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: Bicep - Isles
Bicep's second album fufills the promise of the first, released in 2017 to wide acclaim. Andrew Ferguson and Matthew McBriar, friends since...
Quo Vadis, Aida review - a Bosnian woman confronts genocide
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Back, Channel 4 review - return of sibling-rivalry comedy wi...
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Call My Agent!, Series 4, Netflix review - the final bow for...
Sad to report, this fourth series of Call My Agent! (...
Album: Wardruna - Kvitravn
Norway’s Wardruna have proved to be an unlikely international musical success, both within Scandinavia and further afield, since releasing their...
'The total confusion about post-Brexit rules adds to th...
“Fuck business,” Boris Johnson is alleged to have said while Foreign Secretary. (He didn’t deny it). We have seen enough over the past three weeks...
Album: Eminem - Music To Be Murdered By Side B
Becoming a has-been is Eminem’s main raw material now, the...
76 Days review - disturbing record of the initial outbreak o...
It is probable that no other document gets closer to the direct experience of frontline workers and victims of...
Silenced: The Hidden Story of Disabled Britain, BBC Two revi...
What a television programme gets called is not always the choice of the people making it, but it certainly is the choice of its broadcaster. In...