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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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00:04:47

A Film Snob’s Favorites of 2019

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2020/01/31

Chris Dashiell talks about his favorites among the films he saw in 2019. Thinking back on 2019, preparing to put together a list of my favorite films from last year, I was struck more than ever by how my movie experiences were determined by the realities of film distribution. Reading other critics’ end of year pieces, I noticed many films on their lists that never played in my city, many that have not yet been released on DVD or streaming platforms, or perhaps never will be

00:04:44

Just Mercy

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2020/01/27

Tells the true story of a death row inmate, played by Jamie Foxx, who fights his unjust conviction with the help of a young lawyer played by Michael B. Jordan. Bryan Stevenson is a lawyer, an African American, who founded the Equal Justice Initiative in 1989. The EJI provides legal assistance to prisoners on death row. Stevenson’s career expanded over the years to include involvement in a lot of civil and human rights issues. In 2014 he published a memoir that achieved

00:04:22

Uncut Gems

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2020/01/22

Adam Sandler is excellent as a New York gem dealer in trouble for gambling debts in this high octane drama from Josh and Bennie Safdie. I became a fan of the Safdie brothers, Josh and Benny, after I saw their previous film from a couple years ago, Good Time, which I reviewed on this show. Good Time covered a day or two in the life of a manic, risk-taking criminal played by Robert Pattinson. That was a propulsion rocket of a film in which each crazy predicament seemed to outdo

00:04:39

Little Women

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2020/01/14

Greta Gerwig’s beautiful new adaptation of the classic Louisa May Alcott novel plays with the book’s time sequence in order to emphasize the March sisters’ journey of self-realization. Louisa May Alcott’s classic novel Little Women has been adapted into movies quite a few times before now. The book has usually been relegated to the children’s section, or in more recent years the teen or YA section of the book store, although its 19th century language, and sophisticated themes,

00:04:51

A Hidden Life

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2020/01/08

Terrence Malick returns to his position as one of the greatest living film directors in this true story of an Austrian farmer who refuses to take the oath of loyalty to Hitler or fight for Germany in World War II. Over the long career of director Terrence Malick, he’s developed a unique style all his own, featuring extensive voice-over narration accompanied by lyrical editing and camerawork, that in movies such as Days of Heaven and The Thin Red Line, explored the spiritual

00:04:34

Remember the Night / Knives Out

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2019/12/30

A classic Christmas movie with a sense of humor and a conscience; and a clever murder mystery with comic elements. This time of year I’m often asked about what films I recommend to watch for the holiday and I have to say, “Sorry, I’m not really a fan of Christmas movies.” Then there’s an awkward silence. But, you know, I still get the question, so here’s one that’s probably not on the lists you usually see. From Paramount in 1940, directed by one of the most underrated figures

00:03:30

Waves

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2019/12/25

A black family in south Florida deals with hardship and regret, in this remarkably poetic drama by Trey Edward Shults. I just saw a film that touched me deeply, a movie playing at the multiplex for which I had not seen any ads or trailers. It’s about a fairly affluent African American family in south Florida, parents with a son and daughter, and some painful and dramatic things they go through. The name of the film is Waves, and I guess the title is partly due to the ocean,

00:04:35

Marriage Story

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2019/12/17

Noah Baumbach’s new film is actually a divorce story, in which the painful breaking up of a couple played by Scarlet Johansson and Adam Driver, is depicted with humor and some hard-earned wisdom. Noah Baumbach’s new film is called Marriage Story. As you might expect from a writer and director with a humorous and ironic view of life, the title is misleading. This is actually a divorce story, but in the telling we experience some of the common traits of marriage that we’d rather

00:04:54

The Irishman

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2019/12/10

Martin Scorsese’s latest film depicts the Mafia, and its complicated history with Teamsters president Jimmy Hoffa, as a symbol of the corruption of America in the late 20th century. The Irishman is the latest film from the now legendary director Martin Scorsese. It reunites him with his favorite actor Robert De Niro, and Joe Pesci, who did Raging Bull, Goodfellas, and Casino together. And on top of that, it features Al Pacino, in his first role for Scorsese. So naturally the

00:03:22

Parasite

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2019/12/05

Bong Joon Ho’s fiendishly clever new film takes aim at the issue of class, reflected in a tale of a family of criminals invading the home of a wealthy family in order to get ahead. A family of grifters finds its perfect mark in a wealthy but very gullible family in a roller-coaster ride of a film by Korean director Bong Joon Ho called Parasite. The Kim family—mother and father, teenage daughter and son—lives in the basement of a dirty, trash-filled slum apartment. We first meet

