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New columns on urban nature, bikes, street fashion, local politics and bars.

Calligraffiti artist, Shoe, talks about his trade. And smoking.

Cary Grant never acted. He just happened to be one suave dude. And he smoked.

Plan your week from jazz on roofs to a stranger festival.

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Since AW is officially unf*cked, it’s time for a modest re-fluffing, complete with more opinions, more music coverage, more mind games and—most significantly—five new columns. Nature Calling has writer Mark Wedin communing with city ecologists about urban wild stuff. Do you want bike insights? Then read A Quick Bike Fix by Pete Jordan, author of Dishwasher: One Man’s Quest to Wash Dishes in All Fifty States. In&Out has Mo Veld, journalist and former fashion director at BLVD and Het Parool, marvelling at fashion from the streets. With The People Versus..., pit-bull journalist Floris Dogterom will harass local politicians and institutions for some straight answers. And last but not least, ex-student Sarah Gehrke fulfils her lifelong dream to be a bar reviewer with A Night in the Life. But we also have sad news... Our restaurant critic The Glutton has expressed his wish to retire in August since he can no longer reach his computer’s keyboard. People who wish to waddle in his footsteps should send CV, letter of motivation and three 500-word sample restaurant reviews to editorial@amsterdamweekly.nl by 16 July. Adieu, fat prince...

Features Inbox Smoking Catch 22 . . . . . . . . . . 4 Nature Calls Spindle ermine . . . . . . 4 News Empty buildings . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Amstergraph The fine stuff. . . . . . . . 5 A Quick Bike Fix Wobbly. . . . . . . . . 5 Street Fashion All the tribes . . . . . . 6 Report Club Tabac . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 The People Versus Terraces. . . . . . . 6 Interview Shoe on smokes . . . . . . . . 7 Main feature Smoking. . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Three Questions Robin Nolan . . . . 12 Lekker Bezig Galerie Schaap . . . . . 16 Film Review Cary Grant . . . . . . . . . 17

Agenda Short List 10 / Music 11 / Clubs 13 / Gay & Lesbian 14 / Stage 14 / Events 14 / Art 15 / Addresses 16 / Film 17 / Film Times 19

Plus Dining Take Mary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Drinking Cafe Brandon . . . . . . . . . . 20 Classiﬁeds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Eefje Wentelteefje . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

On the cover Illustration by Nick Jeeves For information on the project see Attachments, opposite.

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No Smoking Sign Library by Daniel Eatock (www.eatock.com/project/no-smoking-sign-request) A collection of alternatives to the archetypal ‘No Smoking’ sign. To contribute to the library, email your version to daniel@eatock.com.

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AROUND TOWN

Inbox

Smoking ban smokescreen

Nature calling By Mark Wedin

Submitted by: Jacek Rajewski, Function: Artistic Director, Sugar Factory By: email Date 23 June Subject: Smoking ban I don’t have time to be for or against the new smoking ban. I have other worries: who is going to bring my empty beer glass back to the bar and who is going to empty my ashtray? I am one of the owners/directors of Sugar Factory and in preparation for the ban we decided to build a smoking lounge. We even had the luck to receive a building permit in time. But we’re still struggling with the above question. The new law states that no employees can work in the smoking lounge. Very well, the government has finally decided to protect the employees—against themselves. So when, for example, Martijn the bartender wants to smoke a cigarette during his shift, he has to step from behind the bar. But while smoking in the lounge, he notices that its full of empty glasses and overflowing ashtrays, there’s nothing he can do about it. He is at work and therefore legally prohibited from touching the dirt. But get this: if the same Martijn comes to Sugar Factory on his day off, he is free to roam and pick up as many glasses as he wants. He can even lick the ashtrays clean and no one can do anything about it since at that moment he is a visitor and visitors are not (yet) legally protected against themselves. Well, I think Martijn is lucky because he still has a choice. He can be an employee one day, a visitor the next. He can work on his day off and be prevented from working during his shift. I am not that lucky. I am employed as a director so I am always at work when in the premises. Legally, I can even be fined for bringing my own empty beer glass back from the smoking lounge to the bar or for emptying my ashtray. Well, you might say, how about asking Martijn who just happens to be in the smoking lounge on his day off? Well, I will answer, I am not allowed to ask my employees to perform any tasks in the smoking lounge, that’s what the law says, remember? And for me Martijn is always an employee, regardless whether he’s on shift or off. Perhaps, I could try to hypnotise Martijn to pick up my empty glass—no asking involved there. But sadly I don’t possess that necessary talent. I also lack the necessary talents for understanding many other inconsistencies in regards to the smoking ban. For example, marihuana. Legally, I can not do anything about a visitor smoking a pure marihuana joint since it does not fall under the ban. Reading the guidelines from the Ministry of Health doesn’t make me any wiser. And trying to get more details on the local governmental level is equally futile. I guess I will still be stuck for a while in my own smoking lounge, with a handful of unanswered questions and empty beer glasses. But how about if I asked that pretty brunette standing next to me? She is just a visitor. Perhaps while offering her a cigarette I will whisper in a deep voice: ‘Sweetie, would you mind bringing my glass back to the bar?’ How about that for an opening line! You know, I might just try.

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Photo by Stefanie Gratz

Night Crawlers These are the last days of the cocoon cycle for the Spindle Ermine caterpillars, who have been safely residing within spooky webs engulfing willows and other trees in Oosterpark. Probably by the time you read this, nightflying Spindle Ermine moths—recognisable by their snow-white colouring and black dots on the wings—will begin to emerge and roam the city until October, when their flying cycle normally comes to end. Like every year, it all started a few weeks ago. Seemingly overnight, webs appeared around trees and shrubs as the little caterpillars began their green feast. Bits of leaves go in one end, and a light, silky substance is secreted out the other end. The caterpillars of course, give it no thought, they’re just hungry adolescents. But the sugary webbing they produce is rather handy. Not only does it provide protection from birds that might prey on their protein rich bodies, the web’s high-sugar content also diverts other leaf-eating insects and animals—leaving the meal all to themselves. Spindle Ermines get their name from the Spindle

tree, their usual host. But they’re able to set up camp on a variety of plants. Every year, caring residents witness them devouring foliage in parks and call city ecologists, worried that they’re killing the trees. But the essentially parasitic relationship is not as devastating as it appears. After one year without leaves, the trees generally always recover. (Though the insects can pose a problem for the agriculture industry.) Even without their tree of choice, the caterpillars have been known to envelop bicycles and corners of brick structures with their webs. No laws currently protect the bugs, so if you’re bike gets covered, you may legally clean off the sticky webbing and dispose of the yellowish crawly things beneath—good luck with that. Thanks to Remco Daalder, stadsecoloog. Got nature tips? naturecalls@amsterdamweekly.nl

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Housing

AROUND TOWN

By Marlous Veldt

RECYCLING OFFICE SPACE More creative solutions to the student housing issue. A parliamentary proposal by the Christian Democrats to ban squatting nationally is encouraging housing and real estate experts to come up with new ways to reclaim empty urban space. The Amsterdam student union, ASVA, and the National Union of Students, LSVb, brought them together for a symposium, ‘Leegstand in de stad’, on 25 June, and asked if it is possible to turn the politicians’ headache into a solution for the ever present lack of student housing. Throughout the afternoon, housing associations, project developers and an anti-squat bureau presented the solutions they offer students, ranging from the permanent transformation of a 19thcentury warehouses on Rotterdam’s Kop van Zuid to temporary users’ contracts for offices that owners hope to later rent out to businesses. ‘It’s unacceptable to have all these empty buildings while so many students are still looking for a home,’ said Joost van der Veen, housing spokesperson for the LSVb, who was glad to see people not only talking about reclaiming empty space, but actually trying to do something about it. ‘We hope to get

New living arrangements for students?

the parties here today working together more closely.’ The aptly-chosen location for the conference was the former offices of stadsdeel Slotervaart near metro station Postjesweg. The building is scheduled for demolition in 2011, but in the meantime the stadsdeel has allowed the student housing association DUWO to use it as a temporary residence for about 50 students. In exchange for a place to live until graduation, and a €300 monthly rent, the students helped turn the space from an office into student rooms. Rietveld Academy students who live on the second floor of the former stadsdeelkantoor have been given studios in the adjacent KLIQ building. In Rotterdam, turning offices into student housing units has already become profitable business, said Jean Baptiste Benraad, director of housing corporation Stadswonen Rotterdam. ‘The value increase of a building after renovation is almost double that of building a new one,’ said Benraad. His company transforms offices, old warehouses and churches into permanent and temporary student homes. He suggests that Amsterdam’s city

Photo by Stefanie Gratz

council should face the fact that most empty offices won’t attract commercial renters anymore. He thinks cities should provide owners with incentives to let go of such buildings—such as allowing them to build larger properties elsewhere in the city—and make them available to project developers that can turn them into student homes. Frans Steffens of project management bureau, acquiReal in Maastricht suggested another good source of housing: the space above shops. AcquiReal is a company owned by the city of Maastricht, Maastricht University and a local housing corporation, and buys buildings with ground-floor stores to turn the upstairs floors into apartments for students and other first-time renters. Originally, shop owners lived on these floors. But since chain stores and real estate conglomerates have bought considerable property in the Netherlands’ city centres, the non-commercial space is often left empty. Steffens says that the owners tell him that renting it out presents too much hassle and not enough profit. Between 1985 and 1994, a similar program in Amsterdam created 514 housing units, says Steffens. But the installation of a separate stadsdeel Centrum instead of direct administration by the central city slowed efforts down. Steffens estimates that there are more than 3,000 potential apartments on the Kalverstraat and Nieuwendijk and in the area surrounding Rembrandtplein. He advised stadsdeel Centrum to take a thorough inventory of the empty floors and include housing corporations in a business venture. Corporations Ymere and Het Oosten have already expressed interest in cooperating with acquiReal, he said. It’s not clear whether these solutions would meet the demand for student housing, however. AcquiReal builds mostly independent studios in the more expensive segment of the student housing market. And Benraad of Stadswonen Rotterdam makes no secret of the fact that he sees student renters as the forefront of more upscale development. ‘When they’ve graduated they are, after all, people with good prospective incomes,’ said Benraad. Student squatter Rene Boer said that relying on housing corporations and project developers would lead to half-baked solutions, because their main interest in students would be to make a quick profit. He cites the example of students living in the much-publicised shipping containers in Noord, a temporary project that both student unions supported four years ago. ‘Everybody was happy the students had a house,’ said Rene, ‘but now it’s four years later and next year the contracts are finished, which means everybody will be on the street again.’ More info at: www.lsvb.nl/diensten/LSHC www.asva.nl www.oudekaartnederland.nl www.krakengaatdoor.nl www.speculanten.nl www.squat.net/studenten

Google this... ‘The Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority, which is responsible for enforcing the [smoking] ban, said it had trained around 200 inspectors. “They can tell the difference between a mix or a pure joint from its smell and appearance,” said a spokesman.’

Amstergraph % of residents overexposed to

Nitrogen Dioxide Eindhoven: 1.1 / Den Haag: 3.2 / Utrecht: 4.3 Rotterdam: 6.8 / Amsterdam: 9.8 Source: Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek

Illustration by Nicole Martens

A quick bike ﬁx By Pete Jordan

She got the sway I turned from Marnixstraat onto the Rozengracht and fell in right behind her. Dolled up in a tight sleeveless gown and high heels, she had me immediately mesmerised. Not by her looks though; but by the rattletrap she was pedalling. Her front wheel weaved a bit but her back wheel—that was something else entirely! It was bent so severely that each revolution of the wheel looked like it would be its last before falling off the bike. She could have ridden into the Vondelpark and slalomed around those cones laid out by the roller bladers without ever turning her handlebars! It always makes me giggle to see such a nattily dressed cyclist riding on such a piece of crap. Thus, in Amsterdam, I spend a lot of time laughing. The chicer the clothes, it seems, the shabbier the bike. (Though, with my new ride, I’m the inverse: shabby clothes, chic bike!) Fortunately, I had to turn left at the Prinsengracht because watching her bike sway from side to side was making me dizzy. She pedalled onward towards the Dam leaving me to wonder if she ever reached her destination before her bike completely fell apart. PS: Hey Amsterdam, bent rims or no bent rims, do yourself a favour and pump some air in those flabby tires of yours. It’ll make a world of difference. React: bikes@amsterdamweekly.nl

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AROUND TOWN

The people versus...

Street fashion

By Floris Dogterom

By Mo Veld

On the city’s tribes

Illustration by Tomas Schats

The florist and the alderman Amsterdammers have a reputation for being zeikerds. But of course, complaining is more of a universal human quality. Nonetheless, this column will give complainers a stage, along with the person or institution complained against a chance to respond. First up is the long drawn-out conflict between florist John Uiterwaal, who owns a flower stall on the corner of Kinkerstraat and Jan Pieter Heijestraat in Oud-West, and Werner Toonk, the alderman for public space for that stadsdeel. The flower shop is located on an ‘island’ in the middle of the Jan Pieter Heijestraat near a branch of the Coffee Company. Four-and-a-half years ago, at the opening of the Coffee Company, Uiterwaal, who has run his business for 33 years, overheard a conversation between Toonk and Coffee Company owners Dick de Kock and Rick Bekkema. Uiterwaal saw Toonk pointing at the flower stall and heard him say: ‘Once the stall is gone, you can open a terrasje.’ Ever since that moment, according to Uiterwaal, Toonk is trying to make him give up the stall, using every trick in the book. In a reaction, Toonk says that Uiterwaal is ‘a liar, although his intentions are good. At the opening of the Coffee Company, I was pointing at the former taxi stand, which was causing trouble at the time. The flower stall is in line with that. It’s a misunderstanding on the side of Uiterwaal. I have never said anything about the flower stall.’ And indeed, the taxi stand is now the Coffee Company’s terrace. Still, Oud-West has been making an effort to suspend Uiterwaal’s license: ‘I have had a heart condition and asked the stadsdeel if I could temporarily lease out the stall. They said it was okay, but now they say I was actually scheming to sell the stall. The thing is that Toonk wants all the stalls gone. He is yuppifying the neighbourhood.’ Toonk: ‘That temporary solution lingered on. Uiterwaal didn’t want to work in the stall any longer. He only wanted to buy flowers and let somebody else sell them. And that’s against the law. Uiterwaal misled us. And that’s why we will suspend his license as soon as possible. I have nothing against stalls, but they have to play by the rules.’ Something to report? thepeopleversus@amsterdamweekly.nl

The word ‘fashion’ traditionally means something like ‘the dominant looks and behavioural patterns in a given society’. But Amsterdam is both small and extremely diverse. This means our many sub-societies—or social tribes, each flaunting their own distinct dress codes—are also rather small. And most ‘tribes’ don’t really do fashion, they just do clothes, and usually as cheap and understated as possible. So that’s at least half of our population. They just disappear into the background and give our eyes a break. Then there’s the other half who do wish to communicate their contemporary selves by certain articulate dress codes. On one end of the spectrum, there’s the Bijlmer youth (and most of their uncles, aunts and babies) stacking luxury label upon luxury label (usually ripoffs) upon the latest loud sneakers. And on the other end, there’s the Amsterdam Zuid desperate career wives swinging Mullberry bags, and their husbands who seem to have all discovered the powder pink button down shirt. But this is not really fashion. So let’s say only about a quarter of our population makes for a nice day-to-day street fashion parade. (I know, I’m an optimist.) When I think about fashion in Amsterdam, the first group I

think of are the cultural elite doing lots of Margiela and Comme des Garcons, still relying on Prada, and maybe putting on a pair of Acne jeans on a casual Friday. Then there’s the vast club scene divided into a kaleidoscope of subscenes who seem to share a passion for colour coordinating their rare sneakers with their even rarer t-shirts. Meanwhile, the international art school crowd seem to have a thing for cultivating ugliness: wearing the stuff that we all thought was hideous back in the 1980s but then restyling it well. And let’s not forget all the Sex in the City fans and their Cosmopolitans, and all the young H&M shopaholic ladies who can’t afford the most necessary accessory since they have to spend all their money on repairing their high heels (Amsterdam is the world’s worst city for heels)... Fortunately, for this column at least, the list goes on and on. And I Photo by Mo Veld think I will get back to you, after all, on those powder pink shirts because they can actually look quite pretty on an open, sunny terrace. React: inandout@amsterdamweekly.n

Amsterdam

By Isabel Serval

CLUB TABAC BIDS ADIEU TO THE CIGARETTE Last Saturday, Club Tabac in De Balie offered a final ode to a once-romanticised symbol of individualism: the cigarette. In a room filled with dried tobacco leaves smelling like horse manure, the organisers, Club Interbellum and NRC Next, showered patrons with cigarette nostalgia. Beautiful film stars smoked on the big screen and The Nicotines, an Amsterdam all-girl mini choir who adopted their name for the occasion, wearing black dresses and red lipstick, sang a love song, ‘The last cigarette’, while puffing through old-fashioned cigarette holders. And there was a balanced discussion between pro- and anti- smokers. Just as Robert Wassenaar of Philip Morris Netherlands tried to defend the good intentions of his company, he was interrupted by a blow horn: six young activists with angry expressions stood up to chant ‘Philip Morris Murderers!’ They managed to pass out their flyers with a mouse on it saying ‘I have to inhale nicotine for sixty days straight in the Philip Morris laboratory in Leuven’,

before the security guards arrived. NRC Next journalist Rob Wijnberg brought the debate back into focus. Two lung experts, doctors Pauline Dekker and Wanda de Kanter, enthusiastically called out, ‘Make us unemployed’, while clicking through a PowerPoint presentation of images of deteriorated lungs. ‘Smoking is the greatest avoidable cause of death in the world,’ said Dekkers. That may be so, but many smokers in the room said health isn’t an issue when it comes to the pleasures of cigarettes. ‘Frankly, there’s nothing I don’t like about smoking,’ said visual artist Aukje Dekker (25). ‘Sometimes I even feel guilty for not feeling bad about doing something that’s hurting me.’ Prem Radhakishun (46) of Premtime on the NPS television network, said he’d planned to stop smoking, but the government provoked his rebellious nature. ‘Of course I won’t quit if they treat me like a baby,’ he said. ‘Surely the government owes me tax returns for smoking because I choose to die early, instead of helping to turn a whole generation into

Photo by Jaap Scheeren Thanks to Simon Wald-Lasowski and Harry Blog

nappy changers for all those anti-social non-smokers who live till they’re a hundred,’ he said. All these farewells might be in vain, as historian Bart Jan de Graaf, the curator of exposition Tabee Tabak in Limburg’s Museum Het Domein, pointed out that smoking bans in Europe aren’t anything new: ‘Noses and lips were cut off as punishment for smoking half a millennium ago in Europe,’ he said. ‘Of course, rulers who enforced smoking bans most ferociously in modern history used to be chain smokers themselves, like Adolf Hitler.’ ___

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e’s being evicted from his Post CS studio along with Club 11. Taking a break from moving boxes into his new workshop, calligraffiti artist Niels ‘Shoe’ Meulman talks about his art and mourns the end of a smokin’ era.

