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THE DAVID PARKINSON FILM BLOG

From Méliès to Marvel

David Parkinson has been a film critic and historian for 35 years. In addition to such books as A History of Film (Thames & Hudson) and 100 Ideas That Changed Film (Laurence King), he has also written for Radio Times, The Guardian, Sight and Sound, the Oxford Times, Heat, Metro and Empire, where he is a contributing editor. As well as the BFI website, he has also contributed to such online outlets as MovieMail, Cinema Paradiso, Reader's Digest, BBC Bitesize, Films in Focus, Network on Air and the Official Kenneth More website. He is also a film and media adviser to the Dictionary of National Biography and has been a member of the London Critics' Circle since 1996.

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David Parkinson
  • 2 days ago

Parky At the Pictures (6/9/2024)

(Reviews of Red Rooms; Starve Acre; and The Whip) RED ROOMS. Following La Génération porn (2014), Fake Tattoos (2017), and Nadia,...

David Parkinson
  • Aug 30

Parky At the Pictures (30/8/2024)

(Reviews of Broken Bird; And Mrsl and Point of Change) BROKEN BIRD. Joanne Mitchell was a busy actress before she started producing films...

David Parkinson
  • Aug 23

Parky At the Pictures (23/8/2024)

(Reviews of Kneecap; Cadejo Blanco; Swan Song; and Noah's Ark) KNEECAP. Once banned by the British government, Irish (or Irish Gaelic)...

David Parkinson
  • Aug 16

Parky At the Pictures (16/8/2024)

(Reviews of Only the River Flows; and Hounds) ONLY THE RIVER FLOWS. Acting from the age of 14, Wei Shujun decided he wanted to tell his...

David Parkinson
  • Aug 9

Parky At the Pictures (9/8/2024)

(Reviews of Radical; Duchess; Kensuke's Kingdom; Ozi: Voice of the Forest; and Gracie and Pedro: Mission Impossible) RADICAL. A couple of...

David Parkinson
  • Aug 2

Parky At the Pictures (2/8/2024)

(Reviews of A Story of Bones; In a Violent Nature; and A Place Called Silence) A STORY OF BONES. There's a sad irony in the fact that Les...

David Parkinson
  • Jul 26

Parky At the Pictures (26/7/2024)

(Reviews of About Dry Grasses; and I Saw the TV Glow) ABOUT DRY GRASSES. For decades, schoolteachers were paragons of cinematic virtue....

David Parkinson
  • Jul 19

Parky At the Pictures (19/7/2024)

(Reviews of Crossing; Sleep; The Nature of Love; and Agent of Happiness) CROSSING. Raised in Sweden by Georgian parents of Turkish...

David Parkinson
  • Jul 14

Parky At the Pictures (12/7/2024)

(Reviews of Hundreds of Beavers; A House in Jerusalem; Bushman; and Heart of an Oak) HUNDREDS OF BEAVERS. If Guy Maddin and Dom Joly...

David Parkinson
  • Jul 12

Parky At the Pictures (12/7/2024)

(Overview of 3rd Cinecittà Italian Doc Season) Bertha Dochouse is hosting the Cinecittà: Italian Doc Season on 20-21 July. This is the...

David Parkinson
  • Jul 5

Parky At the Pictures (5/7/2024)

(Reviews of What Remains; A Greyhound of a Girl; and Younger) WHAT REMAINS. In the 1990s, a patient at an institution for the criminally...

David Parkinson
  • Jun 28

Parky At the Pictures (28/6/2024)

(Reviews of Next Sohee; You Burn Me; Eternal You; and Inspector Sun and the Curse of the Black Widow) NEXT SOHEE. Having completed the...

David Parkinson
  • Jun 21

Parky At the Pictures (21/6/2024)

(Reviews of Green Border; Sorcery; Strike: An Uncivil War; and Visions, Dreams and Magic: The Unmade Films of Michael Powell) GREEN...

David Parkinson
  • Jun 14

Parky At the Pictures (14/6/2024)

(Reviews of Freud's Last Session; Àma Gloria; Rosalie; and The Moor) FREUD'S LAST SESSION. Anthony Hopkins played C.S. Lewis in Richard...

David Parkinson
  • Jun 7

Parky At the Pictures (7/6/2024)

(Reviews of Here; Four Little Adults; The Dead Don't Hurt; Hard Miles; and Food Inc. 2) HERE. Belgian Bas Devos is another emerging...

David Parkinson
  • Jun 4

Parky At the Pictures (4/6/2024)

(A review of Exhibition on Screen: My National Gallery, London) MY NATIONAL GALLERY, LONDON. Less than a decade has passed since...

David Parkinson
  • May 31

Parky At the Pictures (31/5/2024)

(Reviews of The Beast; The Teacher's Lounge; and Little Monsters) THE BEAST. In 2021, Bertrand Bonello announced that he was planning to...

David Parkinson
  • May 24

Parky At the Pictures (24/5/2024)

(Reviews of Slow; Hoard; The Present; Ospina Cali Colombia; and Big Banana Feet) SLOW. Born in 1991, Marija Kavtaradzė graduated from the...

David Parkinson
  • May 17

Parky At the Pictures (17/5/2024)

(Reviews of Nuestra Madres; Nezouh; The Almond and the Seahorse; and Catching Fire The Story of Anita Pallenberg) NUESTRA MADRES. Five...

David Parkinson
  • May 10

Parky At the Pictures (10/5/2024)

(Reviews of La chimera; Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger; and On Resistance Street) LA CHIMERA. The theme of doing...

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