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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.

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00:03:29

Unrest

Flicks with The Film Snob ·

2024/02/08

Swiss filmmaker Cyril Schäublin has chosen one quiet moment in history to portray the early stages of the struggle between the industrial owner class and its employees, a moment in which the development of a new idea, anarchism, came into its own. The film, based on real events, is called Unrest. Its style combines an overall feeling of order and tranquility with a tense undercurrent of resistance. In 1877, the Russian socialist Peter Kropotkin, in exile in Switzerland, visits a town that is the

00:03:29

Unrest

Flicks with The Film Snob ·

2024/02/07

In 1877, the owners of a Swiss clock and watch factory constantly time their employees’ performance, while the workers organize one of the first anarchist communes. Swiss filmmaker Cyril Schäublin has chosen one quiet moment in history to portray the early stages of the struggle between the industrial owner class and its employees, a moment in which the development of a new idea, anarchism, came into its own. The film, based on real events, is called Unrest. Its style combines

00:03:10

Past Lives

Flicks with The Film Snob ·

2024/01/31

Past Lives is the debut feature from Korean-Canadian playwright Celine Song. In it, she draws on our experiences of career, romance, and the balancing act between a woman’s past in Korea, and present in America. The themes really apply to anyone that has called two different countries home. The movie begins with two 12-year-olds in South Korea, a girl and a boy, Na Young and Hae Sung, best friends who like to compete for higher marks in class. As time goes on, they develop a crush on one other. Na

00:03:10

Past Lives

Flicks with The Film Snob ·

2024/01/31

Two 12-year-olds with crushes on each other are separated when the girl’s family emigrates from South Korea to Canada. 24 years later, the boy, now an adult, travels to America to see her again. Past Lives is the debut feature from Korean-Canadian playwright Celine Song. In it, she draws on our experiences of career, romance, and the balancing act between a woman’s past in Korea, and present in America. The themes really apply to anyone that has called two different countries

00:03:25

Quai des Orfèvres

Flicks with The Film Snob ·

2024/01/24

Clouzot's 1947 crime film is an apt portrait of the complex and difficult urban life in postwar France. Quai des Orfèvres was the third film by French director Henri-Georges Clouzot, released in 1947. Clouzot is best known for two films he made in the ‘50s, The Wages of Fear, and Diabolique, classics of suspense, and in the case of Diabolique, horror as well. Quai des Orfèvres gives us an early taste of this unique master of cinema. Marguerite, played by Suzy Delair, an aspiring music hall singer

00:03:25

Quai des Orfèvres

Flicks with The Film Snob ·

2024/01/23

Clouzot’s 1947 crime film is an apt portrait of the complex and difficult urban life in postwar France. Quai des Orfèvres was the third film by French director Henri-Georges Clouzot, released in 1947. Clouzot is best known for two films he made in the ‘50s, The Wages of Fear, and Diabolique, classics of suspense, and in the case of Diabolique, horror as well. Quai des Orfèvres gives us an early taste of this unique master of cinema. Marguerite, played by Suzy Delair, an aspiring

00:03:23

Monster

Flicks with The Film Snob ·

2024/01/17

A drama about a boy's troubles is presented from three different points of view, and we see how judgment from appearances prevents our understanding. For some time it’s been evident that Hirokazu Kore-eda has become one of the finest film directors, not only in Japan, but in the entire world. He may not get as much attention as others because he specializes in what we usually call domestic drama rather than any of the popular genres such as action, horror, or suspense. His movies are usually about

00:03:23

Monster

Flicks with The Film Snob ·

2024/01/17

A drama about a boy’s troubles is presented from three different points of view, and we see how judgment from appearances prevents our understanding. For some time it’s been evident that Hirokazu Kore-eda has become one of the finest film directors, not only in Japan, but in the entire world. He may not get as much attention as others because he specializes in what we usually call domestic drama rather than any of the popular genres such as action, horror, or suspense. His

00:03:29

Fallen Leaves

Flicks with The Film Snob ·

2024/01/11

Aki Kaurismäki continues his devotion to stories about lonely people looking for connection in this low-key drama about two working class people who almost don't get together. Aki Kaurismäki has made 20 feature films in 42 years, plus about a dozen shorts, parts of anthologies, and music videos. With apologies to all the other filmmakers in Finland, he is clearly the most important Finnish director as well as the only one widely known outside of his country. His movies mostly deal with the lives of

00:03:29

Fallen Leaves

Flicks with The Film Snob ·

2024/01/10

Aki Kaurismäki continues his devotion to stories about lonely people looking for connection in this low-key drama about two working class people who almost don’t get together. Aki Kaurismäki has made 20 feature films in 42 years, plus about a dozen shorts, parts of anthologies, and music videos. With apologies to all the other filmmakers in Finland, he is clearly the most important Finnish director as well as the only one widely known outside of his country. His movies mostly

