Amsterdam Weekly: Vol 4 Issue 18, 3-9 May 2007

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Fast times at Rochdale One From Communist cruise ship to student haven page 6

Discrimination: A Meldpunt to learn from page 4 Comics: The Occupation in full colour page 4 Urban design: A Pufpunt to lean on page 5 ART: The original fashion houses of Amsterdam p. 11 / FILM: Lars van Trier is the boss of his own ego p. 19

Short List . . . . . . . . . . . . .9 Music/Clubs . . . . . . . . .12 Gay & Lesbian . . . . . . . .14 Stage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14 Art . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15 Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17 Dining . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18 Film . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19 Classifieds/Comics . . . .22

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It’s easy to imagine the late Boris Yeltsin, first democratically elected president of Russia, as a partying apparatchik aboard the former Communist Party cruise ship MS Ayvazovsky— now the student living space Rochdale One. Fulfilling stereotypes, Yeltsin would, of course, be really quite drunk.

His death last week reminded many of how often he came across as plastered in the world media. It came as a surprise, then, when the Groningen neurosurgeon Michiel Staal announced that he had performed a highly secret operation on Yeltsin in 1999 in Moscow.

While Staal won’t, due to patient confidentiality, go into details; he was willing to be ‘general’ because he was angered by how Yeltsin is entering the history books as a vodka-shooting drunk. Staal announced that Yeltin’s apparent drunkenness was, in fact, the result of a neurological condition. Could there be an important lesson of tolerance and freedom and never judging by appearances in this, in time for May 4th? And if so, how does that explain Yeltsin’s 1996 interpretation of the macarena?

On the cover BOOKS & BOOZE CRUISE Photo by Stefanie Gratz www.stefaniegratz.nl

Next week A tale of two bookshops

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10 SHADOWS by Arnoud Holleman

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AROUND TOWN Holocaust comics What would you have done?

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By Marinus de Ruiter

You can’t say that!

Mediators resolve discrimination complaints.

By Floris Dogterom Discriminatory behaviour seems to be one of the most deeply rooted characteristics of the human psyche. In recent Dutch history, the most virulent outburst of discrimination occurred during World War II, when 95% of the country’s Jewish citizens were exterminated by the German oppressor. Homosexuals, Roma, Sinti and people who stood up against Nazi ideology also fell victim to the racist regime. Sixty years later, we live in what must be one of the most free countries in the world, yet people are still being discriminated against because of the way they dress, their sexual orientation, race or religion.

Since 1996, Amsterdammers who feel they’ve been victims of discrimination have been able to get support from MDA—Meldpunt Discriminatie Amsterdam, the discrimination complaints centre. From a little volunteer group, MDA has grown into to a professional consultancy. Director Jessica Silversmith explains how her organisation works.

What’s your definition of discrimination?

To me, personally, it’s distinguishing somebody from somebody else on the grounds of things that shouldn’t matter.

As an organisation, we define discrimination in legal terms. We work strictly to that rule, otherwise the term becomes

devalued even more and we might end up being a repository of dissatisfied Amsterdammers.

How’s that?

There’s a tendency to use the word ‘discrimination’ in order to be put in the right.

What does it take to become director of a discrimination complaints centre?

Expertise, a passion for the subject, an extensive network and a matter-of-fact approach.

How did the centre come into being?

Back in the Eighties, the Netherlands saw the rise of extreme-right political parties like Nederlandse Volksunie and Centrumdemocraten; in several cities this caused private parties of people wanting to do something against that. In 1983, anti-discrimination was laid down in the new constitution, and the penal code was also extended with anti-discrimination laws.

Isn’t discrimination an issue that can be dealt with by the law alone anyway?

No. If somebody says he’s being discriminated against at work and he takes it to court, it might take up to five months or more before his case is dealt with. In the meantime, he still has to go to his job every day. In our [organisation], the client’s interest is most important. We try to tackle the problem at the lowest level possible, in order to prevent it from escalating.

What’s your approach?

We ask the complainant to report his complaint with his boss, first. After, we file a complaint on the basis of jurisprudence of the Commissie Gelijke Behandeling—the equal treatment committee. We always listen to both parties involved in a mediating session. We usually resolve the issue this way.

Being a black sheep just got easier.

The stats show a slight rise in complaints.

Not exactly. The stats show a slight rise in complaints that have been reported. After the murder of Theo van Gogh, the city of Amsterdam made an effort to mak the complaint procedure better known.

Don’t you create discrimination this way?

Well, it is more about facilitating. Often people don’t know that the possibility to complain exists. Incidentally, we are part of a chain of institutions, like the police, that has made the complaints process more professional.

How do you measure your success?

Satisfied clients, for one. And we have won a number of unique cases, for instance, the school that didn’t want to admit girls who completely cover their faces with veils.

The 2006 stats show an increase of anti-gay discrimination cases (73, against 53 in 2005). How come?

Again, more people know now about the possibility to complain. After the bashing of the American gay activist Chris Crain on Koninginnedag 2005, we began focusing more on anti-homosexual discrimination—that got known about on the scene. On the other hand, it seems that homosexuality is less acceptable than it used to be. That has something to do with the verkleuring of the city. Antigay aggression usually comes from persons with a non-Western background.

You mean Moroccan kids from Slotervaart?

They’re not only from Slotervaart. By the way: aggression against women is also on the rise. How many times do you hear the word ‘kankerhoer’ these days? We have to step in there. It is unacceptable.

Since the 1950s, teachers and parents have denigrated the comic book as something that discourages reading. Now, with educational comics on World War II and the Holocaust, writer and illustrator Eric Heuvel, along with co-writer Ruud van der Rol, are experiencing the opposite: their books De Ontdekking and De Zoektocht are motivating today’s screen-addicted youth to read and learn about history.

‘Around 2000, I read an article on the lack of historical awareness about World War II, especially among young people,’ says Heuvel. ‘I was shocked to see some didn’t even know if Hitler lived before or after Napoleon. I remembered that when I was ten years old, I’d learned so much about the War through an old comic. It had put me on the right track and I figured that a new comic could do the same thing for young people today.’

Heuvel, a former history teacher, has been creating comics for over two decades. He’d collaborated with the Anne Frank Museum once before, and approached them again with the idea for De Zoektocht. Helped by Van der Rol, who works in the museum’s educational department, the two men developed a story aimed at 14- and 15-year-old VMBO students.

Beside the fact that educational comics are rare, it’s also rather unique for a book to be designed especially for VMBO-level education. ‘Most of their history books are derived from higher-level books aimed at HAVO or VWO students,’ explains Heuvel.

De Ontdekking, about a young boy who learns about the War through his grandmother’s stories, was an instant success: over 200,000 copies have been distributed since its release in 2003. Translations into English and German followed.

Now there is a sequel, De Zoektocht, focusing on the fate of Dutch Jews.

With De Ontdekking, the writers made

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Capturing the reality of the Occupation in strips.

over, say, Schindler’s List, is that readers can easily take a break from the story to ask questions or do some research. ‘Compared to film, the individual student has much more grip on a comic book,’ says Heuvel. ‘This medium offers so much more opportunity to reflect’.

The great thing about the two comic books is that they can be read on many levels. ‘There’s a lot of knowledge under the surface,’ says Van der Rol. ‘This is why the books have also proven to be useful to students on secondary-school training courses. The interesting thing is that the stories contain all kinds of dilemmas and choices that are applicable to situations in the present. It is very useful to provoke the question “What would I have done in this situation?”’

De Zoektocht by Eric Heuvel, Ruud van der Rol and Lies Schippers is published

by Anne Frank Stichting.

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efforts to show the War from the perspectives of both victims and perpetrators. In De Zoektocht they are covering even more difficult terrain, since a large part of the book’s events take place in Auschwitz.

Although the book doesn’t depict the killing of Jews, it powerfully suggests the horrors of concentration camps.

‘We’ve discussed this extensively, not only amongst ourselves, but also with national and international experts,’ says Van der Rol. Two conferences were held to develop the story, and advisors to the book include educational staff members of the Auschwitz Museum, Dutch concentration camps Vught and Westerbork, and war museums throughout the world.

‘You’ll lose the reader and you won’t be able to communicate your message if you show the atrocities too explicitly,’ says Van der Rol. ‘Some children will find it too shocking and they’ll simply turn away. This is the same reason why our museum doesn’t show detailed images of the terrible cruelties that took place.’

De Zoektocht doesn’t immediately confront its young readership with the fact that six million Jews were killed between 1940 and 1945, but instead gradually and subtly reveals the facts. The characters were based on personal stories from many different sources. The story starts in the present, taking the reader to Amsterdam at the start of the War. Jewish teenager Esther tries to escape the terror of the persecution and manages to go underground, but she cannot stop her parents from being caught by the Germans.

In the second part of the book, Esther, now older, visits her old friend Bob, who tells her what happened to her parents.

This section shows how buildings in Amsterdam were used by the Germans to prepare the deportation of thousands of Jews.

De Zoektocht highlights the dark history of the Hollandsche Schouwburg theatre, where often 1,300 people were packed at one time, after which they were taken by bus or tram to Centraal Station or Muiderpoort. From there, they were taken to concentration camps. In the end, over 104,000 Dutch Jews were killed.

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The latest in bicycle storage, benches and bins.

By Marie-Claire Melzer Entering the Urban Design fair last week at the RAI felt a bit like stepping into Jacques Tati’s Playtime. For those who haven’t seen the film, it’s about a man who gets lost in a futuristic warehouse of sliding doors, shiny surfaces and the latest technology in household products. Most products, however, seem merely new rather than actually useful.

At the fair you found the latest in bicycle storage, benches and bins. Both sales staff and designers were present: Klaver from Hoogeveen, for example, displayed the CyclePod—‘already a hype in England,’ they say. But you wonder how useful this arty object really is, as it only stores a few bikes at a time. Another company presents a system for ensuring gum-free pavements, consisting of a greyish tile that’s easy to clean; the company also offer a cleaning service, and their brochure shows some impeccable, yet slightly eerie, stations and squares. There were also stands displaying street furniture with built-in lights, alongside lots of tile-sellers displaying monstrous terraces in different shades of grey and black.

But, thank god, the fair also had some cool designers. ipv Delft, for example, create bridges, benches and other street furniture. Located, as the company’s name suggests, in Delft, their main contracts come from Rotterdam. ‘Rotterdam is very conscious about creating its own image. The council puts a real effort in it, so it’s fun to work for,’ says one of the company’s designers, Gerhard Nijenhuis.

‘Yes, a large part of the city was bombed during Word War II, but that was a long time ago. I think Rotterdam is just open

to new ideas—more than Amsterdam, to be honest.’

Nevertheless, the designers do also work in Amsterdam. ‘Oh yes,’ says Nijenhuis, pointing to their design for an elegant wooden bridge in Amstelpark.

‘We created this together with the artist Stefan Strauss.’ ipv Delft are also responsible for a very cool streetlamp and clock in Almere-Haven. The timepiece and light are both attached to one pole, with crooked lines that give it an expressionist feel. Bas Wallert, another designer for ipv Delft, explains: ‘Budgets are always tight, so we used a standard lamp and standard clock, but the way they are put together turns it into something new.’ Soon, more of ipv Delft will be seen in Amsterdam: the designers are currently working on three bridges for a new district in Bos en Lommer.

While most towns struggle with the problem of hangjongeren, Oude Pekela, a small town in North Holland, made headlines a few years ago with its ‘hangouderen’. Apparently, a group of noisy elderly people loitering in the shopping centre were causing trouble. Shopkeepers complained they were bad for business, as they drove away customers.

Hearing about this, Almar Sinte and Manuel Wijffels from Denovo Design in Eindhoven decided to create a bench for the senior citizens.

‘Oude Pekela is a weird place,’ says Sinte. ‘That’s one thing we learned there.

We made the bench and it was installed in the shopping mall in April last year. It seemed all very festive, the elderly people were happy and there was a lot of media attention. But the very same night the shopkeepers—or so we think; we never

Leunouderen ipv hangjongeren.

found out who did it—took apart the bench and moved it to a faraway, dark corner. Obviously no one wanted to sit there, hence the project failed. And so, after a trial period of six months, we had to recollect our bench.

‘But we noticed that the old people there had appreciated our initiative, so we felt we were on the right track and went on developing furniture for senior citizens.’ Sinte continues: ‘We spoke to people in retirement homes and found out that many elderly people don’t go out anymore, because they can’t walk very far and the existing benches are too uncomfortable.

Once they sit, it’s difficult for them to stand up again, so they are afraid of sitting down at all, and stay in. So we designed the Opmaat, a bench which is adapted to their needs, being a bit higher and with a more straight back. Also we made one with a special hole to park their Rollator.

And we created the Pufpunt, a simple beam they can lean on. It has been proven that seniors can walk about a hundred metres and then need a rest. Eindhoven and Nijmegen have already successfully placed our Opmaat and Pufpunt. Leiden is following. And hopefully Amsterdam soon...’

But for those Amsterdammers still young enough to ride a bike, there’s good news: look out for the brand-new fietseneiland on Piet Heinkade, just behind Centraal Station. It was installed by Klaver last March and stores 1,300 bikes. www.denovo.nl, www.ipvdelft.nl, www.klavergroup.eu

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Free: the Rochdale One A former Communist Party cruise ship anchored in Amsterdam in 2004 and became a floating student village. Since then, Legionella bacteria and asbestos scares have ensured that the boat’s story remains colourful and in the news. Meanwhile the party continues…

BY LUUK VAN HUËT PHOTOS BY STEFANIE GRÄTZ

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llow me to take you back in time to the Amsterdam of the Golden Age. Despite being at war with the mighty Kingdom of Spain, the city was a shining beacon of enlightenment, trade and the arts, attracting many immigrants with dreams of a more prosperous life, safe from religious persecution.