What is calligraffiti all about? It’s basically a mixture of the ancient art of calligraphy with the urban rawness of street graffiti. I broke away from graffiti because there were too many rules that govern ideas and styles of lettering. Although I’d been doing this for a long time, it was during an exhibition in September 2007 when I realised I needed a good title for my work and that’s how calligraffiti was born.

PROFILE: NIELS ‘SHOE’ MEULMAN

WATER ON THE SMOKE

Niels ‘Shoe’ Meulman Born 1967 Artist/graphic designer www.nielsshoemeulman.com

Local graffiti legend takes on calligraphy and smoking.

you can’t entirely read the lettering maybe you think it’s something else. But the traditional shapes are also there. I wanted to rescue calligraphy from being used only to write ‘Home Sweet Home’.

By Sulakshana Gupta

You’ve lived in Amsterdam all your life. Does the city inspire you? I feel like an ambassador for the city because graffiti culture has gone so global. I was raised in the ’80s and it was one of the freest times in human history. I remember the violent squatter protests and tanks in the streets.

When did you start out as an artist? I began tagging when I was thirteen and was later taught by some guys from New York like Dondi, Rammellzee and Quik. I was one of the graffiti pioneers in Europe at the time. I also started looking at Japanese, Chinese and Middle Eastern calligraphy. I must’ve bought over a thousand euros worth of ink and paper just for experimenting. That’s still how I work, writing the same words over and over till I finally get it right.

Will the city change because of the ban? Amsterdam is slowly becoming like an amusement park because everything is so controlled. As an artist, I feel that I need to address this issue. Another proposal says that vintage cars, older than 1992, are not to be allowed on the streets to control pollution or that pole dancing is only allowed in bars in the Red Light District. I assume you smoke. Yes. It goes with drinking, music, going out to a bar. I’m not romanticising smoking, but the thought of having a bar where you can’t smoke is unnatural. If you’re going to ban smoking, why not ban fast food as well? It’s nice to be in a neutral third place like a bar where you can also have some service. The bar culture is so old; somehow it will be less nice now.

Why do people call you ‘Shoe’? I used to have a tag of a shoe on a wall at my school, the Spinoza Lyceum. I wrote ‘shoe’ next to it so that people could see it. That’s how the nickname caught on. Your new exhibition ‘Nosmo King’ seems timely. It’s a statement against regulation. I write one-liners like ‘second-hand bullshit’, ‘smoke some kill’ and Groucho Marx’s ‘Do you mind if I don’t smoke?’ in my calligraffiti style. I wanted to have the exhibition before the ban came in but now it’s in the first smoke-free weekend and it makes more of a statement by becoming illegal in some way.

Photo by Martine Stig

‘I’m not romanticising smoking, but the thought of having a bar where you can’t smoke is unnatural. If you’re going to ban smoking, why not ban fast food as well?’

Is that why the exhibition is in a bar? It’s suitable because of the topic. Cafe De Duivel is a really raw bar with the Hells Angels and guys who look really dangerous. The whole evening is dedicated to smoking; we’ll play musical compilations with songs about smoking and even have smoke machines. The theme of the evening will be happy chaos.

Doesn’t calligraphy tame graffiti? No, because it’s not on a wall and calligraffiti is not graffiti. I would never do the same thing on the street. The power of street graffiti can’t be replicated in a museum. They are two completely separate arts.

Do you make a living from calligrafﬁti? I make my money from designing logos but I sell the pieces for between three hundred and eight hundred euros, mostly to friends and small-time art enthusiasts. Not yet to galleries, except some of my design work is exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco. Is there an element of abstract art in calligrafﬁti? That’s what makes it interesting, when you look at it and

What’s your earliest smoking memory? I started smoking at a young age and remember going into a store, looking at a Benson & Hedges pack and asking whether the gold one was the same price as the others. I’ve been smoking them ever since.

How will people get around the ban? I don’t think that people are going to stop smoking right from the first day. Also, I’ve heard that even though they have the ban in Spain, the police don’t really say anything. It depends on the owner of the bar. If he tells you to put out your light then you’ll have to step out or go somewhere else. I hope global warming takes care of the weather so we can all go out and smoke.

Exhibition: Nosmo King by Niels ‘Shoe’ Meulman Cafe de Duivel, Reguliersdwarsstraat 87 Opening 4 July, 20.00. Until 2 August

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F E AT U R E

EUROPE’S ANTI-SMOKING CRUSADE How did the public smoking ban play out in other European nations? The Greeks started to smoke more, the Portuguese ignored it and the French —get this!—took it seriously. By Vincent Solomeno

emco Gianotten, a cafe manager in De Balie, was having a cigarette break a few days before the nationwide smoking ban would go into effect. Between puffs, he said that De Balie welcomes the change, and that although he’s a smoker, he appreciates the passive risk it poses to others, especially his staff. But it worries him that the same serving staff now find themselves on the front lines of enforcement. ‘If on the first day they give me a fine for three hundred euros, then I have to be the policeman,’ said Gianotten. He thinks that is unfair. Meanwhile, the cinema/cafe Kriterion on Roeterstraat is trying to make the best of the smoking ban. The cafe will make blankets available for smokers who want to light up on the outside patio. Kriterion is a student-run organisation and one member of its board, Zelah Dorrestyn said she thought it might drive customers away. Taking a pull of her cigarette, she said, ‘If I think about going out to a bar, I think of people drinking beer and smoking cigarettes. If you can’t smoke, I can see why you would stay home.’ Another student disagrees. Alain Friedrichs is a non-smoker who works at Kriterion, and he thinks the ban is a good idea. ‘I prefer people not to smoke around me,’ he said, ‘especially at work.’ This week the Netherlands becomes the 14th European nation to implement a ban on tobacco smoking in bars and restaurants. Considering that three out of every ten Dutch people smoke tobacco—the fourth highest rate in the European Union—some people find it hard to imagine how exactly it can be enforced. But it’s not surprising that the government is riding the latest wave of public health policymaking, recent data suggests that the overall decrease in smoking rates is connected to the slow prohibition of smoking in public spaces. Other national experiences may offer some insight into how the new ban will fare in the Netherlands. The Greeks, for instance, who have had a law mandating designated non-smoking areas since October 2002, are currently the biggest smokers in Europe; While smoking is on the decline internationally, the Greeks are lighting up in ever-increasing numbers. Data from the World Health Organization (WHO) reveals that the Greek’s tobacco con-

Photo by Jaap Scheeren and Anouk Kruithof

sumption increased in the years following the mostly ignored smoking regulations. Most of them still puff where they please. The government, however, is undeterred in its fight against tobacco. This month, Greek lawmakers decided to have another go at the problem, approving a full-fledged nationwide ban scheduled to take place in 2010. Portugal, by contrast, is striking a middle ground. In 2000, the WHO estimated that the average Portuguese smoked 1,632.33 individual cigarettes in one year. A new ban prohibits smoking in most enclosed public spaces, including large bars, clubs and restaurants. However, patrons in spaces smaller than 100 square metres can light up at the discretion of the owner. The law came into effect on New Year’s Day 2008, and notable among those choosing to ignore its provisions was the government official responsible for enforcing them. He was photographed standing in a casino, cigar in mouth, and later confessed that he did not know the ban applied on the gaming floor. Even if bureaucrats and gamblers didn’t take it very seriously, media reports indicate that most Portuguese respect the partial ban and view it as a successful balance. Unlike Portugal, France and the Netherlands took a multi-year, two-phase approach to implementing a nationwide ban. In 2007, France’s law went into effect prohibiting smoking in workplaces and other public buildings. Last January, it was extended to include cafes, restaurants and bars. Despite predictions otherwise, the French have mounted little overt resistance. There are rumours of safe havens kept on the down low, but there have been no strikes and no sit-ins. The familiar scene of a smoke filled Parisian cafe may be etched into the popular consciousness, but there was little organised effort to save it. Christopher Cedat, the owner of Cafe 203, a small bistro in the centre of Lyon, was one notable exception. Following the ban’s introduction last January, he encouraged his patrons to openly flout the law, promising to pay fines they received while smoking at 203. He insisted it was a matter of principle and told anyone who would listen—TV news, radio stations and newspapers—that the ban was a violation of French liberty. Cedat received three heavy fines from local authorities and a letter from the police threatening to close Cafe 203 if the bistro continued to ignore the law. Less than two months later, Cedat’s bridgehead in the fight against the smoke ban gave way. He reluctantly replaced the sign encouraging resistance with another sign, asking patrons to respect the law and not smoke indoors. In Amsterdam, most people think it’s unlikely that staff and patrons will disobey the new law, but an equal number expressed confusion about what the new law meant. ‘We have not heard much about it,’ said Dorrestyn of the Kriterion. ‘The city has not sent out a lot of information.’ Her co-worker Friedrichs thinks Kriterion’s patrons will comply without much trouble. ‘People are like cattle,’ he said. ‘They will do what they are told. If one starts smoking, he’s a rebel, but there are not many rebels around Amsterdam.’ Gianotten at De Balie agrees. ‘This is a smoking culture,’ he said. ‘But in the end, we will adjust in about a half hour. People will say, “it’s not so bad.” They will have to change.’ ___

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F E AT U R E

Ah, those smokin’ memories...

Top local scams to get around the ban

I met him when I was 13. In the beginning I thought he smelled funny and he made me cough, but still my head spun every time we touched. I remember the day I stopped trembling and instead, leaned back in resilient comfort while he listened to the grinding motions of my breath. Although it didn’t last forever, from all the relationships I have had since, Marlboro man did stick by my side, even when I strayed for the night to Gauloises Blonde or Peter Stuyvesant. He was my solid rock of tar, for better and for worse. (Suzanne Schreve)

While many Amsterdam cafes, bars and clubs are creating smoking areas or fixing up their terraces, others have found that extra little creative twist.

I remember the first time I started smoking. I was just 12 years old and all the cool girls in the 8th grade smoked, so I couldn’t be left behind. Our learning expanded as we discovered how to actually use our lungs in the process—what a revelation! Then, at age 15, I discovered the drugs world and smoking saved my life (in that period, that is). You know the feeling, taking a little purple pill and feeling great, then really needing cigarettes to get through the low after effects. After that, the beer period came into my life, I loved the beverage yet only when I could smoke a cigarette at the same time. So what to do now? How can I go out into the town, drink some alcoholic beverages and not smoke at the same time? That’s a difficult combination to unlearn. I can’t imagine what partying is going to look like. We will see. Maybe the best contacts we will meet are through smoking outside of the club. (Dieuwertje Alberti) I challenge anybody to tell me where the Democratic Republic of Sao Tome e Principe lies. In fact, it’s the closest you can get with your feet still on the ground to the official centre of the world: where the equator intersects the Greenwich meridian. And it’s where I crushed away my very last one: filter in the Northern hemisphere, butt-end in the Southern. My old Austrian high school buddy Martin and I have this pact to meet every ten April 22nds in the weirdest place possible. Now he’s the managing director of a major pharmaceutical firm and I, well, a freelance writer... So when we got to the equator mark on 22 April 2003, Martin assured me with such Germanic authority that if I quit right there, the equatorial paradise of Sao Tome would bring me luck. Two days later I was offered to run the only movie theatre in the Republic and to, consequently, become the Minister of Cinema. It might have been a smart career move indeed as the 206,000 peaceful Santomeans are sitting on top of some of the greatest untapped oil reserves in the world. But good luck brought me to Amsterdam instead. (André Dryansky) ___

Cafe De Laurierboom (Laurierstraat 76) joined the recently set up ‘Smoker’s Church’ (www.rokerskerk.nl). Are you a smoker and you believe in (a) God? Then you too can take advantage! Smoking in public is now a freedom of religion issue. Club 8 (Admiraal de Ruijterweg 56) is becoming a ‘smokers’ society’: De Amsterdamse Tabaks Connaisseurvereniging’. Pop podium P60 in Amstelveen has installed a self-serving beer tap in its smoking area, to be paid with by a chip card. The club Sugar Factory (Lijnbaansgracht 238) got both tobacco company and Nicorette sponsorship to help build a ‘smoking gallery’. Smoking+Art = Smart. De Buurvrouw (Sint Pieterpoortsteeg 29) has built a highly ventilated one-person smoking booth. Supperclub (Jonge Roelensteeg 21) transformed a toilet into a one-person smoking paradise. Pacific Parc (Polonceaukade 23) will have a smoking break every hour after the restaurant closes. All staff will be off duty and, while interval music plays for five or ten minutes, non-smokers will be given the choice to leave for that time. ___

Ban scams to come? Nicotine-infused cocktails: Distill the nicotine of one cigarette into liquid form (about the same amount as a standard shot). Then mix this nicotine into any cocktail so consumers can still drink and get their nicotine hit at the same time. Nicotini anyone? Forget Oxygen Bars, embrace the Nicotine Bar: Install Oxygen Bars inside classic drinking establishments, but instead of pure or infused oxygen, customers can choose to inhale pure smoke from whichever brand of cigarette they so desire. If they want to go mobile, we could hook up the oxygen to a hospital style drip stand so they can still socialise and smoke at the same time. Extra long cigarette holders: Who says you can’t stand in the bar and smoke at the same time? This device allows the smoker to draw from the cigarette from inside the bar via a holder that extends up and out the nearest window leaving the cigarette to burn politely outside. For the smoker’s exhalation, the holder comes with a pocket sized vacuum bag that captures the smoker’s stale air. Nicotine Perfume Spray for bathrooms: In high-end establishments, where they have those people who hang out in the toilet pimping their scented soaps, sprays and hand creams, there could be a service that sells nicotine spray. It would be unscented and be much like a nicotine patch except in spray form. Bar patrons could top up their nicotine hit every time they went to their fancy bathrooms. (Stacey Lee) ___

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AGENDA

SHORT LIST

Photo by Martijn van de Griendt

Smokin’ Boys, Smokin’ Girls, Thursday, Lux Photo Gallery.

THURSDAY 3 JULY Photography: Smokin’ Boys, Smokin’ Girls Ah yes, back in the days when one was young and carefree, long-term risks, coughing ﬁts and terminal illnesses were abstract concepts or things that happened to other people. What was way more important was coolness. Chances are you had your first cigarette then, in your teenage years. Chances are also that you picked out the brand you smoked depending on the design of the packet or on what your favourite famous person smoked. Martijn van de Griendt, who specialises in the portrayal of youth culture, has devoted his current photo exhibition to teenagers and cigarettes: a glamorous combination. This is partly because the glamour is short-lived, and lasts only until the first coughing fits set in, or the consciousness of long-term risks, or smoking bans. (Sarah Gehrke) Lux Photo Gallery Amsterdam. Until 16 August.

Art: Presence of Mind— A Choice from the Collection by Wolfgang Tillmans

Festival: 5 Days Off Dear colleagues, Herewith I would like to inform you all that I will be shortly leaving this company due to the fact that, for the second consecutive year, I have not been granted the five leave days I requested due to an urgent need for dancing five nights away. Although I clearly could not be expected to be present at the office—let alone do my work—on the days following these nights, some of our superiors failed to recognise this. Despite my opinion that this company handles a completely misguided vacation policy with an immoral set of priorities, I have enjoyed working with you all and would like to share a last round of drinks, dance and chit-chat. My leaving dos will take place every night until Sunday. Peaches, Hercules & Love Affair, Neon Neon, Justice and a few others are coming too. Hope to see you then. Sincerely, Miss Dancelot See www.5daysoff.nl. (Sarah Gehrke) Melkweg, Paradiso and Heineken Music Hall, various times, €60 for festival ticket. Until Sunday.

