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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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00:03:27

The Phoenician Scheme

Flicks with The Film Snob ·

2025/07/01

I’ve talked a lot about Wes Anderson over the years. In fact I’ve reviewed seven of his films on this show. I’m at the point where I want to just assume you know something about his work by now, and that I don’t have to keep describing his style and methods, such as sets that look like marvelous intricate toys, everything in bold colors, block-like patterns, with the camera either facing the actors head on or from the side, precise geometrical movements,

00:03:24

The Taste of Things

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2025/06/23

A romance of 19th century France, in which a famous chef comes to rely on his female assistant to carry out his culinary ideas. Food films: movies that tell stories about cooking and eating, are a popular genre. When I think of the best ones, Babette’s Feast and Tampopo immediately come to mind. There are others. Now we can add The Taste of Things, from Vietnamese-French director Trần Anh Hùng, to that list. The Taste of Things begins at a French country

00:03:24

The Taste of Things

Flicks with The Film Snob ·

2025/06/23

Food films: movies that tell stories about cooking and eating, are a popular genre. When I think of the best ones, Babette’s Feast and Tampopo immediately come to mind. There are others. Now we can add The Taste of Things, from Vietnamese-French director Trần Anh Hùng, to that list. The Taste of Things begins at a French country estate in the late 19th century. Eugénie, an older woman played by Juliette Binoche, is smiling while she prepares a meal. First

00:03:29

Marketa Lazarová

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2025/06/16

Marketa Lazarová, the 1967 film by Czech writer-director František Vláčil, opens on a vast winter scene, wild horses running in the distance. A deep-voiced narrator says we are being told a series of stories that were assembled “almost at random.” We are plunged into a world of ragtag medieval warriors: stealing, fighting, and killing as they roam through a snow-covered landscape. It turns out that when the film says the stories are random and unworthy,

00:03:29

Marketa Lazarová

Flicks with The Film Snob ·

2025/06/16

A bold adaptation of a famous Czech novel about brutal conflict in 13th century Bohemia, and the struggle between power and innocence. Marketa Lazarová, the 1967 film by Czech writer-director František Vláčil, opens on a vast winter scene, wild horses running in the distance. A deep-voiced narrator says we are being told a series of stories that were assembled “almost at random.” We are plunged into a world of ragtag medieval warriors: stealing, fighting,

00:03:26

Nickel Boys

Flicks with The Film Snob ·

2025/06/10

When filmmakers turn to historical subjects of oppression and persecution, it can be difficult to communicate the feeling of living through these events. Well, independent director RaMell Ross found a way to do this, in his adaptation of a 2019 Colson Whitehead novel about a Jim Crow era juvenile reformatory in Florida, Nickel Boys. Nickel Boys opens in 1962, with an African American boy in Tallahassee named Elwood Curtis, raised primarily by his loving

00:03:26

Nickel Boys

Flicks with The Film Snob ·

2025/06/10

Two young men are bonded as friends in a Florida juvenile detention camp in the Jim Crow South. When filmmakers turn to historical subjects of oppression and persecution, it can be difficult to communicate the feeling of living through these events. Well, independent director RaMell Ross found a way to do this, in his adaptation of a 2019 Colson Whitehead novel about a Jim Crow era juvenile reformatory in Florida, Nickel Boys. Nickel Boys opens in 1962,

00:03:31

Twelve O'Clock High

Flicks with The Film Snob ·

2025/06/05

During World War II, Hollywood made a lot of war films. There were some good ones, and some not so good, but they were all presented in the spirit of patriotism that was a requirement during the fighting, and so almost every one of them could be called a “flag waver.” Nothing wrong with that, except that the reality of war was softened for homefront audiences. On the other hand, in the years right after the war, from the late 1940s to the mid-‘50s

00:03:31

Twelve O'Clock High

Flicks with The Film Snob ·

2025/06/05

Gregory Peck plays a general assigned to toughen up an American aircraft bomber group in England during World War II. During World War II, Hollywood made a lot of war films. There were some good ones, and some not so good, but they were all presented in the spirit of patriotism that was a requirement during the fighting, and so almost every one of them could be called a “flag waver.” Nothing wrong with that, except that the reality of war was softened for

