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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Loulou, a 1980 film by French director Maurice Pialat, tells of an upper middle class woman named Nelly (played by Isabelle Huppert), who grows tir...

  • Added: Aug 08, 2020
  • Length: 03:51
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One of the recurring motifs in Alfred Hitchcock’s films concerns a woman who suspects a loved one of being a monster. In his 1936 film Sabotage, th...

  • Added: Jul 28, 2020
  • Length: 03:28
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I’ve spoken on this show before about the Armenian-born Soviet filmmaker Sergei Paradjanov, who directed the groundbreaking film Shadows of Forgott...

  • Added: Jul 22, 2020
  • Length: 03:32
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Jia Zhangke is mainland China’s most cutting-edge director, challenging that country’s official story of economic triumph with poetic and elliptica...

  • Added: Jul 14, 2020
  • Length: 03:32
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Sometimes when I revisit a good film, I start to notice a few flaws which lower my regard for the movie a little bit. But that didn’t happen on a r...

  • Added: Jul 09, 2020
  • Length: 03:30
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The Magnificent Ambersons, the first film Orson Welles made after Citizen Kane, has suffered from its reputation as something of a “lost” film. It ...

  • Added: Jun 29, 2020
  • Length: 03:24
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If one were asked to name great British film directors, I’m sure that Alfred Hitchcock and David Lean would spring to mind immediately, and rightly...

  • Added: Jun 22, 2020
  • Length: 03:21
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Recently I was asked to put together a list of my all-time favorite films—not a greatest films of all time list, but a list of movies that were spe...

  • Added: Jun 16, 2020
  • Length: 03:09
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The 1954 Army-McCarthy hearings were among the first government hearings to be televised live, providing a spectacle rivaled only by the much later...

  • Added: Jun 08, 2020
  • Length: 03:38
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Never has a filmmaker been so influential, with such a short career, as the French director Jean Vigo. With only three films to his name, Vigo, who...

  • Added: Jun 02, 2020
  • Length: 03:21
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Once in a while when I see the previews for a film, it gives me the wrong impression, and makes me decide to stay away. This is what happened to me...

  • Added: May 25, 2020
  • Length: 03:40
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For a brief time in the 1930s, there was a movement in French cinema called “poetic realism.” These films combined deeply romantic themes with a ki...

  • Added: May 19, 2020
  • Length: 03:01
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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 prove that...

  • Added: May 19, 2020
  • Length: 03:28
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On any film buff’s short list of great Russian directors you’re bound to see the name of Andrei Tarkovsky, who directed seven brilliant and challen...

  • Added: May 19, 2020
  • Length: 03:05
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Dodsworth, a 1936 film directed by the great Hollywood filmmaker William Wyler, is an adaptation of the Sinclair Lewis novel of the same name. It’s...

  • Added: May 19, 2020
  • Length: 03:00
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Since 9/11, the invasion of our privacy by the government’s national security apparatus, as well as by corporations, has become so alarming and per...

  • Added: May 19, 2020
  • Length: 03:31
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Vittorio De Sica’s groundbreaking 1946 film about the tribulations of two Italian street kids was one of the founding documents of the film movemen...

  • Added: May 19, 2020
  • Length: 03:03
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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...

  • Added: May 19, 2020
  • Length: 03:27
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Saint Frances, the debut feature film by Alex Thompson, written by and starring Kelly O’Sullivan, is not about the famous saint of Assisi. In this ...

  • Added: May 17, 2020
  • Length: 04:15
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I’m a devotee of silent films, which I love and collect, yet even I have to admit that, in many cases, one must make certain allowances in terms of...

  • Added: Mar 11, 2020
  • Length: 03:58