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Water page 4 Engineering page 4 Cruising page 5 ART: Chineseness, beyond Tibet and beyond the Olympics p. 11 / FILM: Summer heat turns cold p. 18

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What does social engineering, gay cruising, Nederpop audiences and Chineseness have in common? They all need water (see p. 4). And if that isn’t unifying enough for you, then join the disinformation campaign launched this week by Mediamatic (www.mediamatic.net), in preparation for the impending release of a certain anti-Islam movie called Fitna being made by a certain Dutch populist politician. The idea is for as many people as possible to make their own films in which they say ‘I’m sorry’ for the behavior of this amateur film-maker—in any way imaginable, but working in a blond wig is a nice start—before uploading it to Youtube, Hyves, Myspace, or wherever, and labeling it ‘Fitna’. The stated goal is: ‘If we work hard enough, no one will be able to find his crap among all the noise we produce.’ Isn’t that heartwarming news? And if that’s not enough, it’s just been announced that Amsterdam Seaports booked a record 87.8 metric tons in 2007. Water’s great.

Have a happy Water Day.

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AROUND TOWN New city planning Students do it better than bureaucrats.

By Robin Kawakami

Blue gold fever Are bottles making us water bankrupt?

By Stacey Lee Would you still purchase a litre of bottled water if you knew it was likely to cost more than a litre of petrol? Recent statistics released by the European Federation of Bottled Water show that the Dutch consumed 348.7 million litres of bottled water in 2006, at an average cost of two euros per litre. The growth of the bottled water industry, and subsequently the commoditisation of water, is one of the topics under the spotlight as the world turns its attention to World Water Day, taking place this Saturday, 22 March.

Water commoditisation is not a new trend. De Waterwinkel in De Pijp has made a business out of selling local and imported bottled water for 17 years. Like the growth of the industry itself, the water shop has expanded to stock at least 60 different brands, hailing from such places as the ‘pure and natural waters of Fiji’, ‘pristine sources of South Africa’ and ‘the wilderness of Norway’. Each brand sits on the shelves hoping that their designer look, price tag or nutritional value will entice someone to buy. According to the sales lady, they do. About one dozen bottles of ‘Bling’—Paris Hilton’s favourite brand of water—were purchased so far this year at €45, for 0.75 litres.

Menno Lauuw, strategic adviser for the Amsterdam-based advertising agency Vandejong, says the growing bottled water market can be attributed to the savvy marketing efforts of the brands. ‘People want to commit themselves to a brand. It is a fashion statement. Getting consumers to

pay a thousand times more for bottled water is an amazing marketing effort by the commercial drinking companies.’

This trend is particularly interesting for Amsterdam’s water supplier, Waternet, which recently topped a three-yearly water company benchmark test with a water quality score of 8.4 out of 10. Waternet Strategic Adviser, Andre Struker, says, ‘We invest a lot of resource into providing some of the safest and cleanest water in the world, and yet people still choose to pay more for a bottle of water that is of equal quality to tap water.’

Maude Barlow, co-founder of the Blue Planet Project, a global movement to protect the world’s fresh water from the growing threats of trade and privatisation, calls water the ‘blue gold of the 21st Century’. She says fresh water is becoming humanity’s most precious resource as multinational corporations continue to purchase the rights to groundwater and commoditise a basic human right: the access to safe and affordable water.

However, European Federation of Bottled Water representative Patricia Fosselard points out, ‘The bottled water industry is often called upon to supply water because of shortage of safe public water supply.’ Last year, the UK bottled water industry supplied 30 million litres to relieve flood victims in Britain, while French company, Volvic, has been involved in charitable actions in Ethiopia and Nigeria that donated 10 free litres of drinking water for every litre of bottled water sold.

Locally, a group of water enthusiasts from Vandejong have dreamed up another tongue-in-cheek solution designed to explicitly go against the growing bottledwater trend. Neau is a brand of water that is literally sold as an empty bottle, requiring the consumer to fill it up from the tap.

Of the €2.50 paid for a bottle, one third of the profits are sent offshore to help Plan Nederland run water sanitation projects in Peru.

These bottles are half full.

Lauuw says, ‘By doing this we have a dual effect, primarily we raise awareness about the good quality of Amsterdam tap water. Secondly, consumers prove they are aware of the urgency of international drinking water problems by giving money for an empty bottle.’

According to Lauuw, success of this product has been limited as they don’t have the capital to compete with the marketing budget of Spa and other bottled-water companies. He thinks local water companies like Waternet should be investing in the business, as it is their product that Neau is essentially promoting.

Andre Struker, agrees that a product like Neau is the sort of thing in which Waternet would be interested, but warns that it creates problems: ‘As soon as you add a price tag, this indirectly makes us a competitor in the bottled-water market.

As a government organisation, this is not allowed.’

The reaction from the bottled-water industry has been mixed. Patricia Fosselard says that bottled-water companies do not see Neau as a threat to their industry.

She says a product of this sort is at risk of confusing the consumer: ‘It doesn’t offer any of the advantages of natural or spring water, no stability of taste, no indication of place or origin, and yet it comes in the exact container that the tap-water industry so often criticises—a bottle.’

Whether or not Neau have approached the water issue in the right way, just like the preference of bottled water over tap water, ultimately it all comes down to price. The price we are willing to pay for a brand label on a bottle, and potentially, the environmental cost we are prepared to endorse by encouraging the continued commoditisation of earth’s scarce resources. www.worldwaterday.net

Less than a year after founding the Office for Social Engineering (OSE), Christian Ernsten, Joost Janmaat and Martijn van Tol have already established research labs in Nieuwendam-Noord, Damrak, Zeeburg and what they call ‘ghost spaces’ of the city— liminal regions like tunnels, bridges and railway tracks that often demarcate or connect communities.

Collaborating with local government officials and the Universiteit van Amsterdam (UvA), OSE has initiated a citywide experiment: can 24 students solve some of the city’s perceived social problems? At a lecture held on the top floor of the Daalwijk building in De Bijlmer on 10 March, former city manager Erik Gerritsen kicked off the course in the south-east neighbourhood that has come to symbolise the failure of social engineering in Amsterdam. With the students’ research and a ‘Masters of Intervention’ series, in which various experts serve as guest lecturers, OSE hopes to transform the concept of maakbaarheid (‘creatability’) into a positive practice that can create substantive societal change.

OSE has assigned students to one of four areas deemed problematic by the city government, which has become increasingly active under the leadership of Deputy Mayor Lodewijk Asscher. In NieuwendamNoord, a team is investigating the government’s claim of ‘invisible Moroccan girls’, young women who do not participate fully in society according to theories of informal patriarchal structures—an idea that challenges the blurring of public and private spheres. Van Tol, a UvA lecturer and one of the students’ instructors, says: ‘[The government] has this political concept of participation in society, integration and active citizenship. They just e-mail it around between the people in power... and those become buzzwords in society.’

In the ‘ghost spaces’, students—whose disciplines range from architecture and urban planning to medicine and philosophy—are searching for innovative ways to redesign these spaces, making them attractive to entrepreneurs, artists and citizens. A third team has immersed itself in Zeeburg to research loitering youth—mostly Moroccan boys. Government officials hope to apply the students’ findings to IJburg, currently under construction.

The final group has descended onto the bustling Damrak, another target of the city’s clean-up crusade. Eline Veninga, a 26-yearold member of the Damrak team, says she understands the desire to transform Amsterdam’s entrance into a place worthy of a leading city. Still, she notes: ‘It bothers me that so many plans are written behind the desk and developed in the heads of people who only make up five per cent of the population. They write plans for people they

may never get to know in real life.’

Such an unorthodox approach to solving social problems—using action as analysis—first took hold in distant lands.

After conducting research abroad as students, OSE founders Ernsten, 28, and Janmaat, 30, worked with developmental organisations in post-conflict cities in the Middle East, Kosovo and the Caucasus.

Both confessed frustration with these projects, which focused more on theory than practice. ‘We really wanted to do things—to move, you know?’ says Janmaat. Now with OSE, the founders have, for the first time, applied their ideas learned abroad to a Western, social democratic society. ‘It’s also very personal because it’s the first time we will do such a thing in Amsterdam,’ says Janmaat. ‘It’s our city.’

Ernsten sees the project driving at the core of two parallel developments in academic and civic discourse. ‘Within the university, there is a growing acknowledgment that they’re not the knowledge centre in society that they used to be,’ he says. ‘Their methods and approaches are somewhat dated.’ He claims that government, too, has experienced a changing role. ‘More depends on the responsibilities that citizens take with regard to specific issues in the city.’

Such responsibility puts the emphasis on individuals and decentralised networks to find innovative solutions that evade the bureaucrats. At this early stage, OSE’s program has attracted attention from the deputy mayor of Kabul, Afghanistan, whose city has the power and resources to intervene in society. Is New York next? It remains to be seen if their experiment is transportable across cultures, but Janmaat is convinced that social engineering already exists in many places. ‘It’s about creatability,’ he says. ‘The bottom line is that this whole idea of social engineering—intervening in society—is really back on the agenda.

We are now trying to push for a social engineering 2.0.’

Veninga puts it in simpler terms. She laughs, recalling an interview with a real estate tycoon she read, who commented on the effort to clean up the Damrak: ‘He said, “There will always be French fries and kroketten.” That is something that we, as a group, thought about last week,’ she says.

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Cruising the pink roses A different kind of customer satisfaction.

By Willem de Blaauw Midnight. Most people brush their teeth, set their alarm, slip under the sheets and fall asleep. Not in Vondelpark’s rose garden. At this time of night, this part of the park comes alive.

In the rozentuin, men of all ages and shapes are walking slowly around the trees and bushes, looking for sex. There are no extra sounds: just the shuffle of boots and shoes. A cigarette is lit, the flame exposing the face of the smoker.

Two—or more—men walk into the bushes and start to do what they have come for.

On any given night there can be a handful of men or, especially in summer, it can be as busy as a Sunday afternoon in Kalverstraat. But here it’s shopping of a different kind.

This is nothing new. If you take a look at the history of Amsterdam, as far back as 1760 there are reports of gay men walking ‘kruysbanen’ to look for sex since there were no official bars, clubs or saunas in those days. Even in the 1920s, gay men had to be creative to meet up. And since bar owners could lose their license if they let gay men in, public toilets took on the role. This, in a nutshell, is the origin of cruising. So what’s the recent fuss about cruising in Vondelpark?

The recent kafuffle started with the new signs at the entrances of Vondelpark. These pictograms say what you can and cannot do: no barbeques, no amplified instruments, no nude sunbathing and no dogs unleashed. But there was no pictogram banning sex.

Paul van Grieken, city councilmen for stadsdeel Oud-Zuid, which is responsible for the park, released a statement saying: ‘Cruising should be tolerated and accepted. It’s part of things that happen in big cities. If they stick to the rose garden and don’t do it on kids’ playgrounds, there’s no need to fine them.’

Dutch media jumped on this quote like Bokito on his admirer, resulting in biased headlines and articles that made it sound as if gay men were having public sex in broad daylight on kids’ swings and seesaws—and the police condoned it. Chief Superintendent of the police, Bernard Welten, stated during an interview with Het Parool that the police would hand out fines if they saw acts of gross indecency in parks. ‘If men have sex at a time when there’s no one in the park walking their dogs, that’s fine. But as soon as it is bothering other users of the park, we will give them a ticket. Let

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there be no doubt about that.’

The issue didn’t remain a local one for long. Besides making headlines in the UK, the Christian Democrats Party (CDA), known for its family values, roared its head. CDA parliamentary leader Pieter van Geel made a statement on his website saying: ‘Parks should be places were everyone should be able to recreate and where kids can play safely.

If we condone MOPs [gay speak for Mannen Ontmoetings Plaats] it’s the beginning of the end. Before we know it each and every park and street corner will be labelled as a MOP.’ Are kids really at risk? Do innocent men and women stumble on men having it off, while they are out feeding ducks or walking their pet?

‘I don’t think so,’ says Pim, a 47-yearold Amsterdammer who prefers not to use his last name. He has frequented the rozentuin a lot in the past. ‘It’s all concentrated in one area, far from the paths, and if you don’t look for it, you won’t see it. Anyway, kids shouldn’t be in the park at one in the morning, but nicely tucked away in bed.’

‘For me the fun is in the hunting rather than the consuming,’ he explains.

Oh, if these trees could talk.

‘It’s also a good indication about whether you are still in the market, so to speak. I haven’t been there for a while now. I’ve got other priorities now besides standing there with your trousers around your ankles at midnight.

Been there, done that.’

‘I like it because it’s very direct,’ says Jan, who’s in his mid-thirties and also prefers to remain last nameless. ‘In bars, clubs or saunas you can waste a lot of time, not to mention money, trying to hook-up with someone. It’s also more adventurous with it being dark and in the open air. Also, there are loads of nice men who go to the park, of all ages, and not necessarily men you might meet in the gay scene. Of course, nowadays you’ve got the internet and dating sites like Gaydar and Gayromeo. But there are lots of fakers on the internet—and here you only meet men that are really up for it.’

As that notorious song about cruising by the Boys Town Gang goes: ‘It’s all true I promise you, it might make you sore / Absolutely guaranteed, it won’t be a bore.’

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A GUIDE TO NEDE

IT WAS 50 YEARS AGO THAT POP BROKE IN THE NETHERLANDS AND KIDS HAVE BEEN GOING NUTS EVER SINCE.

The birth of rock. Indo-rock It’s 1958. While in America Elvis Presley, Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis are setting the youth on fire with this exciting new musical style dubbed rock ’n’ roll, Dutch teenagers are still listening to the silly songs of Eddy Christiani. But then a bunch of kids from the former Dutch colony of Indonesia take over. The Tielman Brothers’ ‘Rock Little Baby of Mine’ was the first Dutch rock ’n’ roll single. With their wild stage act, they conquered the Netherlands and Germany and were highly influential in the development of European rock ’n’ roll. Andy Tielman, now 71 and still going strong, says: ‘We drew a mixed crowd of Dutch and Indonesian boys and girls. Boys would sport greased quiffs, the girls had petticoats.’ The Tielman Brothers’ music and wild stage act stimulated the youth to go crazy and do away with the straitjacket of the strongly regulated society of 1950s. Tielman: ‘We would do things like throwing guitars to each other, play behind our backs or stand on the double-bass. People danced like crazy, but there was no violence. There were no drugs either, only alcohol. We were very popular with Dutch girls. But they were not permitted in the dressing room.’ (Floris Dogterom)

Reliable hippy conformity Brainbox was founded in 1968 and quickly rose to popularity thanks to its progressive and ‘unDutch’ blues sound and original compositions coming from such world-class musicians as guitarist Jan Akkerman, drummer Pierre van der Linden and singer Kaz Lux. Although Brainbox did have a hardore fanbase, Kaz Lux, who was named the Netherland’s best singer in 2000 by music magazine Oor, can’t quite recall whether they had a fan club or not. He does, however, vividly remember the way their fans looked. ‘It was definitely the type of long haired, jeans-wearing, work-shy, pot-smoking crowd,’ he says. ‘Looking back on it, they were a bunch of people desperately trying to be different, but ended up looking exactly alike.’ Wim Ederveen, founder of the Brainbox fan site (www.geocities.com/ederveen2/Brainbox.html) is a fan from the early days in south Limburg, where it was a rare happening to see any band perform. As a result, Ederveen only went to three Brainbox concerts, including the legendary Pinkpop performance in 1971 and a reunion concert in 2004. ‘They’re a great band,’ he says, ‘so five years ago, when I discovered there was hardly any information about them on the internet, I started the fan site.’ (Laura Groeneveld)

Schoolhouse shock Huub Koch was only 13 years old when he founded the first fan club for Shocking Blue, a rock band formed in 1967 famous for its number one hit song ‘Venus’. Together with his parents and a few friends, Koch designed, wrote and mailed out the fan magazine Pinky, to which fans could subscribe for one guilder. It consisted of articles on new releases, song lyrics, childhood pictures of the band (guitar player Rob as a traffic warden), tour pictures (Shocking Blue carrying an Alpenhorn in Switzerland) and frequently asked questions about the band (‘When is singer Mariska’s birthday?’ ‘What type of car does drummer Cor drive?’). According to Koch, fans looked like ordinary school kids who wore velvet pants or denim. Their behaviour, like their attire, was also modest. ‘In Holland, fans were enthusiastic, but it was nothing compared to other countries like Japan, where crowds went plain crazy,’ says Koch. In Israel, fans once threw themselves at the band, nearly ripping the clothes from their bodies. The band members had to be driven off in an ambulance by bodyguards. ‘Mariska told me it was the only time she got really scared,’ says Koch, who now runs a Shocking Blue memorial website (singer Mariska Veres died in 2006, aged 59) at shockingblue.ning.com. (Laura Groeneveld)

Hilary’s nun rapers In the 1970s the four member band Golden Earring was the head cheese of Dutch hard rock with singles like ‘Radar Love’ and the album Eight Mile High. Today, they’ve been together longer than The Rolling Stones with an extensive long list of multi-platinum sales in the Netherlands. But it was US Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton who recently brought them back into focus by using, as one of her campaign themes, their controversial 1984 number ‘When the Lady Smiles’—the video features a nun being raped, and the attacker’s brain getting eaten by a dog. But in their time, GE ‘gave Dutch music a boost in the US and England,’ says 40-year-old Edwin Knip, an admin worker at a sports store, who hosts a GE archive at edwinknip.com. Sales manager Patrick Orriens’ (39) website radarlove.net is an ode to GE in the ’70s and ‘their five minutes of fame in world history’. A ‘Radar Love’ connoisseur, he owns 500 CDs of the song and 390 covers by bands like U2, REM, Def Leppard and Bryan Adams. ‘It’s my song and the best of their seventies music.