00:03:15

Rolling Thunder Revue / Miss O'Dell

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2025/05/29

00:03:15

Rolling Thunder Revue / Miss O'Dell

Flicks with The Film Snob ·

2025/05/29

Martin Scorsese’s 2019 documentary covers Bob Dylan’s Rolling Thunder Revue tour from 1975, and Simon Weitzman’s recent doc presents the life and career of Tucson native and rock n’ roll tour manager Chris O’Dell. Bob Dylan’s 1975 “Rolling Thunder Revue” was a unique idea for a concert tour. Dylan and his band at the time (which included the violinist Scarlet Rivera) were the headliners. Joan Baez and Ramblin’ Jack Elliott were also on the bill. Allen

00:03:29

Song Without a Name

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2025/05/19

Song Without a Name, the feature debut, from 2019, of Peruvian director Melina León, starts in 1988, with newspaper headlines describing Peru’s financial collapse and the catastrophic inflation that followed. This was a time of conflict between the government and a Maoist terror group called The Shining Path. In a small cabin within a stark mountain vastness, a fire blazing, a group of native people, Quechuans, are praying and singing while a young man,

00:03:29

Song Without a Name

Flicks with The Film Snob ·

2025/05/19

Song Without a Name, the feature debut, from 2019, of Peruvian director Melina León, starts in 1988, with newspaper headlines describing Peru’s financial collapse and the catastrophic inflation that followed. This was a time of conflict between the government and a Maoist terror group called The Shining Path. In a small cabin within a stark mountain vastness, a fire blazing, a group of native people, Quechuans, are praying and singing while a young man,

00:03:21

One to One: John & Yoko

Flicks with The Film Snob ·

2025/05/12

In August of 1972, John Lennon and Yoko Ono performed in a concert at Madison Square Garden. This was a benefit for mentally disabled people, in response to a recent TV program that had exposed neglect and abuse of patients at the Willowbrook hospital in Staten Island. Well, as it turned out, this was the only full-length concert that John Lennon would do in the years after the Beatles disbanded. He showed up as guests in other people’s concerts, or in

00:03:21

One to One: John & Yoko

Flicks with The Film Snob ·

2025/05/12

00:03:22

I'm Still Here

Flicks with The Film Snob ·

2025/05/05

Lest anyone think that our current government’s practice of pulling people off the street or out of their homes, and taking them to prisons from which they will never return, is a new idea, they should know that dictatorships have been doing this for quite a while. Military governments in 20th century Argentina, Chile, and Brazil, for instance, made this a regular practice, leaving a legacy of mourning and protest by the relatives of the “disappeared.”

00:03:22

I'm Still Here

Flicks with The Film Snob ·

2025/05/05

Lest anyone think that our current government’s practice of pulling people off the street or out of their homes, and taking them to prisons from which they will never return, is a new idea, they should know that dictatorships have been doing this for quite a while. Military governments in 20th century Argentina, Chile, and Brazil, for instance, made this a regular practice, leaving a legacy of mourning and protest by the relatives of the “disappeared.”

00:03:05

Close Your Eyes

Flicks with The Film Snob ·

2025/04/28

At the beginning of Close Your Eyes, the recent film by Spanish director Victor Erice, is a beautifully composed and acted opening scene, set at a country home outside of Paris in 1947. It’s a lovely estate called Triste Del Ray, which means “sadness of the king.” In a large ornate living room, a dying man, an old magisterial Jewish Spaniard played by José María Pou, is hiring a middle-aged Spaniard, played by Jose Coronado, to find his lost teenage

00:03:05

Close Your Eyes

Flicks with The Film Snob ·

2025/04/28

At the beginning of Close Your Eyes, the recent film by Spanish director Victor Erice, is a beautifully composed and acted opening scene, set at a country home outside of Paris in 1947. It’s a lovely estate called Triste Del Ray, which means “sadness of the king.” In a large ornate living room, a dying man, an old magisterial Jewish Spaniard played by José María Pou, is hiring a middle-aged Spaniard, played by Jose Coronado, to find his lost teenage

00:03:24

The Seed of the Sacred Fig

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2025/04/21

In 2022 in Iran, a young woman named Mahsa Amini was arrested for wearing her head scarf, or hijab, too loosely for the Islamic State’s laws on women’s dress. Protests erupted when she died mysteriously in custody. We know that the widespread demonstrations rocked the country for a year before being brutally put down by the government, but all information was censored. Mohammad Rasoulof, the dissident writer and director whose previous films provoked

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