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Flicks with The Film Snob

Flicks with The Film Snob features a weekly film review focused on new independent releases and old classics. Chris Dashiell knows film, and he knows enough to know what’s worth watching and why. Produced in Tucson Arizona at KXCI Community Radio.

tv & film visual arts

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Janet Planet

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2025/02/17

The title of renowned playwright Annie Baker’s first film as a director, Janet Planet, comes from the name of an acupuncture office run by Janet (Julianne Nicholson), a 40-something single mother, somewhere in the hippie section of New England. Alternative lifestyle characters are not often the subjects of film, and that’s one of the pleasures of this one. More central is the relationship between Janet and her 11-year-old daughter Lacey (Zoey Ziegler). It is in every way not

00:03:25

The Brutalist

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2025/02/10

00:03:25

The Brutalist

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2025/02/10

The Brutalist is not about brutalist architecture or the school that created it. Yes, the main character is an architect, and his work appears to be in that style, but for Brady Corbet, the director, and his co-screenwriter Mona Fastvold, brutalism is a metaphor for American postwar society. The architect, László Tóth, played by Adrien Brody, is a Hungarian Jew who survives Buchenwald and goes to the United States to find work, anxious for his wife and niece who are still in

00:03:32

Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat

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2025/02/04

Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat is a feat of radical mixed media, put together by Belgian director Johan Grimonprez, documenting the world situation in the 1950s Cold War and how it led to the overthrow of the newly formed government of the Congo and the assassination of its leader, Patrice Lumumba. It’s called a soundtrack because there were Black Americans, jazz artists, that the State Department sponsored as “Jazz Ambassadors” of friendship from the U.S. to emergent African

00:03:32

Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat

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2025/02/04

00:03:27

All We Imagine as Light

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2025/01/28

In a big city, our stories can seem to disappear into the enormity of urban life. All We Imagine as Light, the award-winning new film by Payal Kapadia, takes place in Mumbai, the seventh most populous city on earth. In voice-over we hear various migrants, in many different Indian languages, describe their experiences and feelings upon coming to live in Mumbai. The overall sense is of disillusionment. People work and struggle and dream, but they miss their homes and find Mumbai

00:03:27

All We Imagine as Light

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2025/01/28

00:03:33

LaRoy, Texas

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2025/01/21

00:03:33

LaRoy, Texas

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2025/01/21

Mayhem can be fun. In a movie, I mean, not in real life. There’s a subgenre of crime films in which hapless characters get involved in some kind of crooked business that spins out of control, with multiple unforeseen consequences. These stories can be very funny if done right, and also fascinating, in the sense of “How bad can this get?” the answer of course being very bad. LaRoy, Texas, Shane Atkinson’s first feature as a director, makes something new from the old hired killer

00:03:33

Here

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2025/01/13

A meditation on being in the present moment shows a young man on a weekend before going home from Brussels to Romania, poised between past and future. Here, a film by Bas Devos, sort of crept up on me unawares. The title is spelled H-e-r-e, and right away that’s a bit confusing because there’s a different film with the same name this year starring Tom Hanks. Anyway, I don’t think we’re ever explicitly told where “here” is geographically, in this movie that is called Here. Not

00:03:33

Here

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2025/01/13

00:02:55

Last Year at Marienbad

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2025/01/06

Alain Resnais’ 1961 puzzle film explores the elusive nature of memory. Last Year at Marienbad, the 1961 film by famed French director Alain Resnais, was controversial from the very first moment it was screened. Many intelligent critics either loved it, or hated it. It deliberately defied all the narrative conventions of film that people were used to. And remarkably, this experiment has never been successfully imitated. Fifty years later, the movie remains one of a kind. Any

00:02:55

Last Year at Marienbad

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2025/01/06

00:03:28

You Only Live Once

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2025/01/01

German director Fritz Lang was one of the great artists of silent film. Even those who don’t know much about movies before the sound era have probably at least heard about his science fiction epic Metropolis, from 1927. In his time he was more renowned for his innovative crime and espionage films like Dr. Mabuse and Spies. But with the rise of Hitler to power, Lang saw the writing on the wall and left for Paris, where he made one movie and then was discovered and signed by MGM

00:03:31

The Order

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2024/12/23

With crime dramas, we’ve become used to filmmakers pulling out all the stops to make the stories as exciting and violent as possible. But there’s a movie out now, called The Order, directed by Justin Kurzel, that doesn’t try to do that, doesn’t indulge in any nonsense, because it doesn’t need to: the facts of the story, based on actual events, are suspenseful and thrilling enough on their own. In 1983, an FBI agent stationed in Idaho investigates a series of spectacular

00:03:32

The Dead Don't Hurt

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2024/12/17

Years ago, one of my writing teachers taught me the difference between popular fiction and literary fiction. In popular fiction, we know what to expect, and we get exactly that. The main characters face obstacles, conflict, danger—and they overcome all of it in the end, and achieve their goals, more or less. Bad people are defeated, good are rewarded. It’s popular because that’s what we wish life was like, and it’s pleasant to watch it happen. In literary fiction, on the other

00:03:27

The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith

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2024/12/09

The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith, a film by Fred Schepisi from 1978, is set in Australia at the end of the 19th century. It tells of a young native Australian, an aborigine as they were called, named Jimmie Blacksmith, who is chosen specially by a missionary and his wife to be raised and educated, because he is half-white, and thus according to them more likely to benefit from their civilization. Over the years, he does everything he can to please various white bosses with farm

00:03:27

The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith

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2024/12/09

00:03:17

A Real Pain

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2024/12/02

Jesse Eisenberg has an odd sense of humor. His latest film, his second as writer and director, is called A Real Pain, and the title doubles as serious statement and casual joke. Eisenberg plays a gentle introvert named David Kaplan, living in New York City with his wife and young son. He and his unmarried cousin and childhood friend Benjy Kaplan, played by Kieran Culkin, are going on a trip to Poland. Their grandmother, a Holocaust survivor, died recently, and left them money to

00:03:17

A Real Pain

Flicks with The Film Snob ·

2024/12/02

Jesse Eisenberg has an odd sense of humor. His latest film, his second as writer and director, is called A Real Pain, and the title doubles as serious statement and casual joke. Eisenberg plays a gentle introvert named David Kaplan, living in New York City with his wife and young son. He and his unmarried cousin and childhood friend Benjy Kaplan, played by Kieran Culkin, are going on a trip to Poland. Their grandmother, a Holocaust survivor, died recently, and left them money to

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