Festival: Over het IJ

German photographer Wolfgang Tillmans, the first non-Brit to win the prestigious Turner Prize in 2000, and best known for his work reflecting our modern society’s music and subcultures, was asked by the Stedelijk Museum to create an exhibition of his own work combined with that of the museum’s collection. Tillmans, who started out as a photographer of the club and rave scene for hip magazines, has recently turned to more abstract forms of photography. But whatever his new direction, he still doesn’t divide between queer and straight, highbrow and low culture. That is reflected in the choices he made to accompany his own photography: artists like Isa Genzken, René Daniëls, Daan van Golden, Ellsworth Kelly, Larry Bell, Robert Mangold, Bruce Nauman and Roberto Matta. (Willem de Blaauw) Stedelijk Museum CS, 10.00-18.00. Until 30 September.

Although Amsterdam-Noord has been pretty happening for quite a while—what with the NDSM and all the other stuff that’s going on over there—many people are still hesitant about the leap across the IJ. Perhaps they’ve an irrational fear of ferries, concrete highrises and tunnels. Who knows, but the following weeks will offer yet another good incentive to overcome them and board that ferry. In the 16th year of its existence, the Over het IJ festival presents an overwhelming choice of theatre, music, art and, of course, food. Time to pluck up your courage and cross the water. (Sarah Gehrke) NDSM-werf and various locations in Noord, various times, €12.50 per performance. Until 13 July.

Film: StrangerFestival

Festival: Jazz op het Dak

With a name like StrangerFestival you never know what you’re getting yourself into. But if you can take a leap of faith, then sign up for Europe’s biggest international event for young film-makers. It’s by invitation only so to partake of the festivities sign up at www.strangerfestival.com and they’ll mail you your invite. There’s just one catch: you have to be under 26. Workshops include ‘Video portraits of the stranger audience’, where participants make a film about the audience, and ‘Tabletop moviemaking’, where a multi-character film is pulled off in a really small setting. Even if you don’t register, the Stranger Exhibition, a showcase of video works by young European film-makers, is open to all. (Sulakshana Gupta) Westergasfabriek, various times, free. Until Saturday.

This two-day event does seem to be shooting itself in the foot since the remarkable array of bands will have no opportunity to blow the roof off the joint—they’ll all be performing on the roofs of NEMO and the Mövenpick Hotel (as well on the patio of Muziekgebouw). Highlights include De Bende van Drie who mash up every style, from Balkan to tango, powered only by saxophone, accordian and stand-up bass; Berni’s Lounge who are also style-mashers but then more with an edgy balance between pop and world music; and Low Frequency Tuba Band who are four broad-shouldered virtuosos who play extremely deep originals and covers of Frank Zappa and Jimi Hendrix tunes. See http://jazzopehetdak.radio6.nl for the full programme. (Steve Korver) NEMO, 19.15, €17.50 day ticket, €30 festival pass. Also Saturday. ___

FRIDAY 4 JULY

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AGENDA: MUSIC

Must see: Electronica

5 Days Off—Day Four Paradiso, Saturday 5 July The experimental, noisy and occasionally painfully fun side of electronica. Featuring C64 Orchestra (see photo), Venetian Snares, Osaka Invasion and many more DJs. Special feature on video game music masters C64 Orchestra at www.amsterdamweekly.nl/blog. 22.00, €12 + membership day ticket, €60 festival pass

MUSIC

Mark August and Lulu Rouge. Paradiso, 22.00, €20 + membership day ticket, €60 festival pass

Friday 4 July Jazz: Voer Get riled up for tonight’s Jazz op het Dak with Vera van der Poel’s electronic/acoustic jazz crossover, which blends dance, Indian, Iranian, improv and structured songs. Muziekgebouw, 17.00, free

Thursday 3 July Hiphop/Electronica: Massive Attack Slow dub grooves and ’90s-style trip-hop from this English mob. It’s been ﬁve years since their last regular album and they’re still most fondly remembered for their somewhat ground-breaking hits 10 and 15 years ago. But that didn’t stop them from headlining at Glastonbury last week and they should still draw a big crowd to the park. That said, having endured Massive Attack in a rain-soaked field once before, the experience was absolutely dire, so pray for some sun and powerful subwoofers. Westergasfabriek, 19.30, €45 Opera: Tosca A summer rendition of the Puccini classic. Concertgebouw, Grote Zaal, 19.30, €22.50/€26.50 Big band: Metropole Orkest Vince Mendoza leads, while special guest, pianist/singer Ivan Lins, adds a Brazilian ﬂavour to the proceedings. Dutch pop star Trijntje Oosterhuis also joins in, along with singer Paulo de Carvalho and guitarist Leonardo Amuedo. Muziekgebouw, 20.30, €17.50

Contemporary: Friday Night Tonight the ZAPP String Quartet take their inspiration from the work and style of Van Gogh. DJ Dirkson opens with B-ﬁlm sounds and special moog vibrations. Van Gogh Museum, 18.30, museum entry cost Jazz: The Ploctones Funky jazz rock and blues from Anton Goudsmit’s ensemble. Concertgebouw, Koorzaal, 19.00/21.00, €13.50 Jazz: Jazz op het Dak This picturesque jazz gathering on the roof of NEMO has extended to additional venues around the IJ, but this main event remains the place to be for serious jazz and experimental improvs. Tonight: Stricat, Low Frequency Tuba Band and Stefano di Ba-ttista Quartet. See jazzophetdak.radio6.nl and see Short List. NEMO, 19.15, €17.50 day ticket, €30 festival pass Pop: Nelly Furtado A slick professional, Furtado’s transformed herself from ‘I’m Like a Bird’ innocence to slutty pop tart in recent times. Seems to have paid off; the girls will groove and the boys will drool. Westergasfabriek, 19.30, €39

Jazz: Robin Nolan Trio & Anton Goudsmit The British jazz guitarist leads his Amsterdam-based trio in this launch for new album, Organized Crime, and is joined by fellow guitarist Goudsmit. See 3 Questions, p. 12. Bimhuis, 21.00, €14

Classical: Ralph Meulenbroeks The viola da gamba specialist is joined by harpsichordist Pieter-Jan Belder and violinist Rémy Baudet for a selection of 18th-century baroque works by French composer Marin Marais. Concertgebouw, Kleine Zaal, 20.15, €21

Hiphop: Sole Superb alternative hiphop from the Anticon roster, so this is a real bargain if you can get along to Haarlem. Patronaat, Haarlem, 21.30, free

Pop/Rock: Grote Prijs van Nederland Showcase Six fresh acts competing to get to the next round of the contest. Cafe Pakhuis Wilhelmina, 21.00, €5

Singer-songwriter: Vanessa Ferdinand Violin folk. Skek, 21.30, free

Blues: Muddy Driveway Modern blues that bubbles with vitality. Support from Leiden outfit Red Fridge. Winston Kingdom, 21.00, €6

Electronica: 5 Days Off—Day Two—Melkweg Four days of electro-thumping dance tech-party madness starts here. Yes, we know it’s technically ﬁve days, but the festival started yesterday. Tonight’s specials include Loco Dice, Martin Buttrich, Raresh and Ellen Allien. Melkweg, 22.00, €20 + membership day ticket, €60 festival pass Electronica: 5 Days Off—Day Two—Paradiso Headed by DJs/producers James Holden and Ricardo Tobar, guests also include Supermayer & VJ Okinawa 69,

Punk: Offbeat Heroes Politically charged ska punk from the UK. Also with Brutal Polka, an Israeli outfit who embrace all genres so long as they can be absorbed and remodelled. OCCII, 21.30, €5 Electronica: 5 Days Off—Day Three—Melkweg Mmm... No ordinary dance party. In The Max, drum & bass icon Roni Size and chums front a jungle spectacular. If you’re finding all those beats and bass too cheery, there’s a DMZ Night in the Oude Zaal, which

Honestly, head to Haarlem to catch Sole on Thursday.

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AGENDA: MUSIC 3 questions:

Robin Nolan Bimhuis, Thursday 3 July Amsterdam’s very own updated Django Reinhardt, transplanted Brit Robin Nolan, is celebrating the release of his latest CD Organized Crime at the Bimhuis on Thursday. Since the early 1990s, Nolan and his trio have been pulling the crowds on Leidseplein, playing the world’s major jazz festivals and attracting fans as diverse as Willy Nelson, Bill Wyman and George Harrison. Tonight, the trio will be joined by the New Cool Collective’s ripping jazz funk guitarist Anton Goudsmit. Music for rocking? AC/DC gets me going every time and never fails to get the party started. Out with the air guitar and on the highway to hell! Django Reinhardt also gets me going but then it’s out with the real guitar and down to the pub for a jam! Music for mellowing? Chet Baker mellows me out especially when he sings. I get that whole 1950 West Coast junkie vibe when I put him on. ‘Let’s Get Lost’ mellows me right out and takes me to that painless comfy place. Music for loving? Cesaria Evora’s caressing voice always puts me in the mood and sets the scene. Also, Vicente Amigo, the Spanish guitarist, takes it to another level with a passion that gets you all hot and bothered. Clothes tend to fall off...

translates to an ultra-hip dubstep feast. Melkweg, 22.00, €14 + membership day ticket, €60 festival pass Electronica: 5 Days Off—Day Three—Paradiso Hiphop meets electronica in this special, headlined by American award-winning rapper Lupe Fiasco, with support from The Cool Kids. Also featuring The Infaders and The Big Booty Express party. Paradiso, 22.00, €20 + membership day ticket, €60 festival pass Rock: Woody & the Sidemen Maloe Melo, 22.00, €5 Jazz: Paul Berner Band If you still have some energy left after Jazz op het Dak, this afterparty features the warm, Californian grooves of bassist Berner. DJ Funka-Flex follows. Bimhuis, 23.59, €5

Saturday 5 July Jazz: De Bende van Drie Jazz trio that confronts Western swing with Eastern traditions. Muziekgebouw, 18.00, free Jazz: Jazz op het Dak Tonight features Carlama Orkestar, [em] and Stefan Lievestro’s The Gairloch Session. See Short List. NEMO, 19.15, €17.50 day ticket, €30 festival pass Pop/Rock: Subbacultcha! With the electro pop of Jean Parlette and lo-ﬁ rock of Spilt Milk. De Nieuwe Anita, 20.00, €5 Classical: Radio Filharmonisch Orkest Performing

Local tip: Jazz

Zomerconcerten op De Drie Gebroeders Amstel 320K, Sunday 6 July Annual jazz gathering on a boat on the Amstel. Trombonist Wolter Wierbos (see photo) is a regular, performing tonight with singer and accordionist Felix Strategier. 15.00, €10, reserve at ﬁekebroekhuizen@mac. com

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Tchaikovsky’s Francesca da Rimini, Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G, and Prokofiev’s Alexander Njevski; conducted by Jaap van Zweden, with the Groot Omroepkoor. Concertgebouw, Grote Zaal, 20.15, €22.50/€26.50

Jazz: Bernie’s Lounge The 2008 Jazz op het Dak festival draws to a groovy close with the blazing horns of these locals. DJ Jairzinho keeps the party going till late. See Short List. Bimhuis, 23.59, €5

Experimental: MKM! Banjo punk from Red Herring (Portland), trash pop from Two Dogs and synth rock from Les Trucs (DE). OCCII, 21.30, €5

Sunday 6 July

Electronica: 5 Days Off—Day Four—Melkweg Only the best cutting-edge techno and house sounds around. In The Max: Steve Rachmad, Shinedoe, Polder and Bart Skils; in the Oude Zaal: Yuro & Trago, Rauwkost, Boris Werner, Ille Bitch and the Dekmantel Soundsystem. Melkweg, 22.00, €12 + membership day ticket, €60 festival pass Electronica: 5 Days Off—Day Four—Paradiso The experimental, noisy and occasionally painfully fun side of electronica. Featuring C64 Orchestra, Venetian Snares, Osaka Invasion and many more DJs. Paradiso, 22.00, €12 + membership day ticket, €60 festival pass Electronica: 5 Days Off—Justice French electronic duo who’ve revitalised the disco pop scene in the past year, mixing in a stadium rock vibe to dazzle all senses with their live shows. Support from Feadz, Dr Lektroluv, Erol Alkan and DJ Spliph. Heineken Music Hall, 22.00, €35 Blues: Clay Windham Blues Band Specialist in Texan and New Orleans blues. Maloe Melo, 22.00, €5

Reggae: Two 7’s Splash Indoor all-day reggae party. From contemporary reggae pop to Jamaican classics, guests include Shaggy, Beres Hammond, Buju Banton, Pressure and Lady Saw. A rasta inspired market can be found outside the venue. Heineken Music Hall, 12.00, €47 Festival: Metropolis Festival Celebrating 20 years of this fine ‘newcomers’ festival. Sadly, funding issues seem to be seeing this Rotterdam gathering downgrading year-by-year. As such, where they once unleashed international outfits like Smashing Pumpkins and Interpol before the world knew their name, now there’s just a scattering of foreign visitors, like Devotchka, with the rest being primarily a Dutch cast of electronic, urban and indie rock acts. Regardless, they still deserve your support so see www.metropolisfestival.nl for full lineup. Zuiderpark, Zuidplein, Rotterdam, 13.00, free Pop: POPschool Amsterdam Singing and piano stars from the music school. Cafe Pakhuis Wilhelmina, 15.00, free Classical: Zanzaretta Quintet Performing madrigals by the likes of Monteverdi, De Monte, Luzzaschi and Marenzio. Rijpenhofje, 15.00, free Jazz: Zomerconcerten op De Drie Gebroeders Annual jazz gathering on a boat on the Amstel. Trombonist Wolter Wierbos is a regular, performing tonight with singer and accordionist Felix Strategier. Amstel 320K, 15.00, €10, reserve at fiekebroekhuizen@mac. com Classical: WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln German’s performing Mahler’s Kindertotenlieder and Bruckner’s Second; conducted by Eliahu Inbal. Concertgebouw, Grote Zaal, 20.15, €17.50/€21 Electronica: 5 Days Off—Day Five—Paradiso Pop dance party featuring painted Brazilian darlings CSS, Midnight Juggernauts, Presets and Girl Talk. Paradiso, 21.00, €14 + membership day ticket, €60 festival pass Electronica/Jazz: Oren Ambarchi, Stephen O’Malley, Machinefabriek Two drone legends: Ambarchi is an experimental drummer, guitarist and poet; O’Malley is best known for his role in drone metal icons Sunn O))). Local electronic experimentalist Machinefabriek opens the gig. Bimhuis, 21.00, €10 Electronica: 5 Days Off—Day Five—Melkweg An Electric Deluxe special. With this being the imprint of techno legend Speedy J, the maestro DJ himself will

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be appearing, as will Chris Liebing, DBX, Darko Esser, Matthew Dear and Kabale und Liebe. Melkweg, 22.00, €16 + membership day ticket, €60 festival pass

AGENDA: MUSIC / CLUBS

CLUBS

Singer-songwriter: Sunday Songs A scattering of earnest songwriters every Sunday night. Studio K, 22.30, free

Monday 7 July Rock: Willy DeVille Blues, rock ’n’ roll and pop from the former vocalist of old American punks Mink DeVille. Carré, 19.30, €41-€47 Singer-songwriter: An Evening with Ben Harper Oh oh. It’s always a worry when artists reel out the ‘An Evening with...’ header. Okay, probably not so bad for hardcore fans—although this one was downsized from HMH—but it does mean the rootsy American star is likely to be jamming for hours. Paradiso, Grote Zaal, 20.30, sold out Pop: Nicole Atikins & The Sea Bright Brooklyn pop on a similar track as Brit starlets Adele and Duffy. With emerging success in the US and following a recent showcase at Bitterzoet, she’s now taking recent album Neptune City to the masses. Melkweg, Oude Zaal, 20.30, €13 + membership

Tuesday 8 July Classical: Il barbiere di Siviglia A trio of Dutch musical institutions converge for a colourful take on Rossini’s The Barber of Seville. Concertgebouw, Grote Zaal, 19.30, €31/€36.50 Pop: Mika Come on now! Mika? Sure, there has to be some balance at the Live at Westerpark series and airy pop is certainly needed to counter the Radiohead and Massive Attack depressions. But there’s no excuse for going to see this bouncy but soul crushing Lebanese pop singer. Is there? Really. Westergasfabriek, 19.30, €36 Classical: Liza Ferschtman & Inon Barnatan Violin and piano duo performing a trio of Beethoven sonatas. Concertgebouw, Kleine Zaal, 20.15, €21 Rock: My Morning Jacket These American groove rockers have established an amazing live reputation over the past decade, but it’s only now that this is beginning to mutate into hype and record sales. So new album, Evil Urges has been attracting airplay and even managing chart placings, but the sound... well that’s as varied as ever, from big riffs to psych rock, to hints of Prince funkiness. Melkweg, The Max, 20.30, €15 + membership Rock: Steve Lukather Rock noodling and classic rock memories from the former lead guitarist of Toto. Paradiso, Grote Zaal, 20.30, €30 + membership Singer-songwriter: Open Mic Weekly podium for singers to share their tunes and hear their peers. Lots of international voices are heard, so you could be pleasantly surprised. Cafe Sappho, 21.00, free Rock: The Zydepunks New Orleans’ favourite Cajun Irish Jewish punk band. Also with Iva Nova, an all-girl quintet from St Petersburg. OCCII, 21.00, €5