It’s like my heartbeat,’ he says. GE is as much a part of his life as his wife and kids: he has been a fan since age 12. Two hundred and fifty concerts later, ‘there hasn’t been one day in my life that I don’t eat, speak or think this band’s words and music.’ (Sulakshana Gupta)

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RPOP AUDIENCES WHO WERE THE BANDS THAT CAUSED THE MOST FRENZY? OR MORE IMPORTANTLY: WHO WERE THE FRENZIED?

The danger of tractors In the late 1970s, a rock ’n’ roll whirlwind swept across the country. Herman Brood played speedy two minute songs with a hammering Little Richard-style piano, fuelled by punk energy. Brood and his band Wild Romance gained mass popularity in the Netherlands and even hit the Billboard with their trademark song ‘Saturday Night’.

Brood’s dream of making it big in the States, however, was shattered after a disastrous tour there. He never reached the same artistic level as before, even though he kept performing and recording until his suicide in 2001. Dany Lademacher, the Wild Romance’s guitar hero from the heydays, says the band were not unlike a Dutch Rolling Stones.

‘When we came back from America, three thousand people were waiting for us at Schiphol. We had to escape via a back door. As for the shows, the venues would be too hot and too crowded and the music would be loud. The audience was mixed, ranging from punks to intellectuals with a beard and pipe. And lots of women. The band was a great recipe for picking up women. Which got us into trouble with their boyfriends. I remember one night escaping a bunch of farmer boys who had blocked the venue with tractors.’ (Floris Dogterom)

Pre-teens like doing it ‘Thousands of kids running around, doing handstands, playing tag. Total chaos.’ Krina Lemmens remembers a stadium concert of Doe Maar: four hunky guys singing in Dutch and backed by a reggae beat. The early 1980s saw a massive Doe Maar hype among the unexpectedly young. The whole of (pre-)teen Netherlands was adorned with the signature green and pink sweatbands and buttons. ‘Kids-sized band shirts weren’t available, so they had to wear adult sizes,’ recalls Lemmens, who—then in her early 20s—had not snobbishly turned against them like most people with the right to vote. Danny Willems and Bas Hollaardt, still active fan club members, as is Lemmens, were 12 at the time. Both discovered Doe Maar through an older brother. ‘I never gave back my brother the record Doris Day; it’s still in my closet,’ says Hollaardt. They also admit that the often complex contents of the lyrics—heroin, cold war politics, 32-year-olds in love—went over their heads. Hollaardt: ‘The music just seemed really happy.’ In February 1984, at the height of their fame, Doe Maar broke up. ‘I was the first to know. Nobody in the schoolyard believed me,’ says Hollaardt. Willems cried in front of the TV: ‘My world ended.’ But happily, this summer sees Doe Maar back together again for their second series of reunion concerts. (Rebecca Wilson)

Drunk, wet and loud As notorious as Mötley Crüe was as a band, the audience at a Normaal concert is equally so. Joined together in a fan club with the name Anhangerschap, the fans even have their own moniker for the moshpit, Hoken, where they show respect by throwing large quantities of beer over each other—while still managing to get drunk. Ria is a member of the fan club and drinks beer—but not when she’s the designated driver.

Notorious for decades already, the audience is usually dressed in jeans—not the skinnies—and a Normaal t-shirt. As is Ria, who always tries to get up front and, together with the rest of the audience, sings and shouts along to the songs about country life in the east of the Netherlands. Ria is a housewife and works in a supermarket. At shows she stays close to who she is and says she acts normal. But the only people who know what the ‘norm’ is in Normaal seem to be the people in Normaal and their audience.

‘One thing that always happens,’ she says, ‘is that by the time the curtains are about to rise, my heart skips a beat and I get shivers and goose bumps, but after that it’s singing and normally acting crazy.’ (Bas Jacobs)

A deeper shade The Urban Dance Squad’s music was a furious blend of hard rock, funk, soul, hiphop, reggae and ska. Starting in 1986, they were one of the first mainstream acts to incorporate a DJ in a live line-up. Considered pioneers of the crossover trend of the early 1990s, they inspired bands like Rage Against The Machine. While they scored a hit in America with ‘Deeper Shade Of Soul’ in 1991, further hit parade success proved to be difficult. As a live act, though, they were one of the most intense Dutch bands ever, before calling it quits in 2000. Erwin Grose, now 40, still misses them: ‘I stepped in when the third album was out. The DJ had left the band, the sound had become heavier. I remember this show in Paradiso. Earlier that day they had played the Pinkpop festival, but still the Paradiso exploded, everybody was pogoing and jumping up and down. Men were in the majority.

I think the crowd was what you might call pre-grunge. No hard rockers though—the sound was too hiphop for them.’ (Floris Dogterom)

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‘IT WAS DEFINITELY THE TYPE OF LONG HAIRED,JEANS-WEARING, WORK-SHY, POT-SMOKING CROWD. LOOKING BACK ON IT, THEY WERE A BUNCH OF PEOPLE DESPERATELY TRYING TO BE DIFFERENT, BUT ENDED UP LOOKING EXACTLY ALIKE.’

Limited 2 their time In 1991, two Belgian producers decided to supplement their underground house music with the raps of 19-year-old Amsterdammer Ray Slijngaard and the vocal stylings of police department employee Anita Doth. Not only was 2 Unlimited born, but also a whole new genre, Eurohouse, with acts like T-Spoon and 2 Brothers on the 4th Floor, crowding the charts for the next five years. Still, none could compete with the biggest selling act in the history of Dutch pop music. Unfortunately, they did not pass the test of time. Trawling the net for contacts takes you into a twilight zone. Anita Doth’s website is very 1999, visually, and has a defunct chat room. At the official-looking the2unlimited.com, no movement can be detected. Then there’s the Chilean site, the Russian one, and one by a Czech DJ which seems to make virus scanners unhappy. Evidently, 2 Unlimited was so mainstream and of its time that nobody in the Netherlands actually wants to come out as a fan—not even in an ironic, postmodern kind of way. This reporter was forced to call the one person whose past could not be hidden, because we grew up in the same house: my brother Robin. ‘It was just kiddie’s music,’ he says.

‘Everyone at my primary school loved it. Ray’s raps seemed cool. And there was a vague sense of pride in something from Holland doing so well.’ Time to renew that pride. Ray and Anita made musical history. Get ready! (Rebecca Wilson)

Single white females In 1997 she sang herself hoarse with ‘Nobody’s Wife’ and won over audiences who loved Anouk’s rocker chick persona and deep husky voice. She was the It girl of ’90s Dutch Rock with other chart toppers like R U Kiddin’ Me, countless festival appearances and awards. Despite her latest hits, fans can’t get enough of her 1990s classics. It was Nobody’s Wife that got 28-year-old Kim Euser, a freelance web designer, hooked. A diehard fan who’s attended 22 live concerts, Euser runs the site anoukrockt.com. Her concert rituals include wearing her ‘Who the fuck is Anouk Teeuwe’ T-shirt and she says that ‘listening to her is the ultimate drug.’ The mania is reflected in her home decor too— the living room wall has a large Anouk poster on it; her bathroom is tiled with exclusive concert tickets, a ‘Nobody’s Wife’ plate and a lithograph that screams ‘Anouk is Alive’.

Like Euser, 20-year-old Miriam Knijff also spends days writing concert reviews and posting new wallpapers and pictures on her own site noukster.com. The design student owns six different versions of all Anouk’s CDs, every magazine that she’s been interviewed in and a cupboard full of Anouk tees. The obsession started with Anouk’s debut album Together Alone. ‘Now I go everywhere to hear her sing,’ says Knijff. ‘We always go in a big group wearing Anouk t-shirts and she always waves at me from the stage,’ she says.

When the music starts, Knijff adds, ‘the world fades away.’ (Sulakshana Gupta)

The only goth in the village Within Temptation is best known for singer Sharon den Adel’s elfin voice and penchant for elaborate dresses. The band worked to bring gothic to the masses and has enjoyed great (international) success with its last three albums. But before they hit their platinum high, their first album, Enter, and their tireless touring brought them a following of teenage gothic girls. Like Anika Etman, now 21, who grew up in Helmond in the province Noord-Brabant. At 13, she was almost the only goth in the village. ‘I wore spiked jewellery, black stripes on my cheeks. People would ask me why I looked so strange.’ Etman saw a kindred spirit in Den Adel. ‘She made her own dresses, too.’

Within Temptation’s music embodied everything she wanted to be when she grew up: ‘It was feminine, sweet and a bit naughty.’ Ivana Plestina, 24, a fan at 17, recalls: ‘It was different from my usual metal. So quiet and enchanting.’ Male fans were long-haired alternative guys—no goths, strangely. ‘And no normal people,’ says Plestina. Now, of course, that’s all changed. Normal person Peter Post (36), treasurer of fan club The Silent Force, reckons the teen goth/normal people ratio is about 50/50. Last year he met the band: ‘Turns out, they are real normal too.’ (Rebecca Wilson)

Those crazy kids There’s no way you could have missed the word of 2005: ‘Watskeburt?’, triple-Dutch for ‘What Happened?’ It put De Jeugd Van Tegenwoordig on the top of the charts.

Willie Wartaal, one of three rapping members, says, ‘De Jeugd has a pretty cool audience because to them it’s not about “acting normal is crazy enough”, but to “act crazy” and they do. Holland’s got a reputation for having audiences that are a little lame, which you could pinpoint down to those past days of potato-eating, but it doesn’t necessarily mean they don’t enjoy themselves.’ Shana, a teenager from Rotjeknor, agrees that De Jeugd is dope for the fun element of their show, or, as she says, ‘a day without laughter is a day not lived,’ so you get there in your skinny jeans, move to the beat, have a soda and have plain, unadulterated fun. Same thing seems to be the case for Marleen from Breda, except she’s wearing Nikes. Guess it’s time for De Jeugd to do their version of Beach Boys classic ‘Fun, Fun, Fun’ to show full respect for their slightly unDutch audience. (Bas Jacobs)

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Anton Heyboer, Thursday, Jan van der Togt Museum

THURSDAY 20 MARCH

FRIDAY 21MARCH

Art: Anton Heyboer

Club/Performance: Spielplatz

Anton Heyboer died three years ago at age 81 leaving behind five wives and thousands of drawings, etchings and paintings. After a period of forced labor in a Nazi work camp and a spell in a psychiatric hospital, he moved in 1961 to a farm in Den Ilpe where he was joined by an ever increasing number of wives, German Shepherds and junk. As an artist, he was very productive and even involved his dogs in the process— a whole series features their paw scuffs. Yes, Anton was a tad eccentric. And his four surviving wives are keeping the dream alive: not only from the roadside shop at the farm but also, starting this week, at Museum Jan van der Togt in Amstelveen. This exhibition features a selection made by the wives from the estimated 80,000 works that are currently in storage at various depots in Sloterdijk, Schiphol and Switzerland.

See www.anton-heyboer.nl for more of the story. (Steve Korver) Jan van der Togt Museum (Wed-Sun 13.00-17.00), Amstelveen. Until 4 May.

Once upon a time crossover meant the fusion of metal and funk (see article, page 6).

Today it means a fusion of ‘Alice in Wonderland, Peepshow and The Factory’. Welcome to a new distorted version of clubland. Yet another one. This new night created by the Consuming Art collective will see the Sugar Factory totally transformed into an alienating yet chic nightclub filled with different spaces and cabinets where odd things will occur throughout the night: finger painting, VIP dinners, darkroom dancing, art, erotic and German chanson. Attendees are asked to bring something personal along as contribution to a large artwork—from broken watch to scribbled beer mat to your old dentures—and in exchange you will get a surprise. It should be fun. But whatever happened to the simple pleasures of getting hammered and dancing stupid? Stay tuned. (Steve Korver) Sugar Factory, 22.00, €10.

Rock: Subbacultcha!

SATURDAY 22 MARCH

So another Dutch indie guitar band bites the dust this week—well, next week technically. Most eyes may already be on the upcoming Caesar farewell show at Melkweg, with them being local heroes an’ all. Feverdream? Well, coming from Rotterdam, not all eyes may be as misty. Still, this high energy trio have produced some cracking songs over the past 10 years and this will be a sweaty celebration of all four albums. If you’ve somehow missed out, think Voicst at their noisiest and rawest, but sadly without the beer sponsorship. Fans can at least relax knowing singer René van Lien and drummer Arnold van de Velde already have new project Neonrainbows in motion.

Warming things up are a little-known local beat duo known as The Moi Non Plus.

They’ve already supported Queens of the Stone Age at Paradiso, although possible mob connections may have scored the gig considering they currently have no products to shift apart from combs and t-shirts. Embracing only guitar, drums, tormented vocals, beards and a sexy red keyboard, they make a spiky racket worthy of their favourite Liars records. So Dutch rock certainly ain’t dying. Just the National Pop Instituut. (Steven McCarron) Bitterzoet, 20.00, €6.

Dance: Nederlands Dans Theater II—Dream Play I can’t be alone in having almost unbridled appreciation for the Nederlands Dans Theater. A world-class company of both rigour and inventiveness, this Hague-based group is also a dream training-ground, developing and encouraging new dancers and choreographers through its younger ensemble, NDT II. For a taste of such locallygrown produce, consider tonight’s program—aptly named ‘Dream Play’—which contains two works by NDT members. ‘Mammatus’, by Medhi Walerski, is an allegory of indefinable but unshakeable quest, seen here in its world premiere. And John Inger’s ‘Dream Play’, first performed in 2001, refracts Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring into a battle between the sexes. Also premiering, Stijn Celis’ ‘Skulls and Bees’, inspired by still life paintings of the Dutch Golden Age, investigates corporeality and transience to music by John Adams. All sounds intriguing. (Steve Schneider) Stadsschouwburg, 20.15, €12-€25.

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World: Selim Sesler Grubu This superb Rom clarinetist grew up in Kesan, a Thracian village in northwest Turkey, where his own rich culture collides with those of neighbouring Bulgaria and Greece. All of those elements make their way into the wonderful music found on the CD Anatolian Wedding, a dazzling work of cultural synthesis that puts a pan-national spin on the popular music that enlivens Turkish weddings. This syncretic methodology recalls the so-called Bulgarian Wedding music of the brilliant Ivo Papazov, but Selim Sesler eschews the fusionoid tendencies, dialing down the proceedings with twangy oud, sobbing violin, and bouncy kanun all dancing and drifting over propulsive darbouka. The clarinetist is a knockout improviser, tracing snaky, wonderfully nasal lines over the fierce polyrhythms with a mixture of inconsolable cries and ebullient shouts. (Peter Margasak) KIT Tropentheater, 20.30, €18.

Club: Fightclub Ed Banger records sound like Michael Jackson and Iggy Pop rubbing noses while pogoing on the moon. The Parisian record label has no connection whatsoever with sterile minimal techno, steroid-enhanced R&B and Bacardi Breezer-infused Tiësto-trance that give dance clubs all over the world a bad name. With über-funky records like † by Daft Punk-inspired duo Justice, the Ed Banger crew bring back blood, sweat and beer to the dance floor. More than a year after their first success, Ed Banger is still among the coolest dance labels, a remarkable feat in the trend wasting world of club music. Andy Gardiner, AKA Vicarious Bliss, who will French-fry the Flex Bar tonight, created some of the more memorable songlike tunes on the Ed Banger compilation CDs Ed Rec, of which the third will be released in May. Get ready to bang your ’ed, ’ard. (Marinus de Ruiter) Flex Bar, 23.00-05.00, €9.

