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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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00:04:42

All About Lily Chou-Chou

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2021/10/29

Twenty years after the release of Shunji Iwai’s film about early adolescence, the movie’s insights and prescience about the effects of the internet are still remarkably fresh. Twenty years ago, in 2001, the internet was really taking off—the steady increase in internet use was accelerating, especially among young people. That year, a film by Japanese writer-director Shunji Iwai was released called All About Lily Chou-Chou. It’s a film about a time in a person’s life that is

00:04:24

Another Round

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2021/10/17

Thomas Vinterburg’s Oscar-winning comedy tells of four men who decide to use a small amount of alcohol to reinvigorate their jobs and personal lives, with troubling results. Another Round, the latest film from Danish director Thomas Vinterburg, is a comedy with what most viewers will immediately recognize as an implausible and frankly ridiculous premise, but as tends to be the case with good comedies, once you accept the premise, the rest of the story flows from it with ease

00:04:23

Honeyland

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2021/10/11

The traditional way of beekeeping preserved by a Macedonian woman runs up against the modern motive for profit at all costs, in this gorgeous documentary. It’s difficult for a documentary filmmaker to do justice to the practices of what you might call “traditional” people, that is, people whose customs and livelihood have persisted from a time before the modern era, for which the industrial revolution and the global market are just two aspects of the social transformation the

00:04:23

Sorry We Missed You

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2021/10/04

Ken Loach and Paul Laverty present another great film about working class life: a portrait of an English family having to find a way to support themselves and each other in the new “gig” economy. A middle aged man is talking about his employment history in a job interview, reciting a litany of previous jobs. He then says, “I’d rather work on my own and be my own boss.” The interviewer picks up on that and says, “You won’t be working for us, you’ll be working with us.” The

00:04:22

About Endlessness

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2021/09/27

The latest film by the darkly absurdist Swedish director Roy Andersson tackles the vexing subject of religion. Whenever I review a film by Roy Andersson, I feel like I have to prepare my audience again for how weird the work of this Swedish writer and director is. The style is consistent: his films are composed of discrete scenes in long takes with a stationary camera, and with spare looking sets illuminated by sharp color photography. The style matches the filmmaker’s vision

00:04:23

Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin / The...

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2021/09/21

Werner Herzog presents a portrait of his friend, the journalist and travel writer Bruce Chatwin; while Patricio Guzmán examines the mountain range dividing Chile’s coast from its interior, drawing conclusions both literal and symbolic. Bruce Chatwin was an English travel writer, journalist, novelist, and sort of an amateur anthropologist as well. His meteoric writing career started at the Times of London in the early ‘70s, where he honed his skills

00:04:23

Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin / The...

Flicks with The Film Snob ·

2021/09/20

Werner Herzog presents a portrait of his friend, the journalist and travel writer Bruce Chatwin; while Patricio Guzmán examines the mountain range dividing Chile’s coast from its interior, drawing conclusions both literal and symbolic. Bruce Chatwin was an English travel writer, journalist, novelist, and sort of an amateur anthropologist as well. His meteoric writing career started at the Times of London in the early ‘70s, where he honed his skills describing interesting and out

00:04:21

Relic

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2021/09/13

Getting old is the source of fear in a new horror movie by Natalie Erika James, about a woman on the edge of dementia whose daughter and granddaughter visit, trying to help. Filmmakers are still finding new themes and methods to incorporate into horror movies. Despite the genre’s persistent image as unserious and even trashy, there have always been artists expressing truths about human beings and their society through the lens of horror. A recent example is Relic, the first

00:03:35

The Mirror

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2021/09/07

A dying man experiences the tragic dualism of past and present, in Andrei Tarkovsky’s autobiographical masterpiece The Mirror. Perhaps the best way to indicate the very unusual nature of The Mirror, Andrei Tarkovsky’s 1975 masterwork, is to say that it is both the most painstakingly structured of Tarkovsky’s films and the least linear of his narratives. Although the director claimed that the picture was not obscure or mysterious, it is certainly

00:03:35

The Mirror

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2021/09/06

A dying man experiences the tragic dualism of past and present, in Andrei Tarkovsky’s autobiographical masterpiece The Mirror. Perhaps the best way to indicate the very unusual nature of The Mirror, Andrei Tarkovsky’s 1975 masterwork, is to say that it is both the most painstakingly structured of Tarkovsky’s films and the least linear of his narratives. Although the director claimed that the picture was not obscure or mysterious, it is certainly demanding. The receptivity

