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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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David Parkinson
9 hours ago

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
3 days ago

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...

David Parkinson
Apr 11

Parky At the Pictures (11/4/2025)

(Reviews of Holy Cow; Brief History of a Family; and The King of Kings) HOLY COW. Almost a quarter of a century has passed since...

David Parkinson
Apr 4

Parky At the Pictures (4/4/2025)

(Reviews of Four Mothers; Mr Burton; Sebastian; and Restless) FOUR MOTHERS. Gianni Di Gregorio's sublime Italian comedy, Mid-August Lunch...

David Parkinson
Mar 28

Parky At the Pictures (28/3/2025)

(Reviews of Misericordia; The Return; Irena's Vow; War Paint: Women At War; and The Stimming Pool) MISERICORDIA. Mention Alain Guiraudie...

David Parkinson
Mar 21

Parky At the Pictures (21/3/2025)

(Reviews of Flow; When Autumn Falls; Oh My Goodness1; and The Thinking Game) FLOW. Artistic choice triumphs over technical capability in...

David Parkinson
Mar 18

Parky At the Pictures (18/3/2025)

(Review of Exhibition On Screen: Dawn Of Impressionism, Paris 1874) EXHIBITION ON SCREEN: DAWN OF IMPRESSIONISM, PARIS 1874/ You can't...

David Parkinson
Mar 14

Parky At the Pictures (14/3/2025)

(Reviews of Day of the Fight; All Happy Families; Sicilian Letters; and Away) DAY OF THE FIGHT. Taking its title from a 12-minute...

David Parkinson
Mar 7

Parky At the Pictures (7/3/2025)

(Reviews of On Falling; Ernest Cole: Lost and Found; I Am Martin Parr; and Giants of La Mancha) ON FALLING. Having made an impression on...

David Parkinson
Feb 28

Parky At the Pictures (28/2/2025)

(Reviews of The Summer With Carmen; Papa; and Cottontail) THE SUMMER WITH CARMEN. According to his film festival biography, `Zacharias...

David Parkinson
Feb 21

Parky At the Pictures (21/2/2025)

(Reviews of I'm Still Here; La storia del Frank e della Nina; and The Sloth Lane) I'M STILL HERE. A memoir by Marcelo Rubens Paiva...

David Parkinson
Feb 15

Parky At the Pictures (15/2/2025)

(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...

David Parkinson
Feb 14

Parky At the Pictures (14/2/2025)

(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...

David Parkinson
Feb 7

Parky At the Pictures (7/2/2025)

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

David Parkinson
Jan 31

Parky At the Pictures (31/1/2025)

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

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