mark kidel
Bio
Mark is a documentary filmmaker and writer specialising in the arts and music. Recent films include "Elvis Costello: Mystery Dance ", "Road Movie: A Portrait of John Adams", "Painting the Moment", a film about the French painter Fabienne Verdier and "Martin Amis's England". He is current developing a feature-length documentary on Sly and the Family Stone and a film about Cary Grant
Articles By Mark Kidel
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The Crown, Series 3, Netflix review - if you want binge TV,...
Although it conforms to a realistic chronology of events, this third season of Peter Morgan’s remarkable voyage around the House of...
The Best Films Out Now
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Ted Gioia: Music: A Subversive History review – an informati...
People who derive comfort from Classic FM’s strapline that European classical music is “The World's Greatest Music" are going to have a major...
Reissue CDs Weekly: The Clash - London Calling
In a first for this column, what’s cropping up is a cassette...
Jazz Voice, Royal Festival Hall - engulfing beauty and hidde...
Jazz Voice unfailingly supplies a gigantic sugar-rush of auditory pleasure, and this year’s edition was no exception. Arranged, scored and...
Orphée, English National Opera review – through a screen dar...
Like almost everything that it touches these days, English National Opera’s autumn season of shows rooted in the Orpheus myth has enjoyed a fairly...
'By the end I’d lost me': Joe Simpson, mountaineer...
In Peru in 1985, Joe Simpson - then 25 - and his 21-year-old climbing partner Simon Yates were descending the remote Siula Grande, which was hard...
The Report review - searing political drama
It should come as no surprise that the writer of Side Effects...
Craig David, BBC Radio 2 review - what's your flava?
My friend, let’s call her Kit, is having a rubbish time. Kat (that’s me) is too. If life’s got a flavour, it’s a shade darker than 99% cocoa. Kit...
