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AGENDA

Slacker five-year-olds only speak one language. But not for long

Ramadanadingdong!

This just in: religious fasting can make you fatter.

Modified IKEA products you won’t find in the store. Milk fluffing sex toy, anyone?

No time to rest: Ladyfest, Valtifest, Fringe Fest and Gospel Fest.

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AROUND TOWN

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Crap food, crap service

Nature calling

By Mark Wedin

Submitted by: Dragan Klaic Function: Cultural analyst/theater scholar www.draganklaic.eu Date: 26 August Subject: A radical fix for the restaurant scene I just spent three weeks in Argentina, Uruguay and Chile, eating in restaurants twice a day and I have not met a single surly waiter. On the contrary, everyone was nice, ready to explain the menu, patient with my poor and slow Spanish, giving advice on wine and nonchalantly asking me to taste a recommended bottle and send it back if I don’t like it. Portions were huge, the seafood succulent and surprising, the steaks juicy and soft and the bills between modest and incredibly low priced.

Everywhere I could pay with my credit card.

Back in Amsterdam, I am again confronted with a steady pattern of mediocre food, bad service and inflated prices. A brown cafe in my neighborhood has just become a Thai restaurant, the fifth in our area. The 1920s interior was only touched upon by paint before being crammed with the habitual kitsch decoration that is supposed to convey a Thai atmosphere. Two young women with very little English or Dutch took the orders, the kitchen was small and slow, and the food tasteless. No credit cards were accepted and the PIN automat is not yet installed.

The other night, in a highly rated Turkish restaurant in De Pijp, the service was slow and absent-minded, the wine list lacked any information and the server couldn’t tell much more. The meze were good, the main dishes both good and bad, and again no credit cards were accepted, embarrassing my American visitor who wanted to pick up the bill. When I reproached the owner, he said that PIN is good enough for him since he himself doesn’t have a credit card. I recommended a more experimental attitude but he chose not to see my point. Moreover, the noise in the restaurant made a dinner conversation almost impossible, which reminded me that an acoustics specialist could make a fortune in Amsterdam.

Amsterdam might be a fine cultural capital and a paradise for dope smokers, but a gastronomical centre it is not. Look at the website www.iens.nl where the clients rate restaurants 5 to 10 for food, service and ambiance: hardly any restaurant gets more than 8 and practically none has more than an 8.4 rating. In their reviews the customers deliver a standard litany of complaints about tasteless dishes and especially about bad service. In the Dutch economy, being a waiter or waitress is not a profession but a temp job for youngsters who know almost nothing about the food and wine they serve and don’t know how to serve them. They can’t be blamed but their owners and managers do not take the trouble to train them at all.

Silly and wasteful promo campaigns like I amsterdam obviously cannot alter this sad state of affairs. When the economy slides in a recession by Xmas, one might hope the restaurateurs will stop hiking the prices and become a bit more attentive to their clients. But much more is needed to upgrade the Amsterdam restaurant scene. After the announced cleanup by the city of the sleaze and crime in the Red Light District, perhaps Mayor Cohen could now shop in Flanders for an energetic fixer who will work with the locals to endow Amsterdam with some gastronomic dignity.

Got an opinion? We want to hear it. inbox@amsterdamweekly.nl

Illustration by Tom Mason

Holy bats!

Every Sunday, church congregations quietly bow their heads, sending their thoughts and prayers upward towards heaven. On the way, those thoughts and prayers must first pass a group of small, furry bats, hanging upside down in the attic, snuggling against each other and dreaming perhaps of last night’s hunt for live flesh.

Knowing what these bloodthirsty killers are after might spur even the non-churchgoer to bow their head and pray—not for their demise, but for the bats’ continued prosperity. Among all the insects they eat, one of their favourite catches are mosquitoes—and they’re quite good at it. The Common Pipistrelle (or gewone dwergvleermuis) makes for 90 per cent of all the bats in town, and individually they can catch over 3000 bugs a night, meaning a lot less mosquitoes for you and me.

They also catch mates. Since July the males have been gathering bona fide harems, some 30+ females, who in the spring will give birth to two babies each.

Their polygamy, however, never particularly bothered churchgoers. It’s their bad habits as tenants that cause

problems. British churches in particular have often had to seek out animal-friendly ways to get rid of the beasts who—sorry Father—piss and shit all over the place.

Lucky for Amsterdam, many of our old churches, normally a favourite roosting spot for keeping warm and dry—especially during hibernation—are, for one reason or another, not too highly populated by bats. They might fly in to sleep a day or two, but often move on. (Maybe the organ music is too loud.) Regardless of where they’re sleeping in the trees, manmade bat bunkers or between your ceiling and roof (yes, they do that)—you can see them on nearly every street, silently fluttering about, usually beginning their hunt 2 to 35 minutes after sundown. Lord, be with them.

Special thanks to Remco Daalder, stadsbioloog.

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AROUND TOWN

Education

By Linawati Sidarto

RAISING BABY BABELFISHES The Dutch education board thinks that teaching English should start in kindergarten. Critics ponder the costs.

It’s 2.30 pm, and the five-year-olds at Amsterdam’s Willemsparkschool are in the midst of their twice-a-week, 30minute English session. ‘Number one, touch your tongue. Number two, this is my shoe... Number ten, let’s do it agaaaain!’ All 32 children mimic a British accent that any parent would be proud of, beaming smiles on their faces.

Willemsparkschool is one of the 96 schools in the Netherlands that starts teaching English at an earlier age than the country’s some 8000 elementary schools. The government, however, does not provide extra subsidies for schools to teach English before the fifth grade. ‘It’s a choice that a school makes for itself,’ says Willemsparkschool director John van der Woning, whose school introduced English in kindergarten six years ago.

Right before the summer holidays,

the Dutch Education Board proposed the teaching of the foreign tongue sooner. ‘English would most likely be the designated language since most children are already in contact with it.’

Teaching it is expected to either start in kindergarten or in the third grade.

Regarding the next decade, the Board suggests that schools could use the partial-immersion model and ‘through a legal amendment, it should be made possible that English would be the language of instruction for a maximum of 15 per cent.’

The EU has set a goal that threequarters of residents should be proficient in two foreign languages. The Board pointed out that currently only half of the Dutch population has reached this level. ‘The Dutch overestimate their proficiency in foreign languages,’ it noted.

‘Number one, touch your tongue. Number two, this is my shoe... Number ten, let’s do it agaaaain!’

Many, however, have frowned on the Board’s suggestion. A premier concern is that this could be detrimental to Dutch-language learning. ‘More English means less Dutch,’ wrote Universiteit van Amsterdam professor René Appel in NRC Handelsblad. Jaap de Berg, language columnist for the Trouw daily, penned: ‘What needs to be scrapped from the curriculum instead? Or do we need to open schools on Saturdays?

Doesn’t all that English-immersion business disturb the development of our mother tongue?’

Not really, says Willemsparkschool English teacher Ageeth Verbruggen, given that the English is taught in careful balance with the school’s overall curriculum. ‘You just need to make it functional and accessible, especially for the little ones.’

Van der Woning explains that Willemsparkschool’s English programme began with a bilingual kindergarten teacher. ‘She asked whether she could teach some English in her class.’ The reaction from pupils and parents was so overwhelmingly positive that the school then adopted English into its early curriculum.

The concern that the time used to teach English would have a bad influence on the pupils’ Dutch skills is unfounded, according to Anke Herder and Kees de Bot of Groningen University’s centre for language and education.

