sopranos (the host's read) · lineage · Ryan argues A Bronx Tale influenced The Sopranos more than any other movie, with Sonny and Tony Soprano close in how they hold the neighborhood. · "I think Bronx Tale... influenced the Sopranos more than any other movie, but I don't think people think that."
[The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 0:47:14 · Amanda Dobbins (0.80)] A Star Is Born ↔ Full Metal Jacket · theme · Offered as a second answer to best half-movie: everything up to the first time she sings Shallow is dynamite. · "everything leading up to the 1st time she sings shallow on stage, which is like, I think an hour, maybe a little bit less."
[The Big Picture · ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ Is Here! · 0:17:32 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Black Panther: Wakanda Forever ↔ Black Panther · lineage · The first film's theme was isolation versus justice (Killmonger vs. T'Challa); the sequel has a real-world theme too, about allyship between Latinx and Black communities, but is not done as well. · "his movies always have a big dynamic real world theme in them in a way that I don't think many Marvel movies do."
[The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 0:26:35 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Killers of the Flower Moon ↔ The Wolf of Wall Street · theme · Both feature a too-smart-for-his-own-good man doing dumb things who thinks he'll get away with it. · "I thought a lot of Wolf of Wall Street. While doing it because that is a guy who is too smart for his own good, but also doing a lot of really dumb shit."
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 1:32:47 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] A Bronx Tale ↔ Goodfellas · lineage · Fennessey wonders whether the needle drops and the Pesci cameo are purposeful homage or accident. · "I just want to know how much of what he was doing was a purposeful homage to Goodfellas"
[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."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 1:27:32 · David Sims (0.40)] Captain America: The First Avenger ⇒ Black Panther (the host's read) · lineage · Vibranium, the shield metal, leads to Wakanda; adamantium is the X-Men analogue the MCU couldn't use. · "So instead they use vibranium as their super metal."
[The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 0:59:47 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Killers of the Flower Moon ↔ Giant · theme · Its magnitude and oil, family and betrayal themes recall Giant, with Ford, Hawks, Stevens epic scale. · "I did think of giant a few times while watching the movie, which is a movie about oil and families and betrayal."
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 0:02:23 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] A Bronx Tale ↔ Boyz n the Hood · theme · Both appear on Simmons' list of eight father-son movies. · "Bronx Tale, Kramer versus Kramer. He got game, Field of Dreams, Catch me if you can, the Godfather, Lion King, and Boys in the Hood."
[The Big Picture · Instant Reactions to a Truly Ludicrous Golden Globes | The Oscars Show · 0:30:40 · Amanda Dobbins (0.45)] A Star Is Born ↔ Green Book · theme · All three films share a polished, studio, historically Hollywood approach; Star has more grit and anxiety. · "There's something like very polished and studio and historically Hollywood in the approach of all 3 of those movies."

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] 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] Adam Nayman · latest sketch, The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ · Self-described slasher fan who likes a movie that plays with tropes intelligently; admires Miasma's playfulness and sincerity but dislikes its showbiz satire. Soft spot for Texas Chain Saw, wrestling and Toronto sports. Wary of the idea that references alone make a movie smart. · stances: Miasma is academic but playfully so; Better filmmakers deserve less intention-guessing; Don't need to love slashers to love Miasma
[speaker] Ben Hosley · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Producer who occasionally talks; admits no religious background, has a Catholic mother's family, and cannot see the Bible as part of culture. · stances: Left out of Bible culture; Wants a clear demarcation between a bed and a deathbed
[speaker] Bill Simmons · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · Loves the Friday series as a communal, rental-era memory and tells childhood stories about the ads and theaters. Likes casting what-ifs and sports analogies for everything. Skeptical of horror at Christmas and of anything that wastes the premise. · stances: Friday the 13th is not the best entry but the origin story had to be told; Friday 2 is a leap over the original

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 The Irishman (2019) 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 Irishman (2019) 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 · The Oscars Schedule Changes, and Andrew Garfield On ‘Under the Silver Lake’ | Interview · 0:25:52 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] The Irishman ↔ A Star Is Born · programming · Producer Bobby suggests The Irishman is this year's A Star Is Born for the hosts' Oscar obsession. · "perhaps the Irishman is this year's a star is born for us."