But say you weren’t a wealthy Flemish merchant or a Huguenot nobleman. You were a lowly West Frisian, fresh from the farmlands, looking for his big break in the city. An exhausting search for a job and a place to live proved unsuccessful, and you ended up in a rowdy dive, staring into the beer you bought with your last coins. Wouldn’t you welcome a drink from a sympathetic stranger? Wouldn’t you enjoy another, accompanied by a friendly chat?

The next thing you know, you wake up with a hangover the size of Australia on a vessel heading for Ceylon. Welcome to the Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie. Now prepare for a life filled with rum, sodomy and the lash (in that order, if you’re lucky).

How times have changed: the waiting lists for getting aboard the cruise-ship-turned-student-dormitory Rochdale One in the Houthavens in the Spaarndammerbuurt attest to that. This statuesque ship is one of the more petite in her class, but her 122-metre length and 7,662 gross ton still make it stand out as an (a)vast heartie indeed. And, even though she’s still fit to sail the Seven Seas, she’s currently chained to the shore by way of electricity cables, water and sewage pipes—and the quintessential broadband internet connection—striking an imposing figure between the nearby drab asylumseeker housing, and garish container apartments which are also used to house Amsterdam’s student body.

The commie highlife The Rochdale One got her first taste of alcohol abuse when she was smashed on the bough with a bottle of bubbly in 1977, in the French port of Nantes. She was swept off her feet by the Soviet Union and was christened the MS Ayvazovsky, after Ivan K Ayvazovsky, a 19th-century painter known for his seascapes. Proudly wearing the hammer and sickle, she ferried partying apparatchiks and vacationing nomenklatura on cruises across the Black Sea and Mediterranean, to Turkey, Romania, Bulgaria and up the Danube.

Gorbachev’s Glasnost brought an even greater freedom to roam, extending the Ayvazovsky’s range to the west coast of Africa, the Caribbean and South America.

After the break-up of the USSR, the by then Ukrainian vessel sailed the Baltic Sea towards Scandinavia in winter, while her summer travels brought her past the Middle East to the port of Singapore.

Another new nationality was followed by a new name in 1997, when she received the moniker MS Carina. She had her first Amsterdam experience when the port authorities seized her because of a debt. It was paid and she was allowed to go, only to be seized again in the port of Ismailiya. After a brief stint as the MS Primexpress Island in her old waters of the Black Sea, she was sold to the Rochdale housing corporation and given a makeover in the Greek city of Piraeus, only to return to Amsterdam a whole new woman. And since October 2004, under the direction of student housing corporation DUWO, she’s made her home in the Houthaven.

No scurvy, just fire, legionella and asbestos The Rochdale One has had her brushes with notoriety.

Her fire safety was questioned prior to her arrival in 2004—understandable, considering how her labyrinthine insides make awareness of your surroundings a bit hard for landlubbers—while the evacuation instructions in the hallways are perfectly understandable for those used to reading Cyrillic script. Nevertheless, the boat was fixed to the satisfaction of the fire department in time for the next scare: the discovery of Legionella bacteria on the ship in November 2004, which can cause the deadly Legionnaires’ disease. Outside showers cabins were set up, and after two weeks, the ship was declared safe again.

The next indiscretion came when traces of asbestos were found in 2005, during renovation of the plumbing.

Rochdale assured the concentration was not high enough to endanger residents, and it was removed accordingly. A second asbestos scare occurred when a

Proudly wearing the hammer and sickle, she ferried partying apparatchiks and vacationing nomenklatura on cruises across the Black Sea and Mediterranean, to Turkey, Romania, Bulgaria and up the Danube. heavy storm blew in some unidentified particles, though analysis showed it to be no more than dust. A second—actual—asbestos discovery was made in January 2006, when it was found in the engine room and the walls and ceilings of corridors. Another round of

removal later and Rochdale claims to have been thorough this time. Local politicians in Stadsdeel Westerpark, however, have been voicing their concerns, not so much about the current hazards, but about the earlier situations and the possible liabilities involved.

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Frederik Kunst expresses Rochdale’s point of view: ‘During renovations in 2005, we discovered asbestos, even though the ship should have been sanitised in Greece. So we informed the authorities and the students, and brought in certified contractors to sanitise the appropriate areas. The amount of asbestos was too slight for us to actually be required to remove it, and we monitored the amount throughout the sanitisation process. We’re not able to completely rid the ship of asbestos without taking it apart, but every area in which we’ve found asbestos has been cleansed.

‘There have been feelings of discomfort, which is why we organised a meeting in February in which students could be informed by experts, and we’ve organised several of those meetings in the last couple of years. To be perfectly sure about the current safety— and to investigate our handling of the case—the scientific institute TNO is currently conducting a thorough investigation. That’s also the reason why the files relevant to the case are now unavailable to the council,

which had a month to look into them beforehand. We expect the results soon. Meanwhile, the council itself has called in Bureau Berenschot to look into the way they handled the situation pertaining the permits and such. Throughout this time, the ship has been booked full from day one until now.’

All aboard!

Thoughts of microscopic particles and hazmat suits leave the mind once the cool breeze blows through your ears and you’re overlooking the IJ from the sunny deck of the Rochdale One; she must appreciate the irony of being named after a housing corporation that is named after the first successful cooperative movement.

Asbestos scares aside, ask any student about their experiences searching for an affordable spot of real estate and stories of horny old lechers who offer housing in exchange for ‘handiwork’, flatmates who turn out to be Algerian rent boys on smack and paranoid landladies who think they’re being spied on by the TV, are a

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dime a dozen. Averaging at 13 square metres, the rooms themselves aren’t that large. While a fondness for Eastern European aesthetics would be a boon to residents, on the whole, they accommodation is comparable to average student digs—and each comes with its own bathroom. Kitchens are shared by 12 salty dogs and there’s an onboard bar which also dispenses affordable meals. Sadly, the pool and sauna facilities are no longer operational, but the upper deck provides ample space to host barbeques and parties. The laundry facilities are located onshore, just opposite the ship, and the 24-hour onboard security is, depending on who you listen to, either comforting or a Stalinist nuisance.

The Rochdale One has a permit to stay put until 2009. Will she then cast off her anchors and travel the waves once more? Kunst explains: ‘Our permit for the Houthavens is valid for five years, after which we’ll most likely have to move—but we’re doing our best to keep the ship in Amsterdam.’

With a lady that fickle, you never know.

‘It’s a great chick magnet as well. Instead of asking someone over to your place you can say: “Would you like to see my ship?”’

Tobias Tiggelaar Masters Communication Sciences

Ayal Orbach Bachelors Physiotherapy

Sophia Freeken Bartender at LIDO bar

‘I used to live at Uilenstede, which is also maintained by DUWO, and through them I found myself here. It’s an improvement over Uilenstede as it’s closer to the centre, though the room itself is a bit smaller, which takes some getting used to. But you do get a terrific view, and you can cycle or jog along the IJ. Did I mention I really love water?

‘A ship is not an apartment building or a house—it has a different feeling to it. You have to keep the ship on your friendly side. You have to treat it with a bit of respect. A ship used to be the only aspect standing between a sailor and imminent death by drowning, so there’s a point in that.

‘I bumped into a middle-aged bearded man this morning who was looking for a room for his son. He told me he used to be a skipper himself and would love to see his son staying here.

‘I’m not particularly scared of asbestos, but it’s good to see it’s taken seriously. Then again, almost everything built at that time contains asbestos. I think the big deal is more about the way it was handled than the asbestos itself. And I also believe that it’s a good thing for students to rally behind a cause and develop some social awareness while doing just that, making yourself comfortable on the barricades. You have a right as a tenant to voice your complaints, but if I was truly worried about it, I wouldn’t live here.

‘It’s a great chick magnet as well. Instead of asking someone over to your place, you can say: “Would you like to see my ship?”’

‘I’m here for the accelerated Bachelors programme offered by the European School for Physiotherapy, and I’m currently in my second year. I’ve been living on this boat for a year and a half. It was offered to me before I came through the student housing programme of the HvA. I had the choice to live in accommodation closer to the Hogeschool, but I wanted to live near the city.

‘It’s great here—there’s lots of nationalities, with interesting backgrounds studying many different subjects. I’ve met many Asians and Europeans—and Dutch—whom I’d never have met if I had stayed in Israel. This interaction with different cultures is very stimulating, just to experience various points of view. This is my first experience studying at Bachelors level. Before this, I was a peak-performance trainer for athletes in Canada and Israel. I haven’t had any experience of the asbestos while living here. Some people who live on the boat have problems with it, but most don’t really care. I heard the amount we could’ve been exposed to is so miniscule it can’t cause problems. They had ventilators sucking in fresh air for a month just to make sure. I mean, I care about my body’s health and because of my studies, I consider myself wellinformed. I don’t believe the company would risk lawsuits—to me, that just wouldn’t look reasonable.

‘People on the boat find it strange I don’t just hang out and party with them. I’m thirty-two and I came here to do this degree as fast as possible, because I want to go back to Israel and help people. I have this dream that I’ll be able to obtain enough degrees to some day open a special rehabilitation clinic in Israel.’

‘I’ve been working here since last December, which isn’t that long, but I like to think that I have the job down pat.

I worked in a snack bar in Amersfoort, I’ve tended a bar in Den Haag, and I’ve waited tables in Scheveningen, so I have quite a bit of horeca experience.

‘This place is very gezellig, really nice. My daily schedule looks something like this: I arrive and the first thing I do is check the bar, see if everything is clean and still in one piece. If there’s any mess, I clean it up, and then I start my rounds, refill the machines, restock the beverages, et cetera. I have very little trouble: usually it’s a chair someone borrowed because they had a visitor over and they return it the next day.

‘I don’t believe there’s any health risk. Everything here looks bright and clean. I think it’s very healthy, lying here in the water instead of next to a motorway. I’ve got a thousand per cent confidence in the safety of this place, and I also like the round-the-clock security. It’s different than your average bar, as students need to study quite a lot.

‘We organise a party every month to take their minds off their studies. I run the bar together with my co-worker and we also think up the themes for the parties. The last one was a samba party—they’re usually Brazilianstyle dance parties. Students are also free to organise their own parties if they want to. The best thing about this boat is that everyone gets along, even if one’s from the North Pole and the other from the South Pole. If they don’t understand each other with words, they just use gestures.’

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SHORT LIST

Vincent Debanne, Wednesday, Galerie Hors Sol, Tijdelijk Museum Amsterdam

THURSDAY 3 MAY Art: 25 Uitvergrote Stills Uit De Nooijer-films The exhibition of internationally acclaimed father-and-son team Paul and Menno de Nooijer, part of the Filmmuseum Biënale, displays a series of 25 enlarged Iris prints chosen from several of the duo’s experimental films. Ranging from distorted faces in pixellated black and white to brilliantly colour-saturated mythological tableaux, these works fascinate with endless distortions of an all-too-familiar world. Erotic, exotic, surrealistic, estranged, bizarre and absurd are all labels that might easily be applied to the pieces, but provocative seems to cover it all. Here, reality is seen sharply with both comic and tragic points of view. Well worth a stroll through the gallery in the Vondelpark, especially since also showing is 2002’s video installation ‘100 jaar schoonheid’ with a hundred breathing portraits which traverse the human life cycle between the years 1902 and 2002. (John Hartnett) Filmmuseum, (Daily 13.00-22.00). Until 13 May.

Theatre: Ierse Tijgers The Theater Group Flint’s latest musical, Irish Tigers, is an impassioned representation of the Celtic country’s culture through folk music. Irish folk is so accessible and, well, folksy, that the result is a fascinating and entertaining tour of the Emerald Isle’s rich musical history. Directed by Eva Bauknecht, Felix Strategier on voice and accordion, Joeri de Graaf on guitar and cavaquinho—a tiny Portuguese guitar—and Laurens Joensen on voice, guitar, banjo and mandolin, will perform ballads recounting domination and the struggle for freedom, sing tunes written to the words of the likes of Seamus Heaney, James Joyce, Oscar Wilde, WB Yeats and Brendan Behan (about his time in the IRA and his imprisonment), and recite Irish poetry. The lyrics are razorsharp yet often humorous, that’s to say, typically Irish. Strategier, a specialist in folk music, has spent the last quarter of a century collecting ballads, jigs, reels and sung poetry from across Ireland, and his enthusiasm and energy are contagious. The tiny Roode Bioscoop on Haarlemmerplein is a wonderfully intimate setting for this touching, funny and uplifting presentation of musical and political history, testifying to the power of Irish folk and the dedication it has inspired in these lowlands. In English and Dutch. (David Lee) De Roode Bioscoop, 20.30, €15. Until 20 May.

Club: Vienna Weekender Oh, Vienna. It’s not just the birthplace of Freud—or home to his phallus collection. Nor is it just a city of wedding-cake architecture and doddering old people hunkered over their coffee with their twitching lips dusted with Sachertorte. It has actually become quite hip. No, really. It’s a city of DJs—30,000 at last count—and it originally gained a name in the early 1990s as the home of Kruder & Dorfmeister and Tosca and their dubby lounge triphop muzak. But something sharper, deeper and wilder has been erupting in the last year or two, and all the big funky players are in town this weekend to strut their

stuff. G-Stone label’s Makossa & Megablast begin proceedings this evening with their pumping beats and uplifting melodies which combine reggae dub with minimal. Friday has former classical-pianist-turned-electro-savant Kadenza teaming up with jazzboturned-electro-scientist Jurgen Drimal. Saturday will host the young cunning mixer Philip van het Veld, while Sunday belongs to old-timer producer Rodney Hunter (‘Big Timer’, ‘Boundaries’), who originally helped put Vienna on the map in the K&D days.

Sweet. Or, rather: süß. (Steve Korver) Sugar Factory, 23.00, €9. Until Sunday.