MONDAY 24 MARCH Roots: Whiskey Puppy Ah, those simpler times… When a puppy was a puppy and a banjo was a banjo. And all you needed was a good shot of whiskey to get them both going—yourself included. This is the ruling idea behind Whiskey Puppy, a trio from Portland, who play ‘boot-stomping, muleslapping traditional bluegrass and old time music’. Winners of the ‘Not Quite Bluegrass’ band contest at the 2004 Columbia Gorge Bluegrass Festival, the band features Rachel Gold (The Flat Mountain Girls) on guitar, Justin Auld (Redwood Highway) on banjo and fiddle, and Travis ‘Tater’ Harrison (Cocks in the Henhouse, Jackass Willie) on bass.

Whiskey Puppy are also famed for creatively incorporating chew toys into their stage act.

Currently touring to promote their latest CD, Unleashed, they come backed with three previous albums of whooping, hollering and tight three-part harmonies: Pork Dungeon (Hair of the Puppy) (2001), Love Storm (Puppy Style) (2003) and Fate of Man (Before the Dawn of Pants) (2005). So toss a whiskey down your tongue in cheek and be ready to bark along.

(Steve Korver) Cafe ‘t Monumentje, 20.00, free.

TUESDAY 25 MARCH Classical: Budapest Festival Orchestra When did familial relations between high and popular culture become so contentious?

When Wagner set his music beside the Gods? Or when pop-cult decayed into mass-cult and became a subset of commerce? Yet a healthy high-low cross-pollination has enriched Western art for centuries, as can be sampled in this program exploring the influence of gypsy music on Brahms. Featuring a clutch of Brahms’ ‘Hungarian Dances’ as well as his First Symphony, conductor Iván Fischer will have The Budapest Festival Orchestra show how the flavourful rhythms and melodies of Middle-European tziganes add liveliness to the German composer’s tendency to the stodgy. Also on the bill are the similarly gypsy-tinted works

by Liszt and De Sarasate, as well as improvisations by traditional Hungarian specialists on the violin and the cimbalom. Don’t be surprised if, after the concert, every canal in town looks like the Danube. (Steve Schneider) Concertgebouw, Grote Zaal, 20.15, €43.50/€51.50.

WEDNESDAY 26 MARCH Congress: 50 Jaar Nederpop They may already have left the building on Prins Hendrikkade as a result of merging into the freshly established Muziekcentrum Nederland, but the Nationaal Pop Instituut still looks set to go out with a bang as it stages a congress on the past, present and future of Nederpop. As tie-in with the ‘50 jaar Nederpop’ campaign to commemorate the release of the Tielman Brothers 45 ‘Rock Little Baby Of Mine’ [see article, page 6], considered by those in the know to be the first Nederpop outing on vinyl, experts will talk on various topics including Dutch popular music culture and its foreign influences, policy making and the economic and artistic sides of the industry. Writer/philosopher Stine Jensen will even shed some light on mating behaviour in pop, while students of Tilburg’s Rockacademie take care of musical intermissions. And there’s a borrel afterwards to bid NPI farewell and give your own career a boost. See www.popinstituut.nl for full programme and registration details.

(Peter Bartlema) Fantasio (Nationaal Pop Instituut), 12.00, free, reservations required.

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Tibet. The Olympics. Change. What does it mean to be Chinese? And just who is defining it—themselves, others or both?

ON THE BORDERS OF CHINESENESS ART Between the light and the dark Canvas International Art, Amstelveen Until 22 March

By Renée Ridgway

A darkened room emanates strobe light and a woman is heard singing ‘One night in Beijing’ in Chinese. Tiong Ang’s installation ‘Three Models’ (2008) creates a nightclublike interior with China’s hottest pop star, Li Yuchun, who was chosen the winner of the national pop contest ‘Supergirl’ in 2006.

In a country where ordinary people cannot choose their political leaders, global technology enabled 400 million citizens to choose her by sending text messages. ‘For many, this was their first encounter with direct democracy,’ explains Ang when asked about his inspiration. One year later the programme was banned.

At Canvas International Art, an exhibition reflects the dynamic changes that are synonymous with China beyond the words ‘great fire wall’, ‘smog’, ‘Tibet’ and ‘Olympics’. And while the Chinese art market is a booming business and Canvas deals in ‘non-western’ art, this show is actually not within a traditional white-walled space. It is elsewhere—around it—in between the boxes, equipment and stored works of art. Reminiscent of conceptual art’s strategies of the 1960s, the artists here have hijacked and co-opted the space.

Working with the idea of China as a context, three conceptual approaches to ‘Chineseness’ are on view. And they vary as much as each artist’s backgrounds. Wang Jianwei has lived in China all of his life. Ni

Haifeng is born and raised in China but has lived in Amsterdam for the past 15 years.

Ang is born of Chinese descent in Surabaya and grew up in Zeeland.

Accepting that Chineseness, as well as, let’s say, Dutchness, is an identity construction, what are the characteristics applied to this quality and what differentiates them from other identities? How can these aspects hold true for a country of 1.3 billion with diverse cultures and languages? Or for that matter, a country of 16.4 million with diverse cultures and languages? Not only comprised of the viewpoint of those actually inside that particular society, this construction is also perceived by the external, those looking in from the outside, or those living—or having lived on—the inside but who are still somehow on the outside.

One thing is certain: Chineseness is in a state of flux and these works reflect that.

Enter one darkened space, and four light boxes show images of demolition sites amongst newly-built apartment towers in Beijing, captured by Haifeng at the moment ‘Between Twilight and Dawn’—as the 2008 piece is called. Haifeng: ‘They are about the “underexposed life” within the rapid gentrification of urban areas in Beijing, the borders between the rich and the poor, between the light and the dark, between the visible and the invisible, between the utopian promises and the grim reality, between order and subterranean disorder.’

On a monitor in the same room is Jianwei’s ‘Spider 2’ (2005). Father, mother and child are at home watching TV, eating, preparing food and bathing, while figures

‘Dilemma—Three Way Fork in the Road’ by Wang Jianwei.

of what look like zombies appear and observe them. The actors move in slow motion, their movements evoking a disturbing vision of parallel realities and voyeuristic visitations, quite possibly unravelling our assumptions about the contemporary Chinese urban family.

Amongst the packing boxes and storage crates are smaller, darkened rooms lit only by the works inside. An old-fashioned slide projector beams a large-format slide of a copper circuit board, magnified for detail, onto a large shipping crate. The process of stripping copper is laid bare in Hiafeng’s ‘Unmade in China’ (2008). This timed sequence of hue, purity and intensity of colour seduces the viewer into believing scrap metal and piles of refuse, remnants and leftovers possess beauty.

Upstairs, in a darkened square room, three projections work in unison, each by a different artist. Devoid of markers, tags and prices, the illuminated works are moving at different velocities and levels of sound; tram bells of Amsterdam toll somewhere from the dark. One is first confronted with the video ‘The Face’ (2005), in which an image of water is projected onto levelled sand on the ground.

Eventually a face appears. The artist Haifeng is washing his face, and we are like fish observing from the bottom of his huge sink basin. In contrast, Jianwei’s video ‘Dilemma—Three Way Fork in the Road’ (2007) is full of bold symbolic references: bapao eating, sword-fighting and operatic characters lunching with chopsticks while uniformed men examine something under a microscope. Groups of people weave in and out. Seemingly without rhythm, their cellular movements mirror worker bees in the hive, but every movement is carefully orchestrated.

In the era of globalisation, Chineseness is in constant negotiation. This exhibition is particularly successful at opening up larger questions about where such an identity was constructed and by whom, while including the viewer in the visual transaction.

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MUSIC More listings at www.amsterdamweekly.nl.

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Thursday 20 March Rock: Subbacultcha! They’re from Rotterdam and not ashamed of it. No wonder, as Feverdream have been knocking out delicious slabs of melodic guitar pop for years now. Minsk duo The Moi Non Plus will be showing up in support to prove that Vox amps aren’t always a sign of musical weakness.

Then there’s riot punk Elle Bandita, who’s only DJing, but that doesn’t mean she’ll dress any less provocatively.See Short List. Bitterzoet, 20.00, €6 Classical: Alexei Volodin Piano recital from this young Russian master, featuring works by Haydn, Beethoven, Chopin and Prokofiev. Concertgebouw, Kleine Zaal, 20.15, €28 Classical: Johannes-Passion With the Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists; conducted by Sir John Eliot Gardiner. Concertgebouw, Grote Zaal, 20.15, €61.50/€72.50 Opera: Nederlands Blazers Ensemble Performing that Rossini opera staple The Barber of Seville with authentic period instruments. Muziekgebouw, 20.30, €28.50 Singer-songwriter: Patrick Watson The Canadian singer-songwriter’s fifth performance in Amsterdam in recent times. Last time he sold out the Kleine Zaal, and now he’s gone and filled the Grote Zaal.

Compared to Nick Drake, Jeff Buckley and Antony and the Johnsons, expect an impressive vocal performance. Paradiso, Grote Zaal, 20.30, sold out Pop/Rock: Tegan and Sara Sassy guitar pop from these lovable Canadian twins. Support from Northern State. Melkweg, Oude Zaal, 20.30, sold out Pop: Bloemetjes Buiten A funky pop and hiphop special featuring Julian and The Melodynamics. Winston Kingdom, 21.00, €5 Jazz: Bucket Big Band Casablanca Muziek, 21.00, free Jazz: Jeroen van Vliet Trio These days, this piano trio step away from the jazz norm with flourishes of electronica. Tonight the group will present their new CD, The Poet & Other Tales. Bimhuis, 21.00, €14 Pop/Rock: Lemon, Sykosonics Sweet-but-not-bitter melodic pop from Lemon. The infectious guitar pop of locals Sykosonics is the real steal of this show, as they hopefully gear up for getting back in the limelight with their new album Pull Me Home on the horizon. Cafe Pakhuis Wilhelmina, 21.00, €5 Experimental: OK Vancouver OK Lo-fi layering of melodies and freak folk, unsurprisingly from Vancouver. With French outfits Francois Virot and Karaocake.

OCCII, 21.00, €5 Jazz: Ploctones Funky jazz crew led by guitarist Anton Goudsmit, tonight also with pianist Harmen Fraanje. Badcuyp, Noordpool, 21.30, €8 Pop/Rock: Club 3voor12 Live radio and TV session featuring sets from The Hot Stewards, Junkie XL and The Cheaters. Desmet Studios, 22.00, free, tickets: www.3voor12.nl Singer-songwriter: Blaudzun Haunting melancholy from this Utrecht-based performer. Paradiso, Kleine Zaal, 22.15, €6 + membership Electronica: Electronicat French electro noise and distortion with pop songs hidden somewhere under the surface. Part of Noodlanding!. Paradiso, 23.30, €8

Friday 21 March Jazz: Jazzbox Parsley Club, 19.00, €10 Americana: Kris Delmhorst A mainstay of the Boston folk scene, she’s in town to promote new album Shotgun Singer. Support from Eilen Jewell. Paradiso, Kleine Zaal, 19.30, €10 + membership Classical: Matthäus-Passion Bach’s ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ for Jesus. The Concertgebouw walls must be desperate for some Wagner at this point, but the Toonkunstkoor Amsterdam, Holland Symfonia and Martini Jongenskoor Sneek are keeping it predictable.

Concertgebouw, Grote Zaal, 19.30, €29.75/€35 Hiphop/R&B: BO! Showcases & Open Mic Urban sounds from M.O. & Brakko, Dominican reggaeton from Ghetto Flow, plus many more locals. Grolsch Music Cafe, 20.00, €5

Patrick Watson, see Thursday

Heavy: Nightwish Symphonic metal from Finland.

They may have lost singer Tarja Turunen, but it didn’t take too long to find another warbling wench to fill her heels. Heineken Music Hall, 20.00, sold out Pop/Rock: The Good Friday Experiment With The Last Attraction (chanson noir), Ken Parson (harpist and all-rounder) and Isis (oriental bellydance). Winston Kingdom, 20.00, €6 Pop/Rock: Arid The vocal comparisons are easy: Buckley, Yorke, Bellamy... Sadly, when it comes to creativity and originality, there aren’t that many positives to report. But hey, they’re melodic, Belgian and just happy to be. Maybe that’s enough for some. Melkweg, Oude Zaal, 20.30, €14 + membership Opera: Nederlands Blazers Ensemble (See Thursday) Muziekgebouw, 20.30, €28.50 Jazz: Brown vs Brown For the past four years, this fiery quartet, featuring sax player Dirk Bruinsma, have been wowing rock audiences as well as the more traditional jazz crowd. Now they launch new CD Twitch and Shout. Bimhuis, 21.00, €10 Electronica: DJ Shadow & Cut Chemist Back in ’99 they brought you the popular Brainfreeze bootleg.

Nine years on, these two instrumental hiphop and DJ icons are focussed on The Hard Sell. With eight turntables and a series of guitar pedals, expect a fun and friendly collection of breakbeats, samples and extreme turntablism. And hopefully they’ll bring along the big screens again so that you can see exactly what those skilful fingers are up to. Paradiso, Grote Zaal, 21.00, €20 + membership

Punk: Moora Cup! Sets from Union Town and Padded Cell. Winston Kingdom, 20.00, €5 Classical: La Petite Bande A little Easter variation at last, with Bach’s Mass. Concertgebouw, Grote Zaal, 20.15, €40/€47.50 World: Selim Sesler Grubu Clarinettist Selim Sesler is renowned for spreading the joyous sounds of the Roma culture of West Turkey. See Short List. KIT Tropentheater, 20.30, €18 Jazz: Barana Trio, Carlama Orkestar Barana offer up Turkish jazz fusion, despite being based in Utrecht.

Carlama Orkestar combine the rich Serbian brass band tradition with rhythms and melodies from all over the Balkan region. Bimhuis, 21.00, €15 Rock: Letz Zep They don’t have the snazziest Led Zeppelin tribute name. Competing for that would be Whole Lotta Led, Led Zepagain, Led Zepplica and, of course, Dread Zeppelin. But what’s in a name when you already have the reputation of being one of the best tribute bands in the world? Melkweg, Oude Zaal, 21.00, €20 + membership Americana: Goesting Folky homegrown Americana.

Maloe Melo, 22.00, €5

Pop/Rock: The Polaroids Melodic guitar pop. Skek, 21.30, free Pop/Rock: Club Of High Eyebrows The new band of Rudeboy, who you may remember playing with League of XO Gentlemen, Junkie XL and, of course, Urban Dance Squad. Cafe Pakhuis Wilhelmina, 22.00, €7.50 Soul: Juicebox Raw Amsterdam soul party. Maloe Melo, 22.00, €5 Experimental: MKM! KapotMoet! The DIY extremities of hardcore noise, punk, rave and rap. Featuring sets from T03cutt3r (Australia), Realicide (US), Toxic Chicken (UK/US) and a bunch of locals, too. OCCII, 22.00, €5 Funk: Dutch Rare Groove Band Fat soul and funk, with Oscar Harris and Jimi Bellmartin. Badcuyp, Noordpool, 23.00, €8

Saturday 22 March Classical: Radio Filharmonisch Orkest Performing Rihm’s Memoria for the first time in the Netherlands, and Bruckner’s Symphony No.3 in D; conducted by Jaap van Zweden. Concertgebouw, Grote Zaal, 14.15, €28 Classical: IJ-Salon Pianist Kristian Bezuidenhout is joined by members of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Muziekgebouw, 15.00, €17.50 Classical: Matthäus Passion I wonder if the Dudok Ensemble considered performing any works by Skid Row. De Duif, 15.30, €25 Pop/Rock: Stofpop Six young bands rocking out to impress. Sugar Factory, 19.30, €5

The Kills Rock: The Kills It’s 2008 and this Brit-American indie rock duo are still taking audiences to the seedy recesses of their minds, this time with their album Midnight Boom. It may be minimal, raw and chaotic, but the buzz is growing and fans are falling headover-heels for the dark chemistry between this boy, girl and a drum machine. Melkweg, The Max, 22.00, €12.50 + membership

Sunday 23 March Jazz: Matthäus-Passion Double bassist Egon Kracht brings some jazzy swing to Easter with his ensemble.

