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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Hatton Garden, ITV review - ancient burglars bore again
Have we passed peak Hatton Garden? It’s now four years since a gang of old lags pulled off the biggest...
Primal Scream, The Haunt, Brighton review - up-close, short,...
Primal Scream have played in this city, in the recent past, at the 4,500 capacity...
First Person: Conductor Maxime Pascal on Stockhausen at the...
Stockhausen stands alongside Monteverdi and Beethoven as a composer who exploded the understanding of his art. Stockhausen deeply changed the...
Anish Kapoor, Lisson Gallery review - naïve vulgarity and ot...
There are children screaming in a nearby playground. Their voices rise and fall, swell and drop. Interspersed silences fill with the sound of...
Cannes 2019: Diego Maradona review - entertaining but skin-d...
Director Asif Kapadia's documentary on the...
Thatcher: A Very British Revolution, BBC Two review - demoli...
Is there some tongue-in-cheek irony in BBC Two...
Blu-ray: The Woman in the Window
The Woman in the Window (1944) was the first of the two riveting...
Game of Thrones, Sky Atlantic, Series 8 Finale review – who...
WARNING - CONTAINS SPOILERS! And so it’s over. Eight years of thrilling, fantastical, often emotionally devastating, in some senses ground-...
Sting and Shaggy, Roundhouse review - wilfully uncool and ir...
Musical odd couples don't come much stranger than Sting and Shaggy. Last night, at the...
La Damnation de Faust, Glyndebourne review – bleak and compe...
Mid-career, moving ever further away from composing for concert platform and church towards the stage,...