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 0:37:52 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] A Bronx Tale ↔ The Irishman · theme · De Niro's refusal to intellectualize acting is tied to his Irishman interviews where he just goes in on Trump. · "he'll be like an actor's round table for the Irishman"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Return of the Jedi · 0:41:43 · unknown (0.30)] Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker ↔ The Irishman · craft · Rise of Skywalker had to de-age Ian McDiarmid the way The Irishman did. · "For Rise of Skywalker, they had to de-age him Irishman style."
[The Big Picture · The Snubs and Surprises of the 92nd Academy Award Nominations | The Oscars Show · 0:08:04 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Parasite ↔ The Irishman · contrast · Parasite's craft nominations without acting nominations contrast with the star-driven recognition of The Irishman and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. · "maybe not the same kind of Hollywoodized star mastery that a movie like The Irishman or Once Upon a Time in Hollywood receives."
[The Big Picture · The Snubs and Surprises of the 92nd Academy Award Nominations | The Oscars Show · 0:23:56 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Uncut Gems ↔ The Irishman · contrast · Only one slot exists for a mob/crime film or an epic war film, and the Irishman and 1917 took them. · "if you have the Irishman and you have 1917, that kind of more, there's a, it's a Scorsese mob surf flick and a, and an epic war film."
[The Big Picture · The Snubs and Surprises of the 92nd Academy Award Nominations | The Oscars Show · 0:43:02 · Sean Fennessey (0.45)] The Irishman ↔ Black Panther · contrast · Cultural interest in The Irishman may not match that of Black Panther. · "the sort of cultural interest in that movie is as high as it was in something like Black Panther."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Doctor Sleep · 0:18:06 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Doctor Sleep ↔ The Irishman · people · The two arrived the same month, one casting new actors for Nicholson and company, the other de-aging the originals. · "This movie comes out right around the same time as the Irishman."
[The Big Picture · Our Alternative Academy Awards | The Oscars Show · 0:47:26 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] The Irishman ↔ Portrait of a Lady on Fire · verdict · Best ending: Irishman's landing justifies everything before it; Portrait's ending moves Amanda; Parasite is also argued; they pick three different endings. · "It not only sticks to the landing, but the landing justifies everything that came before."
[The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 1:30:57 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Killers of the Flower Moon ↔ The Irishman · industry · Predicts an Irishman-style awards run: many nominations, few wins. · "Okay, so you think it'll be an Irishman situation? I do."
[The Big Picture · Emergency Mailbag: The Oscars Are Streaming and Hollywood Is Fighting Over Trolls | The Big Picture · 1:00:49 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] The Irishman ↔ Marriage Story · industry · Irishman, Marriage Story and Roma were positioned as theatrical releases, which got voters to buy in. · "The Irishman and Marriage Story and Roma as well were positioned as theatrical releases."
[The Big Picture · The 10 Best Horror Movies of the Decade | The Big Picture · 1:41:19 · unknown (Alexander or Karaszewski) (0.40)] Dolomite Is My Name ↔ The Irishman · industry · They count Dolomite Is My Name among the ambitious films Netflix is making alongside The Irishman and Marriage Story. · "they're making the Irishman."
[The Big Picture · Oscars 2019: Instant Reactions to ‘Green Book’ and the Two Warring Academies | The Oscars Show · 0:23:48 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Roma ↔ The Irishman · industry · A Netflix ad for The Irishman put 'in theaters' first, which the speaker reads as the new paradigm for how movies are seen. · "There was a notable commercial in the middle of this show for the Irishman, a new film from Netflix, and Martin Scorsese that you pointed out."