Wednesday 9 July Heavy: Converge Mathcore from Massachusetts. Obviously this isn’t for everyone, but if you can handle the screaming and drums that will pummel your brain, Converge have plenty to offer. Namely, they continue to innovate in a metal scene full of pretenders. Melkweg, Oude Zaal, 20.00, €16 + membership Classical: Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg Performing Mussorgsky’s Khovanshchina Overture, Prokoﬁev’s Piano Concerto No.3, and Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No.4; conducted by Emmanuel Krivine. Concertgebouw, Grote Zaal, 20.15, €17.50/€21 Pop: Jason Mraz Clean American guitar pop that tweaks the minds of James Blunt and Alanis fans, though this chilled Californian can undoubtedly sing faster. Melkweg, The Max, 20.30, sold out Heavy: 3xLive With For Ladies Only, Mary Bell and Galvano (Sweden). OCCII, 21.00, €5 Hiphop: Common One of the most interesting characters of the contemporary hiphop scene. Not because the Chicago lyricist plays with guns or talks trash about his peers. No, mainly he’s made his name producing high quality commercial hiphop, which so many of his peers forget is a requirement of their roles. Paradiso, Grote Zaal, 21.00, €23 + membership Rock: Baby O’Shea Soul rock fusion. Skek, 21.30, free

Thursday 3 July Hardgaan gets Electrorated Electro hiphop with DJs Rubix, Shockingboys, The Videoband and The B.O.E.L.O. (live). Winston Kingdom, 23.00-03.00, €5 Massive Attack Afterparty With Cinnaman, Elected and Aardvarck. Flex Bar, 23.00-03.00, €4 Detroit & Chicago zijn Vreemd 2.0 A weird dance journey through America’s mid-West, with Casper Tielrooij, Steffi and Raymon Hollander. Sugar Factory, 23.00-05.00, €8.50 WKND Building you up for the weekend with nu-house and deep house spinning. Studio 80, 23.00-late, €5

Friday 4 July Beatbox—Alice in Wonderland An absurd, trippy take on the clubbing scene, complete with roller disco, spinning from The Flexican, Shagspeare and Goodgrip, plus live vocals from MC Lady Bee. Escape, 21.00-05.00, €8/€16 Club Cornholio Ska, pop, soul, deep funk and rock ’n’ roll, now with added sugar for summer, meaning Nintendo projections, dodgy movies and ‘swing-a-longs’. Club 8, 22.00-04.00, €5 Discocult presents Kentastic The broad side of disco, so long as its funky, fat and groovin’. Kentastic headlines, with support from Rubedo, Graham B and Martin Duvall. Sugar Factory, 23.00-05.00, €10 Fucking Popqueens With Manga and Mr and Mrs Cameron. Also a Nelly Furtado afterparty. Flex Bar, 23.00-05.00, €7 Kobyashi introducing Spectrum UK party Spectrum hits town with an array of funky electro, breakbeats and even some noise rock from Groningen, thanks to Bonne Aparte. Escape, 23.00-05.00, €8/€10 Last Night On Earth It’s end of clubbing as we know it, but what’s with this ‘School’s Out Special’? Featuring David Gilmour Girls, Marco & Orpheo and My Little Soundsystem. Studio 80, 23.00-late, €7.50

Saturday 5 July Costa del Soul Four stages, promising the best of minimal, techno, disco, house, soul, funk and hiphop provided by Rendez Vous, Vreemd and Dekmantel. Throw in tribal art and live performances. So will summer sun make an appearance at the beach? Blijburg, 12.00-00.00, €22.50 _off_BeAt Sessions BIG Sound Day A bargain party if you’re into hiphop, drum & bass and dubstep. Away from the furor of 5 Days Off, _off_BeAt is all about escaping from the mainstream dance acts and uncovering local and international jewels. NDSM-werf, 20.00-06.00, €5 Robotrock Electro, rock and indie classics with the bonus of robotic dancing. Club 8, 22.00-04.00, €7 Soultrain One room of swingbeat, classics and old school urban; another with R&B, Caribbean and ballads... awww. VakZuid, 22.00-late, €20 Horse Meat Club A roller coaster ride mixing alternative and hiphop with drum & bass, dance and rock. Winston Kingdom, 23.00-04.00, €6 5 Days After In the main room: Beesmunt Soundsystem and Boemklatsch DJs. In the bar, it’s an Italian Affair. Flex Bar, 23.00-05.00, €8 6 Jaar eRRorKREW Amsterdam’s funkiest underground party organisation is heading back to Sugar Factory to celebrate its six year anniversary. For this memorable day, they’ll treat you to a wide range of energetic, warm, funky and minimal techno from Amsterdam’s ﬁnest underground DJs and special guest, Paul Ritch (France). Sugar Factory, 23.00-05.00, €12.50 Timezone presents ‘THE RITZ’ Non-Smokers Edition Odeon’s favourite eclectic party goes smoke-free. Odeon, 23.00-05.00, €12

Sunday 6 July Wicked Jazz Sounds Jazz, hiphop, broken beats, nu-

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jazz, funk and Afro sounds, as classic vinyl collides with live musicians. This special also features a performance by the newly formed Wicked Jazz Sounds Live outﬁt. Sugar Factory, 23.00-05.00, €9.50

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South Africa, present two short performances with nine dancers each. Theater Bellevue, (Thur 21.00), €17.50 Comedy: CISF English stand-up, with Neil Delamere and Glen Wool (Canada). On Wednesday, the line-up switches to Arj Barker (US) and Marcus Birdman (UK). Toomler, (Thur-Sat, Wed 20.30), €13.50

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Comedy: International Comedy With locals packing up their camping gear, Comedy Theater is preparing to turn cosmopolitan for the summer, with the joke preference switching to English to accommodate tourists and those left to work through the tropical months. As such, look out for international acts taking to the stage. Comedy Theater, (Fri, Sat 20.30), €12.50

Cheeky Monday True skool jungle and drum & bass, featuring players from the local and international scenes. Winston Kingdom, 22.00-03.00, €7

Tuesday 8 July [DEFAULT] invites Cutz Recordingz Electro, minimal, techhouse and techno, with DJs Les Ley, Thijs Kaldenbach, Apocalypse (UK) and Tom Austen (UK). Winston Kingdom, 22.00-03.00, €6

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Wednesday 9 July Toppa Top Wednesday A reggae thing, with Barka Moeri backed by the 90 Degree rhythm band from Sicily. Winston Kingdom, 21.00, €5 Katapult vs Blacktro Midweek electro pop. Studio 80, 23.00-late, €5

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Festival: Julidans Various locations, until 12 July One of Amsterdam’s premiere dance festivals, Julidans brings heaps of international talents to local stages, as well as tipping a cap to some of Holland’s own top choreographers and dancers. Partnered with Cinedans, which looks at the dance world through a lens, nine venues are going dance crazy. See www.julidans.nl. Various times and prices

Friday 4 July Party: Women’s Night Weekly women’s night in this laid-back cafe, with either DJ Suna, Ortega, Roest or Voytec. Men are welcome, if accompanied by a female friend. Cafe Sappho, 21.00-01.00, free

Saturday 5 July Sex club: Dikke Maatjes If you are big and hairy, or like your men to be that way, head to this monthly gettogether organised by Dikke Maatjes [fat friends]. Thermos Day Sauna, 14.00-22.00, €18 DJ Bloom This turntablist spins some lovely tunes in this great bar. Friendly staff, nice punters and at the back of the bar you have a great view over the canal. Queen's Head, 22.00, free Club: M.U.L.T.I.S.E.X.Y Fashion is favour! This

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Our weekly mixtape amsterdamweekly.muxtape.com See Friday 1. Stefano di Battista Quartet: ‘Nico’s Dream’ 2. The Cool Kids: ‘Black Mags’ 3. Roni Size: ‘Center of the Storm’ 4. The Ploctones: ‘Rrrita’ See Saturday 5. Jean Parlette: ‘Out of Time’ 6. Red Herring: ‘Nervous Habit’ 7. C64 Orchestra: ‘Cybernoid 2’ See Sunday 8. Buju Banton: ‘Cowboys’ 9. Devotchka: ‘Basso Profundo’ See Monday 10. Nicole Atikins & The Sea: ‘Maybe Tonight’ See Tuesday 11. My Morning Jacket: ‘Evil Urges’ 12. The Zydepunks: ‘Madeleine’ Uploaded every Wednesday. For more info see listings and weekly blog.

monthly party is a bit of everything really—part glamish, part punk-ish, part electro-ish, topped with a slightly underground/alternative touch, plus great decorations. It’s gay, but very mixed and that just adds to the overall attraction. Studio 80, 23.00-06.00, €9.50

Sunday 6 July Sex club: Nude Club Amsterdam Busy and steamy men-only afternoon safe sex party. Dress-code: no clothes, just rubbers! Oh, and free sandwiches at 18.00 to get your strength and energy back... Cockring, 15.00-19.00, €8

Monday 7 July Sex club: After Weekend Sex Party ‘Tell me why I don’t like Mondays’... Well, the crowd at this menonly, attitude free, sex party sure know how to get rid of that bluesy Monday feeling. Strict dress code: naked or underwear only. CK, 2(x)ist and AussieBum galore! Same Place, 20.00-01.00, €3/€5

Wednesday 9 July Party: Like it or not Diva Mayday treats you to her favourite tunes at this super tiny cafe, plus some tasty free snacks. De Engel van Amsterdam, 19.00, free Film: Gay Classic Movies: Mamma Mia! Not a gay classic yet, but a special preview of this musical movie full of ABBA songs, starring Meryl Streep and Pierce Brosnan. After the movie, head to Cafe Exit for two drinks for the price of one upon showing your cinema ticket. Pathé De Munt, 20.30, €7

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Dance: Brickland The Argentinian choreographer Constanza Macras (1970), who has lived in Germany since 1995, takes her dancers to gated communities. Out of a need for security and safety, the inhabitants go in search of the lost paradise, but instead of ﬁnding it, they create a world in which the terror of the lawnmower and the height of the garden fence reigns. Stadsschouwburg, (Fri, Sat 20.30), €12-€22.50 Dance: The Left Cheek During the Cultural Revolution in China, everything that was called ‘left’ was revered: slapping somebody’s left cheek was a serious misdemeanour. For director Zhang Xian, the left cheek is a symbol for all political systems that suppress the people by means of small details. Only in the last few years did the Chinese authorities allow Xian to establish his collective Zuhe Niao, a collaboration between four dancers and a number of video and sound artists. Theater Bellevue, (Sat 21.00), €17.50

Festival: Over het IJ Festival The 16th edition of this annual festival offers a gaggle of site-speciﬁc theatre, much of it created by young, unknown talents looking to experiment with socially critical work amidst all the grungy steel and concrete at NDSM. Until 13 July. See www.overhetij.nl for full programme and Short List. NDSM-werf, (daily), various prices Lecture: The Future of India Ram L Lakhina discusses India’s ‘unity in diversity’ and how that is relevant to the Netherlands; Rajindre Tewari’s ‘Can the Elephant Dance?’ lecture focuses on the country’s economy; and V Subramanian discuss various developmental issues. All followed by a spicy, saucy meal from the region. Cultuurhuis Diamantslijperij, (Thu 19.00-23.30), €30, €10 students Comedy: Quiet Night In The best of English-language comedy and sitcoms with the bonus of live sketches and short sets by the QNI Players. De Nieuwe Anita, (Thur 19.00), €4 Performance: Vondelpark Openluchttheater Summer fun in Vondelpark. Thursday brings classical music, Friday means dance performances, Saturdays are a mixed bag of theatre, cabaret and pop, and Sundays are filled with singer-songwriter musical sets. Specials this week include Julidans and Cinedans on Friday. Vondelpark Openluchttheater, (Thur, Fri 20.30, Sat, Sun 14.00), free

Theatre: Kruks Marije Op ’t Eijnde and Bibi Corbeij present their absurd tragicomedy about two people who run away in their efforts to attain outward perfection. Limited capacity of 40 people per performance. In Dutch. Dadelstraat 4 & 5, Amsterdam-Noord (SatTues 20.00), €5

Festival: StrangerFestival International festival boasting the video work of thousands of young people (26 and under), with video workshops, exhibitions, debates and of course, competitions for the best works. Though there’s no entrance fee, you have to first sign up at www.strangerfestival.com to get in (which also happens to be a damned fun, interactive website). See Short List. Westergasfabriek, (Thur-Sat various times), free

Dance: Co(te)lette Woman and flesh. Beauty and mortality. Raw and tender. Ann van den Broek’s Co(te)lette revolves around the mental and physical hunger of women. Melkweg Theater, (Mon, Tues 19.00), €10

Party: Red White and Blue Canal Cruise Lots of patriotic drunken Americans riding on a boat and sweating it out to loud rock. Price includes unlimited food and drink during the 90-minute cruise. Hard Rock Cafe, (Fri 20.00), €37.50

Dance: Dolby In performances by Nanine Linning, dance merges with design and music. After her successful Cry Love (2006), she’s now collaborating with theatre designer Marc Warning, plus there’s newlycomposed music by Jacob ter Veldhuis. In Dolby, ﬁve dancers are exposed to an ever changing environment. With all the risks and dangers this environment entails, it leads to an unpredictable, dynamic performance. Stadsschouwburg, (Mon, Tues 20.30), €12-€22.50

Music: I Love Sadza! The ﬁrst in a series of fundraising events to aid performing arts in Zimbabwe. Tonight showcases live performances by Rina Mushonga, Phinx, Lucky Fonz III, up-and-coming rockers Club Ugly and DJs Dynamite and Babalicious. (Sadza, by the way, is the staple food in Zimbabwe.) De Balie, (Fri 21.00-01.30), €7.50 Festival: Finale Kunstbende 2008 Last stage in the competition for young talented musicians, ﬁlm-makers, wordsmiths, dancers, thespians, fashionistas, DJs, holy rollers and anything else kids are doing these days. Muziekgebouw, (Sat 13.00), €7.50

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Dance: íSA Inspired by the Scandinavian legend of íSA, the Ice Queen, choreographer Kristel van Issum makes souls descend into a body and subsequently determine, invisibly, the sculpture and sound of that body. Performed to new composed music for cello, violin and voice, the souls search for a way out in a dynamic, powerful and sometimes even aggressive way. Theater Bellevue, (Tues, Wed 21.00), €17.50

Performance: Kubrilesque A new burlesque show inspired by the ﬁlms of Stanley Kubrick. Performed by New York group Cherry Kiss. Comedy Theater, (Fri 23.00), €14

Dance: Opening Night Les Slovaks Dance Collective, with Milan Tomásik, performing the Dutch premiere of their ﬁrst production, which features ﬁve dancers and a violinist. Melkweg Theater, (Wed 19.00), €10

Art/Auction: YiP—Young in Prison Following the closure of the brief exhibition at Foam, now you have the chance to take home some photographic art while being charitable. Odeon, (Sun 15.00), free

Dance: Hello & Per Figura Sola A solo piece by Hyoung-Min Kim (South Korea) and a Fibonacciinspired choreography by Paolo Bianchi (Italy). Melkweg Theater, (Fri, Sat 19.00), €10

Ongoing

Performance: Voor Pampus Studio K kicks off its summer Voor Pampus theme with a seaman’s choir, DJs and lots of Pampus related items. Studio K, (Sun), free

Chilling outdoors? Summery sounds in Artis and Vondelpark.

