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mark kidel

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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: The Orb - Prism

Sunday, 23 April 2023 Read more...

Grenfell by Steve McQueen, Serpentine Gallery review - a stirring memorial for the tower block inferno

Tuesday, 18 April 2023 Read more...

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, Complicité, Barbican review - murder in the forest

Friday, 31 March 2023 Read more...

Album: Sissoko Ségal Parisien Peirani - Les Égarés

Monday, 27 March 2023 Read more...

Album: Islandman Feat. Okay Temiz and Muhlis Berberoğlu - Direct-to-Disc Sessions

Thursday, 16 March 2023 Read more...

Blu-ray: Ingmar Bergman Vol 4

Tuesday, 21 February 2023 Read more...

Fabienne Verdier, The Song of the Stars (Le chant des étoiles), Musée Unterlinden, Colmar review - sacred and contemporary art in dialogue

Tuesday, 07 February 2023 Read more...

Album: John Cale - Mercy

Wednesday, 18 January 2023 Read more...

Blu-ray: Croupier

Tuesday, 10 January 2023 Read more...

Album: Lucas Santtana - O Paraiso

Saturday, 07 January 2023 Read more...

Albums of the Year 2022: Rokia Koné and Jacknife Lee - Bamanan

Thursday, 22 December 2022 Read more...

Bob Dylan: The Philosophy of Modern Song review - a book that contains multitudes

Tuesday, 20 December 2022 Read more...

Patrick Duff: The Singer review - agony and ecstasy of a rock'n'roll life

Tuesday, 13 December 2022 Read more...

Justin Adams & Mohamed Errebbaa, The Jam Jar, Bristol review - the African roots of rock'n'roll

Tuesday, 29 November 2022 Read more...

Things, Musée du Louvre, Paris review - the still life brought alive

Tuesday, 15 November 2022 Read more...

Abel Selaocoe, Bouffes du Nord, Paris review - awakening the ancestors

Thursday, 03 November 2022 Read more...

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