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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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The Hunchback of Notre Dame

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2024/04/13

00:03:31

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

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2024/04/13

The two most famous film versions of Victor Hugo’s novel featured Lon Chaney in 1923, and Charles Laughton in 1939. In 1831, Victor Hugo wrote one of his most popular novels, “Notre-Dame de Paris.” In English translation it was renamed The Hunchback of Notre Dame, after its main character, a deformed bell ringer at the Cathedral of Notre Dame in 15th-century Paris named Quasimodo. The story tells of a gypsy dancer, Esmerelda, who unfortunately falls under the lustful eye of the

00:03:33

American Fiction

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2024/04/08

American Fiction is, on the surface, a film satire on how African American stories are marketed by the publishing industry. But more than that, it’s about the representation of race in popular culture, and how Black Americans are forced to deal with such misconceptions in their lives. With such a weighty subject, you might not expect the film to be funny, but it is. It’s based on a 2001 novel by Percival Everett called “Erasure,” and first-time director Cord Jefferson has adapted it with only minor

00:03:33

American Fiction

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2024/04/07

A satire about a Black literary novelist who publishes a trashy book under a pseudonym to mock the way African Americans are depicted, only to see the book become a best seller. American Fiction is, on the surface, a film satire on how African American stories are marketed by the publishing industry. But more than that, it’s about the representation of race in popular culture, and how Black Americans are forced to deal with such misconceptions in their lives. With such a

00:03:30

Origin

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2024/03/30

00:03:30

Origin

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2024/03/29

Isabel Wilkerson wrote a book, published in 2020, called “Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents.” It argues that the core of social injustice is much deeper than racism: it is caste, defined as the creation of “superior” and “inferior” groups, with the former dominating the latter. It’s a complex argument not based on abstract theory, but on research into the historical evidence of caste worldwide. The book has been hailed as a breakthrough in the study of human society, and has

00:03:15

The Teachers' Lounge

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2024/03/21

00:03:15

The Teachers’ Lounge

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2024/03/21

A junior high school in Germany is a microcosm of society in The Teachers’ Lounge, a film directed by İlker Çatak, and written by Çatak and Johannes Duncker. There have been a series of thefts from teachers in the school, and administrators don’t have much to go on. When two kids on the student council are questioned, they cast suspicion on a boy of Turkish ethnicity. An administrative teams goes into a classroom, orders all the girls to leave, then has the boys give up their

00:03:29

Women Directors

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2024/03/15

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Women Directors

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2024/03/14

Women film directors are becoming increasingly prominent after decades of being effectively shut out of the profession. For the majority of movie history, the directors have been mostly men. In Hollywood’s silent era, women played key roles as screenwriters and editors, and in some cases, as directors. But after the studio system was developed in the sound era, when big business finally saw that there was a lot of money to be made, men moved in and took over most of the

00:03:29

Great Freedom

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2024/03/08

00:03:29

Great Freedom

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2024/03/08

The story of a man repeatedly imprisoned in Germany for being gay, and his odd relationship to a straight drug addict. You probably know already that LGBT people were among the groups persecuted by Nazi Germany. After the war, the concentration camps ended, but sexual relations between men, as detailed in the German Criminal Code Paragraph 175, from 1871, was still a crime. Great Freedom, directed by Sebastian Meise, tells the story of a gay man named Hans, played by Franz

00:03:25

Boys Don't Cry

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2024/02/29

00:03:25

Boys Don’t Cry

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2024/02/29

A 1999 film dramatized the real life story of a transgender man in a small Nebraska town, and it is still powerful and relevant today. In 1999, “transgender” wasn’t a well-known term, at least not in mainstream culture. That was the year a film called Boys Don’t Cry was released, directed by Kimberley Peirce, and written by Peirce and Andy Bienen. It dramatizes the real-life story of Teena Brandon, who changed her name to Brandon Teena and passed for a young man in a small

00:03:33

A Year of Troubled Dreaming

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2024/02/21

It was a good year for movies, if your viewing is not confined to Hollywood films. Many of the best reflected the unease of our times.Here is my annual “favorites” list: as I’ve explained before, I do this a couple of months later than most film critics because the quality pictures from late in the previous year take longer to get to my neck of the woods than to LA, New York, or Chicago. I also need to say that some films, especially those in languages other than English, may take from a year to a

00:03:33

A Year of Troubled Dreaming

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2024/02/21

The Film Snob names his favorite films of the past year. It was a good year for movies, if your viewing is not confined to Hollywood films. Many of the best reflected the unease of our times. Here is my annual “favorites” list: as I’ve explained before, I do this a couple of months later than most film critics because the quality pictures from late in the previous year take longer to get to my neck of the woods than to LA, New York, or Chicago. I also need to say that some

00:03:22

Revoir Paris

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2024/02/18

Revoir Paris is the latest film from French director Alice Winocour. I’ve seen the title translated as Paris Memories, which, for many, might sound like a romance, but it’s far from that. The subject is trauma, or more precisely, the experience of having suffered severe trauma. Mia, played by Virginie Efira, is a young Parisian who lives with Vincent, a doctor, played by Grégoire Colin. One night, she ducks into a bistro to get out of a rainstorm. Near her is a table with a group of people

00:03:22

Revoir Paris

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2024/02/17

A Parisian woman who has survived a mass shooting feels compelled to remember the traumatic event that she has blocked out. Revoir Paris is the latest film from French director Alice Winocour. I’ve seen the title translated as Paris Memories, which, for many, might sound like a romance, but it’s far from that. The subject is trauma, or more precisely, the experience of having suffered severe trauma. Mia, played by Virginie Efira, is a young Parisian who lives with Vincent, a

00:03:21

The Zone of Interest

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2024/02/15

The Zone of Interest is the name of the latest film by English writer and director Jonathan Glazer. It opens disconcertingly, with strange sounding vocal music against a blank dark gray screen. Then we meet a German-speaking family, parents and five children, in a large new house with servants and a flower garden and a small swimming pool. We soon notice that the father wears the gray uniform of a German officer, and that right next to the house is what looks like a big fortress. It’s not too long

00:03:21

The Zone of Interest

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2024/02/14

The matter-of-fact depiction of the family life of the commandant of Auschwitz conveys our horrifying capacity of living with and condoning the greatest evil. The Zone of Interest is the name of the latest film by English writer and director Jonathan Glazer. It opens disconcertingly, with strange sounding vocal music against a blank dark gray screen. Then we meet a German-speaking family, parents and five children, in a large new house with servants and a flower garden and a

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