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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A film about an agent of a Swiss bank working to support the military dictatorship in 1980s Argentina reveals how little it takes for people to loo...

  • Added: Feb 17, 2022
  • Length: 04:39
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Jane Campion’s first film in twelve years examines deceptive notions of manhood on a cattle ranch in 1920s Montana.

  • Added: Feb 17, 2022
  • Length: 03:37
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Jacques Rivette’s experimental joyride features two women whose explorations of a haunted house serve to turn all the conventions of film and genre...

  • Added: Feb 17, 2022
  • Length: 03:03
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A tragic love story with echoes from a German fairy tale shows director Christian Petzold exploring the heavy influence of the past on relationship...

  • Added: Feb 17, 2022
  • Length: 04:58
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The true story of a large Romanian family living in a wilderness area facing the threat of being forced to move to the big city.

  • Added: Feb 17, 2022
  • Length: 04:36
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An ambitious young man from a lower caste seeks to prosper by attaching himself to a corrupt businessman and his family, in this thriller doubling ...

  • Added: Feb 17, 2022
  • Length: 04:22
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Emma Seligman’s debut feature uses a shiva, a Jewish post-funeral gathering, as the setting for a comedy about a young woman who doesn’t fit in, bu...

  • Added: Feb 17, 2022
  • Length: 04:11
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A new film from the West African nation of Ivory Coast presents an intriguing allegory about power and its misuse. Night of the Kings, the second n...

  • Added: Feb 17, 2022
  • Length: 04:00
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Gus Van Sant’s 1991 film portrays the difficult yet tender world of runaways.

  • Added: Feb 17, 2022
  • Length: 03:25
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One of the most unusual examples of propaganda ever filmed, made in the midst of the Second World War, imagines what it would be like if Germans ca...

  • Added: Feb 17, 2022
  • Length: 04:49
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A veteran of Soviet cinema presents a powerful drama about an incident in 1962, when factory workers in a Don Region city go on strike, and a true ...

  • Added: Feb 17, 2022
  • Length: 04:38
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Mikio Naruse’s great 1960 film presents a compassionate view of the life of bar hostesses in a disreputable section of Tokyo.

  • Added: Feb 17, 2022
  • Length: 03:20
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Five films from British director Steve McQueen, depicting the experiences of West Indian British families in London from the late 1960s through the...

  • Added: Feb 17, 2022
  • Length: 05:14
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The true story of the 2018 effort to rescue thirteen boys trapped in a huge flooded cave in Thailand is more exciting than most fiction.

  • Added: Feb 17, 2022
  • Length: 04:45
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Twenty years ago, in 2001, the internet was really taking off—the steady increase in internet use was accelerating, especially among young people. ...

  • Added: Nov 01, 2021
  • Length: 04:42
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Thomas Vinterburg’s Oscar-winning comedy tells of four men who decide to use a small amount of alcohol to reinvigorate their jobs and personal live...

  • Added: Nov 01, 2021
  • Length: 04:24
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The traditional way of beekeeping preserved by a Macedonian woman runs up against the modern motive for profit at all costs, in this gorgeous docum...

  • Added: Nov 01, 2021
  • Length: 04:24
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Ken Loach and Paul Laverty present another great film about working class life: a portrait of an English family having to find a way to support the...

  • Added: Nov 01, 2021
  • Length: 04:23
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The latest film by the darkly absurdist Swedish director Roy Andersson tackles the vexing subject of religion.

  • Added: Nov 01, 2021
  • Length: 04:22
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Werner Herzog presents a portrait of his friend, the journalist and travel writer Bruce Chatwin; while Patricio Guzmán examines the mountain range ...

  • Added: Nov 01, 2021
  • Length: 04:23