Mark Kermode
Mark Kermode (/ˈkɜːrˌmoʊd/, KUR-moh-d;[4] né Fairey;[5] born 2 July 1963)[6][7] is an English film critic, musician, radio presenter, television presenter, author and podcaster. He is the co-presenter, with Ellen E. Jones, of the BBC Radio 4 programme Screenshot and co-presenter of the film-review podcast Kermode & Mayo's Take alongside long-time collaborator Simon Mayo. He is a regular contributor to The Observer, for whom he was chief film critic between September 2013 and September 2023.[8] He is the author of several books on film and music, including It's Only A Movie, Hatchet Job, How Does It Feel? and The Movie Doctors (with Simon Mayo). He has also written three volumes for the BFI's Modern Classics series, on The Exorcist, The Shawshank Redemption and Silent Running. Since the late 1980's he has contributed to the BFI's film magazine Sight & Sound and its predecessor The Monthly Film Bulletin, and since January 2016 he has presented a monthly live show, MK3D, at the BFI South Bank. It is the BFI's longest running live show.[9]
Mark Kermode | |
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Kermode at the 2018 BFI London Film Festival | |
| Born | Mark Fairey 2 July 1963 London, England |
| Education | St Mary's CoE Primary School, Finchley,[1]Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School |
| Alma mater | University of Manchester |
| Occupation(s) | Film critic, presenter, writer, musician |
| Employer(s) | BBC The Observer |
| Television | The Film Review The Culture Show Mark Kermode's Secrets of Cinema[2] |
| Spouse | [3] |
| Children | 2 |
| Website | markkermode |
Kermode previously co-presented the BBC Radio 5 Live show Kermode and Mayo's Film Review, and previously co-presented the BBC Two arts programme The Culture Show. Between 2018 and 2021 he co-wrote and presented three seasons of the BBC Four film documentary series Mark Kermode's Secrets of Cinema, and between 2019 and 2024 he presented a weekly film music show on Scala Radio. He is a member of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts and a founding member of the skiffle band the Dodge Brothers, for which he plays double bass. Since 2008, The Dodge Brothers (with Neil Brand) have provided live accompaniment for silent movies such as Beggars of Life, Hell's Hinges, White Oak, and The Ghost Who Never Returns.
Early life edit
Kermode was born in the Royal Free Hospital in the London Borough of Camden.[1] He was educated at the state-funded Church of England primary school St Mary's at Finchley [1] and was granted a Barnet-council-funded free place at The Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School in Elstree, Hertfordshire under the Direct Grant scheme[10][11] in 1974, at the same time as actor Jason Isaacs.[12][13][14]
His mother was a GP, who was born in Douglas, Isle of Man, and practised in Golders Green, North London. His father, the son of a travelling flour salesman, worked in the London Hospital in Whitechapel.[1] His grandmother was Swiss German.[15] He was raised as a Methodist, and later became a member of the Church of England.[16][17] His parents divorced when he was in his early 20s and he subsequently changed his surname to his Manx mother's maiden name by deed poll.[17] He earned his PhD in English at the University of Manchester in 1991, writing a thesis on horror fiction.[7]
Film criticism edit
Kermode began his film career as a print journalist, writing for Manchester's City Life, and then Time Out and NME in London. He has subsequently written for a range of publications including The Guardian, 20/20, The Independent, Vox, Empire, Flicks, Fangoria, Video Watchdog and Neon.[18]
Kermode began working as a film broadcaster on LBC in 1988, after which he moved to BBC Radio 5 (later rebranded as 5Live). Between February 1992 and October 1993, he was the resident film reviewer on BBC Radio 5's Morning Edition with Danny Baker. He became the film critic for BBC Radio 1 in 1993, on a regular Thursday night slot called Cult Film Corner on Mark Radcliffe's Graveyard Shift session.[19] He later moved to Simon Mayo's BBC Radio 1 morning show. He hosted a movie review show with Mary Anne Hobbs on Radio 1 on Tuesday nights called Cling Film.[20]
From 2001 until 2022, Kermode reviewed and debated new film releases with Mayo on the BBC Radio 5 Live show Kermode and Mayo's Film Review.[21][22] The programme won Gold in the Speech Award category at the 2009 Sony Radio Academy Awards on 11 May 2009.[23] On 11 March 2022, it was announced by Simon Mayo, at the start of Kermode and Mayo's Film Review, that the last episode would be broadcast on 1 April 2022.