Kleine Komedie, 20.15, €14.50-€18.50 Americana: Americana Night Sets from Markowski, Ndromeda and MaRain. Winston Kingdom, 21.00, €6 Jazz: Dré Pallemaerts’ Pan Harmonie Belgian drummer Dré Pallemaerts is a member of the Belmondo-Yusef Lateef Sextet, the Belmondo Quintet, the Baptiste Trotignon-David El Malek Quartet and the Bill

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20-26 March 2008 Carrothers Trio. As busy as he is, last year he released his own album Pan Harmonie with an all-star line-up.

Bimhuis, 21.00, €15

Jazz: Brokkenavond Corrie van Binsbergen’s monthly night with sets from BLO #3 and Joost Buis. Zaal 100, 21.00, €5

World: Festa do Brasil 11 A traditional Brazilian party for Easter. Expect spectacular capoeira displays, live salsa and forró, Latin dance and DJs. Melkweg, Oude Zaal, 21.00, €20 + membership

Pop/Rock: La Luna On the Road Indie and alternative rock from Satellite7, Zenith Of Abolition and Boilersuit.

Winston Kingdom, 21.00, €6

Pop/Rock: John Gration Combination A fusion between jazz, blues, bossas and ballads. Skek, 21.30, free Electronica: Sander Kleinenberg A six-hour set from the Dutch producer/DJ. Upstairs in the Kleine Zaal, his Little Mountain Recordings label will be showcasing sets from Patch Park, James Nidecker, Dan Sanders and Yourdee. Paradiso, Grote Zaal, 23.00, €25

Jazz: Marilyn Crispell Trio A master of improv and free jazz, last year American pianist Marilyn Crispell released the album Shifting Grace with French cellist Vincent Courtois and Italian drummer Michele Rabbia.

Tonight they reconvene to bring it to life and shoot off in new directions. Bimhuis, 21.00, €16

Monday 24 March Classical: Het Nederlands Fluitorkest Bruch’s Kol Nidrei and works by John Zorn, Jeff Hamburg and Prokofiev. Muziekgebouw, 15.00, €15 Bluegrass: Whiskey Puppy Boot stompin’ bluegrass trio from Portland, Oregon. With the Tennessee Studs.

See Short List. Cafe 't Monumentje, 20.00, free Jazz: Matthäus-Passion (See Sunday) Kleine Komedie, 20.15, €14.50-€18.50 Opera: Opera per Tutti! Weekly performance by De Nieuwe Opera Academie. Vondelkerk, 20.15, €20 Jazz: Band of Gypsys Reloaded To many, guitarist Jean-Paul Bourelly is considered the finest interpreter of the works of Jimi Hendrix. With Band of Gypsys Reloaded, this power trio again pay tribute to the versatile and intense career of the late rock star. Bimhuis, 21.00, €18 Jazz: Biggles Big Band Casablanca Muziek, 21.00, free Big band: Groove Collectors A gang of musicians pulled together to help the funk flourish and the groove grow. Sugar Factory, 21.00, €5 World: Soirée Senegalaise Funky polyrhythmic Afropop from Senegalese maestro Fallou Dieng. Melkweg, Oude Zaal, 21.00, €16 + membership Experimental: DNK-Amsterdam Four sets of raw sounds, featuring Datashock (German drones), Time Life (free jammers from New York), Nonhorse (tape DJ) and Crank Sturgeon (comedy noise). OT301, 21.30, €5 World: Kwami Experience A rich South African blend of jazz, soul, funk and hiphop. Paradiso, Kleine Zaal, 22.15, €8.50 + membership

Tuesday 25 March Singer-songwriter: Laura Marling A folky youngster from Reading, England. This lass has already toured with English hipster Jamie T but is certainly less annoying. Paradiso, Kleine Zaal, 19.30, sold out Classical: Budapest Festival Orchestra A classical journey into the gypsy world, heading from Vienna to Budapest. Featured are works by Liszt, Brahms and De Sarasate. See Short List. Concertgebouw, Grote Zaal, 20.15, €43.50/€51.50 Classical: Christian Gerhaher The baritone performs some Brahms, backed by pianist Gerold Huber. Concertgebouw, Kleine Zaal, 20.15, €38.50 Hiphop/R&B: Chamillionaire Grammy Award-winning rapper from Texas. Melkweg, Oude Zaal, 21.00, €25 + membership

Wednesday 26 March Pop/Rock: Fight Live Cancer benefit concert with diverse live sets. Hotel Arena, 20.00, €17.50 Pop/Rock: The National Bank Melodic and atmospheric works by Norwegian singer-songwriter Thomas Dybdahl with members of Jaga Jazzist. Paradiso, Kleine Zaal, 20.00, €10 + membership Classical: Barbara Kozelj With the mezzosoprano projecting a French atmosphere. Backed by pianist Phyllis Ferwerda. Bethaniënklooster, 20.15, €16.50 Classical: Budapest Festival Orchestra Performing Dvorák’s Cello Concerto in B and Bruckner’s Seventh; conducted by Iván Fischer, with cellist Pieter Wispelwey. Concertgebouw, Grote Zaal, 20.15, €51/€60.50 Classical: Rising Stars With cellist Efe Baltacigil and pianist Anna Polonsky. Concertgebouw, Kleine Zaal, 20.15, €29.50 Experimental: Local Stop Sets by Ivo Bol & Amstel Quartet, Robert van Heumen and Marko Ciciliani.

STEIM, 20.30, €5

22 Pistepirkko Pop/Rock: 22 Pistepirkko Finnish rock ’n’ roll meets folk and even little bits of electro, with this colourful bunch edging towards their 30th year. Paradiso, Kleine Zaal, 22.30, €9 + membership

CLUBS Thursday 20 March Gewoon Gastvrij The new chilled club evening for all your house and minimal needs. Club 8, 22.00-03.00, free Intuition Monumental trance and house sounds.

Leading the party is German DJ/producer Markus Schulz, backed by First State, Eelke Kleijn and Menno de Jong. Melkweg, The Max, 22.00-late, €22.95 + membership Kortsluiting Electronic freshness from the pockets of Nuno dos Santos and the Groove Addicts. The main pull this time around are sets from Melon, Jarno vs Nuno dos Santos and Aron Friedman. Studio 80, 23.00-05.00, €7 Wildvreemd Getting all excited about French DJ Chris Carrier. Support from Lupe and Kouam Djoko. Sugar Factory, 23.00-05.00, €10

Friday 21 March Fridays at The Mansion This party doesn’t need much goading, but just in case there’s Dacka and Deepmac. The Mansion, 19.00-03.00, €5 Caput #2 Fetching electro from Mr Miyagi (Sweden), The Riptide, Intifida Sound System and others. Club 8, 22.00-04.00, €10 Awakenings The Amsterdam Special. Westergasfabriek, 22.00-07.00, sold out LEF! It’s all about the dance passion, but not in that Christian way. Odeon, 23.00-05.00, €12 Twisted Stereo With Benny Rodrigues, Sidney Samson, Quintino, Ray Fox, Tony Cha Cha and Kriss-One. Escape, 23.00-05.00, €15 Vendredi In the Friday mix with The Mole (Wagon Repair, Canada) and Aron Friedman. Flex Bar, 23.0005.00, €10 Voidd & Minimaal Feestmaal Weekender Two days of solid house, minimal, techhouse and techno goodies. Tonight, Minimaal Feestmaal take Studio 1, with Voidd in Studio 2. Tomorrow the roles are reversed.

Studio 80, 23.00-06.00, €13 day ticket; €19 weekend pass klinch: Conflict Not so progressive dance tunes this week. Sure, there’s experimental dubstep, drum & bass and breakbeats, but the aural chaos conflicts with the big booty vibe. Melkweg, Oude Zaal, 23.00late, €11 + membership Treetz A young adult clubbing experience that’s part urban, part pop and part dance. Basically, rather eclectic. With DJs Chuckie, Sunnery James & Ryan Marciano, Hardwell vs Rehab and Carita la Nina. Melkweg, The Max, 23.00-late, €18

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14 Rednose Distrikt Cool grooves from Steven de Peven and Aardvarck. Bitterzoet, 23.59-04.00, €7.50 Oi invites Rinse FM Featuring drum & bass legend Shy FX and a clutch of noise terrorists from the underground London scene. Paradiso, 23.59-late, €12.50

Saturday 22 March 15 Minutes Eight DJs have 15 minutes each to blow away the audience. Guests include Tom Trago, Switch, Mickster, Cinnaman, Gomes, Jah, Jerry (prtysqd) and Herrie Gekkehuis. Bitterzoet, 22.0004.00, €5 Bassculture #4 Reggae love vibe. OT301, 22.0005.00, €7 Awakenings The UK Special. Westergasfabriek, 22.00-07.00, sold out We Play House With DJs G-string and Peel Seamus.

Cafe Pakhuis Wilhelmina, 22.00-late, €5 Au10tique Deep house and soul with Rutger Docter working the decks all night. De Kring, 22.30-04.00, €8 Rich! With Quintino, Marc Benjamin, Robert Feelgood, Irwan and Franck. Hotel Arena, 23.00-04.00, €16 Club Pera Urban oriental dance beats from Istanbul to Beirut. Paradiso, Kleine Zaal, 23.00-05.00, €12 Fightclub The one year anniversary party, featuring Vicarious Bliss, Vance, Kid Reve and the Fanklub DJs. See Short List. Flex Bar, 23.00-05.00, €9 Koppig XXL Eclectic sounds. Odeon, 23.00-05.00, €12.50 Fck Minimal…Go Maximal! Uptown top ranking with dancefloor hits, funky techno and rocking electro house. Ruigoord, 23.00-06.00, €10 Voidd & Minimaal Feestmaal Weekender (See Friday) Studio 80, 23.00-06.00, €13 day ticket; €19 weekend pass Bassline With DJs SP, Abstract & Cream and MCs Fit & ShockWave. Paradiso, Grote Zaal, 23.59-05.00, €12 Rex...Electronation Live During the Easter weekend, Electronation have got something special going on with their Easter Weekender. Kicking things off, Marc Romboy (DE) and Thomas Lauren lead the bouncing bunny pack tonight. Sugar Factory, 23.59-05.00, €15 Gemengd Zwemmen Two rooms of swimmingly diverse noise. In The Max, it’s classic hiphop and funk; in the Oude Zaal, there’s alternative dance, pop, rock and indie hits. Melkweg, 23.59-late, €9

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T-Dansant Celebrating eight years with legendary American house DJ Ron Carroll and mixmaster Ben Liebrand. Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky, 17.00-00.00, €28 OntFront Apparel Those masked party animals launch their new clothing range and website with a serving of hiphop and nu-soul. Bitterzoet, 21.00-04.00, €5 Lekker Elastiek Happy hippy bunny rabbits feeding on techno and minimal. Club 8, 22.00-03.00, €5 Awakenings The Detroit Special, with the likes of Patrice Bäumel, Carl Craig and Kevin Saunderson.

Westergasfabriek, 22.00-07.00, €37.50 Urge Contemporary urban sounds for fans of street fashion. Odeon, 23.00-04.00, €12 Latin Lovers Sauce and romance from Benny Rodrigues, Gregor Salto, D-Rashid, Chris Rox, Jasper Clash, Sunnery James, Ryan Marciano and Norman Soares. The Powerzone, 23.00-05.00, €15 Neon Rockstars More Easter Electronation, with Alden Tyrell (live), Tron, The Walk & Roger Seventytwo and others. Studio 80, 23.00-06.00, €10 klinch: Junkie XL Tiësto may well be Holland’s, if not the world’s biggest DJ, but Junkie XL is arguably more creative and certainly much more sonically diverse.

Tonight he launches new album Booming Back At You with support from Mr Wix, Lyrical Tie and The Walk & Rogerseventytwo. Melkweg, The Max, 23.00-late, €14 + membership

Monday 24 March Cheeky Monday True skool jungle and drum & bass, featuring players from the local and international scenes. Winston Kingdom, 21.00-03.00, €6

Wednesday 26 March Black Star Wednesday Dancehall and reggae resurrection. Bitterzoet, 21.30-03.00, €7.50

Opening Anton Heyboer Diverse works in a career overview of this renowned eccentric, who died in 2005. Included are photo collages, etchings, drawings and cartoons.

See Short List. Jan van der Togt Museum (Wed-Sun 13.00-17.00), Amstelveen, opens Thursday, until 4 May

Thursday 20 March Music: Nicky Nicole Miss Nicky Nicole—and a flock of DJs—will bring you in the weekend mood at this small and cozy venue with a young and loud crowd.

Club Roque, 21.00

Barbara Wijnveld A series of self portraits utilising varied painting and drawing techniques. Galerie Bart (Thur, Fri 11.00-18.00, Sat 12.00-17.00), opens Thursday, until 26 April Henk Langeveld Drawings from the past 25 years, by the artist who began his career designing posters for Melkweg and the Vondelpark Theatre. De Nieuwe Anita (Daily), opens Thursday, until 5 April

Friday 21 March Party: Cruise Control For the second time this Queerparty Électronique—quite popular in Utrecht—returns to our city. Don’t miss out on the electro beats, quirky performances and the fun, mixed crowd. Profits will go to the Polish campaign against homophobia. Vrankrijk, 23.00-03.00, €3.50

Saturday 22 March Sex club: Club Trash Men-only leather and fetish party held at Thermos Day sauna, which means you’ve got five floors to trash it out. Strict dress-code: leather, rubber, army, etcetera. No jeans! Thermos Day Sauna, 22.00-04.00, €20/25 Party: UNK Monthly gay/mixed party in the western part of town, held above the Aldi supermarket. DJ Lupe and his crowd spin electro and underground beats. Club 8, 22.00-05.00, €8

Sunday 23 March Meet and Greet Round off your weekend with a selection of Dutch snacks and poppy tunes in what must be the tiniest gay bar in town. Not for claustrophobes. De Engel van Amsterdam, 13.00-01.00 DJ night: Prik Pasen Party Easter special. Find an egg—or a cute boy. All Easter Cocktails are €5 PRIK, 16.00-late

Sport: Nude Swimming Weekly nude-swimming hour, which is actually not gay but has been taken over by a herd of happy homos who don’t mind swimming without their AussieBum, Speedo or Calvin Klein—or with the occasional woman. Het Marnix, 21.00-22.00, €3,50

STAGE Opening Music/Dance: Burn the Floor Ballroom and Latin dance drama burning its way back into the mainstream. Carré, (Thur-Sun 20.00, Mon 15.00, 19.00), €15-€45 Performance: Bull Dancing This comic-dramatic dance based on the story of the death and resurrection of a bull, framed by singing and percussion, is still celebrated by different communities in Brazil as a social, political, cultural and collective ritual. Performed by Hetveem Theater. Frascati, (Sat 20.30), €12 Theatre: Tolken An absurd and hallucinatory story about a refugee in Belgium, as viewed by the media and the man on the street. By Theater Rast and Toneelgroep Ceremonia. In Dutch. Stadsschouwburg, (Thur 20.15), €12-€23 Theatre: Spring During the John Everett Millais exhibition, Olivier Provily presents a piece about five young women moving through time. Shreds of poetry and music underscore their unfulfilled longings. The weather and the passing of the seasons are also interwoven throughout, as the public watch from behind glass. Van Gogh Museum, (Fri 20.00), museum entry cost Theatre: De Kaukasische Krijtkring One of Bertolt Brecht’s most important plays, The Caucasian Chalk Circle takes us to a southern Russian village where the peasants must escape the misery of the Second World

ART More listings at www.amsterdamweekly.nl.

Edited by Willem de Blaauw.

Tuesday 25 March Sunday 23 March

War by settling a land dispute. This time, Noord Nederlands Toneel bring this ‘play within a play’ to life. In Dutch. Stadsschouwburg, (Fri 20.15), €12-€23

20-26 March 2008

Spielplatz Performance: Spielplatz For one night only, Sugar Factory will be transformed into a flamboyant, fancy circus tent. The space will be revamped and divided into different areas within which performances, activities, photo shoots and more, take place. Guests include Sven Ratzke, Hanneke Kuijpers and many more. See Short List. Sugar Factory, (Fri 21.30), €10 Dance: Boogie Nights A multidisciplinary dance performance from United-C. Melkweg Theater, (Fri-Sun 20.30), €9 Dance: Dream Play Nederlands Dans Theater II perform three works: Dream Play by Johan Inger; Skulls and Bees by Stijn Celis; and Mammatus by Medhi Walerski. See Short List. Stadsschouwburg, (Sat 20.15), €12-€25 Music/Dance: Peña Flamenco special with live music and dance. Meneer de Wit, (Sat 21.00), €5 Theatre: That Night Follows Day A piece by Tim Etchells starring children, which highlights the systems of parenthood, education, discipline and care, all with a large dose of humour and clarity. In Dutch.

