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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 feature-length documentaries Norman Foster, and the 30-year relationship between Alberto Giacometti and the English painter Isabel Rawsthorne.

Articles By Mark Kidel

Album: Martina Topley-Bird - Forever I Wait

Monday, 06 September 2021 Read more...

Blu-ray: The Pawnbroker

Tuesday, 17 August 2021 Read more...

Album: Chet Faker - Hotel Surrender

Monday, 12 July 2021 Read more...

Blu-ray: The Hands of Orlac (Orlacs Hände)

Sunday, 13 June 2021 Read more...

Blu-ray: Masculin Féminin

Tuesday, 25 May 2021 Read more...

Album: Mdou Moctar - Afrique Victime

Saturday, 22 May 2021 Read more...

Blu-ray: The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

Sunday, 16 May 2021 Read more...

Album: Sufjan Stevens - Convocations

Saturday, 01 May 2021 Read more...

Album: Toumani Diabate and the London Symphony Orchestra - Kôrôlén

Saturday, 17 April 2021 Read more...

The Master Musicians of Joujouka review - a 4000 year-old rock'n'roll band

Thursday, 15 April 2021 Read more...

Album: Ballaké Sissoko - Djourou

Monday, 05 April 2021 Read more...

Blu-ray: Romeo is Bleeding

Sunday, 28 March 2021 Read more...

Album: Blanck Mass - In Ferneaux

Friday, 26 February 2021 Read more...

Reviewing music off-piste: reflections on working beyond the comfort zone

Wednesday, 17 February 2021 Read more...

Album: Femi Kuti and Made Kuti - Legacy+

Saturday, 30 January 2021 Read more...

Album: Bicep - Isles

Saturday, 23 January 2021 Read more...

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