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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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00:03:27

The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith

Flicks with The Film Snob ·

2024/12/09

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

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

00:03:30

One Fine Morning

Flicks with The Film Snob ·

2024/11/27

French director Mia Hansen-Løve has become one of my favorite filmmakers. Her stories about “ordinary” life and relationships, and her style, are so relaxed and organic that the world inside her films seems completely natural, without artifice. I say it “seems,” even though of course there is a definite artistic method at work, but one that draws us comfortably into a movie as if it were home. Her latest is one of her best: it’s called One Fine Morning. Léa Seydoux plays

00:03:30

One Fine Morning

Flicks with The Film Snob ·

2024/11/27

French director Mia Hansen-Løve has become one of my favorite filmmakers. Her stories about “ordinary” life and relationships, and her style, are so relaxed and organic that the world inside her films seems completely natural, without artifice. I say it “seems,” even though of course there is a definite artistic method at work, but one that draws us comfortably into a movie as if it were home. Her latest is one of her best: it’s called One Fine Morning. Léa Seydoux plays

00:02:45

The Seventh Seal

Flicks with The Film Snob ·

2024/11/16

The Seventh Seal was Swedish director Ingmar Bergman’s seventeenth film, made in 1957, and it was the first to propel him to international fame. It’s easy to see why. A film of intense, dreamlike imagery, it surprised audiences with its conviction that religious and philosophical questions can be handled powerfully in a motion picture. Here’s the story. Surrounded by the ravages of the plague, a medieval knight (played by Max Von Sydow), who has returned home from the Crusades,

00:02:45

The Seventh Seal

Flicks with The Film Snob ·

2024/11/16

The Seventh Seal was Swedish director Ingmar Bergman’s seventeenth film, made in 1957, and it was the first to propel him to international fame. It’s easy to see why. A film of intense, dreamlike imagery, it surprised audiences with its conviction that religious and philosophical questions can be handled powerfully in a motion picture. Here’s the story. Surrounded by the ravages of the plague, a medieval knight (played by Max Von Sydow), who has returned home from the Crusades,

00:03:22

Conclave

Flicks with The Film Snob ·

2024/11/11

Selecting a new Pope seems a ripe subject for drama because of the air of secrecy surrounding it. It’s not that the mechanics of the procedure are secret, but that the conclave of cardinals that vote on the matter is a sequestered event—no press or public allowed, and for good reason. There’ve been a few films dramatizing this over the years, and now there’s a new one called Conclave. Conclave begins with the death of the old Pope, who is not portrayed as an actual historical

00:03:31

Our Body

Flicks with The Film Snob ·

2024/11/04

The best documentaries go beyond our desire to be entertained by a subject, like the way something unfamiliar can be made to seem fascinating to a casual observer. A deeper dive brings us into closer contact with ourselves, affecting and often changing our perceptions and feelings about our lives. Our Body, a film by French director Claire Simon, is such a film, a remarkable study of women’s relationship to their own bodies, as seen through the many stories of patients and

00:03:33

Crossing

Flicks with The Film Snob ·

2024/10/28

Levan Akin is a Swedish director and screenwriter of Georgian ethnic origin. That is, his parents emigrated to Sweden from the Soviet republic of Georgia in the 1960s, before he was born. After doing some television and film set in Sweden, he started to explore his Georgian heritage, regularly visiting the now independent country. He caused controversy there with a drama about gay men called And Then We Danced, which sparked protests when shown in Georgia, the Orthodox Church

00:03:33

Crossing

Flicks with The Film Snob ·

2024/10/28

Levan Akin is a Swedish director and screenwriter of Georgian ethnic origin. That is, his parents emigrated to Sweden from the Soviet republic of Georgia in the 1960s, before he was born. After doing some television and film set in Sweden, he started to explore his Georgian heritage, regularly visiting the now independent country. He caused controversy there with a drama about gay men called And Then We Danced, which sparked protests when shown in Georgia, the Orthodox Church

00:03:29

The Substance

Flicks with The Film Snob ·

2024/10/18

00:03:29

The Substance

Flicks with The Film Snob ·

2024/10/18

The Hollywood movie spectacle has been focused on fantasy, science fiction, and horror for a while now, with all the excitement and special effects this involves. I confess that I’ve put myself at arm’s length from these genres for the most part. I get tired of all the glitz pretty quickly. Unless it’s that rare film displaying insight into real social and cultural issues: a film like The Substance, the second feature from French writer-director Coralie Fargeat. The Substance

00:03:31

Hobson's Choice

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2024/10/17

In 17th century England, a man named Hobson rented out horses to Cambridge students, but to make sure the best horses weren’t overworked, he gave the students a choice: take the horse nearest the stable door, or none at all. Somehow this entered into popular slang so that “Hobson’s choice” meant being given the illusion of a choice when only one thing is actually being offered. In 1915, a playwright, Harold Brighouse, used the expression as the title for a comedy which became a

00:03:29

Hit Man

Flicks with The Film Snob ·

2024/10/07

Austin, Texas native Richard Linklater has managed to achieve remarkable success as a filmmaker while not compromising his independent views and methods. With a Linklater film you usually get a relaxed comic sensibility combined with intelligent witty dialogue. He doesn’t live near Hollywood, and he has resisted the Hollywood blockbuster mentality, displaying instead a modesty that is satisfied with medium budget films that are well-made, funny and insightful. His latest is

00:03:23

Fremont

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2024/09/28

00:03:23

Fremont

Flicks with The Film Snob ·

2024/09/28

A unique kind of American immigrant, a woman that worked for the U.S. military as a translator in Afghanistan and now lives in exile, is the main character in the latest film from Iranian British director Babak Jalali. The movie is called Fremont. Fremont, California, is home to more Afghans than any other U.S. city. One of them is Donya, a young woman played by Anaita Wali Zada, living in an apartment there after fleeing her country at war’s end. She commutes daily to nearby

00:03:31

Siberiade

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2024/09/23

I’ve long been interested in Russian film, including films from the Soviet era. But I’ve only recently begun to explore the work of one of the giants of Russian cinema, who is still with us at the age of 87—Andrey Konchalovsky. He started as a screenwriter in the ‘60s, then moved to directing. And he reached the peak of this phase of his career in 1979, with Siberiade, an epic 4-hour achievement released in two parts, originally for Soviet television. Siberiade tells the story

00:03:17

Blue Jean

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2024/09/18

When considering the progress of gay rights, it’s important to remember how long LGBT people have had to hide their sexual identities from family, employers, and government in order to avoid discrimination and persecution. The taboos have a persistent and damaging effect on people’s minds, and it would be a mistake to think this is all in the past now, despite the obvious gains that have been made. British writer-director Georgia Oakley doesn’t see pride as a way to avoid

00:03:25

Afire

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2024/09/11

With each new film, Christian Petzold increases his stature as the foremost 21st century German director. His latest is called Afire. It’s a different kind of work for him, in that here Petzold turns a critical eye on the figure of the lonely artist, the kind of person employing the symbolism and emotional dramaturgy that Petzold himself has displayed in some of his previous films. Two young men: Felix, a photographer, played by Langston Uibel and Leon, a writer (Thomas

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