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:41:40 · unknown (0.40)] The Irishman ↔ The Wolf of Wall Street · what-if · The Irishman would have been worthy but is more divisive. · "I think the Irishman is also would have been worthy of exploration."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards · 1:24:57 · Ben Hosley (0.55)] The Irishman ↔ The Irishman · what-if · Ben: remake with babies as tiny gangsters; De Niro could crush moving like a baby. · "How about the baby Irish man?"
[Blank Check · Ricki and the Flash · 0:13:15 · unknown (0.30)] Holiday in the Wild ↔ The Irishman · viewership claim · Rob Lowe claimed his Netflix elephant movie had more views than The Irishman. · "my dumb little movie that I made about elephants in Africa had more viewers than Irishmen"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Departed’ · 0:52:21 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] The Departed ↔ The Irishman · Whitey Bulger movie · Scorsese's next gangster movie with De Niro, Pacino and Pesci would be de-aged digitally and paid for by Netflix. · "It's De Niro Pacino and Joe Pesci."
[The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back · 0:43:46 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] The Power of the Dog ↔ The Irishman · Criterion route · Streamer films reach boutique labels: Power of the Dog went to Criterion right away. · "Like the power of the dog going to the criterion collection right away is interesting."
[The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back · 1:03:00 · Tim Simons (0.45)] Killers of the Flower Moon ↔ The Irishman · Criterion route · Hope Killers gets a Criterion partnership like The Irishman did; Apple films otherwise have no physical release. · "At some point there will be like a criterion partnership like they did with the Irishman."
[The Big Picture · ‘The Killer’ Is Cold-Blooded Genius. And Something More · 0:55:08 · Adam Nayman (0.80)] Roma ↔ The Irishman · Netflix canon problem · Roma and The Irishman are year-end conversation films that still don't seem to belong to the real canon, even Criterion-released. · "these movies don't seem to belong to the real canon, even when some of the Netflix movies get put out on a really physical form of canonization like criterion"
[The Big Picture · ‘The Killer’ Is Cold-Blooded Genius. And Something More · 0:56:25 · Amanda Dobbins (0.55)] The Killer ↔ The Irishman · streamer master-work · The Killer, Roma, The Irishman and Killers of the Flower Moon are master filmmakers' self-reflective work enabled by streamer power. · "those are all films from quote unquote master filmmakers who are responding to their own work and life and experience and they're using the outsized corporate power of a streaming service to do so."
[The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 0:51:06 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Killers of the Flower Moon ↔ The Irishman · convergence · Both bring together all themes Scorsese cares about. · "This is a convergence movie, in the way that so many of these movies are convergence, but silence is a convergence movie. The Irishman is a convergence movie."
[The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 0:58:41 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Killers of the Flower Moon ↔ The Irishman · late-period reflection · Both are gut-punch late-period re-examinations of his career and life. · "especially Irishmen and this film, which I think are just absolutely, like, gut punch"
[The Big Picture · The Oscars Schedule Changes, and Andrew Garfield On ‘Under the Silver Lake’ | Interview · 0:27:58 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] The Irishman ↔ Netflix · programming · Sean assumes the Irishman has a contractual theatrical release while the other Netflix films might not. · "I assume the Irishman has something contractually that says they'll do that."
[The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ · 0:31:21 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Joe Pesci ↔ The Irishman · career · The wig theme continues: Pesci is the greatest wig actor, and The Irishman acknowledges the hair piece. · "He's the greatest wig actor."
[The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 1:08:54 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Robert De Niro ↔ The Irishman · career · De Niro's 21st-century highs include The Irishman, where he plays an interior role. · "he's wonderful in the Irishman. And the Irishman, he has kind of an odd role. It's a very interior role"
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 1:22:39 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Joe Pesci ↔ The Irishman · people · Pesci's calm, quiet, smirking cameo is like his Irishman character 26 years early. · "Pesci doing his Irishman character."