00:03:24

The Boy and the Heron

Flicks with The Film Snob ·

2024/01/04

The great Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki comes out of retirement to present a fantasy adventure about a boy seeking to work through the loss of his mother. Hayao Miyazaki, Japan’s preeminent creator of animated films, the genius behind My Neighbor Totoro, Princess Mononoke, and Spirited Away, to name just a few, announced his retirement ten years ago, but thankfully the 82-year-old writer and director has changed his mind. His new movie is called The Boy and the Heron, and I admit that the title

00:03:24

The Boy and the Heron

Flicks with The Film Snob ·

2024/01/03

The great Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki comes out of retirement to present a fantasy adventure about a boy seeking to work through the loss of his mother. Hayao Miyazaki, Japan’s preeminent creator of animated films, the genius behind My Neighbor Totoro, Princess Mononoke, and Spirited Away, to name just a few, announced his retirement ten years ago, but thankfully the 82-year-old writer and director has changed his mind. His new movie is called The Boy and the Heron, and I

00:03:25

The Killer

Flicks with The Film Snob ·

2023/12/28

The story of a paid assassin’s quest to get even with a client who tried to have him killed is a bracing satire on the modern culture of violence. The hit man. The professional assassin. How many such people actually exist? I’m going to say they’re a microscopic percentage of the population. Yet in popular fiction and film, this character has been reborn and remade countless times: first, naturally, in the crime genre, then the action film, and there have also been a few comedy versions, hybrids,

00:03:25

The Killer

Flicks with The Film Snob ·

2023/12/27

The story of a paid assassin’s quest to get even with a client who tried to have him killed is a bracing satire on the modern culture of violence. The hit man. The professional assassin. How many such people actually exist? I’m going to say they’re a microscopic percentage of the population. Yet in popular fiction and film, this character has been reborn and remade countless times: first, naturally, in the crime genre, then the action film, and there have also been a few comedy

00:03:31

Godland

Flicks with The Film Snob ·

2023/12/21

In the late 19th century, a Danish Lutheran priest is sent to Iceland to build a church, but the overwhelming power of nature threatens to destroy his plans. Godland is a film by the Icelandic writer and director Hlynur Pálmason. The original title in the Icelandic language indicates that the land has been corrupted in a cosmic sense—the English title Godland makes a finer point, that the God of the land, in other words nature, is radically different from the God of the church. This dramatic

00:03:31

Godland

Flicks with The Film Snob ·

2023/12/20

In the late 19th century, a Danish Lutheran priest is sent to Iceland to build a church, but the overwhelming power of nature threatens to destroy his plans. Godland is a film by the Icelandic writer and director Hlynur Pálmason. The original title in the Icelandic language indicates that the land has been corrupted in a cosmic sense—the English title Godland makes a finer point, that the God of the land, in other words nature, is radically different from the God of the church

00:03:27

Bronson

Flicks with The Film Snob ·

2023/12/14

Tom Hardy portrays Britain's most violent prison inmate, a man who refuses to cooperate. Bronson, the film from 2008 directed by Nicolas Winding Refn, is based on the life of an actual criminal named Michael Peterson, who gained a reputation as Britain’s most violent prison inmate, spending three decades in solitary confinement. During his last release on parole, he was employed as a bare-knuckle boxer, taking the name of tough-guy actor Charles Bronson. This may seem an unpromising subject for a

00:03:27

Bronson

Flicks with The Film Snob ·

2023/12/13

Tom Hardy portrays Britain’s most violent prison inmate, a man who refuses to cooperate. Bronson, the film from 2008 directed by Nicolas Winding Refn, is based on the life of an actual criminal named Michael Peterson, who gained a reputation as Britain’s most violent prison inmate, spending three decades in solitary confinement. During his last release on parole, he was employed as a bare-knuckle boxer, taking the name of tough-guy actor Charles Bronson. This may seem an

00:03:26

May December

Flicks with The Film Snob ·

2023/12/06

An actress studies a woman who was the subject of a scandal involving sex with an underage person, in order to play her in a movie. It’s hard to believe that American director Todd Haynes has been making films for over 35 years now—I still think of him as a daring new voice in movies, which I guess is an indicator of my age. He was part of the burgeoning New Queer cinema, as it was called, in the 1980s and ‘90s, when openly gay filmmakers started to break into public awareness with a degree of

00:03:26

May December

Flicks with The Film Snob ·

2023/12/06

An actress studies a woman who was the subject of a scandal involving sex with an underage person, in order to play her in a movie. It’s hard to believe that American director Todd Haynes has been making films for over 35 years now—I still think of him as a daring new voice in movies, which I guess is an indicator of my age. He was part of the burgeoning New Queer cinema, as it was called, in the 1980s and ‘90s, when openly gay filmmakers started to break into public awareness

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