Their study in 2005 concluded that ‘there are no indications that the mother-tongue development would be negatively influenced by early secondlanguage education. The results were more positive instead of just neutral.’

The subject of ethnic minorities also reared its head: what about pupils who are already struggling with mastering Dutch? Appel warned that many children who speak a language other than Dutch at home ‘are about two years behind in their Dutch when they leave elementary school.’ If English is added as a third language, Appel claims, ‘it is obvious that these children would do worse than their Dutch peers.’

Not true, Herder and De Bot underlined in their study. ‘Based on past experience and studies... there is no reason to believe that learning a foreign language would be disadvantageous for minority children. The reverse seems to be true: because pupils start at the same zero-level, the minority children do not need to catch up as in other subjects.’

Another concern is teachers’ competency. ‘The success of the Board’s plan depends on the quality of the teachers. It has to be good, and this is often not the case,’ Trouw commented in its editorial. Agreed, says Van der Woning. ‘If you aim to do something, then do it well. It sounds simple, but it takes a lot of work.’

Verbruggen stresses the importance of language learning at a young age.

‘Children between the age of four and twelve are less self-conscious than teenagers. They just do it.’ Most importantly, she says, ‘the children love it.

They glow when they can start answering questions in English. They feel like they’re succeeding—and that’s the whole point, isn’t it?’ ___

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A quick bike fix

By Pete Jordan

Anti-puncture The only thing I hate more than actually suffering flat tyres is all the worrying I can do about getting flats. The stress of swerving through minefields of broken glass or nervously inspecting tires for chards can damper the most joyous of pleasures: bicycle riding.

Thus it was a wonderful surprise when, a couple Christmases ago, my wife put puncture-proof tyres on my bike. Zipping about town became a whole new experience. Suddenly, New Year’s Day, with the Centre awash in broken bottles from the night before, was no longer the year’s scariest day. And after sundown on Koninginnendag (previously, the second scariest time of the year), I could cruise around and sift through the leftovers on the streets feeling impervious to all the trash beneath my wheels.

So I took notice when, at a construction site where I was working, the project’s architect carried his omafiets inside to patch a flat. It was the second time in a month he had done so.

‘You need anti-puncture tyres like I’ve got,’ I told him.

‘Yeah? What do those cost?’ he asked.

‘I don’t know,’ I said. ‘About thirty euros each.’

‘Thirty euros!’ he scoffed. ‘That’s more than my whole bike’s worth!’

Times must be tough for architects these days, I suppose. They got even tougher for this one when, a week later, he carried his omafiets in again—with yet another flat.

React: bikes@amsterdamweekly.nl

Photo by Mo Veld

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AROUND TOWN

The people versus...

Ramadan Round-up

By Sharida Mohammedjoesoef

By Floris Dogterom Today Sunrise 6:57 am

Today Sunset 8:21 pm

Illustration by Tomas Schats Illustration by Harry Bloch

NDSM: creativity vs commerce As energetically as it refurbished the southern IJ bank, City Hall is slavering over plans to renew the northern bank. Where once heavy industry (Shell, shipyards) dominated the skyline, in a few years time will be a mixed area with housing, offices, bars, cafes and cultural institutions. In and around the gigantic hall at the former NDSM shipyard, in the eastern part of the northern IJ bank, Kunststad [Art City] has been established. Hundreds of artists rent studios in the building. But now a number of those artists, particularly those who rent a place under the former slipways, are at risk of losing their place, says Bart Stuart, one of the artists. ‘It was guaranteed that we could stay here till 2027 and that our gebruikersovereenkomst [agreement on usage] would be altered in a lease. But now Projectbureau Noordwaarts doesn’t want to maintain its commitment. They no longer see us as stakeholders in the development of the area and only want to talk to commercial parties.’

Projectbureau Noordwaarts is the executive branch of Bestuurlijk Overleg Noord (BON), a consultative body of City Hall and stadsdeel Noord. Stuart’s main complaint against the BON is that parts of the decision-making are not established in a democratic way, especially when it comes to management and programming.

‘It’s what you see happening everywhere: once artists have breathed new life into something they’re forced to leave. Yet City Hall says it wants Amsterdam to be a creative place. That’s contradictory.’

Maarten van Poelgeest, the city’s alderman for the public space, says in reaction that he can imagine that Stuart has the feeling that the artists are being pushed aside. ‘But on the other hand: we do our very best to keep the eastern part of NDSM as it is. As to the arrangements surrounding leases: I don’t have enough information on the subject to be able to judge.’ Van Poelgeest denies that the decision-making around the development of the northern IJ bank is partly undemocratic. ‘Every proposal by the BON has to be ratified by both the stadsdeel council and the city council.’ That statement amazes Stuart. ‘It’s the first time a politician of his calibre has claimed this. Very interesting. I have the impression that Van Poelgeest isn’t very well-informed.’

Something to report? thepeopleversus@amsterdamweekly.nl

The kick-off

Loads of delicious meals. Titillating music. Hilarious comedy.

Captivating lectures. And all that for 30 days on end across the country. But here’s the best part— drum roll, please—most of it is free of charge.

Yep. That’s Islam for ya and probably a side most of you are not so familiar with. True, it only happens once a year and this is it: Ramadan 2008. To jog your memory about Ramadan, this is the name of the holiest month in the Islamic lunar calendar, as it was in this month that the Koran was revealed. For 30 days Muslims are not supposed to eat, drink, smoke or have sex between dawn and sunset while staying away from impure thoughts, sights and sounds. It is a physical and mental cleansing of body and soul, or at least in theory.

The kick off for the Ramadan Festival was at the Westergasfabriek in Amsterdam West. More than 500 people attended the event, including staatssecretaris Ahmed Aboutaleb who opened the ceremonies. Like the previous ones, this year’s festival is once again all about dialogue, but this time the organisation really made an effort to also invite the volk in the street, from the representatives of the neighbourhood communities to students from Leiden University.

As Ramadan slowly moves up towards the summer months—due to the lunar calendar—it is getting harder and

harder for Muslims every year to keep up the fast. And it showed.

When the gong sounded at roughly 8.30 pm, heralding the breaking of the fast, it was almost like feeding a pack of 500 hungry wolves. And that’s where the organisation slipped up a bit. There was enough food, tons of it. But there was only ten or twelve waiters at best... You do the math.

Other than that, it was a great first Ramadan night jazzed up with a performance of non other than Azhar Usman, AKA The Ayatollah of Comedy, and one of the stars of the American TV show Allah made me funny. But the Ramadan Festival has more to offer. You might want to check out the so-called Hospitality Dinners, where Muslim families treat non-Muslims to a typical Ramadan meal. Who thinks that Muslims lose weight during Ramadan? Well, um, confession coming up...: They don’t. This may seem like a far cry from the essence of Ramadan, which is about frugal living. But Ramadan is also about giving a new dimension to the word hospitality. So enjoy.

Ramadan Kareem.

Mo Veld is on fashion vacation. In&Out will return in October.

Amsterdam’s a stage

By Liz Farsaci

SLIPPING AND GRIPPING ON THE FRINGE Dutch and international artists get ready to put their reputations on the line as final preparations for the third annual Amsterdam Fringe Festival, beginning Thursday 4 September, are underway.

One act which will give dozens of artists the chance to prove their worth and flex their creative muscles (or simply prove disastrous) is Club Slip & Grip, put on by Amsterdam-based theatre production company De Kazerne.

