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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.

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Parky At the Pictures (15/8/2025)

(Reviews of The Kingdom; and Heidi: Rescue of the Lynx) THE KINGDOM. Two very different sides of Corsica emerge in Jean-François Richet's...

David Parkinson
Aug 8

Parky At the Pictures (8/8/2025)

(Reviews of Late Shift; 40 Acres; and Young Hearts) LATE SHIFT. Swiss director Petra Volpe has been making films since the turn of the...

David Parkinson
Aug 1

Parky At the Pictures (1/8/2025)

(Reviews of What Does That Nature Say to You; Oslo Stories Trilogy: Dreams; and Savages) WHAT DOES THAT NATURE SAY TO YOU. The greatest...

David Parkinson
Jul 25

Parky At the Pictures (25/7/2025)

(Reviews of Dying; and Zero) DYING. German director Matthias Glasner and actress Corinna Harfouch go back a long way. She took the lead...

David Parkinson
Jul 18

Parky At the Pictures (18/7/2025)

(Reviews of Four Letters of Love; and The Road to Patagonia) FOUR LETTERS OF LOVE. Having previously explored the complexities of love...

David Parkinson
Jul 11

Parky At the Pictures (11/7/2025)

(Reviews of The Other Way Round; The Shrouds; and Modì, Three Days on the Wing of Madness) THE OTHER WAY ROUND. The Truebas are the first...

David Parkinson
Jul 4

Parky At the Pictures (4/7/2025)

(Reviews of An Ordinary Case; and Jungle Trouble) AN ORDINARY CASE. There's something of an overlap between Daniel Auteuil and the...

David Parkinson
Jun 27

Parky At the Pictures (27/6/2025)

(Reviews of From Hilde, With Love; Red Path; Chicken Town; and Sudan, Remember Us) FROM HILDE, WITH LOVE. Several critics have noted the...

David Parkinson
Jun 20

Parky At the Pictures (20/6/2025)

(Reviews of Jane Austen Wrecked My Life; The Last Journey; A Sip of Irish; and Holloway) JANE AUSTEN WRECKED MY LIFE. Considering that 16...

David Parkinson
Jun 13

Parky At the Pictures (13/6/2025)

(Reviews of Sister Midnight; Protein; and Big Star: The Nick Skelton Story) SISTER MIDNIGHT. London-based film-maker Karan Kandhari makes...

David Parkinson
Jun 6

Parky At the Pictures (6/6/2025)

(Reviews of Goebbels and the Fuhrer; Three Friends; and Falling into Place) GOEBBELS AND THE FÃœHRER. One of the most potent scenes in...

David Parkinson
May 30

Parky At the Pictures (30/5/2025)

(Reviews of Along Came Love; and Bogancloch) ALONG CAME LOVE. Born into a Breton family living in Ivory Coast, Katell Quillévéré earned a...

David Parkinson
May 23

Parky At the Pictures (23/5/2025)

(Reviews of Mongrel; When the Light Breaks; Berlinguer: La Grande Ambizione; and Make It to Munich) MONGREL. Born in Singapore, but based...

David Parkinson
May 19

Parky At the Pictures (19/5/2025)

(Review of Michelangelo: Love and Death) To mark the 550th anniversary of the artist's birth, Exhibition on Screen is reissuing David...

David Parkinson
May 16

Parky At the Pictures (16/5/2025)

(Reviews of Good One; The Surfer; and Goldbeak) GOOD ONE. The daughter of Antipodean director Roger Donaldson, India Donaldson makes her...

David Parkinson
May 9

Parky At the Pictures (9/5/2025)

(Reviews of The Extraordinary Miss Flower; Riefenstahl; and The Last Musician of Auschwitz) THE EXTRAORDINARY MISS FLOWER. Having...

David Parkinson
May 2

Parky At the Pictures (2/5/2025)

(Reviews of Two to One;Swimming Home; Cloud; and Where Dragons Live) TWO TO ONE. When Natja Brunckhorst was making a name for herself as...

David Parkinson
May 1

Parky At the Pictures (1/5/2025)

(Review of Parthenope) PARTHENOPE. A day before Paolo Sorrentino's latest feature, Parthenope, goes on general release, CinemaItaliaUK is...

David Parkinson
Apr 25

Parky At the Pictures (25/4/2025)

(Reviews of April; The Ugly Stepsister; and Wind, Tide & Oar) APRIL. Georgian cinema has been on a roll since Dea Kulumbegashvili debuted...

David Parkinson
Apr 18

Parky At the Pictures (18/4/2025)

(Reviews of Diamanti; Blue Road: The Edna O'Brien Story; and Escape From Extinction: Rewilding) DIAMANTI. Ferzan Özpetek's 15th feature...

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