Kermode and Mayo launched a non-BBC film and television podcast called Kermode & Mayo's Take in May 2022.
Kermode has worked on film-related documentaries including The Fear of God; 25 Years of The Exorcist,[24] Hell on Earth: The Desecration and Resurrection of Ken Russell's The Devils, Alien: Evolution,[25] On the Edge of Blade Runner,[26] Mantrap: Straw Dogs - The Final Cut, Shawshank: The Redeeming Feature, The Poughkeepsie Shuffle: Tracing the French Connection, Salo: Fade to Black, The Real Linda Lovelace [27] and The Cult of The Wicker Man.[28]
From 2001 to 2005, Kermode reviewed films each week for the New Statesman.[29] Prior to becoming chief film critic in 2013, he wrote "Mark Kermode's DVD round-up" for The Observer, a weekly review of the latest releases.[30] He also writes for the British Film Institute's Sight and Sound magazine.[31] From 1995 to 2001, Kermode was a film critic and presenter for Film4 and Channel 4, presenting the weekly Extreme Cinema strand. He has written and presented documentaries for Channel 4 and the BBC,[18] and until 2023 appeared on The Film Review for BBC News at Five.[32] For BBC Two's The Culture Show, Kermode hosted an annual "Kermode Awards" episode, which presented statuettes to actors and directors not nominated for Academy Awards that year.[33]
In 2002, Kermode challenged the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC), the censor for film in the UK, about its cuts to the 1972 film The Last House on the Left.[34] In 2008, the BBFC allowed the film to be re-released uncut.[35] He has since stated that the BBFC do a good job in an impossible situation and expressed his approval of their decisions.[citation needed]
In a 2012 Sight & Sound poll of cinema's greatest films, Kermode indicated his ten favourites, a list later published in order of preference in his book Hatchet Job, as The Exorcist, A Matter of Life and Death, The Devils, It's a Wonderful Life, Don't Look Now, Pan's Labyrinth, Mary Poppins, Brazil, Eyes Without a Face and The Seventh Seal.[36]
From September 2013 to September 2023, Kermode was the chief film critic for The Observer.[37]
In 2018, he began to present his own documentary series Mark Kermode's Secrets of Cinema on BBC Four. A second series followed, as well as Disaster Movie, Christmas, and Oscar Winners specials.
Since 2019, Kermode has presented a movie soundtrack themed show on classical radio station Scala Radio.[38] He presented his final show on the station on 24 February 2024.[39][40]
Kermode produces an annual "best-of-the-year" movie list, thereby providing an overview of his critical preferences. His top choices were:
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Other writing edit
In February 2010, Random House released his autobiography, It's Only a Movie, which he describes as being "inspired by real events".[68] Its publication was accompanied by a UK tour.[69] In September 2011, he released a follow-up book entitled The Good, the Bad and the Multiplex, in which he expresses his opinions on the good and bad of modern films, and vehemently criticizes the modern multiplex experience and the 3D film craze that had grown in the years immediately preceding the book's publication.[70] In 2013, Picador published Hatchet Job: Love Movies, Hate Critics in which he examines the need for professional "traditional" film critics in a culture of ever increasing numbers of online bloggers and amateur critics.[71]
In 2017, he collaborated with his idol William Friedkin on the feature documentary The Devil and Father Amorth, as a writer. The film had its first showing at the Venice Film Festival on 31 August 2017.[72]
Other work edit
Kermode was a regular presenter on BBC Two's The Culture Show and appeared regularly on Newsnight Review. During a 2006 interview with Kermode for The Culture Show in Los Angeles, Werner Herzog was shot with an air rifle. Herzog appeared unflustered, later stating: "It was not a significant bullet. I am not afraid".[73][74]
Kermode co-hosted an early 1990s afternoon magazine show on BBC Radio 5 called A Game of Two Halves, alongside former Blue Peter presenter Caron Keating.[75]
Kermode appeared in a cameo role as himself in the revival of the BBC's Absolutely Fabulous on 1 January 2012.[76]
In April 2008, Kermode started a twice-weekly video blog hosted on the BBC website, in which he discussed films and recounts anecdotes. He retired the podcast for its tenth anniversary at the close of 2018, with special episodes on his most and least favourite movies of the previous decade.[77]