THURSDAY 3 MAY Film: Berlin Alexanderplatz The Filmmuseum has taken on the mammoth task of screening troubled German film director Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s magnum opus, Berlin Alexanderplatz. This 15and-a-half-hour long 1981 adaptation of Alfred Döblin’s novel, was made as a 14-part mini-series, and is perhaps the capstone of the film-maker’s career, a work of unprecedented narrative density that revolves around a single character. Franz Biberkopf (Gunter Lamprecht) is a pudgy, affable ex-con, determined to achieve some kind of decency in a world—the Berlin of the Weimar Republic—that will not tolerate it. Fassbinder discards the mannerism of his late films in favour of a noble simplicity, concentrating on a single point of view as it operates across a wide range of experiences and environments. All of the usual distancing effects drop out, leaving the wrenching spectacle of one man grappling with his life in perfect candour. To mark the 25th anniversary of Fassbinder’s death (from a cocaine overdose), the series, shot in 16mm, has been digitally remastered and restored to splendour, and the Filmmuseum has wisely chosen to show it in blocks of three or four episodes a sitting. Filmmuseum, various times, €12.50 per block. Until 30 May.

FRIDAY 4 MAY Gay and Lesbian: Herdenkingsceremonie With homophobia firmly on the rise—for example, civil servants being given the right to refuse to marry same-sex couples, the Polish minister of education wanting to make ‘promoting’ homosexuality a criminal offence, and the recent fatal beating of a transvestite in broad daylight in Den Haag, there’s all the more reason to attend the WWII Memorial Service at the Homomonument. During the War, between 50,000 and 63,000 people were prosecuted in Germany because of alleged homosexuality. Between 5,000 and 15,000 of them ended up in concentration camps, were forced to wear a pink triangle, and many of them died. The reason for this? Homosexuality, said the Nazis, was contagious and one man could infect 30 others. And it was also a threat to reproduction, of course. Luckily, in

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this country, the numbers of gays and lesbians who were prosecuted wasn’t that high, but every man or woman who was sent to the camps was one too many. So tonight head to the COC building on Rozenstraat and join the procession (19.45) to the Homomonument.

At the monument there will be speakers, and at 20.00, there’ll be two minutes’ silence to remember all the victims of oppression and discrimination. After the laying of flowers and wreaths on the monument, you’re invited back to the COC building for a chat and a drink. (Willem de Blaauw) Homomonument, 19.45, free.

SATURDAY 5 MAY Rock: Do Make Say Think A frenzied mix of instrumental post-rock electronica collides when the Canadian band Do Make Say Think get up on stage. Though the more mainstream success of musical counterparts like Mogwai has mostly eluded them, DMST manage to still be fresh and innovative 10 years into their career. With their latest release, You, You’re a History in the Rust, DMST mix clattering guitars, steady drums and occasional trumpet-bellowing with an effortless dynamism. The flexibility in their performance no doubt stems from the boundless creativity of the group’s members, who are individually involved in numerous side projects, including a heavy metal band and Canadian super-collective Broken Social Scene. After playing everywhere from chill-out rooms at raves to an Italian insane asylum, DMST will surely be ready for all an Amsterdam audience could possibly throw at them.

(Stephanie Shewchuck) Paradiso, Kleine Zaal, 15.30, €12 + membership.

SUNDAY 6 MAY Event: It’s Happening Now! Last week, when Robert Jasper Grootveld’s floating gardens were towed to another location—watched over by the likes of Simon Vinkenoog—the word ‘happening’ once again popped up in publications covering the event. Reading this, a younger audience must have felt that not having experienced the Sixties is a serious shortcoming in life.

No worries now, though, since 20 contemporary artists from every field, among them Mr and Mrs Cameron and Rob Malasch, do believe the happening still stands a chance.

In Club 11, they are throwing a little—well, not only a party, but also an event, film, lecture, presentation, performance and concert at the same time. In other words: a happening, with all the characteristics of a film set. Cameramen will trump the filming mobile phones of the public in documenting what is going on. It will be a stage for a cinematic event, at which the new talent will create a stir, but the old avant-gardists will still come into their own. With a leading role for the audience, the motto for the whole event is: make your own happening! (Floris Dogterom) 11, 20.00, free. Reservations: www.mediamatic.net.

Rock: Built to Spill Talk about a long time since Idaho’s Built to Spill hit Amsterdam. Doug Martsch and the boys were last seen out this way in 1999, touring one of their greatest albums, Keep It Like a Secret. The world of rock has spun through a whole series of trends in the years since then, but it remains a relief that, in the two albums Built to Spill have produced since, they haven’t sold out and chased the dream of stardom. In fact, the band are as unmistakeable as when they formed in 1992, and you can easily pick out their tracks from the guitar sound and style alone—all fuzzed-up and harmonically alive. And Martsch certainly isn’t afraid to hold back with the melodic solos, either. So much so that on last year’s comeback album, You in Reverse (only being officially released here now), you’re more than two minutes in before even hearing that distinctive voice—which, by the way, is the band’s other key calling card. Martsch rings out in the void between Neil Young and Grandaddy. But even if today’s kids feel befuddled by their uncool guitar antics, for those from the ’90s American indie era, Built to Spill are still a secret worth hugging tightly. (Steven McCarron) Paradiso, Grote Zaal, 20.30, €16 + membership.

WEDNESDAY 9 MAY Art: Tijdelijk Museum Amsterdam Sometimes, when you’re on your bike on your way from A to B, and you just manage to miss a group of tourists in the middle of the cycle lane, gazing at some trapgeveltje, the idea of Amsterdam being one, big, open-air museum is not that far-fetched. Tijdelijk Museum Amsterdam is playing with this idea, in that it is a yearly, short-lived symbiosis of prominent art institutions like Foam, Montevideo, Stedelijk Museum and W139.

Tijdelijk Museum looks at the city as if it were a floorplan of a museum, where the streets are the hallways and the different institutions are the museum rooms. You can buy a pass to visit the temporary exhibitions and attend a series of public debates in De Balie, where the rising influence of scholarships and sponsorhip on the art climate will be discussed. All in all, it’s a great chance to see a lot of fine art at a very reasonable price. Grab the chance while you can. (Floris Dogterom) Various locations and times, €15 pass . Until 13 May.

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11 Conspicuous consumption, before H&M.

Exhibition on the emergence of the city’s first fashion houses offers yesteryear’s full fancy shopping experience.

FUNSHOPPING AVANT LA LETTRE ART Modepaleizen 1880-1960 Amsterdams Historisch Museum, until 26 August

By Anneloes van Gaalen

It may come as a surprise to some people, but shopping as a pastime is not a new phenomenon. While currently the term ‘funshopping’ is being dropped left and right, and people flock to the meubelboulevards or Kalverstraat on their days off, this is by no means a new trend. It was actually back in the mid-19th century, when the first department stores emerged, that the real funshopping began.

‘The starting point for the exhibition was our own collection,’ says Annemarie den Dekker, costume curator at the Amsterdams Historisch Museum, currently showing Modepaleizen 1880-1960. ‘We’ve had two big costume exhibitions prior to this one, because we wanted to show the clothes we have in our own collection. For

this third exhibition, we decided that rather than simply show the clothes that we have from around the nineteenth century, we’d also include the fashion palaces where these clothes were made and sold, such as Hirsch & Cie, Maison de Bonneterie and Metz&Co.’ The result is a very atmospheric exhibition. Besides clothes there are huge blow-ups of shop interiors, as well as glass display cabinets and impressive fitting rooms that were found in these grand department stores. ‘Grand’ is the key word here, because these new stores had just one aim: to impress their financially endowed clientele.

‘The new department stores were impressive architectural feats: large vertical constructions made of iron and glass that featured huge staircases, which were meant to entice the customers to check out the upper floors,’ says Seline Borking, art historian and author of The Fascinating History of Shopping Malls. Enormous shop win-

dows were also part of the package: they were a totally new phenomenon that the general public needed to get used to. In her book, Borking notes how in some cases the shop windows, or ‘show windows’ as they were known in the US, were turned into a stage. She explains: ‘Because people were not used to staring into windows and even considered it vulgar, merchants hired professional “window gazers” to encourage passersby to stop and look. Some department stores like Marshall Fields would even cover their windows with gold curtains.

When opened to reveal the displays, usually an audience of thousands of women would be waiting to get a look.’

Prior to the emergence of fashion palaces there was no such thing as visual merchandising, and therefore there were no efforts made to entice or seduce customers to buy certain products. In fact, before the advent of the department stores and fashion palaces, there was no such thing as shopping. As Den Dekker observes: ‘When, in the nineteenth century, a lady needed a new dress she would buy the fabric, lace, ribbons and anything else at a haberdashers, only to have a seamstress make a dress for her.’ There was no shop where you could just buy a dress or look through the racks. There were no products on display: store owners would have their goods stacked up or kept safely hidden in cabinets. Prices weren’t necessarily fixed: bartering was common practice, and customer service like we know today was unheard of.

All this changed dramatically when places like Hirsch and De Bijenkorf opened their doors. Den Dekker continues: ‘When the first fashion palaces were introduced, you would go to Maison de Bonneterie or any other department store to shop. Upon entering, you’d be welcomed by a staff member and you would be waited on hand and foot. There would be only a few dresses on display, but you could tell the shop assistant what you needed and for what occasion, and they would bring out a dress, sometimes on a mannequin, for you to look at. This was a totally new shopping experience.’

The new experience, however, was only meant to be enjoyed by a relatively small group of people. There were strict rules about who could and who could not enter these fancy stores, in the form of unwritten, but generally accepted, social codes. Only people of certain standing would get past the store’s doormen: the rest would have to be satisfied with gawking in the windows.

The fashion palaces were largely the domain of ladies. It was they who went there and introduced their daughters to them, as well. Shopping was a female pastime: women would stroll past the stores, do some window shopping, drop in and out—with or without the intention of buying anything—and occasionally have a drink or a bite to eat. For women of a particular social class, life became all about conspicuous consumption, about seeing and being seen.

Of course, little has changed: go to PC Hooftstraat on a Saturday afternoon and you will find the overly tanned modernday equivalents walking up and down with their Gucci and Chanel shopping bags.

Modepaleizen 1880-1960, however, is designed to offer visitors of all types the opportunity to experience what shopping must have felt like back then. And the overall effect is overwhelming—what the exhibition also makes clear is that the different stores catered to different kinds of clients. ‘Maison de Bonneterie was known for making fancy yet durable items of clothing,’ Den Dekker explains.

‘Hirsch was much more fashion-conscious, following Paris fashion to the tee, while Metz was a favourite amongst feminists who preferred the English style of dressing.’

The exhibition covers the period up to 1960 and the emergence of youth culture, when high-end department stores took some serious blows. Kids didn’t want to dress like their parents any longer, nor did they want to buy clothes at the same stores. People also started to buy things off the peg, and the grand old days of shopping were over. Consuming became a democratic activity. The age of funshopping had truly begun.

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Built to Spill, see Sunday

MUSIC Send listing suggestions at least two weeks in advance to agenda@amsterdamweekly.nl.

Thursday 3 May Pop/Rock: The Whitest Boy Alive Organic indie pop from the Berlin-based outfit comprising singer/guitarist Erlend Øye (Kings of Convenience), bassist Marcin Öz, organist Daniel Nentwig and drummer Sebastian Maschat. Special guest is Kommode. Paradiso, Kleine Zaal, 19.00, €12 + membership

Rock: The Last Attraction Nick Cave-esque blood ballads. Winston Kingdom, 21.00, €5 Classical: Ebony Band A rememberance programme featuring works by Vogel, Revueltas, Milhaud and Weill. Concertgebouw, Grote Zaal, 21.15, €7 Rock: De Egles Last week they were playing Heineken Music Hall. This week The Eagles tribute band come back down to earth. Café Pakhuis Wilhelmina, 22.00, €7.50 Ska: Fugu, Rolf Offbeat fun by and for rude boys and girls. Maloe Melo, 22.00, €5 Jazz: Sinas Heavy on the percussion and Latin rhythms, this eight-piece jazz act connect with their audience through dance-friendly moves. Badcuyp, Bovenzaal, 22.30, €8

Opera: Hercules Performed by De Nederlandse Opera. Het Muziektheater, 19.30, €20-€85

Saturday 5 May

Classical: Amsterdam Symphony Orchestra Norwegian violinist Vilde Frang joins the orchestra for tonight’s Ravel programme, including Ma mère l’oye, cinq pièces enfantines and Tzigane. Additional works are Prokofiev’s 2nd Violin Concerto and 1st Symphony; conducted by Peter Sánta. Concertgebouw, Grote Zaal, 20.15, €25

Festival: Bevrijdingsfestival Amsterdam Imagine that. Amsterdam’s freedom celebrations aren’t so dull this year, offering acts like Bettie Serveert, Karmakonga, King Shiloh, Matik, Ghost Trucker, Lefties Soul Connection and Lucky Fonz III. Museumplein, 12.00, free

Heavy: Autumn You should know the modern goth metal script by now: hairy men in black, head-banging like the good ol’ days of 1983. But with gruff grunts and growls so passé these days, an attractive lady gets to warble instead. Melkweg, Oude Zaal, 20.30, €14 + membership Big band: Soul Rebels Big Band Soul, funk, samba and jazz. Casablanca Muziek, 20.30, free Jazz: Ben Allison Quartet Jazz rock from the buzzing bassist from New York. Joining him in the energetic quartet are trumpeter Ron Horton, guitarist Steve Cardenas and drummer Gerald Cleaver. Bimhuis, 21.00, €16 Singer-songwriter: Kate Adams Part cellist, part pop singer. Skek, 21.30, free

