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
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CD: Chvrches - Love Is Dead
When bands move to the US, some find themselves drawn into the commercial machine; when Chvrches crossed the Atlantic, they were targeting direct...
Manchester: The Night of the Bomb, BBC Two, review - devasta...
“I thought she maybe had superpowers to go that high.” Emilia Senior, 12, watched her sister Eve, 15, thrown into the air by the force of the...
Ian Rickson: 'I'm an introvert, I want to stop tal...
Ian Rickson’s route into theatre was not conventional. Growing up in south London, he discovered plays largely through reading them as a student...
DVD/Blu-ray: Coco
The brightness and colour are deceptive; at its heart, Lee Unkrich and Adrian Molina’s Coco is an affecting reflection on death,...
Der Rosenkavalier, Glyndebourne - detailed acting, great sin...
If Hugo von Hofmannsthal's libretto for Richard...
A Very English Scandal, BBC One review - making a drama out...
There was a time when Hugh Grant was viewed as a thespian one-trick pony, a floppy-haired fop dithering in a state of perpetual romantic confusion...
Bridget Christie, Brighton Festival review - politics throug...
Bridget Christie tells us at the top of the show that she is a heterosexual, able-bodied, privileged white female – so why is she feeling so...
The Handmaid's Tale, Series 2, Channel 4 review - it...
Not the least startling element of Bishop Michael Curry’s house-rockin’ sermon at the royal nuptials was his quotation from the old spiritual “...
The World Of Moominvalley, Brighton Festival review - a fasc...
It was no matter that journalist Daniel Hahn dropped out ill at the 11th hour of this "audience with" event. Author Philip Ardagh's deep knowledge...
CD: Gretchen Peters - Dancing with the Beast
Gretchen Peters arrived in Nashville in the late eighties from Bronxville, New York, where...