Kermode has recorded DVD, Blu-ray and 4K Ultra HD audio commentaries for Tommy (with Ken Russell), The Devils (with Ken Russell and Mike Bradsell), The Ninth Configuration (with William Peter Blatty), The Wicker Man[78] (with Edward Woodward, Christopher Lee and Robin Hardy), Gregory's Girl, Cruising[79] (with William Friedkin), Bait,[80] Enys Men[81] (both with Mark Jenkin) and (with Peter O'Toole) Becket.[82] He appears in the DVD extras of Lost in La Mancha, interviewing Terry Gilliam and Pan's Labyrinth, where he interviews Guillermo del Toro about the film, which he has called a masterpiece. Kermode has written books, published by the BFI in its Modern Classics series, on The Exorcist,[83] Silent Running[84] and The Shawshank Redemption[85][86] and his documentary for Channel 4, Shawshank: The Redeeming Feature, is on the film's tenth anniversary special edition DVD.[87]
Kermode's family connections with the Isle of Man have led to him playing a role in Manx culture and the arts. This has seen him host various talks on the island including; An Evening with Mark Kermode at the Ballakermeen High School.[88] He is involved with the annual Isle of Man Film Festival.[89]
Kermode became patron of the Sir John Hurt Film Trust in November 2019.[90] He is a visiting fellow at the University of Southampton.[91]
Music edit
Kermode played double bass for a skiffle/rockabilly band called The Railtown Bottlers in the early 1990s. The Railtown Bottlers were the house band on the BBC show Danny Baker After All for a series, starting in 1993,[92][93] where he performed with Madness lead singer, Suggs, Nick Heyward, Alison Moyet, Aimee Mann, Nanci Griffith, Timm Finn and Squeeze.[citation needed] In 2001 he formed The Dodge Brothers, playing double bass in the skiffle quartet.[93]
Talking about playing the chromatic harmonica with an orchestra at the Royal Festival Hall, he said: "Somehow I got away with it. You can listen to it. It's not terrible, it's not brilliant, but it's fine." Kermode says that sheer persistence is the key to his musical success: "I'd rate enthusiasm and persistence over talent. And that's been a guiding light, that you shouldn't be put off by being unprepared or technically inept. I have managed to surround myself with other people who can play. And actually that's the trick."[94]
Personal life edit
Kermode is married to Linda Ruth Williams, a professor who lectures on film at the University of Exeter. From October to November 2004, they jointly curated a History of the Horror Film season and exhibition at the National Film Theatre in London.[95] Kermode and Williams have two children.[17]
Kermode has been described as "a feminist, a near vegetarian (he eats fish), a churchgoer and a straight-arrow spouse who just happens to enjoy seeing people's heads explode across a cinema screen".[96]
In the mid-1980s, Kermode was an "affiliate" of the Revolutionary Communist Group (RCG) and was involved in the Viraj Mendis Defence Campaign, against the deportation of one of the group's members to Sri Lanka.[97] This developed into a high-profile national campaign involving people from left-wing groups such as the RCG, local residents of Manchester and extending to church leaders and Labour Party Members of Parliament.[98] Kermode describes himself in this period as "a red-flag waving bolshie bore with a subscription to Fight Racism Fight Imperialism and no sense of humour."[96]
Awards and honours edit
| Year | Ceremony | Award | Result |
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| 2010 | Sony Radio Academy Awards | Best Specialist Contributor of the Year | Gold [99] |
| 2009 | Sony Radio Academy Awards | Speech Award | Gold [100] |
Kermode is a patron of the charitable trust of the Phoenix Cinema in North London,[101] which was his favourite cinema during his childhood in East Finchley.[102] The tenth anniversary episode of Kermode and Mayo's Film Review was broadcast from the venue as part of its relaunch celebrations in 2010.[103]
In 2013, Kermode was appointed an Island of Culture Patron by the Isle of Man Arts Council.[88]
In 2016, Kermode was made an honorary Doctor of Letters at the University of Winchester.[104]
In 2018, Kermode was appointed Honorary Professor in the Film Studies Department at the University of Exeter.[105]
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External links edit
- Mark Kermode at IMDb
- profile at the University of Southampton
- Mark Kermode archive of selected articles in Critics/Authors Review and Articles at Rotten Tomatoes
- Screenshot (BBC Radio 4)
- Mark Kermode's Secrets of Cinema (BBC Four)
- Kermode and Mayo's Take, Mark Kermode's and Simon Mayo's film and television podcast