Friday 4 May Pop/Rock: The Veils Bluesy pop cabaret is one way to look at The Veils—the songwriting vehicle for Finn Andrews—who’re back out in Europe to promote last year’s release Nux Vomica. In support, Canadian artist Basia Bulat offers up acoustic folky pop. Melkweg, Oude Zaal, 20.00, €15 + membership Pop: Gabriel Rios A mix of melodic contemporary salsa, Latin and funk from the popular Puerto Rican-Belgian star. Support from William White. Paradiso, Grote Zaal, 20.15, €17.50 + membership Blues: JJ Grey & MOFRO Gritty, soulful and funky blues rock from Northern Florida. In case you’re wondering, MOFRO isn’t a person but the name of the swamp-rockin’ back-up band. Paradiso, Kleine Zaal, 20.15, €8.50 + membership Classical: Rememberance Day Messiaen’s Quatuor pour la fin du temps. Noorderkerk, 20.15, free Contemporary: Artemis Quartet What do you get when you cross a renowned German string quartet with soprano Juliane Banse? A programme that starts in the 19th century with Brahms, reaches the 20th with Schönberg, and arrives at the 21st with Jörg Widmann’s String Quartet No.5. Muziekgebouw, 20.30, €20 Jazz: Dave Liebman/Ellery Eskelin Quartet Two sax players from two different musical worlds, with bassist Tony Marino and drummer Jim Black helping prove they have the chemistry to harmonise. Bimhuis, 21.00, €16

Festival: Bevrijdingspop There’s no disappointment this year as Haarlem offers up a local and global programme per a little help from Patronaat. The bigger draws at this party includes: Opgezwolle, C-Mon & Kypski and an American crew consisting of The Black Lips, Brant Bjork & The Bros and Los Lobos. Haarlemmerhoutpark, Haarlem, 12.00, free Festival: Verblijdingsdag A diverse beach freedom special featuring sets from M-Cecile, Hans Kap, The Souldiers, Rob Klerkx, the Amsterdam Klezmer Band and Matik. Sandy beats in between will drive the party through till morning. Blijburg, 15.00, €5 Rock: Do Make Say Think Go make some melodywarping Canadians happy. See Short List. Paradiso, Kleine Zaal, 15.30, €12 Rock: Emergenza Final The Dutch session of a monstrous battle of the bands comes to a close, getting ready to ship winners to an international finale in Germany. Melkweg, The Max, 18.15, €18 Americana: Handsome Family One of the darkest couples on the road, Brett and Rennie Sparks are renowned for their concoctions of alt country gloom interspersed with comic genius. Brett focuses on the dusty melodies while Rennie deals up the haunting words, producing shows that are always a little playful—you never know when the magic will unfurl.

Paradiso, Kleine Zaal, 18.30, €10 + membership Classical: Groot Concertkoor Amsterdam Joined by the Panum Choir from Denmark, the amateur group will perform Fauré’s Requiem. Singelkerk, 20.15, free Percussion: Slagerij van Kampen The percussive troupe celebrate 25 years of banging skins and other objects with a new retrospective show. Meervaart, 20.15, €23 Electronica: Narcotango Dark, moody and passionate dancing come from this Argentine outfit who get the floor awash with movement. Paradiso, Grote Zaal, 20.30, €17.50 + membership Rock: Kingsize Playboys, Hometown Gamblers Rock ’n’ roll and rockabilly. Cruise Inn, 21.00, €11 Pop/Rock: Libertad! With Children Sumadre and Amarins. Winston Kingdom, 21.00, €5 Jazz: Ned Rothenberg Trio Jam is the plan tonight.

The alto saxophonist from New York is renowned for solo improvisational shows, but tonight he’s with his band The Fell Clutch, featuring bassist Stomu Takeishi and Tony Buck. Bimhuis, 21.00, €14

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Festival: Benefietfeest Meltdown A charity event for the Himalayas climate project, run by the WWF. Acts include funky hiphoppers A-dimatic, jaggy indie rock from Hasselhoff, guitar pop from The Junes and eclectic deejaying from Mr Wix. Melkweg, The Max, 20.30, €10 Pop/Rock: Popgrond Featuring acts from the Flemish pop scene. De Brakke Grond, 20.30, €12

Electro rock: Ralph Myerz & The Jack Herren Band Norwegians getting electro funky. Paradiso, Kleine Zaal, 23.30, €10 + membership

Latin/Jazz: Rumbatá Led by percussionist Jaime Rodríguez, Rumbatá plays a lot more than just salsa, with compositions that weave a fine blend of jazz and folklore. Sugar Factory, 21.00, €8.50

Sunday 6 May

Pop/Rock: Subbacultcha! Indie noise pop from Oude Vrolijkheid’s Appie Kim and Fata ‘El Moustache’ Morgana. Bitterzoet, 21.00, €6

Classical: Oxalys A Sunday morning fairy-tale concert brimming with French impressionism.

Concertgebouw, Kleine Zaal, 11.00, €14 Opera: Hercules (See Thursday) Het Muziektheater, 13.30, €20-€85 World: Mayra Andrade A Brazilian and African musical cocktail is presented by this young diva in promotion of her recent album Navega. Muziekgebouw, 15.00, €25 Classical: Trio Lurra Part of the Young Professionals in Music series, this international trio features flautist Melkorka Olafsdottir, clarinetist Ainoa Miranda and pianist Helena Basilova. Bethaniënklooster, 15.00, €15 Singer-songwriter: Warm Bad A Sunday afternoon lounge special that invites three guest vocalists to perform stripped-down versions of their favourite songs. Sugar Factory, 15.30, €10

Experimental: DNK-Amsterdam Featuring works by sonology students of the Koninklijk Conservatorium.

OT301, 21.30, €4 Pop/Rock: k-Tsjoem: Transformed Dreams Evening Still on a high from releasing their album, The Bent Moustache lead tonight’s guitar-driven Transformed Dreams line-up. Paradiso, Kleine Zaal, 22.00, €7

Tuesday 8 May Singer-songwriter: 3xLive Shhhhh. Ambient melodies from Montreal’s Patrick Watson, fellow Canadians Great Lake Swimmers and Loney, Dear— the pseudonym of Swedish singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Emil Svanängen who insists on the comma in his epithet. Paradiso, Kleine Zaal, 19.15, €8 + membership

Gospel: Gospel Club Night Featuring a live jam session with gospel hiphoppers Results, plus much more.

The party runs until 22.00. Club Meander, 16.00, €7.50

Opera: Hercules (See Thursday) Het Muziektheater, 19.30, €20-€85

Classical: Piano Amsterdam Organised by Stevko Busch and Dante Oei, special guests include Samuel Vriezen, Michael Arnowitt, Ned McGowan and Joost Buis. Goethe-Institut Amsterdam, 16.00, €5

Big band: Dizzy Gillespie TM All Star Big Band A walking, talking tribute to bebop courtesy tenor saxophonist James Moody, trumpeter Roy Hargrove and bandleader Slide Hampton. Concertgebouw, Grote Zaal, 20.15, €29.50/€35

Pop: Susanna and The Magical Orchestra The duo’s latest album features covers of songs by the likes of Leonard Cohen, Prince, AC/DC and Kiss, all cunningly recreated as calming soundscapes. Paradiso, Grote Zaal, 16.00, €10 + membership Rock: The Drones, The Black Lips Garage rockin’ and punk walkin’. The Drones originate from Melbourne, while The Black Lips are over from Atlanta.

Paradiso, Kleine Zaal, 19.00, €8 + membership Classical: Grigory Sokolov The Russian masterpianist arrives in town for a recital dedicated solely to Alexander Scriabin. Concertgebouw, Grote Zaal, 20.15, €39-€49 Rock: Built to Spill Emotive indie rock from Idaho, with more guitar solos than you shake a stick at. See Short List. Paradiso, Grote Zaal, 20.30, €16 + membership World: Música Llanera Featuring music from the contemporary Venezuelan music scene. Muziekgebouw, 20.30, €15 Heavy: No Means No These Canadian punk legends have been responsible for an excellent catalogue of provocative and challenging rock music over the last 25 years—particularly if you dig a bit of funky ripe bass. Melkweg, Oude Zaal, 20.30, €13 + membership Jazz: Jazz Orchestra of the Concertgebouw Original compositions by bandleader Henk Meutgeert, plus pieces written by players. Results will be recorded for a live album due out later thisr. Bimhuis, 21.00, €14 Rock: Living In Oblivion Cinematic electro rockin’ and guitar poppin’ with Huron. Winston Kingdom, 21.00, €6 Hiphop: Redman Hard beats and plenty of obscenities are on the menu, courtesy of this old-school rapper from New Jersey. Melkweg, The Max, 21.00, €29.50 + membership Jazz: Rob van de Wouw A modern mix of jazz, dance and soul. Sugar Factory, 21.00, €8.50 Electro rock: Shit Disco Dance punk noise chaos from Glasgow. Paradiso, Kleine Zaal, 22.30, €8 + membership

Monday 7 May Pop/Rock: Low Melodic, minimalist slowcore and indie rock, with recent album Drums and Guns being another great addition to a rich back catalogue. Paradiso, Grote Zaal, 19.30, €15 + membership Classical: Kathleen Corcoran The soprano sings songs by Handel, Schumann, Mendelssohn, Mahler and Messiaen. Bethaniënklooster, 20.15, €15 Classical: Orchestre Charlemagne Wee babyfaced pianist Victor Emanuel von Monteton joins the orchestra tonight for an evening of Beethoven, including Symphony No.4. Concertgebouw, Grote Zaal, 20.15, €28

Classical: Winterreise Schumann’s wintry work doesn’t usually rear its head this time of year, but it does remain a key part of renowned vocalist Nathalie Stutzmann’s repertoire. Accompanying her is pianist Inger Södergren. Concertgebouw, Kleine Zaal, 20.15, €37.50 Experimental: Rickie Lee Jones A bit of a vocal legend for three decades now, Jones is in town promoting new album The Sermon on Exposition Boulevard. Paradiso, Grote Zaal, 20.30, €22.50 + membership World: The Karnatic Lab A concert series devoted to exploring elements of Karnatic music from southern India and fusing them with jazz styles. Led by Ned McGowan and Gijs Levelt. Badcuyp, Bovenzaal, 20.30, free Pop: The View Kiddie pop indie rock. This bunch have supported Babyshambles and Primal Scream, becoming one of the biggest draws in Scotland along the way. Bear in mind: that doesn’t mean they’re good.

Melkweg, Oude Zaal, 20.30, €12 + membership Rock: 31 Knots Fuzzed indie punk from the US. OCCII, 21.00, €5 Rock: Bitterzoet Live! With The Girls (Israel) and Buy the Grace. Bitterzoet, 21.00, €5 Reggae: Richie Spice A funky Jamaican reggae party as Spice promotes new album In the Streets to Africa.

Support from Spanner Banner and Fifth Element Band.

Melkweg, The Max, 21.00, €27 + membership Americana: Laurens Joensen Or it could be called Nedercana, with his twangy rootsy guitar matched by Dutch lyrics. Maloe Melo, 22.00, €5

Wednesday 9 May Classical: Lunch Concert With percussive duo Bart Jansen and Ronald Boumans. Concertgebouw, Kleine Zaal, 12.30, free Rock: Moke Local lads turned commercial guitar rockers. Paradiso, Grote Zaal, 21.00, €8 + membership Hiphop/R&B: Moon Baker A mix of soul, jazz, R&B, funk and hiphop as the vocalist launches new album ABC Of Romance. Melkweg, Oude Zaal, 21.00, €10 + membership Jazz: Tin Hat This adventurous quartet are known for rich acoustic soundtracks. Bimhuis, 21.00, €14 Singer-songwriter: Sonja Markowski Winner of the Grote Prijs van Zuid-Holland 2006. Skek, 21.30, free Pop/Rock: Club 3voor12 Live radio and TV session featuring sets from Absynthe Minded, Loney, Dear and Les Anges. Desmet Studios, 22.00, free, tickets: www.3voor12.nl

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Saturday 5 May The Batcave Amsterdam BeatClub presents a Bam! Pow! Wham! night as decks are driven by Batman and Robin. Special guest is surf lover Phantom Frank, with additional misbehaviour from Catwoman, The Joker, The Riddler, The Penguin and burlesque starlet Miss Beeby. And you thought you could already retire that rubber suit for the summer.

De Nieuwe Anita, 20.00-02.00, €6 The Batcave, see Saturday

CLUBS Thursday 3 May De Dixo Eclectic tunes with the bonus of a set from Orfeo. Club Meander, 22.00-03.00, €4

Bed Dance, house and R&B faves from sleepy DJs like Benny Rodrigues and Yasmin Le Bon. Hotel Arena, 22.00-04.00, €15 Bettie & Billie’s Beat Boutique A nostalgic party trip hosted by Bettie and Billie. Extra acts include Miss Yogy, Starla and Shizzling Showgirls. Club 8, 22.0004.00, €5 Spank! Spank! Producer, DJ and remixer DJ Traxx leads the line-up tonight. A master of deep house, the American is supported by locals Gstring and Aroy Dee. Café Pakhuis Wilhelmina, 22.00 -late, €8

Vunst Feeling frisky? Tonight’s a DJ special if you have a bit of a vinyl fetish. Club 8, 22.00-03.00, €5

Passion vs France Frog-tastic beats complete with champagne bar, French DJs and ooh-la-la projections. Odeon, 23.00-05.00, €10

Vreemd Vienna Weekender Outlandish electro and live performances forming the first part of the Viennese whirl. See Short List. Sugar Factory, 23.00-05.00, €8

Ritmo With Erick E, Sidney Samson, Gregor Salto, Rishi Romero, D-Rashid and a bunch more spinners.

