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
Grand Hotel
MGM’s star-studded 1932 film typifies classic Hollywood style.
In what we now call the classic era of Hollywood film, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) had more stars than any other studio. In 1932, as if to…
Andrei Rublev
Tarkovsky’s epic film uses the legend of Russia’s great icon painter to explore urgent questions of art, faith, and suffering.
On any film buff’s short list of great Russian directors you’re bound to…
Dodsworth
William Wyler’s 1936 adaptation of a Sinclair Lewis novel deals was unusual for Hollywood: a portrait of a rocky marriage in middle age.
Dodsworth, a 1936 film directed by the great Hollywood filmmak…
The Conversation
Francis Ford Coppola’s paranoid thriller stars Gene Hackman as an obsessive surveillance expert struggling with his conscience.
Since 9/11, the invasion of our privacy by the government’s national se…
Shoeshine
Salvatore Giuliano
Francesco Rosi's 1962 film uses the life of the titular Mafia bandit as a stepping-off point for an examination of postwar Sicilian history. A man lies dead in a courtyard of a Sicilian town. The pol…
Saint Frances / The Invisible Man
Saint Frances tells of the friendship between an insecure young woman and the 6-year-old for which she is employed as a nanny, while The Invisible Man is a horror film recasting the H.G. Wells concep…
The Docks of New York
Josef von Sternberg's 1928 silent movie depicting the life of the destitute on the New York waterfront, is one of the great American films. I'm a devotee of silent films, which I love and collect, ye…
Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Celine Sciamma's remarkably intimate, elegant drama about the bonds between women explores the path of women artists, and how love is fostered when women see and acknowledge one another. A woman pai…
Fantastic Fungi
A visually enthralling documentary explores the potential benefits, on a planetary scale, of mushrooms.
Mycology has been a relatively neglected subject over the years. It’s the study of mycelium, wh…
Atlantics
Mati Diop’s first feature tells of a young woman in Senegal, grieving the loss of her lover who died at sea trying to migrate for a better life, and then finding herself challenged by what seems to b…
Dark Waters
Todd Haynes' meticulous reconstruction of the case brought by a corporate lawyer, played by Mark Ruffalo, against the huge chemical company DuPont, is a devastating indictment of the power of big com…
Carnival in Flanders
Jacques Feyder’s 1935 comedy, about the women of a Flemish town disarming an occupying Spanish army with wit and charm, embodies the lost ideals of an earlier time.
In 1935, Hitler had been in power …
A Film Snob's Favorites of 2019
Just Mercy
Tells the true story of a death row inmate, played by Jamie Foxx, who fights his unjust conviction with the help of a young lawyer played by Michael B. Jordan.
Bryan Stevenson is a lawyer, an African…
Uncut Gems
Adam Sandler is excellent as a New York gem dealer in trouble for gambling debts in this high octane drama from Josh and Bennie Safdie.
I became a fan of the Safdie brothers, Josh and Benny, after I …
Little Women
Greta Gerwig’s beautiful new adaptation of the classic Louisa May Alcott novel plays with the book’s time sequence in order to emphasize the March sisters’ journey of self-realization.
Louisa May Alc…
A Hidden Life
Terrence Malick returns to his position as one of the greatest living film directors in this true story of an Austrian farmer who refuses to take the oath of loyalty to Hitler or fight for Germany in…
Remember the Night / Knives Out
A classic Christmas movie with a sense of humor and a conscience; and a clever murder mystery with comic elements.
This time of year I’m often asked about what films I recommend to watch for the holi…
Waves
A black family in south Florida deals with hardship and regret, in this remarkably poetic drama by Trey Edward Shults.
I just saw a film that touched me deeply, a movie playing at the multiplex for w…