Focus Features

Made films the shows talk about.

Counted as studio. The films the hosts said they were behind, which the two lists below run through too: Come Play (2020); The Northman (2022); Tár (2022).

Draws on

What the speakers say they, or a film of theirs, drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

Ken Russell: 1 line

lineage (spiritual forebear) · through Tár (2022), which they were behind as studio (developed a conductor movie): Ken Russell ⇒ Tár (the host's read). Russell's melodramatic operatic composer biopics like Mahler are a Tar precursor.
“He made a lot of, um, uh, like melodramatic, stylish operatic recreations of composers lives, like Mahler.”
The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back With Tim Simons · 1:12:01 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)

Leonard Bernstein: 1 line

lineage (lineage) · through Tár (2022), which they were behind as studio (developed a conductor movie): Leonard Bernstein ⇒ Tár (the host's read). Tim asks whether the hosts joked that Tar was about Bernstein conducting Mahler in the church; Sean answers that it was inspired by his work.
“Mad Tar must have been about Bernstein doing the Mahler in the church, right?”
The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back With Tim Simons · 1:12:20 · Tim Simons (0.60 sure it was them)

Mahler (1974): 1 line

lineage (precursor) · through Tár (2022), which they were behind as studio (developed a conductor movie): Mahler ⇒ Tár (the host's read). Ken Russell's composer-life films like Mahler are a precursor to Tar.
“It is kind of a tar precursor.”
The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back With Tim Simons · 1:12:15 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

What the speakers say drew on them or a film of theirs, marked the same way.

No line says anything drew on them or a film of theirs.

What the speakers said they did

Studio (3) everyone in studio

studio (developed a conductor movie), Tár (The Big Picture, The 2022 Movie Draft)
distributor of The Northman, The Northman (Blank Check — Patreon, The 13th Warrior with David Lowery (Ad-Free))
distributor, Come Play (Blank Check — Patreon, Mank with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free))

What was said about them, by kind

No claims join them to a film or another person.

Fun items about them

None.