Dance: Imbizo e Mazweni Via Katlehong Dance, from

Performance: Artis ZOOmeravond Summer sees Artis keeping its doors open during Saturday evenings. Tonight features duo Lekker Belangrijk, guitarist Frank Ong-Alok and theatre group Het Beest. Artis, (Sat 19.00), zoo entry cost

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(Sur)realistic paintings by young talents Andro Semeiko and Stephanie Jansen. (Mon-Fri 11.00-17.00; Sun 12.00-17.00), until 3 August

Cary Grant Original screen-printed posters, photos, film compilations and a documentary, which accompany the Cary Grant film series throughout July and August. Filmmuseum (Mon-Fri 09.00 -22.15, Sat, Sun one hour prior to show-22.15), opens Thursday, until 27 August Crosswire—In Search of the Synesthetic Effect Sound installations and audiovisual environments enabling immersive and spatial sonic experiences through body and multi-sensory perception. Contributing artists include Aernoudt Jacobs (BE), Sagi Groner, Kaffe Matthews (UK), Telcosystems and TeZ + Janis Ponisch (IT/DE). Montevideo/Time Based Arts (TuesSat 13.00-18.00), opens Thursday, until 26 July El blanco perfecto Paintings and installations that explore Dominican artist Miguel Rivas’s relationship with femininity. CEDLA (Mon-Fri 10.00-17.00), opens Thursday, until 28 August Gilian Schrofer: Models of Concern Models and designs by Schrofer, who’s to design the interiors of the four refreshment areas of the renovated Stedelijk Museum. Stedelijk Museum CS (Daily 10.00-18.00), opens Friday, until 31 August Lloyd History Just what the title suggests: documentaries, photos and documents show the many faces of the hotel, including its time as a refugee station and juvenile prison. Lloyd Hotel (Daily), opens Friday, until 31 July Monique de Vries & Jan Alberts Ceramic sculpture and paintings and drawings. Retort (Fri 16.00-20.00, Sat, Sun 13.00-18.00), opens Friday, until 13 July Nosmo King Niels Shoe Meulman’s self-styled calligraffiti, which addresses the loss of various freedoms that Amsterdam was famous for—spurred on by the recent smoking ban. See profile, p. 7. De Duivel (Fri 20.00-3.00), opens Friday Offline #4 (Sur)realistic paintings by young talents Andro Semeiko and Stephanie Jansen. ArtOlive (Mon-Fri 11.00-17.00; Sun 12.00-17.00), opens Friday, until 3 August Fresh Paint A special selection of four bright young Dutch painters: Maurice Braspenning (Rotterdam), Bas Coenegracht (Maastricht), Johan van Dijke (Leiden) and Jeroen Witvliet. Ronmandos (Wed-Sat 12.30-17.30), opens Saturday, until 2 August In Stock Diverse works by Paul Blanca, Bart Domburg, Ernie en Bidet, Gerald van der Kaap, Theo Niermeyer and others. Ververs Gallery (Thur, Fri 12.00-17.30; Sat 14.00-17.30), opens Saturday, until 27 July Marc Camille Chaimowicz: ...In The Cherished Company of Others... One hundred works by Chaimowicz, including drawings, decorative and functional objects, wallpapers, maquettes, sculptures, paintings and a revisited installation. These sit alongside architectural models, bookplates and artworks by other international artists with whom the artist feels

empathy with. De Appel (Tues-Sun 11.00-18.00), opens Saturday, until 7 September Summer in the City ’08 Works by Steve Schapiro, William Wegman and Michael Wolf. Galerie Wouter van Leeuwen (Thur-Sat 12.00-18.00), opens Saturday, until 23 July The Shadow Cabinet: No More Reality.Step 3: SHARED FOLDER Video and audio installations, screenings, magazines, books, newspapers, posters and leaﬂets. De Appel (Tues-Sun 11.00-18.00), opens Saturday, until 7 September Wheel of Life Tashi Norbu’s work combines his initial painting education, in the Dalai Lama’s monastery at the foothills of the Indian Himalayas, with contemporary western styles later learned in art school in Belgium. Kunstkerk (Thur, Sat, Sun 17.00-21.00), opens Saturday, until 13 July Summer in the City Photo exhibition from four established snappers: Anne Marie Trovato, Reinier Gerritsen, Martijn de Jonge and Alex ten Napel. Melkweg Galerie (Tues-Sat 13.00 -18.00), opens Wednesday, until 31 August

Museums YiP—Young in Prison Photo exhibition and auction (6 July in Odeon) aiming to raise awareness and funds to offer imprisoned children worldwide the opportunity for a brighter future. Ninety images, including vintage Dutch photos, have been donated. Foam (Sat-Wed 10.00-18.00, Thur, Fri 10.00-21.00), closing Saturday Object, The Undeniable Success Of Operations The basis of this exhibition is a monographic presentation of the work of Falke Pisano. That work, in turn, is placed in dialogue with works by nine other artists, who investigate the relativity of language and the position of the artist and spectator. Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam (Tues-Sun 11.00-17.00), closing Sunday Foam_Lab: Estafette Five young and headstrong

Second chance: Rembrandt Laughing is extended till 20 July.

Dutch photographers will take on a visual dialogue: in turns Paulien Oltheten, Elza Jo, Corriette Schoenaerts, Jaron Korvinus and Anne de Vries will respond to each others work, like in a relay race. Foam (Sat-Wed 10.0018.00, Thur, Fri 10.00-21.00), closing Wednesday Rembrandt Laughing In October 2007, a painting of a laughing man came to light, and there was speculation that it might be a self-portrait by Rembrandt. Now regarded to be fact, the painting will be on display in his former studio. Rembrandthuis (Mon-Sat 10.0017.00, Sun 11.00-17.00), until 20 July Mark Boulos: All That Is Solid Melts Into Air Docking Station presents the European premiere of this Boston-based artist’s new video installation, which utilises two screens to handle the confrontation between two works about oil and globalisation. Stedelijk Museum CS (Daily 10.00-18.00), until 20 July The Best Designed Books 2007 This year 33 books have been selected out of all those published in the Netherlands in 2007. As in previous years, the museum is supplementing the selection on show with a separate category: this time, children’s books of exceptionally good design. Stedelijk Museum CS (Daily 10.00-18.00), until 3 August Green Bags: Brand New and Used Materials Showcasing bags and designers embracing the concepts of recyclable and sustainable. Museum of Bags and Purses (Daily 10.00-17.00), until 17 August The Transitory World of Horst Janssen An exhibition of works by the German graphic artist Horst Janssen (1929-1995). In Germany he is regarded as one of the greatest post-war artists, although, strangely enough, he is far less well-known outside Germany. This is the first showing of his prints in the Netherlands. Rembrandthuis (Mon-Sat 10.00-17.00, Sun 11.00-17.00), until 24 August Amsterdamse School Straatmeubilair Uitgelicht Celebrating the street furniture and objects created by architects and designers of the Amsterdam School. Museum Het Schip (Wed-Sun 13.00-17.00), until 31 August

Wim van der Linden Photography of Amsterdam from the ’60s. Stadsarchief Amsterdam (Tues-Sat 10.00-17.00, Sun 11.00-17.00), until 31 August So Blue, So Blue—Edges of the Mediterranean Dutch photographer Ad van Denderen presents photos which look at the political, social, economic and ecological changes occurring around the Mediterranean. Nederlands Fotomuseum (Tues-Fri 10.00-17.00, Sat, Sun 11.00-17.00), Rotterdam, until 31 August Resistance in Belgium 1940-1945 Contemporary portraits of Belgian resistance ﬁghters by French photographer Jean-Marc Gourdon. Verzetsmuseum (Tues-Fri 10.00-17.00, Sat, Sun 11.00-17.00), until 14 September Gewoon Anders! Exhibition revolving around alternative sexual lifestyles which, during the turn of the 21st century, spawned a wealth of images. With over 100 pieces by some 35 artists, including Gilbert & George, Nan Goldin, Marlene Dumas, Wolfgang Tillmans, Marlene McCarty, Rachid Ben Ali and a nine-metre high monumental statue of David, in bright pink and canary yellow, by Hans-Peter Feldmann. CoBrA Museum (Tues-Sun 11.00-17.00), until 21 September The Vincent Award 2008 Do artists improve if you dangle €50,000 in front of them? Artists short-listed for this biennial European award include: Francis Alÿs (Belgium), Liam Gillick (UK), Deimantas Narkevicius (Lithuania) and Rebecca Warren (UK). Working with diverse media, their works remain on display through summer, with the prize ceremony on 12 September. Stedelijk Museum CS (Daily 10.00-18.00), until 30 September Presence of Mind—A Choice from the Collection by Wolfgang Tillmans See Short List. Stedelijk Museum CS (Daily 10.00-18.00), until 30 September Snap Judgments—New Positions in Contemporary African Photography An exhibition of work by 35 contemporary African artists and photographers with unique perspectives on their own continent. The artists also break away from lingering stereotypical images of their cultures, histories and countries. Stedelijk Museum CS (Daily 10.00-18.00), until 30 September

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De Kabbala—Graven van Safed Photos of the cemetery in the Israeli city of Safed. Nederlands Uitvaart Museum Tot Zover (Mon-Fri 13.00-17.00), until 12 October Malick Sidibé Malian photographer (b. 1935, Soloba) who, from the early ’60s on, snapped portraits and various engagements of local society, from football matches to weddings and Christmas Eve celebrations, which now offer insight into the people’s lives shortly after winning their independence. Foam (Sat-Wed 10.00-18.00, Thur, Fri 10.00-21.00), until 15 October Mondriaan Following the publication of a new book, this exhibition attempts to put paid to the popular idea that Piet Mondriaan was a cold, mathematically-minded man and reveals that he was in fact an artist engaged in a passionate quest for a new formal language in which to paint. Gemeentemuseum (Tues-Sun 11.00-17.00), Den Haag, until 26 October 24-hour Indonesia Glimpse the daily life of contemporary Indonesia. Eight different crews across Indonesia ﬁlmed during a 24-hour period. Tropenmuseum (Daily 10.00-17.00), until 16 November Hendrik Werkman: The Blue Barge Exhibition containing Werkman’s preparatory studies for the suites of prints he made as an act of resistance for The Blue Barge during WWII. Joods Historisch Museum (Daily 11.00-17.00), until 30 November Palestine 1948 On 14 May 2008 it will be exactly 60 years ago that the State of Israel was founded. This long term presentation shows how this event affected the lives of individual Palestinians. Tropenmuseum (Daily 10.00-17.00), until 4 January 2009

Galleries Prints & The Revolution Twenty-one artists present street art and contemporary works. Ceintuurbaan 250-252 (Tues-Sun 13.00-19.00) If You Smell Rotting Pig Meat Around... Drawings and silkscreens by Jer-one. De Duivel (Daily), closing Saturday Djelem Djelem! Peter van Beek and Henri Brekveld lived in Romania to photograph the lives of the Roma people. The artists felt strongly connected to these vulnerable and proud people, and their work provides glimpses of another reality. Melkweg Galerie (WedSun 13.00-20.00), closing Sunday

Lekker Bezig

By Luuk van Huët

Galerie Schaap ‘Hi! I’m a new gallery located at Utrechtsestraat 95, but that wasn’t always the case. For forty years, a butcher named Cor Kolijn had a shop here. When he quit, I was left chewing the cud for about two years until four artists decided to turn me into a gallery. The counter that used to display a mouth-watering array of meat has found a new function as the Tentoonbankstelling, currently filled with a glass artwork made by Thomas Hillebrand. Shelves on the walls are filled with artworks from previous exhibitions, such as painted tiles and Sinterkunstletters, which can be bought by the gram. I don’t charge commission, so the proceeds all go to the artists themselves. The cooling cells have been turned into storage space, which is a marked improvement on having all those carcasses hanging around! I also have an essential kitchen area—even artists have to masticate sometimes—and behind that it is the courtyard where the old meat grinder stands, and the old rookworst smoking shack has been transformed into a watering hole for thirsty bohemians. Finally, the basement where once animals were sent to their final green pastures has been saved from flooding and at the moment it’s graced with an installation oozing calm underwater sounds. The artists who flock to me believe in sharing instead of shearing and caring instead of rearing. Everyone, from black to white sheep is welcome, and that includes ewe!’ Visit Gallerie Schaap: Utrechtsestraat 96, Amsterdam www.galerieschaap.nl Photo by Joost Benthem

ADDRESSES

Galerie de Rietlanden Exposities Rietlandpark 193, 419 4705

11 Oosterdokskade 3-5, 625 5999

Galerie Wouter van Leeuwen Hazenstraat 27, 06 5203 1540

Allard Pierson Museum Oude Turfmarkt 127, 525 2556 Amsterdams Historisch Museum Kalverstraat 92, 523 1822

Grimm Fine Art Hazenstraat 24, 422 7227

FEEL Florence Paintings by Eliana Sevillano; paintings and images by Fernando Cucci. Feel Gallery (Wed-Sat 12.00-18.00), closing Sunday

De Appel Nieuwe Spiegelstraat 10, 625 5651

Heineken Music Hall ArenA Boulevard 590, 0900 300 1250

De aard van het beestje Drawings of insects by Kees Verbeek and texts by René Marcelis. Mozes & Aäronkerk (Mon-Wed 13.00-17.00), closing Wednesday

ArtOlive Polonceaukade 17, 675 8504

William Monk A solo exhibition of 12 new paintings by English artist Monk, including diptychs, triptychs and multi-panelled canvases, in which he opts for an aesthetic language of pure colours and forms against subtly contrasted shades of blue. Grimm Fine Art (Wed-Sat 12.00-18.00), until 12 July Field Work—Part Two Diverse works questioning the classical understanding of ‘nature’ as a concept, and inviting the viewer to distinguish between nature and culture. SMART Project Space (Tues-Sat 12.00-17.00), until 12 July

ARCAM Prins Hendrikkade 600, 620 4878 Artis Plantage Kerklaan 38-40, 523 3400 De Balie Kleine-Gartmanplantsoen 10, 553 5151 Bijbels Museum Herengracht 366-368, 624 2436 Bimhuis Piet Heinkade 3, 788 2150 Blijburg Bert Haanstrakade 2004, 416 0330 Blow Up Gallery Hazenstraat 67, 665 3435 De Brakke Grond Nes 45, 626 6866 Cafe Pakhuis Wilhelmina Veemkade 576, 419 3368 Cafe Sappho Vijzelstraat 103, 423 1509 Carré Amstel 115-125, 524 9452 CEDLA Keizersgracht 395-397, 525 3498

Hard Rock Cafe Max Euweplein 57-61, 523 7625

Patronaat Zijlsingel 2, Haarlem, 023 517 5858 Paule Carre Cornelis Schuytstraat 44, 675 6800 Platform 21 Prinses Irenestraat 19, 344 9449 PRIK Spuistraat 109, 06 4544 2321 Queen's Head Zeedijk 20, 420 2475 Rembrandthuis Jodenbreestraat 4, 520 0400 Retort Aalsmeerweg 103, 669 4669

Hermitage Amsterdam Nieuwe Herengracht 14, 530 8751

Rijpenhofje Rozengracht 116-138

Huis Marseille Keizersgracht 401, 531 8989

Same Place Nassaukade 120, 475 1981

Hup Gallery Tesselschadestraat 15, 515 8589

Skek Zeedijk 4-8, 427 0551

Imagine IC Bijlmerplein 1006-1008, 489 4866

SMART Project Space Arie Biemondstraat 107-113, 427 5953

Joods Historisch Museum Jonas Daniel Meijerplein 2-4, 531 0310

Ronmandos Prinsengracht 282, 320 7036

Soledad Senlle Gallery Sloterkade 171, 615 1395

K-Space Amsterdam Nieuwezijdsvoorburgwal 262

Stadsarchief Amsterdam Vijzelstraat 32

KochxBos Gallery 1e Anjeliersdwarsstraat 3-5, 681 4567

Stadsschouwburg Leidseplein 26, 624 2311

Kunstkerk Prinseneiland 89, 627 1238 De Levante Hobbemastraat 28, 671 5485

Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam Rozenstraat 59, 422 0471

Lloyd Hotel Oostelijke Handelskade 34, 419 1840

Stedelijk Museum CS Oosterdokskade 5, 573 2911

Maloe Melo Lijnbaansgracht 163, 420 4592

Studio 80 Rembrandtplein 17, 521 8333

Melkweg Lijnbaansgracht 234A, 531 8181

Studio K Timorplein 62, 692 0422

Melkweg Galerie Marnixstraat 409, 531 8181

Sugar Factory Lijnbaansgracht 238, 627 0008

Montevideo/Time Based Arts Keizersgracht 264, 623 7101

Suzanne Biederberg Gallery 1e Egelantiersdwarsstraat 1, 624 5455

Mozes & Aäronkerk Waterlooplein 205

Theater Bellevue Leidsekade 90, 530 5301 Thermos Day Sauna Raamstraat 33, 623 9158

Please Do Flash / Contemplator A fashion-tastic sewing concept by Mariëlle Videler and photo portrait experimentation by Katerien ter Meulen. De Veemvloer (Wed-Sat 12.00-18.00, Sun 13.00-18.00), until 13 July

Ceintuurbaan 250-252

The Unbreakable Nigerian Spirit Photos, paintings and sculptures by ten Nigerian artists. Galerie 23 (MonFri 09.00-17.00, Sat, Sun 11.00-17.00), until 27 July

Club 8 Admiraal de Ruyterweg 56B, 685 1703

Raymond Cuijpers An exhibition dominated by football by a footballer turned artist. Van Zijll Langhout (Mon-Fri 11.00-17.00), until 15 August

Cockring Warmoesstraat 96, 623 9604

Museum Het Schip Spaarndammerplantsoen 140, 418 2885

Comedy Theater Nes 110, 422 2777

Museum of Bags and Purses Herengracht 573, 524 6452

Tropenmuseum Linnaeusstraat 2, 568 8200

Concertgebouw Concertgebouwplein 2-6, 671 8345

Muziekgebouw Piet Heinkade 1, 788 2010

Consortium Veemkade 570, 06 2611 8950

NDSM-werf TT Neveritaweg 15, 330 5480

UvA: Special Collections Library Oude Turfmarkt 129, 525 2141

Cultuurhuis Diamantslijperij Tolstraat 129

Nederlands Architectuurinstituut Museumpark 25, Rotterdam, 010 440 1200

Paul Blanca: Mi Matties & Kristal Two new blackand-white photo series: one focussed on street children, the other a naked model submerged in chocolate and displayed like confectionery. Witzenhausen Gallery (Thur-Sat 12.00-18.00), until 16 August Ata & Eva An overview exhibition of the oeuvre of Hungarian photographers Ata Kandó (1913) and Eva Besnyö (1910-2003). Hup Gallery (Tues, Thur, Fri 10.00-17.00), until 30 August Dutch Nudes Dutch photography, encouraging models to get their kit off. Blow Up Gallery (Thur-Sat13.0018.00), until 30 August Homo Urbanus—Homo Sapiens? An outdoor exhibition promoting young artists from Latvia. Westergasfabriek (Daily 12.00-20.00), until 15 September

Centrale Bibliotheek Oosterdokskade 143, 523 0900 Chiellerie Raamgracht 58, 320 9448 CoBrA Museum Sandbergplein 1-3, Amstelveen, 547 5050

De Engel van Amsterdam Zeedijk 21, 427 6381

Toomler Breitnerstraat 2, 670 7400

VakZuid Olympisch Stadion 35, 570 8400 Van Gogh Museum Paulus Potterstraat 7, 570 5200

