Amsterdam Weekly: Vol 4 Issue 17, 26 April-2 May 2007

Volume 4, Issue 17

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The orange is a colour issue

Separating the apples from the oranges

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Interview: Terry Gilliam is as jabberwacky as ever page 8 Citizenship for grabs page 4 / Sleeping in urban soft spots page 4 Amsterlantis: how low will it go? page 5 ART: Horse Move gallery still on the giddy-up p. 11 / MUSIC: DNK, kraaking new tunes p. 15 / FILM: Ozon’s angel p. 25

Short List . . . . . . . . . . . . .9 Music/Clubs . . . . . . . . .14 Gay & Lesbian . . . . . . . .19 Stage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19 Art . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20 Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22 Dining . . . . . . . . . . . . . .24 Film . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25 Classifieds/Comics . . .29

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CITY SECOND BY PETER CLEUTJENS In this issue and...

Koninginnedag is a plot. You see, while the rest of the world takes to the streets for International Workers’ Day on 1 May, the Netherlands is far too hungover to raise a proper republican mob. Anyway, orange is the colour of the sex ’n’ spleen chakra and Goethe thought it as the colour of the rough and uneducated. And yet, despite advertising’s Golden Rule—‘Never Use Orange’—it’s a marketing phenomenon, with everything sold here, from condoms to contact lenses, shaded orange. And of course we all scoffed when psychic spoon-bender Uri Geller spent a lot of energy a few years back trying to convince people that if enough fans of a particular team focus on an orange dot placed on a TV screen, the resulting cosmic convergence would lead to certain victory.

But of course this is all irrelevant when compared to the real issue: beer. If the price-fixing breweries of NL want to truly give something back to the people, then they can start on 30 April, and compensate each of us with some free suds. Just pass the paracetemol.

On the cover TRASH TREASURES Illustration by Claudie de Cleen www.claudiedecleen.com

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Citizen shake up Globalisation has global effects on individuals.

By Sarah Gehrke Globalisation is a big word. It encompasses increasing transnational interconnectivity in pretty much every sphere of public life, including the economic, political, social, cultural and ecological. Ever since the term was invented, in fact, it’s been happily thrown about in nearly every discussion that goes beyond the question of who’s gonna buy the milk.

One of the core features of the debate is the question of how it affects citizenship.

It is a popular notion that globalisation processes diminish the role of the nation state—not only regarding political sovereignty, but also when it comes to people’s loyalties. The recent discussion of dual nationalities, sparked by Geert Wilders, has shown that the loyalty issue continues to be a source of sleepless nights for many.

When Wilders suggested that PvdA state secretaries Ahmed Aboutaleb and Nebahat Albayrak give up their Moroccan and Turkish passports respectively and that, generally, members of the government shouldn’t be allowed to have dual nationality, he implied that having two passports means having two minds when it comes to making political decisions.

Although one wonders if it wouldn’t have

Wouldn’t 12 balls solve the whole problem?

been easier for Wilders to take Albayrak to a Turkey-Holland football match to see which team she cheers on, his suggestion attracted serious consideration. Support came from SP leader Jan Marijnissen, whose statement, though rather vague in an attempt to stay amiable, nevertheless made clear that he, too, would prefer seeing government functionaries having only one nationality (model function and all, you know).

Discussions like this illustrate the fact that questions of nationality and citizenship remain of great importance, despite—or maybe because of—globalisation processes. In fact, the recent outbreaks of nationalism all over Europe could well be seen as a result of everincreasing European integration. And calls for the cultural integration of immigrants are not exactly a sign that the end of the nation state is near. In the face of the hardened integration tests in the Netherlands—which include questions on Dutch society, culture and history—who would still speak of the concept of national citizenship losing importance?

So what exactly are the effects of globalisation on the nation state? In her lecture ‘Shaking Up Citizenship’, held last Friday and organised by the VU, VPRO and Felix Meritis, Saskia Sassen offered her interpretation of the issue. Sassen, a Dutch-American sociologist and professor at the University of Chicago, the London School of Economics and the VU, is one of the leading theorists on globalisation. She argues that, contrary to popular opinion, globalisation does not mean an undermining of the nation state—it rather causes a

re-organisation of it. The belief that globalisation is something happening outside of, and opposed to, nation states is, according to Sassen, a misconception. It does, however, have its effect on the distribution of powers within those states.

Sassen’s theory, which she elaborates on in her recently published book Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages, comprises the idea that globalisation leads to a de-balancing of the trias politica or separation of powers.

More and more power is attributed to the executive, because that is the part of government that aligns itself with global actors. Meanwhile, the position of the legislative weakens. This, in Sassen’s argument, directly leads to citizens losing an increasing number of rights. Examples include loss of bankruptcy protection when it comes to credit card debt, and the slackening of privacy rights which results from the many data retention laws issued in the wake of the fight against terrorism.

‘It is necessary,’ Sassen maintains, ‘that we, as citizens, recognise the vulnerability of our citizenship. We fool ourselves if we think we’re protected by the state.’ (And apparently she gets death threats for saying things like that.)

Furthermore, according to Sassen, the nation state as formal political apparatus nowadays captures less and less of ‘the Political’—that is, the direct political and economic concerns of its citizens. Returning to the issue of citizens’ loyalty to their state, one question remains: if everyone wants us to be loyal citizens, on what grounds should we want to be? ‘The state,’ Sassen says, ‘has to be about the citizens.

We, as individuals, need to reposition ourselves. We need to be recharged with power.’

How we do that, she leaves up to our own imagination. But always remember kids: ask not what you can do for your state.

Ask what your state can do for you.

City soft spots Wanted: Temporary Experimental Sleeping Space.

By Angelique van Engelen Joop de Boer, a 29-year-old, part-time city planner, and Jeroen Beekmans, a 21-yearold political science student, aren’t architects, but they have a passion for buildings. They are the team behind Studio Golfstromen, a bureau that creates what they call ‘soft architecture’. That means they don’t construct buildings; instead, their mission is to create experiences in vacated offices, in residential blocks about to be knocked down, in abandoned factories, under bridges and in low-key courtyards. ‘Everybody wants buzz,’ say the owners. ‘So we create it.’

De Boer and Beekmans have been throwing each other ideas about city living for years now, since the days when they shared a student house in Amsterdam and together developed an obsession for invigorating city life. The decision to start a company was made only after De Boer moved out—the two realised that they had been sitting on truly viable ideas which centred on vacant buildings. They decided to make a go of it: Golfstromen began a year ago, and now they work two days a week at the studio, combining a consistent and professional approach with ‘sheer lunacy’.

An antikraak organisation they are not. ‘There are enough of those around,’

Softening the city with soft beds.

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declares Beekmans. Instead, Golfstromen tries to work with company owners and the public sector—those who want to create a positive buzz around their vacant premises. ‘We simply borrow. We don’t squat or prevent squatting. But we make the most out of a building for a short space of time by evolving the ideas that are inherent to the space,’ explains De Boer.

So, do they see themselves as gentrified squatters? They laugh: ‘We create experiences in the city, that’s all,’ says Beekmans. But they do believe that today’s hype is all about being there for the experience and their job is to keep ahead of the next big cultural phenomenon. ‘Checking out what’s going on is a matter of sensing,’ De Boer says.

What’s the thinking behind the company name? ‘Gulf streams in the ocean can be short and long term,’ says De Boer.

‘Our activities are also part of fluid developments, revolving around existing themes.’

Golfstromen’s first success was Jazz met Ballen at Sugar Factory last summer.

Together with the band Quincey, they organised an experimental musical translation of the final match of the World Cup in the Sugar Factory. The interbreeding of live football with live jazz proved to be such fun that they might repeat it again, perhaps when the Dutch team is playing during the Europe Cup. This event caught the attention of Buma Cultuur, the organisation behind the Amsterdam Dance Event (ADE), and now De Boer and Beekmans are hard at work developing the concept of creative sleeping spaces.

For the next instalment of ADE, Golfstromen will be drawing on Buma’s support to create the city’s first indoor campsite. If all works out the way they anticipate, the temporary site will also be the launch of their ‘reconstruction hotel’—the original idea behind Studio Golfstromen’s inception.

Golfstromen try to be a bridge between Amsterdam’s underground, the adventure seekers and the people with property. ‘We create possibilities,’ says De Boer. ‘We want to run a website listing temporary sleeping spaces in empty buildings throughout town. It would entice adventurous tourists. We’ll price it below the budget hotels and get people to the weirdest places.’

This sort of underground is already quite vibrant in Amsterdam, but the rules are ridiculously restrictive, De Boer complains: ‘That needs to change—everybody is doing things and throwing around ideas which concern the “soft city”, meaning life and experiences, living life to the max. We are simply trying to put ideas into practice. But Amsterdam is a tough environment compared to other cities.’

Studio Golfstromen deliberately has no office: De Boer and Beekmans work from cafés and bars around town, because these offer perfect settings for getting direct inspiration for their mission. Plus, being out and about, they can track down great buildings all the time.

De Boer believes that sites which are being used in ways different from their

original intentions offer huge adventure potential—and this is what they conceptualise to the max.

Devising the plans for rethinking sites demands cunning, strategy and vigour.

For the ADE event, for example, they need a place that is at once empty, inspiring and creative, but can also host 100 to 250 sleeping mats or hammocks. On their list for consideration so far is an abandoned office building, the former Shell tower Overhoeks, and a few residential blocks in line for demolition.

With 60,000 people visiting last year’s ADE—the biggest club event in the world—Beekmans and De Boer have got their work cut out for them. They need to create something that will make sleeping an imaginative experience. ‘It’s got to be fun,’ says Beekmans. ‘To experience the ordinary in new ways is what people want more than anything else.’ www.golfstromen.nl

Drowned world Talking Apocalypse Soon with graphic novelist Guido van Driel.

By Luuk van Huët With scientific evidence piling up to show the dire future in store for Planet Earth in the face of global warming, the naysayers who pooh-pooh the whole phenomenon by quoting bogus scientists while brandishing hand-picked weather reports are

an unfortunate side effect.

However, the acclaimed Amsterdambased graphic novelist Guido van Driel was partly inspired in writing and illustrating his new work by these grave portents: in De Ondergang van Amsterdam, our fair city meets its demise in a watery Armageddon.

As Van Driel explains: ‘The story revolves around Titus, a young, black, illegal immigrant who’s staying at a home he’s contracted to renovate. One night, his colleague tells him he’s convinced Amsterdam will be flooded by the sea because of global warming. They go to the Rijksmuseum and there, Titus is confronted with a work by Rembrandt called “Jeremiah Lamenting the Destruction of Jerusalem”. Titus is entranced by the painting, but is unable to picture the suffering that would accompany seeing your home being destroyed. Later that night, he ventures forth into the city again while pondering this, and his travels become more and more surreal, culminating in the destruction of Amsterdam by the rising waters.’

Van Driel’s comic book career is a story worth telling in itself, as it concerns a qualified historian ending up writing and drawing what he loves best. ‘During my studies, I used to draw cartoons all the time,’ he says. ‘When I approached the UvA magazine Folia, they took me on as an illustrator. Then I reasoned: if I can get assignments at a couple of other magazines, I can make a living! One thing led to another and I came into contact with the publisher Oog&Blik, where they looked at my work and told me to go and make a comic. So I made Vis aan de Wand, and it received a Stripsschapprijs in 1995. I’ve been busy ever since.’

After Vis aan de Wand, Van Driel was lauded for his later works, including Mijnheer Servelaat neemt Vakantie, De

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Jeremiah Lamenting the Loss of Mokum.

Fijnproever and Om Mekaar in Dokkum.

From An Inconvenient Truth to Berlin’s cute polar bear Knut, global warming is on everyone’s lips right now.

However, Van Driel points out that De Ondergang van Amsterdam predates the current environmentally minded fascination: ‘I’ve worked on the book on and off for a couple of years. I actually drew the first scenes in 1998. I was interested in doing an apocalyptic story concerning Amsterdam for a long time, and I’ve also been convinced that our consumer society would soon reach its boundaries and suffer a backlash because of it. Although the work is motivated by my concern for these issues, it’s not meant as just a warning.’

During his post-academic career as a cartoonist and illustrator, Van Driel also took up painting, something which has become a noticeable aspect of his work.

Van Driel paints his comics using acrylic paint on black paper, sometimes using multiple layers to add depth to the pictures. Regarding the profound influence of the Old Masters on De Ondergang van Amsterdam, Van Driel notes: ‘I get inspired by contemporary American authors like Chris Ware and Daniel Clowes, but also by painters like Picasso and the Old Masters. In fact, De Ondergang van Amsterdam itself was a result of an assignment by Vrij Nederland to make a comic about Rembrandtjaar. I had this story lying around that just missed something to tie it all together, and then I suddenly thought of incorporating Rembrandt into it. That worked!’

De ondergang van Amsterdam by Guido van Driel is published by Uitgeverij Oog & Blik/De Harmonie.

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ed up with the wave of orangism that has been hitting this country following the birth of the umpteenth royal descendent? Then head to the Broeinest on Koninginnedag.

Professional royalty-watcher René Zwaap will publicly discuss the new edition of the late Wim Klinkenberg’s infamous biography of the late Prince Bernhard.

For 25 years now, the freelance journalist and self-proclaimed orangeologist has been closely following the monarchy.

Viewers of Mokum TV on the SALTO channel will know his feature Appeltjes van Oranje, in which a smirk-faced Zwaap dishes up fact after fact about the often peculiar behaviour of members of the royal family, past and present. The late Prince Bernhard—father of Queen Bea— is one of his favourite victims.

What about this anti-monarchism of yours?

I’m not so much an anti-monarchist as I am tremendously fascinated by the phenomenon. The Netherlands is run by a monarch, so I feel that every Nederlander should take an interest in it.

But isn’t the monarchy a merely ceremonial thing? What influence does it really have on Dutch society?

They are still running the show. Queen Beatrix has a certain influence in the formation of a new cabinet. And at the time of the affair around her cousin Margarita and husband Edwin de Roy van Zuydewijn [in which the latter accused the queen of unconstitutional behaviour], De Roy van Zuydewijn’s private life was totally screened by the secret service.

How do you know all this?

I have been studying this subject for twenty-five years. By the way, Bernhard was much worse. His self-enrichment and political conspiracies in South America are well-documented facts. So you see: the monarchy is far from a toothless animal.

You call yourself oranjoloog...

Orangeology is just like Kremlinology: you never knew what exactly happened in the Kremlin. It’s a matter of observa-

Russell Joyce (British-Canadian, 41), graphic designer What are you going to do on Koninginnedag? I’ll be holidaying in Ireland.

What are you actually celebrating?

My love of and passion for the Dutch people and their culture.

Describe your Oranjegevoel: Last Koninginnedag I wore an orange shirt and a black suit; it looked pretty smart. Very smart, in fact.

Royalist or republican? Republican. I think it’s much better to have different people on the back of the coins, like Johan Cruyff.

Will NL still be a monarchy when you die? Yes.

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I AM KURIOUS ORANJ: René Zwaap, orangeologist, delves deep into the murky annals of the royal family.

BY FLORIS DOGTEROM, ILLUSTRATION BY CLAUDIE DE CLEEN

tion and gossip that you try to make sense of. I find it unbelievably amusing.

Are you a republican?

Yeah, I guess I have to be. Although a republic would take the bread out of my mouth.

How did your royalty-watching career start?

Through the riots on Coronation Day in 1980, when our beloved queen was inaugurated. They marked a turning point in Dutch history. Beatrix’s mother Queen

HOW’S YOUR ORANGE-MINDEDNESS? From the fervent Frisian adherent of the monarchy to the Portuguese expat who couldn’t care less: they all think the Netherlands will be a monarchy forever and ever.

Koninginnedag is here to stay.

BY FLORIS DOGTEROM

Rui Cubiça Ramos (Portuguese, 41), call-centre employee What are you going to do on Koninginnedag? That’s a good one, because there’s so much to do. I guess it depends on what’s been going on the night before.

What are you actually celebrating?

I’m not celebrating anything—just hanging out with friends.

Describe your Oranjegevoel: None!

Royalist or republican? I don’t give a shit. I’m part of a minority here—I’m not associated with republicans nor royalists.

Will NL still be a monarchy when you die? Most probably.

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Juliana was much more of a lovable character, with her pacifism and all. But Beatrix is daddy’s girl, showing the aggressive behaviour of a Prussian robber baron.

On Koninginnedag, you are going to present the latest edition of Wim Klinkenberg’s Prince Bernhard biography, of which you are editor.

Not exactly, the book isn’t finished yet.

But I am going to discuss, together with Klinkenberg’s son Willy, what his father has written about Bernhard.

Will any new facts be revealed in the book?

Yes, but I can’t say anything about it, yet.

OK, one thing then: the publication of the book in 1979 was like a sledgehammer blow. Klinkenberg revealed loads of incriminating facts about Bernhard’s espionage for the Germans in World War II, his membership of the Nazi NSDAP party, the SA and the SS, how he was involved in the treason around the failed airborne landings of the Allies in 1944, and so on.

Klinkenberg’s views were heavily disputed and ridiculed. But he had enormous documentation to back his statements.

Just after publication, Bernhard and the then Prime Minister Dries van Agt had dinner at a Den Haag restaurant, together with a third person whose identity I won’t reveal. Bernhard said to Van Agt: ‘If only half of the book is true, you should shoot me instantly.’ To which Van Agt replied: ‘Royal Highness, that doesn’t seem like a good idea to me, because then everybody will buy the book.’

Any thoughts on the chances of survival of the Dutch monarchy?

History shows that in times of a male monarch, opposition grows enormously.

Rumour has it that Beatrix will make room for Willem-Alexander in 2008.

What are you going to do on Koninginnedag?

Besides the programme at the Broeinest, I will be involved in koekhappen en zaklopen. Just like everybody else.

Prince Bernhard: from IG-Farben to Soestdijk, Broeinest, 30 April, free, in Dutch and English, www.broeinest.info

Jeroen X (Dutch, 28), bartender What are you going to do on Koninginnedag? Work.

What are you actually celebrating? As little as possible. In Amsterdam, Koninginnedag is a really ugly party.

Why? Because Dutch people don’t know how to throw a street party. It always ends up being a rancid alcoholic affair with tons of trash.

Describe your Oranjegevoel: Not existing. And if so, it’s anti.

Royalist or republican? The monarchy is an anachronism. Actually, I belong to the Nieuw Republikeins Genootschap.

Will NL still be a monarchy when you die? Yes. Judging from the numbers of plebeians supporting it.

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ezzz. It’s that time of the year again—Queen’s Day is here.

For some, it’s the biggest party of the year. For others, it’s a nightmare in orange. But it’s got its charms for everyone—maybe excluding claustrophobics and bar staff.

You might use it for buying lots of weird things. You might use it as an excuse for getting smashed all day. You might use it for finally wearing that ginger wig. Or you might use it for doing some proper clubbing—every club, bar, and café is doing the best they can to offer something special to please the orange crowd.

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QUEEN’S DAY ROUND-UP One day off, one zillion parties.

BY SARAH GEHRKE, ILLUSTRATION BY CLAUDIE DE CLEEN

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For those looking for something extra fresh in a brand-new venue, OntFront, the town’s most glamorous hiphop party, throw their own Queen’s Night bash in FlexBar, bringin’ on new school hiphop, grimy beats, slam poetry and the soulful cutting edge of the hiphop scene. (Don’t forget to wear a mask— it doesn’t have to be orange.) The price is €10, the time’s 22.00 onwards.

Up in 11, meanwhile, a special edition of Joost van Bellen’s now-classic bouncer Rauw will be thumping to the beats of Mr van B himself, along with Berlin wunderkind Boys Noize and The Glimmers (aka Mo & Benoeli). It starts at 22.00 and costs €15.

QUEEN’S NIGHT Start at Weteringsplantsoen, where an open-air stage by TWSTd brings live shows by Matik, Le Clic, Laidback Luke ft Grand Wazoo and more. From 19.00-01.00, and all for free!

Junglists will get their treat at Westergasfabriek, with Royal Bass—and the line up truly deserves its regal title, since it includes big names from Metalheadz, Renegade Hardware, IchiOne, and as well as Amsterdamaged’s very own heroes.

Start bouncing at 22.00 and continue till 05.00. For you: €20.

If you’re up for something arty, you could do worse than the GRAParty at Club More, organised by Rietveld students.

You’re required to bring a second-hand item plus a tenner for entrance, and you’ll get some inspiration for ears and eyes in exchange. Be there from 23.00.

Not queer enough for ya? Then Club 8 might satisfy, as UNK is running a special Queen’s Night edition, spinning electronica—starting at 23.00, running till 03.00 and costing €8.

More orangey-pink shenanigans are supplied by the Orange Ball. It starts on Saturday night at Melkweg, goes on through Sunday morning at Sinners, and culminates with a street party on Zeedijk, complete with sound system and open-air stage. €28 gets you in, from 23.00-05.00.

At Putsch VI on NDSM, Luna City Express, Tony Boogs, Eva Maria and Herr Arter are gonna rock the electronic night, and for €15, you can be with them.

And now for something completely different: Waag on Fire. On Nieuwmarkt, De Waag is hosting a proper 1970s and ’80s extravaganza. Afros, flares, mirror balls and old-school hits rule here. The funk starts at 23.00 and costs a fiver.

Equally funky is Sugar Factory’s widely loved classic WickedJazzSounds.

From 23.00 till 05.00, live vocals, sax, trumpet and guitars collide with classic vinyl to provide some extra fresh flavours. €8.50 gets you in.

QUEEN’S DAY Right. You may have gone on till stupid o’clock last night, but time for sleep there ain’t. At Cafe Vaaghuizen, they’ll start spinning at midday sharp. Presented by LFTFLD and eRRorKREW, an extensive DJ line-up rocks all day—and all night—inside as well as outside. And yezzz: it’s free!

More DJ action’s taking place back on the TWSTd stage. Vince Watson, Billy Nasty, Bart Skils, Dave Ellesmere and many more will be there: meet them between 12.00 and 21.00.

On Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal OntFront, Patta, KS1, café Bep, Ben-G and Rush Hour rub shoulders to ensure a steady supply of good sounds.

If you can still stand by the end of the day, fear not: there’s a solid amount of parties aimed at keeping you up all night (again). More breakbeats, anyone? Get them at Studio 80, where Fragile Breaks has invited the likes of Planet Sutcliffe, Chamelian & Rombout, and Hepcat. Time: 22.00. Damage: €10.

If you’re feeling a bit guilty about blowing all that money, head to Sugar Factory.

At the Electrocure Queen’s Day Extravaganza, you’ll still be blowing more cash, but it’ll all go to the Queen Wilhelmina Foundation for cancer research. Plus you’ll get some electro, minimal and house thrown in with your good deed, courtesy of Insane Records.

Then: sleep.

Folkert Tolsma (Frisian, 38), IT multinational worker What are you going to do on Koninginnedag? I have absolutely no idea.

What are you actually celebrating?

The queen’s birthday, although her actual birthday is on a different day. Besides, it’s a day off to wander about and look at stuff.

Describe your Oranjegevoel: It’s big.

Royalist or republican? Royalist. I find the royal house a splendid symbol of our country. Since the 17th century, the Van Oranjes have been a constant factor in this nation. They stand for unity.

Will NL still be a monarchy when you die? Yes. But on the other hand the monarchy might disappear much quicker than we think. You never know.

Bas van ’t Wout (Dutch, 28), VVD member of city council What are you going to do on Koninginnedag? The same as every year. On Koninginnenacht I go into town for a beer. The next day I will go to Vondelpark, look around a bit, have some beers. Nothing special, really.

What are you actually celebrating?

It’s just a gezellige holiday to me.

Describe your Oranjegevoel: It mostly concerns the national football team.

Royalist or republican? No strong view.

There are arguments against the monarchy. On the other hand, to many people it’s a national symbol.

Will NL still be a monarchy when you die? I think so.

Khalid Mehmood Khan (Pakistani, 38), tobacconist What are you going to do on Koninginnedag? Work first, then I go out with my wife and kids to buy stuff.

Finally, we will dine out.

What are you actually celebrating?

The queen’s birthday. History and tradition are important.

Describe your Oranjegevoel: I love the Netherlands. I’ve lived here for ten years now. I’m happy here.

Royalist or republican? Doesn’t matter.

This is such a well-organised country, a queen or a president doesn’t make any difference.

Will NL still be a monarchy when you die? Don’t know.

Marianne Vrolijk-Breedijk (Dutch, 36), president Oranjevereniging Zunderdorp What are you going to do on Koninginnedag? I will be participating in all kinds of activities that the Oranjevereniging organises.

What are you actually celebrating?

The queen’s birthday.

Describe your Oranjegevoel: Partying together, just having a gezellige dag with all the people from Zunderdorp and visitors, too..

Royalist or republican? Royalist. I’m not against a president, but a king is a constant.

Will NL still be a monarchy when you die? Ja.

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ent over a grand piano at the high-art outpost of club De Kring, only a stone’s throw away from the hustle and bustle of Leidseplein, Terry Gilliam is playing an impromptu ragtime composition with palpable glee.

He finishes with a flourish of chords, then turns around and beams a Cheshire Cat grin at me while shaking my hand vigorously.

When asked, Gilliam turns out to be no stranger to Amsterdam: ‘I’ve been here a lot of times. The thing about Amsterdam is that it has a very different atmosphere to any other city in the world. Sometimes I feel like I’m in a time warp here, that it retained some of the vibe of the late Sixties and early Seventies.’

And when he’s interrogated about the differences between living in the United States and Europe, Gilliam replies: ‘In America, everyone blends in, they all become the same person. In Europe and Amsterdam, people stay true to their own culture. In London, I can visit the entire world, and never leave home. I can go to Beirut one night and have dinner, and the next day I’ll go to Morocco... people don’t blend in as desperately as they do in America. Also, people who immigrate for cultural reasons are different from those who immigrate for financial reasons. The latter are more attached to their own culture.’

Gilliam—who at one point held both American and British passports— recently renounced his American nationality. Did he, perhaps, receive any negative reactions to rescinding his citizenship?

‘Not really. The only problem is that I’m now on probation for ten years. I can only go back thirty days a year. The IRS was probably not happy with my decision because they hate to see American taxpayers go. I’ve been paying taxes in both countries for forty years.’

At the opening night of the Amsterdam Fantastic Film Festival last Thursday, Gilliam was given the Career Achievement Award in recognition of his illustrious oeuvre. However, this kind of recognition doesn’t imperil Gilliam’s status as a maverick film-maker, certainly as far as he’s concerned: ‘Not if it’s a festival for maverick films! That said, it’s nice to meet people who appreciate your work. I don’t care that much for awards. Beyond that, to me, this is just a good opportunity to spend time in Amsterdam, meet lots of

26 April-2 May 2007 Gilliam communing with his latest career achievement.

A Jabberwocky talk with Terry Gilliam

ground now is the Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus, about a travelling group of strange figures who come to modern cities with their anachronistic storytelling to present people with choices. One decision leads to a sort of blossoming, the other one leads to... the devil! I was trying to get a number of projects going for which I couldn’t raise the budget, so I decided to do a film for which I could raise the money and I quickly wrote this script.’

A central theme of Gilliam’s films is the struggle of an individual against an anonymous, Orwellian system. In light of his own struggles in getting his films made, might this be a case of life imitating art? Gilliam chuckles: ‘Oh yes, I always say that all my films are autobiographical. But the thing is, every film-maker— unless you’re called Steven Spielberg—struggles the same way I did. I’ve been unluckier or luckier than others, depending on your point of view, and I make more noise than most people. I’m completely open about those things, while most people who’ve had much worse experiences than I have had tend to keep their mouths shut, for fear of it adversely effecting their chances of making the next film. I say: fuck it. I don’t care.’

As seen in the documentary Lost in La Mancha, Gilliam had a particularly harrowing experience filming The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, starring Johnny Depp, with back injuries, storms and other unfortunate occurrences finally burying the project.

Rumours of a resurrection have kept circulating, and Gilliam is more than happy to comment: ‘We were supposed to have secured the rights again by now, even though I’ve been saying this so long I’ve been sick of saying it. We almost had it done in the beginning of the year, but then the company that owns it changed lawyers... I’d like to be able to announce it in the next month or so, as Johnny is currently doing Sweeney Todd in London.’

Gilliam’s career began as the creator of the surreal animations that punctuated Monty Python’s Flying Circus. With all the trouble he’s had with live-action films, animation is still something he can fall back on, as he notes: ‘It’s something I can do with very little money. My problem is, if I was smarter, I would do that. But I keep banging my head against the wall in trying to do live-action films.’

Legendary film-maker and ex-Python member trashes Hollywood and praises Amsterdam.

BY LUUK VAN HUËT PHOTO BY SIMON WALD-LASOWSKI

people and to see some films I wouldn’t be able to see otherwise.’

Gilliam’s troubled relationship with Hollywood is widely known, and even though some major would-be blockbusters have tanked in the recent couple of years, he doesn’t see an end to the maligned studio stranglehold yet: ‘Hollywood isn’t going to collapse. There’s just too much money in it and they’ve got too much power in distribution. What’s happening has been happening for years: the big ones are getting bigger, the small ones are getting smaller and there’s nothing in the middle.

You can either make a film for one hundred

and fifty million dollars or fifteen million dollars and there’s nothing in between. And the reason for it all is that the cost of films today is mostly the cost of marketing. If you make a one hundred and fifty million dollar film and spend another fifty million in marketing or make a film for ten million dollars and spend five million on marketing, then it becomes profitable. Not so for the movies in the middle.’

Since the releases of The Brothers Grimm and Tideland, we haven’t been hearing much from Gilliam. Happily, he revealed that he was working on a new project: ‘The thing I’m trying to get off the

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Raimond Wouda, Thursday, Foam

Contemporary: Ives Ensemble

THURSDAY 26 APRIL Photography: Raimond Wouda Some people never want to be reminded of those school days that would never seem to end, surrounded as they were by dorks, bullies, nasty teachers and incomprehensible subject matters. Others, it seems, can’t get enough of it, given the success of websites like Schoolpagina and Friends Reunited. The latter group will be pleased with Foam’s exhibition School, the latest project from the lens of Raimond Wouda. If you expect a heap of classic school photos—you know, the ones where you and your classmates are looking into the camera wearing silly clothes and glasses—you might be disappointed. Wouda consciously avoids photographing in classrooms and focuses instead on places in which pupils relax between lessons, and are able to be themselves. Interaction between individuals, formation of groups, clothing and hairstyles: everything is captured in a single picture. Apart from providing a unique snapshot of a particular period, the series offers a sociological survey of young Holland in a modern variation on the traditional Dutch militia corps portrait. (Floris Dogterom) Foam, Until 17 June.

Roots: The Sadies Once upon a time, Dallas and Travis Good began their lives picking and fiddling with their parents’ band The Good Brothers at farm field festivals across Canada. After some good old fashioned punk rock rebellion, they returned to their roots to front this surf/spaghetti/bluegrass/murder-ballad/cosmic-country fusion ensemble, who may very well be not only one of the skinniest bands on the planet, but also one of the tightest. While they have recorded and toured with the contrasting likes of legendary soul pervo André Williams, the reigning queen of y’allternative country Neko Case and the rock ’n’ roll thumpers Heavy Trash, their transcendent power shines brightest when they play one of their famous three-hour sets all by their high and lonesomes—as witnessed by their recently released 40 track double-live CD album Volume 1. Really freaking good. Please note the early starting time and that entrance allows you to also attend the concerts by Wendy James—yes, she who was formerly of Transvision Vamp—& Racine and Nikki Corvette and the Stingrays. (Steve Korver) Paradiso, Kleine Zaal, 20.00, €10 + membership.

You can be sure that musicians are serious when they even organise their birthday bash around their fundamental principles. The Ives Ensemble, one of northern Europe’s premier new-music bands, is a group ‘dedicated to discovery’, says its founder and leader, John Snijders. And so, to fête its twentieth anniversary, the ensemble is offering a programme based on travel and journey. Two of tonight’s works are world premieres, commissioned for the group’s big day: Christopher Fox’s Terra Incognita, which portrays Scott’s famed expedition to the South Pole, and Fabio Nieder’s Thummels Haus, a homage to a painter who rendered imaginative voyages. The third piece is a revival of Luc Ferrari’s Sexolidad, a musical excursion across the human body. All will be complemented by visuals—film footage, photography, lighting effects—and everyone in attendance will receive a gift. Rather, make that two gifts: the first being this adventurous evening itself. (Steve Schneider) Muziekgebouw, 20.30, €20.

FRIDAY 27APRIL Exhibition: To See or Not to See Established in 1638, Hortus Botanicus Amsterdam is one of the oldest botanical gardens in the world. So if there’s one institution that should be celebrating the 300th birthday of the famous scientist Carl Linnaeus, it’s this place. The Swedish biologist, zoologist and doctor achieved everlasting glory through his revolutionary system, which catalogued and organised name-giving for the whole natural world, and he wrote the most important stuff right here in Amsterdam, between 1735 and 1737. Obviously, three centuries ago, God’s presence was still ubiquitous and creationism was the only acceptable explanation for the very existence of our planet. So when Linnaeus drew up his system, he concentrated on the visible (living nature) to prove the invisible (God’s creation), whereas present scientists focus on the invisible (DNA structures) to prove the visible (a natural system of species). To See or Not to See aims at unravelling Linnaeus’ motivation for his work. What was its impact on science? And what are the new insights? Find out for yourself at Hortus and while you’re at it, don’t forget to visit the 1912 palmhouse. It’s beautiful. (Floris Dogterom) Hortus Botanicus (Mon-Fri 09.00-17.00, Sat, Sun 10.00-17.00).Until 30 September.

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Folk: Joanna Newsom Few modern indie musicians have the power to split listeners like the harp-plucking songstress Joanna Newsom. If her child-like squeals on debut album The Milk-Eyed Mender weren’t enough to make you rip your ears off in disgust, then more recent album Ys may have initially tried your patience with its lengthy orchestral epics and 24 pages of lyrics covering only five songs—almost like a fantastical folk opera. There are, of course, many who’ve loved every word she’s uttered since the very beginning, but what’s most fascinating is how these two very different albums can even divide avid fans—something worth taking into account when considering whether to give her a second chance. Unlike her orchestral Ys appearances that dazzled British fans in January, the current tour sees her performing as a stripped-down quartet—a sound that will already be familiar to fans who’ve heard the new Joanna Newsom & The Ys Street Band EP. Even without the string-laden grandeur, the band squeeze out plenty of creative instrumental precision with their low-key bursts of percussion, tambura, banjo and violin. There are obvious quirks, but she’s a unique talent, and if you’re prepared to lose yourself in the moment, there’s much mesmeric magic to be had. (Steven McCarron) Paradiso, Grote Zaal, 19.45, €17.50 + membership.

Hiphop: Relax With their reputation for being a tight live band with a love for real instruments rather than sampling, it’s always been pretty easy to be enraptured by this Haarlem hiphop outfit fronted by rapper Llewy Is Sel. The band began nearly a decade ago, after their charismatic frontman left behind his dabbling in ‘teenyhopper punch rock’ band Nayberhood. With a new formation—made up largely of members of the old one—Sel and company made it to the final of the Patronaat’s Rob Acda Awards, got a new nameRelax-and continued enjoying moderate success in their homeland. The band themselves have always had so much confidence in their live abilities that, rather than going down the usual studio route, they opted for their debut release to be a live album, recorded over two nights in Panama in 2002. But there are more strings to their bow than just being able to work a crowd, and 2005’s Odeur De Clochard finally saw them venture into the studio, to produce an album of funky, melodic hiphop with flourishes of horns; its widespread appeal quickly made them a favourite on the festival scene. Of course, these days they’re as much pop as hiphop, but that’s certainly no insult. And if you want a taster of their new material, you can’t go wrong seeing them launch new album Pirates Among Puppets on home territory. (Steven McCarron) Patronaat, 21.00, Haarlem, €12.50.

Soul: Swamp Dogg Dogging it long before Snoop was even born, Swamp Dogg has indeed been sampled by most of the greats of hiphop. But he is best described as ‘Wilson Pickett meets Frank Zappa in a bad mood’. Born Jerry Williams Jr, Dogg began his career in the 1960s as an R&B songwriter and the first black producer for Atlantic Records, before taking on his stage name because, as he described it: ‘[If your dog] sleeps on the sofa, shits on the rug, pisses on the drapes, chews up your slippers, humps your mother-in-law’s leg, jumps on your new clothes, and licks your face, he’s never gotten out of character. You understand what he did, you curse while making allowances for him, but your love for him never diminishes. So, I sung about sex, niggers, love, rednecks, war, peace, dead flies, home wreckers, Sly Stone, my daughters, politics, revolution, and blood transfusions (just to name a few), and never got out of character.’ And the result was one of the hardest-hitting sexy soul funk albums of all times: 1970’s Total Destruction to Your Mind. His follow-up album Rat On! featured the tune ‘God Bless America for What’ that got him on Nixon’s shit-list. And so he happily continued his quirky and murky career which also included writing country songs for the likes of Johnny Paycheck.

(He even got nominated for CMA Songwriter of the Year in 1972 but, of course, wasn’t invited to attend the lily-white awards show.). Yep, he’s the personification of ‘cult’ and his latest album Resurrection finds him as sharp and funky as ever. (Steve Korver) Paradiso, Grote Zaal, 23.00, €17.50 + membership.

SUNDAY 29 APRIL Gay and Lesbian: Roze Wester Festival Is there a more appropriate occasion than Queen’s Day eve for holding the Drag Queen Olympics on the Homomonument? This world’s premier cross-dressing sporting event includes favourites like Handbag Throwing, the 100m Stiletto Heels Run and a Tandem Bike Race. It’s hosted by Coco Coquette and, apart from the—no doubt stiff—competition, there will be appearances by Zsa Zsa Gaybar, Sophie Nummer and Heidi Ho. A make-up artist will be available, plus first aid for the ankles of those not used to the wobbly Amsterdam streets. The Drag Queen Olympics is the kick-off of the Roze Wester Festival, which will run from 29 April until 5 May. It’s organised by GALA, a fun bunch of volunteers who are also behind the SOS parties. On Queen’s Day itself there’s an open air disco, with special guest programming by the men from XXXLeather and Furball. On 4 May there’s the WWII memorial service and on 5 May it’s Liberation Day Party with special guest-programming from the wicked guys from ArtLaunch. The whole festival is organised by Stichting Gala, a non-profit organisation who are also behind Pride’s excellent Summer Camp parties, and the Eagle’s safe-sex SOS Sunday sex sessions. (Willem de Blaauw) Homomonument, 17.00-00.00, free. Until 5 May.

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Hold on to yer saddle, this horse is movin’. And shakin’. And artin’. And redefining the gallery experience. Yeeha!

TWO STEPS FORWARD, AND ONE STEP LEFT ART Real Genuine Blend Horse Move Project Space, opening 28 April, 20.00, free; until 20 May

By Mark Wedin

One year ago, artists Frank Ammerlaan, Thijs Rhijnsburger and so:ren squatted a small space near Stedelijk Museum CS with the hopes of opening a new gallery.

‘At first, there were big problems with the squatting,’ explains Ammerlaan. ‘The owner and the Stedelijk Museum wanted to kick us out. But finally, due to some media attention, the owner said we could stay. Now we can stay ’til summer 2008, so that’s a good start for us.’

Once their feet were firmly planted, they began immediately with their own brand of curating art shows. ‘The beginning was a project initiated by so:ren,’ says Ammerlaan. ‘It was a project of three months, where each artist invited the next artist, so that each artist was also a curator for the show. And it was a growing exhibition: an artist would make one work and then invite another artist who he or she thought would fit in with the work that was already there. It was a work-in-progress and we had the final exhibition with all the work together on 29 June.’

These initial connections, with each artist choosing the next, were known as ‘horse moves’. But this was not the original genesis of the name. ‘“Horse move” is the most unexpected move in a chess game,’ explains Ammerlaan. ‘That was how we finally got our space. We very unexpectedly chose our space within a main culture area of Amsterdam.’ But there is also a double meaning: the building’s unique shape has a slow concave curve, and the roof gradually rises in steps. If you were to walk along the top of it, your footsteps would closely resemble the movement of a knight in a game of chess: two steps forward, one step left.

After their initial project, it was clear that they preferred to continue keeping the curatorial choices in a variety of changing hands. ‘It’s sort of like a transparent organisation where we are not mainly curating what we want to see. At the end of that first project, we told the audience that they should come to us with proposals for what to do next. We said that we never want any solo exhibitions because that’s too much focus on the individual artist, but what we do want is to create a dialogue between the artists, and the artists and the public. So we asked people in the audience to write concepts and find one or more people to join them and initiate their own exhibitions.’

Ride ’em, cowboy!

And they’ve continued in this vein ever since. Now they are celebrating their one-year anniversary with an exhibition entitled Real Genuine Blend. ‘We got in contact with some very nice artists: Willum Geerts and Jan van der Ploeg. Van der Ploeg made exhibitions in the Stedelijk and all around the world—quite minimalistic, abstract wall paintings. He’s going to paint the whole outside wall of the Horse Move, including some walls inside. And Geert is going to make a light and sound installation. The elements together will make a dialogue. When the light and sound changes, the paintings will be weakened or made stronger because of the light and colours of his painting. They will come out—or they will be refused.’

While continuing Horse Move, they also have plans to open another space, specifically intended for recent graduates of art academies. ‘We work a lot with end exam students and people who have just graduated. After graduation... yeah. What then? So we’ve made plans to create a space where studios are made together with a post-education programme. You could say that we are sort of starting an academy ourselves. We are in contact with a project developer and he’s interested in our plans. It’s a very big building near Amstel Station. We’ll probably get the keys next month and then start working right away. We’re planning to have a big exhibition space along with lectures, which will be public.’ Ammerlaan says it’s important to help bridge the gap between art school and the real world. ‘Otherwise you might fall in that famous black hole.’ www.horsemove.nl

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The Sadies, see Thursday

Contemporary: Ives Ensemble Celebrating their 20th birthday, the forward-thinking ensemble premiere works by Christopher Fox and Fabio Nieder. See Short List. Muziekgebouw, 20.30, €20

MUSIC

Hiphop/Electronica: Just Jack Funky disco, pop and even a little rock meets laidback hiphop with a pesky London accent. Melkweg, Oude Zaal, 21.00, €11 + membership

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World: Okros Ensemble Bloody Transylvanian folk that swings so hard it rocks. Special guest is vocalist Agnes Szalóki. Bimhuis, 21.00, €14

Thursday 26 April Opera: Hercules What’s an opera without jealousy?

Fortunately, Handel’s interpretation of the Hercules myth has it in bucket loads, not least drawing on the confused emotions of his wife Dejanira. Performed by De Nederlandse Opera. Het Muziektheater, 19.30, €20-€85

Singer-songwriter: Sophie Zeyl Slightly reminiscent of English songstress Beth Orton, this is a local who understands the beauty of just a guitar with vocal. But she’s also a songwriter with an affinity for electronic soundscapes. So her music sees the two influences collide, producing pure songs that aim to touch the soul, while also experimenting with new sounds and rhythms around those core words and melodies. Sugar Factory, 21.00, €7.50 Hiphop: The Reyes Brothers Better known as Sen Dog of Cypress Hill and Mellow Man Ace, the brothers spend their time in this project flipping between heavy Latin hiphop beats and summery grooves. Melkweg, The Max, 21.00, €20 + membership

Hagen Quartet

REGINA RECHT

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Classical: Hagen Quartet Performing quartet works

by Schubert, Szymanowski and Brahms. Concertgebouw, Kleine Zaal, 20.15, €32.50 Big band: Metropole Orkest Jazzy big band pop.

Guests of the orchestra tonight are chansonnière Wende Snijders and Huub van der Lubbe of De Dijk.

