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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 a feature-length documentary on Leonard Cohen, and a documentary portrait of soul singer PP Arnold.

Articles By Mark Kidel

Mark Rothko, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris review - a show well worth the trip across the Channel

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Les Égarés, London Jazz Festival, Cadogan Hall review - a wondrous musical conversation

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Album: TONN3RR3 x BIKAY3 - It's a Bomb

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Brian Eno, Baltic Sea Philharmonic, Kristjan Järvi, RFH review - electronica brilliantly re-visioned for orchestra

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Album: Nitin Sawhney - Identity

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Blu-ray: Targets

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Album: Sufjan Stevens - Javelin

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PJ Harvey, Roundhouse, London review - incandescent perfection

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Blu-Ray: Partie de Campagne

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

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Album: PJ Harvey - I Inside the Old Year Dying

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

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

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

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Album: Danûk - Morîk

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

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