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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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00:04:02

Sound of Metal

Flicks with The Film Snob ·

2021/07/19

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 sounded kind of

00:04:39

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

Flicks with The Film Snob ·

2021/07/12

The film version of August Wilson’s play about a jazz recording session in 1927 features Viola Davis in the title role, and Chadwick Boseman as the dramatic center, of a story about the corrosive bitterness of American racism. A few years ago I saw August Wilson’s 1982 play Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom in an Arizona Theatre Company production in Tucson. It was excellent. Then, last year, George C. Wolfe directed a film adaptation starring Viola Davis and

00:04:39

Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

Flicks with The Film Snob ·

2021/07/11

The film version of August Wilson’s play about a jazz recording session in 1927 features Viola Davis in the title role, and Chadwick Boseman as the dramatic center, of a story about the corrosive bitterness of American racism. A few years ago I saw August Wilson’s 1982 play Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom in an Arizona Theatre Company production in Tucson. It was excellent. Then, last year, George C. Wolfe directed a film adaptation starring Viola Davis and Chadwick Boseman. Now, it’s

00:04:01

The Truth

Flicks with The Film Snob ·

2021/07/05

Catherine Deneuve plays a famous actress in conflict with her daughter, played by Juliette Binoche, in Hirokazu Kore-eda’s first film made outside of Japan. Over the past 25 years, Japanese filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda has created a unique body of work, characterized by a gentle and humane outlook on life, often featuring stories about children and families. He’s never aimed for big commercial popularity, but his films have gradually become fairly popular anyway: his observant,

00:04:19

Beanpole

Flicks with The Film Snob ·

2021/06/28

In a Leningrad hospital, two women deal with the aftereffects of their experiences in World War II, in a powerful examination of trauma by a young Russian director. The trauma that happens to people in wartime is a theme so difficult that it almost seems impossible to portray in a film, but that hasn’t stopped filmmakers through the years from trying, so central and so important is this experience to the understanding of what war is, and why we need to stop making it. The

00:03:58

Minari

Flicks with The Film Snob ·

2021/06/21

Minari, the latest film from writer-director Lee Isaac Chung, tells the story of an immigrant Korean family’s struggle to make a new life in the United States. The young father, Jacob, played by Steven Yuen, has scraped together enough money to buy some farmland in Arkansas, after years of dull and repetitive toil in the California poultry industry. His wife Monica, played by Yeri Han, is shocked when they drive up to their Arkansas trailer home—she didn’t expect to be way out

00:04:30

Happy as Lazzaro

Flicks with The Film Snob ·

2021/06/14

Alice Rohrwacher’s two-part fable portrays the fragility of goodness in a corrupted world. We’ve often heard about the problem of evil, framed in the context of theology, philosophy, or in literature. It’s less common to hear about the problem of goodness. What would that even mean? A few authors have tried to portray a perfectly good character. The comic realm seems easier in this regard: Cervantes did it with his Don Quixote and Dickens with Mr. Pickwick, both marvelous

00:04:16

Riders of Justice

Flicks with The Film Snob ·

2021/06/07

A Danish action film starts out looking like just another revenge drama, but then pulls the rug out from under the audience in a delightful way. It’s fairly easy to describe a revenge-themed action thriller. First an evil criminal does something terrible, hurting innocent people, so the action hero takes justice into his own hands to make the evil guy pay. Often it’s the hero’s loved ones or family members that are killed or put in harm’s way, so the need for revenge is even

00:04:27

Time, and MLK/FBI

Flicks with The Film Snob ·

2021/05/31

Time profiles a woman fighting for her husband to get parole, against the background of unequal sentencing of African Americans, while MLK/FBI tells of J. Edgar Hoover’s campaign to destroy Dr. Martin Luther King. Two documentaries, one personal, one historical, about the African American quest for justice. Time, a film by Garrett Bradley, examines the reality of incarceration in the United States through the story of one family. In 1997, Robert Rich and his wife Fox robbed a

4:02

The Whistlers

Flicks with The Film Snob ·

2021/05/26

The moral no-man’s land of modern Romania is depicted in Corneliu Porumboiu’s latest picture as an ironic version of film noir. Romanian writer-director Corneliu Porumboiu is fascinated by the ways that language is used to wield power. He’s explored these themes in films that have political and psychological implications and that look inward at the act of moviemaking itself. In his latest film, The Whistlers, he’s taken on one of the classic genres that we tend to associate with

