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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 (9/4/2021)

(Reviews of The Mauritanian; Why Don't You Just Die!; Nemesis; Turu, the Wacky Hen; and Tina) Despite the relaxation of the odd outdoor...

Parky At the Pictures (4/2/2021)

(Reviews of Stray; Ammonite; Justine; The Columnist; The Owners; and Willy's Wonderland) Despite the relaxation of the odd outdoor...

Parky At the Pictures (26/3/2021)

(Musings on a few forgotten musicals) It's been a busy week writing for people who give me money, so it's not been possible to devote...

Parky At the Pictures (19/3/2021)

(An overview of the 35th BFI Flare LGBTIQ+ Film Festival running on the BFI Player between 17-28 March) One of the few plus points of the...

Parky At the Pictures (12/3/2021)

[Reviews of My Donkey, My Lover & I; Eye of the Storm; and Iorram (Night Song)] We are to stuck in Lockdown 3 for a few more weeks yet....

Parky At the Pictures (5/3/2021)

(Reviews of Home Front; In Bed With Victoria; Love Affair(s); Mama Weed; Night Shift; and The Translators) With cinemas still closed for...

Parky At the Pictures (26/2/2021)

(Reviews of Slalom; Simple Passion; Blush; White Colour Black; Zappa; and IWOW: I Walk on Water) Seemingly, we are to remain in Lockdown...

Parky At the Pictures (19/2/2021)

(Reviews of Dear Comrades!; Uppercase Print; To Olivia; I Care a Lot; Music; and Pelé) So, we remain in the depths of Lockdown 3. This...

Parky At the Pictures (12/2/2012)

(Reviews of PVT CHAT; For the Time Being; Collective; Dick Johnson Is Dead; and Cenote) So, we remain in the depths of Lockdown 3. This...

Parky At the Pictures (5/2/2021)

(Reviews of News of the World; The Dig; I'm Your Woman; A Glitch in the Matrix; The Capote Tapes; and Meeting the Man: James Baldwin in...

Parky At the Pictures (29/1/2021)

(Reviews of Beginning; Ham on Rye; The Prom; Dead Pigs; Sputnik; Fritzi: A Revolutionary Tale; One Night in Miami...; and David Byrne's...

Parky At the Pictures (22/2/2021)

(Reviews of 76 Days; Assassins; Persian Lessons; The Exception; and Blithe Spirit) So, here we are in Lockdown 3. This means that cinemas...

Parky At the Pictures (15/1/2021)

(Reviews of MLK/FBI; The Forty-Year-Old Version; and Never Rarely Sometimes Always) So, here we are in Lockdown 3. This means that...

Parky At the Pictures (8/1/2021)

(Reviews of The Riflemen; La Llorona; Song Without a Name; Cocoon; The Elfkins; and One Man and His Shoes) So, here we are in Lockdown 3....

Parky At the Pictures (1/1/2021)

(Reviews of Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets; Carmilla; Eternal Beauty; Family Romance, LLC; I Am Woman; Koko-di Koko-da; Miss Juneteenth;...

Parky At the Pictures (25/12/2020)

(Reviews of the Parky At the Pictures Top 10 Films of 202) It was always a custom at the Other Place (still can't bear to name it after...

Parky At the Pictures (18/12/2020)

(Reviews of Liberté; The Painted Bird; About Endlessness; Patrick; and A Christmas Carol) The majority of cinemas may be closed during...

Parky At the Pictures (11/12/2020)

(Reviews of One Way to Moscow; Landline; and More, Please!) The majority of cinemas may be closed during these enduringly dismal days....

Parky At the Pictures (4/12/2020)

(Reviews of Nova Lituania; To the Ends of the Earth; Queen of Hearts; The Ringmaster; The End of the Storm; and Flint) The majority of...

Parky At the Pictures (27/11/2020)

(Reviews of Concrete Plans; Top End Wedding; Totally Under Control; Billie; Helmut Newton: The Bad and the Beautiful; and Lennox Lewis:...

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