THE DAVID PARKINSON FILM BLOG

(Reviews of La storia del Frank e della Nina; and The Sloth Lane) LA STORIA DEL FRANK E DELLA NINA The latest offering from...

(Reviews of Memoir of a Snail; and To an Unknown Land) MEMOIR OF A SNAIL. This has been a blissful winter for fans of stop-motion...

(Reviews of Top Hat and Swing Time) As it's St Valentine's Day, we're going to shift the weekly column on a day and mark 14 February with...

(Review of Remembering Every Night) REMEMBERING EVERY NIGHT. When Tama New Town was built outside Tokyo in the mid-1960s, it symbolised...

(Review of By the Stream; The Colors Within; Detective Chinatown 1900; and The Fuzztones vs the World) BY THE STREAM. There aren't many...

(Review of Presence; and The People Before) PRESENCE. Back in 1933, Bernhard Vorhaus directed a British quota quickie called The Ghost...

(Review of Architecton; William Tell; Alone No More; and Panda Bear in Africa) ARCHITECTON. According to Russian documentarist, Victor...

(Review of Vermiglio; and It's Raining Men) VERMIGLIO. Having established herself with the documentaries, Teachers (2008) and Nadea and...

(Review of Rocco and His Brothers) As the BFI teams with Cinecittà to launch a season entitled, Luchino Visconti: Decadence & Decay, the...

(An overview of 2024, with a Top 20 films list) So many critics have declared 2024 to have been a dreadful year for cinema. What have...

(Reviews of Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat) SOUNDTRACK TO A COUP D'ETAT. Belgian multi-media artist, Johan Grimonprez, has acquired a...

(Reviews of Gloria!; and The Bibi Files) GLORIA! It's been quite a year for musicals. In addition to box-office hits like Jon M. Chu's...

(Reviews of Grand Theft Hamlet; The Commander; and Never Look Away) GRAND THEFT HAMLET. For someone who, many moons ago, had redrafted...

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

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

(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...

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

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

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

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