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

7 days ago

Parky At the Pictures (29/11/2024)

(Reviews of Your Monster; and Made in Ethiopia) YOUR MONSTER. Having already drawn on an anguishing personal experience for a 2020 short,...

David Parkinson

Nov 22

Parky At the Pictures (22/11/2024)

(Reviews of Liverpool Story; Snow Leopard; Palazzina LAF; Mediha; and The Magic Reindeer: Saving Santa's Sleigh) LIVERPOOL STORY. Having...

David Parkinson

Nov 15

Parky At the Pictures (15/11/2024)

(Reviews of Christmas Eve in Miller's Point; The Last Dance; and Memories of a Burning Body) CHRISTMAS EVE IN MILLER'S POINT. If Robert...

David Parkinson

Nov 8

Parky At the Pictures (8/11/2024)

(Reviews of The Last Front; and The Problem With People) THE LAST FRONT. It's deeply frustrating when film-makers expand a short to...

David Parkinson

Nov 1

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...

David Parkinson

Oct 25

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....

David Parkinson

Oct 18

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...

David Parkinson

Oct 11

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...

David Parkinson

Oct 11

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...

David Parkinson

Oct 4

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...

David Parkinson

Sep 27

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...

David Parkinson

Sep 20

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...

David Parkinson

Sep 13

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 ...

David Parkinson

Sep 6

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....

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