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

11 hours ago

Parky At the Pictures (19/4/2024)

(Reviews of Jeanne Du Barry; Grace; All You Need Is Death; and Beyond the Raging Sea) JEANNE DU BARRY. There has been a frustrating...

David Parkinson

4 days ago

Parky At the Pictures (15/4/2024)

(Review of John Singer Sargent: Fashion & Swagger) JOHN SINGER SARGENT: FASHION & SWAGGER. Approaching 30 feature documentaries since its...

David Parkinson

Apr 12

Parky At the Pictures (12/4/2024)

(Reviews of Close Your Eyes; Bleeding Love; Drift; Unsinkable; and Atirkül in the Land of Real Men) CLOSE YOUR EYES. Spanish director...

David Parkinson

Apr 5

Parky At the Pictures (5/4/2024)

(Reviews of Evil Does Not Exist; The Origin of Evil; Io Capitano; The Trouble With Jessica; and Goya, Carrière and the Ghost of Buñuel)...

David Parkinson

Mar 29

Parky At the Pictures (29/3/2024)

(Reviews of Ryuichi Sakamoto | Opus; Disco Boy; The Sweet East; Cidade Rabat; Celluloid Underground; and Little Eggs: A Frozen Rescue)...

David Parkinson

Mar 24

Parky At the Pictures (22/3/2024)

(An overview of the 38th BFI Flare: London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival) Screening 57 features and 81 shorts from 41 countries, the 38th...

David Parkinson

Mar 22

Parky At the Pictures (22/3/2024)

(Reviews of Baltimore; Late Night With the Devil; and Phantom Parrot) BALTIMORE. Twenty years have passed since Christine Malloy and Joe...

David Parkinson

Mar 15

Parky At the Pictures (15/3/2024)

(Reviews of Monster; The New Boy; Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell; and Janey) MONSTER. Now in his sixties, Hirokazu Kore-eda is the latest...

David Parkinson

Mar 15

Parky At the Pictures (15/3/2024)

(Reviews from the Donne di Mafia Film Festival) CinemaItaliaUK is holding its annual Donne di Mafia Mini Film Festival, with screenings...

David Parkinson

Mar 8

Parky At the Pictures (8/3/2024)

(Reviews of Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World; Vindication Swim; and Copa 71) DO NOT EXPECT TOO MUCH FROM THE END OF THE...

David Parkinson

Mar 1

Parky At the Pictures (1/3/2024)

(Reviews of Four Daughters; Driving Mum; American Star; Defoe; and Combat Wombat: Double Trouble) FOUR DAUGHTERS. Having studied cinema...

David Parkinson

Feb 23

Parky At the Pictures (23/2/2024)

(Reviews of Hamlet; Hamlet Within; The Promised Land; Out of Darkness; The Moon Thieves; and A Wolfpack Called Ernesto) HAMLET & HAMLET...

David Parkinson

Feb 16

Parky At the Pictures (16/2/2024)

(Reviews of Navalny; Getting It Back: The Story of Cymande; Someone's Daughter, Someone's Son; and Una Squadra) NAVALNY. Alexei Navalny...

David Parkinson

Feb 9

Parky At the Pictures (9/2/2024)

(Reviews of Your Fat Friend; Dagr; The Civil Dead; Table For Six 2; and The Jungle Bunch World Tour) YOUR FAT FRIEND. Since debuting with...

David Parkinson

Feb 3

Parky At the Pictures (3/2/2024)

(Review of Padre Pio; and This Blessed Plot) PADRE PIO. In the course of a startlingly unpredictable 50-year career, Abel Ferrara has...

David Parkinson

Feb 2

Parky At the Pictures (2/2/2024)

(Review of Occupied City) OCCUPIED CITY. Eleven years after the hideous truth of the Nazi death camps had been revealed, Alain Resnais...

David Parkinson

Jan 26

Parky At the Pictures (26/1/2024)

(Reviews of Samsara; and In Broad Daylight) SAMSARA. There isn't much genuine novelty in cinema. So, when a film asks viewers to close...

David Parkinson

Jan 19

Parky At the Pictures (19/1/2024)

(Reviews of Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer; Rojek; The March on Rome; After Work; and Pure Unknown) WERNER HERZOG: RADICAL DREAMER. Four...

David Parkinson

Jan 12

Parky At the Pictures (12/1/2024)

(Reviews of The Disappearance of Shere Hite; Who Is James Payton?; Blank; and Freaks vs The Reich) THE DISAPPEARANCE OF SHERE HITE....

David Parkinson

Jan 5

Parky At the Pictures (5/1/2024)

(Reviews of Bernadette; The Goldfinger; Sweet Sue; and The Inseparables) BERNADETTE. Sixty-seven years have elapsed since a 13 year-old...

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