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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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00:03:33

The Exterminating Angel

Flicks with The Film Snob ·

2023/11/29

The guests at a wealthy dinner party find themselves unable to leave the premises, in Luis Buñuel's satiric fable. Spanish director Luis Buñuel went into exile from his native land after Franco’s military coup in 1936. He went to Hollywood and managed to scrape by translating and supervising the dubbing of Latin American films there. Eventually he found a more congenial environment in Mexico, where he made 21 films from the late 1940s through the early ‘60s. After he was allowed to return to Spain

00:03:33

The Exterminating Angel

Flicks with The Film Snob ·

2023/11/29

The guests at a wealthy dinner party find themselves unable to leave the premises, in Luis Buñuel’s satiric fable. Spanish director Luis Buñuel went into exile from his native land after Franco’s military coup in 1936. He went to Hollywood and managed to scrape by translating and supervising the dubbing of Latin American films there. Eventually he found a more congenial environment in Mexico, where he made 21 films from the late 1940s through the early ‘60s. After he was

00:03:25

Killers of the Flower Moon

Flicks with The Film Snob ·

2023/11/23

Martin Scorsese's latest film dramatizes the true story of a series of murders in 1920s Oklahoma, in which the Osage Indians were targeted for wealth gained from oil being found on their land. Martin Scorsese has explored the darker side of humanity in many of his films. His journey into the problem of evil is darkest of all, I think, in his latest movie, Killers of the Flower Moon, based as it is on a real and very sinister conspiracy from the 1920s. The 80-year-old Scorsese is focused on making

00:03:25

Killers of the Flower Moon

Flicks with The Film Snob ·

2023/11/22

Martin Scorsese’s latest film dramatizes the true story of a series of murders in 1920s Oklahoma, in which the Osage Indians were targeted for wealth gained from oil being found on their land. Martin Scorsese has explored the darker side of humanity in many of his films. His journey into the problem of evil is darkest of all, I think, in his latest movie, Killers of the Flower Moon, based as it is on a real and very sinister conspiracy from the 1920s. The 80-year-old Scorsese is

00:03:31

Anatomy of a Fall

Flicks with The Film Snob ·

2023/11/16

The husband of a famous author falls to his death, and the wife is prosecuted for murder, in a film about the conflicting truths of intimate relationships. Film marketers and critics always try to fit a movie into a slot, a recognizable genre or type of narrative. That can be problematic. Anatomy of a Fall, the new film from French director Justine Triet, is being a called a thriller, but to take that label at face value is to distort its true quality. There are no thrills here. There is a mystery

00:03:31

Anatomy of a Fall

Flicks with The Film Snob ·

2023/11/15

The husband of a famous author falls to his death, and the wife is prosecuted for murder, in a film about the conflicting truths of intimate relationships. Film marketers and critics always try to fit a movie into a slot, a recognizable genre or type of narrative. That can be problematic. Anatomy of a Fall, the new film from French director Justine Triet, is being a called a thriller, but to take that label at face value is to distort its true quality. There are no thrills here

00:03:25

Joan Baez: I Am a Noise

Flicks with The Film Snob ·

2023/11/08

The great American singer and activist reveals the fear, insecurity, and private struggles of her inner life that lay behind her public persona. When the singer Joan Baez was planning a farewell tour in 2019, after a career spanning sixty years, she gave the green light to a documentary to be made about her by three women filmmakers: Miri Navasky, Maeve O’Boyle, and Karen O’Connor. Finally released this year, it’s called Joan Baez: I Am a Noise. I confess that I was a little taken aback by the

00:03:25

Joan Baez: I Am a Noise

Flicks with The Film Snob ·

2023/11/07

The great American singer and activist reveals the fear, insecurity, and private struggles of her inner life that lay behind her public persona. When the singer Joan Baez was planning a farewell tour in 2019, after a career spanning sixty years, she gave the green light to a documentary to be made about her by three women filmmakers: Miri Navasky, Maeve O’Boyle, and Karen O’Connor. Finally released this year, it’s called Joan Baez: I Am a Noise. I confess that I was a little

00:03:22

A Radiant Girl

Flicks with The Film Snob ·

2023/11/02

A Jewish teenager dreams of acting and romance and the future, and she lives in Nazi-occupied Paris. A Radiant Girl, the first feature written and directed by the veteran French actress Sandrine Kiberlain, opens with a montage of student actors practicing a scene from a play by Marivaux. Then we focus on one actress, 19-year-old Irène, played by Rebecca Marder, practicing that scene with a young man. Soon we can tell that she is the title character—excited by the theater and acting, intensely

00:03:22

A Radiant Girl

Flicks with The Film Snob ·

2023/11/01

A Jewish teenager dreams of acting and romance and the future, and she lives in Nazi-occupied Paris. A Radiant Girl, the first feature written and directed by the veteran French actress Sandrine Kiberlain, opens with a montage of student actors practicing a scene from a play by Marivaux. Then we focus on one actress, 19-year-old Irène, played by Rebecca Marder, practicing that scene with a young man. Soon we can tell that she is the title character—excited by the theater and