Concertgebouw, Grote Zaal, 20.15, €35 Classical: Voices A new oratorio by Helene Gelens and André Arends, featuring the voices of soprano Caroline Erkelens, tenor Marcel Beekman and other guests. English Reformed Church, 20.15, €10 Pop/Rock: Brown Feather Sparrow Led by singersongwriter Lydia van Maurik-Wever, this five-piece are known for acoustically inclined moody poetic pop, and while they’re rarely out on tour, 2005’s Let’s be Fine demonstrated with its prettiness that they’re certainly worth catching when the chance arises. Also on the bill are Lingby (DE) and We Are The Bereaved.

Winston Kingdom, 20.30, €5

Rock: The Spades ’70s-style NY punk. Also with the thunderous hardcore of Toronto’s Maximum RNR in support. Bitterzoet, 21.00, €7.50 Rock: James Chance et les Contorsions A key figure in the no wave scene of the late ’70s and early ’80s, Chance played in many combinations of improvisational quasi-jazz and punk bands in New York, such as Teenage Jesus & The Jerks, James Chance and The Contortions, James White and The Blacks, and The Flaming Demonics. Now he’s back, doing it all over again. Support from Two Dogs. OCCII, 21.30, €6 Roots: The Sadies Canadian picking and fiddling brothers.See Short List. Paradiso, Kleine Zaal, 20.00, €10 + membership Pop/Rock: Wendy James & Racine It’s nearly 20 years since her hits with British chart rockers Transvision Vamp and that’s what she’s still remembered for.

But with Racine, James is attempting to move on at last, although the spicy guitar pop ain’t that far removed from their ’80s cousins. Paradiso, Grote Zaal, 21.30, €10 Pop/Rock: Mariandoro International-inspired music from an internationally-minded quintet—members come from the Netherlands, Argentina, Finland and Bosnia. Café Pakhuis Wilhelmina, 22.00, €5

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LEKKER BEZIG

SIMON WALD-LASOWSKI

certain quality in their ‘DNK stands for De KOEN NUTTERS work. It’s hard say we Nieuwe KraakgeluDNK programmer do this or we don’t do iden.

[The old] that. We just look for Kraakgeluiden was something that speaks, more of an improv sessomething that I’d sion where musicians want to let people hear who had never played or hear myself. together before got ‘There are tons of together, experimentmusicians. But it’s difing, more on the ficult to find stuff minimal electronic that’s really nice. side. The emphasis Maybe put that in italwas on trying new ics—nice. By that, I equipment. They startmean quality. Just ed it really small seven quality. It speaks to years ago. This group you or the audience. It of musicians like Steve doesn’t matter if it’s in Heather, Anne La a certain style or its Berge, Cor Fuhler. It hip or whatever. grew into a concert ‘Being a musician series, because there myself, I look at it often was a need for it. But ‘We don’t try to emphasise as a function thing: if it was still sort of weirdness or something. it works. We have this turned inward. It was plurality in style— more for the musiIt’s all about openness.’ some things are really cians themselves. sound-art related; When Anne La Berge some things are really music. But no matdecided to stop it last season, I decided to ter what the style or the concept, it should continue it. We had a transitional year work in itself. It should function as a conlast year—a bit of the old thing and a bit of cept, as music, as a performance. Then the new thing. And now this year we’re people can get it—whatever it is. That’s starting for real—it’s officially DNK and what I’m looking for. run by a different foundation.

‘We don’t try to emphasise weirdness ‘It’s still about experimentation—anyor something. I don’t consider the music thing from acoustic to electronic, improv, we programme weird. Some people who composition, even the rough or conceptual have never heard it before might. But it’s sides of pop—but it’s not necessarily about all about the openness of the audience. If experimentation on stage. It’s about showthey have an open mind to listen, there’s ing finished things. It’s about presenting actually nothing weird about it.’ music and musical concepts that work to an interested audience. www.dnk-amsterdam.com ‘When programming, we look for people who have something special to offer—groups or musicians who have a

By Mark Wedin

Friday 27 April Classical: Lunch Concert Students from the Conservatorium van Amsterdam. Bethaniënklooster, 12.30, free Singer-songwriter: Farmer Jason Yes, this really is Jason Ringenberg, lead singer of Jason and the Scorchers, who were pioneers of honky-tonk punk in the early ’80s. These days you’ll often find him in his Farmer Jason persona, entertaining small children and their families. As such, kids get in free. (But here’s hoping they don’t catch a blast of Joanna Newsom’s voice during her soundcheck or there may be tears.) Paradiso, Kleine Zaal, 19.00, €6.50 + membership Heavy: Lostprophets Good old fashioned Welsh aggression meets mascara pop. Melkweg, The Max, 19.00, €15 + membership Hiphop/R&B: War Child Benefit Featuring performances from Jammin’ Brass, Kamikaze, DJ TLM, Kiddo Cee, DJ Six, Abdelrahim Rebati, Fouradi and Ziggi. Pakhuis de Zwijger, 19.00, €2.50 Hiphop/R&B: BO! Showcases & Open Mic Featuring urban sets from Tieka, Esperanza & Pravini, Solid Ground Movement, and Jiggy Dje, Spacekees & Hairo.

Grolsch Music Café, 19.30, €5 Folk: Joanna Newsom Love her or hate her, she sure plays a mean harp. See Short List. Paradiso, Grote Zaal, 19.45, €17.50 + membership Pop/Rock: Motel Westcoast Like the cover band tributes held at Café Pakhuis Wilhelmina, but on a much bigger scale, this Radio 2 concert sees bloated Dutch muses blasting out ’70s hits from America’s west coast. Special guests are American rockers Venice, while support comes from De Egles—a tribute to The Eagles. Heineken Music Hall, 20.15, €29.50

Classical: UBS Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra Led by acclaimed Russian violinist Maxim Vengerov, the orchestra will be performing a trio of concertos by Mozart along with some Shostakovich, by way of Rudolf Barshai. Concertgebouw, Grote Zaal, 20.15, €60 Classical: Nederlands Kamerorkest & Ensemble Ziggurat A cross-cultural musical voyage with an Eastern twist, including Mozart’s Ouverture Die Entführung aus dem Serail, the premiere of a new work

by Theo Loevendie, and Lully’s La Céremonie Turque uit Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme; conducted by Gordan Nikolic. Muziekgebouw, 20.30, €30 Singer-songwriter: Philippe Elan Smooth Frenchie kickin’ it chanson-style. Meervaart, 20.30, €16 World: Seydina Insa Wade A cornerstone of the Senegalese music scene. KIT Tropentheater, 20.30, €18 Funk: 90 Degrees Led by Russian artist Leo Kogan, this internationally minded bunch embrace Latin, reggae and other groovy influences from around the world. Yet bursting from each tune is a love of all things funky. Sugar Factory, 21.00, €7 Pop/Rock: MySpace Live It’s obviously the internet’s fullest latrine, but it’s also the quickest way to check out a new band. This new monthly night plucks Dutch bands with a strong MySpace following, putting them on a real stage in front of real people—we hope.

Tonight: Monsieur Cannibale, Jeremies and Blizzard.

Club Meander, 21.00, €4 Electro rock: Poxy Toxic A night of electro riot punk featuring sets from Partyline (US), led by former Bratmobile frontwoman Allison Wolfe, Barr (US) and Trouble Vs Glue (Italy). OCCII, 21.00, €5 Hiphop: Relax Haarlem’s favourite hiphop sons. See Short List. Patronaat, Haarlem, 21.00, €12.50 Hiphop: Streetbeatz Fresh hiphop. Before midnight expect a diverse array of live sets; afterwards it turns into a vinyl celebration. Bitterzoet, 22.00, €7.50

Replikas Rock: Replikas, Solaire Experimental rockers from Istanbul, while Rotterdam outfit Solaire deal in grand atmospherics inspired by the likes of Mogwai and Explosions In the Sky. Winston Kingdom, 21.00, €5 Jazz: William Parker Quartet A New York bassist who’s been active since the ’70s. He’s far from dated, however, and all his recent releases have been hugely acclaimed by the critics and the public. In the band tonight are trumpeter Lewis Barnes, saxophonist Rob Brown, drummer Hamid Drake and singer Leena Conquest. Bimhuis, 21.00, €14

Alex Akela Singer-songwriter: Alex Akela Skek, 21.30, free Rock: Thin Lizzy session Tonight there’s gonna be a gig-break, somewhere in this town. Ross Curry and the boys are playing, just don’t bring an orange crown.

Café Pakhuis Wilhelmina, 22.00, €7.50

U-Gene Soul/Hiphop: U-Gene Live Funky beats and soulful hiphop, performed with a live band that features members of Beef!, OlaBola and Kraak & Smaak. Badcuyp, Bovenzaal, 22.30, €8 Soul: Swamp Dogg The greatest album in the world ever? That’s what this soul star thinks of his new album Resurrection. He’s so confident he crucified himself on its cover and is offering refunds to any unsatisfied customers. See Short List. Paradiso, Grote Zaal, 23.00, €17.50 + membership

Saturday 28 April Classical: Ensemble Ziggurat East meets West.

Classical meets jazz. Tonight’s programme includes works by Theo Loevendie, Guus Janssen and Scarlatti.

Noorderkerk, 14.00, €10 Fado: Ana Moura Soulful fado from the young Portuguese star. Meervaart, 20.15, €20 Classical: Hagen Quartet (See Thursday) Concertgebouw, Kleine Zaal, 20.15, €32.50 Classical: Nederlands philharmonisch Orkest With Yakov Kreizberg at the helm, the philharmonic go a little Danish this evening, performing Carl Nielsen’s percussive Fifth Symphony, written during World War I. This is followed by Beethoven’s own triumphant Fifth.

Concertgebouw, Grote Zaal, 20.15, €30 Classical: Paul Koomen The pianist presents his new CD by performing 24 preludes by Wim Zwaag.

Bethaniënklooster, 20.15, €15 Classical: The Davydov-Fanning Duo Performing works by the likes of Debussy, Bosmans, Janácek, Martinu and Brahms. English Reformed Church, 20.15, €12

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26 April-2 May 2007 World: Los Promiscuos del Son Contemporary Cuban son and salsa ensemble led by Guelmy Vázquez Solís. KIT Tropentheater, 20.30, €20 Classical: The Gents It may say ‘classical’ next to the name but this unique vocal ensemble are tough to categorise: a 16-piece outfit comfortable tackling works by the likes of Röntgen, Poulenc, Bartok and Schumann, while also doing pop and folk numbers, all under the direction of Peter Dijkstra. Muziekgebouw, 20.30, €25 Rock: Bettie Page Night Get your best leather out and your dancing shoes on, because tonight the Cruise Inn pays tribute to the 1950s pin-up, with the rock ’n’ roll stomps supplied by El Rio Trio and the Blue Devils. Cruise Inn, 21.00, €11 Hiphop/Jazz: Bossa Boogie The club night celebrates its third birthday. Along with the usual array of DJs, food, drinks and vinyl, funky jazzists Euro Cinema will be playing live. Café Pakhuis Wilhelmina, 21.00, €5 Rock: Live Amsterdam Featuring sets from Lushus, Bomba Roja and Vinny Fazari. Winston Kingdom, 21.00, €5 Hiphop/Jazz: Raymztr & Chris Hinze Band A brave experimental collaboration between the Dutch-Moroccan rapper and flautist Hinze. Originally joining forces for the single ‘Vechten Op Het Schoolplein’, the chemistry proved so strong that they’ve recently been hitting every corner of the nation. Podium Mozaïek, 21.00, €16 Jazz: Roberto Fonseca The future Buena Vista Social King? Though only 32, this pianist has the sound of Cuban son nailed, and he’s already shone alongside the likes of Ibrahim Ferrer, Omara Portuondo, Herbie Hancock and Wayne Shorter. Bimhuis, 21.00, €16 Ska: The Heptones meet The High Notes Old Jamaican rocksteady masters meet their Dutch ska offspring, which should result in some fruitful collaborations based upon old and new ideas. P60, Amstelveen, 21.30, €17.50 Reggae: Ghettowish Famed for their fortnightly Volta jam sessions, this weekend, Ghettowish are getting serious with a full-blown reggae event. Special guests include Notlim & Ace with the Jah Soldiers band and Royal Sound Soundsystem. Volta, 22.00, €5 Blues: The Healers Featuring charismatic vocalist Thomas Buck-Nasty. Maloe Melo, 22.00, €5

Rock: Beat Club Queen’s Night Oranje beat rockin’ with The Mad and West Hell Three plus Two. Maloe Melo, 22.00, €8

Monday 30 April Pop: Radio 538 Museumplein The central meeting point for party freaks who don’t like music and don’t mind that the person in front has an umbrella up— even though it’s not raining—because they know you can’t catch a glimpse of the stage through the sea of inflatable crowns anyway. (At least the fans of X-Factor are all confined to one location.) Museumplein, 12.0022.00, free Hiphop: Little Brother Oh crap. No-one told these American hiphoppers they’d booked to play on Queen’s Day. Between the orange madness today and playing the quaintest town in Southern Sweden tomorrow, the Euro confusion may be too much. Paradiso, Grote Zaal, 21.00, €16 + membership

Tuesday 1 May Heavy: Trivium, Annihilator Shake off that royal hangover with some furious headbanging. Both bands dress in black and deal out classic thrash, though Trivium are relatively new kids on the block compared to Canadian titans Annihilator, who’ve been flailing hair since 1984 and been through enough band members to make up a platoon. Melkweg, The Max, 19.00, €17.50 + membership Opera: Hercules (See Thursday) Het Muziektheater, 19.30, €20-€85 Classical: Nederlands Philharmonisch Orkest (See Saturday) Concertgebouw, Grote Zaal, 20.15, €30

Wednesday 2 May Opera: Lunch Concert Students of De Nieuwe Opera Academie. Concertgebouw, Kleine Zaal, 12.30, free Reggae: Made in Jamaica Reggae Festival Tied in with the film Made in Jamaica by French director Jerome Laperrousaz—documenting how reggae became a worldwide phenomenon—this tour brings the story to life with the legends live onstage: Mystic Revelation of Rastafari, Capleton, Third World and Bunny Wailer. Heineken Music Hall, 18.00, €35

Sunday 29 April Classical: Tangorama A Sunday morning tango feast featuring works from the likes of Piazzolla and Ginastera. Concertgebouw, Kleine Zaal, 11.00, €14 Opera: Hercules (See Thursday) Het Muziektheater, 13.30, €20-€85 Classical: Nederlands Philharmonisch Orkest (See Saturday) Concertgebouw, Grote Zaal, 14.15, €30 World: Amina Alaoui An original interpreter of Gharnati music—which takes its name from Granada, the former Moorish city—Alaoui’s voice is spellbinding and her performances intimate and arresting. KIT Tropentheater, 15.00, €18 Classical: Des Knaben Wunderhorn Members of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra performing works by Duvernoy, Schumann, Dukas and Brahms. Bethaniënklooster, 15.00, €15 Classical: L’Arte del Arco Local string ensemble performing works by Corelli, Pärt, Handel and Rachmaninov. English Reformed Church, 15.15, €10 Heavy: Rise Against Political hardcore from Chicago.

Tony the Tiger thinks they’re GRRRReat. Support from The Bronx and Cancer Bats. Melkweg, The Max, 19.30, €16 + membership Classical: Uitreiking Nederlandse Muziekprijs 2007 Prize ceremony. Performers include the overall winner, harpist Gwyneth Wentink, as well as Limburgs Symphonie Orkest, Het Kirwani Kwartet and Rubens Kwartet. Muziekgebouw, 20.00, €22.50 Singer-songwriter: Kate McDonnel, Denise Marie Folky, jazzy goodness all the way from the US. Expect acoustic intimacy. KHL Koffiehuis, 20.30, €6 Latin/Jazz: David Sánchez Group Grammy awardwinning sax player. Learning from the likes of Dizzy Gillespie and Eddie Palmieri, he brings a smooth contemporary twist to those well-worn Latin jazz traditions. Bimhuis, 21.00, €16

Chris Chameleon Pop/Rock: Chris Chameleon Melodic rock from the South African star, formerly a member of the band Boo! Melkweg, Oude Zaal, 21.00, €12.50 + membership Jazz: Dave Douglas Keystone Sextet Renowned American trumpeter who can take on just about any musical style, be it jazz, rock, classical or klezmer. In tonight’s Keystone performance, he’ll be performing compositions inspired by films of Fatty Arbuckle, which work both as soundtracks to the original movies and as standalone compositions. Bimhuis, 21.00, €20 Rock: Johnny Cash Tribute Night Just like it says on the tin: classics by the Man in Black being disembowelled for your listening pleasure. Winston Kingdom, 21.00, €5

Jazz: State Of Monc A hybrid set of jazz and electronica. Sugar Factory, 21.00, €8.50

Pop/Rock: Club 3voor12 Live radio and TV session featuring sets from Relax, Charlotte Hatherley and The Stilettos. Desmet Studios, 22.00, free. Register for tickets at www.3voor12.nl

Soul: Winston Queendom: All Ablaze! Deep funk and raw soul as The Soul Prophets rip up the stage in this Queen’s Night special. Afterwards Winston gets eclectic with rock, electro, indie, hiphop, drum & bass and breakbeats till late. Winston Kingdom, 21.00, €5

Roots: Barrence Whitfield & The Seatsniffers Roots rockin’ goodness, with exuberant American singer Whitfield teaming up with like-minded Belgian friends The Seatsniffers for a rollicking rock ’n’ roll tour. Paradiso, Kleine Zaal, 22.30, €8.50 + membership

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CLUBS Thursday 26 April De Dixo Eclectic tunes with the bonus of nu-Nedersoul from Derick. Club Meander, 22.00-03.00, €4 Vunst Fashion There’s no music tonight. Instead, patrons will compare the weave of their favourite items of clothing. Okay, maybe there’s some music and dancing too, but I bet someone adapts this weave concept soon enough. Club 8, 22.00-03.00, €5

Poptrash Three decades’ worth of rock, electro and hiphop with The Punchout DJs. Tonight also features the hypnotic indie electronics of Toob (UK). Melkweg, The Max, 23.00-late, €5

Friday 27 April Parkroom Loops and dupes from Eva Maria, Lupe and Marc Schneider (DE). Flex Bar, 22.00-late, €8 Go!Crunc Cruncy beats from Erick E, Leroy Styles, Dekky and Benjamin Brown. Panama, 23.00-04.00, €10

Flex YourSpace The Leo Sayer of the Dutch pop scene, Benny Sings, launches his new album Benny...

At Home. Flex Bar, 22.00-late, €8

Moskow Diskow Time to get the cosmonaut suits back out of the cupboard. Special guests tonight are Supersonic Future (live), Goldfinger, Discomachina and Beige (UK) offering up an international array of electronic sounds. Sugar Factory, 23.00-05.00, €12

Vreemd Outlandish electro and live performances.

Sugar Factory, 23.00-05.00, €8

NuJazz Revolutions Organic electro jazz. Akhnaton, 23.00-05.00, €8.50

Appelsap Hiphop hooray with DJs SP, Kid Sublime and Lil’ Vic. Melkweg, The Max, 23.00-late, €12.50 + membership Boss New jack swing ain’t so new anymore. If the sounds are a bit dated in the main hall, there’s speedgarage and jungle elsewhere. Paradiso, 23.5905.00, €12.50 + membership DJ Food & DK Ninja Tune-style electro breakbeats, jazzy vibes, drum & bass sidesteps and a little hiphop for good measure. Melkweg, Oude Zaal, 23.59-late, €12 + membership

Saturday 28 April off_BeAt With an emphasis on hiphop, dubstep, drum & bass and a little grime, this party welcomes all cool kids who can’t clap in time with tunes, promising to hide their embarrassment through a disintegration of rhythmic normality. Club 8, 22.00-04.00, €8

26 April-2 May 2007 Voodoo People Creepy Dutchstep with the longwave groove. Flex Bar, 22.00-late, €7 Rebel Up! Soundclash Diasporic sounds from the global underground: mestiza beats, gypsy funk, roots, Arabic, African rhythms, Latino, Asian and gritty electronics. Beyond the exotic noise, profits always go to charity—this time, it’s the Chakana project in Bolivia.

OCCII, 22.30-04.00, €4 Rex...Electronation Live A BPitch Control special featuring Housemeister, Smash TV (live), Generik and Dax vs Clockwork. Sugar Factory, 23.00-05.00, €15 eRRorKREW Electro warfare, house, techno and acid.

Studio 80, 23.00-late, €9 Orange Ball Can I kick it? Yes, I can. Plain old house beats from DJs Benjamin, Glaucio Duarte, Max Morel and many more. Melkweg, 23.00-late, €28 Labyrint International electronics. Richard Dorfmeister is the main pull for this event, though there’s no Mr Kruder in sight. Other guests include Nomad Soundsystem, DJ Yakuza (Istanbul) and Ipek Ipekcioglu. Paradiso, 23.30-05.00, €15

Sunday 29 April QNSNGHT With Quazar, Mason and The Maker, Dexter, Matik, Le Clic, Laidback Luke featuring Grand Wazoo and Schwarze Männer. Twstd, 19.00-01.00, free Nu Groundz Invites ADHD Sessions The Queen’s Night warehouse edition, featuring the technoromous sounds of Jamie Anderson (UK), Oliver Kucera, Wouter de Moor, Wesdex, Recovery Sounds and Dia.chro.na. A bargain price too. Café Pakhuis Wilhelmina, 21.00-late, €10 Static Weekender More boom tsh with Paul Kalkbrenner (Berlin) and Sebo K. BG, 22.00-04.00, €24 Royal Bass Bass & drum. The quakiest shakiest party of the weekend, featuring Metalheadz gurus and heroes of the local scene. Westergasfabriek, 22.0006.00, €20 1 Day Off Featuring the likes of Dr Lektroluv, Nid & Sancy and Vitalic, this is the place to spend your Queen’s Night. But it’s sold out, so you can’t.

