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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.

Parky At the Pictures (1/11/2024)

(A review of Exhibition on Screen - Van Gogh: Poets & Lovers) There is no shortage of films about Vincent Van Gogh. Among the biopics are...

Parky At the Pictures (25/10/2024)

(Reviews of Flaminia; and Rebellious - Mission: Royal Rescue) FLAMINIA. British audiences may not be overly familiar with Michela Giraud....

Parky At the Pictures (18/11/2024)

(Reviews of Kathleen Is Here; Head South; Every Little Thing; and Since Yesterday: The Untold Story of Scotland’s Girl Bands) KATHLEEN IS...

Parky At the Pictures (11/10/2024)

(An overview off the 68th BFI London Film Festival) The 68th BFI London Film Festival runs from 9-20 October at various venues across the...

Parky At the Pictures (11/10/2024)

(Reviews of Timestalker; Portraits of Dangerous Women; Two Minutes; and In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon) TIMESTALKER. Having...

Parky At the Pictures (4/10/2024)

(Reviews of Children of the Cult; Maya and the Wave; Things Will Be Different; and Dragonkeeper) CHILDREN OF THE CULT. Although Maclain...

Parky At the Pictures (27/9/2024)

(Reviews of My Old Ass; A World Apart; The Teacher; and One Hand Clapping) MY OLD ASS. Having made her directorial debut by examining a...

Parky At the Pictures (20/9/2024)

(Reviews of The Goldman Case; Sugarcane; Notes From Sheepland; Reawakening; Goodwin Island; and Astrakan 79) THE GOLDMAN CASE. As France...

Parky At the Pictures (13/9/2024)

(Reviews of My Favourite Cake; In Camera; Sky Peals; The Queen of My Dreams; and Knock Out Blonde: The Kellie Maloney Story) MY ...

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,...

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...

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)...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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