00:03:18

Hamlet

Flicks with The Film Snob ·

2023/10/25

Laurence Olivier's 1948 version of Shakespeare's great tragedy won Oscars for Best Picture and Best Actor. Laurence Olivier was one of the 20th century’s greatest Shakespearean actors. He also directed eight films in his career—the first three were versions of Shakespeare, and those are the ones that really made his reputation as a filmmaker. Henry the Fifth came out near the end of 1944, when Britain could feel assured of victory in the Second World War. It’s a gorgeous, rousing Technicolor marvel

00:03:18

Hamlet

Flicks with The Film Snob ·

2023/10/24

Laurence Olivier’s 1948 version of Shakespeare’s great tragedy won Oscars for Best Picture and Best Actor. Laurence Olivier was one of the 20th century’s greatest Shakespearean actors. He also directed eight films in his career—the first three were versions of Shakespeare, and those are the ones that really made his reputation as a filmmaker. Henry the Fifth came out near the end of 1944, when Britain could feel assured of victory in the Second World War. It’s a gorgeous,

00:03:29

The Son

Flicks with The Film Snob ·

2023/10/18

A man tries to reach his troubled son from a previous marriage, learning his own shortcomings as a father in the process. A couple of years ago, Florian Zeller directed a film version of a play that he co-wrote with Christopher Hampton called The Father. Anthony Hopkins won the Academy Award for Best Actor in that. Now, once again, Zeller has adapted for the screen another of his plays with the same co-author, called The Son. Despite the apparent relationship between these titles, and the fact that

00:03:29

The Son

Flicks with The Film Snob ·

2023/10/18

A man tries to reach his troubled son from a previous marriage, learning his own shortcomings as a father in the process. A couple of years ago, Florian Zeller directed a film version of a play that he co-wrote with Christopher Hampton called The Father. Anthony Hopkins won the Academy Award for Best Actor in that. Now, once again, Zeller has adapted for the screen another of his plays with the same co-author, called The Son. Despite the apparent relationship between these

00:03:32

The Novelist's Film

Flicks with The Film Snob ·

2023/10/12

Hong Sang-soo's wry film about a novelist who decides to make a short movie is a clever illustration of the Korean filmmaker's own narrative methods. I’ve had occasion before to praise the work of Korean writer and director Hong San-soo. He’s unusual in that he’s artistically modest (always doing small scale films about ordinary life) yet incredibly prolific (31 features in the last 27 years, including 15 in the last 10, and a few shorter films). Rather than trying to get financed by the big

00:03:32

The Novelist’s Film

Flicks with The Film Snob ·

2023/10/11

Hong Sang-soo’s wry film about a novelist who decides to make a short movie is a clever illustration of the Korean filmmaker’s own narrative methods. I’ve had occasion before to praise the work of Korean writer and director Hong San-soo. He’s unusual in that he’s artistically modest (always doing small scale films about ordinary life) yet incredibly prolific (31 features in the last 27 years, including 15 in the last 10, and a few shorter films). Rather than trying to get

00:03:29

You Hurt My Feelings

Flicks with The Film Snob ·

2023/10/04

A comedy from the inimitable Nicole Holofcener about the things we say to loved ones in order to support them that may not reflect what we really think or feel. You Hurt My Feelings is the satirically petulant sounding title of the latest comedy by writer-director Nicole Holofcener. Julia Louis-Dreyfus stars as a writer and teacher in New York City named Beth. She’s married to Don, a therapist played by Tobias Menzies. We get to know them as we might in life, in their work and home life, and

00:03:29

You Hurt My Feelings

Flicks with The Film Snob ·

2023/10/03

A comedy from the inimitable Nicole Holofcener about the things we say to loved ones in order to support them that may not reflect what we really think or feel. You Hurt My Feelings is the satirically petulant sounding title of the latest comedy by writer-director Nicole Holofcener. Julia Louis-Dreyfus stars as a writer and teacher in New York City named Beth. She’s married to Don, a therapist played by Tobias Menzies. We get to know them as we might in life, in their work and

00:03:31

Grand Illusion

Flicks with The Film Snob ·

2023/09/26

Jean Renoir's 1938 classic about prisoners in World War One was a plea for peace on the eve of yet another war. Here’s an Oscar trivia question. What was the first non-English language film to be nominated for Best Picture? The answer is Grand Illusion, a French film, in 1938. It was the first, and there wasn’t another for the next 31 years. Americans didn’t pay much attention to foreign language films then. But this one got through, with great acclaim, although of course it didn’t win the

00:03:31

Grand Illusion

Flicks with The Film Snob ·

2023/09/25

Jean Renoir’s 1938 classic about prisoners in World War One was a plea for peace on the eve of yet another war. Here’s an Oscar trivia question. What was the first non-English language film to be nominated for Best Picture? The answer is Grand Illusion, a French film, in 1938. It was the first, and there wasn’t another for the next 31 years. Americans didn’t pay much attention to foreign language films then. But this one got through, with great acclaim, although of course it

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