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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

CD: Dreadzone - Dread Times

Sunday, 12 February 2017 Read more...

CD: Joel Culpepper - Tortoise

Wednesday, 08 February 2017 Read more...

DVD/Blu-ray: El Sur

Friday, 27 January 2017 Read more...

CD: Nick Cave and Warren Ellis - Mars

Monday, 23 January 2017 Read more...

CD: Brian Eno - Reflection

Saturday, 14 January 2017 Read more...

DVD/Blu-ray: Hell or High Water

Friday, 06 January 2017 Read more...

Albums of the Year: Leonard Cohen - You Want It Darker

Thursday, 05 January 2017 Read more...

The New Man

Monday, 21 November 2016 Read more...

Leonard Cohen: Turning the Darkness Into Beauty

Friday, 11 November 2016 Read more...

On the road with Bob Dylan: the mother of all rockumentaries

Wednesday, 12 October 2016 Read more...

The Passion of Joan of Arc, Wells Cathedral

Sunday, 09 October 2016 Read more...

First Person: The Juilliard Experiment

Monday, 26 September 2016 Read more...

CD: Madeleine Peyroux - Secular Hymns

Wednesday, 14 September 2016 Read more...

DVD/Blu-ray: Embrace of the Serpent

Tuesday, 06 September 2016 Read more...

DVD: Mapplethorpe - Look at the Pictures

Friday, 29 July 2016 Read more...

DVD: High Rise

Friday, 15 July 2016 Read more...

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