David Parkinson

David Parkinson has been a film critic and historian for 40 years. In addition to the Parky at the Pictures blog, he also writes for Radio Times, Empire, and Cinema Paradiso, while his books include History of Film (Thames & Hudson) and 100 Ideas That Changed Film (Laurence King).

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10 great French avant-garde films of the 1920s

A century ago, French artists and filmmakers showed the way towards a dreamlike, confrontational, nonsensical cinema, from The Seashell and the Clergyman to Un chien andalou.

By David Parkinson

10 great French avant-garde films of the 1920s
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