The Powerzone, 23.00-05.00, €15

Poptrash feat. Client Three decades’ worth of rock, electro and hiphop with The Punchout DJs. Tonight’s special guests are English electro-clash outfit Client, now on the road promoting album Heartland. Melkweg, The Max, 23.00-late, €5

Sandayz Slutty dance freedom with DJs Kerry Chandler (US), Roog, Ricky Rivaro, Sunnery James vs Ryan Marciano and Norman Soares (percussion). The Sand, 23.00-05.00, €22.50

¿Que Pasa? Latin-crossover night with reggae, folk, ska, punk and mestizo. Special guests are the evereclectic Markscheider Kunst (Russia). Melkweg, Oude Zaal, 23.00-late, €7

Friday 4 May Lekkah Band Soundcrew Dancehall, roots reggae and ska tunes. Pacific Parc, 22.00-03.00, free Headroom An electro disco nervous breakdown featuring Bison Kid, Pawel Blot (Poland), Dirty D.is.ko, Glitch56 (Canada) and Maximilian Skiba (Poland).

Club 8, 22.00-04.00, €8 Struttin’ Raw funk, soul, hiphop and reggae. Bitterzoet, 22.00-04.00, €7.50 The Infamous Mudclub With a live set from Schaeben & Voss, plus DJs Monica Electronica and Josz LeBon. 11, 22.30-04.00, €12 Discocult Austrian electro masters DJs Kadenza and Jürgen Drimal keep to Sugar Factory’s electrifying Viennese theme. Sugar Factory, 23.00-05.00, €10 Knockout Monthly reggae and dancehall party, with Svenska Akademien, Vicious & Dr Chaos. Melkweg, Oude Zaal, 23.00-late, €12 + membership Last Night On Earth There’s already been so many last nights, but since you never know if this really is the last one on Earth, you’d better make the most of it. The usual crew are joined by Parra and Busy P (France).

Studio 80, 23.00-late, €7.50 Rekorder Techno, techno, techno. Slovenian DJ Valentino Kanzyani invites Marko Nastic, Danilo Vigorito and Wouter de Moor. Melkweg, The Max, 23.00-late, €14.99 + membership Paradisoul A James Brown special with soulful surprises. Paradiso, 23.59-04.00, €10

Zeitgeist Electro eclecticism from Philip van het Veld, Tom Trago, Cinnaman and Videastic. Sugar Factory, 23.00-05.00, €10 M.U.L.T.I.S.E.X.I. With special guests Mr & Mrs Cameron (Amsterdam/Berlin), RFH Delfos, Dig Nampook, Cleo and Jan. Studio 80, 23.00 -late, €8.50

GAY& STAGE LESBIAN Opening

Friday 4 May Happy hour and bingo Happy hour from 17.00-19.00.

Then blow all the money you saved on a round of bingo, from 19.00-20.00 Saarein, 17.00-20.00 Memorial Day A gay- and lesbian-centred remembrance service. See Short List. Homomonument, 19.00-20.30 Vrouwenavond It’s Twisted Disco night, with DJs Nina, Alex and Showbizliz. Café Sappho, 21.00, free Re-Disco-Very Mixed lesbigay night to worship the glitterball. Altogether: Elle est D/Démoniaque/Elle est I/Hystérique/Elle est S/Satanique/Elle est C/C’est pas possible/Elle est O, O, O. Café Sappho, 21.00, free Twisted Tunes First on the decks is Niel C. Between midnight and 03.00, it’s DJ Eko from Cockring and Exit. PRIK, 22.00, free Insomnia Can’t get no sleep? Then spend the small hours in the company of DJ Jerry Black. Exit, 23.0005.00, €7 M.U.L.T.I.S.E.X.I. The polysexual club night on everybody’s lips. Studio 80, 23.00-06.00, €8.50

Saturday 5 May

Club Revolver With special guests Der Dritte Raum and Frank Lorber. Paradiso, 23.59-04.00, €17.50

DJ Contest From today on, the bar opens at midday.

Beginning at 16.00, DJs play hour-long sets. Drinkers choose who plays the best Twisted Tunes. Winner gets to play a night at the bar. Budding turntablists email: iwannabeaprikdj@prikamsterdam.nl. PRIK, 16.0003.00, free

Gemengd Zwemmen Two rooms of swimmingly diverse noise. Melkweg, 23.59-late, €8

Sunday 6 May

Sunday 6 May E.N.D. Electronation’s weekly Sunday night slot. Bitterzoet, 21.00-03.00, €5/€8 Pilot’s Playground Electronic world grooves, featuring a live set from Rotterdam’s Mdungu, plus DJ mps Pilot and Alec Smart. Akhnaton, 21.00 -late, €7.50 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

Monday 7 May Cheeky Monday A jungle and drum & bass night featuring players from the local and international scenes.

Winston Kingdom, 22.00-03.00, €6

3-9 May 2007

Jam Session With Elfi, Prinses Lesley, Bastiënne des Oiseaux and, no doubt, many other exotic birds.

Lellebel, 18.00 free

Monday 7 May Female Sensual Predominantly lesbian chill-out evening with DJ Starring Jasmine. Café Sappho, 19.00, free

Tuesday 8 May Movie Night Cowboys and Angels, David Gleeson’s 2003 film about a civil servant who moves in with a fashion student. PRIK, 19.00, free

Wednesday 9 May

Wednesday 9 May

Gay Prize Bridge Definitively non-scene evening for those who want to exercise the thought muscle and not just the love muscle. De Looier, 19.30, €5

Vote! Who let the students out? Part of De Week van de Amsterdamse Student. Hotel Arena, 22.00-04.00, €8

F*cking POP Queers With Manga, Claudette, Kmart, The Sophisticated Faders. Studio 80, 22.00-05.00, free before 00.00, €5 after

Theatre/Dance: Move-me-nt Work your body, work, work your body with Move-me-nt and Vreemd. There’s a sweaty workshop to prove everyone can shake it, plus dance performances, cabaret, music, acrobats and sundry elements of sideshow weirdness. Sugar Factory, (Thur 21.00), €7.50

Theatre: Cannibals A theatre lecture and reading by Barbaren & Co, known for putting rarely performed works back in the public eye. In honour of Remembrance Day is George Tabori’s Cannibals, a shockingly grotesque play from 1969 about the inmates of a concentration camp who, in desperation to survive, prepare to eat one of their fellow prisoners. In Dutch.

Frascati, (Fri 21.00), free Dance: Mainstream Alexandra Bachzetsis and Yan Duyvendak explore the balance of power between the sexes, as well as the more intimate balance found in a loving couple. De Brakke Grond, (Thur, Fri 20.30), €10 Music/Theatre: Intra-Muros This collaboration between Toneelgroep Amsterdam and Muziektheater Transparant sees director Eric Sleichim create a musical work inspired by Pier Paolo Pasolini’s The 120 Days of Sodom. In Dutch. Stadsschouwburg, (Sun 20.15), €11.50-€22.50 Music/Theatre: Amsterdams Kleinkunst Festival The so-called Avond van het Nieuwe Lied, forw hich lyricists have been invited to write something inspired by the theme of travel. In Dutch. Meervaart, (Mon 20.15), €20 Dance: Heads or Tales Galili Dance celebrate their 10th anniversary with a programme of choreographies by the group’s artistic director Itzik Galili. Stadsschouwburg, (Mon 20.15), €11-€20 Music/Dance: Band in a [Box] A multidisciplinary dance performance with interactive installations and music and dance offshoots. NDSM-werf, (Mon, Tues 20.30), €5 Theatre: Meiskes en Jongens Rotterdam’s Ro Theater and the KVS join forces for this absurd Dutch-Flemish drama by Alize Zandwijk and Arne Sierens. This bizarre family drama is centred on a pool party, where each character has brought their own unique failings that bubble to the surface in rather surreal fashion. In Dutch. Stadsschouwburg, (Tues, Wed 20.15), €11.50-€22.50

Ongoing Theatre: Ierse Tijgers Theatergroep Flint’s celebration of Irish culture and music. See Short List. De Roode Bioscoop, (Daily 20.30), €15 Theatre: Drie Keer is Rendier Robert van Dijk’s poetic tale of two sisters leading a virginal life, which is gradually boring them. In Dutch. Rozentheater, (Thur, Fri 22.00), free Music/Theatre: Black in Bakkum A performance by spoken-word artist and singer Jeannine Valeriano, about growing up in a Dutch-Indonesian family in a small farming town where she feels an outsider. Travelling to Curaçao as a teenager, she finds herself being treated as an outsider there, too. In Dutch. Theater Bellevue, (Thur, Fri, Sun, Tues, Wed 12.30), €10

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3-9 May 2007 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 and directed by Johan Doesburg, it was awarded a Topstuk medal. In Dutch. Stadsschouwburg, (Thur, Sat 19.30, Fri 20.15), €11.50-€22.50 Theatre: De Eeuw van mijn Dochter Theatre group Annette Speelt and acclaimed writer Ilja L Pfeijffer present a somewhat optimistic glimpse into the political future of the Netherlands. Set in 2027, amid the glowing positivity of a successful state, the nation is also mourning the death of their former leader. In Dutch.

Theater Bellevue, (Thur, Sat 20.30, Fri 21.00), €15 Dance: Pushing Air A new production by Anouk van Dijk. Through simple variations in movement, rhythm and dynamics, the dancers organise and reorganise the space they occupy, constantly changing the overall impression. Frascati, (Thur-Sat 20.30), €14

Glamour Bigger-than-life paintings of ’50s film stars.

De Kunstfabriek (Tues-Fri 12.00-18.00, Sat, Sun 12.0017.00), opens Sunday, until 2 June Paolo Sistilli: Alfabeto Immaginario Abstract paintings by the Italian artist. Feel Gallery (Thur, Fri 12.00-19.00, Sat 11.00-19.00, Sun 12.00-18.00), opens Sunday, until 27 May Summer in the Church While the winter programmes offer magnificent glances into distant cultures and insights into world religions, the Nieuwe Kerk offers up a summery alternative: a programme paying tribute to the church as a special monument in its own right, with many local treasures to admire. Nieuwe Kerk (Daily 10.00-17.00), opens Sunday, until 16 July

Comedy: In Your Face! Comedy improv show. In English. Comedy Café, (Sun 21.00), €13 Music/Dance: Monday Match A dynamic monthly event in which a dancer invites a musician (or vice versa) to form the basis of a unique improvisation lab. With the expectation of even more guests onstage, original one-time works are to be born left and right. Performers in this edition include dancers Naomi Deira, Clement Mensah, Gabriel Brito Nunes, Eileen Standley and Leena Tolonen, with music provided by Cor Fuhler and Michael Vatcher. Bimhuis, (Mon 20.30), free

ART Opening

Kleur Kleur Colourful textile explosions from the duo Stefan Scholten and Carole Baijings. Galerie Binnen (WedSat 12.00-18.00), opens Monday, until 23 June Student en de Stad Three scores of photo portraits showing students and student life in Amsterdam.

Maagdenhuis, opens Monday, until 7 June

Museums 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, closing Sunday 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, closing Sunday Che! An analysis of the posterboy for the revolution, whose starting point is Korda’s 1960 portrait. Tropenmuseum (Daily 10.00-17.00), closing Sunday

Joyce van Dongen Joyce van Dongen A solo exhibition featuring paintings of new worlds inspired by the bizarre and unique patterns that can be found in nature. Galerie Bart (Thur, Fri 11.00-18.00, Sat 12.00-17.00), opens Thursday, until 9 June Liberation Music: Songs After Five Years of Occupation A musical memorial to the emotional release that followed the end of the occupation in 1945.

Verzetsmuseum (Tues-Fri 10.00-17.00, Sat-Mon 12.0017.00), opens Thursday, until 30 September Slumberjack Flash Revisited Featuring new works by Gerbrand Burger and Tarja Szaraniec. Plan B (Fri-Sun 13.00-17.00), opens Friday, until 13 May Marc Volger: Weerlicht Contemporary landscapes inspired by the changing light and atmosphere. AYAC’S (Fri, Sat 13.00-17.30), opens Saturday, until 2 June Rob Voerman: Neighbours A solo exhibition featuring installations, sculptures and graphic works.

Upstream Gallery (Wed-Sat 12.00-18.00), opens Saturday, until 30 June

Rommert Boonstra: Days as Grass A selection of recent works, apropos of the Dutch photographer and writer turning 65. Foam (Sat-Wed 10.00-18.00, Thur, Fri 10.00-21.00), closing Wednesday 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 Beauty and the Bead: From Madonna to the Maasai This first exhibition ever to focus on beads as a worldwide phenomenon features beaded costumes from every epoch and all corners of the earth. Tropenmuseum (Tues-Sat 10.00-17.00, Sun 12.00-17.00), until 13 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. See Short List. Filmmuseum (Mon-Fri 09.00-22.15, Sat, Sun one hour prior to show-22.15), until 13 May

Takako Hamano Takako Hamano: Satchan is Swinging in a Bamboo Forest New drawings from the Japanese artist, assembled as a large constellation of mural drawings, video, music and installations. Yoshiko Matsumoto Gallery (Wed-Sat 13.30-18.30), opens Saturday, until 16 June

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

Theatre: Vuile Handen Theatre group EA stage 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, Wed 20.00), €18 Comedy: easyLaughs Comedy improv in English.