The theatrical nightclub, which has been a part of the Amsterdam Fringe Festival since it began two years ago, is a four-hour production. For a total of six nights, audience members at Theatre Bellevue will be treated to a wide variety of acts, from dancing and singing to poetry and magic.

This year, the acts are held together by the over-arching theme of ‘maakbaarheid’ which, roughly translated, means ‘creatability’. Artists will explore various aspects of this idea, both on a personal level—from the modern obsession with cosmetic perfection to the artificial beauty created by television—and on a social level, dealing specifically with the

changes taking place in Amsterdam.

Iris Lammertsma and Floris Andrea, artistic directors of De Kazerne, are worried about Amsterdam’s gentrification and, as this transformation takes place, that the city’s soul may be sucked away.

‘Amsterdam is still a place for wild, creative artists,’ says Lammertsma. ‘But,’ adds Andrea, ‘it will just be for politicians and tourists if the city is turned into an open-air museum.’

De Kazerne began organising this year’s Club Slip & Grip in January, and rehearsals started last month. The team even travelled to Italy to foster team spirit and to work on their acts, which the artists came up with themselves while Lammertsma and Andrea put it all together ‘like pieces of a puzzle’.

The artists who participate in the Amsterdam Fringe are not paid—and thus need to make their performances entertaining and thought-provoking enough for audiences to pay to see them.

Because of this, says Floris, the festival attracts the braver, more creative artists, and allows them to take risks and to be spontaneous.

‘Artists really have to want to be in the Fringe,’ adds Iris. ‘And that’s what makes this festival necessary: it brings new energy and creativity to theatre.’

Club Slip & Grip, 4-6 and 11-13 September. See Short List and www.amsterdamfringefestival.nl.

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EXHIBITION

KILL BILLY Re-purposing IKEA furniture for usefulness, art and (ultimate) pleasure

By Marinus de Ruiter

Don’t be surprised to find a crisp IKEA coffee table at your doorstep this week.

Cultural space Platform21 is promoting its new project, Hacking IKEA, by spreading 1000 ‘Lack’ tables—those plain square-tops that come in numerous colours—throughout the city. Hacking IKEA is not only a contest where the organisers invite anyone to take products of the famous Swedish company and rebuild them for new purposes. It is also an exhibition where artists and designers use IKEA as a vantage point for critical art.

Look out for garbage heaps in the city this week and you’ll find them: small tables with one leg in a different colour.

‘They’re basically three dimensional flyers,’ says Arne Hendriks, creative producer of Platform21. Putting them among the garbage is an ironic gesture to the short lifespan of IKEA products, which are generally put out with the trash instead of being recycled. ‘It’s a shame,’ states Hendriks. ‘Why not repurpose them?’

The term ‘hacker’ originally stood for a user of computers and home electronics who tinkered with original software and hardware to find new functions and exploit all the possibilities of the technology. The term was adapted to ‘product hacking’, to describe the DIY culture of creatively recycling consumer goods.

With the growing popularity of product hacking it was inevitable that the world’s biggest furniture company would become a subject.

And the idea of hacking specifically IKEA products is not new. Browsing the internet quickly notches up results, created by anonymous users as well as design agencies. Turning Reda salad bowls into speakers, a Hultet bamboo dish into a clock, or a Ramvik cocktail table and an old computer screen into an arcade game are some of the options suggested by random users. Hannover design agency Ding3000 even launched a product line of severely altered Billy bookcases.

The most popular website gathering IKEA hobbyists is ikeahacker.blogspot-

.com, founded in 2006. The reasons for this blog’s popularity over other product-hacking initiatives are numerous—IKEA is cheap, IKEA has a system that already allows variation, IKEA is in every home, etc—but the basic explanation is: anyone can do it.

According to Hendriks, product hacking is a growing phenomenon. ‘The internet enhances the community feeling,’ he says. ‘People who are not artists or designers dare to come out with their products and are easily able to find people who do similar things. This group becomes identifiable immediately.’

Hendriks sees the forming of communities like the IKEA Hackers as a positive thing, which could even influence company policies like

Out of a hand mixer and a shoe-tree, Hoekstra created a small vibrator, subverting the sexless character of the IKEA brand. Artist Sander van Bussel used IKEA furniture to create a gynaecologist’s chair, a reminder that visiting IKEA is not so pleasant for all of us.

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environmental awareness. ‘People in these communities discuss positive and negative aspects of the company,’ says Hendriks. ‘The strategy of IKEA is to find this criticism and join the discussion.

They’re very smart, and they’re able to incorporate things like IKEA hacking fairly quickly.’ It seems no surprise that the Swedish company now provides its standard paper bag with the text ‘designer’ and an arrow pointing upwards.

Before the rise of the IKEA Hackerphenomenon, Amsterdam designers Wouter van Nieuwendijk and Cay Schroder, of Studio Plus, hacked the store’s cheapest lamp, named Lampan, and remodelled it with two metal dishes named Blandas. ‘With this design we commented on the fact that for us designers, IKEA products are even cheaper than the basic materials,’ says Van Nieuwendijk.

Their design, ‘Lampanbetweentwoblandas’, is included in the exhibition at Platform21, alongside tantalising works like the ‘IKEA Love Toy’ by all-round hacker Mark Hoekstra. Out of a hand mixer and a shoe-tree, Hoekstra created a small vibrator, subverting the sexless character of the IKEA brand. Artist Sander van Bussel used IKEA furniture to create a gynaecologist’s chair, a reminder that visiting IKEA is not so pleasant for all of us.

Designer Bas van Beek shares the feeling of dread attached to the IKEA store. ‘I only see very unhappy people who buy very ugly things,’ he says. ‘I have to restrain myself not to pull these products back out of their hands.’

Van Beek went to IKEA in Istanbul and saw a similar circus of unhappy patrons. ‘It reminds me of the Las Vegas casinos. Within these massive environments, they deliberately create a culture where people feel lost and are forced to engage with either a gambling machine or, in the case of IKEA, a piece of furniture.’

For the exhibition, Van Beek bought an IKEA vase designed by Hella Jongerius, and paired it with one of the store’s cheapest stock vases. This is not the first time Van Beek irreverently remodelled products created by top designers. Van Beek is notorious for his ‘rip-offs’, which comment on the tendency among famous designers to create exclusive and, above all, expensive products.

Daan van den Berg used state of the art technology to alter IKEA design. The designer made a computer model of the Lampan lamp and attacked it with a selfdesigned virus. The result was sculpted by an actual 3D printer at TNO. In a distant future people could use 3D-printers to create furniture, but they will always need design, which could still be provided by IKEA in the form of computer files, according to Van den Berg ‘IKEA is an idea factory, providing suggestions on how to live,’ says the artist. ‘In the end people would still rather consume those ideas than design themselves.’

Hacking IKEA 7-28 September, Platform21 www.platform21.nl ikeahacker.blogspot.com www.ikea.nl

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F E AT U R E

This year, the Jewish Maimonides high school in Buitenveldert celebrates it’s 80th birthday with a new building. Looking back on its rocky history, there wasn’t always much to celebrate. But as GICOL, a special student programme initiated right after WWII so clearly shows: giving up was never an option.

ONE SCHOOL’S HISTORY...

By Judith Hornman Photo by Simon Wald-Lasowski Original photos courtesy of the Collectie Joods Historisch Museum, Amsterdam and Joodse Scholengemeenschap Maimonides.