Should have planned ahead. Melkweg, 22.00-late, sold out OntFront Mask-tastic classics along with the latest underground freshness. Oh, but the masks are mandatory—best ones win prizes. A Paul Stanley design is sure to turn heads. Flex Bar, 22.00-late, €10 Putsch VI With Berlin’s Luna City Express, Tony Boogs, Eva Maria and Arter. ITW@NDSM, 22.00-late, €15 GRAparty Arty-farty party promising big beats and creative concepts. Club More, 23.00-05.00, €10 WickedJazzSounds Jazz, hiphop, broken beats, nujazz, funk and Afro sounds, as classic vinyl collides with live musicians. Sugar Factory, 23.00-05.00, €8.50 The Arc of Goa Two boats, ten spaces and a whole lot of trance, rave, ragga, drum & bass and jungle.

NDSM-werf, 23.00-08.00, €27.49 Waag on Fire Especially for Queen’s Night, every single piece of furniture will be taken out of De Waag to be replaced with mirror balls and ’70s funk classics.

De Waag, 23.00-late, €5 Rauw Starring Boys Noize and The Glimmers (aka Mo & Benoeli). 11, clubnights until 04.00, €15

Monday 30 April Queen’s Day Bash LFTFLD and eRRorKREW join forces for this all-day outdoor and indoor feast. Should be sonic chaos. Vaaghuyzen, 12.00-01.00, free Open Air Q-day Coverfestival Urban soul, funk and disco by way of cover bands. Nieuwmarkt, Zeedijk, 12.00-21.00, free Queen’s Day Hardly an imaginative event name, but it’s free. Featuring the likes of The Flexican, Jaziah, Gregor Salto, Brian S, Laidback Luke and Victor Coral.

Amstelveld, 12.00-21.00, free SLAM!FM Party As mainstream as it gets. Rembrandtplein, 12.00-21.00, free Queen’s Day ‘Street Party’ An orange feast for eyes and ears with live music, jazz bands and drag shows.

Zeedijk, 14.00-late, free Electrocure Queen’s Day Extravaganza An Insane Record event to help with the fight against cancer.

There’s electro, minimal, house and techno experiences to be had, all while raising money for the Queen Wilhelmina Foundation cancer charity. Sugar Factory, 19.00, €7-€12

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26 April-2 May 2007 Cheeky Monday A royal jungle and drum & bass night with players from the local and international scenes. Winston Kingdom, 22.00-03.00, €6 Under the Stars Psychedelic trance feast. See how fast the orange fades into cyan. Ruigoord, 22.0008.00, €10 Unleashed An urban trip with Fedde Le Grand, Erick-E, Irwan and Pascal Morais. Melkweg, 22.30-late, €25

Tuesday 1 May Funky Junkie A wild cross-section of funk sounds from DJ Koldun, who invites a selection of live musicians to improvise while he works the decks. Winston Kingdom, 22.00-03.00, €5

GAY& LESBIAN Friday 27 April Vrouwenavond It’s lesbian. It’s popular. Its DJ tonight is Suna. Men welcome with a likely ladyfriend. Café Sappho, 22.00, free ArtLaunch gets Electrorated Two revitalisers of the Dutch scene get it on together: Electronation makes the beasts with two backs with Artlaunch and the baby is this one-off party. Studio 80, 23.00-05.00, €7 Reflexxx Musclebound club night with DJ Mike Cruz straight outta NYC. Special treat tonight is the Dutch candidates for Mr Gay Netherlands. Escape, 23.0005.00, €25

Saturday 28 April Spize Bi and gay urban night, hosted by Orgaboiz.

Café Sappho, 22.00-05.00, free Joystick A new venue and new management (circuit impresarios R&D Productions) fuel-inject new life into Joystick. In room one are DJs TDM and Phil Romano; in room two, DJ Daniel June. Vakzuid, 22.00-05.00, €25 Orange Ball The party starts right here, right now with DJs Benjamin, Glaucio Duarte and Max Morel. Melkweg, 23.00-05.00, €28

Sunday 29 April Queensball Special night makes way for the special day tomorrow. All queens welcome, naturally. Exit, 00.00-04.00, €7 Orange Afterparty The London Vauxhall club experience carries on to Wagenstraat with DJ David Jiminez.

But don’t think it’s over yet... Sinners, 05.00-10.00, €15 Rapido Special outing for the one-off house night. On the decks this afternoon and evening: DJs Doug Gray, Giangi Cappai and Manny Lehman. Upstairs it’s Dikky Vendetta and Nicolas Nucci. Paradiso, 15.00-late, sold out Roze Wester Festival: Drag Queen Olympics Participants have been limbering up all year for the world’s toughest sporting event. Make-up artist available, bring own heels, wig and isotonic drink. See Short List.

Homomonument, 17.00-00.00, free Orange Street Party The goggle-eyed revellers continue their Orange Orange experience en plein air.

Zeedijk, 20.00-01.00, free Pre Beaprix Party The jokes about queens start right here, right now. DJ Gina’s on the decks, prosecco’s on tap. PRIK, 22.00-03.00, free UNK Queensdaynight Hunky, chunky, spunky electro from DJ Lupe and crew. Club 8, 22.00-5.00, €8

Monday 30 April Leve de koningin! Cross-dressing royal madness from the city’s only tranny bar. Lellebel, free Beaprix Day Time for the party proper. Prik take the bar outside, and today they’re tapping Grolsch and prosecco—and orange prosecco, too. PRIK, 11.0001.00, free Roze Wester Festival One of the best gay and les evenings to be had on Queen’s Day. Disrespectful dancing on the monument positively encouraged. See Short List. Homomonument, 17.00-00.00, free

Yamato 2007, see Opening

STAGE Opening Festival: ZO! Theaterdagen 2007 This theatre festival has both a day and a night programme. Plays performed include HRMNNH! by Made in da Shade, Abele spelen by Het Waterhuis, Zwarte Helden by Raymi Sambo, Operator by Urban Myth and Big Bro by Jongerentheater 020. In Dutch. No Limit, (Thur, Fri various times), €7.50 performance, €17.50 festival pass Music/Dance: Spontaneous Earth A special collaboration between pianist René Eckhardt of the Asko Ensemble, and Indian dancer Kalpana Raghuraman, who combines the classical Indian Bharatanatyam with elements of modern dance. Alongside John Cage’s Spontaneous Earth they’ll perform pieces by Florian Maier, Satie, Ravel and Andro Biswane. KIT Tropentheater, (Thur 20.30), €14 Theatre: Vuile Handen Theatre group EA stages a relatively unknown play by Jean-Paul Sartre. About hypocrisy in politics. About the tragedy of a man whose act of heroism is completely pointless. About love. And about terrorism. In Dutch. Compagnietheater, (Thur-Sat, Tues 20.00), €18 Theatre: De Vreemdeling The second instalment by Braakland/Zhebuilding. Camus’ classic is followed by a short musical performance by De Veenfabriek. In Dutch. De Brakke Grond, (Fri 20.30), €12 Dance: Pulse+ Krisztina de Châtel always looks for different ways of doing contemporary dance. Pulse premiered last year in theatres, but in this extended version, Pulse+, the dancers are accompanied by live piano and organ, while the choreography has been expanded too. Orgelpark, (Fri-Sat 20.15), €12.50 Music/Theatre: Hersengif The focus is on four characters as they unload a vat of memories, dreams, fantasies, perspectives, illusions, obsessions and anger, while also being confronted with themselves and each other. In Dutch. Sugar Factory, (Sat 20.30), €12.50 Dance: Le Sacre du Printemps Stravinsky’s ballet Le Sacre du Printemps caused a considerable scandal when it was premiered in 1913 thanks to its unusual music and choreography. Nowadays it’s rightly regarded a masterpiece. DanceStreet, (Sat 20.00), €4 Performance: Yamato 2007 Big drums and bigger beats. But those centuries-old drumming techniques from Japan have come a long way at the hands of this group. Carré, (Tues, Wed 20.00), €15-35 Theatre: De Graaf van Monte Cristo For the first time in Holland, a stage adaptation of Dumas’ classic about the mysterious revenge-seeking count. Played

by Het Nationale Toneel, directed by Johan Doesburg, it was awarded a Topstuk medal. In Dutch. Stadsschouwburg, (Wed 19.30), €11.50-€22.50

Ongoing Theatre: Braakland/Zhebuilding: Trust De Brakke Grond is celebrating the 10th anniversary of theatre group Braakland/Zhebuilding with a double booking.

Tonight: Trust, a play by American writer Hal Hartley.

The soundtrack is supplied by Rudy Trouvé and Mauro Pawlowski, (former) members of Belgian rock icons dEUS. In Dutch. De Brakke Grond, (Thur 20.30), €12 Theatre: De geschiedenis van de Familie Avenier (1 en 2) Maria Goos’ new play depicts the history of a Dutch family throughout the decades and an everchanging society. Divided into four parts, part one takes place on New Year’s Eve 1955, while part two is set 15 years later—and the family, as well as the world they’re living in, has changed radically. Parts three and four to come in 2008. In Dutch. Stadsschouwburg, (Thur-Sun 19.00), €15-€37.50 Theatre: Dance of the Holy Ghosts Connecting classical tragedy with modern language, young New York playwright Marcus Gardley’s piece is a portrait of his eccentric father, which is as poetic as it is funny. In English. De Balie, (Thur, Fri 20.30, Thur also 12.00), €12.50

Het Mysterie van Majorana Theatre: Het Mysterie van Majorana Young Italian biologist Ettore Majorana vanished during a boat trip from Palermo to Naples in 1938. His disappearance is still a mystery today, one which theatre group Adhoc tries to solve in a musical performance. In Dutch. Theater Bellevue, (Thur 20.30), €15 Theatre: Zelfportret, dat kan geen toeval zijn Third in Dood Paard’s series of plays about contemporary Holland is a performance that takes the form of an oldfashioned slide show—with drinks and snacks as part of the effects. The actors engage in dialogue with the audience as they portray a Dutch generation that grew up in the idealistic ’70s, yet is now living in a constrained and jittery nation struggling with its identity. In Dutch. Frascati, (Thur-Sat 20.30), €12 Comedy: easyLaughs Comedy improv in English.

Two different shows every Friday night. CREA Muziekzaal, (Fri 20.30, 22.30), €10, €5 (late night) Dance: Blind Date A politically inspired dance performance by American choreographer Bill T Jones and the Arnie Zane Dance Company. Featuring music by Daniel Bernard Roumain, Bach, the Irish folk of Mrs McGrath, Otis Redding and R Kelly, it’s certainly a diverse affair, raising subjects like sexuality, racism and political power structures along the way. Het Muziektheater, (Fri, Sat 20.15), €15-€30

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To See or Not to See, see Opening

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To See or Not to See Hortus celebrates the 300th birthday of Carl Linnaeus, the most famous botanist ever, who wrote his major works in Amsterdam. See Short List. Hortus Botanicus (Mon-Fri 09.00-17.00, Sat, Sun 10.00-17.00), opens Friday, until 30 September

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Freedom of Colors Photos and paintings by Iranian artist Delara Darabi. Pakhuis de Zwijger (Sat 12.0018.00), opens Saturday

Abdelkader Belkhorissat Paintings by the Algerian artist. De Levante (Wed-Sun 13.00-17.30), opens Thursday, until 27 May Be Cointreauversial Gallery With a theme of ‘Illustrate and Embody the Cointreauversial Woman’, this multi-location exhibition features famous photographs from Getty Images. Hosts to check out: Spoiled, Café Brix, Van Harte and Mendo. De 9 Straatjes various locations and times, opens Thursday, until 17 May

National Pride A group exhibition dealing with the question of how factors of national identity and cultural interaction influence contemporary arts. Arti et Amicitiae (Tues-Sun 13.00-18.00), opens Saturday, until 10 May Real Genuine Blend Celebrating the first birthday of the compact art space, Willum Geerts and Jan van der Ploeg present a sensory installation that extends to the outside of the HMPS, as well as the inside. See article p.13. Horse Move Project Space (Fri-Sun 14.00-20.00), opens Saturday, until 20 May Reality Check: Notes on Tourism Following a residency in Berlin last year, Delphine Bedel presents a series of photographs and texts in relation to three potential tourist sites: a natural viewpoint made popular after a famous painting by Caspar David Friedrich, an architecture complex, and a memorial located in former East Germany. Lumen Travo (Wed-Sat 13.00 -18.00), opens Saturday, until 26 May The Contented Heart Paintings by Willem Weismann, Simon Hemmer, Lutz Driessen, Nie Pastille, Phoebe Unwin, Morgan Betz and Derk Thijs. W139 (Daily 11.00-19.00), opens Saturday, until 3 June

Maison de Bonneterie, Fashion Palace Fashion Palaces 1880-1960 The emergence of the first chic fashion houses in Amsterdam at the end of the 19th century is the focal point of the exhibition.

Grandeur and temptation typify the atmosphere of these magnificent, luxurious Amsterdam boutiques and department stores. From that time the Dutch elite could buy fashionable French clothes not only in Paris and Brussels but also here—in huge, impressive shops with illuminated windows. Amsterdams Historisch Museum (Mon-Fri 10.00-17.00, Sat, Sun 11.00-17.00), opens Thursday, until 26 August Paradiso in Fantasio! Classic posters for Paradiso gigs in the ’70s and ’80s by London-born artist Martin Kaye (1932-1989). Nationaal Pop Instituut, Fantasio zaal (Mon-Fri 10.00-17.00), opens Thursday, until 1 July Democratie is een Kunst 45 artists from different countries and working in different genres have made an artwork out of a ballot box, aiming to make an affirmative statement in favour of artistic freedom and the right to privacy. Arti et Amicitiae (Tues-Sun 13.0018.00), opens Friday, until 6 May

Uit en Thuis Diverse works by award-winning sculptor Wendela Gevers Deynoot, who creates sculptures of all shapes and sizes from materials such as wood, stone, metal, plastic and paper, as well as some more unusual sources. Galerie de Rietlanden (Sat, Sun 13.00-17.00), opens Saturday, until 2 July

Museums Politiek in prent 2006 Last year’s political dramas in print. Persmuseum (Tues-Fri 10.00-17.00, Sun 12.0017.00), closing Sunday Jan van der Heyden The first monographic exhibition in the Netherlands since 1937 of one of the leading 17th-century painters of Dutch cityscapes.

He was also fascinated by firefighting and is still remembered to this day by many as the inventor of the fire hose. Rijksmuseum (Daily 09.00-18.00), closing Monday Architecture of the Night: Luminous Buildings A voyage into the dark night and the beautiful buildings and lighting designs that can transform the look and feel of cities. Packed with illuminated models, artworks and stunning night photography, there’s an environmental message, too, with focus on light pollution and energy efficiency. Nederlands Architectuurinstituut (Tues-Sat 10.00-17.00. Sun 11.00-17.00), Rotterdam, until 6 May

26 April-2 May 2007 Behind the Curtains Fifteen innovative architectural designs by Willem Jan Neutelings and Michiel Riedijk, whose expressive buildings are icons within cities, appreciated equally by tenants and passers-by. Museum Hilversum (Tues-Sat 11.00-17.00, Sun 12.00-17.00), Hilversum, until 6 May Che! An analysis of the posterboy for the revolution, whose starting point is Korda’s 1960 portrait. Tropenmuseum (Daily 10.00-17.00), until 6 May Rommert Boonstra: Days as Grass A selection of recent works, apropos of the Dutch photographer and writer turning 65. Foam (Sat-Wed 10.00-17.00, Thur, Fri 10.00-21.00), until 9 May Vergessene Fahnen (Forgotten Flags) German artist Florian Thalhofer presents an interactive road movie and photos as he gives an account of fellow countrymen who, months after the World Cup football in 2006, are still displaying the national flag proudly— an act previously feared for its association with right-wing nationalism. Also enjoy specially imported Bavarian beer and learn how to eat Weißwurst. Mediamatic (Wed-Fri 18.00-23.00), until 11 May The Rise A work by German artists Nina Fischer and Maroan el Sani, realised during their five-month residence in Amsterdam’s Zuidas. Dealing primarily in the medium of film, they concentrate on the complex relationship between the visual language of a building, its psychological effects and the political-economic reality in which it functions. Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam (Tues-Sun 11.00-17.00), until 13 May 25 Uitvergrote Stills Uit De Nooijer-films Alongside the exhibition of Nooijer film stills, the video installation ‘100 Years of Beauty’ is on display. Matching this are photographs of 100 people born between 1902 and 2002, illustrating the human circle of life. Filmmuseum (Mon-Fri 09.00-22.15, Sat, Sun one hour prior to show-22.15), until 13 May SIZE matters! Images of buildings and constructions from 1955 to 1985, illustrating Amsterdam’s unique urban development. Zuiderkerk (Mon-Fri 09.00-16.00, Sat 12.00-16.00), until 16 May Mapping the City This group exhibition focuses on the relationship between artists and the city from 1960 to the present day. The show revolves around the way in which artists perceive urban space, with emphasis on the city as social community, its behaviour, poses and urban rituals. Participating artists include Doug Aitken, Francis Alÿs, Stanley Brouwn, Matthew Buckingham, Philip Lorca diCorcia and many more. Stedelijk Museum CS (Daily 10.0018.00), until 20 May Ten Klooster: A Man With Two Lives Showing over 50 works by the Indonesian-Dutch artist Ten Klooster, varying from paintings to wood engravings. Tropenmuseum (Daily 10.00-17.00), until 20 May Robert Capa: Retrospective Taking a broad look at the work of Robert Capa (1913-1954), the legendary war photographer and founder of modern photojournalism. His photos of the Spanish Civil War and D-Day are etched in everyone’s memory and have shaped our image of the 20th century. Joods Historisch Museum (Daily 11.00-17.00), until 20 May Eva Besnyö: Unknown Photos Work by Eva Besnyö (1910-2003) has featured in countless publications and exhibitions. Yet after her death, many still unknown and previously unpublished photos were discovered in her archive. This exhibition presents a selection of these photos, underscoring her reputation as one of the greatest photographers in the Netherlands. Joods Historisch Museum (Daily 11.00-17.00), until 20 May

Amsterdam Weekly Joan Colom: El Raval A selection of work by the Spanish photographer, featuring 84 black-and-white pictures from 1958 to 1961, all taken during Colom’s nearly daily visits to Barcelona’s Barrio Chino district. Known today as the Raval, the neighbourhood was once a centre of prostitution and crime. Foam (Sat-Wed 10.00-17.00, Thur, Fri 10.00-21.00), until 20 May

Galleries Marketa Jirouskova Photography from her recent trip to the Ross Sea region of Antarctica on an ice breaker.

IISG (Mon-Fri 09.00-17.45), closing Friday Anouk Kruithof, Aram Tanis Two solo exhibitions: Kruithof presents a study of the psychological and sociological aspects of angst, while Tanis provides images from Japan. Amsterdams Centrum voor Fotografie (Thur-Sat 13.00-17.00), closing Saturday

Miriam Bäckström & Ursula Mayer Films by Austrian artist Mayer and Swedish artist Bäckström in collaboration with the Impakt Festival. Centraal Museum (Tues-Sun 11.00-17.00), Utrecht, until 28 May Hertzberger’s Amsterdam Definitely having attained éminence gris status, the architect Herman Hertzberger will be 75 this year. Displayed in this exhibition are the maquettes of all his Amsterdam projects, thus presenting a cityscape in miniature that shows not only the realised plans, but also unexecuted designs.

ARCAM (Tues-Sat 13.00-17.00), until 2 June Moderniteit in de Tropen: Architectuur in Nederlands-Indië In the beginning of the 20th century, architects working in the Dutch East Indies created a unique style that combined their Dutch background with local traditions and influences from modern American architecture. This collection features photographs, drawings and maquettes from Indonesia between 1850 and 1950. Nederlands Architectuurinstituut (Tues-Sat 10.00-17.00, Sun 11.00-17.00), Rotterdam, until 3 June Lucebert. Drawings Gouaches, drawings in Indian ink and works on paper in mixed media, dating from 1948 to 1993. There’s also an accompanying publication with text (in Dutch and English) by the Dutch author Cyrille Offermans. CoBrA Museum (Tues-Sun 11.00-17.00), until 3 June Flowers Under the Magnifying Glass: A Homage to Linnaeus A celebration of the 300th anniversary of the Swedish botanist Carolus Linnaeus (1707-1778), who studied and worked in the Netherlands from 1735 to 1738. In collaboration with the National Herbarium Nederland, this exhibition provides an overview of depictions of flowers, mainly by Dutch artists or artists who worked in the Netherlands. Teylers Museum (Tues-Sat 10.00-17.00, Sun 12.00-17.00), Haarlem, until 3 June Brave New World Works by contemporary Spanish, Russian and Dutch artists, who level criticisms at Western society and its democratic system in a disturbing, ironic or sarcastic manner. Participating artists include El Perro (SP), AES+F (Russia) and the Dutch artists Marc Bijl, Jeroen Jongeleen and Renzo Martens. CoBrA Museum (Tues-Sun 11.00-17.00), until 3 June Lights & Drawings Light and shadow are the literal and figurative focus of this exhibition by the New Yorkbased artist and activist Paul Chan. His projections, together with charcoal drawings, collages and digital studies are presented in six rooms. The works all revolve around the digital animation series The 7 Lights, which Chan has been working on since 2005 and which will ultimately consist of seven pieces. This first major museum presentation in Europe presents all the Lights completed so far. Stedelijk Museum CS (Daily 10.00-18.00), until 10 June De Engelse Kerk op het Begijnhof: 1607-2007 Exhibition marking the 400th anniversary of the English Reformed Church. Amsterdams Historisch Museum (Mon-Fri 10.00-17.00, Sat, Sun 11.00-17.00), until 17 June Raimond Wouda: School School kid photos. See Short List. Foam (Sat-Wed 10.00-17.00, Thur, Fri 10.0021.00), until 17 June

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Group Exhibition Marc Bijl, Lucy Wood, Katrina Daschner and others. Upstream Gallery (Wed-Sat 12.00-18.00), closing Saturday Denis Darzacq World Press Photo

World Press Photo Exhibition of winning photos from the 2006 World Press Photo competition, including Photo of the Year, the image of Lebanese youth driving through a bombed neighbourhood by US photographer Spencer Platt. The Oude Kerk features Platt in an additional exhibition, and also shows the collection Africa=Hot!, which examines climate change in Africa. Oude Kerk (Mon-Sat 10.30-17.30, Sun 13.00-17.30, until 17 June Testimony One of the most influential—and published—photojournalists, Nachtwey has spent more than 20 years visiting crisis areas like Rwanda, Afghanistan, Bosnia and Northern Ireland. This exhibition reflects his sense of responsibility to give a voice to victims. Foam (Sat-Wed 10.00-17.00, Thur, Fri 10.0021.00), until 20 June Genesis An examination of the similarities between art and science. While the two fields may have entirely different objectives, the results of their work on information look remarkably alike. Participating artists and scientists include Ad Dekkers, Mark Dion, Edo Dooijes, Erwin Driessens & Maria Verstappen, Charles & Ray Eames, Ed Emschwiller and George Gessert, amongst others. Centraal Museum (Tues-Thur, Sat, Sun 12.0017.00, Fri 12.00-21.00), Utrecht, until 12 August The Apocalypse of Max Beckmann A nice companion piece to the collection on display at the Van Gogh Museum, this series features 27 lithographs from the German expressionist, all inspired by the Biblical apocalypse. Featured are two versions: the series of original lithographs in black and white and the lithographs that Beckmann himself painted in watercolours. Bijbels Museum (Mon-Sat 10.00-17.00, Sun 11.00-17.00), until 19 August Max Beckmann in Amsterdam, 1937-1947 An extensive retrospective of the work produced by the artist during his years in Amsterdam. One of the most distinguished German artists of the 20th century, Beckmann fled to the city in 1937 after the Nazis had labelled his paintings Entartete Kunst. His works bear witness to his interest in the world of cabaret, Dutch landscape and life in Amsterdam, and works featured here include the four impressive triptychs ‘Carnival’, ‘Acrobats’, ‘The Actors’ and ‘Perseus’. Van Gogh Museum (Sat-Thur 10.00-18.00, Fri 10.00-22.00), until 19 August Dutch Eyes The relocated photography museum reopens with a broad overview of Dutch photography.

