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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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00:05:00

Black Legion

Flicks with The Film Snob ·

2022/02/07

In 1937, Warner Brothers released a film attacking the rise of hate groups in America that were terrorizing immigrants and minorities. Humphrey Bogart stars in this extraordinary movie. After the Second World War, a lot of what had been happening in the U.S. before the war was swept under the rug and forgotten. Nazism and fascism were seen as things that happened in Germany and Italy, an evil that caused the rest of the world to unite in order to defeat

00:05:00

Black Legion

Flicks with The Film Snob ·

2022/02/06

In 1937, Warner Brothers released a film attacking the rise of hate groups in America that were terrorizing immigrants and minorities. Humphrey Bogart stars in this extraordinary movie. After the Second World War, a lot of what had been happening in the U.S. before the war was swept under the rug and forgotten. Nazism and fascism were seen as things that happened in Germany and Italy, an evil that caused the rest of the world to unite in order to defeat it. But the fact is,

00:04:39

Azor

Flicks with The Film Snob ·

2022/01/30

A film about an agent of a Swiss bank working to support the military dictatorship in 1980s Argentina reveals how little it takes for people to look away from evil when being silent is to their advantage. Already we feel a sense of constriction, an oppressive claustrophobia and holding in of emotions, before we even know exactly what we’re looking at in Swiss director Andreas Fontana’s debut film, Azor. A man and woman arrive in Argentina, and gradually we learn that the man,

00:03:36

The Power of the Dog

Flicks with The Film Snob ·

2022/01/23

Jane Campion’s first film in twelve years examines deceptive notions of manhood on a cattle ranch in 1920s Montana. New Zealand filmmaker Jane Campion was a big part of the cinematic breakthrough of her home country, and Australia, in the 1980s and ‘90s. She’s still best known for 1993’s The Piano, but her subsequent work has maintained her reputation for excellence. However, she hadn’t made a theatrical feature in 12 years until now, with her acclaimed new film called The Power

00:03:02

Celine and Julie Go Boating

Flicks with The Film Snob ·

2022/01/17

Jacques Rivette’s experimental joyride features two women whose explorations of a haunted house serve to turn all the conventions of film and genre upside down. French director Jacques Rivette has been subverting narrative expectations for most of his career. It seems to be his mission in life to turn the art of storytelling inside out, allowing us to see how the construction of stories in our heads determines the ways we see the world. None of his films exemplifies this more

00:04:57

Undine

Flicks with The Film Snob ·

2022/01/11

A tragic love story with echoes from a German fairy tale shows director Christian Petzold exploring the heavy influence of the past on relationships in the present. German writer-director Christian Petzold has become, for me, one of those filmmakers that whatever movie he makes, I’m going to see it. He is consistently daring in his narrative and stylistic choices, exploring ideas about society, relationships, and the tortured history of modern Germany. He

00:04:57

Undine

Flicks with The Film Snob ·

2022/01/10

A tragic love story with echoes from a German fairy tale shows director Christian Petzold exploring the heavy influence of the past on relationships in the present. German writer-director Christian Petzold has become, for me, one of those filmmakers that whatever movie he makes, I’m going to see it. He is consistently daring in his narrative and stylistic choices, exploring ideas about society, relationships, and the tortured history of modern Germany. He never settles for a

00:04:35

Acasă

Flicks with The Film Snob ·

2022/01/02

The true story of a large Romanian family living in a wilderness area facing the threat of being forced to move to the big city. The picture opens with a group of boys playing in a lake, trying to catch fish by hand, chasing birds, having fun being boys. They are part of a large family living in what appears to be a remote wilderness area, a mother and father and their nine kids with dogs, playing and running about, but also hunting and foraging to survive. The camera then pans

00:04:21

The White Tiger

Flicks with The Film Snob ·

2021/12/27

An ambitious young man from a lower caste seeks to prosper by attaching himself to a corrupt businessman and his family, in this thriller doubling as a satire of modern India. The deep chasm between rich and poor in India is the subject of a terrific new film from Ramin Bahrani called The White Tiger. Adapted from a best selling debut novel by Aravind Adiga, the story concerns Balram Halwai, a young man from a large poor family in a north Indian village. He sees the local

00:04:11

Shiva Baby

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2021/12/19

Emma Seligman’s debut feature uses a shiva, a Jewish post-funeral gathering, as the setting for a comedy about a young woman who doesn’t fit in, but tries to act like she does. Shiva Baby, a comedy of discomfort from Canadian writer/director Emma Seligman, opens with college senior Danielle, played by Rachel Sennott, having sex with a slightly older man named Max. When they’re done, she hints at a prior arrangement, and Max dutifully hands her some cash, saying that he likes the

