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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Defending the Guilty, BBC Two review - trials and tribulatio...
This new legal comedy is based on a well-received book...
Love in the Countryside, BBC Two review - reaping a harvest...
If you’re a farmer who works round the clock to feed sheep, milk cows and so forth, how on earth do you make time to find a partner and reap a...
Don Giovanni, Royal Opera review - laid-back Lothario
Kasper Holten left a mixed bag of productions behind at...
Brydon, Mack and Mitchell, Portsmouth Guildhall review - fam...
Rob Brydon, Lee Mack and David Mitchell are the host and team captains respectively of Would I Lie to You?, the long-running BBC One...
BBC Radio 2 Live in Hyde Park review – Pet Shop Boys, Westli...
You might think that being first on the bill with a half-hour slot at 1.15pm would be an affront to a band who’d had a 12-times platinum album and...
Beethoven Festival Weekend, Wigmore Hall review 1 - sparkle...
While the Proms were ringing out the old season, the...
Beethoven Festival Weekend, Wigmore Hall review 2 - total ma...
Any festival would be proud and honoured to end with the great Elisabeth Leonskaja playing the last three...
Muse, 02 review - bombastic Brit-rock with a sci-fi theme
For a band mostly known as a brilliantly ludicrous cocktail of other’s people’s sound-styles, the Simulation Theory tour is proof that...
LSO, Rattle, Barbican Hall review – visions of the beyond
Simon Rattle has a knack for unearthing large-...