00:04:00

Motherless Brooklyn

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2019/11/27

Edward Norton is the director and lead actor of this entertaining detective mystery set in 1950s Brooklyn, a story that features political corruption and family intrigue. Edward Norton has long been one of the most talented and versatile American film actors. Now he’s written his first screenplay and directed his second film, called Motherless Brooklyn. It’s adapted from a well-regarded 1999 crime novel of the same name, by Jonathan Lethem. I haven’t read that book, so I can

00:04:02

Pain and Glory

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2019/11/21

In his latest and most personal film, Pedro Almodóvar contemplates aging, regret, the need to make films, and life as a gay man in Spain. Pedro Almodóvar, Spain’s great director, was once a rebel and provocateur. Now he’s practically an institution, but that doesn’t mean that he avoids controversy. His new feature film, the 22nd of his career, is kind of a “summing up” of his personal and artistic legacy. It’s called Pain and Glory, and even though Almodóvar is 70 years old,

00:04:43

Official Secrets

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2019/11/13

Keira Knightley plays Katharine Gun, a translator for British intelligence who leaked an email exposing corruption by the forces seeking to invade Iraq in 2003, in this gripping true story. In early 2003, when the George W. Bush administration was pushing for an invasion of Iraq, with the support of Britain’s government, headed by Tony Blair, a story broke in The Observer, a weekly British newspaper published in London. A reporter had gotten hold of a top secret email from an

00:04:39

Last Night

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2019/11/06

Don McKellar’s dry comedy from 1998 examines the peculiar ways that people might cope when faced with the ultimate disaster: the end of planet Earth. The end of the world! Or, in what amounts to the same thing, at least for us, the end of the human race! Prior to the creation of the atomic bomb, no films on this subject were ever made, as far as I can tell. But in our nuclear age, it’s become practically a genre unto itself. Leaving aside the weirdness of trying to entertain

00:04:52

El Camino

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2019/10/30

Vince Gilligan presents an exciting follow-up to his popular TV series Breaking Bad, in which we learn the fate of Jesse, one of the main characters, played by Aaron Paul. Vince Gilligan is a producer, writer and director, working primarily in television. He’s the creator of Breaking Bad, a series that ran for five seasons on AMC, about a high school chemistry teacher in Albuquerque named Walter White, played by Bryan Cranston, who is diagnosed with lung cancer and, in a process

00:03:17

Aguirre, the Wrath of God

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2019/10/22

Werner Herzog’s 1972 masterwork attacks the colonial mindset through the story of an insane Spanish conquistador searching for a lost city of gold in the Amazon rain forest. An expedition of Spanish conquistadors, exploring the Amazon jungles in search of the golden city of El Dorado, is overthrown in a mutiny by the power-hungry Don Lope de Aguirre, who drives the soldiers ever deeper into the forest on an insane quest to establish a private kingdom. From 1972, directed by

00:04:29

Judy

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2019/10/16

Renée Zellweger gives a stunning performance as Judy Garland in the last year of her life, performing in London while suffering from the drug addiction that would eventually kill her. The utter exhaustion of an addict who was also a world famous singer and movie star—that is the tragic story of Judy, a film from English director Rupert Goold about the last year in the life of Judy Garland. It’s adapted by Tom Edge from a play by Peter Quilter, both of whom are also English. Why

00:04:52

Raise Hell / All Governments Lie

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2019/10/10

Two documentaries about independent journalism: the first chronicles the life and career of the maverick opinion columnist Molly Ivins; the second celebrates a variety of reporters working outside the mainstream, all of whom have been inspired by the legendary investigative journalist I.F. Stone. Molly Ivins was a Texas journalist who gained fame for writing a popular syndicated opinion column in the 90s and early 2000s. Her acerbic wit took aim at powerful politicians, which

00:04:16

The Peanut Butter Falcon

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2019/10/02

A young man with Down Syndrome resists society’s patronizing approach to his life and possibilities, by escaping from a nursing home and going on a journey with a headstrong, rebellious ally. A boy travels south on a raft with a runaway slave—that’s Huckleberry Finn. A new film takes that brief plot description as a template, while changing the characters, the time, the themes, and just about everything else, yet retaining a certain timeless quality. This film has a weird title:

00:03:58

Diva

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2019/09/25

This stylish 1981 cult favorite from Jean-Jacques Beineix tells of a young man’s obsession with an opera singer, and his accidental involvement in a crime scandal. As the 1980s began, the French New Wave was just about over, and art cinema worldwide was trying hard to reinvent itself. Then along came a flashy little French film, ostensibly a crime picture, but younger feeling, quirkier, and more stylish than people were used to at the time. It was a hit, and it crossed over to

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