[pairs] The Irishman ↔ Killers of the Flower Moon · said 4 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] The Irishman ↔ Roma · said 2 times in 2 episodes
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:05:29 · unknown (0.40)] The Irishman · fun · Dobbins calls The Irishman the most underrated film on the list and says the people who dislike it are wrong. · "Which I think is the most underrated film on this list."
[The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 1:18:30 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40)] Killers of the Flower Moon ↔ Silence · programming · Amanda watched Silence the day before and went straight to Killers. · "I watched silence yesterday and immediately went to sit down with you to watch Killers of the Flower Moon"
[The Big Picture · ‘Captain Marvel’ Is a ’90s Nostalgia Play. Did It Work? | Exit Survey · 0:27:52 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Captain Marvel ↔ Roma · theme · Recreating childhood wholesale is hard, which is why Roma was such a great movie. · "That's why Roma was such a great movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 1:42:19 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] A Bronx Tale ↔ This Boy's Life · programming · Ryan's and Simmons' double-feature choice is This Boy's Life, not a fun night in. · "It's not a very pleasant one, but it's boys' life."
[The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ · 0:54:17 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Mean Girls ↔ A Star Is Born · lineage · The speaker is fine with a new auteur remaking a beloved thing every 20 years, as with Star Is Born / Star Wars-style retellings, here giving the social-media generation its own Mean Girls. · "every 20 years another Otour comes along and is like, I've got a take on this."
[The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture · 0:49:22 · David Shoemaker (0.40)] Black Panther ↔ Avengers: Infinity War · programming · Black Panther looks like the best bet to carry the MCU into the next phase after Infinity War. · "Black Panther certainly looks to be the best bet to carry the series into phase four"
[The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 0:35:48 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Titanic ⇒ Killers of the Flower Moon (the host's read) · lineage · The car make-out scene is a funny Titanic callback. · "I thought there was a really funny callback to Titanic when they're making out in the car."
[The Big Picture · Oscars 2019: Instant Reactions to ‘Green Book’ and the Two Warring Academies | The Oscars Show · 0:23:11 · unknown (0.40)] Roma ↔ Black Panther · theme · Two Black Panther craft wins early made the night feel like one Hollywood, with Roma and Netflix bursting both. · "I was like, okay, the 2 Hollywoods, that's definitely the theme, but in the middle kind of bursting the two, is is Roma and Netflix"
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 1:42:31 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] A Bronx Tale ↔ Rocco and His Brothers · programming · A Visconti-style Italian neorealist film is suggested as the other double feature. · "Give me some Visconti."
[The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting · 0:27:47 · Stephen Merchant (0.95)] A Star Is Born ⇒ Fighting with My Family (the maker said so: Merchant in this interview) · lineage · Merchant says he thought about A Star Is Born, the rags to riches story, as much as the sports side. · "I was thinking as much about films like, you know, like a Star is Born"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War · 0:25:32 · Griffin Newman (0.70)] Black Panther ↔ Avengers: Infinity War · programming · Griffin loved Black Panther just before, then felt Infinity War was one Marvel movie too big. · "Having, you know, loved Black Panther, which came out right before this."
[The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 1:00:16 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Killers of the Flower Moon ↔ Kundun · lineage · An American version of the desolate landscapes and haunting spirituality of Kundun, Silence, Last Temptation. · "it is him doing an American version in some ways of what he did in Kundun, in silence, and last temptation of Christ"
[The Big Picture · Oscars 2019: Instant Reactions to ‘Green Book’ and the Two Warring Academies | The Oscars Show · 0:53:03 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Alfonso Cuaron ↔ Roma · craft · The cinematography Oscar went to Roma and to Cuarón, who shot his own film. · "This, of course, went to Roma, Alfonso Coron."