Two different shows every Friday night. CREA Muziekzaal, (Fri 20.30, 22.30), €10, €5 (late night)

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 10.00-18.00), until 20 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

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 (SatWed 10.00-18.00, Thur, Fri 10.00-21.00), until 20 May Rembrandt in Berlin Excerpts from the worldrenowned collection of Rembrandt drawings from Berlin’s Kupferstichkabinett. Rembrandthuis (Daily 10.00-17.00), until 27 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 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 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 The photographs in this exhibition were taken at secondary schools in the Netherlands. Yet remarkable is Wouda’s conscious choice to avoid capturing images from classes, instead focusing on places where the pupils relax between lessons. Foam (Sat-Wed 10.00-18.00, Thur, Fri 10.00-21.00), until 17 June 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 10.00-18.00, Thur, Fri 10.00-21.00), until 20 June The Apocalypse of Max Beckmann Lithographs from the German expressionist, all inspired by the Biblical

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exhibition includes antiquities of the Islamic period all through the end of the Qajar dynasty in 1925. Hermitage Amsterdam (Daily 10.00-17.00), until 16 September

Max Beckmann in Amsterdam, 1937-1947 An extensive retrospective of the work produced by the artist during his years in Amsterdam. Van Gogh Museum (Sat-Thur 10.00-18.00, Fri 10.00-22.00), until 19 August

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. Hortus Botanicus (Mon-Fri 09.00-17.00, Sat, Sun 10.00-17.00), until 30 September

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

Fashion Palaces 1880-1960 The emergence of the first chic fashion houses in Amsterdam at the end of the 19th century and onwards. See article p. 11. Amsterdams Historisch Museum (Mon-Fri 10.00-17.00, Sat, Sun 11.00-17.00), until 26 August

Galleries

Persia The St Petersburg Hermitage lends some of its dazzling collection of Persian art to Amsterdam. This

Hendrik Kerstens: Paula Kerstens’ photographs, said by some to bring to mind the paintings of Johannes Vermeer. Artspace Witzenhausen (Thur-Sat 12.0018.00), closing Saturday

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, closing Saturday 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), closing Sunday Democratie is een Kunst 45 artists coming from different countries and working in different genres have made an art object out of a ballot box, aiming to make an affirmative statement in favour of artistic freedom and the right of privacy. Arti et Amicitiae (Tues-Sun 13.00-18.00), closing Sunday New Horizons Subtitled Room for New Jewellery, this new gallery aims to cross borders both physical and

3-9 May 2007 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 Be Cointreauversial Gallery With a theme of ‘Illustrate and Embody the Cointreauversial Woman’, this multi-location exhibition features famous photographs from GettyImages. Hosts to check out: Spoiled, Café Brix, Van Harte and Mendo. various locations, De 9 Straatjes various times, until 17 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 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. Horse Move Project Space (Fri-Sun 14.00-20.00), until 20 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 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 of Caspar David Friedrich, an architecture complex, and a memorial located in former East Germany. Lumen Travo (Wed-Sat 13.0018.00), 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. 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 Abdelkader Belkhorissat Paintings by the Algerian artist. De Levante (Wed-Sun 13.00-17.30), until 27 May 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

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3-9 May 2007 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 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 13.00-18.00), until 2 June 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), until 3 June 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), until 10 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 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), until 1 July 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), until 2 July

ADDRESSES 11 Oosterdokskade 3-5, 625 5999 Akhnaton Nieuwezijds Kolk 25, 624 3396 Amsterdams Historisch Museum Kalverstraat 92, 523 1822 ARCAM Prins Hendrikkade 600, 620 4878 Arti et Amicitiae Rokin 112, 624 5134 Artspace Witzenhausen Hazenstraat 60, 644 9898 AYAC'S Keizersgracht 166, 638 5240 Badcuyp 1e Sweelinckstraat 10, 675 9669 bak Lange Nieuwstraat 4, Utrecht, 030 231 6125 De Balie Kleine-Gartmanplantsoen 10, 553 5151 Bethaniënklooster Barndesteeg 6, 625 0078 Bijbels Museum Herengracht 366-368, 624 2436 Bimhuis Piet Heinkade 3, 788 2150 Bitterzoet Spuistraat 2, 521 3001 Blijburg Bert Haanstrakade 2004, 416 0330 De Brakke Grond Nes 45, 626 6866 Café Pakhuis Wilhelmina Veemkade 576, 419 3368 Café Sappho Vijzelstraat 103, 423 1509 Casablanca Muziek Zeedijk 26, 06 1220 0519 Club 8 Admiraal de Ruyterweg 56B, 685 1703 Club Meander Voetboogstraat 3, 625 8430 CoBrA Museum Sandbergplein 1-3, Amstelveen, 547 5050 Comedy Café Max Euweplein 43-45, 638 3971 Compagnietheater Kloveniersburgwal 50, 520 5320 Concertgebouw Concertgebouwplein 2-6, 671 8345 CREA Muziekzaal Turfdraagsterpad 17, 525 1400 Cruise Inn Zuiderzeeweg 29, 692 7188 DanceStreet 1e Rozendwarsstraat 10, 489 7676 De Looier Looiersgracht 40, 638 1412 Desmet Studios Plantage Middenlaan 4A, 521 7100 Exit Reguliersdwarsstraat 42, 625 8788 Feel Gallery Frans Halsstraat 40 Felix Meritis Keizersgracht 324, 626 2321 Filmmuseum Vondelpark 3, 589 1400 Foam Keizersgracht 609, 551 6546 Frascati Nes 63, 626 6866 Galerie Bart Bloemgracht 2, 320 6208 Galerie Binnen Keizersgracht 82, 625 9603 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 Rob Koudijs Elandsgracht 12, 331 8796 Goethe-Institut Amsterdam Herengracht 470 Haarlemmerhoutpark, Haarlem

EVENTS Thursday 3 May Performance: Cavalia Horses, horses, all the pretty horses. If you’ve been near the ArenA terrain lately, you may have noticed the mammoth white tent which houses this equestrian multimedia spectacle. Rumour has it that it’s the height of a 10-storey building—how is it that the horses don’t plummet through the floors?

Amsterdam ArenA, 20.00, €29-€155

week has gone by, so it’s perfectly viable to get rid of it—and this market provides the perfect opportunity. Or you can always just buy more crap, including: clothing, records, CDs, books, toys, arts & crafts, food and drink. To book a table: othergroundmarket@gmail.com. OT301, 12.00 -18.00, free

Monday 7 May

Multidisciplinary: Van Huis Uit A closing party for the exhibition about migrants and their domestic interiors. Curator Michael McMillan presents the documentary Tales From the Front Room, plus there’s a Bharatanatyam dance performance by Danstheater Tanjore Quartet. Imagine IC, 15.00, free

Sunday 6 May Market: Otherground Market Got a bit greedy and bought too much crap on Queen’s Day? Well, a

Hermitage Amsterdam Nieuwe Herengracht 14, 530 8751 Homomonument Westermarkt Horse Move Project Space Oosterdokskade 5 Post CS Hortus Botanicus Plantage Middenlaan 2A, 625 9021 Hotel Arena ’s-Gravesandestraat 51, 850 2400 Huis Marseille Keizersgracht 401, 531 8989 Imagine IC Bijlmerplein 1006-1008, 489 4866 Joods Historisch Museum Jonas Daniel Meijerplein 2-4, 531 0310 De Kunstfabriek Polonceaukade 20 (Westergasfabriekterrein), 488 9430 Lellebel Utrechtsestraat 4, 427 5139 De Levante Hobbemastraat 28, 671 5485 Lexion Avenue Overtoom 65, Westzaan, 0900-BelLexion Lumen Travo Lijnbaansgracht 314, 627 0883 Maagdenhuis Spui 21 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 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 142, 428 4288 NDSM-werf TT Neveritaweg 15, 330 5480 Nederlands Architectuurinstituut Museumpark 25, Rotterdam, 010 440 1200 Nederlands Fotomuseum Wilhelminakade 332, Rotterdam, 010 213 2011 De Nieuwe Anita Frederik Hendrikstraat 111, 06 4150 3512 Nieuwe Kerk entrance on the Dam, 638 6909 Noorderkerk Noordermarkt 44, 626 6436 OCCII Amstelveenseweg 134, 671 7778 Odeon Singel 460, 624 9711 Oosterkerk Kleine Wittenburgerstraat 1, 627 2280 OT301 Overtoom 301, 779 4913 Oude Kerk Oudekerksplein 23, 625 8284 Pacific Parc Polonceaukade 23, 488 7778 Pakhuis de Zwijger Piet Heinkade 179-181, 788 4444 Paradiso Weteringschans 6-8, 626 4521 Patronaat Zijlsingel 2, Haarlem, 023 517 5858 Plan B2 Herengracht 32 Platform 21 Prinses Irenestraat 19, 344 9449 The Powerzone Spaklerweg, 681 8866 PRIK Spuistraat 109, 06 4544 2321 Rembrandthuis Jodenbreestraat 4, 520 0400

Discussion: Wijsgeren: Vlaamse Filosofen Contemporary thoughts on art and philosophy. Guests include Marc de Kesel, Ann Meskens, Dirk Pauwels and Frank Vande Veire. In Dutch. De Balie, 20.00, €9 Performance: Cavalia (See Thursday) Amsterdam ArenA, 20.00, €29-€155

Multidisciplinary: Nacht van Europa A diverse political affair featuring a crash course on how to lobby Brussels, debates (‘European Love’ and ‘The Best of YouTube Europe’), an integration workshop for ambassadors, poetry and guests including: Minister for European Affairs Frans Timmermans, journalist Joris Luyendijk, film-maker Eddy Terstall, singer Wende Snijders and comedian Tijl Beckand.

What inter-Continental excitement, considering Eurovision isn’t even on until the weekend. Felix Meritis, 19.00, €5

Discussion: De Rechtsstaat Nederland A Dare2Connect event that sees Felix Meritis’ own Steve Austen discussing the future of the constitutional state and the Dutch identity. In Dutch. Felix Meritis, 17.00, free

Festival: Oosterparkfestival 2007 Music, dance and theatre are the mainstays of this festival, offering up a range of multicultural flavours in the process. It may lack big-name bands, but this is very much an openminded family affair, providing plenty of entertainment for the young kids, letting the teenagers flaunt their talents, still with plenty of food, drink and programming for the adults. Oosterkerk, 12.00, free

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Hybrid World Lab Workshop: Hybrid World Lab Five-day workshop in which participants develop prototypes for hybrid world media applications, as well as explore the roles of content creators as digital and physical space fuse. Until Friday. Mediamatic, 10.00, €360 Discussion: Women Inc A Women Peacemakers Program special in which representatives of the organisation show how conflicts are seldom gender neutral and neither is the way to address them. In Dutch. Pakhuis de Zwijger, 20.00, free Discussion: Nieuw Amsterdam in Aanbouw Maarten van Poelgeest leads a debate about the future of metropolis Amsterdam and the state of things to come when the city becomes home to more than two million people. In Dutch. De Rode Hoed, 20.00, free

Discussion: Literature & Internet Is it possible to have interesting and meaningful combinations of words on the internet? Does literature even belong on a screen? If anyone can get to the bottom of these questions, it’s the Waag Society and the Fonds voor de Letteren. Guests include: Marcel Möring, Han Hooogerbrugge, Liesbeth Eugelink, Mirjam Reutelingsperger, Erik Lindner, Ruth Verraes, Jan Baeke and Alfred Marseille. In Dutch. De Waag, 19.45, free Quiz: Meander Pop Quiz Show off your supreme music knowledge and win prizes. In Dutch. Club Meander, 20.00, €4 Performance: Cavalia (See Thursday) Amsterdam ArenA, 20.00, €29-€155

Performance: De Republiek Open space for artists, theatre-makers, musicians and whomever else. De Balie, 20.30, free

Film festival: Phenomenal Short Film Festival Haarlem’s Irrational Library presents a collection of shorts from both well-meaning and not so well-meaning amateur film-makers. The only real rule: films must be between 10 seconds and 10 minutes long.

Patronaat, Haarlem 22.00, free

De Rode Hoed Keizersgracht 102, 638 5606 De Roode Bioscoop Haarlemmerplein 7H, 625 7500 Rozentheater Rozengracht 117, 620 7953 Saarein Elandsstraat 119, 623 4901 The Sand Rhoneweg 36 Singelkerk Singel 452, 623 4588 Skek Zeedijk 4-8, 427 0551 Slewe Gallery Kerkstraat 105A, 625 7214 SMART Project Space Arie Biemondstraat 107-113, 427 5953 Stadsschouwburg Leidseplein 26, 624 2311 Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam Rozenstraat 59, 422 0471 Stedelijk Museum CS Oosterdokskade 5, 573 2911 Studio 80 Rembrandtplein 70, 521 8333 Sugar Factory Lijnbaansgracht 238, 627 0008

TAG Den Haag Stille Veerkade 19, Den Haag Theater Bellevue Leidsekade 90, 530 5301 Tropenmuseum Linnaeusstraat 2, 568 8200 Under the Grand Chapiteau Next to ArenA, 621 1288 Upstream Gallery Kromme Waal 11, 428 4284 Van Gogh Museum Paulus Potterstraat 7, 570 5200 Verzetsmuseum Plantage Kerklaan 61, 620 2535 W139 Warmoesstraat 139, 622 9434 W139/Basement Oosterdokskade 5, 06 2427 6657 De Waag Nieuwmarkt 4, 557 9898 Winston Kingdom Warmoesstraat 129, 623 1380 WM Gallery Elandsgracht 35, 421 1113 Yoshiko Matsumoto Gallery Weteringschans 37, 06 1437 0995 Zuiderkerk Zuiderkerkhof 72, 552 7987

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Brasz ’n’ breezy does it Brasserie Brasz Lijnbaansgracht 190, 06 4872 1239 Open: Mon-Thur 11.00-19.00 Sat, Sun 10.00-20.00 Cash, PIN Dear Readers, I hope you were entertained by my cover boy display with the august JvD. He is an echt sweetheart under his gruff mien. Fuelled by my encounter with the great gourmet, your Glutton went out searching for lovely, sophisticated places. And lo and behold, he came across Brasserie Brasz, located at the antique market on Lijnbaansgracht.

What tickled my interest was a long, childfriendly wooden desk facing the canal. A creative workbench, filled with coloured pencils, crayons, clay and other art-engendering material. Someone was showing their love for kids by providing a stimulating distraction, so that parents could hunt for antiques or enjoy a drink in peace without constantly having to be on duty, minding bored kids whingeing to go home.

The truth is that Brasz’s owner Stephan Siegertsz has two young sons of his own, so knows full well what fractious parents need: a place for all ages to rest and chill.

Brasserie Brasz is a cheerful, colourful environment, with reds and oranges on the walls and crimson glass vases filled with yellow tulips. Very pleasing to the eye and a really fresh atmosphere.