Nederlands Fotomuseum (Tues-Fri 10.00-17.00, Sat, Sun 11.00-17.00), Rotterdam, until 26 August Scenes and Traces A lengthy exhibition focussing on three parts of the Stedelijk Museum collection: design, video and photography. Stedelijk Museum CS (Daily 10.00-18.00), until 25 November

Jakob Fioole: The Shape of Things to Come Paintings. AYAC’S (Fri, Sat 13.00-17.30), closing Saturday ArtOlive Offline #2 Diverse works from three young artists: Erica Scheper, Marin de Jong and Douwe Dijkstra. ArtOlive (Mon-Fri 11.00-17.00, Sun 12.00-17.00), closing Sunday Ars Macabra Holandica: A Celebration of the Fantastic A unique exhibition bringing together Dutch comic artists, illustrators, animators, photographers, designers, sculptors and painters, all of them sharing a love for the bizarre, the horrific and the fantastic. ABC Treehouse (Thur-Sun 13.00-18.00), closing Sunday De Belofte PAKT continue their exploration of the autonomy of the art e//////lite with help from students of the Netherlands’ art academies. P/////AKT (Thur-Sun 14.00-18.00), closing Sunday Van Huis Uit... The results of a research project by the Meertens Instituut about immigrant families and interiors of their homes. The project focuses on the influence that class, ethnicity and tradition have on way of life, and the resulting exhibition presents a collage of photographs and stories about migration, material culture, identity and cultural exchange. Imagine IC (Tues, Wed, Fri, Sat 11.00-17.00, Thur 11.00-21.00), closing Monday The New Black and White Four photographers with a refreshing take on traditional black-and-white techniques. Hup Gallery (Tues-Fri 12.00-17.00), closing Tuesday Hendrik Kerstens: Paula Kerstens’ photographs, said by some to bring to mind the paintings of Johannes Vermeer. Artspace Witzenhausen (Thur-Sat 12.0018.00), until 5 May Telcosystems: Meta_Epics II Unique audio-visual computer art from international trio Telcosystems. With self-developed software, these systems allow computers to generate and compose image and sound, meaning the artists use almost no source material that stems from outside the machines. TAG Den Haag (Wed-Sat 12.00-17.00), Den Haag, until 5 May Voorbijsnellend Ogenblik By placing two images next to each other that are seemingly similar, but which are in fact polar opposites, photographer Lucienne van der Mijle tells her own story of Japan and its contrasts between tradition and modernity. Melkweg Galerie (Wed-Sun 13.00-20.00), until 6 May New Horizons Subtitled Room for New Jewellery, this new gallery aims to cross borders both physical and metaphorical, and makes a start with the aptly named first exhibition. Galerie Rob Koudijs, until 12 May 50 jaar Galerie Espace Holland’s oldest gallery for contemporary art celebrates its 50th anniversary with an exhibition featuring a large number of their regulars, including the likes of Karel Appel, Lucebert, Roger Raveel, Lucassen and Jan Roeland. Galerie Espace (Wed-Sat 13.00-18.00), until 12 May

John Lurie: All-Stars of Voodoo Voodoo-inspired paintings by the American all-rounder. Galerie Gabriel Rolt (Wed-Sat 12.00-18.00), until 13 May White Wash of What Went Wrong A collection set in the window displays of the former ABN AMRO building restored as a public art space.

Klaas Weert and Rae Witvoet introduce their second in a series of exhibitions entitled Neo Neo Conceptual Pop. Rembrandtplein (Daily), until 15 May Dark Mirror The differences between the actions of man and beast are not always as great as we like to think. This group exhibition of video art and film explores the relationship between our social conditioning and animal instincts, often depicting the prominence of human emotion and instinct over rational thought. Montevideo/Time Based Arts (Tues-Sat 13.00-18.00), until 19 May Ingo Meller New works by the conceptual German painter. Slewe Gallery (Tues-Sat 14.00-17.00), until 19 May

Modern Solitude A group exhibition dealing with various facets of the modern individual’s solitary existence. These include the urge to inject meaning into life via spirituality, sexuality and physicality. Participants include Eylem Aladogan, Natalia Benedetti, Job Koelewijn, Gabriel Lester, Renzo Martens, Shana Moulton and Berend Strik. Galerie Fons Welters (TuesSat 13.00-18.00), until 19 May Polska Seven artists present a contemporary vision of Poland through photography, video and music. WM Gallery (Thur-Sat 14.00-18.00), until 26 May Jim Harris: Constructies en gebouwen Recent oil paintings from the English artist, exploring the theme of structures and building projects. Galerie Krijger + Katwijk (Wed-Sat 12.00-18.00), until 26 May Every Wind That Blows Video works by Kostana Banovic;, Ergin Cavusoglu, Esra Ersen, Ivan Grubanov and Ahmet Ögöt, in which the artists present personal points of intervention regarding their past, present and cultural traditions. SMART Project Space (Tues-Sat 12.00-17.00), until 26 May

The Day After Yesterday A solo exhibition by Slovakborn artist Roman Ondák. It features three new video and photo works, which try to engage the viewer in a dialogue about what might happen if one takes another route, both literally and metaphorically. bak (Wed-Sat 12.00-17.00, Sun 13.00-17.00), Utrecht, until 27 May Recyclage The artists in this exhibition reinvent cultural objects and artefacts to give them new meaning.

De Brakke Grond (Mon 13.00-18.00, Tues-Fri 10.0020.30, Sat, Sun 13.00-20.30), until 27 May Travels Through Paradise Got an idea of paradise?

No less than 55 hobbyists, designers, architects and artists have been asked to design their own pieces of paradise. The catch? None could be bigger than one metre, for the results were joined together to form a miniature landscape along which a model train journeys. Exhibition visitors, as though passengers on the train, can look out its window to view the mini paradise via projection. Platform 21 (Wed-Sat 12.00-21.00), until 27 May

David Goldblatt David Goldblatt: Intersections ‘Intersections’ is the term Goldblatt (1930) uses for the human and ideological crosscurrents that make up South African society and that he captures in his photos—sharp yet subtle images of the nation. It was only after technical developments in digital photography allowed him to achieve the same depth and graphical expression in colour as he could in black and white that he embarked upon a new, multi-hued journey. Huis Marseille (Tues-Sun 11.00-18.00), until 28 May Erotix: Red Threads of Passion Homoerotic artworks from Danish artists Knud Odde, Jens Birkemose and Peter Skovgaard. Galerie Jos Art (Tues-Sun 11.0017.30), until 30 May Marjolein Rothman: Iconography II The final segment in the Dutch painter’s exploration of iconography. In this batch, Rothman no longer just looks at the history of idols in paintings, but goes on to prove that, correctly following the rules, anyone can become a figurehead. Motive Gallery (Wed-Sat 13.0018.00), until 2 June UitZicht An ArtWalk Amsterdam presentation that will guide you through a selection of studios, homes and gardens in the Westerpark area. Curated by Guda Koster and Matthijs Muller, the tour incorporates artists such as Hamid El Kanbouhi, Aam Solleveld, Jans Muskee, Linda Molenaar, Wim Bosch, Jan Theun van Rees, Frank Mandersloot, Paul de Reus, among others. To see route or download the accompanying audio tour see www.artwalkamsterdam.nl. Van Hallstraat 51 (Daily), until 17 June W139/BASEMENT Providing opportunities for young artists and young art collectors, the Post CS basement is offering space to let at affordable rates for a onemonth period. At the end of each month, the exhibits will be auctioned. See www.w139.nl/basement.

W139/Basement, until 24 June Het Licht van Tunesië Multimedia installation by Maarten Rens and Anita Mizrahi. De Levante (WedSun 13.00-17.30), until 22 July

André Avelas, Sirens

EVENTS Thursday 26 April Lecture: The Future of the Success Two presentations about the nature of success. Nisandeh Neta offers up ‘Beyond Success’, asking why there’s so much discontent if we’re all being much more successful. Huib Wursten then touches on the meaning of success in different cultures. In English. Sint Antoniesbreestraat 16, 18.30, €30 Lecture: Women Are the Most Wasted Resource in the World A lecture about the increasing economic influence of women—who, in modern economies, produce 40% of the gross national income. Organised

by The Economist. In English. De Rode Hoed, 19.45, free Theatre/Lecture: De Toneelschrijfdagen #6 It’s all about theatre as De Balie showcases six days of lectures and new plays written by Het Platform Theaterauteurs, Het Syndicaat, Vlaamse Braakland/Zhe Building and guest authors. De Balie, various times and prices

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Friday 27 April Lecture: Sirens Tied in with the current exhibition at 66 East, which deals with the use of sirens in our culture, tonight features lectures by Raviv Ganchrow and John Heymans, plus an atmospheric musical arrangement by Koen Nutters (See article p.15). In English. 66 East, 19.00, free Multidisciplinary: LoungeM A Moroccan-inspired Maghreb gathering which crosses music, stand-up, poetry, theatre and other elements of performance.

Musical guests include Jan Wouter Oostenrijk & The Rhythms Of Raï, flamenco guitarist Eric Vaarzon Morel and Saxafabra. Podium Mozaïek, 20.30, €10 Theatre/Lecture: De Toneelschrijfdagen #6 (See Thursday) De Balie, various times and prices

ADDRESSES 11 Oosterdokskade 3-5, 625 5999 66 East Sumatrastraat 66, 06 4475 4773

Noorderkerk Noordermarkt 44, 626 6436 OCCII Amstelveenseweg 134, 671 7778

Amsterdams Historisch Museum Kalverstraat 92, 523 1822

Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam Rozenstraat 59, 422 0471

Oosterkerk Kleine Wittenburgerstraat 1, 627 2280

Stedelijk Museum CS Oosterdokskade 5, 573 2911

Orgelpark Orgelpark, 51 58111

Studio 80 Rembrandtplein 70, 521 8333

OT301 Overtoom 301, 779 4913

Sugar Factory Lijnbaansgracht 238, 627 0008

Oude Kerk Oudekerksplein 23, 625 8284

TAG Den Haag Stille Veerkade 19, Den Haag

ARCAM Prins Hendrikkade 600, 620 4878 Arti et Amicitiae Rokin 112, 624 5134 ArtOlive Polonceaukade 17, 675 8504 Artspace Witzenhausen Hazenstraat 60, 644 9898 AYAC'S Keizersgracht 166, 638 5240 bak Lange Nieuwstraat 4, Utrecht, 030 231 6125 De Balie Kleine-Gartmanplantsoen 10, 553 5151 BG Post CS, Oosterdokskade 5, 626 2256 Bijbels Museum Herengracht 366-368, 624 2436 Bimhuis Piet Heinkade 3, 788 2150 De Brakke Grond Nes 45, 626 6866

Persmuseum Zeeburgerkade 10, 692 8810 Plantage Doklaan 8-12 Plantage Doklaan Platform 21 Prinses Irenestraat 19, 344 9449 Podium Mozaïek Bos en Lommerweg 191, 580 0380 PRIK Spuistraat 109, 06 4544 2321

Under the Grand Chapiteau Next to ArenA, 621 1288 Upstream Gallery Kromme Waal 11, 428 4284 Vaaghuyzen Nieuwe Nieuwstraat 17 Vakzuid Olympisch Stadion 35, 570 8400 Van Gogh Museum Paulus Potterstraat 7, 570 5200 Volta Houtmankade 334-336, 628 6429 W139 Warmoesstraat 139, 622 9434 De Waag Nieuwmarkt 4, 557 9898 Westergasfabriek Haarlemmerweg 8-10, 586 0710

Carré Amstel 115-125, 524 9452

De Rode Hoed Keizersgracht 102, 638 5606

Winston Kingdom Warmoesstraat 129, 623 1380

Centraal Museum Nicolaaskerkhof, Utrecht, 030 236 2362

Ruigoord Ruigoord 15, 497 5702

WM Gallery Elandsgracht 35, 421 1113

Saarein Elandsstraat 119, 623 4901

Zuiderkerk Zuiderkerkhof 72, 552 7987

Club 8 Admiraal de Ruyterweg 56B, 685 1703 Club Meander Voetboogstraat 3, 625 8430 CoBrA Museum Sandbergplein 1-3, Amstelveen, 547 5050 Compagnietheater Kloveniersburgwal 50, 520 5320 Concertgebouw Concertgebouwplein 2-6, 671 8345 CREA Muziekzaal Turfdraagsterpad 17, 525 1400 Cruise Inn Zuiderzeeweg 29, 692 7188 Desmet Studios Plantage Middenlaan 4A, 521 7100 English Reformed Church Begijnhof 48, 624 9665 Escape Rembrandtplein 11, 622 1111 Exit Reguliersdwarsstraat 42, 625 8788 Felix Meritis Keizersgracht 324, 626 2321 Filmmuseum Vondelpark 3, 589 1400 Flex Bar Pazzanistraat 1, 486 2123 Foam Keizersgracht 609, 551 6546 Frascati Nes 63, 626 6866 Galerie de Rietlanden Rietlandpark 193, 419 4705 Galerie Espace Keizersgracht 548, 624 0802 Galerie Fons Welters Bloemstraat 140, 423 3046 Galerie Gabriel Rolt Elandsgracht 34, 785 5146 Galerie Jos Art KSNM-laan 291, 418 7003 Galerie Krijger + Katwijk Lange Leidsedwarsstraat 198200, 627 3808 Galerie Rob Koudijs Elandsgracht 12, 331 8796 Grolsch Music Café ArenA Boulevard 242, 365 2035 Heineken Music Hall ArenA Boulevard 590, 0900 300 1250 Hermitage Amsterdam Nieuwe Herengracht 14, 530 8751 Horse Move Project Space Oosterdokskade 5 Post CS Hortus Botanicus Plantage Middenlaan 2A, 625 9021 Huis Marseille Keizersgracht 401, 531 8989 Hup Gallery Tesselschadestraat 15, 515 8589

Poetry/Music: Frank Koenegracht: Camping De Vrijheid Humorous poet Koenegracht first debuted his work in the early ’70s and has remained an important influence on Dutch poets since. Along with his appearance tonight, Onno Blom, Erik Jan Harmens, Ingmar Heytze, Tjitske Jansen and Rob Schouten will contribute readings and discuss his work. In Dutch. De Balie, 20.00, €9

Patronaat Zijlsingel 2, Haarlem, 023 517 5858

Twstd Weteringschans 157, 320 7030

Rijksmuseum Jan Luykenstraat 1, 674 7000

DanceStreet 1e Rozendwarsstraat 10, 489 7676

Lecture: Science Fiction Science Faction The world has changed. We’re all—well most of us— plugged into a worldwide network of information.

Technology changes rapidly. So just what is the difference between science fiction and reality these days? Guest speakers include American virtual world designers Brenda Laurel, Bruce Damer and Galen Brandt. In English. Pakhuis de Zwijger, 19.45, free

Paradiso Weteringschans 6-8, 626 4521

Tropenmuseum Linnaeusstraat 2, 568 8200

Café Sappho Vijzelstraat 103, 423 1509

CREA Theater Turfdraagsterpad 17, 525 1400

Quiz: MusicMind? Think you know everything about music? Think you can spout your knowledge at the drop of a hat, even in high-pressure situations? Then this new quiz night may be for you, and if you can find some worthy mates to be at your side, you might even walk away with a nice prize.

Sugar Factory, 19.30, €15 for competing teams, free to watch

Panama Oostelijke Handelskade 4, 311 8680

Rembrandthuis Jodenbreestraat 4, 520 0400

Theatre/Lecture: De Toneelschrijfdagen #6 (See Thursday) De Balie, various times and prices

Wednesday 2 May

Pakhuis de Zwijger Piet Heinkade 179-181, 788 4444

Teylers Museum Spaarne 16, Haarlem, 023 516 0960 Theater Bellevue Leidsekade 90, 530 5301

Café Pakhuis Wilhelmina Veemkade 576, 419 3368

Consortium Veemkade 570, 06 2611 8950

Discussion: Ik ben Energieverslaafd Are you addicted to energy abuse? Do you enjoy destroying the planet? Bahram Sadeghi and Wilbur Perlot will discuss the habits that need to be broken to make a positive impact, tackling the organisations and companies which tempt us into the naughty planet destroying ways in the first place. In Dutch. De Balie, 20.00, €6

P60 Stadsplein 100A, Amstelveen, 023 345 3445

Stadsschouwburg Leidseplein 26, 624 2311

Punt WG Marius van Bouwdijk Bastiaansestraat 15, 618 7848

Lecture: Saskia Törnqvist Discussing the rich traditions and history of Arab-Andalusian music. KIT Tropentheater, 14.00, €TBC

Discussion: Dizkuzz in Paradiso Is networking necessary to be successful in the music industry? What’s the best way to network? Tonight’s Dizkuzz panel includes Jon Heemsbergen (Melkweg), Mark Mackintosh (TED) and Rense van Kessel (promoter), presenting their opinions on networking. In Dutch. Paradiso, Kleine Zaal, 19.00, free, reservations recommended

P/////AKT Zeeburgerpad 53, 06 5427 0879

SMART Project Space Arie Biemondstraat 107-113, 427 5953

Broeinest Plantage Doklaan 8-12

Club More Rozengracht 133, 344 6402

Tuesday 1 May

Slewe Gallery Kerkstraat 105A, 625 7214

No Limit Geldershoofd 80

Bitterzoet Spuistraat 2, 521 3001

Lecture/Debate: Broeinest Titled ‘Special evening about the Dutch monarchy’, this is the place to be if you aren’t into all that orange frivolity. René Zwaap talks about the darker elements of the life of Prince Bernhard, plus there’s a screening of a film by Willy Klinkenberg. In Dutch with English translation. See article p.13. Plantage Doklaan 8-12, 20.00, free

Skek Zeedijk 4-8, 427 0551

Amsterdams Centrum voor Fotografie Bethaniënstraat 9, 622 4899

Lecture: Hommage aan August Willemsen A Hora do Brasil pays hommage to Willemsen, as it’s his 70th birthday. Rudy Kousbroek, Jan Brokken and Roel Janssen will discuss his works, followed by a lecture by Willemsen himself about Brazilian poet Carlos Drummond de Andrade. Following is a screening of O Amor Natural, a documentary by Heddy Honigmann. CREA Theater, 20.00, €7

Monday 30 April

Sint Antoniesbreestraat 16

Nederlands Architectuurinstituut Museumpark 25, Rotterdam, 010 440 1200

Akhnaton Nieuwezijds Kolk 25, 624 3396

Bethaniënklooster Barndesteeg 6, 625 0078

Sunday 29 April

Sinners Wagenstraat 3-7, 620 1375

NDSM-werf TT Neveritaweg 15, 330 5480

ABC Treehouse Voetboogstraat 11, 423 0967

Discussion: De Persoonlijke God Approaching the concept of a personal god with poets, preachers, economists, philosophers and theologians. In Dutch.

Felix Meritis, 13.00, €12.50

Theatre/Lecture: De Toneelschrijfdagen #6 (See Thursday) De Balie, various times and prices

142, 428 4288

Nederlands Fotomuseum Wilhelminakade 332, Rotterdam, 010 213 2011

Badcuyp 1e Sweelinckstraat 10, 675 9669

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IISG Cruquiusweg 31, 668 5866 Imagine IC Bijlmerplein 1006-1008, 489 4866 Joods Historisch Museum Jonas Daniel Meijerplein 2-4, 531 0310 KHL Koffiehuis Oostelijke Handelskade 44, 779 1575 KIT Tropentheater Mauritskade 63, 568 8711 Lellebel Utrechtsestraat 4, 427 5139 De Levante Hobbemastraat 28, 671 5485 Lexion Avenue Overtoom 65, Westzaan, 0900-BelLexion Lumen Travo Lijnbaansgracht 314, 627 0883 Maloe Melo Lijnbaansgracht 163, 420 4592 Mediamatic Post CS, Oosterdokskade 5, 638 9901 Meervaart Meer en Vaart 300, 410 7777 Melkweg Lijnbaansgracht 234A, 531 8181 Melkweg Galerie Marnixstraat 409, 531 8181 Melkweg Lijnbaansgracht 234a Melkweg, The Max Lijnbaansgracht 234a, 531 8181 Montevideo/Time Based Arts Keizersgracht 264, 623 7101 Motive Gallery Elandsgracht 10, 330 3668 Museum Hilversum Kerkbrink 6, Hilversum, 035 629 2826 Muziekgebouw Piet Heinkade 1, 788 2010 Het Muziektheater Amstel 3, 625 5455 Nationaal Pop Instituut, Fantasio zaal Prins Hendrikkade

W139/Basement Oosterdokskade 5, 06 2427 6657

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Pie-eyed and full-bellied Kiwi Sauces Kinkerstraat 12A, 612 6102 Open Tue-Sat 12.00-18.00 Cash When I was a kid, you could buy bubblegum that came in a wrapper that listed facts from Ripley’s Believe it or Not! You read the inside, digested some incredible information, all the while masticating the goo.