00:04:19

Miss Juneteenth

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2021/08/30

A film by Channing Godfrey Peoples tells of a single mother (Nicole Beharie) in an African American neighborhood in Fort Worth, Texas, who wants her daughter to run in the Miss Juneteenth pageant, and must come to terms with her own past in the process. Miss Juneteenth, the debut feature of writer/director Channing Godfrey Peoples, introduces us to Turquoise Jones, Turq for short, an African American single mother in her 30s played by Nicole Beharie. She

00:04:19

Miss Juneteenth

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2021/08/29

A film by Channing Godfrey Peoples tells of a single mother (Nicole Beharie) in an African American neighborhood in Fort Worth, Texas, who wants her daughter to run in the Miss Juneteenth pageant, and must come to terms with her own past in the process. Miss Juneteenth, the debut feature of writer/director Channing Godfrey Peoples, introduces us to Turquoise Jones, Turq for short, an African American single mother in her 30s played by Nicole Beharie. She lives in Fort Worth,

00:04:29

An Elephant Sitting Still

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2021/08/23

In an industrial town in China, the lives of four people (three young, one old) intertwine on a day darkened by hostility, powerlessness, and revenge. The film is An Elephant Sitting Still, by a young Chinese director named Hu Bo. The title comes from a newspaper story related by one of the characters: supposedly there is a zoo elephant in a distant town that no matter how it is treated—yelled at, thrashed or beaten—it just sits still, not responding, as if in meditation. At

00:04:33

News of the World

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2021/08/17

In his first western, Tom Hanks plays an itinerant news reader from Texas who tries to transport a young girl who was an Indian captive to her relatives. The traditional conventions of the western presuppose a lot of assumptions about America that we’ve since learned are untrue or at least are much more complex. English director Paul Greengrass, now established as a prominent Hollywood filmmaker, has crafted a western that emphasizes different aspects of

00:04:33

News of the World

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2021/08/16

In his first western, Tom Hanks plays an itinerant news reader from Texas who tries to transport a young girl who was an Indian captive to her relatives. The traditional conventions of the western presuppose a lot of assumptions about America that we’ve since learned are untrue or at least are much more complex. English director Paul Greengrass, now established as a prominent Hollywood filmmaker, has crafted a western that emphasizes different aspects of the West than we’re used

00:04:05

Martin Eden

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2021/08/10

Transposing Jack London’s autobiographical novel to Italy, Pietro Marcello highlights the conflict of socialist idealism with the individualistic drive that culminates in fascism. Jack London was a man of contradictions. An adventurer who became early 20th century America’s most popular author, he’s remembered today mainly for his stories of the Klondike gold rush, especially “The Call of the Wild.” What people don’t remember is that he was a radical socialist, and a labor

00:04:41

The Father

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2021/08/02

Anthony Hopkins turns in one of his greatest performances in this portrait of a man becoming increasingly lost to dementia. The Father is a film about an elderly man suffering from dementia. It started in 2012 as a French play by Florian Zeller, and last year Zeller directed this movie version, which stars Anthony Hopkins, adapting the play into an English script with the help of the renowned screenwriter Christopher Hampton. Now, as unfair as it is, I automatically thought,

00:04:08

The Death of Mr. Lazarescu

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2021/07/27

A man’s last hours are spent being moved from hospital to hospital within the maze of the Romanian health care system, in this devastating portrait of mortality and disregard from 2005. Throughout its history, cinema has blossomed in various countries or regions at certain times, and since the 1960s we’ve been in the habit of calling these film movements a “New Wave” or something equivalent, after the Nouvelle Vague, the French New Wave that started with

00:04:08

The Death of Mr. Lazarescu

Flicks with The Film Snob ·

2021/07/26

A man’s last hours are spent being moved from hospital to hospital within the maze of the Romanian health care system, in this devastating portrait of mortality and disregard from 2005. Throughout its history, cinema has blossomed in various countries or regions at certain times, and since the 1960s we’ve been in the habit of calling these film movements a “New Wave” or something equivalent, after the Nouvelle Vague, the French New Wave that started with Godard and Truffaut and

00:04:02

Sound of Metal

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2021/07/20

Riz Ahmed plays a rock drummer who loses his hearing and must come to terms with being a deaf person, in Darius Marder’s moving drama. There have been times when I’ve avoided or delayed seeing a film because of an impression that I got from ads or previews. In the case of Sound of Metal, a recent film by Darius Marder, I somehow had the idea that it was the story of a heavy metal drummer trying to relearn how to play the drums after losing his hearing. It

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