mark kidel
Bio
Mark is a documentary filmmaker and writer specialising in the arts and music. Recent films include "Becoming Cary Grant" (Official Selection, Cannes Film Festival 2017), "The Juilliard Experiment" (2016) "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 Leonard Cohen, and a documentary portrait of soul singer PP Arnold.
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Album: Laura Marling - Song for our Daughter
Laura Marling has always loved to weave the textures of '70's Laurel Canyon folk-rock into her music. Never...
Jane Eyre, National Theatre at Home review - a fiery feminis...
The National Theatre’s online broadcasts got...
New Music Lockdown Livestream Special 1: Miley Cyrus, Metall...
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Trolls World Tour review - a visual spectacle full of toe-ta...
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Berlin Philharmoniker, Karajan, Digital Concert Hall review...
When I saw that the Berlin Philharmonic...
Alma's Not Normal, BBC Two review - bare-knuckle comedy...
Creating the opening episode of a new comedy series is like...
The Beast review - bad cop blues
“They say we all have a beast locked up inside of us,” a character observes early in this...
Gators, Tramp Productions online review - the glittering dar...
She’s an ordinary young woman, and she really doesn’t know what to think. After all, things are way out of control. She knows that the natural...
ZZ Top: That Little Ol' Band From Texas, Netflix review...
ZZ Top always seemed like a Texan version of Status Quo. It turns out, from watching this entertaining but hardly revelatory documentary, that...
Album: Nels Andrews - Pigeon and The Crow
This is the perfect album for these dark and dislocating times, a delicious slice of...