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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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00:04:18

King Rat

Flicks with The Film Snob ·

2019/04/30

George Segal plays an American corporal whose wheeling and dealing makes him a kind of king within the narrow world of a Japanese prisoner of war camp in World War II. Prisoner of war movies: they’ve always been among my favorites. Grand Illusion, Stalag 17, The Bridge on the River Kwai, The Great Escape: those are the most famous. But there’s one that is much lesser known, and in my opinion consistently underrated, yet it’s arguably the most truthful and most tragic: from 1965,

00:04:19

Ash is Purest White

Flicks with The Film Snob ·

2019/04/22

Jia Zhanke’s saga of a woman finding the strength to survive after being abandoned by her small time gangster boyfriend, reflects the anxiety of rapid change in modern China. Jia Zhanke is a Chinese writer and director whose films have garnered steady critical acclaim since the 90s. Years ago I reviewed his 2000 film Platform on this show—since then he’s maintained a prolific output, producing many fiction films, documentaries, and shorts. Now he’s widely considered the most

00:04:03

Us

Flicks with The Film Snob ·

2019/04/14

Jordan Peele’s horror film, about people encountering their murderous doubles, has a dark social critique underlying its frightful surface. Jordan Peele has followed up his smash hit debut Get Out with another horror film, this one with a much less comic flavor, simply called Us. The deceptively short title belies the writer-director’s complicated intent. The picture opens in the 1980s, with a little black girl named Adelaide on vacation with her parents at a carnival near the

00:04:03

Apollo 11

Flicks with The Film Snob ·

2019/04/07

A documentary by Todd Douglas Miller marking the 50th anniversary of the flight that first landed a man on the moon, features previously unseen film footage and audio from the mission. It was only after the opening credits started playing for Apollo 11, a new documentary by Todd Douglas Miller, that it suddenly occurred to me that this year marks the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission, the first one to land a man on the moon. It seemed weird that I hadn’t thought of that

00:04:26

Dark Star

Flicks with The Film Snob ·

2019/03/29

John Carpenter’s first feature, a low budget science fiction comedy, drily exposes the complete inadequacy of human beings when measured against the cosmos. John Carpenter is known primarily as a director of popular genre pictures, mostly in horror (such as Halloween, the film that made his career), action thrillers, and science fiction. Being a film snob, I haven’t been as receptive to his work as others, although I’d be a fool not to acknowledge his obvious talent. It was with

00:04:16

Never Look Away

Flicks with The Film Snob ·

2019/03/24

The story of the early life and career of an innovative German painter dramatizes the troubled history of that country from the Nazi period to its division during the Cold War. Never Look Away, the title of a new film by German writer-director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, is an admonishment to a young artist—everything true is beautiful, so the artist should not avert his eyes from anything real, for that is the source of his power. In its account of a young painter’s

00:04:34

Birds of Passage

Flicks with The Film Snob ·

2019/03/16

A remarkable film from Colombia depicts how a traditional Indian tribe is corrupted by wealth and power through its involvement in the drug trade. Birds of Passage, a remarkable new film from Colombia, combines some very different things into one. It’s a crime picture about the drug trade in South America, but it’s also steeped in indigenous culture, particularly that of the Wayuu Indians of northeastern Colombia. This melding of the ancient and strangely

00:04:34

Birds of Passage

Flicks with The Film Snob ·

2019/03/15

A remarkable film from Colombia depicts how a traditional Indian tribe is corrupted by wealth and power through its involvement in the drug trade. Birds of Passage, a remarkable new film from Colombia, combines some very different things into one. It’s a crime picture about the drug trade in South America, but it’s also steeped in indigenous culture, particularly that of the Wayuu Indians of northeastern Colombia. This melding of the ancient and strangely beautiful native

00:04:58

They Shall Not Grow Old

Flicks with The Film Snob ·

2019/03/09

100-year-old films of the British Army in the trenches have been digitally restored and colorized by New Zealand director Peter Jackson, in a stunning and vivid resurrection of the lived experience of World War One. From 2014 to 2018, many nations observed a solemn centenary. It had been 100 years since the Great War, as it was called during the time it was waged—what we now refer to as the First World War. It seems, of course, a very distant time to us, not only because it was

00:03:36

The Heiresses

Flicks with The Film Snob ·

2019/03/05

Two older women live in a beautiful mansion in Paraguay–but they are facing financial ruin. When one of them goes to prison to serve a short sentence for fraud, the other begins to explore possibilities of which she’d been previously unaware. The Heiresses is a film from Paraguay, the first movie I’ve seen from that country. Paraguay has a cinematic history, but it’s been small and plagued by lack of finances, especially during the long years of dictatorship. Since that regime

