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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

Blu-ray: Get Carter

Tuesday, 26 July 2022 Read more...

Blu-ray: Pickpocket

Tuesday, 12 July 2022 Read more...

The Tempest, Theatre Royal, Bath review - multi-dimensional Shakespeare classic overpowered by comedy

Saturday, 09 July 2022 Read more...

The superstar, the Svengali and a rising young talent

Monday, 20 June 2022 Read more...

Blu-ray: The Soft Skin

Sunday, 19 June 2022 Read more...

Album: Linda Ayupuka - God Created Everything

Saturday, 18 June 2022 Read more...

Blu-ray: The Last Metro

Tuesday, 14 June 2022 Read more...

Album: Nick Cave - Seven Psalms

Monday, 06 June 2022 Read more...

Album: Mavis Staples and Levon Helm - Carry Me Home

Monday, 16 May 2022 Read more...

Blu-ray: Jules et Jim

Tuesday, 26 April 2022 Read more...

Blu-ray: The 400 Blows

Tuesday, 19 April 2022 Read more...

Pionnières: Artistes dans le Paris des années folles, Musée du Luxembourg, Paris review - thrilling and slightly flawed

Wednesday, 16 March 2022 Read more...

Album: Rokia Koné & Jacknife Lee - Bamanan

Saturday, 12 February 2022 Read more...

Blu-ray: Hiroshima mon amour

Tuesday, 08 February 2022 Read more...

Dr Semmelweis, Bristol Old Vic review - dazzling but overloaded

Friday, 28 January 2022 Read more...

Blu-ray: Ingmar Bergman Vol 2

Tuesday, 18 January 2022 Read more...

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