De Brakke Grond, (Tues, Wed 20.30), €14

Ongoing Performance: Varekai Yet another Cirque du Soleil touring monster. This one is based loosely on the Greek myth of Icarus, and as you’d expect, features acrobatics and theatrical circus trickery on a scale most wouldn’t dare. Throw in the elaborate costumes and purposefully created live score, and it’ll be packing in audiences through May. Under the Grand Chapiteau, (Daily), €25-€74 Music/Theatre: The Little Shop of Horrors One of the most entertaining and fun family musicals/films ever, this tale of a man-eating plant set to a catchy ’60s Motown-style score is being brought back to life

by Amsterdam’s own Queen’s English Theatre Company with help from Barrie Stevens. In English. CREA Theater, (Thur 20.00, Fri 18.00, 21.00), €20

Julia Willms: Urban Woods Willms’ video installations explore the limits of perception between illusion and reality. Produced in situ, her projections modify, extend and disturb the surrounding space. Plan B (Thur 19.00-22.00, Fri-Sun 16.00-17.00), opens Thursday, closing Sunday Lalla Essaydi In the photography series Converging Territories Essaydi brings different worlds together.

Memories of her youth in Morocco are her most important source of inspiration; in particular the punishments she received when crossing the barriers of acceptable behaviour. Witzenhausen Gallery (Elandsstraat) (Thur-Sat 12.00-18.00), opens Saturday, until 26 April Lucas Lenglet: A Canary in a Coalmine Lenglet continues a series of installations in which he explores the ambiguities of ‘the architecture of security’. His work can be regarded as a visualisation of the increased state of vigilance in Western society, though at the same time he uses the aesthetic means of the sculptor to create a sort of dramaturgy of trust to accompany it. Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam (Tues-Sun 11.00-17.00), opens Saturday, until 12 May

Museums Katsutoshi Yuasa Monumental woodcuts based on the Japanese artist’s own photographs. CoBrA Museum (Tues-Sun 11.00-17.00), until 30 March Van Binnenuit Freaky photos of Cirque du Soleil’s Varekai, captured backstage by Marco Cisaria.

Centrale Bibliotheek (Daily), until 30 March Taryn Simon—An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar In her second of two shows at Foam, award-winning photographer Simon assumes the dual role of shrewd informant and collector of curiosities, compiling an inventory of what lies hidden and out-ofview within the borders of the US. Foam (Sat-Wed 10.00-18.00, Thur, Fri 10.00-21.00), until 6 April

Dance: On the Move Het Nationale Ballet showcases a work by Alexei Ratmansky. His ballet Russian Seasons is inspired by the seasonal changes of the Russian Orthodox calendar, but, above all, the work is an ode to and highly individual interpretation of the art of dance. Also featuring Mark Morris’ Sandpaper Ballet and Harald Lander’s Études. Het Muziektheater, (Thur, Sat, Wed 20.15, Sun 14.00), €16-€33.50 Comedy: Comedy Explosion New and used stand-up comics doing their thing. In Dutch. Comedy Theater, (Thur-Sat 20.30), €12.50 Comedy: easylaughs Comedy improv in English. Two knee-slapping shows every Friday night. CREA Muziekzaal, (Fri 20.30, 22.30), €8, €5 (late night) Performance: Improfiësta Fun and games from Theatersport Vereniging Amsterdam. In Dutch. CREA Theater, (Sat 20.30), €8 Performance: Tease-à-GoGo Amsterdam’s Burlesque entertainment night. Comedy Theater, (Sat 23.00), €17.50 Theatre: Angels in America The Pulitzer-award winning, and somehow surreal, play by Tony Kushner about fear, death, hope and love. On weekdays the play is split over two consecutive days, on Saturdays it’s brought together in one marathon session. By Toneelgroep Amsterdam. In Dutch. Stadsschouwburg, (Wed 20.15), €12-€25

Ruth van Beek: Reconstructions Ruth van Beek: Reconstructions Van Beek collects random snapshots, passport photos, slides and albums, as well as pictures from newspapers and old books. By folding and cutting the material she gives the images new meaning, creating a hybrid which combines photography and drawing. Foam (Sat-Wed 10.00-18.00, Thur, Fri 10.00-21.00), until 9 April De Koers van de Stad Helping to visualise the growth and future transitions planned for Amsterdam and the surrounding region. ARCAM (Tues-Sat 13.00-17.00), until 12 April

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Amsterdam Weekly portraits are presented. Joods Historisch Museum (Daily 11.00-17.00), until 8 June

Nelson Carrilho Paintings and objects. BIHP (ThurSat 12.00-18.00), until 13 April

Galleries

Building Lightness Architectural designs that embrace ‘lightness’. Fonds BKVB (Mon-Fri 10.0017.00), until 18 April

Serial Photography Three contemporary artists show recent work: Peter Cleutjens, Hans Eijkelboom and Katrin Korfmann. All three have a serial documentary approach to photography in the public space. 2x2projects (Wed-Sat 13.00-18.00) Between the Light and the Dark Multidisciplinary exhibits from Chinese artists Wang Jianwei, Ni Haifeng and Tiong Ang dealing with the theme ‘Chineseness’. Canvas International Art (Thur-Sat 14.00-18.00), Amstelveen, closing Saturday Michael Kirkham: Hotel Grande Abyss Lust, sex, pornography and lack of control are all prevalent themes in the paintings of this British artist. Aschenbach & Hofland Galleries (Wed-Sat 12.00-17.00), closing Saturday Laurens Hensbergen & Goran Turnsek Political and social issues are brought to the fore in the paintings of Hensbergen. Slovenian artist Turnsek takes inspiration from sport. AYAC’S (Fri, Sat 13.00-17.30), closing Saturday Metal Heart Delving into the arty dark side of the metal subculture, embracing the angst, blackness and (anti)religious aspects. Expect diverse works by a host of artists, from pop-surrealism to contemporary digital reworkings of classic metal imagery. Planetart (ThurSat 14.00-18.00), closing Saturday Barbara Massiglia, Erik Leeman Black-and-white fashion photography and portraits by Massiglia; landscapes and macro shots by Leeman. Fotogram (Mon-Thur 09.30-21.00, Fri, Sat 09.30-17.00), closing Wednesday James Aldridge: Halo of Flies Paintings and paper cut-outs by the UK artist. Galerie Gabriel Rolt (Wed-Sat 12.00-18.00), until 29 March Levi van Veluw & Laetitia Gendre Photography/film and installation/drawings. Ronmandos (Wed-Sat 12.30-18.00), until 29 March Lucy + Jorge Orta Two projects by Anglo-Argentine artist duo Lucy and Jorge Orta: Antarctic Village—No Borders and Fallujah. Included are drawings, sculptures and installations. Motive Gallery (Wed-Sat 13.00-18.00), until 29 March

Barbara Wijnveld, see Opening

Alexandra Bircken: Units Brit artist Bircken adopts an unorthodox approach to sculpture. She constructs wobbly armatures of bent twigs and tree branches and then stretches between them brightly coloured wools and other materials. Stedelijk Museum CS (Daily 10.00-18.00), until 13 April Hidden Afghanistan A deluxe exhibition presenting a ‘not war-torn’ vision of this nation at the crossroads of civilisations in central Asia. At its core, 250 archaeological objects will be displayed. Nieuwe Kerk (Fri-Wed 10.00-18.00, Thur 10.00-22.00), until 20 April Show Yourself Diverse excerpts of work by and about Benno Premsela. Stadsarchief Amsterdam (Tues-Sat 10.00-17.00, Sun 11.00-17.00), until 27 April Benno Premsela—Voorvechter van Homo-Emancipatie Books, magazines and photos highlighting the history of acclaimed designer and gay rights activist Premsela. Centrale Bibliotheek (Daily), until 27 April Art Nouveau The best of French and Russian art nouveau. Hermitage Amsterdam (Daily 10.00-17.00), until 5 May MAGNUM Photos 60 years Since 1947, the MAGNUM agency has been providing images of landmark world events. This collection uses photographs, books and texts to illustrate the history of MAGNUM year by year, giving visitors the opportunity to view work by 83 photographers. Stedelijk Museum CS (Daily 10.0018.00), until 12 May John Everett Millais He was the foremost painter of the English Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, and Britain’s most successful artist in the latter half of the 19th century. His jewel-like, highly detailed paintings exude a dreamy, serene atmosphere, and this exhibition comprises some 100 works, covering all aspects of Millais’ career. Van Gogh Museum (Mon-Thur, Sat, Sun 10.0018.00, Fri 10.00-22.00), until 18 May Maria Sibylla Merian & Daughters—Women of Art and Science Containing the most important and influential natural history art from 17th century Netherlands, this exhibition features more than a hundred rarely displayed masterpieces, including original drawings, watercolours, gouaches, prints and books. Rembrandthuis (Mon-Sat 10.00-17.00, Sun 11.00-17.00), until 18 May Tobias Rehberger: the chicken-and-egg-no-problem wall-painting The first major Dutch retrospective

of works by German artist Tobias Rehberger, who in the mid-’90s gained an international reputation for objects and installations at the interface of fine art, design and architecture. Stedelijk Museum CS (Daily 10.00-18.00), until 25 May Edwin Zwakman: Fake But Accurate A retrospective of well-known Dutch photographer Zwakman, in which his three latest series can be seen together for the first time. Huis Marseille (Tues-Sun 11.00-18.00), until 25 May Boek Zoekt Lezer A historical overview of Dutch literature, showcasing advertising from the 17th century to the present. UvA: Special Collections Library (Mon-Fri 10.00-17.00, Sat, Sun 13.00-17.00), until 28 May

Porn Your Life Dutch artist Marcello Segal explores the themes of voyeurism and exhibitionism in various media. Galerie Masters (Thur-Sat 13.00-17.00), until 29 March Uitbraak The Meneer de Wit showcase exhibition, featuring diverse contemporary works by inhouse artists.

Meneer de Wit (Wed-Sun 14.00-18.00), until 29 March Eleni Tzatzalos: Ne Quittez Pas New sculptures, photographs and drawings detailing the symbiosis of humans and nature. Suzanne Biederberg Gallery (Wed-Sat 14.00-18.00), until 30 March Meeting of the Sexes Group exhibition showing paintings, mixed media, sculptures in bronze, ceramic and platinum. In Fusion Gallery (Tues-Sat 11.00-18.30, Sun 12.00-18.00), until 1 April

Eyes Wide Open The Stedelijk Museum presents a selection of recently acquired paintings, photographs, examples of film and video art, sculptures and graphic works by artists working in the Netherlands or elsewhere. Stedelijk Museum CS (Daily 10.00-18.00), until 1 June

Levi van Veluw, Laetitia Gendre Featuring Landscapes, a four-piece photo series, plus video work and other photos by Van Veluw. Fast Fade to Grey Grey Grey by Gendre is a drawing installation. Ronmandos (Wed-Sat 12.30-17.30), until 5 April

Jessica Dimmock—The Ninth Floor An exhibition of socially-engaged photography by the young American photographer. This disturbing portrait series features a group of young heroin addicts living in a ninth-floor apartment in Manhattan, New York. Simultaneously sympathetic and ruthless, Dimmock takes a disconcertingly close view of her subject. Foam (Sat-Wed 10.00-18.00, Thur, Fri 10.00-21.00), until 1 June

Guide to ruined Buildings in the Netherlands XIXXXI Century Lara Almarcegui’s photos often explore neglected or overlooked sites, where the planned and unplanned use of urban space becomes visible.

Revealing their identity in her guides, she highlights each location’s tendency towards entropy. Ellen de Bruijne Projects/Dolores (Tues-Sat 13.00-18.00), until 5 April

Daniel & Geo Fuchs: STASI—Secret rooms This exhibition opens up the hidden rooms once used by the STASI, the infamous East German secret service, in a series of monumental photos. While much of the former DDR infrastructure has been destroyed or given an entirely new function, the clandestine spaces that Daniel and Geo Fuchs photographed are still in their original condition. Foam (Sat-Wed 10.00-18.00, Thur, Fri 10.00-21.00), until 4 June Superheroes and Schlemiels Superman, Maus, The Rabbi’s Cat and many other heroes and anti-heroes from the art of comics feature in this exhibition of comics and graphic novels by Jewish artists. Joods Historisch Museum (Daily 11.00-17.00), until 8 June Kurt Lubinski: Photographer in Exile Although this German émigré photographer is now relatively unknown, he gained a significant reputation as a successful photojournalist for his travel reportage in the ’20s and ’30s. Here, a collection of his documentary

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To Burn Oneself with Oneself: The Romantic Damage Show Romanticism is back with a vengeance.

Romantic themes exert an almost universal attraction, which is why they resurface at regular intervals. But what’s really going on? De Appel (Tues-Sun 11.0018.00), until 6 April Kris Dewitte: Still Project Blending her love of film and photography, Dewitte presents shots and portraits of the world’s biggest film stars and directors. Melkweg Galerie (Wed-Sun 13.00-20.00), until 6 April Wyman Shoots His fine art photos have been shown across the world over the past couple of years—even previously in Rotterdam. Now The Rolling Stones’ bassist brings his work here. Yoshiko Matsumoto Gallery (Wed-Sar 13.30-18.30), until 12 April Jan Adriaans, Basje Boer, Antje Peters Photography. Amsterdams Centrum voor Fotografie (Wed-Fri 13.00-17.00, Sat 11.00-17.00), until 12 April

(De)Construct Contemporary Cuban art: aquarelles

by Armando Mariño; photos by Liset Castillo; and installations by Inti Hernandez. Galerie Hof & Huyser (Wed-Sat 13.00-18.00), until 19 April It Ain’t Necessarily So A synthesis of Rogi Wieg’s poetry and Elizabeth Kleinveld’s photography, which together tell the story of the transformative effect of having to rebuild anew in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Dikker&Thijs Fenice Hotel (Mon-Sat 17.00-23.00), until 20 April Jason Eden Collages by the American artist, inspired

by Playboy. Galerie Rademakers (Tue-Sun 11.0017.30), until 20 April Wubbo de Jong A selection of photos by De Jong, who spent 28 years working as a photographer for Het Parool. Blow Up Gallery (Thur, Fri 14.00-18.00, Sat 13.00-18.00), until 2 May Judith van Bilderbeek Colourful paintings by the Den Haag artist. Ververs Gallery (Thur-Sat 12.00-17.30), until 3 May Jozef van Ruyssevelt: In de Ban van het Licht Paintings by the late Flemish virtuoso artist. Galerie de Rietlanden Exposities (Sat, Sun 13.00-17.00), until 4 May Joram Roukes Drawings and paintings. Carhartt Store (Daily), until 7 May Chris Shaw: Life as a Night Porter Shaw spent 10 years working in London hotels, all the while using his camera to both document the hotel’s unexpected human spectacles and keep himself awake through the long hours of his shifts. Hup Gallery (Tues, Thur, Fri 10.00-17.00), until 1 June Hairbusiness: Heads and Tales An interactive multimedia installation bringing to life the intimate world of the hairdresser, where guards are let down—both physically and emotionally—as you stare into the mirror. Imagine IC (Tues, Wed, Fri, Sat 11.00-17.00, Thur 11.00-21.00), until 14 June

EVENTS Event: Spin Awards An ‘inspiration day’ for diverse creative types. See www.spinawards.nl. Pakhuis de Zwijger, (Thur 11.00-23.00), free, registration required Lecture: Magie van Wetenschap Archaeology lecturer Fokke Gerritsen of the VU talks about 2000 years of archaeology and farming grain and olives in the hinterland of Antioch, now Antakya, Turkey. In Dutch.

