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
- 450
- Years Active
- 2013 - 2025
Billy Liar
Tom Courtenay plays a young man who loses himself in grandiose fantasies in order to escape his dull life, in this sharply observant film from 1963.
Overshadowed by the French New Wave of the late 50…
L’Argent
Robert Bresson’s 1983 film, his last, portrays the inexorable descent into inhumanity that begins with a simple dishonest act.
The great French director Robert Bresson directed his last film in 1983…
Casque d'Or
The Fire Within
Salesman
A study of Boston-area Bible salesmen was the breakthrough documentary of the brothers Albert and David Maysles.
The Maysles brothers, Albert and David, pioneered what came to be known as “direct cin…
Topsy-Turvy
Topsy-Turvy, a British film that came out in 2000, is about Gilbert and Sullivan, and how they came to create their masterpiece, The Mikado. It’s a magnificent work, beautiful in soul and in concepti…
Meet Me in St. Louis
Vincente Minnelli’s musical slice of Americana was his first starring his future wife Judy Garland.
In addition to being a film snob, it would seem that I’m something of a Scrooge. I don’t really car…
Little Fugitive
Variety Lights
Fellini’s first film as director, in collaboration with the veteran Alberto Lattuada, was this witty comedy about a small time traveling theater troupe.
When we consider the career of Federico Felli…
Julius Caesar
Stray Dog
The Curse of the Cat People
Purple Noon
A shocking tale of murder and deceit, based on a Patricia Highsmith novel, was presented in great style in this 1960 film by French director Rene Clément.
In French director Rene Clément’s 1960 thril…
Colonel Redl
Don’t Look Now
Nicholas Roeg’s 1973 film explores the extremes that the grieving mind can go to, in a story of a couple (Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie) struggling to encounter the ghost of their recently dec…
Kes
Mouchette
A day in the life of an abused young girl, presented by director Robert Bresson as the epitome of unjust human suffering.
In the history of film, a handful of directors have attained, in a body of wo…
Méliès the Magician
The work of the film innovator who brought fantasy and illusion to the movies, is presented in a documentary and a collection of Georges Méliès most significant works.
The earliest filmmakers were in…
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
John Huston’s 1948 classic took some very unusual risks for a Hollywood movie of that era, and it won popular and critical acclaim.
I often try to shine a light on older movies that are obscure or th…