00:03:59

Night of the Kings

Flicks with The Film Snob ·

2021/12/12

A new film from the West African nation of Ivory Coast presents an intriguing allegory about power and its misuse. Night of the Kings, the second narrative feature of Ivorian director Philippe Lacôte attracted critical notice, and won the Amplify Voices award for films from smaller countries at the Toronto Film Festival. A huge prison in the middle of the rain forest has been abandoned by the state—the warden and his staff oversee the convicts from a sealed room, while the

00:03:25

My Own Private Idaho

Flicks with The Film Snob ·

2021/12/05

Gus Van Sant’s 1991 film portrays the difficult yet tender world of runaways. One of my favorite working American directors is Gus Van Sant. His adventurous style was evident in his early films, of which one of the finest is his 1991 effort, My Own Private Idaho. In My Own Private Idaho, the late River Phoenix plays Mike Waters, a young street hustler wandering through the Pacific Northwest, who is subject to fits of narcolepsy. He tends to conk out

00:03:25

My Own Private Idaho

Flicks with The Film Snob ·

2021/12/05

Gus Van Sant’s 1991 film portrays the difficult yet tender world of runaways. One of my favorite working American directors is Gus Van Sant. His adventurous style was evident in his early films, of which one of the finest is his 1991 effort, My Own Private Idaho. In My Own Private Idaho, the late River Phoenix plays Mike Waters, a young street hustler wandering through the Pacific Northwest, who is subject to fits of narcolepsy. He tends to conk out whenever things get too

00:04:48

Went the Day Well?

Flicks with The Film Snob ·

2021/11/28

One of the most unusual examples of propaganda ever filmed, made in the midst of the Second World War, imagines what it would be like if Germans captured a small English town in preparation for a major invasion. Propaganda has gotten a bad name over the years. All it means, really, is information that presents a point of view, usually of a political nature, but so often it has meant governments trying to mislead people about facts and conditions in order to gain or maintain

00:04:37

Dear Comrades!

Flicks with The Film Snob ·

2021/11/22

A veteran of Soviet cinema presents a powerful drama about an incident in 1962, when factory workers in a Don Region city go on strike, and a true believer in Stalinism must face the consequences of the corruption she has supported. Andrei Konchalovsky is one of the last of the great “second generation” in Soviet cinema. He started in Russia in the 1970s, and eventually came to Hollywood. He’s always had a penchant for big blockbuster-type movies, action

00:04:37

Dear Comrades!

Flicks with The Film Snob ·

2021/11/22

A veteran of Soviet cinema presents a powerful drama about an incident in 1962, when factory workers in a Don Region city go on strike, and a true believer in Stalinism must face the consequences of the corruption she has supported. Andrei Konchalovsky is one of the last of the great “second generation” in Soviet cinema. He started in Russia in the 1970s, and eventually came to Hollywood. He’s always had a penchant for big blockbuster-type movies, action thrillers and epics. So

00:03:19

When a Woman Ascends the Stairs

Flicks with The Film Snob ·

2021/11/16

Mikio Naruse’s great 1960 film presents a compassionate view of the life of bar hostesses in a disreputable section of Tokyo. I find it puzzling that Japanese director Mikio Naruse didn’t become more well-known in the West. His films are honest, complex, and mature, done in a very modern, forward-looking style. In his great 1960 film called When a Woman Ascends the Stairs, he introduces us to an unusual realm: Tokyo’s Ginza district, with its many

00:03:19

When a Woman Ascends the Stairs

Flicks with The Film Snob ·

2021/11/15

Mikio Naruse’s great 1960 film presents a compassionate view of the life of bar hostesses in a disreputable section of Tokyo. I find it puzzling that Japanese director Mikio Naruse didn’t become more well-known in the West. His films are honest, complex, and mature, done in a very modern, forward-looking style. In his great 1960 film called When a Woman Ascends the Stairs, he introduces us to an unusual realm: Tokyo’s Ginza district, with its many nightclubs and bars. Keiko is a

00:05:14

Small Axe

Flicks with The Film Snob ·

2021/11/08

Five films from British director Steve McQueen, depicting the experiences of West Indian British families in London from the late 1960s through the 80s, is one of the great cinematic achievements of the century. What have you been doing during the pandemic? Well, British director Steve McQueen, best known for the Academy Award winning film 12 Years a Slave, has been very busy. He released five motion pictures in 2020. That’s right, five. In the midst of one of the world’s great

00:04:45

The Rescue

Flicks with The Film Snob ·

2021/11/01

The true story of the 2018 effort to rescue thirteen boys trapped in a huge flooded cave in Thailand is more exciting than most fiction. There are true stories that are so exciting, documentary filmmakers must dream about the chance of covering them. A new film called The Rescue is a good example of this: it’s about the boys’ soccer team trapped in a flooded cave in Thailand in the summer of 2018. If you pay attention at all to the news, you would have heard about this. I did,

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