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.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 3 minutes
- Episodes
- 449
- Years Active
- 2013 - 2025
Sing Sing
Sing Sing, a film from director Greg Kwedar, is set, as you might expect, in the famous almost 200-year-old New York State prison thirty miles north of the city called Sing Sing, the name being a dis…
00:03:26 |
Mon 08 Sep 2025
Mayerling
The true story of forbidden romance between the heir to the throne and a 17-year-old girl in 19th century Austria was brought to life in this classic film from 1936. Anatole Litvak was a Russian Jewi…
00:03:31 |
Mon 01 Sep 2025
Weapons / I Saw the TV Glow
Two recent films explore new styles and meanings in the horror genre. I think it’s significant that in our current historical moment the most prevalent film genre is horror. It might have something t…
00:03:31 |
Mon 25 Aug 2025
The Gleaners and I
Agnès Varda’s film essay on gleaning explores the many implications of this ancient practice. Gleaning—gathering food left on the fields after harvest—is an ancient tradition in Europe. In France, as…
00:03:23 |
Mon 18 Aug 2025
Sorry, Baby
A young woman professor is challenged by the memory of a traumatic event. Sorry, Baby is the debut feature from 31-year-old Eva Victor, who is the writer, director, and star of this drama about perse…
00:03:20 |
Mon 11 Aug 2025
The Room Next Door
A woman dying from cancer asks an old friend to be in the room next door when she takes her own life. The Room Next Door, the latest film from the grand artist of Spanish cinema, Pedro Almodóvar, is …
00:03:13 |
Mon 04 Aug 2025
The Night of the Hunter
Charles Laughton’s only film as a director, from 1955, is the dark tale of a criminal (Robert Mitchum) pretending to be a preacher, who marries an unsuspecting woman (Shelley Winters) in order to fin…
00:03:27 |
Mon 28 Jul 2025
Occupied City
Documents the German occupation of Amsterdam from 1940 to 1945 by showing us many locations in the city as they appear today, while a narrator tells us what people and events from the Nazi period liv…
00:03:24 |
Tue 22 Jul 2025
All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt
Raven Jackson’s debut feature shows the world of rural black Southern life through the eyes of a serious, sensitive girl. A black girl is being taught how to fish by her father. We see a close up of …
00:03:32 |
Mon 14 Jul 2025
The Old Oak
A pub owner in a depressed town in northern England helps welcome Syrian refugees into the community. British director Ken Loach announced his retirement a couple years ago, at the age of 86. Like ev…
00:03:30 |
Sun 06 Jul 2025
The Phoenician Scheme
A parody of a host of film genres displays Wes Anderson’s style at its most avant-garde. I’ve talked a lot about Wes Anderson over the years. In fact I’ve reviewed seven of his films on this show. I’…
00:03:27 |
Tue 01 Jul 2025
The Taste of Things
A romance of 19th century France, in which a famous chef comes to rely on his female assistant to carry out his culinary ideas. Food films: movies that tell stories about cooking and eating, are a po…
00:03:24 |
Mon 23 Jun 2025
Marketa Lazarová
A bold adaptation of a famous Czech novel about brutal conflict in 13th century Bohemia, and the struggle between power and innocence. Marketa Lazarová, the 1967 film by Czech writer-director Františ…
00:03:29 |
Mon 16 Jun 2025
Nickel Boys
Two young men are bonded as friends in a Florida juvenile detention camp in the Jim Crow South. When filmmakers turn to historical subjects of oppression and persecution, it can be difficult to comm…
00:03:26 |
Tue 10 Jun 2025
Twelve O'Clock High
Gregory Peck plays a general assigned to toughen up an American aircraft bomber group in England during World War II. During World War II, Hollywood made a lot of war films. There were some good ones…
00:03:31 |
Thu 05 Jun 2025
Rolling Thunder Revue / Miss O'Dell
Martin Scorsese’s 2019 documentary covers Bob Dylan’s Rolling Thunder Revue tour from 1975, and Simon Weitzman’s recent doc presents the life and career of Tucson native and rock n’ roll tour manager…
00:03:15 |
Thu 29 May 2025
Song Without a Name
Song Without a Name, the feature debut, from 2019, of Peruvian director Melina León, starts in 1988, with newspaper headlines describing Peru’s financial collapse and the catastrophic inflation that…
00:03:29 |
Mon 19 May 2025
One to One: John & Yoko
In August of 1972, John Lennon and Yoko Ono performed in a concert at Madison Square Garden. This was a benefit for mentally disabled people, in response to a recent TV program that had exposed negl…
00:03:21 |
Mon 12 May 2025
I'm Still Here
Lest anyone think that our current government’s practice of pulling people off the street or out of their homes, and taking them to prisons from which they will never return, is a new idea, they sho…
00:03:22 |
Mon 05 May 2025
Close Your Eyes
At the beginning of Close Your Eyes, the recent film by Spanish director Victor Erice, is a beautifully composed and acted opening scene, set at a country home outside of Paris in 1947. It’s a lovely…
00:03:05 |
Mon 28 Apr 2025
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