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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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
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
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
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
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
Chris considers Deniz Gamze Ergüven's Mustang
- Added: Apr 13, 2017
- Length: 03:45
Chris reviews Kedi from Ceyda Torun (2016)
- Added: Apr 13, 2017
- Length: 03:51
Chris discusses Raoul Peck's I Am Not Your Negro
- Added: Apr 13, 2017
- Length: 08:20
Chris reviews Pablo Larraín's Neruda.
- Added: Apr 13, 2017
- Length: 03:58
- Added: Apr 13, 2017
- Length: 03:48
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
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
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
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
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
Many would agree that 2016 was a terrible year in general, and I don’t need to explain why. It is strange to have to admit, then, that it was a gre...
- Added: Feb 26, 2017
- Length: 04:48
August Wilson was one of our greatest playwrights, a titan of the American theater. He was careful about his legacy, and didn’t allow his plays to ...
- Added: Feb 26, 2017
- Length: 04:10
There’s a movie out called Jackie, with Natalie Portman playing Jackie Kennedy, and I kind of avoided it for awhile because I’m wary of films that ...
- Added: Feb 26, 2017
- Length: 04:33
Manchester By The Sea
- Added: Jan 05, 2017
- Length: 04:11
Beautiful and seductive Elaine Has relocated to a California Town after her husband dies mysteriously.
- Added: Jan 05, 2017
- Length: 04:06
