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.
Articles By Mark Kidel
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Katya Adaui: Here Be Icebergs review - odd relations
The title of Katya Adaui’s debut collection in English is taken from one of the twelve short stories it contains: an allusion to the depths hidden...
The Undeclared War, Channel 4 review - how would the UK cope...
As the world lurches ever deeper into multiple manifestations of chaos,...
The Bobby Lees, Hare & Hounds, Birmingham review - rock’...
In a week when all kinds of people were going bonkers over an octogenarian playing songs from over 50 years ago to tens of thousands of people in...
Album: Imagine Dragons - Mercury - Act 2
“What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas.” That’s the rule, right? Unless, of course, what happens is that you form a...
Glastonbury Festival 2022: an unexpurgated odyssey around th...
Last days of June 2022, I sit in my writing hut. My liver is radioactive jelly, my nose reinforced concrete, my leg muscles marathon-cramped, and...
Nitram review - chilling drama based on the Port Arthur gunm...
Nitram, Australian director Justin Kurzel’s deeply disturbing film about the man responsible for the Port Arthur massacre in Tasmania in...
Man vs Bee, Netflix review - or should it be Bee vs Bean?
Rowan Atkinson’s strange little comedy (written by Will Davies) is the story of Trevor Bingley, a rather pitiable late-middle-aged man who finds a...
Così fan tutte, Royal Opera review - vibrant youth and vocal...
Irish soprano Jennifer Davis, a stunning Elsa in this Royal Opera season's revival of Wagner’s Lohengrin, was the lure to sit through Jan...
Album: Gwenno - Tresor
“The historic, the prehistoric, the natural, architectural, geological, ornithological, or on the side of its folklore, Christian or heathen – the...
The Fellowship, Hampstead Theatre review - strong clashes, t...
I live in Brixton, south London. A few days ago, the borough’s aptly named Windrush Square hosted events which celebrated the contribution of the...