Nederlands Fotomuseum Wilhelminakade 332, Rotterdam, 010 213 2011

Van Zijll Langhout Brouwersgracht 161, 06 2825 9620

Feel Gallery Frans Halsstraat 40

Nederlands Uitvaart Museum Tot Zover Kruislaan 124, 694 0482

Ververs Gallery Hazenstraat 54

Filmmuseum Vondelpark 3, 589 1400

NEMO Oosterdok 2

Verzetsmuseum Plantage Kerklaan 61, 620 2535

Flex Bar Pazzanistraat 1, 486 2123

Vondelpark Openluchttheater, 673 1499

Foam Keizersgracht 609, 551 6546

De Nieuwe Anita Frederik Hendrikstraat 111, 06 4150 3512

Fotogram Korte Prinsengracht 33, 624 9994

OCCII Amstelveenseweg 134, 671 7778

Winston Kingdom Warmoesstraat 129, 623 1380

Galerie 23 Nieuwe Herengracht 23, 623 9215

Odeon Singel 460, 624 9711

Witzenhausen Gallery Elandsstraat 145, 644 9898

Galerie Bart Bloemgracht 2, 320 6208

Paradiso Weteringschans 6-8, 626 4521

Zuiderpark, Rotterdam

De Duivel Reguliersdwarstr 87, 626 6184 Escape Rembrandtplein 11, 622 1111

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Film review

AGENDA: FILM By Massimo Benvegnù

Cary Grant Summer Programme Filmmuseum, 3 July-27 August, various times

GOOD OLD FASHIONED CHARISMA ‘One doesn’t direct Cary Grant, one just puts him in front of a camera.’ Now that we use the term ‘classic cinema’ for everything older than Star Wars, the tabloids are ﬁlled with Tom’s rubbish bin contents, Brad’s grocery list, Angelina’s sonogram and Scarlett’s spam, and celebrities are condemned for gorging on the same junk food we eat—or else starve themselves for our entertainment—there

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seems to be an even stronger longing for the real movie stars of the past. Why? Because they are still capable of showing us what style, charm, wit and presence meant. With his matinee idol looks and that distinguished, unique voice, with just the slightest hint of a British accent as the

ographers William Forsythe and Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker will choose their personal favourites. July 3-10. Rialto StrangerFestival Europe’s biggest international event for young ﬁlm-makers. See Short List. Westergasfabriek

Edited by Julie Phillips. This week’s ﬁlms reviewed by Massimo Benvegnù (MB),Meredith Brody (MBr), Angela Dress (AD),Don Druker (DD),Kate Eaton (KE),Luuk van Huët (LvH),JR Jones (JJ),Dave Kehr (DK),Iris Maher (IM),Marie-Claire Melzer (MM), Julie Phillips (JP),Jonathan Rosenbaum (JR) and Bregtje Schudel (BS).All ﬁlms are screened in English with Dutch subtitles unless otherwise noted. Amsterdam Weekly recommends.

Festivals 5 Days Off Big music fest for dance maniacs, also boasts a couple special documentaries on the subject, including We Built This City about the electronic scene in Cologne; and Bassweight the world premiere of the first official film on dubstep, with interviews from the likes of Skream, Benga, Kode 9, Plastician and BBC1 DJ Mary Anne Hobbs. Both screened at Melkweg. See Short List. Melkweg Cinema

Bergmania Ingmar Bergman himself once admitted that watching his own work depressed him. The Swedish director (1918-2007) does have a reputation for making dark and difficult films—but they are also beautiful, funny and more accessible than you think. A year after his death, the Belgian Film Archive has organised a traveling retrospective. The greatest hits will be playing all week at the Ketelhuis, while several films, including Smiles of a Summer Night and Summer with Monika, will screen later in the month at the Uitkijk. (MM) Het Ketelhuis Cinedans 2008 A week-long programme of dance films from 15 countries, showing in conjunction with the annual Julidans festival. Dancers featured include Akram Khan, Sasha Waltz and Alain Patel; the chore-

Summer of Culture Kriterion cinema raises the cultural level of Amsterdam with a summer series in which key figures on a city scene present the film or films of their choice. Themes include Art, Fashion (trade your old clothes for movie tickets!), gay (presented by Gay Krant editor Henk Krol) and Cool Politics. This Friday, film-maker Eddy Terstall kicks things off when he presents one of his favourite films, Spike Lee’s 25th Hour. Kriterion

New this week The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian One thing that is sorely missed in both the recent Narnia and the Lord of the Rings adaptations is their delicious sense of whimsy. The characters in the films usually take themselves much too seriously, a ﬂaw that is virtually non-existent in the books. Prince Caspian, Andrew Adamson’s second outing for the The Chronicles of Narnia franchise, is even more grim and violent— although not a drop of (visual) blood is spilled—and less cute, despite the presence of a talking badger and a very heroic mouse (voiced by Eddie Izzard). This time, the four Pevensie siblings have to save the Narnians from the despotic clutches of King Miraz while simultaneously learning a valuable lesson about keeping the faith. English (BS) 147 min. The Movies, Pathé ArenA, Pathé De Munt, Pathé Tuschinski Dialogue avec mon jardinier This ﬁlm could just as well have been called ‘Zen and the art of gardening’. Separated from his wife, a crisp-looking, middle-aged Parisian painter (Daniel Auteuil) retreats to the house he grew up in, in rural France. His gardener there (Jean-Pierre Darrousin) turns out to be his partner in mischief from their schooldays. While one paints and the other grows vegetables, they comment on the world in front of them. ‘Don’t you look at the sunset, the stars, the fog?’ asks the painter. ‘I don’t usually see much of anything in a fog,’ replies the gardener. What

only remainder of his native Bristol, Cary Grant has become, through the years, the epitome of on-screen charisma. He not only transcended genres, he even seemed to go beyond performance. Alfred Hitchcock once said about him: ‘One doesn’t direct Cary Grant, one just puts him in front of a camera.’ It’s almost as if we forget that there was an incredible, thinking actor behind those eyes—one whose breakthrough role came, after a past in theatre and more than two dozen roles in Hollywood, only in 1937, when he was 33. It came courtesy of director Leo McCarey and The Awful Truth, now considered one of the most shining examples of what we call the screwball comedy. Grant’s impeccable comic timing, both high and low, was a prized asset for any film, and he was picked up by the creme de la creme of Hollywood’s directors. Howard Hawks cast him in romantic comedies such as Bringing Up Baby (opposite Katharine Hepburn and a pet leopard) and His Girl Friday (as Rosalind Russell’s devious ex-husband), but also in the war drama Only Angels Have Wings. George Cukor paired him with Hepburn again in the exquisitely romantic Philadelphia Story, while George Stevens sent him to India for Gunga Din, but used him also on the home front in Penny Serenade and The Talk of the Town. Even Frank Capra put him to good use in his adaptation of the stage play Arsenic and Old Lace. But of all the mutually beneﬁcial collaborations between Grant and his directors, he is best remembered for his

is art to one is garbage to the other, and vice versa. Director Jean Becker has kept the material down-toearth, and steers away from possible sentimentality with a couple of good laughs. In French with Dutch subtitles. (KE) 109 min. Pathé Tuschinski Forgetting Sarah Marshall Jason Segel scripted and stars in this solidly funny romantic comedy. The setup isn’t much: after getting ditched by his TV star girlfriend (Kristen Bell), Segel checks into a Hawaiian resort hotel and finds her there with her absurdly hot pop-star boyfriend, Aldous Snow (Russell Brand). Segel mines a mother lode of painful personal memories for his breakup gags, and the vanity of entertainment people proves to be another rich vein. Nicholas Stoller directs; with Mila Kunis, Bill Hader, Paul Rudd and Jonah Hill. In English and Hawaiian. 112 min. Pathé ArenA, Pathé De Munt Pudor ‘Don’t you smell it?’ Julia (Elvira Minguez) asks her husband Alfredo (Nancho Novo) during a meal with their teenage daughter, young son and widowed grandfather. And, sure enough, something’s definitely gone off in Pudor. The Spanish family of five deals with an incredible multitude of problems, ranging from teen trouble to a brain tumour, and anything and everything in between. The acting and photography are solid, but directors David and Tristán Ulloa still have lessons to learn. A little restraint would have gone a long way in their feature film debut. In Spanish with Dutch subtitles. (KE) 113 min. Rialto

Syndromes and a Century The unpredictable and provocative Thai film-maker Apichatpong Weerasethakul (Tropical Malady) offers a mysterious and beautiful experimental feature (2006) based on memories of his parents, who were both doctors. It’s divided into two parts, both set in the present, with many rhyme effects between them. The first, set in and around a rural clinic, centres on his mother; the second, set in the vicinity of a Bangkok hospital, focuses on his father, though it’s a kind of quizzical remake of the first and both characters appear in each section. There’s nothing here that resembles narrative urgency, but this is a quiet masterpiece, delicate and full of wonder. In Thai with English subtitles. (JR) 105 min. Filmmuseum

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pairing with British master Alfred Hitchcock. Starting in 1941 with Suspicion, Grant soon became Hitchcock’s favourite Everyman, put in extreme, unusual situations, with the audience rooting for him from frame one. In ironic contempt for the Nouvelle Vague directors, who regarded their films as realistic ‘slices of life’, Hitchcock used to say his films were ‘slices of cake’, and Grant was definitely the best icing you could ask for. (His To Catch a Thief co-star Grace Kelly was the cherry on top.) In that sense, North by Northwest (1959) is by far one of the most entertaining films ever made, a pure fantasy escape, and how appropriate that the Cary Grant programme at the Filmmuseum this summer starts with this title. This same Hitchcock classic arrived when Grant was already in his fifities, and since he had become, early on, an independent producer of his own hits and by default a very wealthy movie star, he just picked a few more projects (family fare like Father Goose, or the cute comedy Walk Don’t Run, set during the 1964 Tokyo Olympics) and then simply retired from the screen, at age 62, to pursue a different career as a wise businessman. Sure, they gossiped about him too. Did he really take lots of LSD? (Yes, more than 100 times.) Was he actually gay? (Not really. In the words of Howard Hawks: ‘As he gets older, his women keep getting younger.’). But no speculation about his private life could ever scratch the charm he warmly projected on-screen, an effect that still quenches our thirst for timeless grace.

Then She Found Me An elementary school teacher (Helen Hunt) is ditched by her husband (Matthew Broderick) after only months of marriage and faces the prospect of turning 40 without children. This emotional crisis is heightened by the sudden appearance of her birth mother (Bette Midler), who gave her up for adoption years earlier and is now the expansive host of a morning TV talk show. This adaptation of an Elinor Lipman novel is Hunt’s feature directing debut, and under the circumstances she might have been wiser to give the lead role to someone else. Her crabby performance weighs on the film, though it’s nothing compared to Colin Firth’s scenery-chewing turn as her self-lacerating new beau. 100 min. The Movies, Pathé ArenA, Pathé Tuschinski

Still playing 21: Las Vegas Kevin Spacey is an MIT mathematics professor who recruits five of his students to run a card-counting operation and win millions at the casinos. Spacey, playing a heartless prick, is about the only good thing going for this blandly written ﬁlm. (JJ) 123 min. Pathé ArenA, Pathé De Munt

Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens A torrent of

sensational shots by rock’s, and now fashion’s, foremost photographer keep this documentary flowing. Annie Leibovitz has always had timing: she grew up at Rolling Stone magazine, snapped Richard Nixon as he slinked off in shame and posed Arnold Schwarzenegger when he was better known as Mr Universe. She was also one of the last people to see John Lennon alive, when she took the iconic nude portrait of him curled up like a foetus next to Yoko Ono. Photography fans and old hippies will delight in every frame, unlike Keith Richards who mutters, ‘...uh, no, I don’t remember that’, when shown a photo of his drugged-out ’60s self splayed on the ﬂoor. Made by Barbara Leibovitz, the sister of, the film isn’t exactly critical, but who cares? (IM) 90 min. Rialto Un Baiser s’il vous plait A light, sexy romantic comedy directed by, and starring, Emmanuel Mouret. Gabriel (Michael Cohen) gives Emilie (Julie Gayet) a ride into Nantes. He asks for a kiss, and they wind up

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Special screenings

Persona Actress Elisabeth (Liv Ullmann) collapses

onstage and loses the ability to speak. She is cared for by a young nurse, Alma (Bibi Andersson), and the two women’s identities begin to overlap. Ingmar Bergman’s 1966 masterpiece is a profound exploration of personality and performance. In Swedish with Dutch subtitles. 85 min. Het Ketelhuis

25th Hour Though none of the major characters

are black, this 2002 feature is one of Spike Lee’s most personal and deeply felt works. The narrative follows a former drug dealer (Edward Norton) spending his last 24 hours in Manhattan before beginning a seven-year prison term, though it’s also very much about the people closest to him: his girlfriend (Rosario Dawson), two best friends (Barry Pepper and Philip Seymour Hoffman) and father (Brian Cox). Lee has shaped the ﬁlm like a poem that builds into an epic lament, especially in a beautiful and tragic closing that risks absurdity to achieve the sublime. (JR) 134 min. Kriterion

The Philadelphia Story Once again, Cary Grant is

paired with Katharine Hepburn. He doesn’t deserve her—and almost loses her to a young Jimmy Stewart—but is irresistible anyway. A classic of romantic comedy (George Cukor, 1940). 112 min. Filmmuseum

Smiles of a Summer Night Bergman’s cheeky 1955 ﬁlm about adultery, loosely inspired by Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream. The beautiful Eva Dahlbeck stars as the famous actress Desiree, who misses her former lover Fredrik. He, however, is now married to the young, timid Anne, while Desiree has started an affair with the married Count Carl Magnus Malcolm. It wouldn’t be a real Bergman if at least one person didn’t (unsuccessfully) attempt suicide. But other than that it’s a charming light comedy: still very funny and still very fresh. In Swedish with Dutch subtitles. (MM) Het Ketelhuis

The Awful Truth Leo McCarey’s largely improvised

1937 ﬁlm is one of the funniest of the screwball comedies, and also one of the most serious at heart. Cary Grant and Irene Dunne are a pair of world-weary socialites who decide to drop the pretense of their wide-open marriage, but fate and Ralph Bellamy draw them together again. The awful truth is that they need each other, and McCarey leads them gradually and hilariously to that crucial discovery. (DK) 91 min. Filmmuseum

Bringing Up Baby Though it’s almost impossi-

ble, try to sit back sometime and enjoy this 1938 Howard Hawks screwball comedy not only for its wildly funny gags, but for the grace of its construction, the assurance of its style and the richness of its themes. The adventures of paleontologist Cary Grant with society girl Katharine Hepburn and her pet leopard Baby lead from day into night, tameness into wildness, order into chaos. It’s brilliant. (DK) 102 min. Filmmuseum Cries and Whispers More a rough draft for a Bergman movie than a finished product, this 1972 film promises much and delivers little or nothing. Still, it’s beautifully photographed (by Sven Nykvist) and features arresting performances from a quartet of Bergman’s most skillful actresses: Liv Ullmann, Ingrid Thulin, Harriet Andersson and Kari Sylwan. Carnal hysteria is Ingmar Bergman’s forte, but this film never makes it past mezzo piano. In Swedish with Dutch subtitles. (DD) 106 min. Het Ketelhuis

The Gleaners and I This superb 2000 documen-

tary by Agnès Varda begins by musing on people who pick up what’s left on the ground after mechanical harvesting and moves on to interviews with other types of gleaners—artists who use found objects, folks who furnish their homes with sidewalk discards—while Varda seamlessly weaves in her own feelings about ageing, travel and the cinema. Not to be missed. Also showing: Sans toit ni loi (‘Vagabond’), Varda’s austerely beautiful 1985 feature about a young woman (Sandrine Bonnaire) who wanders through a wintry southern France, attracting and disturbing people with her refusal to live within the bounds of society. In French with English subtitles. (MBr) OT301

telling stories to each other about how one kiss can be a dangerous thing. With Virginie Ledoyen, Stefano Accorsi. In French with Dutch subtitles. De Uitkijk Le Ballon Rouge & Crin-Blanc These classic shorts by French director Albert Lamorisse are so pure in their emotion and elemental in their drama that parents may be as moved as their kids. In Le Ballon Rouge (1956, 34 min.) a little boy’s blue-grey existence is brightened by the arrival of a dramatically red balloon; in the lesser-known Crin-Blanc (‘White Mane’, 1953, 40 min.) a boy forges a bond with a proud wild stallion. Both ﬁlms tell the same story—the balloon is coveted by neighbourhood bullies, the stallion by mercenary horse wranglers—and both end with a moment of transcendence, as the boy and his prized ‘friend’ escape the cruel world of grown-ups for the limitless unknown. (JJ) De Uitkijk Be Kind Rewind The sweet-tempered Michel Gondry works well with sharp-edged material (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind), but his projects as a solo writer-director threaten to drift off into whimsy (The Science of Sleep and now this feature). Danny Glover entrusts his run-down video shop in New Jersey to clueless assistants Jack Black and Mos Def, who accidentally erase all the videos and decide to shoot their own low-rent versions of popular hits. Their project is a great success with customers, but the studios object and Glover gets an eviction notice. One wants to protect this mushy ﬁlm, but it’s hard not to gag on the cuteness. With Melonie Diaz and Mia Farrow. (JR) 98 min. Kriterion, Studio K