The menu is light and reasonably priced— the most expensive item is €12. Alongside the usual uitsmijters, sandwiches and toasties, sit the likes of grilled black tiger prawns with potato

THE UNDERCOVER GLUTTON I am a greedy glutton needing plenty of chicken and lots of bacon to satisfy the growling black hole that slurps everything into its swirling maw. wedges, fresh-baked bread and a garlic chilli dip (€8). Yum yum. Most popular are the tortilla wraps, and in this matter I decided to cast my vote with the majority. As usual, it took time to

choose what I wanted; after some agonising soulsearching, I went for a smoked chicken and bacon tortilla wrap with salad and sweet chili sauce (€5.50).

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It arrived beautifully presented on a square red plate, sliced in two and open for immediate inspection. It tasted good, but I, personally, am a greedy glutton who needs plenty of smoked chicken and lots of crispy bacon to satisfy the growling black hole that slurps everything but the kitchen sink into its swirling maw. But maybe that’s just me...

(Actually, I was perfectly satisfied after finishing it.)

Stephan supplies his refreshments to customers and market stall-holders alike. He’s a warm, attentive man, with hotel managerial qualifications under his belt. In fact, he teaches horeca to students with learning difficulties and troubleshoots for a hotel school. He exudes patience and has an ability to explain complex logistics in a simple comprehensive way. A good man.

There’s an outside terrace at the brasserie, where people can take the sun and sip wine, and for €9.50, munch on a grilled steak with salad and garlic bread. Very summery. It’s a good location for passers-by who feel the desperate need to cool their aching heels or quench parched throats.

Coffee is the litmus test of a caterer: Brasz’s coffee is great, and with it comes a chocolate-covered coffee bean to crunch on. Very astute, since coffee is the last, lingering flavour that can make or break a meal.

Would I recommend an immediate visit to Brasserie Brasz? Oh, yes indeed. Why? Because of its warmth—winter or summer—and because of its friendliness. It’s a great place to park butt in peace, allowing the kids to create artistic masterpieces.

But oh, oh: my sugar level is down, my world is beginning to spin. A little chilled rosé and some killer prawns might revive my failing strength. I love and leave you.

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Von Trier gives up big cinema but not big pretensions, and his new office comedy makes sure we know who’s the boss.

THE RETURN OF THE GREAT MANIPULATOR FILM The Boss of It All Opens Thursday at Het Ketelhuis and Kriterion

By Bregtje Schudel

I’m getting pretty tired of Lars von Trier.

Which should make him happy, since being irritating at least means being noticed. The Danish director has spent his whole career frantically trying to be different, trying not to be seen as an ordi-

nary film-maker, whether by imposing rigorous rules on himself (Dogme 95 anyone?) and others (The Five Obstructions), or by shooting on a stage (his America trilogy). All the while, he forces us to acknowledge that nothing is real, everything is constructed... by him. In short, Von Trier is anything and everything but self-effacing. With The Boss of It All he has found two new tools to draw attention to himself: the Statement of Revitality, and Automavision.

The story of the film is quickly told.

Struggling actor Kristoffer (Jens Albinus) is hired by Ravn (Peter Gantzler) to pretend to be the president of a company.

Ravn is the real president, but he so desperately wants to be liked—even though he is planning to sell the firm to a cranky Icelander and leave his colleagues penniless—that he has brought in a scapegoat.

But Ravn hasn’t counted on Kristoffer’s improvisational skills...

On the surface the film is a comedy of errors, deriving its humour not from visual gags but from assorted misunderstandings, such as when Kristoffer inadvertently proposes marriage to one of the employees. As in the British television series The Office—which Von Trier claims never to have seen—the wage slaves are a sorry bunch. One is about to have a breakdown, another has anger management issues, a third never manages to say anything intelligible.

But the most interesting character is Ravn himself. He’s the inverse of The

Office’s David Brent, who thinks he’s popular but isn’t. Ravn’s co-workers think he’s thoughtful and considerate, while in fact he is a ruthless opportunist who just can’t bear being thought unkind.

Seen solely as ‘a harmless comedy’ (Von Trier’s own description), the film does have its charms. And while ‘harmless’ and ‘Von Trier’ may be a contradiction in terms, this is in line with the director’s Statement of Revitality, which he issued in January 2006. He was so fed up with the burden of making big, heavy movies—presumably films like Dogville and Manderlay, the first two parts of his America trilogy—that he decided it was time for a change. He wanted to rediscover his original enthusiasm for film. Instead of finishing the trilogy by making Washington, he returned to the smaller scale.

But Von Trier wouldn’t be Von Trier if he didn’t have some tricks up his sleeve.

In between scenes in The Boss of It All, he stops the story to comment on its progress. And his newest toy is the Automavision, a computer programme that operates the camera, making it pan, tilt and zoom in an arbitrary pattern, or— as Von Trier would have it, in ‘a style, freed of intention.’

The Boss of It All might lack the political pretensions of Manderlay in particular, but it’s still pretentious. Every artificial pan and time-out is screaming the director’s name, making it impossible to see the film as just an entertaining satire. Unfortunately, and unlike Ravn, Von Trier would never dream of passing the buck. He is the boss of it all, and everyone shall know it! Real film-making places substance over ego, not the other way around.

Five-Word Movie Review

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

by Angela Dress (AD),John Hartnett (JH),Luuk van Huët (LvH),JR Jones (JJ),Dave Kehr (DK), Steven McCarron (SM),Marie-Claire Melzer (MM),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.

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Festival Semana de Cine Español A two-week festival of new films from Spain. One of the big-ticket films is the historical epic Alatriste, Spain’s most expensive film ever, starring Viggo Mortenson and based on Arturo PérezReverte’s novels of the Eighty Years’ War. Another, much praised at festivals, is Daniel Sánchez Arévalo’s subtle AzulOscuroCasiNegro, about a young slacker who works as a super in an apartment building. Most of the films are subtitled in English, a few in Dutch. 2-16 May, Melkweg Cinema Melkweg Cinema, De Uitkijk

New this week Berlin Alexanderplatz Troubled German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s 15-hour magnum opus from 1981. See Short List. Filmmuseum The Boss of It All Lars von Trier is the boss, and everyone shall know it! See review above. Het Ketelhuis, Kriterion The Fountain A love story by the director of Requiem for a Dream and Pi promises not to fit the mould, but Darren Aronofsky has confounded critics and audiences alike with

ROMOLA GARAI WEARS WIG. AGAIN Angel Cinecenter, The Movies, Rialto

Angel François Ozon has added another master-

The Fountain

this spiritually infused rumination on death and grief, with a plot spanning a millennium. Bashing the film as an exercise in New Age dilly-dallying is an easy, cynical response, but opening your mind, or even crown chakra, and letting the film overwhelm you is the better way to go. Superb performances by Hugh Jackman and Rachel Weisz, resplendent visuals and the luscious, non-digital effects help to immerse viewers with ease. (LvH) 97 min. Cinecenter Made in Korea Dutch film-maker In-Soo Radstake was born in South Korea in 1979 and given up for adoption.

In this likeably unsentimental documentary, he goes in search of his roots. In Dutch/Korean/ English with Dutch subtitles. 73 min. Het Ketelhuis Spider-Man 3 When a super-hero franchise reaches the third instalment, the result is usually a let-down featuring rubber nipples or Richard Pryor on skis. While Spidey’s third outing doesn’t reach those all-time lows, it still is a step backwards from the first two magnificent films. The problem boils down to an overabundance of villains, love interests and plot lines that entangle the cast, sometimes slowing the proceedings to a sticky stop in between the flabbergasting action sequences. Besides, in keeping with blockbuster season, there’s an awful lot of action.

Two-and-a-half angstful hours might be more bangs for

your buck than you bargained for. Directed by Sam Raimi, with Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst. (LvH) 156 min.

Pathé ArenA, Pathé De Munt, Pathé Tuschinski

Still playing 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 funda mentalists, while the band of 300 Spartans are engorged, gleaming warriors for the Greek way of life. Spotting your favourite political agenda isn’t 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

piece to his oeuvre. You could call it a postmodern costume drama, since it’s set in the early 20th century, but the dazzling visual style also refers to ’40s and ’50s Hollywood melodramas, and bits of contemporary television culture keep turning up too. Angel (Romola Garai), a writer of pulp novels with a shocking lack of taste and talent, is a highly ironic character. But the film is too multi-layered to be a simple parody, and Ozon turns out to have a heart for his Angel. As a viewer, you can’t help feeling for her too. To catch all of it, you’ll probably need to see it twice. (MM) 134 min. Cinecenter, The Movies, Rialto

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 goodytwo-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

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20 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 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 energetic

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. Then, when she walks onto a stage, it is amazing to 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

Ex Drummer In this interpretation of the 1994 Flemish 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

Ex Drummer 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. Pathé Tuschinski 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) Pathé Tuschinski HannaHannah 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 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

I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone

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 The Last King of Scotland This compelling UK drama features a titanic performance by Forest Whitaker as Idi

3-9 May 2007 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. De Uitkijk 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 Next Nicolas Cage stars as a Las Vegas magician who can see two minutes into his own future, which proves

Special screenings Animated films from World War II Propaganda shorts, an anti-semitic children’s version of the Reynard the Fox legend, a Marten Toonder film and more, all made during or just after the war. Filmmuseum The Bad Sleep Well Akira Kurosawa’s 1960 presagement of the Lockheed scandal, with Toshiro Mifune fighting corporate corruption, is a well-done thriller with Kurosawa’s usual social overtones. In Japanese with Dutch subtitles. (DK) 135 min. Rialto Barakat! This 2006 film is set in the 1990s, at the height of the civil conflict in Algeria. Amel, a young doctor, brings her neighbour’s sick child to the hospital. When she returns home she discovers that her husband, a journalist, has disappeared. Her search for him yields new perspectives on women’s roles. Directed by Djamila Sahraoui. In French/Arabic with English subtitles. 95 min. Rialto Bil’in My Love The first shot of Bil’in My Love (Bil’in Habibti) couldn’t be more symbolic. An excavator is removing olive trees to make way for an Israeli fence. That the fence actually runs right through the Palestinian village of Bil’in doesn’t seem to bother the Israeli soldiers who are assigned to quash any form of protest. Israeli film-maker Shai Carmeli Pollak joins forces with the Palestinian villagers and other peaceful protesters from all over the world, whose auspicious stance gives a glimmer of hope for a better future. (BS) 85 min. Kriterion Blood for Dracula One of the two schlocky horror comedies Paul Morrissey made in Italy in 1974; Blood for Dracula is the sexier and funnier, while Flesh for Frankenstein is the gorier (and in 3D). Both were released with Warhol’s name attached for advertising purposes, though apparently that was his only connection. Joe Dallesandro, a fixture of Morrissey’s movies in that period, co-stars with Udo Kier and Vittorio De Sica and Roman Polanski. Also known as Andy Warhol’s Dracula. (JR) 106 min. De Nieuwe Anita A Bridge Too Far Richard Attenborough’s 1977 allstar recreation of Operation Market Garden, the Allies’ disastrous attempt to take Arnhem in September 1944. 176 min. Het Ketelhuis

Caché This brilliant if unpleasant puzzle-without-a-solution about surveillance and denial finds director Michael Haneke near the top of his game, though it’s not a game everyone will want to play. The brittle host of a TV bookchat show (Daniel Auteuil) and his unhappy wife (Juliette Binoche) start receiving strange videos that track their comings and goings outside their Paris home. Once the husband traces the videos to an Algerian he abused when both were kids, things only get more tense, troubled and unresolved. Haneke is so punitive towards the couple and his audience that viewers may find themselves rebelling against—or even denying—the husband’s rage. In French with Dutch subtitles. (JR) 117 min. Het Ketelhuis De Fûke A special 4 May screening: Steven de Jong’s 1999 Frisian film De Fûke (‘The Trap’), based on the novel by Rink van der Velde. An old fisherman, played by Renze Westra, is arrested during the Second World War on suspicion of belonging to the resistance. The interrogation becomes a cat-and-mouse game between him and the collaborationist police detective (Peter Tuinman). In Frisian with Dutch subtitles. 90 min. Cavia Joanna In this 1968 Swinging London artefact, art student Joanna (Genevieve Waite) comes to London and has various swinging adventures, including an interracial romance with a black nightclub owner (Calvin Lockhart). The film ends with a musical number set to a tune by Rod McKuen. Michael Sarne (Myra Breckinridge) directed. 108 min. Filmmuseum Lunacy Czech surrealist animator Jan Svankmajer has a singularly macabre vision of the world that springs straight from his materials: many of the creatures in his debut feature, Alice (1987), were constructed from the remains of birds, reptiles and small mammals, and this madhouse ball is punctuated by sequences of raw meat twisting and dancing to calliope music.

But his live-action sequences run to the opposite extreme, dominated by dull, four-square camera angles. Svankmajer mixes together elements of Poe and Sade in his tale of a young man in 19th-century France who meets the braying old marquis in a tavern and gets swept into a sinister orgy, a live burial and an asylum run by the patients. Weird anachronisms

(cars, telephones, home computers) contribute to the craziness, but despite the copious imagination on display, this is a fairly long haul. In Czech with English subtitles. (JJ) 118 min. OT301 The Magic Christian Peter Sellers stars as the richest man in the world who, with the help of stepson Ringo Starr, conducts experiments in human greed.

Based on a slim novel by Terry Southern and directed by Joseph McGrath, this 1969 film also features Raquel Welch, Christopher Lee, Roman Polanski and John Cleese who, along with fellow Python Graham Chapman, contributed to the script. 92 min. Filmmuseum Manderlay With the second film of a planned trilogy about the US, professional provocateur Lars von Trier manages to improve upon Dogville, his first foray into the material. Leaner, meaner and sporting an altered cast, Manderlay delivers some bilious commentary on past and present wrongs committed by the US of A, from slavery to enforced introduction of democracy.

