sun 29/06/2025

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

Blu-Ray: Partie de Campagne

Read more...

Anselm Kiefer: Finnegans Wake, White Cube Bermondsey review - an awe-inspiring show

Read more...

Album: PJ Harvey - I Inside the Old Year Dying

Read more...

Brian Clarke - A Great Light, Newport Street Gallery review - a British master proves his worth

Read more...

Album: Jantra - Synthesized Sudan: Astro-Nubian Electronic Jaglara Sounds from the Fashaga Underground

Read more...

Jaminaround, Ancient Technology Centre, Dorset review - music in the round that delights

Read more...

Album: Danûk - Morîk

Read more...

Keggie Carew: Beastly review - the history of animals and us

Read more...

Album: Baaba Maal - Being

Read more...

New Regency Orchestra, Colour Factory review - sizzling Afro-Cuban big band

Read more...

Album: The Orb - Prism

Read more...

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

Read more...

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

Read more...

Album: Sissoko Ségal Parisien Peirani - Les Égarés

Read more...

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

Read more...

Blu-ray: Ingmar Bergman Vol 4

Read more...

Pages

latest in today

'We are bowled over!' Thank you for your messages... ...
Music Reissues Weekly: Rupert’s People - Dream In My Mind

Procol Harum’s “A Whiter Shade of Pale” was an instant phenomenon. Recorded in April 1967 and issued as a single on 12 May after pre-release play...

Fidelio, Garsington Opera review - a battle of sunshine and...

Sometimes, as the first act of Beethoven’s Fidelio closes, the chorus of prisoners discreetly fade away backstage as their brief taste of...

Intimate Apparel, Donmar Warehouse review - stirring story o...

The corset is an unlikely star of the latest Lynn Nottage play to arrive at the...

theartsdesk Q&A: director Andreas Dresen on his anti-Naz...

Andreas Dresen directs socially engaged realist films that invariably relay personal and political messages; the result can be tough but is...

Hercules, Theatre Royal Drury Lane review - new Disney stage...

Many years ago, reviewing pantomime for the first time, I recall looking around in the stalls. My brain was saying, “This is...

Alfred Brendel 1931-2025 - a personal tribute

Alfred Brendel’s death earlier this month came as a shock, but it wasn’t unexpected. His health had gradually deteriorated over the last year or...

Chicken Town review - sluggish rural comedy with few laughs...

Fans of the character comedian Graham Fellows will possibly turn up for this British film starring the man who created the punk parody...

Album: Lorde - Virgin

Lorde’s trajectory is continually fascinating. From the minimalist, sparse electropop of Pure Heroine to the similar but more grandiose...