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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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00:03:24

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

00:03:17

Black Bag

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2025/04/13

American director Steven Soderbergh has nothing left to prove. He’s been making good movies for 36 years, many of them profitable, from independent art films to big studio releases. He got an Oscar, and an Emmy, and widespread critical acclaim. He even retired at one point, and then changed his mind. One of his special skills is that he makes really interesting art films, but then to pay for them he’ll do well-made genre pieces like the Ocean’s Eleven

00:03:17

Black Bag

Flicks with The Film Snob ·

2025/04/13

American director Steven Soderbergh has nothing left to prove. He’s been making good movies for 36 years, many of them profitable, from independent art films to big studio releases. He got an Oscar, and an Emmy, and widespread critical acclaim. He even retired at one point, and then changed his mind. One of his special skills is that he makes really interesting art films, but then to pay for them he’ll do well-made genre pieces like the Ocean’s Eleven

00:03:15

Bob le Flambeur

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2025/04/07

Jean-Pierre Melville, a French director who loved America and its cinema so much that he changed his last name to that of the author of “Moby Dick,” wanted to do a light-hearted crime film, and with the help of Auguste Le Breton, a writer specializing in heist movies, made, in 1956, Bob Le Flambeur, which roughly translated means Bob the Gambler. The financial and critical success of this picture established Melville as one of France’s top

00:03:25

No Other Land

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2025/04/01

No Other Land, a film about the Palestinian struggle against Israel’s occupation of the West Bank, has been met with worldwide critical acclaim, multiple film festival awards, and finally the Academy Award for best documentary feature. And yet no mainstream distributor in the U.S. was willing to take it on, a fact that should sound an alarm about political pressure in the film industry. It’s finally showing in America now because of two small independent

00:03:25

No Other Land

Flicks with The Film Snob ·

2025/04/01

No Other Land, a film about the Palestinian struggle against Israel’s occupation of the West Bank, has been met with worldwide critical acclaim, multiple film festival awards, and finally the Academy Award for best documentary feature. And yet no mainstream distributor in the U.S. was willing to take it on, a fact that should sound an alarm about political pressure in the film industry. It’s finally showing in America now because of two small independent

00:03:31

Green Border

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2025/03/24

00:03:31

Green Border

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2025/03/24

The painful struggle of refugees seeking a better life is urgently depicted in Agnieszka Holland’s film about migrants trapped in the thick forest on the border between Poland and Belarus. The versatile Polish director and screenwriter Agnieszka Holland has been a filmmaker for almost 55 years. She’s continued to be a presence in world cinema, but I admit I didn’t expect her to make her greatest film at the age of 75. I’m talking about her most recent

00:03:33

Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World

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2025/03/17

00:03:33

Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World

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2025/03/17

For the last two decades, whenever we needed films confronting the urgent predicaments of our century—abrasive, fearless, uncompromising films—Romanian cinema has delivered them. It seems perhaps that the chaotic social landscape emerging after the overthrow of a dictator was an artistic breeding ground for fierce honesty and satire. The most recent Romanian director to emerge to some fame is Radu Jude, whose latest film is dark and defiant on a level rarely seen nowadays. It’s

00:03:25

Orlando: My Political Biography

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2025/03/11

Paul B. Preciado is a Spanish author, philosopher, and transgender man, whose work includes studies of identity, sexuality, and feminism. But when a small French film company suggested he participate in a movie about his own complicated history as a nonbinary and trans person, he decided that it wasn’t enough to tell his story, as interesting as it might be. Something greater was needed, something evoking the variety and difference within trans lives. He thought of his favorite

00:03:26

Lost Illusions: A Film Snob's Favorites of '24.

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2025/03/01

Every year I make a list, like most film critics, of my favorite movies from the previous year. I do mine later than just about everyone, because I want the quality films released at the end of the calendar year to have time to make it to my home city. I also need to add that in this age of streaming, the recent foreign language films I’ve watched don’t always officially fall within that calendar. C’est la vie. The great thing about streaming is that there are so many excellent

00:03:26

Lost Illusions: A Film Snob's Favorites of '24.

Flicks with The Film Snob ·

2025/03/01

Every year I make a list, like most film critics, of my favorite movies from the previous year. I do mine later than just about everyone, because I want the quality films released at the end of the calendar year to have time to make it to my home city. I also need to add that in this age of streaming, the recent foreign language films I’ve watched don’t always officially fall within that calendar. C’est la vie. The great thing about streaming is that there are so many excellent

00:03:11

The Baker's Wife

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2025/02/24

Many years ago, I sought out The Baker’s Wife, a comedy from 1938 by Marcel Pagnol, because I read that Orson Welles at one time named it his favorite film. I rented a rather worn VHS copy, and I remember enjoying it and being pleasantly surprised that Welles would love a movie so different in temperament from his own work. It was simple, theatrical in structure, no razzmatazz. Well, I’d long forgotten most of what I’d seen. But upon watching it again recently, I realized it’s a

00:03:25

Janet Planet

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2025/02/17

The title of renowned playwright Annie Baker’s first film as a director, Janet Planet, comes from the name of an acupuncture office run by Janet (Julianne Nicholson), a 40-something single mother, somewhere in the hippie section of New England. Alternative lifestyle characters are not often the subjects of film, and that’s one of the pleasures of this one. More central is the relationship between Janet and her 11-year-old daughter Lacey (Zoey Ziegler). It is in every way not

00:03:25

The Brutalist

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2025/02/10

00:03:25

The Brutalist

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2025/02/10

The Brutalist is not about brutalist architecture or the school that created it. Yes, the main character is an architect, and his work appears to be in that style, but for Brady Corbet, the director, and his co-screenwriter Mona Fastvold, brutalism is a metaphor for American postwar society. The architect, László Tóth, played by Adrien Brody, is a Hungarian Jew who survives Buchenwald and goes to the United States to find work, anxious for his wife and niece who are still in

00:03:32

Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat

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2025/02/04

Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat is a feat of radical mixed media, put together by Belgian director Johan Grimonprez, documenting the world situation in the 1950s Cold War and how it led to the overthrow of the newly formed government of the Congo and the assassination of its leader, Patrice Lumumba. It’s called a soundtrack because there were Black Americans, jazz artists, that the State Department sponsored as “Jazz Ambassadors” of friendship from the U.S. to emergent African

00:03:32

Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat

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2025/02/04

00:03:27

All We Imagine as Light

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2025/01/28

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