The beginning of September can be many things. Some merely see it as the last days of summer, others as the kick-off of the cultural season. For high school students though, it pretty much means a one-way ticket back to the books. Older students will return to the rhythm of nonchalantly hanging around their favourite spots. New students will nervously check where they should go, desperately hoping they won’t get lost and laughed at.

Not so at the Jewish Maimonides College, one of Amsterdam’s smallest high schools, which celebrates its 80th anniversary this year. All its students, even the older ones, have to wait an entire school year before getting used to a completely new building. The old school was torn down last April to make room for a more modern one, with plenty of trees and an equal amount of speed bumps. In the meantime, the nearly 160 students will receive their education in modular building site huts.

The school’s headmaster, Dr Moshe Godschalk, sits in a small hut office at a desk strewn with timetables, and is confident about the school’s plans. ‘Since its construction in 1980 the old building needed continual repairs. It was badly built and insulated. Plus, we really needed more versatile study spaces. So

it just made sense to get a whole new building. We started working on the plans in 2006 and we’re still on schedule.’

Indeed, things seem to be running smoothly for this private school, which provides both standard curriculum and an array of liberal and orthodox Jewish classes. But it has seen some bumpy times during its 80 years of existence, particularly in the first few decades.

A rough start The idea for a separate Jewish school in Amsterdam must be as old as Sinterklaas. But in the early 1900s, with finances only allotted for public schools and the majority of the Jewish community being poor, it was impossible to fund such a plan. The law changed in 1928, and with help from the state and the wealthy tobacco merchant I Salomon, the first Jewish HBS (Hogere Burgerschool, which not only prepared students for university, but provided middle class kids with a good basic education) was founded in 1928, at Herengracht 501.

Although the school was festively opened by the supreme rabbi AS Onderwijzer, not everyone in the Jewish community was happy, particularly the rich. They claimed that ‘this poor people’s,

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or getto, school’ would only cause feelings of segregation with the rest of Amsterdam. And why build a Jewish school that doesn’t get your kids into university, while a public school, where they fit in perfectly, can?

While today’s Maimonides college can help you get into university, it is easy to imagine that Jewish parents still debate whether to choose public or private schooling for their children.

Headmaster Godschalk nods his head tentatively. ‘Obviously, we are well aware that the students will partake in society after they finish their education. In this school, we give them tools to be succesfull just as they do in other schools—but we also emphasise the Jewish roots and traditions we cherish. It’s an extra.’ Courses like modern and classical Hebrew are amongst those extras, as well as the voluntary prayers every morning. ‘If anything, I’d say over the last 20 years the Jewish education in this school has become more elaborate,’ says Godschalk, who also attended the school in the 1960s.

Even with doubts among the Jewish community and the gloomy political backdrop of the time, the school moved in 1938 to Voormalige Stadstimmertuin 2, a better location in the middle of Amsterdam’s Jewish quarter. Signaling the threat of anti-semitic politics in Germany and the Netherlands, Minister of Education Dr JR Slotenmaker de Bruine made a point of opening the school himself. By 1941, with rules continually becoming more restrictive towards Jewish citizens, the decision was made that Jewish and non-Jewish students should no longer attend the same school.

Across the street from the Joodse HBS, the government quickly formed the Joodse Lyceum, a school where all the Jewish children were sent. All furniture and belongings of the Joodse HBS were sent to Germany under the name of so-called Liebesgabe: ‘charity’.

Although parents, teachers and students didn’t have any say in the matter, they were happy that there was still some kind of educational structure in those days without security. The Nazis however didn’t have any educational intentions: their goal was to isolate the group and slowly but efficiently blow out the candle of the Jewish community. They systematically started deporting students and teachers alike for the next two years, until the school was closed in 1943, when most people had gone underground or been arrested.

Darkest days Different authors have written about the school and its attending teachers and students, of whom only half survived. One of them is Joods Lyceum history teacher and author Jacques Presser, who wrote Ondergang (1965). Every morning upon arrival in the classroom, he would check for empty seats. If he spotted one, a quick glance to his students would fill him in on the reason: if the students gave a little wave, the missing person had gone underground; if they mimed a grab, the student had been arrested.

Anne Frank was only one of the many children who never returned to the classroom.

When the war finally ended in the spring of 1945, the city was filled with traumatised youngsters, often without money, family and housing, and a few years behind in their education. Although society was upside down, the local Amsterdam government jumped back on the educational bandwagon remarkably quickly.

Close to Oosterpark, at the 2e Boerhaavestraat, an old school building was opened in August for GICOL (Gemeentelijke Inhalings Cursus voor Ondergedoken Leerlingen), a crash course which allowed students who had gone underground to make up for lost time and still get their high school diploma. With many young people on the loose and little faith in the future, it can be considered a miracle that 120 students signed up, most of them Jewish. The man in charge was former Joodse HBS headmaster Hartog Jacobs, a mild and much loved character, even though he was notorious for severely tedious lessons.

Of the students that registered for the two-year course, the ones still alive today have vivid memories, stressing how important that period was for them to ‘get back to normal’. For them, going back to school had a very different meaning than it does for kids today, who reluctantly give up their beach towels and start packing their books. Regaining both social skills and a sense of identity was equally important as getting a proper education. Dutch author Mink van Rijsdijk put together many of these touching memories as a tribute to the school in her book Reunie op papier: terugblik op GICOL 1945-1947 (2000). Some classic school stories found within (like pestering teachers) are so easy to identify with that you often forget the true abnormality of the situation.

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Don’t mention the war Dutch teacher Jeanette Visser-Franken is one of the people Van Rijsdijk interviewed. She recalls that some of her students were so traumatised that they had forgotten the alphabet, or how to do a simple equation. Others had a lot of trouble concentrating and most couldn’t deal with authority. But with an extremely motivated and patient staff, the students could get a lot of work done, doing three school years in two.

One striking detail shines through in all the students’ memories: you did not speak about the war. Everyone was focusing on moving forward, without addressing the great losses and grief.

Still, with a deep understanding of each other’s sorrows, the Jewish students tried to help each other when they could. Wim Rijxman, for instance, was so poor, his classmates couldn’t help but notice the tattered underwear he was wearing whilst changing for gym class. One day, Rijxman found a little bag hanging from the handlebars of his bike. Inside were three new pairs of undies. He never found out who his benefactor was, but he’ll never forget how the gesture moved him to tears.

However, not everyone had that much sympathy. One of the few non-Jewish students at the GICOL, Lodewijk van der Heyden, didn’t understand the fuss about the Jews. Out of fear of the Germans, his dad took him out of school in 1942, admitting to his son that he had no idea what happened to Jews during the occupation. ‘I didn’t have a lot of understanding for those kids. I mean, they didn’t talk about the war much but you would still hear small fragments of what happened and I was like, come on, forget about it. Everyone has had a really hard time the last few years, so let’s just look ahead from now on. What else could we do?’

Lodewijk’s reaction was like that of many Dutch. ‘United we stand’ was the motto—why should the Jews be treated separately? The truth, being that 75 per cent of the Dutch Jews were killed during the war, was something people didn’t know—or want to know—until much later.

Aftermath Within the Jewish community though, there were no longer doubts about the importance of special Jewish education. In 1947, after the GICOL years, the Joodse HBS reopened at their former building at the Voormalig Stadstimmertuin 2, with GICOL headmaster Hartog Jacobs in charge. Due to new education laws, the school added a gymnasium, changing it’s name to Joods Lyceum Maimonides in 1958. But the location was a problem: a large part of the Jewish community was living in the south east of Amsterdam. This distance problem wasn’t solved until 1980 when the school was moved to Buitenveldert.

