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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Scrounger, Finborough Theatre online review – autobiography...
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'Rehearsing Beethoven with Barenboim felt like an histo...
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John Cleese, livestream from Cadogan Hall review - abandon a...
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Like Fantastic Negrito’s previous, Grammy-winning albums, ...
Ali Smith: Summer review - a hopeful present, beautifully de...
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Mary South: You Will Never Be Forgotten review - canny tales...
“Never Let Me Go meets free, two-day shipping.” This is how Mary South describes “Keith Prime”, the first story in her debut collection....
Emily St John Mandel: The Glass Hotel review - a Ponzi schem...
Vast wealth and equally vast fraud are part of the plot in The Glass Hotel, Emily St John Mandel’s irresistible fifth novel, but much...
