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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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00:03:21

Dry Ground Burning

Flicks with The Film Snob ·

2024/09/02

On a firelit night in an unnamed town, we see people taking oil from a tapped pipeline and pouring the stolen oil into containers. A gang of outlaws, primarily women, operate an illegal oil refinery in Brazil, in a favela, a slum near the city of Brasilia. Above the building is a flag that says, “The Oil is Ours.” The film is called Dry Ground Burning, written and directed by Adirley Queirós and Joana Pimenta, and it takes place during the recently ended reign of right wing nationalist president

00:03:21

Dry Ground Burning

Flicks with The Film Snob ·

2024/09/02

A gang of women steal oil from Brazilian pipelines, refining it into gas to be sold on the black market. On a firelit night in an unnamed town, we see people taking oil from a tapped pipeline and pouring the stolen oil into containers. A gang of outlaws, primarily women, operate an illegal oil refinery in Brazil, in a favela, a slum near the city of Brasilia. Above the building is a flag that says, “The Oil is Ours.” The film is called Dry Ground Burning, written and directed by

00:03:25

Mami Wata

Flicks with The Film Snob ·

2024/08/27

00:03:25

Mami Wata

Flicks with The Film Snob ·

2024/08/27

Mami Wata, a film by Nigerian writer-director C.J. “Fiery” Obasi, is subtitled “a West African folklore,” and it does explore the tension between ancient myth and the secular realism of the modern world. In the village of Iyi near the Atlantic Ocean, an older woman named Efe acts as intermediary between the people and Mami Wata, a water goddess or spirit. For generations this role has been passed down through the women. Efe has two daughters who help her in her ceremonies and

00:03:33

Rewind & Play

Flicks with The Film Snob ·

2024/08/19

I’ve seen plenty of documentaries about musicians, some very good—usually you get a biography of the subject; interviews with friends, colleagues, and others; and of course performances. But there’s a movie I watched recently called Rewind & Play, featuring the great jazz pianist Thelonious Monk, and it’s unlike anything I’ve seen before. Monk was a brilliantly innovative composer and performer from the 1930s on, highly regarded by fellow musicians but not one of the big

00:03:33

Rewind & Play

Flicks with The Film Snob ·

2024/08/19

I’ve seen plenty of documentaries about musicians, some very good—usually you get a biography of the subject; interviews with friends, colleagues, and others; and of course performances. But there’s a movie I watched recently called Rewind & Play, featuring the great jazz pianist Thelonious Monk, and it’s unlike anything I’ve seen before.Monk was a brilliantly innovative composer and performer from the 1930s on, highly regarded by fellow musicians but not one of the big names in jazz,

00:03:35

Kind Hearts and Coronets

Flicks with The Film Snob ·

2024/08/13

British film comedy came into its own in the years following the Second World War. Maybe the extremity of that experience caused something to shift. In any case, there was a new spirit of satire in movies, a flippant disregard for the old values of class snobbery and the stiff upper lip. In the late 1940s and continuing into the ‘50s, the Ealing Studios in west London produced a series of comedy films that are still admired today, many of them featuring an up-and-coming new

00:03:35

Kind Hearts and Coronets

Flicks with The Film Snob ·

2024/08/13

British film comedy came into its own in the years following the Second World War. Maybe the extremity of that experience caused something to shift. In any case, there was a new spirit of satire in movies, a flippant disregard for the old values of class snobbery and the stiff upper lip. In the late 1940s and continuing into the ‘50s, the Ealing Studios in west London produced a series of comedy films that are still admired today, many of them featuring an up-and-coming new talent. Alec Guinness. A

00:03:29

A Thousand and One

Flicks with The Film Snob ·

2024/08/06

00:03:29

A Thousand and One

Flicks with The Film Snob ·

2024/08/06

A woman is released from Rikers Island prison in New York in 1994 after doing time for a theft charge. Inez, played by Teyana Taylor, is a hair stylist trying to scrape by in Brooklyn. One day she sees a 6-year-old boy and approaches him. He is silent and reserved. It’s her son Terry, who entered a foster home when she went to jail. Inez discovers that he is unhappy in the foster family, and decides to somehow get him out and have him live with her. The movie is A Thousand and