I still have a fondness for chewing—as, Dear Readers, you know too well—and also for facts.

Did you know, for example, that according to New Zealand’s June 2005 statistics, the Kiwis consumed 60 million pies that year? Over €120,000,000’s worth. That’s an awful lot of pastry.

Blackadder’s Mrs. Miggins’ Pie Shoppe has nothing on that amount, nor Sweeney Todd, the Victorian demon barber, who shaved his victims, slit their throats, then slid the bodies down a chute to a pie-making operation in the cellar.

Pies are a convenient—not to mention nostalgic—food for Anglo-Saxon bellies. And that’s no porky pie neither, mate. An all-seasons snack or dinner, rain or shine. Hearty simple fare.

Here at Kiwi Sauces, Monique and hubby Fred not only supply the exotic sauces that give the shop its name, but also delicious frozen pies (alongside other goodies from Down Under).

And what a variety they’ve got! My favourite is the minced beef with cheese and green peas, but there is also steak and mushroom, creamy and delicious chicken, spinach and feta—even bacon and egg. There are no preservatives here, and only the best ingredients are used. At €2 a

THE UNDERCOVER GLUTTON To turn pies into something mouth-watering, don’t drown them in tomato sauce. Try peach chutney or other exotic sauces that will enhance the flavours. pie, it’s worth it.

To turn the pies into something mouth-watering, don’t drown them in tomato sauce. Try peach chutney (slurp) or other exotic sauces that will

enhance the flavours of your pastry parcel.

Feast your mince pies on this: a sweet bellpepper and apricot sauce; tree tomato and paprika; sun-dried tomato and mustard; mango;

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avocado, chilli and bell-pepper oil (very hot!), plus loads more.

Your Glutton gleefully bemused the couple by trying out a variety of pies and sauces for himself. Have no misconceptions about the size of these pies: two of them make a meal.

On Queen’s Day they are holding a 24-hour pie party outside the shop. A great initiative, and one that will show pies are much more than piddly little vol-au-vents at cocktail parties. Monique has an enormous demand for her pies from expats. She’ll even dish them up at your door, delivering free within the city—as long as you order at least 10 (which, believe me, won’t be difficult to do).

Monique has been a chef for 13 years, and a commercial cook for 26 years. She runs workshops on ‘Now Zealand’ grub that incorporates Pacific Rim influences and ingredients. Very interesting.

She juggles being a mum with cooking. Fred is invaluable, a big gentle soul, who’s also a multimedia artist, dad and business partner. They have beautiful kids who are pie crazy, too.

Ever heard another antipodean variation on the pie theme, the Great Australian Floater, suspended in a thick pea soup with tomato ketchup on top? I pulled a horrified face when I first encountered this—even we gluttons pretend to have boundaries. But the proof of the pudding is in the eating.

And to my surprise, it was bloody good tucker, mate.

So, Dear Readers, I go forth to seek my piein-the-sky kangaroo or possum pie. You’ll find more down-to-earth versions at Kiwi Sauces, but they’re no less delicious for that. And in this city where these farinaceous flaps are so hard to come by (seek, and ye shall seldom find a pie in amsterdam), this place is doing a sterling job of ensuring that we know exactly who ate all the pies. Me.

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25 Angel’s life is not so simple..

François Ozon’s new masterpiece mixes costume drama and celebrity posturing in a new camp classic melodrama.

WHEN PARIS HILTON MET DOUGLAS SIRK FILM Angel Opens Thursday at Cinecenter and Rialto

By Marie-Claire Melzer

Angel opens with a shot of a group of little girls walking home from school. One of them detaches herself from the others

to go her own way. This, of course, is the heroine, Angel Deverell. She stops at a grand villa, Paradise House, and gazes through the gate. Living in a small English town above her mother’s grocery shop, she dreams of a different future: she wants to become a famous writer.

Though laughed at by her schoolmates and teachers, Angel (brilliantly

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

by Shyama Daryanani (SD),Angela Dress (AD), Don Druker (DD),Andrea Gronvall (AG),John Hartnett (JH),Luuk van Huët (LvH),JR Jones (JJ),Dave Kehr (DK),Wendy Koops (WK),Peter Margasak (PM),Marie-Claire Melzer (MM),Vincent Moritz (VM),Mike Peek (MP),Jonathan Rosenbaum (JR),Marinus de Ruiter (MdR) and Bregtje Schudel (BS).All films are screened in English with Dutch subtitles unless otherwise noted. Amsterdam Weekly recommends.

Festivals Kort lang, lang kort Too long to serve as a starter and too short to be the main course, movies of the awkward length between 25 and 55 minutes are seldom screened. That’s why the Filmmuseum is putting on this programme of medium-length Dutch

played by Romola Garai) keeps on writing stories and, to everyone’s surprise except her own, a publisher (Sam Neill) shows interest in her work. Angel has no talent or life experience, yet he thinks there might be an audience for her sugary fantasies of love and romance. And he’s right: her first book is an overnight success. She becomes rich, buys Paradise House and marries the man she loves, the cynical painter Esmé (Michael Fassbender). But then, following the rules of melodrama, her downfall starts: her books stop selling and her husband goes wandering.

With Angel, director François Ozon has added another masterpiece to his oeuvre. With films such as 5 x 2, a love story told backwards, starting with a couple’s divorce and ending with their first meeting, Swimming Pool, in which a lonely English writer (Charlotte Ram-

pling) starts mixing up fact and fiction, and 8 femmes, a combination of comedy, musical and whodunnit, Ozon has shown himself to be a highly original storyteller, always ready to play with genre, storyline and anyone’s expectations.

You could call his style postmodern: his films are full of references to other films, and to pop culture in general. Angel is a costume drama set in the early 20th century, yet the visual style, with its bold colours, sometimes exaggerated, kitschy acting and certain cliched plotlines, bring to mind Douglas Sirk’s melodramas from the 1940s and ’50s. But the character of Angel also cheekily refers to contemporary celebrities whose fame resides precisely in their cluelessness. Just as Angel proudly claims she never reads books, the Paris Hilton/Nicole Richie reality show The Simple Life is about how two women try different jobs and fail at them all, happily giggling throughout.

But as we all watch these programmes, the question is, who is the stupid one here?

So Ozon has made a postmodern costume drama commenting on the mechanics of contemporary fame. But if the whole film were just a parody, it would soon become boring. Ozon is too clever for that. And, after all, he does care about his characters: when the brokenhearted Angel meets her rival in love, you can’t help feeling sorry for her. At the same time, another pop reference catches your eye: doesn’t that strange, feathery hat Angel is wearing make her look like...

Janis Joplin? Take another piece of your heart, indeed.

cinema. Films include Car Men (2006), a slapstick version of Bizet’s opera choreographed by Jirí Kylián; Locatie TusseNLand (2006), Ben van Lieshout’s documentary about the leftover bits of Dutch cities; and A Lapse of Memory (2007, in English), by artist Fiona Tan, which stars Johan Leysen as an eccentric living in Brighton’s Royal Pavillion. There’s also the art school parody of art school films Simon Says (2005, in English), by Rietveld student Maya Cohen, and short films by Lodewijk Crijns and Mike van Diem. For €8.50 you can go to screenings all day. April 26-29, May 1-2 Filmmuseum

ner of a Goya for Best New Director. In his Un frío sol de invierno, the lives of the rich, mentally disturbed youth Adrián, the teenaged Gonzalo, his mother, and a prostitute intertwine. Actor Luis Tosar stars in two films: Inconscientes (Joaquín Oristrell) and La flaqueza del bolchevique (Manuel Martín Cuenca).

The last one in particular is a must-see. Programme on www.semana.melkweg.nl (WK) Melkweg Cinema

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Angel This postmodern costume drama from François Ozon comments on the mechanics of contemporary fame. See review above. Cinecenter, The Movies, Rialto

Semana de Cine Español Mar adentro, by director Alejandro Amenábar (The Others) won this year’s Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. The biggest asset to this truth-based movie about euthanasia is the breathtakingly talented Javier Bardem. Nevertheless, it’s the least recommendable film at this second edition of Semana de Cine Español. Instead, see the documentary on the Basque conflict, La pelota vasca. Unfortunately, director Julio Medem (Lucía y el sexo), Basque himself, will not be present, though his producer will be. So will Pablo Malo, win-

Bridge to Terabithia Adapted from the children’s book by Katherine Paterson, this family feature from the Christian production company Walden Media is something of a disappointment after its excellent Holes and The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.

Two small-town pals conjure up a magical world in a nearby forest; their friendship and their family lives are warmly realised by director Gabor Csupo, but their problems with a school bully are familiar stuff, and the CGI effects in the forest seem to belong to a different movie. A heartbreaking turn in the last act

brings the story’s Christian subtext to the fore. (JJ) 95 min. The Movies, Pathé ArenA, Pathé De Munt Epic Movie After parodying horror flicks in Scary Movie (2000) and chick flicks in Date Movie (2006), screenwriters Aaron Seltzer and Jason Friedberg turn their attention to Hollywood blockbusters, weakly spoofing The Da Vinci Code, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and various franchises (the Harry Potter films, Pirates of the Caribbean). Seltzer and Friedberg (who also directed) have another script in development called Raunchy Movie; one idea they may not have considered is Watchable Movie. (JJ) 86 min.

Pathé De Munt Hanna Hannah Hannah (Gouden Kalf winner Maria Kraakman) tries to get out of arranging her parents’ 40th wedding anniversary. Then Victor (Antonie Kamerling), the man with whom she has just had a one-night stand, goes with her to a family meeting and offers to organise the party himself. To Hannah’s horror, he turns out to be the perfect son-in-law.

Directed by Annemarie van de Mond (Droog, Beet) and produced by Jacqueline de Goeij (Zus en Zo). 90 min. Het Ketelhuis Honeyz Two girls get shut up in De Bijenkorf for the night in this Dutch teen comedy shot in high definition video and directed by Tom Six. 75 min. Het Ketelhuis

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Kya Love Story Hai Ah, young love at first sight. For the boy, that is. But Arjun (Tushar Kapoor) does not tell Kaajal (Ayesha Takia) that he loves her, because she wants a hard-working man, which he is not. Crushed, he disappears, becomes successful and comes back for Kaajal—on the day of her engagement to Ranveer (Karan Hukku), already a self-made man. Shot in South Africa, this film has a new location and new faces but the same old story: a boy’s silence and selfsacrifice for the happiness of the girl he loves, never mind the best interests of all parties involved. What happens next? Take a wild guess. In Hindi with Dutch subtitles. (SD) Pathé ArenA Next Yet another film based on a story by Philip K Dick, Next involves a man named Cris Johnson (Nicolas Cage) who can see two minutes into the future. Tormented by his gift, he works as a small-time magician in Las Vegas until an FBI agent (Julianne Moore) tries to recruit him to stop a terrorist attack. Directed by Lee Tamahori (Die Another Day). 91 min. Pathé ArenA, Pathé De Munt, Pathé Tuschinski

The Night of the Hunter Charles Laughton’s first

and only film as a director (1955) is an enduring masterpiece—dark, deep, beautiful, aglow. Robert Mitchum, in the role that most fully exploits his ferocious sexuality, is the evil preacher pursuing two orphaned children across a sinister, barren countryside; Lillian Gish is the widow who protects the children. Laughton’s direction has Germanic overtones—not only in the expressionism that occasionally grips the image, but also in a pervasive, brooding romanticism that suggests the Erl-King of Goethe and Schubert. But ultimately the source of its style and power is mysterious—It is a film without precedents, and without any real equals. (DK) 93 min. Filmmuseum

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too hard, but ultimately imbues too much importance into a flick which has a character proclaim that ‘freedom isn’t free’, while we all know from Team America: World Police that freedom costs $1.05. (LvH) 117 min. Pathé ArenA, Pathé De Munt Anche libero va bene Italian family drama from Kim Rossi Stuart, told from the point of view of an 11-yearold boy whose mother disappears for weeks at a time, and whose father (played by Rossi Stuart) struggles to hold the family together. The Movies, Rialto Babel In a North African desert, two bored boys herding goats decide to try out their gun. The shot causes a chain reaction that changes the lives of an American couple (Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett), a rebellious, deaf teenage girl in Japan and a Mexican au pair caring for two American children. According to director Alejandro González Iñárritu, this is the third film in a trilogy that began with 21 Grams and Amores Perros.

It’s all about relationships, love in the midst of adversity and communication. In many languages with Dutch subtitles. 142 min. Pathé De Munt Beynelmilel In 1982, a town in southeastern Turkey still feels the effects of the military coup of two years before. Among other things, an evening curfew prevents the local musicians from earning a living. To survive, they decide to form a military band. Then the daughter of the band leader falls in love with a member of a political group and joins the resistance. When the generals of the ruling junta announce a visit to the town, both the military band and the resistance group start preparing a welcome in this likeable comedy. In Turkish with Dutch subtitles. 105 min. Pathé ArenA

Blood Diamond Just like the previous effort of director Edward Zwick, The Last Samurai, this film is a hackneyed action flick bearing a preachy message. It may look splendiferous on the big screen, and the intentions are noble, but the underlying tone is condescending and exclusively occidental, with Djimon Hounsou cast in a thankless role as a ‘noble savage’ and Jennifer Connelly as a goody-two-shoes American reporter. The only redeeming factor is Leonardo DiCaprio, who shines as a morally conflicted Rhodesian mercenary; sadly, his Bogart-worthy role doesn’t rescue this insipid flick, despite all the bling bling of the title. (LvH) 143 min. Pathé De Munt Catch a Fire Based on a true story and written by Shawn Slovo (A World Apart), this Philip Noyce feature shows how a relatively apolitical young man in South Africa (Derek Luke) becomes a dedicated terrorist in the early ’80s after he and his wife (Bonnie Henna) are wrongly arrested for a bombing and he’s tortured (just as torture may now be radicalising Iraqi citizens).

That said, the film never strays much beyond the obvious, despite a conscientious effort by Tim Robbins to humanise a white security officer. (JR) 101 min. Pathé Tuschinski Crossing the Bridge:The Sound of Istanbul This lively 2005 documentary by German-Turkish director Fatih Akin (Gegen die Wand) follows bassist Alexander Hacke of Einstürzende Neubauten through the crumbling streets of Istanbul to present a dynamic and wide-ranging portrait of the ancient city’s musical riches. The intimate performance footage ranges from more traditional sounds to Turkish iterations of global styles like rock, hiphop and electronica, delivering commentary on the nation’s conflicted status as a bridge between

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NON, ELLE NE REGRETTE RIEN La Vie en Rose The Movies, Pathé Tuschinski

Europe and Asia that’s even more poignant than the passionate and informative interviews. Among the featured artists are rock pioneer Erkin Koray, the powerful Kurdish singer Aynur, polyglot DJ Mercan Dede, and arabesk legend Orhan Gencebay. In English/German /Turkish with Dutch subtitles. (PM) 92 min. Rialto Curse of the Golden Flower After wowing the international community of chop-socky lovers with Hero and House of Flying Daggers, Yimou Zhang is poised to bedazzle once again with Curse of the Golden Flower.

Aficionados of the work of gaijin like Segal’s or Van Damme’s will scratch their noggins, but the true connoisseur will appreciate the lavish lushness of the production design, the Machiavellian scheming within the decadent Imperial Court and the expertly choreographed fights, which are mesmerising to behold.

Tricked out with the richest colours, most opulent costume design and most Shakespearean plot of the year, the decline of an empire never looked better. In Mandarin with Dutch subtitles. (LvH) 114 min. Kriterion, Pathé ArenA, Pathé Tuschinski, De Uitkijk

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The Night of the Hunter Ta Ra Rum Pum A Bollywood vehicle, so to speak, for superstar Saif Ali Khan, who plays a racing car driver in love with a music student (Rani Mukerji). They marry and start a family, while the driver, Rajveer Singh, transforms himself into RV, the number one racer in the world. Then he crashes and his career collapses, but he and his wife can’t bring themselves to tell the children about their change in circumstances. They move to America and pretend to be rich for the children’s sake, but can they keep the family together? In English/Hindi with Dutch subtitles. De Uitkijk

Still playing 12:08 East of Bucharest ‘Was there or wasn’t there?’ is the central question—and the original title—of this feature film debut by director Corneliu Porumboiu. Sixteen years after Romania was freed from communist rule, a pompous small-time television host decides it’s time for a televised discussion on the revolution. The only two guests he can find are an alcoholic history teacher and an old man, both of whom claim to have been protesting on the streets before dictator Ceausescu fled, thus making the event an uprising. Insightful and funny, with spot-on performances, the film tells us more about current Romania than its light tone might suggest. In Romanian with Dutch subtitles. (BS) 89 min. Filmmuseum 300 Whatever the fanboys expected from Zack Snyder’s adaptation of Frank Miller’s graphic novel about the Battle of Thermopylae, it surely wasn’t Leni Riefenstahl-style war porn. The already risible contents of the book are magnified tenfold in the film, so that the Persians are portrayed as deformed, bisexual fundamentalists, while the band of 300 Spartans are engorged, gleaming warriors for the Greek way of life. Spotting your favourite political agenda isn’t

Alfie For all its implicit misogyny, the original 1966 film version of Bill Naughton’s play remains durable because of Michael Caine’s career-defining performance as the cockney ladies’ man, not to mention the memorable title tune (sung by Cher) and driving jazz score (written and performed by Sonny Rollins). The secondary performances—by Shelley Winters, Jane Asher, Shirley Anne Field and Vivien Merchant, among others—aren’t bad either. Lewis Gilbert directed. (JR) 114 min. Filmmuseum

Georgy Girl Silvio Narizzano’s 1966 British feature made Lynn Redgrave a star as the ugly duckling who’s wooed by an ageing married businessman (James Mason) and a younger lunatic (Alan Bates).

(DD) 95 min. Filmmuseum Inside Deep Throat Produced by Ron Howard’s longtime collaborator Brian Grazer, this entertaining documentary recounts the production of the notorious adult film Deep Throat (1972) and the free-speech battle that enveloped it.

Directors Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato (Party Monster) probe the movie’s cultural repercussions in interviews with the filmmakers, the politicians who targeted it and a pungent array of liberal commentators from the early ‘70s (Helen Gurley Brown, Al Goldstein, Hugh Hefner, Xaviera Hollander, Erica Jong, Norman Mailer, Gore Vidal, John Waters). One person missing from all this is Deep Throat’s star, the late Linda Lovelace, who later became a vocal opponent of pornography. (JJ) 92 min. Rialto Kriterion Meets Sarajevo With support from Kriterion cinema, a group of Bosnian students are setting up a new art house in Sarajevo to help restore the city as a cultural centre. The theatre, also to be called Kriterion, will open next year, but the exchange has already started: on Thursday, April 26, the two cinemas will organise a parallel event. Eddy Terstall’s Simon will be shown in Sarajevo, while the Bosnian film Totally Personal, director Nedzad Begovic’s wry 2005 documentary about the everyday strangeness of life under siege, will simultaneously be screened in Amsterdam. Discussion follows. Kriterion Morgan:A Suitable Case for Treatment Karel Reisz’s 1966 film initiated the second wave of nonconformist

comedies, in which the genteel revolt of Cary Grant in Holiday was subsumed by the aggressive obnoxiousness of David Warner in a gorilla suit. The jumpy cutting and mannered visuals date it very badly now, though Vanessa Redgrave (in her movie debut) is high compensation. (DK) 97 min. Filmmuseum Die Salzmänner von Tibet Ulrike Koch’s 1997 SwissGerman documentary on the ritual of salt-making among a remote Himalayan tribe, which had a long Amsterdam run when it first came out, returns for one screening. In German/Tibetan with Dutch subtitles. 110 min. Rialto The Straight Story David Lynch’s 1999 film is based on the true story of Alvin Straight, a midwestern septuagenarian who rode 240 miles on a lawn mower to visit his estranged brother after the latter suffered a stroke. The wonderful Richard Farnsworth plays the lead, and he was clearly born for the part. Lynch’s imaginative and heartfelt direction falters only when he tries for some of his relatively familiar weirdo effects. Otherwise this is a highly affecting and suggestive spiritual odyssey with plenty of asides and reflections about old age. (JR) 112 min. Kriterion The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada The directorial debut of the grizzled veteran actor Tommy Lee Jones was penned by the Mexican scriptwriter Guillermo Arriaga, resulting in a kaleidoscopic loom of entwined storylines that may dazzle uninitiated viewers. But those persistent enough to sit through their puzzlement will unearth a rock solid Western about good ol’ fashioned values like loyalty and friendship, however unfashionable that may seem.