The architect for that building—the one that was torn down in April—was Bram van Gelderen, who also attended GICOL. Speaking with him on the phone from his residence in Apeldoorn, Van Gelderen admits being ‘a bit sad’ about his building being torn down. But mainly, he’s very down to earth about it. ‘After GICOL, I became an architect, and this school had to be built. I still had the contacts, and contacts are often the way to get work—I don’t find that unusual. So to me, it wasn’t that much of an emotional thing working on the school I went to myself.’ That said, he hopes the school will celebrate many more anniversaries. ‘I had a good time there. Too bad those ceilings are gone, though. They were really beautiful.’

More info: www.jsgmaimonides.nl

She recalls that some of her students were so traumatised that they had forgotten the alphabet, or how to do a simple equation. Others had a lot of trouble concentrating and most couldn’t deal with authority.

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Amar Kanwar, Friday, Stedelijk Museum CS.

THURSDAY 4 SEPTEMBER Stage: Amsterdam Fringe Festival Fringe festivals are known for their creativity, experimentation and general wackiness, and the third annual Amsterdam Fringe Festival (AKA TF-2) looks set to provide just that.

Performances include everything from song, dance, fantasies and farce to cabaret, swordswallowing and Kentucky bluegrass. And, never fear, if it all turns to shit, Recycle Man will be on hand to help save the world from rubbish. Performances will be held throughout the city, in theatres, clubs and outdoor locations. See article on p. 6 and www.amsterdamfringefestival.nl for details. For last season’s hits, look for TF-1 events in our Stage listings. TF-4 presents the best Flemish theatre. And TF-3, well, it’s less attractive (workshops, etc.). (Liz Farsaci) Various locations and prices. Until 14 September.

Event: Opening Smart Project Space Art galleries are no longer where it’s at. The new art thing is space. Artist-run spaces, lab spaces, studio spaces—project spaces. Yes, project spaces offer walls to hang paintings on. But in contrast to the common gallery, they also have cafes, cinemas, auditoria and whatnot. And Amsterdam’s new spearhead of space is the refurbished, re-built, re-pimped Smart Project Space, which glamourously celebrates its opening with an extensive programme of exhibitions, films, speeches, shows... all this signalling that as of today, this space is the place! (Sarah Gehrke) SMART Project Space, 21.00, free.

SUNDAY 7 SEPTEMBER Books: Manuscripta

FRIDAY 5 SEPTEMBER Art: Amar Kanwar One year after the violent suppression of the protest against the junta government in Burma, Stedelijk Museum CS exhibits The First Torn Pages, a new video installation by Amar Kanwar. The Indian artist, who has connections with the Burmese resistance movement, created six films on the country’s political and humanitarian situation, which further deteriorated in the wake of the Nagris cyclone. Some of the material was shot clandestinely.

Simultaneously, the SM’s museum in Den Bosch exhibits, until 16 November, Kanwar’s ‘The Lightning Testimonies’, an eight part video installation addressing sexual violence in the region. (Marinus de Ruiter) Stedelijk Museum CS, 10.00-18.00, €9. Until 30 September.

SATURDAY 6 SEPTEMBER Festival: Valtifest Sometimes it’s hard to let go. Take the summer: ‘No,’ we will say, ‘it might be rainy and cold now, but Holland usually has really sunny Septembers! I’m planning to spend at least one more day at the beach this year!’ In the same spirit, MTV and Meubel Stukken have decided to extend the festival season and bring us one more chance to experience bands and DJs in tents. The line-up includes The Opposites, Kraak & Smaak, Typhoon, De Jeugd van Tegenwoordig, The Glimmers, Hacienda DJs Peter Hook (New Order), Graeme Park and Danny Rampling. For the sake of our health, though, they have somewhat scaled down the whole festival concept: they won’t make us sleep in tents as well—instead, just take the ferry to your warm bed at the end of the night. (Sarah Gehrke) NDSM-werf, 13.00-23.00, €55.

Those books you scored at Uitmarkt are so last season. Head to Manuscripta for the new prints. They haven’t been published yet, so you can’t actually buy them. But you can make a mental note to do so in, say, November, and meanwhile wander around collecting leaflets. With interviews, readings, debates and signings, Dutch publishers have really tried to make this a fun day out for the whole family rather than a book market with no books. Learn about horse whispering or snow food. Ask gardening questions, hug a rabbit, watch a children’s crusade or participate in a live slot machine, a quiz about libraries or a football kicking contest. If you’re lucky, you might even win a book. (Rebecca Wilson) Westergasfabriek, 11.00-18.00, €10.

TUESDAY 9 SEPTEMBER Books: Martin Amis How does an acclaimed novelist and professional cynic like Martin Amis react to 9/11? He tries to understand; he reads; he rants. And most of all, as he says in the introduction to his new collection The Second Plane, he jumps on a good story.

‘Geopolitics may not be my natural subject, but masculinity is. And have we ever seen the male idea in such outrageous garb as the robes, combat fatigues, suits and ties, jeans, tracksuits and medic’s smocks of the Islamic radical?’ Amis’s controversial collection of essays and fiction was published in the UK and the US earlier this year to largely distrustful reviews: he was found occasionally convincing but too often stumbling over his own verbal virtuosity. Expect a lively discussion when he reads at the John Adams Institute, moderated by NRC Handelsblad editor Pieter Steinz. (Julie Phillips) De Duif, 20.00, €18.50.

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AGENDA: MUSIC

Lekker Bezig

By Rebecca Wilson

Barbara Paternotte does it for the ladies.

‘Ladyfest is a non-profit, community-based, volunteer-run festival about art, music and politics. Politics meaning feminism.

As long as needle-thin models are tumbling dead off of catwalks everywhere, I think feminism is still very relevant. And no, emancipation has not been achieved in the Netherlands.

Just look at the difference in wages between men and women.

‘The festival is an international concept, held in many cities, but it’s basically a name you can appropriate for your own programming, so it’s different everywhere. In some countries it’s all about the music. For us it’s the mix between all three aspects that’s important. We’re like the Women Inc festival but with street cred.

‘We’ve asked a lot of women’s organisations and volunteer groups to showcase their work: Women on Waves (of the abortion boat), the support group for women without papers, etc. It makes me happy to see so much good work going on.

We’re celebrating that.

‘I come from a family of discussion at the dinner table. I’ve been a feminist ever since I understood the meaning of the word. When I was eighteen I became actively involved with the leftist movement. But I soon realised that there was certainly some feminist work to be done there as well. There’s a lot of macho behaviour. So when I was a member of Ojala, an autonomous youth group in support of Latin America, I started my first feminist subgroup.

‘I have misgivings about the alternative scene and the art world, too. For example, you see a lot of burlesque nowadays.

How is it that stripping is suddenly art when it’s seen at an alternative venue? Instead, at Ladyfest we’ll have a stitch ’n’ bitch workshop. We had many internal debates and decided, yes, knitting can be a feminist thing to do.’

MUSIC Thursday 4 September Singer-songwriter: Eileen Rose Accomplished songwriter from Boston, fitting somewhere between the darkness of PJ Harvey and the pop sensibility of Sheryl Crow. OBA, 19.00, free Hiphop: Escalatie Team Amsterdam hiphoppers unleash their debut album, De Escaleerplicht. Winston Kingdom, 20.00, €5 Jazz: Sunny & Sol Trio Spacious vocal jazz. Badcuyp, Zuidpool, 20.00, €4/€9 Big band: Barry Hay The Golden Earring singer is the latest to hop on the big band train, teaming up with the Metropole Orkest to do so. Still, he’s no Sinatra...