00:03:21

Perfect Days

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2024/07/27

00:03:21

Perfect Days

Flicks with The Film Snob ·

2024/07/27

As the film Perfect Days begins, the morning light awakens a man named Hirayama, who sits quietly on his sleeping mat for a while before rolling it up, then brushes his teeth and shaves in his tiny bathroom, finally emerging from his home, smiling as he looks up at the sky. After getting a coffee from a vending machine in the courtyard, he gets into his van, chooses the cassette tapes he will listen to that day, and goes to work, cleaning a series of public toilets in Tokyo. As

00:03:28

The Bikeriders

Flicks with The Film Snob ·

2024/07/19

Jeff Nichols’ films are known for their gritty working class flavor. His latest one, The Bikeriders, is based on a book of the same title by photographer Danny Lyon, about an actual motorcycle club in the Midwest during the 1960s that eventually turned into a gang. Nichols wrote the screenplay, which captures the inchoate speech patterns of these working class tough guys, and the picture has the loose style of ’70s American cinema. For those accustomed to the slick, overpowering

00:03:28

The Bikeriders

Flicks with The Film Snob ·

2024/07/19

Jeff Nichols’ films are known for their gritty working class flavor. His latest one, The Bikeriders, is based on a book of the same title by photographer Danny Lyon, about an actual motorcycle club in the Midwest during the 1960s that eventually turned into a gang. Nichols wrote the screenplay, which captures the inchoate speech patterns of these working class tough guys, and the picture has the loose style of ’70s American cinema. For those accustomed to the slick, overpowering modern

00:03:32

Kinds of Kindness

Flicks with The Film Snob ·

2024/07/13

One of the more surprising recent developments in cinema for me has been the rise to fame of a Greek avant-garde filmmaker named Yorgos Lanthimos. His films satirize the darker aspects of human nature, usually in forms of ego and control, and they employ bizarre, sometimes alarming narrative devices. The gallows humor and the challenging depictions of sexual behavior, were not a liability in the art film world. But his English language films, that he started making in 2015, have

00:03:32

Kinds of Kindness

Flicks with The Film Snob ·

2024/07/13

One of the more surprising recent developments in cinema for me has been the rise to fame of a Greek avant-garde filmmaker named Yorgos Lanthimos. His films satirize the darker aspects of human nature, usually in forms of ego and control, and they employ bizarre, sometimes alarming narrative devices. The gallows humor and the challenging depictions of sexual behavior, were not a liability in the art film world. But his English language films, that he started making in 2015, have gained him a much

00:03:08

Fancy Dance

Flicks with The Film Snob ·

2024/07/06

I’m not a fan of the Oscars, the Golden Globes, or most of the other Hollywood awards, but one thing I know: to win or even just be nominated helps an artist become much more well known. Lily Gladstone won a Globe and was nominated for a Best Actress Oscar for Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon, the first Native American actress to do either. She now stars in a film called Fancy Dance. Erica Tremblay directs, in her feature debut, and co-wrote the picture with Miciana

00:03:08

Fancy Dance

Flicks with The Film Snob ·

2024/07/06

00:03:06

Thelma

Flicks with The Film Snob ·

2024/06/29

Thelma, the debut feature from writer and director Josh Margolin, opens with the title character, a 93-year-old woman played by June Squibb, being taught by her grandson how to use email on her computer. Her difficulties learning such things as how to scroll down using a mouse, or what to do when an ad pops up, are a familiar source of humor, but instead of a broad farcical approach, it’s funny while seeming natural and wholly plausible. Fred Hechinger projects gentle patience

00:03:06

Thelma

Flicks with The Film Snob ·

2024/06/29

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