00:03:36

The Heiresses

Flicks with The Film Snob ·

2019/03/05

Two older women live in a beautiful mansion in Paraguay–but they are facing financial ruin. When one of them goes to prison to serve a short sentence for fraud, the other begins to explore possibilities of which she’d been previously unaware. The Heiresses is a film from Paraguay, the first movie I’ve seen from that country. Paraguay has a cinematic history, but it’s been small and plagued by lack of finances, especially during the long years of

00:04:17

Capernaum

Flicks with The Film Snob ·

2019/02/20

A street kid fights for survival in Lebanon, in Nadine Labaki’s heart wrenching new film. Nadine Labaki is a Lebanese writer-director whose three feature films to date display a strong sensitivity to the lives of ordinary working people in Lebanon, their struggles, resilience, and humor. An actress herself, she is especially adept at bringing out the best in actors. Her latest picture, Capernaum, is a giant stride forward, proof that she is now a major filmmaker on the world

00:04:56

A Film Snob’s Favorites of 2018

Flicks with The Film Snob ·

2019/02/15

Chris Dashiell names his favorite films that were released last year. There were some miraculous films in 2018. I’ve learned to be grateful, and not to take these things for granted. Roma (Alfonso Cuarón). Cuarón’s masterpiece is inspired by the story of his own family during one tumultuous year in Mexico City in the early 1970s. But he tells it from the point of view of the family’s live-in housekeeper and nanny Cleo (Yalitza Aparicio). In a way, it’s a

00:04:56

A Film Snob’s Favorites of 2018

Flicks with The Film Snob ·

2019/02/15

Chris Dashiell names his favorite films that were released last year. There were some miraculous films in 2018. I’ve learned to be grateful, and not to take these things for granted. Roma (Alfonso Cuarón). Cuarón’s masterpiece is inspired by the story of his own family during one tumultuous year in Mexico City in the early 1970s. But he tells it from the point of view of the family’s live-in housekeeper and nanny Cleo (Yalitza Aparicio). In a way, it’s a tribute to a common

00:04:36

Cold War

Flicks with The Film Snob ·

2019/02/06

The tension between communist Poland and the West in the 1950s is reflected in the tortured love affair of a singer and the musician who discovers her. Relationships are hard. Most people know that. Being in love doesn’t guarantee the skills needed to communicate, live together, or work through big issues. Now, if you add to that difficulty an oppressive or intrusive society into which you’re born and must live, the problems become even more complicated. During the last century,

00:04:23

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

Flicks with The Film Snob ·

2019/01/30

The Coen brothers’ latest film is a story anthology presenting the dark themes behind that most American of film genres, the western. The Coen brothers, Joel and Ethan, have covered a lot of genres in their filmmaking career, and they tried their hand at that most American of genres, the western, in their 2010 remake of True Grit. Now they present another take on the American West, by means of a story anthology film called The Ballad of Buster

00:04:23

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

Flicks with The Film Snob ·

2019/01/30

The Coen brothers’ latest film is a story anthology presenting the dark themes behind that most American of film genres, the western. The Coen brothers, Joel and Ethan, have covered a lot of genres in their filmmaking career, and they tried their hand at that most American of genres, the western, in their 2010 remake of True Grit. Now they present another take on the American West, by means of a story anthology film called The Ballad of Buster Scruggs. The western tradition is

00:04:36

If Beale Street Could Talk

Flicks with The Film Snob ·

2019/01/23

Barry Jenkins adapts a James Baldwin novel about a black couple who won’t let anything, including an unjust arrest, keep them apart. When we last saw writer-director Barry Jenkins, his film Moonlight, which was only his second feature, had won Best Picture and two other Oscars at the Academy Awards a couple of years ago. How does a filmmaker follow up from that? In Jenkins’ case, the answer is simple: you just stay true to your vision, in this case

00:04:36

If Beale Street Could Talk

Flicks with The Film Snob ·

2019/01/23

Barry Jenkins adapts a James Baldwin novel about a black couple who won’t let anything, including an unjust arrest, keep them apart. When we last saw writer-director Barry Jenkins, his film Moonlight, which was only his second feature, had won Best Picture and two other Oscars at the Academy Awards a couple of years ago. How does a filmmaker follow up from that? In Jenkins’ case, the answer is simple: you just stay true to your vision, in this case adapting a 1974 James

00:04:44

The Favourite

Flicks with The Film Snob ·

2019/01/16

The story of two women fighting for influence at the 18th century British court of Queen Anne satirizes the grotesque and demeaning nature of raw power. The Favourite is what they call a costume picture—a film about an earlier period of history that includes a lot of elaborate costumes and sets. Typically, a costume picture appeals primarily to the curiosity of audiences about the past, but The Favourite is different. Although it portrays a period in the

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