(LvH) 139 min. Kriterion March of the Penguins This epic documentary details the brutal migrations emperor penguins undertake each year during their mating season. In Dutch. (SM) 85 min. Pathé Tuschinski Performance In this 1970 example of swinging surrealism from David Cammell and Nicolas Roeg, a working-class gangster hides out in a London estate full of strange people and events. Mick Jagger is one of the strange people, a man named Turner; Anita Pallenberg is another. Gradually, divisions of gender, time, space and identity become blurred. The Moog synthesizer score is from Jack Nitszche; Jagger performs ‘Memo from Turner’. 105 min. Filmmuseum Reel Bad Arabs A 2006 documentary by Jack Shaheen about representations of Arabs in Hollywood movies, from the Volkswagen bus full of Libyan terrorists who try to assassinate Doc in Back to the Future to Jafar, the bad guy in Disney’s Aladdin, who— Shaheen claims looks like Osama bin Laden (or the other way around). 48 min. De Balie

Tonite Let’s All Make Love in London In this psychedelic 1967 doc on Swinging London, director Peter Whitehead interviews Julie Christie, Michael Caine, David Hockney, Mick Jagger, Vanessa Redgrave and more. The Stones, the Animals and Pink Floyd provide the music. 70 min.

Filmmuseum Van de andere kant This month, the non-Western gay movie series will show films on homosexuality in the Islamic world. Who Can Speak of Men (2002) is a short documentary from India on a group of Muslim women who refuse to accept traditional female roles. Flying with One Wing (2002) is a Sri Lankan feature about a car mechanic who lives a quiet existence with his wife until a doctor discovers that he is not a man. (Both with English subtitles.) And the 2003 American documentary I Exist, by Peter Barbosa and Garrett Lenoir, documents the lives of gay Muslims in America. Rialto Van God Los For his impressive 2003 first feature, director Pieter Kuijpers (Dennis P) was inspired by the real-life Bende van Venlo, a gang of youths gone bad who wreaked havoc and murder in Limburg in the early 1990s. When teenager Stan (Egbert Jan Weeber) meets hothead Maikel (Tygo Gernandt), he sees a promise of adventure. But the two friends’ petty crimes quickly spiral out of control when they get involved with the local Turkish mafia. The film boasts a strong script and a confident director, but it’s Gernandt who is the real audience draw, both charming and dangerous (even while speaking in dialect). He has a screen presence here that he has yet to equal in any subsequent film. In Dutch. (BS) 83 min. Cavia

Volver Almodóvar is growing up. After provoking the

public with explicit sex and his subversive sense of humour, the Spanish director now shows us there’s more to life than (just) sex, drugs and travesty. This is a heartfelt story about the long-overdue reunion of a daughter (Penélope Cruz) and the ghost of her mother (Carmen Maura). Fans of Almodóvar’s earlier work might be disappointed that carnal pleasures have been replaced by genuine emotions, but viewers should realise that humanism was just what his films needed. In Spanish with Dutch subtitles. (BS) 120 min. Melkweg Cinema

3-9 May 2007 endlessly handy when he’s onstage or working a casino but doesn’t have much national security potential; why an FBI agent (Julianne Moore) would enlist him to save Los Angeles from nuclear terrorists is never satisfactorily explained. As a result, this busy sci-fi thriller often seems like a page full of equations rendered meaningless by an early misplaced decimal point.

When the story finally collapses in a heap at the end, you’ll probably want your money back, but that’s where the title comes in: ‘Next!’ Lee Tamahori (Die Another Day) directed; with Jessica Biel and, briefly, Peter Falk. (JJ) 91 min. Pathé ArenA, Pathé De Munt

Next

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 Nue propriété Isabelle Huppert plays a Belgian mother who feels her life is weighing her down. She

FILM TIMES Thursday 3 May until Wednesday 9 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 Reel Bad Arabs Mon 20.30.

Cavia Van Hallstraat 52-I, 681 1419 De Fûke Fri 20.30 Van God Los Thur 20.30.

Cinecenter Lijnbaansgracht 236, 623 6615 Angel daily 16.00, 19.00, 21.45, Sun also 11.15 The Fountain daily 16.30, 19.00, Sun also 11.00 Inland Empire daily 21.00, Sun also 13.00 Das Leben der Anderen daily 15.45, 18.45, 21.45, Sun also 11.15 Pan's Labyrinth daily 16.15, 19.15, 21.45, Sun also 11.00, 13.30.

Cinema Amstelveen Plein 1960 2, Amstelveen, 547 5175 Arthur en de Minimoys Sun 14.00, Wed 15.30 Assepoester en de Keukenprins Fri, Sat 13.00, Sun 12.00, Wed 13.30 Kruistocht in Spijkerbroek (NL) Thur-Sat 15.00 La Vie en rose Thur-Sat, Tues, Wed 20.30, Sun 16.15.

Filmhuis Griffioen Uilenstede 106, Amstelveen, 444 5100 Letters from Iwo Jima Thur, Tues 19.30, Fri 20.30.

Filmmuseum Vondelpark 3, 589 1400 12:08 East of Bucharest Fri, Mon-Wed 17.15 Animated films from World War II Fri 20.30, Sat 17.30 Berlin Alexanderplatz parts 1-3: Thur 19.15, parts 4-7: Mon 19.15, parts 8-11: Tues 19.15, parts 12, 13: Wed 19.15, parts 1-7: Sat 13.30, parts 8-13: Sun 13.30

Amsterdam Weekly 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

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 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

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,

Griezelen in het donker Sun, Wed 14.00 In the Beginning Was the Image Fri 20.45 Joanna Thur 21.45, Sat 19.30 The Kid Thur, Fri 14.00 The Magic Christian Sun 21.45, Mon 19.30 Nederlands Avantgarde programma Sun 16.00 The Night of the Hunter Thur, Fri 17.30 Our Daily Bread Sat 15.30 Performance Sun 19.30, Mon 21.45 Pippi Langkous Thur, Fri, Sun, Wed 13.45 The Sixties Underground Tues 19.30, Wed 21.45 Stoned Tues 21.45, Wed 19.30 Tonite Let's All Make Love in London Thur 19.30, Sat 21.45.

Het Ketelhuis Haarlemmerweg 8-10, 684 0090 De Avonturen van het Molletje Thur-Sun, Wed 14.30 The Boss of It All daily 21.30, Thur-Sat Mon-Wed also 17.30, ThurSun, Tues also 19.30, Sun also 15.45 Bridge Too Far,A Thur-Sat, Wed 13.30, Sun 11.30 Caché Sun 19.30 Ellen ten Damme daily 19.45 Ex Drummer daily 21.15 HannaHannah Thur-Sun, Wed 15.45 Das Leben der Anderen Thur-Sat, Mon-Wed 17.45, 20.30, ThurSun, Wed 15.00 Made in Korea Thur-Sat, Mon-Wed 17.45 Tinke Thur-Sun, Wed 13.00.

Kriterion Roetersstraat 170, 623 1708 Bil’in My Love Sun 13.15 The Boss of It All daily 18.00, Thur, Sat-Wed also 20.00, Fri also 22.00, Sat, Sun also 16.00 Curse of the Golden Flower daily 19.00, Sat, Sun also 15.45, Sat also 0.30 Ex Drummer Thur, Sat, Sun, Tues, Wed 22.00, Fri, Sat 0.00, Fri also 0.00 Inland Empire Thur-Mon, Wed 21.15 Manderlay Mon 22.00 Sneak Preview Tues 22.15.

Melkweg Cinema Lijnbaansgracht 234A, 624 1777 20 Centímetros Thur, Sun, Tues, Wed 15.00 53 días de invierno Fri, Sat 19.00 Alatriste Fri, Sat 19.30, Sun 13.30, Mon 15.00, Wed 20.00 AzulOscuroCasiNegro Fri, Sat 22.00, Tues 19.30 Ficció Sat 16.00, Mon 19.30 El Método Thur, Wed 19.30 Mujeres en el parque Mon, Tues 20.00

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 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

Shooter 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 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

21 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 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

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

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 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) Cinema Amstelveen, The Movies, Pathé Tuschinski

La Noche de los girasoles Thur, Sun 22.00 Obaba Sun 19.30, Tues 22.00 Semana de Cine Español Thur-Wed La Silla Sat 15.00 Tu vida en 65' Thur 20.00, Sun 16.00, Mon 22.00 Volver Sat 13.30, Wed 22.00 Zulo Fri 15.00, Sun 19.00.

The Movies Haarlemmerdijk 159-165, 638 6016 Anche libero va bene daily 15.00, 19.30, 21.45, Sun also 12.15 Angel daily 14.15, 16.45, 19.30 Bridge to Terabithia daily 15.30, 19.00 Ellen ten Damme daily 17.30, Fri, Sat also 0.00 Pan's Labyrinth daily 14.45, 17.00, 19.15, 21.30, Sun also 12.30 Princess Fri, Sat 0.05 Shut Up and Sing daily 17.15, 22.00, Fri, Sat also 0.15, Sun also 12.15 La Vie en rose daily 21.15, Sun also 12.45.

De Nieuwe Anita Frederik Hendrikstraat 111, 06 4150 3512, Blood for Dracula Mon 20.30.

OT301 Overtoom 301, 779 4913 Lunacy Tues 20.30 Pretty Diana/Time of the Gypsies Sun 20.30.

Pathé ArenA ArenA Boulevard 600, 0900 1458 300 daily 16.20, 18.55, 21.35, Mon also 13.40 Arthur en de Minimoys Thur-Sun 10.25 Assepoester en de Keukenprins Thur-Sun, Wed 12.30, 14.30, 16.30, Thur-Sun also 10.30 Beestenboel Thur-Sun, Wed 13.25, 15.35, Thur-Sun also 11.10 Bridge to Terabithia daily 13.35, 15.50, 18.25, Thur-Sun also 11.00 Curse of the Golden Flower daily 17.45, Mon, Tues also 12.35, 15.10 The Departed daily 20.15 Epic Movie daily 13.00, 15.15, 17.30, 19.45, 22.00, Thur-Sun also 10.40 Hot Fuzz Thur-Mon, Wed 21.15 It's a Boy/Girl Thing daily 13.45, Thur-Sun also 11.20 Match Point Tues 13.30 Mr Bean's Holiday daily 12.15, 14.45, 18.40, 20.50, Thur-Sun also 10.05, Mon, Tues also 13.40, 15.45 Next daily 12.25, 15.00, 17.15, 19.35, 21.50, Thur-Sun also 10.15 Norbit daily 16.05, Thur, Sun-Wed also 18.35 Pan's Labyrinth daily 12.40, 15.20, 18.00, 20.40 Pars: Kiraz operasyonu daily 12.55, Thur-Sun also 10.00, Thur, Sun, Mon-Wed also 21.00, Fri, Sat also 18.35 Perfect Stranger daily 11.45, 14.15, 16.45, 19.25, 21.55 The Reaping Fri, Sat 22.00

Shooter daily 13.30, 16.15, 19.00, 21.45, Thur-Sun also 10.50 Sneak Preview Tues 21.00 Spider-Man 3 daily 12.00, 15.05, 18.15, 21.25 Spider-Man 3 (IMAX) daily 12.45, 16.00, 20.30 Sunshine daily 15.55, 18.45, 21.20 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles daily 12.05, 14.10, Thur-Sun also 10.00 Wild Hogs daily 17.00, Thur-Sun, Tues, Wed also 19.15, 21.40.

Pathé De Munt Vijzelstraat 15, 0900 1458 See www.pathe.nl for latest schedule Pathé Tuschinski Reguliersbreestraat 34, 0900 1458 Catch a Fire Thur-Sun, Tues, Wed 21.20 Curse of the Golden Flower Thur-Sun, Tues, Wed 14.35, 21.45 The Good GermanThur-Mon, Wed 12.45, 15.15, Thur-Sun, Tues, Wed 20.50 Goya's Ghosts daily 13.15, Thur-Sun, Tues, Wed also 18.20, Mon also 17.00 Das Leben der Anderen daily 17.30, 20.30, Thur, Sat-Wed also 14.20 March of the Penguins Tues 13.30 Notes on a Scandal Thur-Sun, Tues, Wed 12.20, 17.10, 19.30 Nue propriété daily 15.50 Pan's Labyrinth daily 13.00, 15.45, 18.30, 21.30 The Queen daily 12.00 Spider-Man 3 Thur, Sun-Wed 14.45, Thur, Sun, Tues, Wed also 18.00, 21.15, Sun also 11.45, Fri, Sat 12.15, 15.30, 18.45, 22.00 La Vie en rose Thur-Sun, Tues, Wed 17.45.

Rialto Ceintuurbaan 338, 676 8700 Anche libero va bene daily 19.30, Fri also 14.45 Angel daily 20.30, Thur, Fri, Mon-Wed also 18.00, Fri, Wed also 15.15, Sat also 12.15 The Bad Sleep Well Sun 11.00, Wed 14.45 Barakat! Sat 16.00 Binger Shorts Fri 23.00 Destricted Sat 23.00 I Don't Want to Sleep Alone daily 19.50, Thur-Sat, Mon-Wed 17.40, Sat, Sun also 13.15 I Exist Sun 16.30 Das Leben der Anderen daily 21.30, Fri-Sun also 17.00, Sat, Sun also 13.45 Me and You and Everyone We Know Fri 16.00 Transylvania daily 22.00, Sat, Sun, Wed also 15.30, Sun also 11.15 Van de andere kant Sun 13.30.

De Uitkijk Prinsengracht 452, 623 7460 Curse of the Golden Flower Thur, Mon-Wed 21.00, Fri-Sun 21.45 The Monastery: Mr Vig & the Nun Thur, Mon-Wed 19.00, Sun also 15.00 Notes on a Scandal daily 17.00 Semana de Cine Español Fri-Sun 19.00.

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