Terrific acting lifts the characters up from their sometimes one-sided personalities, with extra kudos going to Jones as the rugged leading man and Barry Pepper as his antagonist/victim. In English and Spanish with Dutch subtitles. (LvH) 121 min. De Balie De Wisselwachter A railway switchman (Jim van der Woude) lives alone in a house by the tracks until a female passenger (Stéphane Excoffier) accidentally gets off the train there and can’t go home again. Directed by Jos Stelling (1986). In Dutch. 97 min. Cavia

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The Departed Director Martin Scorsese’s latest finds him once again in top form and at home in his favourite subjects: the underworld, money and clan loyalty. The Departed is based on the 2002 Hong Kong thriller Infernal Affairs and set in Irish-Italian South Boston. Mob boss Frank Costello (an exuberantly evileyed Jack Nicholson) runs the show; Matt Damon, as Costello’s police department mole, alternates between a poker face and a winning smile. But the police have their own double agent, Leonardo DiCaprio, whose slow disintegration is at the heart of this drama about doubling and deception. (JH) 152 min. Pathé ArenA Destricted Seven major contemporary artists and directors reflect on sex and pornography in this series of short films, recommended to viewers who are not easily offended by either hardcore porn or hardcore experimental art. Cinephiles will welcome the return of Gaspar Noé, who elaborates on the daring narrative style of his 2002 knockout Irréversible. In the segment ‘Impaled’, Larry Clark puts his head on his critics’ chopping block by staging auditions for an actual pornographic scene filmed by himself. Art aficionados will be pleased with Marina Abramovic’s beautiful reenactments of strange erotic rituals found in Balkan folk history. The remaining explicit contributions are by Matthew Barney, Sam Taylor-Wood, Richard Prince and Marco Brambilla. (MdR) 116 min. Rialto

Ellen ten Damme In 2005, at age 38, the energet-

ic singer/acrobat/actress Ellen ten Damme was diagnosed with breast cancer. In this impressive documentary (subtitled As I Was Wondering Where This Mixed-up Little Life of Mine Was Leading To), director and cameraman Rob Hodselmans follows her during that difficult year. His camera comes amazingly close: we see her in the hospital, bravely cracking jokes, and then at home, vulnerable after all her treatments, reflecting on her illness and what it has done to her.

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see how this shy, soft-spoken woman transforms into a diva. And it’s more amazing to see her running up and down the stage, even walking on her hands, knowing that she is also undergoing chemotherapy.

Her doctors urge taking it easy, advice that is clearly wasted on her. In one scene, Ten Damme’s physiotherapist tells her that she should not use her arm. In the next shot we see the physiotherapist helping her practise a gymnastic trick. In Dutch. (MM) 66 min. Het Ketelhuis, The Movies

Ellen ten Damme Employee of the Month Dane Cook and Dax Shepard are superstore grunts who compete for the title honour on the shaky theory that it will get the winner into bed with new coworker Jessica Simpson. There’s a great satire to be made here about big-box stores screwing their working-poor employees, but Hollywood studios covet DVD rack space at those same stores, so instead we’re supposed to get excited about which of these two idiots earns more gold stars. (JJ) 103 min. Pathé De Munt

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life of a fictional co-founder, Edward Wilson (Matt Damon). Almost by accident, Wilson becomes a key Agency figure, but his professional success is paralleled by his perfectly executed personal lapse into isolation and paranoia. People expecting an in-depth exploration of the CIA will be disappointed: The Good Shepherd is less a history lesson than a film about the influence of fate and coincidence on the course of each human life. (MP) 167 min. Cinema Amstelveen, Pathé De Munt Goya’s Ghosts Seven years have passed since director Milos Forman made his last feature, Man on the Moon, but Goya’s Ghosts wasn’t exactly worth the wait. Instead of focusing on one character, as he does in his masterpieces, here Forman wants too much. Painter Francisco Goya (Stellan Skarsgård) lived in turbulent times, and Forman shows all: the merciless rule of the Spanish Inquisition and the rise of Napoleon are intercut with Goya’s own misfortunes. As a result, the film never achieves the depth and richness of Forman’s previous work. A moral centre would have helped, but even there we have to fend for ourselves. Do we go for the impassive painter, his demented muse (Natalie Portman) or the lecherous monk (Javier Bardem)? The director can’t decide. (BS) The Movies, Pathé Tuschinski

Ex Drummer In this interpretation of the 1994 Flem-

ish novel by Herman Brusselmans, an arrogant writer is convinced by three physically challenged freaks to join their rock band. He decides to lead them in a local band contest to provoke the literary establishment and to get in touch with some ‘real people’ in the process.

Flanders was shocked by the profanity and gross images in this pitch-black comedy, but that was exactly the comment that director Koen Mortier was aiming for in his attempt to break through the indifference of the cultural elite towards genuine social problems. In Flemish with Dutch subtitles. (MdR) 90 min. Het Ketelhuis, Kriterion Ghost Rider Maybe it was too much to expect any depth in a film basically revolving around a flaming skeleton on a motorcycle, but director Mark Steven Johnson works his Daredevil mojo once again to royally screw up. Nicolas Cage plays Johnny Blaze as a zany redneck, Eva Mendes seems cast solely as cleavage, and the bad guys look like moping Goth kids who got rejected from The OC. The only inspired moment in the film is when Sam Elliott reveals himself to be the original cowboy Ghost Rider, but that doesn’t justify the fecklessness of this utter drabfest. (LvH) 114 min.

Pathé ArenA The Good German American reporter Jake Geismar (George Clooney) returns to Berlin at the end of World War II to cover the Potsdam Peace Conference. He hopes to find Lena Brandt (Cate Blanchett), a German girl he once dated, but when he does, he discovers that she is now having an affair with his driver, Corporal Tully (Tobey Maguire). Tully informs the Russians he knows the whereabouts of Lena’s husband Emil and will tell them for 100,000 marks. When he is killed, Geismar becomes determined to find out why everybody is so interested in Emil Brandt. The plot has many twists, most of them neither appealing nor surprising.

Together with the beautiful film noir style, they apparently asked so much from director Steven Soderbergh that he forgot about character development. While Blanchett is charismatic enough to hold her own, Clooney is definitely no Bogey. (MP) 105 min. Cinecenter, Pathé Tuschinski

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Good Shepherd Director Robert De Niro deglamorises the profession of espionage in The Good Shepherd, viewing the CIA through the personal

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Goya’s Ghosts Hot Fuzz The creative team behind Shaun of the Dead, Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, return with a vengeance in a buddy-cop flick that, like Shaun, is simultaneously a hilarious spoof and loving homage to a genre. Top bobby Nicholas Angel (Pegg) is demoted for making his colleagues look bad, but finds a crime wave in the sleepy hamlet of Sandford that only he can bring to justice, aided by his loyal sidekick PC Butterman (Frost).

Frost and co-writer Pegg prove to be a well-oiled comedic machine, while leaving room for the rest of the star-studded cast (Martin Freeman, Bill Nighy, Billie Whitelaw) to shine. (LvH) 121 min. Pathé ArenA, Pathé De Munt I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone This leisurely, sensual new film from minimalist Malaysian-Taiwanese director Tsai Ming-liang (The Wayward Cloud) is about a friendship between three young people adrift in Kuala Lumpur. Hsiao-kang (played by Tsai’s regular leading man, Lee Kang-sheng) is a homeless Chinese man who gets mugged and is rescued by Rawang, an equally impoverished Bangladeshi guest worker. Later, Hsiao-kang meets a waitress named Chyi who helps care for her boss’ paralysed son, and the friendship between Hsiao-kang and Rawang is tested. With Dutch subtitles. 115 min. Rialto

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Inland Empire Like an unending zooming shot of a fractal, textured with fire and blood, or a Droste effect in the mirror hall of an insane asylum, the digitally shot Inland Empire both rises above and sinks below standard filmic and narrative conventions. It offers a hallucinatory carnival ride through the murky subconscious of David Lynch, which may prove to be a little too dark, incomprehensible or disturbing for the uninitiated or those with a short attention span. Those who persevere are rewarded with a new masterpiece of modern art, an uncompromising experimental film and plenty to talk about afterwards.

(LvH) 172 min. Cinecenter, Kriterion It’s a Boy/Girl Thing High school enemies Samaire Armstrong and Kevin Zegers accidentally switch bod-

ies—haven’t we seen that plot somewhere before?— in this tame teen comedy. With Sharon Osbourne as Zegers’ mother. 95 min. Pathé ArenA, Pathé De Munt The Last King of Scotland This compelling UK drama features a titanic performance by Forest Whitaker as Idi Amin, the brutal dictator who terrorised Uganda throughout the ’70s. A fictional young Scottish doctor (James McAvoy) follows his taste for adventure to Africa and becomes personal physician to the general, who’s just seized power in a military coup.

Alternately charming and sinister, vulnerable and vengeful, Amin draws the naive young man deeper into his murderous regime, and by the time the doctor fully grasps the depth of Amin’s evil he’s complicit in it. (JJ) 123 min. Pathé De Munt Das Leben der Anderen This Oscar winner by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck mostly deserves all the praise and admiration it has received. A study in the dehumanising effects of state surveillance, it focuses on two men living in East Germany in 1984: a playwright (Sebastian Koch) who attracts the interest of the state and a Stasi officer (Ulrich Mühe) whose loyalty to the socialist cause is starting to erode. Predictable and slightly distant, but also disturbing and effective. In German with Dutch subtitles. (LvH) 137 min. Cinecenter, Het Ketelhuis, Pathé Tuschinski, Rialto The Monastery: Mr Vig & the Nun The synopsis reads like a fairy tale: an eccentric old man, living alone in a castle somewhere in Denmark, has dreamt for years of starting his own monastery. Finally, the Russian Orthodox Church agrees to send down some nuns.

Amongst them is the remarkable Amvrosija, who turns out to be just as stubborn as Mr Vig. After years of neglect the castle is nearly a ruin, but Mr Vig and Amvrosija work hard to repair the building and make their dream come true. The process is filmed in beautiful, smoky images, yet Pernille Rose Gronkjaer’s documentary doesn’t tell much about the promised ‘special relationship’ between Mr Vig and the nun, which should be the most interesting part. Maybe the camera wasn’t looking, or maybe it just wasn’t there.

In Danish with Dutch subtitles. (MM) 85 min. Het Ketelhuis, De Uitkijk Mrs Henderson Presents In Depression-era London a headstrong widowed aristocrat (Judi Dench) turns impresario, renovating Soho’s vacant Windmill Theatre and hiring an innovative producer (Bob Hoskins) to run it. When their initial success staging musical revues around the clock fades, she hits upon the idea of showcasing working-class lovelies in nude tableaux. Dench crackles as the feisty dowager who finds love and true calling late in life in this 2005 drama, elegantly directed by Stephen Frears.

(AG) 103 min. Pathé Tuschinski Music & Lyrics After years of playing shy romantic leads, heart-throb Hugh Grant is becoming an expert in portraying big spoilt children. In About a Boy he lived off the royalties of one popular Christmas song; in Music & Lyrics he recycles the golden oldies of a boy band called Pop (also the sound the hipbone makes during their trademark dance move). Like every other romantic comedy, this one is predictable, but the film is saved by Grant’s mild self-mockery, the chemistry between Grant and co-star Drew Barrymore and the hilarious video at the beginning of the movie.

(BS) 104 min. Pathé De Munt Norbit Eddie Murphy returns to the multiple roles and prosthetic blubber of his Nutty Professor movies, playing a trio of grotesques: Norbit, a cringing nebbish with a bad Afro and a speech impediment; his battleax wife, a raging sea of cellulite; and his ageing foster father, one of those crude and insulting Asians who’ve become such a reliable comic type. This dismal comedy joins a growing pile of Murphy disasters, though Thandie Newton provides some visual relief. (JJ) 102 min. Pathé ArenA, Pathé De Munt Notes on a Scandal A bitter old history teacher at a wild English high school (Judi Dench) befriends an attractive young colleague who’s just arrived (Cate Blanchett), only to discover she’s having sex with a 15year-old student. Adapted from a novel by Zoë Heller, this drama is both literate and urgently plotted, with a

voice-over from Dench that cuts like broken glass. Her character is sly, controlling, desperately lonely and capable of anything, and when Blanchett’s secret gets out, a proper chamber drama explodes into something much more troubling. Richard Eyre (Iris) directed. (JJ) 91 min. Cinecenter, Pathé Tuschinski Nue propriété Isabelle Huppert plays a Belgian mother who feels her life is weighing her down. She decides to sell her house and, together with her new lover, start a bed and breakfast in the Alps. Left to their own devices, her twin sons take their abandonment out on each other in this film by Joachim Lafosse; the English title is Private Property. In French with Dutch subtitles. 105 min. Pathé Tuschinski

Our Daily Bread

Our Daily Bread This may remind you of We Feed the World, the documentary by Erwin Wagenhofer that was released in the Netherlands last November. Like that film, it’s a behind-the-scenes look at how meat and produce make the transition from soil to supermarket. But Our Daily Bread is far more experimental, abstaining from dialogue and even music. Alternating shots from the work floor of a meat-packing plant with the same people silently eating their lunches, Austrian director Nikolaus Geyrhalter creates a mood of inevitability. He is not interested in opinions or politics, only in showing the bizarre, almost science-fictional way our food is produced in the 21st century. (MP) 92 min. Filmmuseum Pan’s Labyrinth

By mixing the narrative setting he already visited in The Devil’s Backbone with the Grand Guignol sensibilities he’s shown in his Hollywood films, Guillermo del Toro has managed to create a perfect, poignant fairy tale of the Grimm variety.

Young Ofelia must undergo a perilous quest that takes her through the depths of the underworld and pits her against her nefarious new father. Bittersweet and darkly disturbing at the same time, this movie’s guaranteed to keep your inner child up at night with delicious fright. Just refrain from accepting candy from Fascists and fauns and you’ll be fine. In Spanish with Dutch subtitles. (LvH) 112 min. Cinecenter, The Movies, Pathé ArenA, Pathé Tuschinski

Pan’s Labyrinth Perfect Stranger A tabloid journalist (Halle Berry), assisted by a computer geek (Giovanni Ribisi), goes undercover to pin the murder of her old friend on a tyrannical tycoon (Bruce Willis). This stupidly contrived thriller is all the more disappointing if you admire previous work by Berry and director James Foley (After Dark, My Sweet). Did they cynically opt for a lame and unpleasant script, or did this make more sense before the suits got to it? With a minor role for Dutch model Daniella van Graas. (JR) 109 min. Pathé ArenA, Pathé De Munt, Pathé Tuschinski

Princess Half Japanese-style animation and half live action, this Danish cult film tells the violent story of a priest’s bloody quest through the sex film industry to avenge the death of his porn star sister and the abuse of her five-year-old daughter. Princess is relentless in its portrayal of porn as a life-ruining business, raising the issue whether its director, cartoonist Anders Morgenthaler, should have toned down his moral judgement. Highly recommended for those not allergic to controversy. In Danish with Dutch subtitles. (MdR) 90 min. The Movies

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28 The Queen Helen Mirren’s flinty performance as Elizabeth II just won an Oscar, but equally impressive is Peter Morgan’s insightful script for this UK drama, which quietly teases out the social, political, and historical implications of the 1997 death of Diana, Princess of Wales. Shortly after the shocking news reaches Britain, Prime Minister Tony Blair (Michael Sheen) scores a PR coup by memorialising Diana as the ‘people’s princess’, while the royal family’s obstinate silence angers their grieving subjects. But Blair is more sympathetic to Elizabeth than many of his staffers, and he instinctively understands what she cannot: that in the tabloid age, celebrities are dangerously usurping the monarch’s hold on the public imagination. (JJ) 97 min. Pathé Tuschinski

Shooter Shooter Steely Mark Wahlberg stars as an army sniper, coaxed out of retirement to foil an assassination plot on the president, who discovers that he’s the patsy in a government conspiracy. The story is often ridiculous, but director Antoine Fuqua provides plenty of fun distractions, including an evil Russian in a wheelchair, a conniving US senator (Ned Beatty) and a heroine who favours tank tops. (JJ) 124 min. Pathé ArenA, Pathé De Munt Shut Up and Sing On a stage in London in 2003, on the eve of the US-led invasion of Iraq, Nathalie Maines of Texas country band the Dixie Chicks infamously announced: ‘Just so you know, we are ashamed that the president of the US comes from our state.’ Oscarwinning film-maker Barbara Kopple records the fallout

FILM TIMES Thursday 26 April until Wednesday 2 May. 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 The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada Fri, Sat 20.30.

Cavia Van Hallstraat 52-I, 681 1419 Short Circuit:Trips and Rides Fri 20.30 De Wisselwachter Thur 20.30.

Cinecenter Lijnbaansgracht 236, 623 6615 Angel Thur-Sun, Tues, Wed 15.45, 18.45, 21.45, Sun also 11.15 The Good German Thur-Sun, Tues, Wed 19.00, Sun also 11.00 Inland Empire Thur-Sun, Tues, Wed 21.15, Sun also 13.15 Das Leben der Anderen Thur-Sun, Tues, Wed 16.00, 19.00, 21.45, Sun also 11.15 Notes on a Scandal daily 16.30 Pan's Labyrinth Thur-Sun, Tues, Wed 16.15, 19.15, 21.45, Sun also 11.00.

Cinema Amstelveen Plein 1960 2, Amstelveen, 547 5175 Arthur en de Minimoys Sat 15.30 Assepoester en de Keukenprins Sat 13.30, Sun 12.00, Tues, Wed 13.00 Beestenboel Sun 14.00 The Good Shepherd Thur-Sat 20.30, Thur also 15.00, Sun 16.00.

Filmhuis Griffioen Uilenstede 106, Amstelveen, 444 5100 Taxidermia Thur, Tues 21.00, Fri 19.00 Ten Canoes Thur, Tues 19.00, Fri 21.00.

Filmmuseum Vondelpark 3, 589 1400 12:08 East of Bucharest Sat, Sun, Tues, Wed 17.45 Alaska Sun 22.00 Alfie Sat, Sun 21.45 Car Men Thur, Fri, Sun, Tues, Wed 21.00, Sat 20.00 Ei Tues 22.00 De Elektriseermachine van Wimhurst Thur 22.00 Georgy Girl Tues, Wed 21.45 Gespenster Thur, Fri 19.30 Heritage Thur-Sun, Wed 17.00, Tues 20.00 The Kid Sun, Wed 14.00 Kort lang, lang kort Thur-Sun, Tues, Wed De Laatste dag van Alfred Maassen Wed 22.00 Lap Rouge Fri 22.00 Lapse of Memory, A Thur, Sat, Sun, Tues, Wed 19.00, Fri 20.00 Locatie TusseNLand Thur, Sat, Sun, Tues 18.00, Wed 20.00 Morgan, A Suitable Case For Treatment Thur, Fri 21.45

in this lively documentary, in which Maines emerges as intelligent and independent-minded, the kind of person you would love to go to the pub with—though maybe not while she was wearing her stage clothes.

(AD) 93 min. The Movies Een stukje blauw in de lucht Breda-based film-maker Bob Entrop directed this documentary about Dutch Sinti and Roma who survived German persecution during World War II; he also travels to Auschwitz to remember those who did not. 105 min. Rialto Sunshine Danny Boyle (Trainspotting) seems to be specialising in the unconventional genre film: the romantic comedy A Life Less Ordinary, the zombie movie 28 Days Later and now the space opera Sunshine. The sun is dying and a crew of eight is sent on a long, hazardous mission to give Sol a jump-start. The name of the spaceship, Icarus, could have been more imaginative, but for the most part Boyle and writer Alex Garland surprise us with their down-to-earth script.

Unfortunately, about two-thirds of the way in the film stops making quite so much sense. Suddenly, a psychopath is on the loose and the characters begin to act more and more like mindless drones from a muddled horror movie. At that point, it’s the plot that could use a jump-start. (BS) 108 min. Pathé ArenA, Pathé De Munt

Taxidermia Taxidermia This new film by Geörgy Pálfi (Hukkle) follows three generations of a strange family: the grandfather practises bestiality, father competes in eating contests and son is a taxidermist who decides to stuff himself. Pálfi says he wanted to use the imaginary

The Night of the Hunter Thur, Fri 17.30, Sat, Sun, Tues, Wed 19.45 Our Daily Bread Sun 15.50 Pippi Langkous Sun, Wed 13.45 The Quiet One Thur 20.00, Fri-Sun, Wed 23.00 Simon Says Thur, Tues 23.00, Fri 19.00, Sat 21.00, Sun 20.00, Wed 18.00 De Tranen van Maria Machita Sat 22.00.

Het Ketelhuis Haarlemmerweg 8-10, 684 0090 De Avonturen van het Molletje Sat, Tues, Wed 14.30, Sun 13.00 Ellen ten Damme Thur, Fri, Sun, Tues, Wed 19.45, 21.30, Sat 21.45 Ex Drummer Thur-Sun, Tues, Wed 21.30, Thur-Sat, Tues, Wed also 17.30 Gespenster Sat 19.30 HannaHannah Thur, Fri, Sun, Mon-Wed 19.30 Honeyz Fri, Sat, Tues, Wed 15.45, Sun 14.15 Die Innere Sicherheit Sat 19.10 Das Leben der Anderen Thur, Fri, Sun, Tues, Wed 20.30, Sat 14.00, 16.45, 21.45, Thur, Sun, Tues, Wed also 17.15, Sun, Tues, Wed also 14.30 The Monastery: Mr Vig & the Nun Thur-Sat, Tues, Wed 17.45 Tinke Sat, Sun, Tues 15.00 Yella Sat 19.30.

Kriterion Roetersstraat 170, 623 1708 Curse of the Golden Flower Thur, Sat, Sun, Tues, Wed 17.30, Fri-Sun, Tues, Wed 19.45, Sun also 13.00 Ex Drummer Thur-Sun, Tues, Wed 22.00 Inland Empire Thur-Sun, Tues, Wed 17.45, Thur-Sun, Wed 21.00, Sat, Sun also 14.30 Kriterion Meets Sarajevo Thur 22.00 Sneak Preview Tues 22.15 The Straight Story Fri 17.30, Sat, Sun 15.15, Sat also 0.00.

Melkweg Cinema Lijnbaansgracht 234A, 624 1777 Ficció Wed 20.30 Semana de Cine Español Wed La Silla Wed 20.00 Zidane: un portrait du XXième siècle Thur-Tues 20.00.