00:04:45

Mank

Flicks with The Film Snob ·

2021/05/22

David Fincher’s witty drama about the Hollywood screenwriter Herman Mankiewicz recreates classic Hollywood style while satirizing its illusions. Mank, the latest film from director David Fincher, centers on the Hollywood writer and curmudgeon Herman Mankiewicz, nicknamed “Mank” for short, and the circumstances surrounding his writing of the original screenplay for Orson Welles’ classic film Citizen Kane. In 1940, after a serious car accident, Mankiewicz is put up to convalesce

00:04:05

Dick Johnson is Dead

Flicks with The Film Snob ·

2021/05/13

Kirsten Johnson brings us closer to the acceptance of mortality in a mischievous film that uses stunts and special effects to depict various scenarios of her 88-year-old father’s death. Dick Johnson is Dead. Now, that’s a movie title that jumps out at you. Surprisingly, this is a non-fiction film, what we usually call a documentary, although in this case I prefer the term “essay film.” And among essay films, it’s quite unusual. The director, Kirsten

00:04:05

Dick Johnson is Dead

Flicks with The Film Snob ·

2021/05/12

Kirsten Johnson brings us closer to the acceptance of mortality in a mischievous film that uses stunts and special effects to depict various scenarios of her 88-year-old father’s death. Dick Johnson is Dead. Now, that’s a movie title that jumps out at you. Surprisingly, this is a non-fiction film, what we usually call a documentary, although in this case I prefer the term “essay film.” And among essay films, it’s quite unusual. The director, Kirsten Johnson, is best known as a

00:04:24

Shirley

Flicks with The Film Snob ·

2021/05/05

A young couple stays at the house of author Shirley Jackson and her husband, getting drawn into their chaotic relationship, in a film that illuminates the mind and creative process of Jackson, a brilliant and eccentric literary figure played by Elisabeth Moss. Shirley Jackson was an American writer whose style and subjects reveal a dark sense of humor, coupled with a strong feeling for the cruelty and inhumanity lying just under the surface in supposedly

00:04:24

Shirley

Flicks with The Film Snob ·

2021/05/04

A young couple stays at the house of author Shirley Jackson and her husband, getting drawn into their chaotic relationship, in a film that illuminates the mind and creative process of Jackson, a brilliant and eccentric literary figure played by Elisabeth Moss. Shirley Jackson was an American writer whose style and subjects reveal a dark sense of humor, coupled with a strong feeling for the cruelty and inhumanity lying just under the surface in supposedly civilized people. Her

00:04:04

I’m Thinking of Ending Things

Flicks with The Film Snob ·

2021/04/27

Charlie Kaufman’s latest mindbender tells the story of a young couple on a voyage, a strange trip into the uncertainty of self and other. I’m Thinking of Ending Things, Charlie Kaufman’s fourth film as a director, is a mind-bending metaphysical puzzle focusing on the mysteries of self and other, loneliness and relationship. Jessie Buckley plays Lucy, an extremely self-conscious intellectual whose inner voice questions the meaning and value of everything in her life, including

00:04:16

Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets

Flicks with The Film Snob ·

2021/04/21

An amazing simulated documentary celebrates the world of neighborhood bars: the situation is invented, but the people are real. If you’ve ever gone to a neighborhood bar frequently, for a year or more, you know that a place like that has what they call “regulars,” folks that are there day after day, for whom the bar is a kind of second home or community. And among these regulars you hear many conversations, more or less inebriated, usually more, and many jokes and stories. You

00:05:23

The Year From Hell (and its cinematic saving graces)

Flicks with The Film Snob ·

2021/04/13

Chris Dashiell presents his favorite films released in 2020. Among the dreadful costs of our shared global disaster, one of the least important was the shutting down of movie theaters. Count it among the many losses of “normality” required for the public good. New films were released, and we watched them at home via streaming platforms. I believe that movies are best experienced on a big screen with an audience, but that wasn’t possible for most of last year, so my list of

00:03:07

Conspirators of Pleasure

Flicks with The Film Snob ·

2021/04/07

A delightful and humorous celebration of sexual fetishes, as practiced by solitary people trying to get beyond social repression to create pleasure; a rare live action offering from Czech animator Jan Svankmajer. The brilliant Czech animator Jan Svankmajer makes films that explore the nether reaches of our minds and behavior, with a sensibility so odd that it’s unclassifiable. His 1996 film Conspirators of Pleasure is one of his forays into live action (although animation

00:03:11

The Atomic Café

Flicks with The Film Snob ·

2021/04/01

A 1982 documentary presents the myriad ways that the U.S. government deceived and indoctrinated the public about nuclear weapons during the Cold War. Released at the beginning of the Reagan era, in a time of heightened Cold War rhetoric, the 1982 film The Atomic Café is a documentary about the way the U.S. government framed the dangers of the nuclear age to its citizens, from the late 1940s to the early 60s. The picture was put together by three intrepid independent

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