KNAW, (Thur 12.30), free Event: Voter Assistance Evenings Learn how to vote in the upcoming election if you’re a US citizen living in the Netherlands. ABC Treehouse, (Thur 19.00), free Lecture: The Future of Ecological Architecture Ecological architecture is a subject much in debate now with the growing consciousness of global warming, especially since it appears that buildings are the first greenhouse gas emitters, before industry, transport and any other sector. The challenge of ecological architecture is a battle against time because of the escalating damage due to colossal real estate and urban development, particularly in developing countries and new hot spots. In English. Nederlands Architectuurinstituut, Rotterdam (Thur 19.00), €5 Talk: Afghanistan & Eten Helen Saberi introduces us to Afghan food in preparation for Nowruz—the first day of the Persian calendar—which just happens to be tomorrow. Nieuwe Kerk, (Thur 20.00), museum entry cost Party: Kick Off Party Introducing young fashion designers to the Fashion Academy Award by createurope. But even if you’re not a designer and just like to look cool, there’s international electronica from DJs Fbrtnz and Akay. 11, (Thur 21.00), €5 Party: 9th Anniversary of Hard Rock Amsterdam Birthday cake and live music. From 20.00, local rockers Absinthe will be performing an acoustic set. Hard Rock Cafe, (Thur), free Festival: Babelfestival The 13th annual celebration of migration, featuring theatre, music, film, lectures and more. This year is all about bridging cultural differences and comes with a programme fully loaded with entertainment. Special guests include Hakim Traïdia, Sabri Saad el Hamus and Helmert Woudenberg. Until 23 March. See www.ostadetheater.nl. Ostadetheater, (Thur-Sun), various prices

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Amsterdam Weekly Film/Music: Rocket Cinema Part one of De Nieuwe Anita’s Easter Weekend Festival sees the return of Rocket Cinema, with an artist creating a live soundtrack for a classic film. This time Alec Smart turns his aural attention to ’80s Japanese comedy Tampopo. De Nieuwe Anita, (Fri 20.30), €5; €12 weekend ticket Party: Big Night Out Part two of Anita’s Easter Weekend Festival sees DJ Alec Smart get global and funky. Bring on the cocktails. De Nieuwe Anita, (Sat 20.00), €6; €12 weekend ticket Lecture: Architecture, Landscape and Food Jago van Bergen of Van Bergen Kolpa Architecten presents the results of the project Flow Food and the influence of eating habits on the landscape.

2012architecten give a lecture on how a new type of architecture will originate when farming land and urban landscape become basic elements of every

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20-26 March 2008 city. Restaurant As, (Sun 16.00), free, excl food Film: Future Shorts The cutting-edge of the short films scene, hosted by MeccaPANZA Netherlands.

OT301, (Sun 17.00, 20.00), €5 Party: Quiet Night In The best of British comedy and sitcoms with the QNI Players. De Nieuwe Anita, (Sun 20.00), €4; €12 weekend ticket Symposium: 50 Jaar Nederpop Waving goodbye to the Nationaal Pop Instituut with an afternoon programme of music and talks looking back at Dutch pop history, with an occasional glance forward, too.

Fantasio (Nationaal Pop Instituut), (Wed 12.00), free, reservations required Talk: Talk of the Town The role of the creative industry in city development. This edition looks at the case of Overhoeks. In Dutch. Pakhuis de Zwijger, (Wed 18.00), free

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Tempura fugit Kagetsu Van Woustraat 29, 662 7340 Mon-Sun 17.00-23.00 Cash A few nights ago I was seized by a yen for Japanese flavours, and the urge for delicate morsels wrapped in rice and seaweed grew in my tiny mind like a Rising Sun. The beauty of Japanese cuisine is that it’s not subject to the coarse brutality of trendy gastronomic fashion since they are the ones who first came up with the idea of decorated small portions. A white bean sprout, a few artistically scattered orangecoloured carrot shreds, a foetal-positioned pink prawn and a bright green snow pea is all you need to make the ultimate statement. A Zen message to educate the diner. A tasty haiku you can just pop in your mouth.

And besides, I needed a respite from my usual track to robust family-style slow-cooked meals around a groaning dinner table. It was time to play elephant eating plated fleas with chopsticks.

A sympathetic friend recommended Kagetsu as a reasonably priced Japanese eating spot on the Van Woustraat. (There’s another branch at Hartenstraat 17.) With its location near Albert Cuypmarkt for the fresh ingredients, how could my meal go wrong? I was right.

After being welcomed and seated by a pretty logo-wearing waitress, I sat staring popeyed and foolishly at the Japanese menu. What to choose from all the different styles on offer: sashimi, sushi, nigri or tempura? A selection plate was an option but instead I chose random dishes. Many of them.

THE UNDERCOVER GLUTTON The teriyaki sauce had settled into the glutinous rice for the greedy glutton to mix and feed. Miracle beyond miracle, my voluminous tummy was almost filled.

I wanted to start with a taksu (€4.50), thinlysliced, raw octopus marinated in soy and ginger.

But it was sold out. So I chose a fish cake (€3.50) instead, along with a mixed vegetable salad with a

sesame dressing (€4.50) and a temaki handroll with fresh salmon and avocado (€4). And something hot: a rice bowl topped with teriyaki chicken strips and sauce (€6.50).

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As I awaited my tongue massaging, I noted that there was a healthy amount of Japanese diners. I got hungrier.

My tamaki hand roll was the shape and size of a small ice cream cone. The waitress suggested that I eat this first, otherwise the crisply-toasted nori leaf that wrapped around the rice, salmon and avocado, would become soggy. But before inserting in my maw, I had to dunk it into soy sauce mixed with green nose-watering horseradish and pickled ginger. The freshness and flavour was exquisite. Wow. The fish cake was a pink-ringed and whitegelatinous pudding affair served with thinly sliced cabbage, shredded carrot and slivered red onion and one rucola leaf. The flavours were fine but the fish pudding tasted vaguely fishy, chewy and indifferent—I thought about how much the raw octopus would have really rung my bell. The green salad turned out to be lettuce with some seaweed mixed in but the sesame dressing made them come together nicely.

Then came my sweet Samurai War Lord! The rice bowl with the teriyaki chicken strips was a triumph. On the plate was also some shredded lettuce and a tiny garnish splodge of green parsley. The teriyaki sauce had settled into the glutinous rice for the greedy glutton to mix and feed. Miracle beyond miracle, my voluminous tummy was almost filled.

I had a trio of Japanese ice cream balls (€3.50) to finish my healthful meal. The colours of the balls matched the flavours: green tea, black sesame and white sesame, for its perfume. All with creamy textures. At first, I wondered if it was a soy-based product but no, it was just too smooth.

Not only was I now completely full, I felt I had learned a valuable lesson. Little is more. And since life’s short, I really had to return soon to try the tempura.

Tempis fugit. Time’s fleeting.

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20-26 March 2008 OK great! Now give me relaxed but inquisitive.

Two Dutch legends join forces to make a film. The sex is great but the story doesn’t hold up.

THIS SUMMER THE HEAT IS OFF FILM Zomerhitte Opens Thursday at Het Ketelhuis, Pathé ArenA, Pathé de Munt and Pathé Tushinski. In Dutch.

By Luuk van Huët

Thirty-five years after making an unforgettable impression as the lusty but doomed Olga in the film version of Jan Wolkers’ groundbreaking novel Turks Fruit, Monique van de Ven has come full

circle by directing Zomerhitte, an adaptation of the last literary product by the legendary Dutch writer. Sadly, the novella Zomerhitte, which was the Boekenweekgeschenk of 2005, can’t be counted among the best of Wolkers’ oeuvre. It’s a slightly ludicrous work in which all the familiar Wolkerian themes of Sex, Death, Art and Nature are present, but folded into a far-fetched narrative in which a group of heroin smugglers have made the peaceful isle of Texel their base of opera-

tions. It also makes clear that Wolkers didn’t age well thematically: his obsession with shaved genitalia, hairy armpits and blunt dialogue might have caused moral upheaval in the 1960s but felt a little coarse and passé by the time Zomerhitte came out.

The inherent flaws of the novella also hamper the film adaptation, even though the film improves on the written version in some places. The story follows the young photographer Bob Griffioen, who has been sent by National Geographic to do a shoot on Texel wildlife. Bob has recently lost his girlfriend Jara in a terrorist attack in Afghanistan, which he, oh-so-ironically, captured on film. While strolling down the beach in search of photo ops, he encounters a luscious naked woman emerging Venus-like from the surf. This vixen, named Kathleen it turns out, works at the local hipster hangout, besides moonlighting for the local crime lord. When Bob becomes involved in the boss’s shady dealings, he is forced

to question Kathleen’s loyalties.

First of all, the good stuff: the cinematography captures Texel from its most sumptuous side, and while the plot challenges credibility, it does move along briskly. On top of that, the lead actors, Sophie Hilbrand and Waldemar Torenstra, are extremely easy on the eyes and do their best with the material they’re given. However, in the end the bad somewhat outweighs the good. The crime subplot, already laughable in the written version, becomes cartoonish: overacting deprives these clichéd hoodlums of all impact. Cees Geel is remotely believable, because he plays it cool, but the other actors seem to have walked in from an episode of Bassie en Adriaan.

While the initial meeting of Kathleen and Bob cleverly mocks the Dutch cinematic tradition of rampant unnecessary nudity by being set on a nude beach, subsequent sex scenes fall right in line with that same tradition. There’s nothing wrong with seeing beautiful people getting squelchy, but it doesn’t add much to the story.

The main problem is the clunky dialogue. Luckily, the film omits the opening speech concerning the qualities of Kathleen’s girly parts that proved such a huge hurdle in the novella. But it is about as unnatural as dialogue comes, and it’s painful to see the actors struggle with it.

Zomerhitte has clearly been made by a dedicated cast and crew who put much work and effort into it. But the reverence they felt for its disappointing source material seems to have prevented them from rising above it, and getting points for effort isn’t the same thing as making a good film. Summer heat? Nah, just tepid.

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FILM Edited by Julie Phillips.This week’s films reviewed

by Massimo Benvegnù (MB),Angela Dress (AD), Don Druker (DD),Sarah Gehrke (SG),Andrea Gronvall (AG),Luuk van Huët (LvH),JR Jones (JJ),Dave Kehr (DK),Marie-Claire Melzer (MM), Mike Peek (MP),Bart Plantenga (BP),Gusta Reijnders (GR),Jonathan Rosenbaum (JR),Marinus de Ruiter (MdR),Bregtje Schudel (BS),Isabel Serval (IS) and Ted Shen (TS).All films are screened in English with Dutch subtitles unless otherwise noted. Amsterdam Weekly recommends.

Festival Amnesty International Film Festival The annual festival of films dealing with human rights issues opens next Wednesday with Anna: Seven Years on the Front Line, a video documentary, by Russian-Dutch filmmaker Masha Novikova, about the assassinated Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya. All films on the programme have English subtitles (or are in English with Dutch subtitles). KIT Tropentheater, Kleine Zaal, Kriterion, Studio K

New this week Giorni e nuvole Elsa (Margherita Buy) and Michele (Antonio Albanese) are a middle-aged couple who seem to have it all: a beautiful house, a 20-year-old daughter and good friends. Elsa gently restores an ancient fresco and long-hidden angels appear. Out of the blue, Michele tells her that he lost his job two months ago, whereupon the couple’s situation rapidly worsens. They have to sell their apartment; they start quarelling about money. Director Silvio Soldini (Pane

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e Tulipani) shows us a strong woman again: after the first shock, Elsa makes the best of it while Michele lets himself go. But despite fine performances by Albanese and Buy and a nice rhythm, this sober drama stays flat and unsurprising. In Italian with Dutch subtitles. (GR) 115 min. Pathé Tuschinski, Rialto Horton Hears a Who The loopy poetry and plea for tolerance from the beloved book by Dr Seuss have been nicely captured in this CGI adaptation by Blue Sky Studios, a subsidiary of Fox Animation. Jim Carrey supplies the voice of Horton the elephant, and Steve Carell is mayor of the microscopic Who-ville, which only Horton believes exists. The gifted art director Thomas Cardone, a Disney alumnus who worked on Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas, shows the influence of his colleague with the Gothic-inflected architecture and the surly teen JoJo, the smallest and most heroic Who of all. (AG) 86 min. Pathé ArenA, Pathé De Munt Margot at the Wedding Starting with his latest film’s title, Noah Baumbach (The Squid and the Whale) pays obvious homage to all those Eric Rohmer tales about family, relationships and summer vacations. Add some Chekhovian gloom, a ’70s soundtrack, and enough

hysterical East Coast intellectuals for a half dozen Woody Allen films, and you have a pretty good idea what Margot at the Wedding is all about. Margot (Nicole Kidman), a divorced short story writer with adolescent son in tow, travels to the family summer house where her sister Pauline (Jennifer Jason Leigh) is planning to get married to ne’er-do-well Malcolm (Jack Black). Ancient wounds reopen, and the conversation switches to parental abuse, scrotum size and literature imitating life. And we get to see Nicole Kidman climbing a tree. The end result is more unsettling than entertaining. (MB) 93 min. Cinecenter, Het Ketelhuis U2 3D Filmed in South America during the band’s 2005/06 Vertigo Tour, this IMAX film attempts to reproduce or even intensify U2’s stadium-filling energy. 85 min. Pathé ArenA Untraceable FBI cyber-crime specialist Diane Lane tracks a diabolical serial killer who offers streaming video of his kidnapped victims on his website. Each of them is hooked up to some Rube Goldberg torture device, and every new hit on the site incrementally raises the pain level. By now the hypocrisy of simultaneously condemning and exploiting the audience’s sadism has become so commonplace in

American movies it hardly seems noteworthy. Sure enough, when I typed the name of the site—KillWithMe.com—into my browser, Sony Pictures Entertainment had created a facsimile of it to promote the movie. Pardon me while I vomit. ):>O%%%% Gregory Hoblit (Fracture) directed. (JJ) 100 min. Pathé ArenA, Pathé De Munt Zomerhitte Nice bods but no story. See review above.

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Still playing 27 Dresses Katherine Heigl stars as a compulsive bridesmaid—she cultivates friends for the sole purpose of joining their wedding parties. Secretly in love with her boss (Edward Burns), she has to negotiate an emotional obstacle course after he proposes to her dependent and popular younger sister (Malin Akerman). Meanwhile a wedding reporter (James Marsden) has been dogging the older sister’s steps, writing a story about her compulsion. For most of this romantic comedy, fatuous contrivances run neck and neck with what seem to be authentic observations about repressed sibling rivalry; some of the latter are too painful to be funny, and eventually the contrivances win out, but the cast keeps it all watchable.

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Giorni e nuvole Anne Fletcher directed. (JR) 111 min. Pathé ArenA, Pathé De Munt, Pathé Tuschinski Aleksandra Russian master Aleksandr Sokurov (Father and Son, The Sun) places himself in the position of an old woman questioning the motives of men of war.

Aleksandra, played by the opera singer Galina Vishnevskaya, goes to visit her grandson, who is stationed in Grozny with the army. For both the soldiers and the viewers she is a disarming presence at the base, with her dry, motherly comments about the macho habits and phallic-looking weapons she comes across. Aleksandra is based on a marvellous idea; its lack of story development makes it less poignant than it could have been, but it’s still a moving addition to the impressive Sokurov oeuvre. In Russian with Dutch subtitles. (MdR) 92 min. Filmmuseum

Auf der anderen Seite Two coffins pass through the Istanbul airport; for the people left behind, life takes unexpected turns. Fatih Akin’s new film tells the story of six people in Germany and Turkey whose lives are connected by two deaths: the widower Ali and his son Nejat; a woman named Yeter, her daughter Ayten, who meets a girl called Lotte; and Lotte’s mother (Hanna Schygulla). After a sad film about love, Gegen die Wand, Akin has made an optimistic film about mortality, families and forgiveness. The film seems heavily edited—it’s clear the director had a lot more material—but the episodic character of the film saves it from appearing pieced-together. Akin’s screenplay won top honours at Cannes. In German with Dutch subtitles. (SG) 122 min. Rialto The Band’s Visit In this year’s art-house hit, the Alexandria Ceremonial Police Band, a small combo specialising in traditional Arab repertoire, flies from Egypt to Israel to play at the opening of a cultural centre. When their guide fails to meet them at the airport, they take the wrong bus and end up in the wrong city.

To their rescue comes beautiful Dina (Israeli superstar Ronit Elkabetz), the owner of the only café in town, who sees the band’s arrival as both a business opportunity and a chance to relieve the local boredom.

Directed with a firm hand by Eran Kolirin, who also wrote the original screenplay, The Band’s Visit gently lets you inside its unique sense of humour. The moment when the band is finally allowed to play its repertoire is the cherry on top of an appealing cinematic dessert. (MB) 87 min. Kriterion, Rialto Control In this biopic on singer/songwriter Ian Cur-

tis, photographer and video director Anton Corbijn dares to be critical: Ian isn’t a tragic hero, but a bit of a wimp who uses his band as an escape from his own incompetence as a husband and father. The film is beautifully shot in black-and-white, though the stark contrasts and grey hues serve mainly to underline the desolation of the Manchester suburbs, and of Ian himself. (BS) 119 min. Melkweg Cinema

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Darjeeling Limited Sometimes you travel through life with some extra baggage. In the case of the Whitman brothers, it’s a luxury Louis Vuitton set that looks colourful and flashy even in India. A year after their father’s funeral, Francis (Owen Wilson), Peter (Adrien Brody) and Jack (Jason Schwartzman) meet aboard a train for a journey of spiritual healing.