The Bothersome Man You’ve only got one week to

see this great Norwegian black comedy. So just go. In Norwegian with Dutch and French subtitles. 94 min. Filmmuseum

Must see

Wild Strawberries Het Ketelhuis, Friday 4 July. His Girl Friday Rosalind Russell is a hard-headed

newspaper reporter, Cary Grant her unscrupulous boss in Howard Hawks’ 1939 ﬁlm. It’s more Russell’s picture than Grant’s, but nothing wrong with that. It’s got the classic screwball comedy formula—tough female lead, snappy dialogue—and it’s one of the greats. (JP) 92 min. Filmmuseum

Holiday George Cukor’s 1938 ﬁlm about a society

girl (Katharine Hepburn) who falls for her sister’s charming, eccentric fiancé (Cary Grant). The light comedy achieves perfection, but beneath it lies Cukor’s serious concern for the ways in which we choose to live our lives. There are a thousand nonconformist comedies, but only one Holiday. (DK) 95 min. Filmmuseum I Was a Male War Bride Howard Hawks’s darkest comedy (1949) traces the progressive humiliations suffered by Free French army captain Cary Grant. The logical culmination has him disguised as a woman soldier called Florence in a wig made from a horse’s tail. The atmosphere is perhaps the most oppressive of all Hawks’s films, with Grant up against the American female (Ann Sheridan) and the entire military bureaucracy. (DD) 105 min. Filmmuseum Indiscreet The stars of Notorious, Ingrid Bergman and Cary Grant, are reunited for Stanley Donen’s 1958 film—with a title that may or may not be an allusion to Hitchcock’s masterwork. The action also runs somewhat parallel: Bergman is in love with Grant, but

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Darjeeling Limited Sometimes you travel through life with some extra baggage. In the case of the Whitman brothers, it’s a luxury Louis Vuitton set that looks colourful and flashy even in India. A year after their father’s funeral, Francis (Owen Wilson), Peter (Adrien Brody) and Jack (Jason Schwartzman) meet aboard a train for a journey of spiritual healing. The fact that they have not spoken to each other in a year doesn’t prevent them from getting straight into the family’s old dynamics, which involve manic tics, substance abuse and sexual escapades. But soon both the emotional and the physical baggage starts to fall away. Film-maker Wes Anderson (Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums), much like his characters, has found his grown-up voice. This delicious curry comedy is a rich plate for film-goers, entertaining and poignant, just as it should be. (MB) 108 min. Kriterion Dunya & Desie A reasonably entertaining parade of ethnic and class stereotypes, based on the TV series and directed by Dana Nechushtan (Nachtrit). With Eva van de Wijdeven as kaaskop teenager Desie and the award-winning Maryam Hassouni as her Moroccan best friend Dunya. In Dutch. 96 min. Het Ketelhuis, Studio K Euphoria This 2006 Russian film travelled around the festival circuit quite a bit before getting a week-long slot at the Filmmuseum. Set on the desolate Russian steppes, Euphoria narrates a simple and tragic triangular love story (a farmer, his wife, and a passing goatherd) but in a highly convoluted way. Experimental filmmaker Ivan Vyrypaed, in his feature debut, is clearly not much interested in plots, but in expressing powerful emotions through camera work, He’s helped by a haunting theme by composer Aydar Gaynullin, which makes up for the almost complete lack of dialogue. Some strong imagery will prove disturbing, especially the film’s depiction of graphic

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he keeps putting her off for reasons that remain mysterious. A fine light comedy, with unexpected passages of seriousness, marked by the Donen touch in its adventurous visuals and vivacious performances. (DK) 100 min. Filmmuseum

Monkey Business The thin line between order and

anarchy is the theme of Howard Hawks’s greatest comedies, and it finds its perfect expression in this 1952 story of a chemistry professor (Cary Grant) who unknowingly discovers a youth serum. He and his wife (Ginger Rogers) psychologically revert to teenagers, then children, as all their unspoken impulses come bubbling up under the influence of the drug. Pessimistic and funny. With Marilyn Monroe as Grant’s secretary. (DK) 97 min. Filmmuseum Perdita Durango Director Alex de la Iglesia followed up his Spanish hit The Day of the Beast with this 1997 English-language feature scripted by Barry Gifford (Wild at Heart). Rosie Perez plays the title character, a Mexican spitfire who hooks up with a ruthless criminal (Javier Bardem); at the behest of a drug lord they smuggle a shipment of human fetuses across the border, and en route to Las Vegas they kidnap a pair of teen lovers so Bardem can sacrifice them in a Santería ritual. Gifford’s brand of psycho-noir has never done much for me, and as lovers on the run, Perez and Bardem make a pretty repulsive couple. But the eclectic supporting cast includes Alex Cox, James Gandolfini and Screamin’ Jay Hawkins. (JJ) 124 min. De Nieuwe Anita

violence towards animals. An extreme and atmospheric piece of ‘world cinema’. In Russian with English subtitles. (MB) 74 min. Filmmuseum Fanny & Alexander Roughly a year after Ingmar Bergman’s death, the Filmmuseum programmes his 1982, mostly autobiographical tale of the tribulations of two children growing up in turn-of-the-century Sweden. When their father, a theatre owner, dies, their mother marries a clergyman. The sudden change from a joyful, artistic environment to the stepfather’s narrowmindedness distresses the kids, who look to fantasy for an escape. Though you might think watching a threehour movie in Swedish with subtitles is challenging, this is actually one of Bergman’s lighter and more accessible films. Originally made for TV, it received theatrical release and four Academy Awards. The cinematography by the late Sven Nykvist is superb, and brings a magic, haunting allure to the screen. In Swedish with Dutch subtitles. 188 min. Het Ketelhuis The Happening M Night Shyamalan (The Sixth Sense) tries to prove he isn’t a one-trick pony with this twist-free eco-chiller. Sadly, he seems to be trying to channel the mastery of Alfred Hitchcock with the wrong Ouija board. A neurotoxin is released that causes those afflicted to commit suicide. Mark Wahlberg does his best Bambi impersonation as a science teacher trying to escape the die-off, Zooey Deschanel looks teary as his estranged wife, and John Leguizamo spouts nonsensical numbers: Shyamalan could’ve used some of ol’ Hitch’s qualities in whipping actors into shape. While the film is not as inanely atrocious as Lady in the Water, it’s bad enough to turn you into a global-warming sceptic on the spot. (LvH) Pathé ArenA, Pathé De Munt

Happy-Go-Lucky Poppy (Sally Hawkins) teaches

kindergarten in North London, lives in a ﬂatshare with

Summer with Monika A teenage romance goes sour due to a premature pregnancy and marriage in Ingmar Bergman’s 1953 drama. Monika is a femme fatale who lures the initially innocent hero into crime; though it’s misogynistic and fairly depressing, this is still a powerful ﬁlm about young love and the passion, tenderness and cruelty it involves. In Swedish with Dutch subtitles. (MM) Het Ketelhuis

Sylvia Scarlett Cary Grant’s ﬁrst ﬁlm with Katharine

Hepburn, this 1935 feature may also be the most interesting and audacious movie George Cukor ever made. Hepburn disguises herself as a boy to escape from France to England with her crooked father. They fall in with a group of travelling players, including Grant at his most cockney; the ambiguous sexual feelings that Hepburn as a boy stirs in both Grant and Brian Aherne (an aristocratic artist) are part of what makes this film so subversive. Genre shifts match gender shifts as the film disconcertingly changes tone every few minutes, from farce to tragedy to romance to crime thriller— rather like the French New Wave films that were to come a quarter century later. It flopped miserably when it came out but survives as one of the most poetic, magical and inventive Hollywood films of its era. (JR) 95 min. Filmmuseum

Wild Strawberries An archetypal Ingmar Bergman

film, and one of his best (1957). An aging professor (Victor Sjöström) making a long journey by car takes the opportunity to rummage through his past, wondering for the first time what kind of man he was. There’s a lot of allegorical baggage on board, but the film’s virtues lie in its relative simplicity. With Ingrid Thulin and Bibi Andersson. In Swedish with Dutch subtitles. (DK) 90 min. Het Ketelhuis

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Dialogue doesn’t get any zippier. His Girl Friday, Filmmuseum

her best friend and fellow teacher Zoe, goes clubbing on Friday nights, and is the kind of person who, in the words of Eric Idle, always looks on the bright side of life. For example, she regards the fact that her bike has been stolen as motivation to improve her skills and decides to take driving lessons instead. That’s how she ends up meeting Scott (Eddie Marsan), who’s basically her opposite. Not much happens in Mike Leigh’s latest film, but Hawkins’s Poppy is one of the great characters of the current cinematic year. Cinecenter, Kriterion, Studio K L’Heure d’été Two brothers and a sister (Juliette Binoche) witness the disappearance of their childhood memories when their mother dies and her house is sold. Directed by Olivier Assayas, this is the second film in a series produced by the Musée d’Orsay; the first was Le Voyage du Ballon Rouge. 100 min. The Movies

Horton Hears a Who For once, a Dr. Seuss adaptation that stays true to the nonconformist spirit and

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open-minded moral of the book. Even the CGI, though it loses Seuss’s primary colours, captures the feeling of his curvy, loopy forms. (JP) 86 min. Kriterion I’m Not There Todd Haynes’s ambitious and daring new film is a biopic in the sense that it depicts the main events in Bob Dylan’s life and career. But they are not told in chronological order, and Haynes uses six different actors (including Cate Blanchett, Heath Ledger, Christian Bale and Marcus Carl Franklin) to play the singer. The film is not about Dylan himself, but about the mythmaking around a pop star. It has its moments, but in the end it’s more an interesting audiovisual lecture than an overwhelming cinematographic experience. (MM) 135 min. Kriterion In memoria di me Andrea (Christo Jivkov) is a young man who decides to become a priest and enters a monastery in Venice. There, his faith and motivation are put to the test by the father superior (André Hennicke), while spontaneous friendship with another novice, Zanna (Filippo Timi), both helps and troubles him. This second film from director Saverio Costanzo (Private) aims very high, mixing Dostoyevski, mysticism and atmospheric settings ripped straight from Into Great Silence, but ultimately falls flat. It feels like Costanzo was simply trying to cash in on the current interest in movies on religious themes. The only things that will stay with you are the beautiful locations: the Venetian islands of San Giorgio and San Servolo. In Italian with Dutch subtitles. 116 min. Rialto Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull Indiana Jones has aged 20 years, from the 1930s to the 1950s, and in the Spielberg/Lucas universe this means hot rod cars and Triumph bikes, bland college McCarthyism, nasty Soviet comrades, the atomic scare and, yes, UFOs. The period shift works pretty well, and gives the film-makers a new palette of elements in which to play with their old character. Professor Jones has aged gracefully, and so has Harrison Ford, joined here by his original Raiders co-star Karen Allen (still Indy’s ex-girlfriend) and newcomer Shia LaBeouf. As in Raiders, there are countless movie quotations to keep the film buffs busy; and overall Indy 4 manages to temporarily recreate that nostalgic sense of wonder that’s been painfully lacking in recent cinema. (Massimo Benvegnù) 123 min. Pathé ArenA, Pathé De Munt, Pathé Tuschinski

Into the Wild Moving, if somewhat overlong, account of the life of Christopher McCandless, with a bravura performance from Emile Hirsch. At the age of 22, McCandless left his wealthy, dysfunctional family, gave his college cash to Oxfam and took off into the breathtaking beauty of the American wilderness. What starts as a run-of-the-mill road movie twists into an American Odyssey as, after two years away from it all, McCandless meets an untimely death in the wilds of Alaska. The usual Characters Met Along the Way include Catherine Keener, Vince Vaughn and Hal Holbrook. McCandless won’t stick with any of them, and gradually begins to unravel in his determined solitude. The ﬁlm becomes a meditation on the human need for human company, framed against some of the most glorious scenery the world has to offer. A triumph for Sean Penn as a director, backed by a custom soundtrack from Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder. (AD) 140 min. Cinecenter, The Movies, Pathé Tuschinski La León The North Argentinean Paraná delta is more than just an intricate maze of isles and streams. It’s also a labyrinth of hidden desires, as is the case with the homosexual Alvaro (Jorge Román), whose life has been made hell by El Turu (Daniel Valenzuela), the captain of a barge that connects the various small communities with the mainland. This black-and-white feature ﬁlm debut by Argentine director Santago Otheguy oozes atmosphere, but could have done with something resembling a storyline besides the beautifully evocative pictures of rustling reeds, gloomy riverbanks and long held gazes. In Spanish with Dutch subtitles. (BS) 85 min. Filmmuseum De Muze A young poet with writer’s block (Matthias Schoenaerts) goes to an Antonioni movie and falls in

AGENDA: FILM love with the director’s ‘muse’, Monica Vitti. Wandering through the city at night, he meets a woman (Tara Elders) with a remarkable resemblance to the Italian actress. Still, her presence doesn’t seem to be helping his poetry. This new ﬁlm by Ben van Lieshout has no dialogue; the voice-over, spoken by Fedja van Huêt, is from J.M. Coetzee’s memoir Youth. In Dutch 72 min. Filmmuseum

Paris This Altmanesque tale, written and directed

by Cédric Klapisch (Chacun cherche son chat), is centred around a male dancer (Romain Duris) who needs a heart transplant and has to come to terms with his fear of death. But he’s the least interesting of the characters who drop by in this interwoven, matter-of-fact assortment of stories—one that, among other things, attempts to elevate ordinary street market workers to sex gods capable of reeling in the supermodels. The dreaded French cliché pops up time and time again, but a fairly uninteresting main character is about all that plagues this appealing Parisian slice of life. Juliette Binoche leads an excellent ensemble cast. In French with Dutch subtitles. (LvH) 130 min. De Uitkijk Sex and the City: The Movie Those who hate the original TV series will stay as far away from this as from an STD. Fans of the New York female foursome will flock to theatres as fast as when a new collection hits H&M. If you’re sentimental and have a soft spot for Carrie, Miranda, Charlotte and Samantha, bring your hankies. (MBr) 144 min. The Movies, Pathé ArenA, Pathé De Munt, Pathé Tuschinski Snuf de Hond in oorlogstijd Snuf the Dog and his owner, the young orphan Tom, help the Canadians liberate a Frisian village in this family film from Steven de Jong (De Kameleon). Watch for the Weekly’s own Canadian, Steve Korver, in a minor but important role. In Dutch. 95 min. Pathé ArenA, Pathé De Munt The Trap A Serbian film noir, set in Belgrade, about a couple who discover that their ten-year-old son has a rare heart defect. They don’t have money for the operation to save his life—until they place an ad in the paper and a stranger offers to pay the full amount in exchange for a murder. Directed by Srdan Golubovic. In Serbo-Croatian with Dutch subtitles. 106 min. Rialto Tricks A Polish coming-of-age comedy directed by Andrzej Jakimowski. In Polish with Dutch subtitles. 95 min. Filmmuseum Tropa de Elite Months before it won the top prize at the Berlin Film Festival, Tropa de Elite was already the most illegally downloaded film ever in Brazil, with more than 1.5 million pirated copies sold. Industry insiders looked at this as not only a fantastic publicity stunt but a way to dismiss controversy regarding the film’s main theme: brutal police violence on the streets of Rio. The Elite Squad of the title claim to be the world’s most effective urban warriors, and their fascistic methods are portrayed in extremely realistic terms. The film’s high-octane action and right-wing morals make it feel like a Hollywood cop thriller with a samba soundtrack. It’s no surprise that Tropa director José Padilha is now attached to an action movie at Warner Bros, appropriately titled A Willing Patriot. In Portuguese with Dutch subtitles. (MB) 118 min. Kriterion Le Voyage du ballon rouge Chinese master HsiaoHsien Hou (Café Lumière, Three Times) has based his first French-language feature loosely on Albert Lamorisse’s 1956 classic Le Ballon rouge. Here the balloon and the story follow young Chinese film-maker Song (Song Fang), who moonlights as a nanny in the house of Suzanne, an edgy, emotionally unstable voice actress (Juliette Binoche in another brilliant, subtle role). Song bonds with Suzanne’s son, but still there’s something missing, symbolised by the presence of the self-willed red balloon, which peeks through windows and peeps around corners. In French with Dutch subtitles. (BS) 113 min. Het Ketelhuis, Rialto