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 0:23:20 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] A Bronx Tale ⇒ The Sopranos (the host's read) · lineage · Ryan argues A Bronx Tale influenced The Sopranos more than any other movie, with Sonny and Tony Soprano close in how they hold the neighborhood. · "I think Bronx Tale... influenced the Sopranos more than any other movie, but I don't think people think that."
[The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 0:47:14 · Amanda Dobbins (0.80)] A Star Is Born ↔ Full Metal Jacket · theme · Offered as a second answer to best half-movie: everything up to the first time she sings Shallow is dynamite. · "everything leading up to the 1st time she sings shallow on stage, which is like, I think an hour, maybe a little bit less."
[The Big Picture · ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ Is Here! · 0:17:32 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Black Panther: Wakanda Forever ↔ Black Panther · lineage · The first film's theme was isolation versus justice (Killmonger vs. T'Challa); the sequel has a real-world theme too, about allyship between Latinx and Black communities, but is not done as well. · "his movies always have a big dynamic real world theme in them in a way that I don't think many Marvel movies do."
[The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 0:26:35 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Killers of the Flower Moon ↔ The Wolf of Wall Street · theme · Both feature a too-smart-for-his-own-good man doing dumb things who thinks he'll get away with it. · "I thought a lot of Wolf of Wall Street. While doing it because that is a guy who is too smart for his own good, but also doing a lot of really dumb shit."
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 1:32:47 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] A Bronx Tale ↔ Goodfellas · lineage · Fennessey wonders whether the needle drops and the Pesci cameo are purposeful homage or accident. · "I just want to know how much of what he was doing was a purposeful homage to Goodfellas"
[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."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 1:27:32 · David Sims (0.40)] Captain America: The First Avenger ⇒ Black Panther (the host's read) · lineage · Vibranium, the shield metal, leads to Wakanda; adamantium is the X-Men analogue the MCU couldn't use. · "So instead they use vibranium as their super metal."
[The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 0:59:47 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Killers of the Flower Moon ↔ Giant · theme · Its magnitude and oil, family and betrayal themes recall Giant, with Ford, Hawks, Stevens epic scale. · "I did think of giant a few times while watching the movie, which is a movie about oil and families and betrayal."
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 0:02:23 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] A Bronx Tale ↔ Boyz n the Hood · theme · Both appear on Simmons' list of eight father-son movies. · "Bronx Tale, Kramer versus Kramer. He got game, Field of Dreams, Catch me if you can, the Godfather, Lion King, and Boys in the Hood."
[The Big Picture · Instant Reactions to a Truly Ludicrous Golden Globes | The Oscars Show · 0:30:40 · Amanda Dobbins (0.45)] A Star Is Born ↔ Green Book · theme · All three films share a polished, studio, historically Hollywood approach; Star has more grit and anxiety. · "There's something like very polished and studio and historically Hollywood in the approach of all 3 of those movies."
[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] 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] Adam Nayman · latest sketch, The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ · Self-described slasher fan who likes a movie that plays with tropes intelligently; admires Miasma's playfulness and sincerity but dislikes its showbiz satire. Soft spot for Texas Chain Saw, wrestling and Toronto sports. Wary of the idea that references alone make a movie smart. · stances: Miasma is academic but playfully so; Better filmmakers deserve less intention-guessing; Don't need to love slashers to love Miasma
[speaker] Ben Hosley · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Producer who occasionally talks; admits no religious background, has a Catholic mother's family, and cannot see the Bible as part of culture. · stances: Left out of Bible culture; Wants a clear demarcation between a bed and a deathbed
[speaker] Bill Simmons · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · Loves the Friday series as a communal, rental-era memory and tells childhood stories about the ads and theaters. Likes casting what-ifs and sports analogies for everything. Skeptical of horror at Christmas and of anything that wastes the premise. · stances: Friday the 13th is not the best entry but the origin story had to be told; Friday 2 is a leap over the original
[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 The Irishman (2019); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend The Irishman (2019) 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.