Flicks with the Film Snob Chris Dashiell

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Flicks features a weekly film review focused on new independent releases and old classics. Your host The Film Snob only talks about movies he loves – and hopes you’ll enjoy, too.

Chris Dashiell knows movies, and he knows what he likes. Listen every week as he highlights films old and new.


255 Pieces

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Wes Anderson’s playful new film is presented as an issue of a Paris-based American magazine, with three stories about the eternal appeal of non-con...

  • Added: May 11, 2022
  • Length: 03:20
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The Harlem Cultural Festival was a music festival taking place in the same summer of 1969 as Woodstock, and its amazing line-up, and insight into h...

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  • Added: May 11, 2022
  • Length: 03:32
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A married woman visits three friends in the city, and we are inspired to consider what is the nature of happiness for women in a “man’s world.”

  • Added: May 11, 2022
  • Length: 03:19
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An evil eye changes the appearance of two young people in love so that they can’t recognize one another, in a film from the country of Georgia that...

  • Added: May 11, 2022
  • Length: 03:31
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Todd Haynes tells the story of this influential New York rock band in the cinematic style of the man who discovered them: Andy Warhol.

  • Added: May 11, 2022
  • Length: 03:29
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Paul Thomas Anderson pays humorous tribute to the 1970s in southern California in this story of a teenage entrepreneur who falls for a clever young...

  • Added: May 11, 2022
  • Length: 03:26
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French director Mia Hansen-Løve is a real cinephile. She loves to think and talk about film history and the works of famous filmmakers. Although sh...

  • Added: May 11, 2022
  • Length: 03:01
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Victor Kossakovsky shows us the experience of farm animals without the mediation of human words and concepts, in a film that extends compassion to ...

  • Added: May 19, 2022
  • Length: 03:23
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French writer-director Céline Sciamma has followed up her big success from 2019, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, with a surprising story of childhood, ...

  • Added: May 19, 2022
  • Length: 03:28
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After the success of the massive two-part crime film Dr. Mabuse in 1922, Fritz Lang and screenwriter Thea von Harbou, now husband and wife, embarke...

  • Added: May 24, 2022
  • Length: 02:52
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The film version of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Broadway musical is a delightful expression of solidarity in a predominately Latino N.Y. neighborhood, wit...

  • Added: Jun 23, 2022
  • Length: 03:38
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George Orwell’s dystopian novel was made into a great film in the year of its title: 1984.

  • Added: Jun 23, 2022
  • Length: 03:33
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Three stories about chance and imagination, written and directed by the up-and-coming director Ryûsuke Hamaguchi.Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy

  • Added: Jun 23, 2022
  • Length: 03:19
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David Cronenberg pioneered a certain type of horror movie that came to be called “body horror.” Throughout his career, in such films as The Brood, ...

  • Added: Jun 23, 2022
  • Length: 03:36
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Guillermo del Toro adds his own Gothic sensibility to this thrilling new version of an old film noir.

  • Added: Jul 19, 2022
  • Length: 03:15
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An experiment in how people will react to videos of Israeli army and settler interactions with Palestinians becomes a fascinating study challenging...

  • Added: Jul 19, 2022
  • Length: 03:32
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Artist and director Ulrike Ottinger presents her recollections of living and working in Paris in the 1960s.

  • Added: Jul 19, 2022
  • Length: 03:23
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Lost Illusions is an adaptation of a classic 19th-century novel by Honoré de Balzac. The history of film is full of examples of great books that ha...

  • Added: Jul 19, 2022
  • Length: 03:26
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A spellbinding portrait of an elderly couple in crisis, the wife suffering from dementia, the husband unable to cope, in a film composed entirely i...

  • Added: Aug 03, 2022
  • Length: 03:22
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The meanings that we access through works of art are not confined to the conscious intentions of the artists. This critical truth came to mind whil...

  • Added: Aug 03, 2022
  • Length: 03:29