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FILM TIMES Thursday 3 July until Wednesday 9 July. Times are provided by cinemas and are subject to last-minute changes. Cinecenter Lijnbaansgracht 236, 623 6615 Happy-Go-Lucky daily 16.30, 19.15, 21.45, Sun also 11.15, 13.45; Il y a longtemps que je t'aime daily 16.15, 19.00, 21.45, Sun also 11.00, 13.30 In Bruges daily 16.15, 19.15, 22.00, Sun also 11.00, 13.45 Into the Wild daily 15.45, 18.45, 21.45, Sun also 12.15. Filmmuseum Vondelpark 3, 589 1400 The Awful Truth The Bothersome Man Fri, Sat, Mon 17.10 Bringing Up Baby Sun 19.30 Euphoria Sat, Sun 13.30 His Girl Friday Fri, Sun, Wed 17.00 Sat, Mon, Tues 19.30 Holiday Tues 17.00 I Was a Male War Bride Indiscreet Kirikou en de heks La León Thur 17.00 Sat 15.30 Tues, Wed 17.15 Monkey Business De muze North by Northwest Fri-Wed 19.00, 21.30 Tue 21.30 The Philadelphia Story Sylvia Scarlett Syndromes and a Century Daily 21.45 Tricks Zandkasteel, Het & De Notenkraker . Het Ketelhuis Haarlemmerweg 8-10, 684 0090 De Avonturen van het Molletje Thur-Sat, Mon-Wed 12.30 Bergmania daily Cries and Whispers Sun 19.15, Wed 21.15 Dunya & Desie daily 16.45 Fanny & Alexander daily 20.30 Hoe overleef ik mezelfdaily 14.45, 18.45, Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed also 12.45 Il y a longtemps que je t'aime daily 16.30, Thur-Sun, Tues, Wed also 19.00, 21.30, Thur, Fri, Mon, Tues also 14.00 Kung Fu Panda (NL) Sat, Sun, Wed 14.00 Morrison krijgt een zusje daily 13.30, Thur-Sat, Sun-Wed also 15.15 Persona Sat 21.15, Wed 19.15 Smiles of a Summer Night Thur 21.15, Mon 19.15 Summer with Monika Thur 19.15, Sun 21.15 Le Voyage du ballon rouge Thur-Sat, Mon-Wed 17.00 Wild Strawberries Fri 19.15, 21.15. Kriterion Roetersstraat 170, 623 1708 25th Hour See www.kriterion.nl Be Kind Rewind See www.kriterion.nl The Darjeeling Limited See www.kriterion.nl Happy-Go-Lucky See www.kriterion.nl Horton Hears a Who See www.kriterion.nl I'm Not There See www.kriterion.nl Madelief: Krassen in het Tafelblad See www.kriterion.nl El Orfanato See www.kriterion.nl Sneak Preview See www.kriterion.nl Summer of Culture See www.kriterion.nl De Tasjesdief See www.kriterion.nl Tropa de Elite .See www.kriterion.nl. Melkweg Cinema Lijnbaansgracht 234A, 624 1777 Bassweight Fri 20.30 Five days off Thur-Sun Slices Sun 20.30, 1.00 We Built This City Thur 20.00. The Movies Haarlemmerdijk 159-165, 638 6016 The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian daily 14.15, 17.00, Sun also 11.30 Heure d’été, L daily 16.45, 19.30, 21.45, Sun also 12.30 In Bruges daily 14.30, 19.30, 21.45 Into the Wild daily 21.30, Thur-Mon also 16.00 Kung Fu Panda Tues, Wed 14.45, 16.30 Sex and the City: The Movie daily 13.30, 16.15, 19.15, 22.00, Sun also 10.45 Then She Found Me daily 19.00, Thur-Mon also 14.00, Sun also 12.00. De Nieuwe Anita Frederik Hendrikstraat 111, 06 4150 3512, Perdita Durango Mon 20.30. OT301 Overtoom 301, 779 4913 The Gleaners and I Tues 20.30 Vagabond Tues 20.30. Pathé ArenA ArenA Boulevard 600, 0900 1458 21: Las Vegas Thur-Mon, Wed 13.40, 16.20, 19.00, 21.40, Sat, Sun also 11.00, Sat also 0.15, Tues also 10.00, 12.40, 15.20 The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian daily 12.00, 15.00, Thur-Mon, Wed also 16.30, 19.30, Thur-Mon also 18.00, 21.00, Sat also 22.40, 0.00 Forgetting Sarah Marshall daily 13.00, 15.40, Thur-Mon, Wed also 18.20, 20.50, Sat, Sun, Tues also 10.30, Sat also 23.30 Hancock Wed 13.30, 15.40, 17.50, 18.50, 20.00, 21.00, 22.10 The Happening Thur-Mon, Wed 17.20, 19.45, 21.45, Sat also 23.50 Hoe overleef ik mezelf Thur-Tues 11.40, 13.50, Thur-Mon, Wed 18.10, Thur, Fri, Sun, Mon also 16.00, Sat also 15.55, 0.30, Tues also 15.50 The Incredible Hulk daily 11.45, 14.15, Thur-Mon, Wed also 16.50, 19.20, 21.50, Sat also 0.20 Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull ThurTues 12.10, 14.50, Thur-Mon also 17.30, 20.20, Sat also 23.00 Iron Man Thur-Mon 21.20, Sat also 0.10 De Kronieken van Narnia: Prins Caspian Thur-Mon, Wed 12.40, 16.00, Sat, Sun also 9.50, Tues also 11.30, 14.40, Wed also 21.10 Kung Fu Panda Wed 20.05, 22.10 Kung Fu Panda (Imax) daily 13.10, 15.30, Thur-Mon, Wed also 17.45, 20.00, 22.15, Sat, Sun, Tues also 10.50, Sat also 0.30 Kung Fu Panda (NL) Thur-Mon, Wed 13.10, 15.30, Sat, Sun also 10.50, Wed also 11.40, 13.45, 16.00, Tues 10.15, 12.30

Love Story 2050 Fri-Mon, Wed 14.40, 20.55, Tues 14.20 Made of Honour Thur-Mon, Wed 18.50 Mamma Mia! The Movie Wed 21.00 Plop en de Kabouterschat daily 12.05, 13.50, 15.35, Sat, Sun, Tues also 10.10 Sex and the City: The Movie daily 13.30, Thur-Mon, Wed also 17.50, 21.10, Sat, Sun, Tues also 10.20, Sat also 0.10, Tues also 14.45 Sneak Preview Tues 21.00 Snuf de Hond in oorlogstijd daily 12.05, Thur-Sat, Mon-Wed also 14.10, Thur-Sat, Mon, Wed also 16.15, Sat, Sun also 10.00, Sun also 14.30, 16.25 Then She Found Me daily 12.50, 15.10, Thur-Mon, Wed also 17.30, 19.40, 22.00, Sat, Sun, Tues also 10.40, Sat also 0.10 Thoda Pyaar Thoda Magic Thur-Mon, Wed 11.50, Thur also 14.50, 17.40, 20.40, Fri-Mon, Wed also 18.05, Tues also 11.25 What Happens in Vegas Thur-Mon 18.20, 20.40, Sat also 23.30. Pathé De Munt Vijzelstraat 15, 0900 1458 21: Las Vegas Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 18.50, 21.40, Thur, Fri, SunTues also 13.00, 15.45, Sun also 10.15, Sat also 11.15, 14.15, 17.00, 20.00, 23.00 The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 15.00, 16.45, 18.00, 20.00, 21.10, Thur, Fri, Mon-Wed also 12.00, Sat 13.00, 16.15, 18.30, 19.30, 21.45, 22.45 Forgetting Sarah Marshall Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 19.00, 21.50, Thur, Fri, Sun, Mon, Wed also 13.20, 16.15, Sat, Tues 12.00, Sat also 15.00, 17.45, 20.30, 23.15, Tues also 14.40 Hancock Wed 12.40, 15.00, 17.20, 18.50, 19.45, 21.20, 22.10 The Happening Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 22.00, Thur, Fri, Sun-Tues also 17.30, Sun also 12.50, Wed also 19.30, Sat 18.45, 21.00, 23.30 Hoe overleef ik mezelf Thur, Fri, Sun, Mon 12.00, 14.20, 16.50, 19.20, Sat 11.20, 13.45, 16.45, 19.15, Tues, Wed 16.00, 18.40, Tues also 13.15, Wed also 13.30 In Bruges Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 16.10, 18.40, 21.30, Sat 17.15, 19.45, 22.30 The Incredible Hulk daily 12.10, Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed also 14.45, 17.45, 20.30, Thur, Fri, Sun, Mon also 21.45, Sat also 14.50, 17.30, 20.15, 22.00, 22.50 Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 12.30, 15.30, Thur, Fri, Sun-Tues also 18.20, 21.25, Sat 12.50, 15.50, 18.50, 21.40 Iron Man Thur, Fri, Sun-Tues 19.10, Sat 18.40 De Kronieken van Narnia: Prins Caspian Thur-Tues 12.15, Thur, Fri, Sun-Tues also 15.10, Sat also 15.45, Wed 13.15 Kung Fu Panda Tues, Wed 19.30, 21.50, Tues also 17.15, Wed also 12.20, 14.50, 17.10 Kung Fu Panda (NL) daily 16.30, Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed also 12.45, 15.10, Thur, Fri, Mon-Wed also 12.00, 14.10, Sat, Sun also 14.00, Sat also 10.15, 11.45, 12.30, 14.45, Sun also 11.00 Made of Honour Thur, Fri, Sun-Tues 16.40, 21.55, Sat 15.30, 21.30, Wed 15.20 Mamma Mia! The Movie Wed 21.00 Plop en de Kabouterschat Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 12.20, 14.15, Sun also 10.20, Sat 11.00, 13.15, 15.15 Sex and the City: The Movie Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 13.45, 17.00, 20.15, Thur, Fri, Sun-Tues also 18.10, 21.20, Sun also 10.40, Wed also 17.45, 21.00, Sat 11.30, 14.30, 18.00, 19.00, 21.15, 22.15 Sneak Preview Tues 21.30 Snuf de Hond in oorlogstijd Thur, Fri, Sun-Tues 12.15, 14.30, Sun also 10.15, Sat 10.30, 12.45, Wed 12.50 What Happens in Vegas Thur, Fri, Sun-Tues 14.00, Thur, Fri, Sun, Mon also 18.30, 20.50, Sun also 11.30, Sat 10.50, 13.30, 16.00, 18.15, 20.45, 23.30. Pathé Tuschinski Reguliersbreestraat 34, 0900 1458 The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian daily 12.30, 20.30, Thur-Mon, Wed also 16.00 Dialogue avec mon jardinier daily 12.15, 19.00, 21.30 La Fille du Regiment Sun 11.00, Tues 13.30 Il y a longtemps que je t'aime Thur-Mon 18.20 Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull daily 15.00, Thur-Mon also 21.00 Into the Wild daily 20.15, Thur-Tues also 16.00, Fri-Tues also 12.45 Kung Fu Panda Tues 17.45, 20.30, Wed 13.15, 15.45, 18.00 Kung Fu Panda (NL) daily 15.30, Thur-Sat, Mon-Wed also 12.45, Wed also 17.45 Mamma Mia! The Movie Wed 20.45 Scar (3D) Fri, Sat 23.30 Sex and the City: The Movie daily 12.00, 15.00, 18.00, 21.15 Then She Found Me daily 13.00, 15.30, 18.30, 21.00. Rialto Ceintuurbaan 338, 676 8700 Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens daily 19.30, 21.30, Sat also 15.15, Sun also 14.45 Cinedans 2008 Thur-Sun In memoria di me Thur, Fri, Mon-Wed 17.00, Mon-Wed also 19.45, Sun also 16.00 Paul dans sa vie Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 19.00 Pudor daily 21.15, Sun also 15.15 The Trap Thur, Mon-Wed 22.05 Le Voyage du ballon rouge daily 17.15. Studio K Timorplein 62, 692 0422, Be Kind Rewind daily 20.00 Dunya & Desie daily 18.00 Happy-Go-Lucky daily 18.15, 20.45 Horton (NL) Sat, Sun, Wed 15.00 Morrison krijgt een zusje Sat, Sun, Wed 15.15 El Orfanato daily 22.00. De Uitkijk Prinsengracht 452, 623 7460 Un Baiser s'il vous plait daily 19.00 Le Ballon Rouge & Crin-Blanc Thur, Sat, Sun, Wed 17.15 Joaquin Sabina--19 días y 500 noches Fri, Mon, Tues 17.15 Kung Fu Panda (NL) daily 15.00, Sun also 12.30 Paris daily 21.00. Westergasfabriek Haarlemmerweg 8-10, 586 0710 StrangerFestival Thur-Sat.

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DINING / DRINKING

The Undercover Glutton

Enter Zanzibar Take Mary Ceintuurbaan 47-hs, Open: Mon-Fri, 16.30-22.00 Cash Yes, it’s true. I’m retiring to focus on Glutton, the musical. But enough about me. Let’s talk about Mary. She loves to feed people. You can tell by her freshly prepared low-fat, high-quality meals. When she was head chef at Spanjer en van Twist on Leliegracht, she received a 9 rating from Het Parool food critic Johannes van Dam. Now she’s opened her own take-away place in De Pijp, Take Mary, so anyone can get a taste of her talents. The menu for this ‘global takeaway and catering’ unit offers plenty of choices for carnivores, vegetarians and vegans. The homemade soups change daily. I tried her coconut, carrot and coriander soup (€4.00-€4.50), a mild, light and creamy soup, made from plenty of carrots boiled in veggie stock with coconut cream and fresh coriander. It coated the inside of my mouth like a soft security blanket, and was richly comforting. I even scraped that empty soup container and sucked the spoon. (She’ll have to burp me now.) The slow-simmered Corsican beef stew (€14.50) with homegrown rosemary, South African white wine and wild mushrooms (chanterelles and chestnut mushrooms) was served with roasted potatoes in garlic rosemary and sea salt. The edible garnish was witlof (Belgian andives) fried in butter with a honey glaze. The biobeef had softened to tender chunks that absorbed the tangy gravy.

It was very classic and delicious. So was the deep-dish stilton, pecan and zucchini quiche (€12.50) with a thincrust pastry, served with sweet onion chutney and roasted potatoes. But what made me gasp with pleasure was her glorious Zanzibar fish curry (€13.50) served with pilaf rice. It included a variety of seafood: scallops, red snapper, butterfish, salmon and squid, simmered in a deceptively simple, light curry coconut sauce (perhaps a korma variation?). The fish were prepared ‘a la minute’ by poaching the generous chunks of seafood in the heated Zanzibar sauce, which is very pleasing and subtle on the tongue. The spices included glimmerings of saffron, star anise, cloves and chilli. Each fish within the curry retained its own flavour and texture. My scallops, to my moaning delight, were soft, tender and scrumptious. The salmon tasted like salmon. Bravo! Then the desserts. I had rhubarb and strawberry crumble with a generous blob of sour cream. (Her signature puddings and cakes aren’t sweet.) The combination of sweet and sour was lovely, pure joy. I tried the vegan coconut pudding, which had creamy-textured silky tofu with grated coconut that tasted a wee gritty, garnished with tart strawberries. Maybe it appeals to vegans, but not me. I need milk, eggs and cream or my cardiologist would be out of work. I ended my gluttonous romp with chocolate chilli mousse, garnished with fresh mint. The idea was good, but the chopped chilli pieces sank to the bottom, where they lurked in waiting of the discovering spoon and then burnt my tongue with a fiery sting. Was it on purpose? Regardless, it was still one sexy pudding!

Then the desserts. I had rhubarb and strawberry crumble with a generous blob of sour cream.

A night in the life...

By Sarah Gehrke

Mingle mingle Cafe Brandon Keizersgracht 157, 626 4191 Open: 11.00-1.00 Sun-Thu; 11.00-03.00 Fri-Sat ‘Per hour? Five hundred Euros per hour?’ The man in the striped shirt shakes his head in disbelief. It’s a Tuesday night, and he and a blonde woman are sitting at a very short bar. They’re talking about divorce lawyers. ‘Unbelievable,’ the barman throws in. Nodding at the woman, he goes on, ‘Okay, you just go take over the bar. He and I are off to open up a law ﬁrm.’ The man in the striped shirt repeats, in awe, ‘per hour... unbelievable.’ Then he suddenly turns to me. ‘And, what’s the lesson to be learned out of this? Exactly! Never get married! Ever!’ After the two have left, Cafe Brandon is empty. But outside, every seat’s taken. At 11 pm, everyone here is pretty smashed. In a happy way. The evening is dominated by an American couple— he in a shiny blue anorak, she with a huge straw visor on top of her bleached blonde bob. ‘We came to see the Dutch painters,’ he explains, slurring. Meanwhile, she goes inside to check the bill. ‘Seventy euros!’ is her comment. ‘What,

Beer price: €2.20 for a vaasje (Amstel). Emergency food: A Pringles machine by the toilets. Special interior feature: The bar is only about two metres long. Predominant shoe type: Worn-out, average leather shoes. And the occasional pair of Uggs. Typically ordered drink: Fluitjes and ‘borreltje-cola.’. Tune of the night: ‘I Heard it through the Grapevine’ was on twice; ‘Zij gelooft in mij’, thrice. Mingling factor: Extremely high! State of toilets near closing time: Neon-lit, unlockable, tiny, but soap-smelly clean.

did we buy everyone’s drinks today?’ ‘Yup,’ is her husband’s reply, ‘and yesterday.’ A little later the patio has to be cleared, so the inside is suddenly rammed. Slowly, some of the discussions become quite intense—but the general mood is still gleeful. Then, at 1 am, all is over. Outside, groups of people scatter and then reassemble. A few very drunk girls line up in front of a tall, blonde alpha-male type (also very drunk), who poses with what looks like a hybrid of a scooter and motorbike, red and shiny. ‘Lean against it,’ one of the girls cries and draws out her phone to take a picture. He leans against the super scooter and strikes a pose. The super scooter falls over. The girls laugh hysterically, and so do the guy’s friends. After several attempts, a satisfactory pose is struck and the picture is taken. A bit of chitchat later, the guy wheels off with his two friends on the back. ‘Funny thing,’ says one of the girls. ‘We thought we were taking the piss out of them. And I think they thought they were taking the piss out of us.’ As they slowly stumble towards their bikes, another one of them says: ‘By the way, the scooter dude’s friend—wasn’t that Johnny de Mol?’ ‘I have no idea,’ her friend replies. ‘But honestly, who gives a fuck? We had a smashing time!’

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