Flicks with The Film Snob

Mar 31 2025 431 ep. 3 mins
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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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No Other Land

Mar 31 2025 3 mins  
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 in

Green Border

Mar 23 2025 3 mins  
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

Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World

Mar 16 2025 3 mins  
Radu Jude’s film about a young rebel in Romania’s gig economy is a provocative satire on the degraded state of modern society. 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

Orlando: My Political Biography

Mar 10 2025 3 mins  
Virginia Woolf’s 1928 novel Orlando is the template for this many-layered exploration of nonbinary and transgender experience. 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 nonbi

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

Mar 01 2025 3 mins  
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 w

The Baker's Wife

Feb 23 2025 3 mins  
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. W

Janet Planet

Feb 16 2025 3 mins  
One summer in the life of a woman in an “alternative” lifestyle, and her relationship with her introverted 11-year-old daughter. 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. Alte

The Brutalist

Feb 10 2025 3 mins  
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 Buch

Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat

Feb 03 2025 3 mins  
A bold documentary, framed against the jazz of 1959-60, tells how the U.S. helped subvert the government of Congo after independence. 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

All We Imagine as Light

Jan 27 2025 3 mins  
A portrait of three women working at a Mumbai hospital pays tribute to all the struggling people in the great city. In a big city, our stories can seem to disappear into the enormity of urban life. All We Imagine as Light, the award-winning new film by Payal Kapadia, takes place in Mumbai, the seventh most populous city on earth. In voice-over we hear various migrants, in many diff