The fact that they have not spoken to each other in a year doesn’t prevent them from getting straight into the family’s old dynamics, which involve manic tics, substance abuse and sexual escapades. But soon both the emotional and the physical baggage starts to fall away. Film-maker Wes Anderson (Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums), much like his characters, has found his grown-up voice. This delicious curry comedy is a rich plate for film-goers, entertaining and poignant, just as it should be. (MB) 108 min. Kriterion Earth This full-length documentary version of the British TV series Planet Earth follows a polar bear family, a herd of elephants and two humpback whales in their daily struggle for survival. Directed by Alastair Fothergill (Deep Blue) and Mark Linfield. 96 min.

Pathé Tuschinski, De Uitkijk How to Get Rid of the Others Danish director Ronow Klarlund delivers an uncompromising and hilarious critique on right-wing populist conservatism in this

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Margot at the Wedding political satire in which Denmark is turned into a fascist state. Drug addicts, the disabled, the unemployed and other social rejects are executed for their failure to contribute to society. When a former government official (Louise Miertiz) blows the whistle, she too is imprisoned in a school gymnasium to await death, along with six other misfits. But if the prisoners can still prove to the charming but cruel army officer in charge that they have done something for the common good, he will have to let them go. (IS) Melkweg Cinema I’m Not There Todd Haynes’s ambitious and daring new film is a biopic in the sense that it depicts the main events in Bob Dylan’s life and career. But they are not told in chronological order, and Haynes uses six different actors to play the singer. The different performers (including Cate Blanchett, Heath Ledger, Christian Bale and the black actor Marcus Carl Franklin) and the constant moving back and forth in time don’t make it easy to identify with any of the Dylans. But simple identification is probably not what Haynes is after. His film is not about Dylan himself, but about the mythmaking around a pop star. I’m Not There has its moments, but in the end it’s more an interesting audiovisual lecture than an overwhelming cinematographic experience. (MM) 135 min. Kriterion, The Movies In the Valley of Elah Paul Haggis critiques the Iraq

War; Tommy Lee Jones delivers. 120 min. Studio K

Juno Juno (Ellen Page) is 16. Juno is full of life and sarcasm. Juno is pregnant. Oops. She gives up the thought of abortion after hearing that her baby has already developed fingernails and instead starts looking for adoptive parents. She finds the perfect couple in Mark and Vanessa. They’re wealthy, nice and Mark might even qualify as cool, since he shares Juno’s taste in music and splatter movies. Ellen Page is beyond perfect as the wisecracking but friendly Juno, who’s bright, yet young and naïve enough to think that there is no harm in spending time with the adoptive father of her unborn child. Add a solid script and a great soundtrack and there you have it: this year’s independent American masterpiece. Directed by Jason Reitman. (MP) 92 min. Cinecenter, Kriterion, The Movies, Pathé De Munt, Studio K The Kite Runner After his poignant Monster’s Ball, his pensive Finding Neverland and the daringly different Stranger than Fiction—unreleased here—director Marc Foster offers us a solid and visually arresting but emotionally drained adaptation of Khaled Hosseini’s novel. The main character, Afghan-born Amir (played

by Scottish-Egyptian actor Khalid Abdalla), doesn’t evoke much sympathy—or any other emotion. When he was young, he shared a close friendship with servant boy Hassan, the kite runner of the title, but later

fell out with him. Still heavily conflicted about his misconduct as a youth, he returns to Afghanistan to ‘be good again’. In English/Dari/Pashtu/Urdu/Russian with Dutch subtitles. (BS) 128 min. The Movies, Pathé Tuschinski, Studio K

Mio fratello è figlio unico Accio Benassi (Elio Ger-

mano) feels like the least valued member of his family.

Perhaps correctly: Accio isn’t his real name, but a nickname meaning ‘pain in the ass’. So Accio does everything possible to live up to his name, including leaving the seminary and joining the Fascist party.

Luckily the viewer realises—even if Accio himself does not—that his actions are driven not by idealism but provocation. He is no more a serious fascist than his socialist brother Manrico (Riccardo Scamarcio) is a saint. A lighter, less portentous version of La Meglio gioventù—also focusing on two brothers in turbulent Italy. Daniele Luchetti directed. In Italian with Dutch subtitles. (BS) 118 min. Het Ketelhuis, Rialto

The Mist Forget the two Stephen King adaptations that gave Frank Darabont his Oscar nominations: the humanitarian touch displayed in The Shawshank Redemption and The Green Mile has become a sucker punch in the gut in the gloriously misanthropic The Mist. When a supermarket in a small rural town becomes enveloped by a mysterious fog, the bargain hunters soon fall prey to mysterious tentacled critters

Special screenings Der Amerikanische Freund Dennis Hopper is an international art smuggler, Bruno Ganz is a Hamburg craftsman. Together they commit a murder and briefly become friends in Wim Wenders’ gripping 1977 thriller, based on Patricia Highsmith’s novel Ripley’s Game. The film, one of Wenders’s edgiest, has a fine grasp of tenuous emotional connections in the midst of a crumbling moral universe. In English/German with Dutch subtitles. (DK) 127 min.

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film composer Miles (Jack Black) and Amanda hooks up with Graham (Jude Law), Iris’ brother. Director Nancy Meyers has Bridget Jones (Iris) meeting Posh Spice (Amanda) in a bittersweet Christmas fairy tale that works mainly thanks to its incredibly charismatic cast. Winslet once again shows her excellent range, Diaz outdoes herself and, for once, Jack Black truly seems a nice guy. Check your cynical self at the door and enjoy Hollywood at its cutest. (MP) 135 min. Pathé Tuschinski

The Big Lebowski Probably the Coen brothers’

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most enjoyable movie, glittering with imagination, cleverness and film-making skill. The story has something to do with Jeff Bridges being mistaken for a Pasadena millionaire, which ultimately involves him as an amateur sleuth in a kidnapping plot. A nice portrait of low-rent LA emerges from this unstable brew, as does a riotous dream sequence about bowling. (JR) 117 min. The Movies Blind While actress-turned-director Tamar van den Dop may have based her feature debut on a cheesy expression—‘love is blind’—the execution is dead serious. The physically and psychologically damaged Marie (Halina Reijn) finally finds love with a vision-impaired young man (Joren Seldeslachts).

But when he regains his sight, will his love still be blind? Van den Dop takes full advantage of the serene snow-clad landscapes of Bulgaria (posing for Belgium) and Reijn’s perfectly restrained body language, but is more concerned with the dichotomy between seeing and being seen than with a bona fide storyline. In Dutch. (BS) 98 min. Pathé ArenA Burnt by the Sun An interminable piece of Russian nostalgia by Nikita Mikhalkov (director, co-writer and star) that won the Oscar for best foreign film of 1994 and the grand jury prize at Cannes. Set over one long summer day in the country in 1936, it provides (1) a wake-up call about the dangerously underhanded doings of Joseph Stalin; and (2) an opportunity for a long, peaceful snooze. In Russian with Dutch subtitles. 134 min. Kriterion

in Fragments Documentary film-maker James Longley (Gaza Strip) has a flair for cinematography and editing and a poetic sensibility. But the most significant credits for this examination of Iraqi Sunnis, Shiites and Kurds may be the dozen translators listed. (‘The future of Iraq will be in three parts,’ says one Kurd. ‘How can you cut a country into three parts?’ asks another.) This film allows the people of Iraq to speak, and what they say is fascinating throughout. Showing in a programme marking the fifth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq. Also screening are two Dutch documentaries, De verkoop van een oorlog (Marije Meerman, 2008) and Dream City (Tomas Kaan, 2007), a series of interviews with visitors to a fun park in Kurdistan. In Kurdish/Arabic with Dutch subtitles. (JR) 94 min. De Balie Maîtresse A double bill of two dirty French films from the 1970s, both starring Gérard Depardieu. In Barbet Schroeder’s Maîtresse, Depardieu plays a burglar who breaks into an apartment and falls under the spell of its inhabitant, the dominatrix Ariane (Bulle Ogier). In Bertrand Blier’s Les Valseuses (Going Places), he and Patrick Dewaere are thugs who express their anti-bourgeois inclinations by harassing women, including Miou-Miou, Isabelle Houppert and Jeanne Moreau. In French with English subtitles. OT301

Future Shorts In this month’s edition, short films and clips about love and sex. OT301

Paris Is Burning Jennie Livingston’s exuberant and loving 1990 documentary about ‘voguing’ and the drag balls of Harlem is both a celebration and a canny commentary. Delving into the dance poses and acrobatic moves of black and Latino gay men, she enters this highly ritualised subculture with a genuine sense of curiosity and discovery, and is wise enough to let the participants themselves do most of the explaining.

(JR) 71 min. De Nieuwe Anita

The Holiday Iris (Kate Winslet) lives in London and faces the same problem as Amanda (Cameron Diaz) in Los Angeles: men. In order to get away from it all they switch houses for two weeks, only to find out that love can’t be avoided. Iris runs into local

Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen’s 1813 novel of five sisters negotiating social marriages gets an agreeably kicky new hairdo in the 2005 version, from the producers who brought you Love, Actually. Keira Knightley makes a feisty Elizabeth Bennet, and Bond girl

Rosamund Pike shows respectable range as Elizabeth’s doubtful, compromised older sister Jane.

Matthew Macfadyen is a bland and sulky Darcy, but the movie flames to life whenever Donald Sutherland moves into frame as the relaxed, humourous and magnificently rueful father. Joe Wright directed; with Brenda Blethyn, Simon Woods, Rupert Friend, Tom Hollander and Judi Dench. (JJ) 125 min. Rialto Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus Made for the BBC, this travelogue of America’s southern backwoods is both blessed and cursed by its fascination with the colourful, featuring lively alt-country sounds and fancy word spinners like novelist Harry Crews.

The camera makes awed touristic pans of the various locales, and guides offer an uncredited swipe from Faulkner’s The Wild Palms and charge $100 a day to rent a 1970 Chevy. Directed by Andrew Douglas. (JR) 86 min. Rialto Secretary This wicked little black comedy (2002) chronicles the perverse attraction between a young typist (Maggie Gyllenhaal) and her uptight boss (James Spader), a sadomasochistic tango that strikes unexpected chords in each character. Director Steven Shainberg twists the story into a sly and stylised study of two lonely souls who come to realise they’re made for each other. (TS) 104 min.

Cavia Songs from the Second Floor Working with no script and mostly non-professional actors, Swedish director Roy Andersson tells the story of a middleaged businessman so worn down by caring for his mentally ill son that he decides to burn down his factory. The lugubrious, impressionistic music is by Benny Andersson of Abba. In Swedish with Dutch subtitles. (TS) 98 min. Studio K

A Swedish Love Story Roy Andersson’s 1969

debut focuses on the blossoming romance of two teenagers as the adult world around them crumbles into chaos and confusion. While the mix between teenybopper canoodling and midlife crises is at times slightly uneven, the naturalistic acting is nothing less than captivating. The recognisability of the awkward pubescent courtship rituals might vary according to your own childhood experiences, but they’re portrayed so convincingly that you expect Michael Apted to chime in with a portentous voiceover at any moment. Highly recommended. In Swedish with Dutch subtitles. (LvH) 115 min. Filmmuseum

20 and other assorted nasty pieces of otherworldly fauna.

Even more trouble brews when the local Christian fundamentalist starts preaching the Apocalypse. The ending is a bit glib, but the rest is full of nail-biting suspense. (LvH) 127 min. Pathé ArenA

Amsterdam Weekly who becomes his songwriting partner and muse.

Together, they form a band and decide to record a demo tape to send to the London record executives.

This tiny little film has its charms: the spontaneity of its performers, the Irish settings, and lots of great folkrock songs that help you through its 90 minutes and its thin plot, which seems borrowed from one of those early MGM ‘Let’s-put-on-a-show’ musicals. But if you’re looking for more substance, Once might not be enough for you. (MB) Melkweg Cinema

Paranoid Park At first, nothing much seems to be Naissance des pieuvres

Naissance des pieuvres Céline Sciamma’s ravishing and unnerving debut feature takes us through the teenage agonies of its three female protagonists, the 15-year-olds Anne, Marie and Floriane, as each experiences her own particular sexual awakening one summer in the suburbs of Paris. The focal point is the local swimming pool, where Floriane is the leader of a synchronised swim team. The film tells its story predominantly through close-ups of the girls’ faces as they act out their emotional and physical dramas: Anne and Floriane stand on the threshold of a heterosexual adult world, whereas Marie is in love with Floriane. In French with Dutch subtitles. (AD) 85 min.

Cinecenter No Country for Old Men The Coen Brothers’ lat-

est brings Cormac McCarthy’s novel to the big screen, and it’s a shock to the system, simultaneously elegiac and terrifyingly violent. A subversion of the classic lawmen-chase-outlaw genre, the film is shot like a cross between a Western and a horror flick. A Texan named Llewellyn Moss (Josh Brolin) takes off with millions in cash he’s found at the site of a drug deal gone wrong. Tommy Lee Jones is the laconic Sheriff Bell, trying to bring Moss in; Javier Bardem is Chigurh, the Terminator hitman dispatched by the cartel. The Coens give us none of the usual male-bonding, hunter-and-hunted nonsense: Chigurh, Bell and Moss are entirely alone, each in his own way, particularly Moss as the slaughter inevitably catches up with him. A stunning piece of cinema. (AD) 122 min. The Movies, Pathé ArenA, Pathé De Munt, Pathé Tuschinski Once A scruffy Dublin busker (Glen Hansard, in real life the frontman of indie rock band The Frames) finds his personal groupie in a young Czech flower seller,

going on in Paranoid Park, the new film by Gus Van Sant. Using a cast of unknown skater kids recruited from MySpace, the director sets a documentary-style scene, much as he did in his previous films, Gerry, Elephant and Last Days. Among the teenagers who hang around a skate park is Alex, a 16-year-old who seems more interested in writing than anything else.

Over the course of the film Van Sant shows similar scenes from different vantage points, gradually revealing that Alex has a horrible secret, one that he tries to articulate in his writing. In the beginning Alex seems emotionally flat, but it becomes clear that he’s extremely restrained, with good reason. The clever use of music and the versatile camera work of Christopher Doyle support this brilliant exercise in cinematic storytelling. (MdR) 85 min. Kriterion

Persepolis A satisfying adaptation of the autobi-

ographical graphic novel about a girl coming of age in Iran during the Islamic revolution in the 1970s, struggling with everything from tight headscarves to bomb threats. In a cute and comical hand-drawn style, the book’s writer and illustrator, Marjane Satrapi, and her co-director, Vincent Paronnaud, draw parallels between a girl’s passage from innocence to puberty and the violent transition of a civilised country into a fundamentalist state. Even a denunciation from the Iranian government couldn’t stop the screening of this irresistible and intelligent charm offensive. The English, as opposed to the French, version is showing; voices include Catherine Deneuve, Sean Penn and Iggy Pop. Subtitled in Dutch. (MdR) 95 min. Rialto

Professione: Reporter Known in English as The

Passenger, this 1975 film is a masterpiece, one of Michelangelo Antonioni’s finest works. Jack Nicholson and Maria Schneider star as a journalist who trades one identity for another and the woman who becomes his accomplice and, ultimately, the moral

center of his adopted world. Less a thriller (though the mood of mystery is pervasive) than a meditation on the problems of knowledge, action for its own sake, and the relationship of the artist to the work he brings into being. Next to this film, Blow-Up seems a facile, though necessary, preliminary. By all means go. In English. (DD) 116 min. Filmmuseum Reprise Norwegian students Erik and Phillip aspire to become influential cult authors. At the start we see them posting their manuscripts. Later on Phillip achieves mild success but suffers a nervous breakdown, while Erik confronts his lack of talent. In between, comic interactions between them and their bohemian mates and pretty girlfriends alternate with tragic episodes. Directed by Joachim Trier, Reprise displays fresh cinematic talent and is enjoyable for its pop culture references—combining, for example, French nouvelle vague cinema with British new wave music. Reprise doesn’t lack coolness, either. But it does lose its narrative focus towards the end, and ultimately fails to penetrate the surface. In Norwegian with Dutch subtitles. (MdR) 105 min. Kriterion The Spiderwick Chronicles The rebellious Jared and his twin brother (both played by Freddie Highmore) move into a dilapidated mansion along with their sister and newly divorced mom. In the attic, Jared finds Arthur Spiderwick’s Field Guide to the Fantastical World Around You and discovers the existence of brownies, (hob)goblins and sprites, not to mention the ogre Mulgarath (Nick Nolte), who wants the Field Guide to rule the world. The children’s battle against Mulgarath’s army is of course a metaphor for a dysfunctional family pulling together. But except for some enchanting moments, much of the film gets lost in chaos and chase scenes. Directed by Mark Waters; based on the books by Holly Black and Tony DiTerlizzi. (GR) 97 min. Kriterion, Pathé De Munt TBS A convicted murderer escapes from a psychiatric ward and kidnaps a 13-year-old girl in this thriller by Pieter Kuijpers (Van God Los, Dennis P). A great performance by Theo Maassen isn’t quite enough to save the film, but it might still make it worth watching.

