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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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00:03:28

Colonel Redl

Flicks with The Film Snob ·

2020/11/23

A real life scandal from the pre-World War I era, involving an officer in the Austro-Hungarian Army, is brought to life by director Istvan Szabo, and his brilliant star, Klaus Maria Brandauer. Hungarian director Istvan Szabo is most famous for his excellent 1981 film, and surprise international hit, Mephisto, starring Klaus Maria Brandauer, and this is understandable. But I would like to draw your attention to another film by Szabo starring the same actor, and made in 1985. It’s

00:02:47

Don’t Look Now

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2020/11/15

Nicholas Roeg’s 1973 film explores the extremes that the grieving mind can go to, in a story of a couple (Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie) struggling to encounter the ghost of their recently deceased young daughter while staying in Venice. I’m not that big on the horror genre, outside of the old classics like Frankenstein, but there is one very unusual film I would like to recommend for a stormy night: Don’t Look Now, made in 1973 by British director Nicolas Roeg. It’s not

00:03:26

Kes

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2020/11/08

A boy in an English mining town trains a falcon in his spare time, in Ken Loach’s 1970 working class drama. Kes was a film, produced in 1970, that brought director Ken Loach to the world’s attention, marking a new beginning in the British realist tradition. It’s about a boy in a Yorkshire mining town named Billy, played by David Bradley, who is neglected by his overworked mother and mistreated by an older brother (played by Freddie Fletcher) who is already embittered by his

00:03:08

Mouchette

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2020/11/01

A day in the life of an abused young girl, presented by director Robert Bresson as the epitome of unjust human suffering. In the history of film, a handful of directors have attained, in a body of work spanning their careers, a level of artistry that transcends conventional genres, equaling in some degree the status of classic literature. Among those I’d include Carl Dreyer, Jean Renoir, and, perhaps the most unusual example, Robert Bresson, whose cinema of spirituality can seem

00:03:44

Méliès the Magician

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2020/10/23

The work of the film innovator who brought fantasy and illusion to the movies, is presented in a documentary and a collection of Georges Méliès most significant works. The earliest filmmakers were inventors and businessmen, and their product was made up, for the most part, of so-called “actualities,” filmed records of real events. The novelty of motion pictures kept audiences entertained for a while, but for the movies to make the leap into a truly popular art, they needed a

00:03:30

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

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2020/10/17

John Huston’s 1948 classic took some very unusual risks for a Hollywood movie of that era, and it won popular and critical acclaim. I often try to shine a light on older movies that are obscure or that you might not have heard of, but today I want to talk about a film you probably have heard of, and maybe even seen. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, a John Huston film released in 1948, is an example of how bold and original work could sometimes emerge from a Hollywood system

00:03:40

Lacombe, Lucien

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2020/10/13

The story of a thoughtless young man during the occupation of France in World War II, who becomes involved with the Vichy Gestapo, is an exploration of the nature of evil and the possibility of escaping it through love. In his 1974 film Lacombe, Lucien, the versatile French director Louis Malle dealt with the painful issue of wartime collaboration during the German occupation of France. The story takes place in 1944, when Lucien, an aimless and uneducated rural youth played by

00:03:09

Deep Crimson

Flicks with The Film Snob ·

2020/10/05

Mexican director Arturo Ripstein dramatizes the notorious “Lonelyhearts Killers” case, transposing it to 1940s Mexico, and depicting the matter-of-fact nature of evil. In Deep Crimson, the 1996 film by acclaimed Mexican director Arturo Ripstein, an overweight, depressed single mother named Coral (played by Regina Orozco) longs for romance. Through a personal ad, she meets and falls for a “Charles Boyer type” named Nicolas (played by Daniel Gimenez Cacho) who turns out to be a

00:03:14

Miss Julie

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2020/09/26

Alf Sjöberg’s 1951 adaptation of the famous Strindberg play illuminates the dark ambiguity of this story of a reckless young woman of the Swedish upper classes and her cat-and-mouse relationship with a male servant. Classic plays aren’t often made into classic films. Miss Julie, a Swedish film from 1951 directed by Alf Sjöberg, is one of the exceptions. Julie, played here by Anita Björk, is the arrogant and unhappy daughter of a country nobleman, who attends a midsummer eve

00:03:26

Underground

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2020/09/19

A dark comedy that stretches across the 20th century in Yugoslavia, Underground is a film of excess that laughs derisively at the colossal waste that is war. Among filmmakers of recent times who have had something important to say about the world predicament, a special place is held by Emir Kusturica, a Serbian writer and director who acts as witness to the tragic events and suffering in the Balkans. His ultimate statement was a 1995 film called Underground, an epic farce