Ladyfest 4-7 September, various locations: www.ladyfestamsterdam.nl

rock classics are on the menu. Paradiso, Grote Zaal, 20.30, €20 + membership

The Bloody Honkies perform live, plus other guests.

Desmet Studios, 22.00, free, tickets: www.3voor12.nl

Jazz: Fay Claassen On her new CD Red, Hot & Blue, the Dutch singer interprets songs by Cole Porter.

Bimhuis, 20.30, €15

Rock: White Cowbell Oklahoma Dear White Cowbell Oklahoma, do you swear to rock, to roll and to burn this building down? ‘Sure, man!’ The riffs may be at least 30 years old. But their attitude is possibly timeless. The art and skill of a drunk-assed, rip-roaring, proper rock ’n’ roll gig should never be taken for granted. Paradiso, Kleine Zaal, 22.00, €8.50 + membership

Contemporary: Nieuw Ensemble New works by Marko Nikodijevic, Francisco Castillo Trigueros, Christopher Trapani, Wilbert Bulsink, Claudia Rumondor, Spinvis and Bart de Vrees. Muziekgebouw, 20.30, €16 Electro rock: The Faint Dance punk and new wave grooves. This Nebraskan bunch originally included Bright Eyes’ Conor Oberst, though he didn’t stick around for too long. Arguably, they’ve been better off since he left, bringing an electronic dance edge to the Saddle Creek roster. Melkweg, Oude Zaal, 20.30, €13 + membership Heavy: Animal Liberation Sets from Determination and Fist-a-Ferret. Apparently Austrian grindcore musicians love animals too, but perhaps the bookers could have found a band with a more cutesy name? OCCII, 21.00, €5 Pop/Rock: Club 3voor12 Live radio and TV session, tonight featuring the prize giving for the 3voor12 Award.

Must see: Pop/Rock

Shearwater Paradiso, Kleine Zaal, Wednesday 10 September Texan indie rock. Earlier this year they released their fifth album, Rook, via Matador. Yet again, they’ve produced a beautiful melange of melancholy, atmosphere, guitar rock, subtle folk and emotional pop.

They really are that good. 20.30, €10 + membership

Go subsonic at Night of the Unexpected on Friday.

Festival: Internationale Gaudeamus Muziekweek 2008 Kick-ass contemporary classics. This festival is an international institution, presenting some of the best young musicians and composers. As well as the challenging classical music, the performers build bridges with other genres. See www.muziekweek.nl.

Various locations, various times, various prices

Friday 5 September Festival: Gospelfestival Two days of high quality gospel songs, mixing the traditional songs of praise with contemporary sounds like hiphop, soul, R&B and pop. While a healthy batch of artists are homegrown, stars are coming in from far and wide, including Kirk Franklin, Tye Tribbett and Edwin Hawkins. On Saturday afternoon there’s also a series of workshops. See 3 questions p. 12. Heineken Music Hall, 19.30, €25, €40 festival pass Classical: Chicago Symphony Orchestra One of the greatest symphony orchestras in the world. Amsterdam’s favourite conductor: Bernard Haitink. Throw in Mahler’s Sixth and you have a season opener that’s worth every penny. Concertgebouw, Grote Zaal, 20.15, €96.50/€113 Jazz: Free Form Funky Freqs A mix of futuristic free funk and rock sounds from Living Colour guitarist Vernon Reid, bassist Jamaaladeen Tacuma and drummer G Calvin Weston. Bimhuis, 20.30, €18 Contemporary: Radio Kamer Filharmonie Performing a trio of Dutch premieres: Lindberg’s Bubo Bubo and Piano Concerto, and Adès’ In Seven Days—Piano Concerto with Moving Image; conducted by Otto Tausk. Muziekgebouw, 20.30, €28 Experimental: The Night of the Unexpected Contemporary classical, jazz, electronica, rock and pop collide. This annual performance in the Gaudeamus Muziekweek schedule is always different, always challenging, occasionally mis-firing, but always exciting.

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Just a fraction of the line-up includes KTL (Stephen O’Malley & Pita), Ceephax, Gilius van Bergeijk, Pianoduo Post & Mulder, and Iannis Xenakis. Paradiso, Grote Zaal, 20.30, €15 + membership Rock: 3xLive Varied slices of guitar rock from Ape Dirt, SolarCruiser and Furistic. Winston Kingdom, 21.00, €6 World: Ot Azoj Klezmer Band Amsterdam Eastern folk outfit. Cafe Pakhuis Wilhelmina, 21.00, €7.50 Pop/Rock: The Outsiders Sixties party. Maloe Melo, 22.00, €5 Experimental: Subbacultcha! vs Narrowminded Tag-teamed experimentalism and diversity. Bristol’s Munch Munch dish out chaotic bedroom indie noise.

Elephant Micah still sticks to his hypnotic formula of daydream acoustic folk. And Boutros Bubba, well, they simply rock. Patronaat, Haarlem, 22.30, free Festival: Internationale Gaudeamus Muziekweek 2008 See Thursday Various locations, various times, various prices

Saturday 6 September Festival: Gospelfestival See Friday. Heineken Music Hall, 12.00, €25, €40 festival pass Reggae: Reggae on the Beach Jamaican grooves from the afternoon to the middle of the night. Live acts include The Lions, United Colours, Star David & The One World Band, Spirits O`ve Yah and Lady K-Wida & Poor Man Friend. A whole host of DJs and selectors plug all gaps. Blijburg, 15.00, €10 Classical: Chicago Symphony Orchestra Pianist Murray Perahia is guest tonight, with performances of Mozart’s Piano Concerto No.24 and Shostakovich’s Symphony No.4. Concertgebouw, Grote Zaal, 20.15, €96.50/€113 Jazz: Peter Brotzmann, Toshinori Kondo, Massimo Pupillo, Paal Nilssen-Love Two generations of selfstyled musicians come together in a new improvisational quartet. Bimhuis, 20.30, €18 Pop/Rock: Taste Like Chicken, Nellie & The Nemos Winston Kingdom, 21.00, €6 Pop/Rock: The Rascals Sometimes side-projects gain so much momentum, they overtake the full-time band.

The name Miles Kane now reverberates around the guitar pop scene thanks to The Last Shadow Puppets—with Arctic Monkeys’ frontman Alex Turner—who’ve already sold out Paradiso in October. But for now, he’s back to the lower-key business of jaunty indie guitar pop. Melkweg, Oude Zaal, 21.00, €12 + membership

3 questions:

Edwin Hawkins Gospel Festival, Heineken Music Hall, 5, 6 September The producer, singer-songwriter Edwin Hawkins is a gospel legend. His version of the 1969 classic ‘Oh Happy Day’ was a huge pop hit and remains one of the Number One songs still sung in churches—and showers—worldwide. Born in Oakland, CA in 1943, he began singing in his church choir as a toddler, by age five was playing piano, and by seven he was the full-time pianist for his family gospel group. In 1967, Hawkins and Betty Watson co-founded the Northern California State Youth Choir, who cut the R&B-influenced album Let Us Go into the House of the Lord, with its single ‘Oh Happy Day’.

Many Grammy Awards later, Hawkins remains as active as ever. And like a good Christian, he was gracious enough to do our 3 Question interview.