In Dutch. 88 min. Het Ketelhuis

There Will Be Blood An epic film of intimate pro-

portions about a ruthlessly ambitious oil baron who comes into conflict with a charismatic young preacher in the California desert in the early 20th century. A powerhouse performance by Daniel Day-Lewis as

20-26 March 2008 Daniel Plainview netted him a rightly deserved Academy Award, but Paul Dano’s performance as the weaselly Eli Sunday is also impressive to say the least. Don’t let the sprawling length or the emotional investment the film asks of its viewers deter you: There Will Be Blood is a true masterpiece that any serious film lover simply cannot afford to miss. Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson (Magnolia). (LvH) 159 min. Cinecenter, The Movies, Pathé De Munt, Pathé Tuschinski Tiramisu Bookkeeper Jacob (Jacob Derwig) has a new client, the talented but loud stage actress Anne (Anneke Blok). Her paperwork is a mess. Her life isn’t much better: her ex (Gijs Scholten van Aschat) has found a younger girlfriend and Anne is so heavily in debt that she needs to sell her houseboat. It sounds like the setup to a romantic comedy. Instead, this feature by Paula van der Oest (Zus en Zo) turns out to be a meandering melodrama, complete with uninteresting developments and an unsatisfactory climax, despite the presence of the formidable Anneke Blok (Alles is liefde). Definitely a missed opportunity. In Dutch. (BS) 90 min. Het Ketelhuis, De Uitkijk

You, the Living

You, the Living A brutally deadpan comedy by Swedish director Roy Andersson, who seems to have translated the entire range of human misery into a loosely connected series of slapstick gags. His black humor is impressively layered, each layer darker than the last: when a joker at a family banquet insists on performing that old parlour trick of yanking the tablecloth out from under the dishes, he not only shatters a huge collection of crystal and china but also reveals—look sharp or you’ll miss it—a vintage dining table inlaid with swastikas. Andersson’s building block is a static long shot so solidly composed it suggests a panel in a comic strip; the central figure is often encased in his own suffering, and sometimes additional laughs come from a background figure surveying his despair in open-mouthed bewilderment. (JJ) 94 min. Filmmuseum, Kriterion

20-26 March 2008

FILM TIMES Thursday 20 March until Wednesday 26 March Times are provided by cinemas and are subject to last-minute changes. Film times also at www.amsterdamweekly.nl De Balie Kleine-Gartmanplantsoen 10, 553 5151 Dream City Fri 20.00 Iraq in Fragments Fri, Sat 21.30 De verkoop van een oorlog Sat 19.30.

Cavia Van Hallstraat 52-I, 681 1419 Secretary Thur, Fri 20.30.

Cinecenter Lijnbaansgracht 236, 623 6615 Atonement daily 16.15, 19.15, 21.45, Sun also 11.00, 13.30 Juno daily 19.30, 21.45, Sun also 11.15, 13.45 Margot at the Wedding daily 16.15, 19.30, 21.45, Sun also 11.15, 14.00 Naissance des pieuvres daily 16.15, 19.15, Sun also 11.00, 13.30 There Will Be Blood daily 15.45, 21.00.

Cinema Amstelveen Plein 1960 2, Amstelveen, 547 5175 Alvin en de Chipmunks Sat, Wed 13.30, Sun 11.30 Charlie Wilson's War Thur-Sat, Tues, Wed 20.30 Trigger Sat, Wed 15.30.

Filmhuis Griffioen Uilenstede 106, Amstelveen, 444 5100 4 maanden, 3 weken en 2 dagen Thur, Tues 19.30.

Filmmuseum Vondelpark 3, 589 1400 Aleksandra daily 17.30, 19.30 Alice in Cartoonland pt 2 Sun, Mon, Wed 13.45 Heimatklänge Sun, Mon 15.45 Professione: Reporter daily 21.30, Sun, Mon also 15.15 Swedish Love Story,A Sun, Mon, Tues 21.45 Trigger Sun, Mon, Wed 14.00 You, the Living Thur-Sat, Wed 21.45, Thur, Sat-Wed 19.45, Thur, Sat-Mon, Wed also 17.45.

Het Ketelhuis Haarlemmerweg 8-10, 684 0090 4 maanden, 3 weken en 2 dagen Sat-Mon, Wed 12.45 De Avonturen van het Molletje Sat-Mon, Wed 13.30 Desmond en het Moerasmonster Sat-Mon, Wed 13.45 Margot at the Wedding daily 21.30, Fri-Wed also 19.15, SatMon, Wed also 15.00 Mio fratello è figlio unico daily 17.00 Skin daily 21.15 TBS daily 17.30 Tiramisu Thur-Tues 19.30, Sat-Mon, Wed also 15.00 Zomerhitte daily 17.15, 21.45, Thur-Mon, Wed also 19.45, SatMon, Wed also 15.15.

KIT Tropentheater, Kleine Zaal Linnaeusstraat 2, 568 8500 Amnesty International Film Festival Wed Amnesty:Anna: Seven Years on the Front Line .

Kriterion Roetersstraat 170, 623 1708 Amnesty International Film Festival Wed The Band's Visit Thur-Tues 18.15, Sun also 13.00 Burnt by the Sun Mon 22.00 The Darjeeling Limited daily 19.45, Thur-Sun, Tues, Wed also 22.00 I'm Not There daily 18.30, Thur-Mon, Wed also 21.15, Fri-Mon, Wed also 15.15, Fri, Sat also 23.45 Juno daily 22.15, Fri, Sat 0.15 De Notenkraker Sun 11.00, Wed 15.00 Paranoid Park daily 17.45 Pippi gaat van boord Sun 13.15 Reprise Sun 15.00, Wed 17.00 Sneak Preview Tues 22.15 The Spiderwick Chronicles Fri-Mon 15.30 De Wonderwinkel van Mr Magorium Fri, Sat, Mon, Wed 14.45 You, the Living daily 20.15.

Melkweg Cinema Lijnbaansgracht 234A, 624 1777 Control Wed 19.00 How to Get Rid of the Others Mon, Tues 19.00 Once Thur-Sun 19.00.

The Movies Haarlemmerdijk 159-165, 638 6016 Asterix en de Olympische Spelen Sat-Mon, Wed 15.15 The Big Lebowski Sat 0.20 I'm Not There daily 16.30, 19.00, 21.30, Sat, Sun, Mon, Wed 14.00, Sat also 0.00, Sun also 11.30 Juno daily 17.15, 21.45, Sun also 12.45 The Kite Runner daily 19.15 Lars and the Real Girl Sat 23.45 No Country for Old Men daily 17.00, 19.30, 22.00, Sat-Mon, Wed also 14.45, Sat also 0.15, Sun also 12.15 De Spiderwick-Kronieken daily 16.45, Sat-Mon, Wed also 15.00 There Will Be Blood daily 18.30, 21.30, Sun also 11.45.

De Nieuwe Anita Frederik Hendrikstraat 111, 06 4150 3512, Paris Is Burning Mon 20.30.

OT301 Overtoom 301, 779 4913 Future Shorts Sun 17.00, 20.00 Maîtresse Tues 20.30 Les Valseuses Tues 22.30.

Pathé ArenA ArenA Boulevard 600, 0900 1458 10,000 BC daily 13.00, 15.40, 18.00, 19.00, 21.30, Thur-Mon, Wed also 20.30, Sat also 23.00, 0.00, Sun, Mon also 10.15 27 Dresses daily 12.30, 15.20, 17.50, 20.20, Sat-Mon also 10.05, Sat also 22.50 Alibi daily 17.35, 19.45, Thur-Mon, Wed also 12.45, Thur also 15.00, Sat-Mon also 10.40 Alvin en de Chipmunks Fri-Mon, Wed 12.05, 14.10, 16.20, SatMon also 9.50 Asterix en de Olympische Spelen Fri-Sun, Wed 13.30, SatMon also 10.45 Blind Tues 13.30 Definitely, Maybe daily 13.40, 16.20, 18.50, 21.20, Sat-Mon also 11.10 Horton (NL) daily 12.40, 14.45, 16.50, Fri-Mon, Wed also 11.50, 14.00, 16.10, Sat-Mon also 9.55, 10.30 Horton Hears a Who daily 13.15, 15.15, 17.20, 19.40, 21.45, SatMon also 11.00, Sat also 23.50

Amsterdam Weekly John Rambo daily 21.50, Sat also 0.10 Jumper daily 19.20, Thur, Tues also 12.20, 14.50, 17.10, Sat also 0.30 The Mist daily 21.40 Musallat daily 16.20 No Country for Old Men daily 21.15, Thur, Mon, Tues also 13.30, Sat also 0.00 The Other Boleyn Girl daily 18.40 Recep Ivedik daily 12.00, 14.30, 17.00, 19.30, 22.00, Sat also 0.25 Rendition daily 18.35, 21.10, Thur, Tues also 13.20, 15.50, Sat also 23.40 Reservation Road Sat 23.45 Samson en Gert: Hotel op Stelten Fri-Mon, Wed 12.15, 14.00, 15.50, Sat-Mon also 10.20 Sneak Preview Tues 21.30 The Spiderwick Chronicles (Imax) daily 12.50, 15.10, 17.30 De Spiderwick-Kronieken Fri-Mon, Wed 12.20, 14.50, 17.10, Sat-Mon also 10.10 Step Up 2 daily 18.30, 20.45, Thur, Tues also 13.50, 16.10, Sat also 23.10 U2 3D daily 20.00, 22.15, Sat also 0.30 Untraceable daily 17.40, 19.50, 22.10, Thur, Tues also 13.10, 15.30, Sat also 0.20 The Water Horse Fri-Mon, Wed 15.00 Zomerhitte daily 12.10, 14.20, 16.30, 18.45, 21.00, Sat-Mon also 10.00, Sat also 23.20.

Pathé De Munt Vijzelstraat 15, 0900 1458 10,000 BC daily 16.00, 18.45, 21.30, Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed also 12.45, 13.30, 15.15, 18.00, Thur, Fri, Sun, Mon, Wed also 20.45, Sat also 10.30, 12.00, 13.15, 14.45, 17.30, 20.15, 23.00, Sun, Mon also 11.00, Tues also 21.15 27 Dresses Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 18.20, 21.10, Thur, Tues also 12.50, 15.30, Fri, Sun, Mon, Wed also 15.50, Sat also 16.30, 19.00, 21.45 Alibi Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 12.00, 16.30, Sat 11.45, 16.15 Alvin en de Chipmunks Fri, Sun, Mon, Wed 12.40, 14.50, 17.15, Sun, Mon also 10.30, 12.00, Sat also 10.15, 11.00, 12.25, 13.20, 14.45, 15.40 Asterix en de Olympische Spelen Fri, Wed 12.30, Sat 11.30, 14.15, Sun, Mon 10.15, 12.40 Definitely, Maybe Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 16.15, 19.00, 21.40, Thur, Tues also 13.20, Sat 16.00, 18.35, 21.15 Horton (NL) Fri, Sun, Mon, Wed 12.15, 14.20, 16.45, Sat, Sun, Mon also 10.15, Sat also 12.30, 15.00, 17.15 Horton Hears a Who daily 22.10, Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed also 17.30, 20.00, Thur, Tues also 12.30, 14.45, Fri, Sun, Mon, Wed also 15.10, Sat also 18.00, 20.05 Jumper Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 19.45, 22.15, Thur, Tues also 12.40, 14.50, 17.15, Sat 18.20, 20.30, 22.45 Juno Thur, Fri, Sun, Mon, Wed 18.30, Sat 19.45, Tues 15.45 No Country for Old Men Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 21.15, Thur, Tues also 13.00, Thur also 15.45, Tues also 18.30, Sat 22.15 The Other Boleyn Girl Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 15.10, 17.40, Sat 11.15, 16.30, 19.15 Rendition Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 15.00, 17.45, 20.30, Thur, Fri, Tues, Wed also 12.20, Sat 17.20, 20.10, 23.05 Samson en Gert: Hotel op Stelten Fri, Sun, Mon, Wed 12.15, 14.00, Sun, Mon also 10.20, Sat 10.40, 12.40, 14.35 Sneak Preview Tues 21.30 The Spiderwick Chronicles Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 18.40, 21.00, Thur, Tues also 13.45, 16.15, Sat 20.00, 22.30 De Spiderwick-Kronieken Fri, Sun, Mon, Wed 13.45, 16.15, Sun, Mon also 11.30, Sat 10.20, 12.45, 15.15, 17.35 Step Up 2 Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 14.00, 19.20, 21.50, Sat 13.50, 18.15, 20.45, 23.10 Sven en zijn rat en het Ufomysterie Wed 10.15 Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 12.30, Sat 14.00 There Will Be Blood Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 20.15, Sat 21.50 Untraceable Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 12.15, 14.30, 17.00, 19.30, 22.00, Sat 10.45, 13.00, 15.45, 18.30, 21.00, 23.30 The Water Horse Fri, Sun, Mon, Wed 13.20, Sun, Mon also 10.50, Sat 11.05, 13.30 Zomerhitte Sat 12.15, 14.30, 17.00, 19.30, 22.00.

Pathé Tuschinski Reguliersbreestraat 34, 0900 1458 27 Dresses Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 19.20, 21.50, Thur, Tues also 16.50, Sat 18.00 Earth Thur-Sat, Mon-Wed 13.00, Sun 12.15 The Fox and the Child (NL) Fri, Sun, Mon, Wed 12.00, Sat 13.45 Giorni e nuvole daily 18.45, Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed also 15.45, Sat also 15.50 The Holiday Thur, Tues 13.30 Horton (NL) Fri-Mon, Wed 13.20, 15.30, Fri, Sun, Mon, Wed also 17.45 The Kite Runner daily 20.30, Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed also 17.30, Fri, Sun, Mon, Wed also 14.15, Tues also 12.00, 14.40 Love in the Time of Cholera Thur, Tues 13.50 Manon Lescaut (Puccini) Sun 11.00 No Country for Old Men daily 16.20, 19.00, 21.40, Thur, Tues also 13.15 The Other Boleyn Girl daily 21.20 Samson en Gert: Hotel op Stelten Fri-Mon, Wed 14.30, Fri, Sat, Mon, Wed also 12.30 De Spiderwick-Kronieken Fri, Sun, Mon, Wed 14.40, 17.00, Fri, Mon, Wed also 12.15, Sat 13.10, 15.45 There Will Be Blood daily 20.00, Thur, Tues also 16.30 Tristan und Isolde (Wagner) Sat 17.30 Zomerhitte daily 13.30, 16.00, 18.30, 21.00.

Rialto Ceintuurbaan 338, 676 8700 Der Amerikanische Freund Sat 16.15 Auf der anderen Seite Thur, Fri, Sun 17.00 The Band's Visit daily 17.45, 19.45, Sun also 12.00 Caramel Mon-Wed 17.15 Giorni e nuvole daily 19.30, 22.00, Fri, Sun, Mon also 14.45 Lady Chatterley Sat-Mon 14.30 Das Leben der Anderen Sun 11.15 Mio fratello è figlio unico daily 21.45, Fri, Wed also 15.30 Persepolis daily 21.15, Fri-Mon, Wed also 16.30 Pride and Prejudice Sun 11.00, Wed 14.45 Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus Fri, Sat 23.15 Stellet Licht daily 18.45, Sat-Mon also 14.00.

Studio K Timorplein 62, 692 0422, Amnesty International Film Festival Wed Away from Her daily 19.15 In the Valley of Elah Thur-Sat 21.45 Juno Thur-Mon, Wed 19.45, Fri-Mon also 17.30 The Kite Runner daily 21.30 Ratatouille (NL) Fri-Mon 16.15 Songs from the Second Floor Sun-Wed 21.45.

De Uitkijk Prinsengracht 452, 623 7460 Earth daily 17.00 Horton (NL) Fri, Sat, Wed 15.00, Sun, Mon 13.00 De Match Wed 21.30 Tiramisu daily 19.00, Thur-Tues also 21.15, Sun, Mon also 15.00.

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