thu 14/08/2025

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 feature-length documentaries Norman Foster, and the 30-year relationship between Alberto Giacometti and the English painter Isabel Rawsthorne.

Articles By Mark Kidel

Kenny Barron Trio, Ronnie Scott's review - a master of the cool

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Bob Dylan, Royal Albert Hall review - cracked ritual from rock elder

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Album: Underworld - Strawberry Hotel

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Songs We Carry, Ana Silvera and Saied Silbak, Kings Place review - harmony between Arab and Jew

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The Marrriage of Figaro, Opera Project, Tobacco Factory, Bristol review - small is beautiful indeed

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Elvis Costello and Steve Nieve, Bristol Beacon review - so much more than a retread of the master's hits

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Album: Laurie Anderson - Amelia

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Album: Jon Hopkins - Ritual

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theartsdesk at Jaminaround 2024 - preview of the unique Dorset venue's second edition

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Album: 137 - Strangeness Oscillations

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Bill Viola (1951-2024) - a personal tribute

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Album: Kokoko! - Butu

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The Master Musicians of Joujouka, Morocco review - a healing encounter

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Album: John Cale - POPtical Illusion

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Beth Gibbons, Salle Pleyel, Paris review - a triumph of intimacy

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Album: Beth Gibbons - Lives Outgrown

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Beating Hearts review - kiss kiss, slam slam

Andrew Garfield was 29 when he played the teenage Spiderman and Jennifer Grey was 27 when she took on a decade-younger-than-her character called “...

Album: Emma Smith - Bitter Orange

Emma Smith, one time Puppini Sister, has established herself over the past decade or so as one of the UK’s most compelling jazz singers, now...

BBC Proms: Anoushka Shankar 'Chapters' review - so...

You can't explain stage presence like Anoushka Shankar’s. It just "is". When she steps out in front of a completely packed Royal Albert Hall, and...

Elschenbroich, Grynyuk / Fibonacci Quartet, Edinburgh Intern...

Leonard Elschenbroich and Alexei Grynyuk crafted a fine programme for their EIF recital, centring around Brahms’ relationship with the Schumanns....

Edinburgh Fringe 2025 reviews: The Fit Prince / Undersigned

The Fit Prince (who gets switched on the square in the frosty castle the night before (insert public holiday here)), Pleasance...

Materialists review - a misfiring romcom or an undercooked s...

The Canadian-Korean director Celine Song burst onto the scene with her debut feature, Past Lives, two years ago, a bittersweet...

Album: Marissa Nadler - New Radiations

“I will fly around the world just to forget you” are the opening words of “It Hits Harder,” the first track on New Radiations. The song...

BBC Proms: Akhmetshina, LPO, Gardner review - liquid luxurie...

Water surged through this Prom from first spray to last drop....