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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DVD/Blu-ray: Pet Shop Boys - Inner Sanctum
Pet Shop Boys are never shy of producing stylishly conceived fan mementos. Coming not long after Faber & Faber’s hardback collection of Neil...
Sleaford Mods, Dreamland, Margate review - musical news from...
Sleaford Mods are livid. About everything. But then, aren’t we all? If any single voice could represent this particularly bewildering era, it...
Britney, Soho Theatre review - finding the funny in a brain...
A brain tumour isn't usually the subject of a comedy show but Britney, written and performed by comedy duo Charly Clive and Ellen...
World War Z review - bloodthirsty fun with the zombie apocal...
Based on the 2006 book of the same name, and set in the same universe as the 2013 film...
DVD: The House by the Sea
Robert Guediguian has spoken of the influence of Chekhov on The House by the Sea (Le Villa), and the shadow of the Russian dramatist,...
Banine: Days in the Caucasus review - revolutions, pogroms a...
By fifteen Ummulbanu Asadullayeva — or Banine, to call her by the name under which she wrote and translated — had already lived more than most of...
Reissue CDs Weekly: Terry Allen
Torso Hell tells the story of an American soldier whose limbs were blown off in Vietnam. Amazingly, he and his buddies survived, and in...
CD: The Cranberries – In the End
In the End, the final album by Limerick band the Cranberries arrives three decades after they first formed and just over a year after...
Brockes-Passion, AAM, Egarr, Barbican review - fleshly Hande...
Whips, scourges, sinews, blood and pus: where Bach’s two Passions...
SS Mendi: Dancing the Death Drill, Isango Ensemble, Linbury...
While Bach's and Handel's Passions have been driving thousands to contemplate suffering, mortality and grace, this elegy for black lives lost over...