00:03:12

Trust

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2020/09/06

Hal Hartley’s 1990 film, with its desperate misfits and downbeat mood, turned the teen comedy genre on its head. It’s hard to believe that it’s been thirty years since Hal Hartley’s film Trust came out. At the time it looked like Hartley was going to be one of the greats. He never did quite fulfill that promise. But his influence on independent film was significant. Trust tells the story of a high school student named Maria (played by Adrienne Shelley) who tells her family that

00:03:21

The Servant

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2020/09/01

A film of psychological tension and bitter humor, Joseph Losey’s The Servant portrays a butler (Dirk Bogarde) gradually turning the tables on his callow young master (James Fox). American director Joseph Losey was well on the way to success in Hollywood when he found himself blacklisted during the anti-communist witch hunts of the early 1950s. We’ll never know what kind of career he might have had in America, but the one he did have after moving to England turned out to be one

00:03:13

The Friends of Eddie Coyle

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2020/08/25

One of Robert Mitchum’s last great roles was playing a down-on-his-luck hoodlum in this gritty 1973 crime film. There was an all-too brief renaissance in American film in the 1970s, when writers and directors were free to experiment with radically different styles and subjects. But even in this historical context, Peter Yates’ 1973 crime film The Friends of Eddie Coyle is unique. Robert Mitchum plays the aging Boston crook and gambler Eddie Coyle, who is facing possible jail

00:03:10

My Man Godfrey

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2020/08/18

Carole Lombard hires a bum (William Powell) to act as butler for her crazy family, in one of the greatest and zaniest screwball comedies of the classic era. The screwball comedy was a special kind of a film that flourished in Hollywood in the 1930s and 40s. It featured zany, no-holds-barred dialogue and complicated plots in which men and women sparred with each other using fiercely intelligent wit, an resulting in unlikely yet delightful romance. It’s amazing that so many of

00:03:38

Mother

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2020/08/14

A classic of Soviet silent film tells of a mother who is radicalized after she naively betrays her revolutionary son to Czarist authorities. There are very few more poignant examples of world-historical irony in cinema than the Soviet silent film—the revolutionary hopes they expressed proved to be tragic illusions, but the works themselves remain deeply influential, and rightly so. Most American film buffs will be familiar with Eisenstein, but just as important is the work of

00:03:48

Loulou

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2020/08/03

The story of an affair between a young upper middle class woman (Isabelle Huppert) and a working class ex-convict (Gérard Depardieu) explores the contrast between a detached intellectual approach to life and a full physical engagement with it. Loulou, a 1980 film by French director Maurice Pialat, tells of an upper middle class woman named Nelly (played by Isabelle Huppert), who grows tired of her selfish, abusive boyfriend (Guy Marchand) and leaves him to be with an unemployed

00:03:23

Sabotage

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2020/07/26

One of the gems among Alfred Hitchcock’s early British films, Sabotage tells of an enemy agent in 1930s England, and the tragic consequences of his actions for his unsuspecting wife. One of the recurring motifs in Alfred Hitchcock’s films concerns a woman who suspects a loved one of being a monster. In his 1936 film Sabotage, the woman, played by Sylvia Sidney, has married a foreigner named Verloc (played by Oscar Homolka) who showed kindness to her and her young brother when

00:03:27

The Color of Pomegranates

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2020/07/21

This one-of-a-kind Soviet film portrays the life of an 18th century Armenian poet not through narrative, but through a succession of brilliant symbolic tableaux. I’ve spoken on this show before about the Armenian-born Soviet filmmaker Sergei Paradjanov, who directed the groundbreaking film Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors in 1964. The unexpected international success of that film pushed him into prominence, and he began to get into trouble with authorities, signing protests

00:03:27

Platform

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2020/07/12

The new millennium was launched in Chinese cinema by this 2000 film by Jia Zhangke, in which the story of a group of young musicians reveals the hollowness of the Chinese economic miracle. Jia Zhangke is mainland China’s most cutting-edge director, challenging that country’s official story of economic triumph with poetic and elliptical tales about ordinary people adrift in the stream of modern change. The best place to start with Jia is the 2000 film Platform, which follows the

00:03:25

Ashes and Diamonds

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2020/07/06

Polish director Andrzej Wajda examines the dashed hopes of postwar Poland in this story of a partisan fighter (Zbigniew Cybulski) caught between the ideals of the Communist movement and its sordid realities. Sometimes when I revisit a good film, I start to notice a few flaws which lower my regard for the movie a little bit. But that didn’t happen on a recent re-viewing of Ashes and Diamonds, the 1958 film by Polish director Andrzej Wajda. Instead it reaffirmed my opinion that

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