The Movies Haarlemmerdijk 159-165, 638 6016 Anche libero va bene Thur-Sun, Tues, Wed 19.30, 21.45, Sun also 13.00 Angel Thur-Sun, Tues, Wed 19.00, 21.45, Sat, Sun, Tues, Wed also 14.30, Sun also 12.00 Bridge to Terabithia Thur-Sun, Tues, Wed 17.15, Sat, Sun, Tues, Wed 15.15 Ellen ten Damme Thur-Sun, Tues, Wed 18.00, Fri, Sat 0.00 Goya's Ghosts Thur-Sun, Tues, Wed 17.15 Pan's Labyrinth Thur-Sun, Tues, Wed 17.00, 19.15, 21.30, Sat, Sun, Tues, Wed 14.45, Sun also 12.30 Princess Fri, Sat 23.45 Shut Up and Sing Thur-Sun, Tues, Wed 19.45, Sat, Sun, Tues, Wed also 15.30, Fri, Sat also 0.15 La Vie en rose Thur-Sun, Tues, Wed 21.15, Sun also 12.45.

Pathé ArenA ArenA Boulevard 600, 0900 1458 300 Tues, Wed 18.50, 21.25 300 (IMAX) Thur-Mon 12.40, 15.25, 18.30, 21.25 Arthur en de Minimoys Sat, Sun, Tues, Wed 10.55 Assepoester en de Keukenprins daily 12.30, 14.40, 16.40, Sat, Sun, Tues, Wed also 10.20 Beestenboel daily 12.40, 14.45, Sat, Sun, Tues, Wed also 10.40

language of porn and horror to answer basic questions about human identity. Bring your barf bag. In Hungarian with Dutch subtitles 91 min. Filmhuis Griffioen

Ten Canoes This indigenous morality drama, set in

Australia in the year 1000, begins with a young man who has taken a fancy to his older brother’s wife. To teach the youngster not to break the sacred tribal laws, the brother tells an ancestral story that directly relates to the delicate issue at hand. The story takes place in a mythical past and deals with forbidden love, kidnapping, sorcery and revenge gone deadly wrong.

Films about indigenous people tend to meet with a solemn approach. Director Rolf De Heer (born in Holland in 1951, raised in Australia) ventured far from this beaten path, mixing epic storytelling with cheeky humour in this mythic swamp comedy—a thoroughly entertaining film that will teach you how to live the proper way. In English/Ganalbingu with Dutch subtitles. (VM) 90 min. Filmhuis Griffioen Transylvania Director Tony Gatlif likes to make gypsy road movies—his most famous one being Gadjo Dilo—and his latest film is no exception. This time we follow female protagonist Zingarina (Asia Argento) to the Romanian region of Transylvania to be reunited with her boyfriend. When he rejects her and their unborn baby, Zingarina is inconsolable. Yet love lurks in unlikely places. It’s uncommon for Gatlif to feature a female lead, yet actress Biro Ünel (the anti-hero of Gegen die Wand) steals every scene. What Transylvania lacks in narrative, it amply makes up for in vibrant music and raw emotion. In French/Romanian/English with Dutch subtitles. (BS) 103 min. Rialto La Vie en rose Any director would have had a hard time adapting Edith Piaf’s eventful life—filled with neglect, disease and death—into a 140-minute movie, yet Olivier Dahan eschews any pretence of coherence. Seemingly at random, he jumps through time, barely differentiating between important and less relevant events. We get to see the winning match

Beynelmilel daily 18.15 Bridge to Terabithia daily 12.35, 15.00, 17.15, 19.25, Sat, Sun, Tues, Wed also 10.25 Curse of the Golden Flower Thur-Mon, Wed 17.45 The Departed Thur-Mon, Wed 20.15, Tues 18.20 Ghost Rider Thur-Mon 21.50 Hot Fuzz Thur-Mon 21.35, Tues, Wed 21.40 It's a Boy/Girl Thing Thur-Mon 19.20 Kya Love Story Hai Thur-Mon 21.15 Mr Bean's Holiday daily 12.45, 14.50, 17.00, 18.40, 21.00, Sat, Sun, Tues, Wed also 10.35 Next daily 13.00, 15.15, 17.30, 19.40, 21.50 Norbit Thur-Mon 18.50 Pan's Labyrinth daily 12.05, 14.30, 17.05, 20.00 Pars: Kiraz operasyonu daily 12.00, 15.10, 20.45 Perfect Stranger daily 14.00, 16.50, 19.20, 21.55, Sat, Sun, Tues, Wed also 11.15 Shooter daily 13.10, 16.00, 19.00, Thur-Mon, Wed also 21.40, Tues also 21.35 Sneak Preview Tues 21.30 Spider-Man 3 Tues, Wed 12.00, 15.05, 18.15, 21.25, Wed also 18.30 Sunshine daily 13.20, 15.50, 21.45, Thur-Tues also 19.15 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles daily 12.15, 14.20, 16.35, Sat, Sun, Tues, Wed also 10.10 Wild Hogs Thur-Mon 12.10, 14.30, 19.10, 21.30, Sat, Sun also 10.00, Tues, Wed also 19.20, 21.35.

Pathé De Munt Vijzelstraat 15, 0900 1458 300 Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 21.40, Thur, Sun-Wed also 18.30, Thur also 13.00, Fri also 18.25, Sat 19.20, 22.15 Assepoester en de Keukenprins Fri 13.00, 15.45, Sat 10.10, 12.15, 14.30, 16.45, Sun, Tues, Wed 11.45, 14.00, 16.15 Babel Thur, Fri, Sun, Mon 20.10, Sat 20.25, Tues, Wed 20.20 Beestenboel Fri, Sun, Tues, Wed 14.30, Fri also 12.10, Sun, Tues, Wed also 11.45, Sat 10.45, 13.00 Blood Diamond Thur, Fri, Mon 20.20, Sat 22.00 Bridge to Terabithia Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 18.20, Thur, Fri, Sun, Tues, Wed 13.15, 15.55, Sun, Tues, Wed also 11.00, Sat 11.25, 13.45, 16.15, 18.50 Employee of the Month Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 17.50, Thur, Fri, Sun, Tues, Wed also 12.50, 15.25, Sun, Tues, Wed also 10.15, Sat 11.55, 14.15, 16.35, 19.10 Epic Movie Thur, Fri, Sun-Tues 19.40, Thur, Fri, Sun, Tues, Wed 12.30, 14.50, 17.15, Thur, Fri, Sun, Mon also 22.00, Sun, Tues, Wed also 10.15, Sat 11.45, 14.05, 16.25, 18.45, 21.10, 23.30 The Good Shepherd Sun 20.20 Hot Fuzz Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 20.30, Thur, Fri, Sun, Tues, Wed also 12.10, 14.55, 17.40, Mon also 17.45, Sat 10.10, 12.55, 15.45, 18.40, 21.30 It's a Boy/Girl Thing Thur, Fri, Sun, Tues, Wed 16.45, Thur also 12.10, 14.30, Sat 15.15, 17.50, Mon 17.55 Krampack Wed 21.00 The Last King of Scotland Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 20.40, Sat 21.20 Mr Bean's Holiday Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 18.45, 21.00, Thur, Fri, Sun, Tues, Wed also 12.05, 14.15, 16.35, Sat 10.20, 12.35, 14.55, 17.10, 19.30, 21.45 Music & Lyrics Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 20.00, Sat 21.00 Next Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 19.00, 21.30, Thur, Fri, Sun, Tues, Wed also 14.10, 16.30, Thur, Fri also 12.00, Tues, Wed also 12.05, Sat 11.10, 13.30, 15.55, 18.15, 20.40, 23.00

26 April-2 May 2007 of Piaf’s lover, boxer Marcel Cerdan, but not her role in the French resistance. Both Piaf and Marion Cotillard (giving a remarkable, fragile performance as ‘The Little Sparrow’) deserve better. In French with Dutch subtitles. (BS) The Movies, Pathé Tuschinski

Wild Hogs Wild Hogs John Travolta, Tim Allen, Martin Lawrence and William H Macy are middle-aged motorcycle buffs who soothe their midlife crises with a cross-country expedition to the Pacific Coast. In New Mexico, Travolta (goofing like he hasn’t since he played Vinnie Barbarino) inadvertently torches a biker gang’s roadhouse, and the bikers, led by a sublimely typecast Ray Liotta, hunt them down. Slack direction from Walt Becker sullies this formula comedy, but the cast is agreeable, particularly Marisa Tomei as the diner owner who falls for Macy, and Peter Fonda, turning in his second Easy Rider parody in weeks (the first was in Ghost Rider).

(JJ) 105 min. Pathé ArenA, Pathé De Munt Zidane: un portrait du XXième siècle Over a year before the headbutt incident of last year’s World Cup, video artists Douglas Gordon and Philippe Parreno made this experimental documentary on French football legend Zinédine Zidane. They chose a game between Real Madrid and Villareal and set up 17 cameras to follow their hero. Then they spliced the footage together and set it to the dreamy music of Mogwai, using only intertitles to suggest what might be going on in Zizou’s head. The result hints at strange parallels between a sporting match and a work of fiction. 90 min. Melkweg Cinema

Norbit Thur, Fri, Sun, Tues, Wed 17.30, Sat 18.30 Perfect Stranger Thur 12.05, 14.35, 17.10, Fri, Sun-Wed 18.40, 21.15, Fri, Sun, Tues, Wed also 13.30, 16.05, Sun, Tues, Wed also 10.55, Sat 12.10, 14.45, 17.20, 19.55, 22.30 Shooter Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 18.00, 20.50, Thur, Fri, Sun, Tues, Wed also 12.20, 15.10, Sat 11.00, 13.55, 16.55, 19.45, 22.40 Sneak Preview Tues 22.00 Spider-Man 3 Tues, Wed 12.00, 15.00, 18.15, 21.30 Sunshine Thur, Fri, Sun, Mon 19.10, 21.45, Thur, Fri, Sun also 13.45, 16.20, Sat, Tues, Wed 20.10, Sat also 12.25, 15.00, 17.35, 22.45, Sun also 11.10 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Thur, Fri, Sun, Tues, Wed 12.40, 15.00, Sun, Tues, Wed 10.25, Sat 11.35, 13.50, 16.05 Wild Hogs Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 19.25, 21.50, Thur, Fri, Sun, Tues, Wed also 12.15, 14.35, 17.00, Sat 10.40, 13.10, 15.30, 18.05, 20.50, 23.15.

Pathé Tuschinski Reguliersbreestraat 34, 0900 1458 Catch a Fire daily 21.10 Curse of the Golden Flower daily 21.45, Thur-Sun, Tues, Wed also 16.30 The Good German daily 21.30, Fri-Sun, Tues, Wed also 12.30 Goya's Ghosts daily 18.30, Thur-Sun, Tues, Wed also 13.00 Das Leben der Anderen daily 18.15, 21.20, Thur-Sun, Tues, Wed also 15.15 Mrs Henderson Presents Thur 13.30 Next Thur-Mon 19.30, 22.00, Thur-Sun also 12.15, 14.30, 17.00 Notes on a Scandal daily 19.15, Thur-Sun, Tues, Wed 16.00 Nue propriété daily 16.40, 21.50 Pan's Labyrinth daily 18.45, Thur-Sun, Tues, Wed also 12.45, 15.45, Thur also 22.05, Fri-Wed also 21.55 Perfect Stranger Thur 19.45 The Queen Thur-Sun, Tues, Wed 12.30 Spider-Man 3 Tues, Wed 11.45, 14.45, 18.00, 21.45 La Vie en rose Thur 15.50, Fri-Wed 18.30, Fri-Sun, Tues, Wed also 15.30.

Rialto Ceintuurbaan 338, 676 8700 Anche libero va bene Thur-Sun, Tues, Wed 19.30, Fri also 14.45 Angel Thur-Sun, Tues, Wed 18.00, 20.30, Fri, Sun, Wed also 15.15, Sat, Sun also 12.15 Crossing the Bridge:The Sound of Istanbul Fri 16.00 Destricted Sat 23.00 I Don't Want to Sleep Alone Thur-Sun, Tues, Wed 17.40, 19.50, Sat, Sun also 13.15 Inside Deep Throat Fri 23.00 Das Leben der Anderen Thur-Sun, Tues, Wed 21.30, FriSun, Wed also 17.00, Sat, Sun also 14.15 Die Salzmänner von Tibet Sun 11.00, Wed 14.45 stukje blauw in de lucht, Een Sat 16.00 Transylvania Thur-Sun, Tues, Wed 22.00, Sat, Sun, Wed also 15.30, Sun also 11.15.

De Uitkijk Prinsengracht 452, 623 7460 Curse of the Golden Flower Thur-Sun, Tues, Wed 19.00, Sun also 14.45 The Monastery: Mr Vig & the Nun Thur-Sun, Tues, Wed 17.00, Thur also 21.15 Ta Ra Rum Pum Fri.Sun, Tues, Wed 21.15.

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looking for a job. I speak English and Spanish. Phone 06 2334 9502 and ask for Adrian in A’dam.

WEB DESIGN/PROGRAM MERDirectness BV is looking for flexible web designer and programmer to help with new application. Part-time work (full-time later) offered to talented individual who can handle PHP and mySQL coding and who wants to be part of something big. A’dam-based.

Email Adam.dorrell@directness.net.

Mops and English bulldog puppies for sale. If you want a cute little friend, please contact me on 06 1583 0138 or laszlo@amsterdamjob.org.

CAREER & INTUITION 4week training Fri evenings.

Start 11 April. Coaching group max 15 pers. Define, plan and motivate into action. Stop searching & start living your potential! In A’dam. Info: careerandintuition@yahoo.com. Reservations 06 5080 5589. Free intro evening.

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MARKETING ASSISTANCE I am looking for job as marketing assistance/manager in international company where I can use my native language (Russian). I speak fluent English and fair Dutch.

For further info and CV please CHEFS WANTED Experi- contact me: angelina.davyenced chefs wanted to join dova@gmail.com. the team in a busy brasserie FOR SALE in A’dam. Send your CV to info@barneys.biz.

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SEWING MACHINEfor sale.

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African lady from Zambia liv- Laurie: 06 1529 3819. ing here in A’dam. I am searching for a job to take WHITESTBOYALIVEIs there care of elderly people, and anyone who has 2 Whitest Boy enjoy working with old peo- Alive tickets for sale? Email ple too, so if there’s a job giu@badtemperdesign.com. please you can reach me on Phone 06 1616 5936.

06 2726 8279.

FURNITURE FOR SALE HOUSEKEEPER Brazilian Moving abroad, selling all my man with 15 yrs experience stuff. Sleeping couch, shelves,

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CHANGE YOUR LIFE Coaching with a friendly, expe- VIOLIN/VIOLA TEACHER rienced professional. Are you available in centre of A’dam. expressing your gifts and tal- Experienced with beginners ents? Set new goals for suc- and advanced students. cess with a plan and strate- Trained in both Suzuki and gy. Take action to get what traditional methods. For more you want in your career/work information call 06 4363 5024. and in relationships. Testi- CLEANING/IRONINGNice, monies available. Guaran- friendly and responsible couteed. 06 1831 6261. ple looking more for house EXPERIENCEDweb design- cleaning/ironing work in er generates professional A’dam/Amstelveen area for static and dynamic web pages. reasonable price. Good refMulti-lingual CMS portal sys- erences are available. Tel 06 tems with Shop functions and 4365 9790. newsletter. Interested? Email GRAPHIC DESIGNservices erkosys@gawab.com. offered: Flyers, T-shirts, biz

PHOTOS OF YOUNeed photos of yourself? I need photos of you! I would like to photograph you(half naked) for an artproject. It’s a low budget project, but I will give you prints, and hopefully it will be fun! All types are welcome to contact me for more details about the project. 06 4181 9092/p.tonda@gmail.com.

ITALIAN CATERERProfessional Italian chef and his crew offering services ranging from private dinners to big events. Our food is absolutely Italian, in line with season and created with qualityimported Italian ingredients.

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WEBSITES & BROCHURES Do you need a professional website or brochure? Experience and creativity at reasonable price. Ask for examples to ramiro@re-type.com.

TULIPANY Are you thinking about starting your own business? Do you have a company but administration and papers are not your thing?

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RELATING WORKSHOP Transform the way you relate?

Want to know what to do when others won’t give what you want & need? Want to come out of a painful relationship and still feel ok? Sun 13 May 10.00–17.O0. Register: 624 0044. Questions Sagar: 06 4626 5412. The workshop teaches you to be clear, assertive & independent.

THINKING ABOUT THERAPY? Heighten your quality of life and improve your relationships with the help of a native English-speaking therapist. My 20 years of professional experience and understanding can help you better cope with feelings and sort through stressful thoughts.

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TAI CHI AT TAI YANG:Come QUEER PUNK MASSEUR learn Tai Chi for its many health Swe punk bohemian, Kevin,

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5957. working, basic MAC lessons, You get to choose! See essenHOME IMPROVEMENT setting up programs, MS Word, tialmeditation.org. (How to QuarkXpress, etc. Help with drown a world of worries in PAINTER + HANDYMAN I purchasing the right MAC. a sea of bliss.) am available to paint inside Contact Sagar at 779 1926.

DRAWING AND PAINTING and outside or lend a helping hand. Reasonable rates. HELP WITH PC PROBLEM workshops by professional Lots of practical and profes- Installing and upgrading S/W, artist. Various techniques, sional experience. Good ref- installing H/W, installing net- all styles. For info call 681 3067/joneiselin@hetnet.nl. erences available. Contact work etc. 06 5537 1575.

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LAPTOPI want to buy a used TANTRIC WORKSHOPS PAINTING Professional laptop. My phone number is Love is the power of the universe and it is only through painting, faux finishes, plas- 06 2334 9502/Adrian. tering + construction, inte- JAVA LANGUAGE I am the light and way of love that riors, exteriors, furniture, studying computer sciences we may raise our vibration floors, boats and canal hous- and my Java skills are not and reclaim our inner divines. Very experienced + cre- good. I need assistance. Is ity. Sri Param from India ative. Free estimates. Please anybody good in Java lan- teaches Tantra in A’dam on call 06 2324 5957. guage? Please contact me at 16, 17, 30 June & 1 July. Check www.gipsygoddess.nl.

HANDYMAN Experienced 06 1458 2590. with painting, plastering, wall COURSES papering, construction, etc.

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SHAKESPEARE Have fun HANDYMAN ON CALL for studying Shakespeare and all those little jobs that need classic literature with British doing that you never seem to L.A.M.D.A trained actress. have the time for. Contact Learn to love the Bard, Bronte, Austen and others.

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Classes cost €20/hr. Email HOUSE RENOVATIONS!Do lazelle@home.nl. info: lazelle you need cost-effective and @home.nl high-quality full house renovation? Professional expe- VOICE LESSONS Internarience and good references. tionally-trained classical Online links to past projects. singer offering lessons to Contact 331 6550 or 06 4451 singers at all levels. Afford-

FREE YOUR VOICE This workshop is participantfocused, empowering you to fine-tune your public speaking skills, overcome fears and gain more confidence in this often difficult subject. ABC treehouse, 13 May 19.3022.30. For more information visit www.thespeaker.eu.

BEGINNERS HATHA YOGA course in A’dam (ABC Treehouse). Always wanted to experience yoga and didn’t know where to start? Join

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26 April-2 May 2007 this 8-week course, starting Mon 14 May, 18.00-19.30. 100 incl textbook. Contact Susan Nicolas on 06 5176 4621/nicolas@planet.nl/ http://amsterdam.yoga108.org.

begins Wed 25 April & Wed 2 May from 19.30-21.00. Classroom ABC Treehouse close Kalverstraat&Spui.WithSpanish native teacher. More info: www.unlimitedeurope.org.

LEARN IMPROV NOW Get over your public speaking fears and get on stage. Beginner improv course starts Sat and runs 8 weeks. Only 2 places left. www.easylaughs. nl for more info.

TALK IN PORTUGUESE Brazillian journalist give Portuguese lessons for English speakers. Friendly prices!

Fun and informal method.

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LANGUAGE EXCHANGE I’m looking for a native speaker to improve English, esp. for listening comprehension & oral communication. I’ve spent several months to undergo a preliminary Mandarin teacher’s training and know some material/methods which can benefit learning greatly. If you’re interested, email Lededic@ BIBLE EDUCATION gmail.com.

English-language, part-time Bible education offered NEW IN AMSTERDAM biweekly on Sat in A’dam, Still not found the right The Hague, Rotterdam and environment for learning Eindhoven. For Christians Dutch? Try us: C & C Laneager to study the Bible and guage Support. Lessons in be active in their church. Low relaxed atmosphere, for course fee. See www.dewit- individuals and small tenberg.nl/bee, email bee. groups. Concentration on dewittenberg@hccnet.nl or practical use and conversation. For details, visit the call 078 674 7339. website: www.lasu.nl.

IYENGAR YOGA CLASSES DUTCH? with certified Iyengar yoga LEARNING teacher Cristina Libanori, JOOST WEET HET! We offer Tues 19.30-21.00 at Training inexpensive evening classCentrum, Europaplein 127 es 2x2 hr/wk. Improve your near RAI. Tram 4 (stop Din- Dutch fast at Joost Weet Het telstraat). 10/class; with 10- and have loads of fun. Courscard yoga strippenkaart es on all levels and real qual9/class. Indiv therapeutic ity. Visit our website classes arranged by appt at www.joostweethet.nl, call 20/hr. cristina@the-wheel- 420 8146 or email info@joostweethet.nl. of-yoga.com/773 5307.

PERSONAL YOGA Professional & friendly yoga teacher, Jeroen, gives affordable classes in English, German and Dutch. Certified in Hatha/Ashtanga yoga, RSI and stress-solving.Exercisesadjusted to your personal needs. The practice will vitalize and strengthen your body and spirit. Contact 06 4138 7253.

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IMPROVE YOUR DUTCH! Link Taal Studio, a professional way to learn Dutch, private lesssons, small groups, intensive course, etc., starting every week, Vijzelgracht 53. Contact linktaalstudio@gmail.com or 06 4133 9323.

DUTCH LESSONS New evening courses starting in April and May, centre of A’dam. 200- 250 for 20 hours.

INTENSIVE DUTCHCOURS- Visit www.mercuurtaal.nl or LANGUAGES ES at Joost Weet Het! 4x4 call 693 4250.

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