Flicks with the Film Snob Chris Dashiell
Series produced by KXCI
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.
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Aquarius, a new film by Brazilian writer-director Kleber Mendonça Filho, wants to make us comfortable before we enter its main story. In a prologue...
- Added: Feb 26, 2017
- Length: 04:23
It seems that the more I love a film, the harder it is to describe exactly why. I think that’s because the best films reach a place that is deeper ...
- Added: Feb 26, 2017
- Length: 03:56
There are plenty of good films out there, but I have to confess that the dominance of mediocre Hollywood pablum sometimes challenges my faith in ci...
- Added: Feb 26, 2017
- Length: 03:55
In the early years of the 20th century, a film genre was invented that became hugely popular: the adventure serial.
- Added: Apr 13, 2017
- Length: 03:59
Toni Erdmann, Germany’s entry for Best Foreign Language film at the Oscars this year, is a remarkable, ambitious, epic comedy/drama, written and di...
- Added: Apr 13, 2017
- Length: 04:22
- Added: Apr 13, 2017
- Length: 03:48
Chris reviews Pablo Larraín's Neruda.
- Added: Apr 13, 2017
- Length: 03:58
Chris discusses Raoul Peck's I Am Not Your Negro
- Added: Apr 13, 2017
- Length: 08:20
Chris reviews Kedi from Ceyda Torun (2016)
- Added: Apr 13, 2017
- Length: 03:51
Chris considers Deniz Gamze Ergüven's Mustang
- Added: Apr 13, 2017
- Length: 03:45
Those who only know Maggie Smith from her roles in later life—such as, most famously, in the Harry Potter films and Downton Abbey, I recommend chec...
- Added: May 25, 2017
- Length: 03:43
French writer-director Olivier Assayas comes out with a new film about every two years. They’re always interesting, sometimes great, and I don’t th...
- Added: May 25, 2017
- Length: 04:19
First impressions may be the most lasting, but contrary to popular belief, they’re often wrong. In the case of the great American poet Emily Dickin...
- Added: Jun 29, 2017
- Length: 04:50
One can view much of the silent era in movies as a process in which filmmakers gradually unearthed a narrative language appropriate to the new art ...
- Added: Jun 30, 2017
- Length: 03:23
Ousmane Sembéne was a very important figure in the history of film. Born in Senegal, he attained prominence as a novelist in his 20s and 30s, but w...
- Added: Jun 30, 2017
- Length: 04:25
Writer-director James Gray seems to be getting better and better with each film. His first five movies, starting with Little Odessa in 1994, all ta...
- Added: Jun 30, 2017
- Length: 04:43
We lost a lot of people last year. One of them particularly close to my heart was the Iranian writer/director Abbas Kiarostami, who died in July of...
- Added: Jun 30, 2017
- Length: 04:38
In 1996, Nick Gold, a British music producer, asked the American guitarist Ry Cooder to come to Havana and help him record a few sessions with some...
- Added: Sep 06, 2017
- Length: 04:43
When you put something on a pedestal, it becomes a prime target for pigeons. Or to put it another way – if a certain movie consistently shows up on...
- Added: Sep 06, 2017
- Length: 05:52
The Zookeeper’s Wife tells the true story of a married couple in Warsaw, the owners and operators of a zoo, who rescued hundreds of Jews from the g...
- Added: Sep 06, 2017
- Length: 03:55