Music for rocking? ‘The up-tempo gospel stuff with uplifting and encouraging lyrics full of blessing and healing. There’s my friend Richard Smallwood, who I’ve just done a project with.

Then there’s Donald Lawrence, another great songwriter and producer. And of course, Kirk Franklin who will also be at the Gospel Festival.’

Music for mellowing? ‘There’s so much... The trumpet player Chris Botti, who has worked with Sting and many others. Brian Culbertson whose latest project, Bringing Back The Funk, has Maurice White from Earth Wind & Fire doing the production and background vocals—it’s great to hear his voice again.

Brazilian jazz singer Dori Caymmi for his baritone voice, his original progressions—musicians just don’t think that way!— and his clean and wonderful melodies...’

Music for loving? ‘Probably the same as for mellowing...’

Schönberg Ensemble. Muziekgebouw, 20.30, €25

Festival: Internationale Gaudeamus Muziekweek 2008 See Thursday Various locations, various times, various prices

Big band: Konrad Koselleck Big Band Jazz pop dance fusion—big band style. Joining Koselleck tonight is trumpeter/actor Hans Dagelet, who’ll be wailing the night away. Sugar Factory, 21.30, €10

Sunday 7 September

Singer-songwriter: Marynka & The Flowers A mix of folk, jazz, classical, traditional Russian songs and cabaret. Paradiso, Kelder, 22.00, €7.50 + membership

Rock: Leidseplein Live 2008 Just when you thought Leidseplein couldn’t get any trashier, ‘Holland’s top cover bands’ are back, hacking away at songs by Red Hot Chili Peppers, Metallica, Anouk (honestly) and classic rock standards. It’s an all-day and evening affair, in case you need to plan alternative routes. Leidseplein, 13.00, free Singer-songwriter: Sam Baker Country folk. Paradiso, Kleine Zaal, 19.30, €10 + membership Jazz: Amina Figarova Sextet Classical pianist from Azerbaijan, turned jazz wonder after studying in Rotterdam. Tonight she launches new CD Above the Clouds.

Bimhuis, 20.30, €15 Punk: Pennywise West Coast punks. They’re as noisy and high energy as you’d expect. Earlier this year they released their ninth album, Reason to Believe, a full 20 years after forming. Support from A Wilhelm Scream.

Melkweg, Oude Zaal, 20.30, €19 + membership Country: Lovell Sisters Pluckin’ banjos and bitter-sweet country and folk melodies from this upcoming sister act.

Paradiso, Kleine Zaal, 21.30, €7.50 + membership Festival: Internationale Gaudeamus Muziekweek 2008 See Thursday Various locations, various times, various prices

Monday 8 September Pop/Rock: Discover me Music Challenge The little local bands who’ve qualified to appear on the big stage for yet another band contest. Paradiso, Grote Zaal, 20.30, €7 + membership Contemporary: Reinbert de Leeuw 70 Jaar A special concert, complete with surprises, for the 70th birthday of the founder and conductor of the

Websites: www.gospelfestival.nl www.edwinhawkins.tv

CLUBS Thursday 4 September

Tuesday 9 September Singer-songwriter: Open mic Hosted by the Amsterdam Songwriter’s Guild. Cafe Sappho, 20.30, free Rock: The Futureheads Sunderland’s ‘Hounds of Love’, who enjoyed the peak of their success in 2005 covering that said Kate Bush track. The hype seems to have died down in the past couple of years, which is a real shame, as their musical quality really hasn’t dipped. Twisty post punk is a short cut descriptor, but they have a great sense of pop melody, and have shared members and tread a similar path as delightful Sunderland peers, Field Music. Melkweg, Oude Zaal, 20.30, €13 + membership Jazz: The Karnatic Lab A concert series devoted to exploring elements of Karnatic music from southern India and fusing them with jazz styles. Led by Ned McGowan and Gijs Levelt. Badcuyp, Noordpool, 20.30, free

Wednesday 10 September Pop/Rock: Amsterdamse Popprijs Now in it’s 346th year, new bands compete in the opening rounds of the local music contest. Winston Kingdom, 20.30, €6 Classical: Paolo Giacometti A solo recital by the Italian pianist, performing three Ravel works and two by Debussy. Muziekgebouw, 20.30, €18 Jazz: Theo Loevendie All Stars The sax player performs standards with singer Kristina Fuchs and Dutch drum legend John Engels. Bimhuis, 20.30, €15 Rock: The Five Aces Fiery ’50s and ’60s-style R&B from Glasgow. Paradiso, Kleine Zaal, 23.00, €6 + membership

Electrorated Uit De Hoogte Birthday Bash. Electro and techno party with Dax, Clockwork and, yes, Uit de Hoogte. Winston Kingdom, 23.00-03.00, €5 3 Jaar Wildvreemd Continuing to celebrate three years of wildly strange nights, with Boris Werner, Binh and Carlos Valdes on the decks and a performance by Michelle Sars. Sugar Factory, 23.00-05.00, €10 Blue Note Trip Weekly jazz and dance fusion featuring DJ Maestro and special guests. Melkweg, Oude Zaal, 23.30-late, €8

Friday 5 September Hieperdepiephoera! Kid Sublime, Edo Salgado and Joshua Walter spin tunes to spark this venue’s first birthday party. Studio K, 21.00-04.00, €5 klinch: Inmotion met Karotte Get out your techno and house scarves and gloves for another klinch special. Karotte is in town from Frankfurt and is well-known throughout the German scene. Support from Shinedoe and 2000 and One. Melkweg, The Max, 23.00-late, €14 + membership Discocult presents Dada Life Disco and Dada, what a combination. This cult will either destroy the world by abducting it on a UFO, or else it will throw a damn fine party. Sugar Factory, 23.5905.00, €10 Knockout Reggae and dancehall party. Herbalize It, Chaos and Royalee do the selecting. Melkweg, Oude Zaal, 23.59-late, €12.50 + membership

Fall in love with the banjo-picking Lovell Sisters on Sunday. Well, maybe not the 17-year-old. That might be weird.

Saturday 6 September Valtifest The festival season is over... Reason enough for one more day of dancing in tents. MTV and Meubel Stukken have joined forces to invite an impressive line-up, which includes Peter Hook (New Order) and Graeme Park, Danny Rampling, The Opposites, Razhel & JS1 (Rock Steady Crew), De Jeugd van Tegenwoordig, The Glimmers and many more. See Short List and www.valtifest.nl. NDSMwerf, 13.00-23.00, €55 IChiOne Organic breakbeat specialists promising avant-garde drum & bass experiences with a little dubstep thrown in for good measure. Cafe Pakhuis Wilhelmina, 20.00-04.00, €8/€15 Robot Rock It’s indie dance, but with batteries, as the Robot Rock DJs spin their eclectic but fine mix of electro and geetars. With special guests FSO, Bizar and Blokgolf. Club 8, 22.00-04.00, €7 Club Cult Tonight, this new club night, with a pinch of high culture, shifts its focus from poetry and literature to theatre. In collaboration with the Fringe Festival. Paradiso, 23.00-05.00, €15 Rokjesoksov To supply a big booming welcome for MS Stubnitz, Multigroove bring on a line-up filled to the brim with old school hardcore, rough techno, electro and house. Stubnitz, 23.00-08.00, €25 Versch Freshening up once again, this time with a live show by Loops and DJs Jarno and Jason Shae (of Jason and the Argonauts). Sugar Factory, 23.59-05.00, €10 Gemengd Zwemmen Two rooms of swimmingly diverse noise. In The Max, it’s all about Balkan Beatz with special live guest Max Pashm; in the Oude Zaal, there’s alternative dance, pop, rock and indie hits. Melkweg, 23.59-late, €9

