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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Charlotte Salomon: Life? or Theatre?, Jewish Museum London r...
For a loved one to die by suicide provokes both pain and hurt. Pain, because they are gone. Hurt, because it can feel like an indictment or a...
The Accident, Series Finale, Channel 4 review - ambitious mi...
Channel 4’s The Accident closed with a bang and a...
Touching the Void, Duke of York's Theatre review - not...
Theatre can touch thousands of lives. But can it compete with the success of a bestselling book? First published in 1988, mountaineer Joe Simpson'...
Mrs Peachum's Guide to Love and Marriage, Mid Wales Ope...
The Beggar’s Opera: does any piece of music theatre promise...
Book extract: Second-Hand Time by Svetlana Alexievich
Between 1991 to 2012, Belorussian journalist and oral historian Svetlana Alexievich travelled the countries that constituted the former...
Britain’s Lost Masterpieces, Episode Three, BBC Four review...
Once again the whodunit becomes the whoforgedit in the newest installment of the Britain’s Lost Masterpieces series. Host and...
Wegener, LPO, Jurowski, RFH review – on the revolutionary ro...
For better or worse, because of Visconti’s classic film the Adagietto of Mahler’s Fifth Symphony now inevitably means Venice in its gloomiest...
Marriage Story review - superior weepie
Forty years after the classic, multi-Oscar winning Kramer v Kramer comes another...
Mary Poppins, Prince Edward Theatre review - a lavish but ol...
It’s been 15 years since Cameron Mackintosh’s stage musical...