Sunday 7 September Wicked Jazz Sounds Jazz, hiphop, broken beats, nujazz, funk and Afro sounds, as classic vinyl collides with live musicians. Sugar Factory, 23.00-05.00, €9.50

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Zonde Sunday songs and lotsa free candy. ’Cause sugar gives you the energy you need for your active lifestyle! Paradiso, 23.30-05.00, €7.50

A G E N D A : C L U B S / G AY & L E S B I A N / S T A G E Must see: Clubs

Monday 8 September Cheeky Monday True skool jungle and drum & bass, featuring players from the local and international scenes. Winston Kingdom, 22.00-03.00, €7

Tuesday 9 September [DEFAULT] Return to original settings with Thijs Kaldenbach (resident), Oz Romita (Boyz with Skills, Panama), Technymph (Switch, Dance4Freedom) and Les Ley (Les & More). Winston Kingdom, 22.00-03.00, €6

Wednesday 10 September Toppa Top Wednesday Reggae party, cos the Rastas love midweek fun. Winston Kingdom, 23.00-03.00, €5

GAY&LESBIAN Edited by Willem de Blaauw.

Thursday 4 September Party: Lezzie Chill Out The name says it all. Chat, chill, dance and/or flirt. And sip sexy cocktails. Cafe Sappho, 21.00, free

Friday 5 September

Photo by Mariken van Lammeren

Exhibition: Female Masculinities Opening of the photo exhibition at the Internationaal Informatiecentrum en Archief voor de Vrouwenbeweging. For details: www.iiav.nl. IIAV, 18.00-21.00, free

LFTFLD presents Amsterdam Rocks

T&T Night Social and fun gathering for trannies and transgenders. There are changing rooms to dress-up and you can get style tips from FritzztheBlitizz. Same Place, 22.00

LFTFLD rock Paradiso with the help of Eric de Man, Bart Skils and a live performance by Zoë Xenia, while the upstairs room is hosted by Dekmantel. 23.59-05.00, €12.50 + membership

Party: FurBall Fur-fest for hairy marys and others in pursuit of the hirsute. DJs include the furtastic Miss Wendy and Mike Kelly, plus VJ Eddi Bal. Westerunie, 22.00-04.00, €12.50/€15

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Saturday 6 September Sport: Lowlanders Rugby Introduction Dutch gay rugby team Lowlanders organise an introduction training session. Strictly for the butch—or those who want to watch some sporting man-on-man action. Museumplein, 13.00-16.00, free Party: D & C Dance & Cruise Party at this new cool cruise club. Shirts are optional. Dance, flirt and do all kinds of other un-holy stuff. Admission includes a drink and there’s even a tiny smoking lounge for those desperate to suck on something else. Church, 20.00-00.00, €10 Club: M.U.L.T.I.S.E.X.I. This monthly party is a bit of everything really—part glam-ish, 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 7 September Party: Zonde Paradiso’s gay/mixed Sunday nighter to finish off the weekend. Attracts a slightly young crowd.

Paradiso, 23.30-05.00, €7.50

Monday 8 September Happy hour: Cheap Monday Broke after the weekend? Then head to this funky bar with great staff and whoopie tunes, and spend your last dosh on cheap beer at €1 a glass. PRIK, 16.00-01.00, free Film: Gay Africa Part of Africa in the Picture, this evening focusses on the struggle of gays and lesbians in Africa. Includes talks, films and TV screenings. For details: www.africainthepicture.nl. Ketelhuis, 18.00, €8

Opening Festival: Amsterdam Fringe Festival | TF Now taking place at 15 locations and featuring 50 productions, this annual theatre festival has grown considerably but still manages to not get caught up in the theatre circus, instead maintaining its underground edge and open policies. Crucially this year, a nice selection of performances come with English surtitles. See Short List, www.tf.nl and www.amsterdamfringefestival.nl (which also offers a ‘language no problem’ route for each day). Until 14 September. Various locations, (Daily), various prices Ballet: Celebrating Rudi van Dantzig Van Dantzig was artistic director of Het Nationale Ballet for 22 years and has created over 50 choreographies on the way. Now that he turns 75, the occasion is celebrated by showcasing three of Van Dantzig’s most important choreographies, plus one by Toer van Schayk, his friend and colleague of many years. Het Muziektheater, (Thur, Sat, Wed 20.15, Sun 14.00), €30/€37 Theatre: TF2: Demises Scottish company Liars’ piece about different ways to die—some are tragic, others quite funny. In English. Compagnietheater, (Fri, Sat, Mon 22.00), €7.50 Dance: TF2: Doubleface Playful yet touching family portrait by Sarah Bostoen. Mum and Auntie dance along. Perdu, (Fri, Sun 19.00, Sat 16.00), €5 Theatre: TF2: 40 Feathered Winks British collective The Paper Birds share a play about the place where we spend a third of our lives: the bed. Many things go on here: dreams, sleepovers, sex, hiding, crying,

dying—oh, and actual sleeping. This performance has been labelled the hit of the Prague Fringe Festival, so it might be well worth getting out of bed for. In English. Frascati, (Fri-Mon 20.00), €7.50 Theatre: Brabants voor Beginners (en gevorderden) Everyone’s got roots. That’s just the way it is. The performers here have their roots in Brabant, but they’ve been living in the west for a while now, becoming assimilated. For this play it’s time to get back in touch with those roots. In Dutch (or at least Brabants). Hetveem Theater, (Sat, Sun 20.30), €3.50 (for try-outs)

Ongoing Theatre: TF-1: Romeinse Tragedies Buy one, get three: Toneelgroep Amsterdam are back with their performance of Shakespeare’s Roman tragedies.

Coriolanus, Julius Caesar and Antony and Cleopatra are merged into one marathon play. Directed by Ivo van Hove. With English surtitles. Stadsschouwburg, (Fri 18.00, Sat 16.00), €39 Theatre: TF-1: Tourniquet Abbatoire Fermé with a rough play inspired by bitter reality and underground influences. That means it includes a lot of nakedness.

With English surtitles. Theater Bellevue, (Thur, Fri 20.30), €16 Theatre: TF-1: Laatste Nachmerrie This last part of Laura von Dolron’s trilogy of ‘stand-up philosophy’ is based on the documentary The Power of Nightmares, about the rise of American neo-conservatives. Theater Bellevue, (Fri, Sun, Tues, Wed 12.30), €14 Music/Dance: Monday Match For each edition of Monday Match a dancer chooses a musician as a partner, or vice versa. This duo then come up with an approach for a unique improvisation lab. Bimhuis, (Mon 20.30), free Theatre: TF-1: Missie An old missionary in Congo looks back on his life in a monologue filled with humour and horrors. Written by David van Reybrouck

Secretly craving gay rugby action? Try the Lowlanders Rugby Introduction. (Straight men can play, too.)

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A G E N D A : S TA G E / E V E N T S / A RT and directed by Raven Ruëll, with the Koninklijke Vlaamse Schouwburg and starring Bruno Vanden Broecke. With English surtitles. Stadsschouwburg, (Mon 20.30), €10-€20

Art: Opening

Theatre: TF-1: Mijnheer Porselein Action-packed family production by Studio Orka, taking place in a real forest. Tuin Park Ons Buiten, (Mon-Wed 19.00, Tues, Wed also 16.00), €12 Theatre: TF-1: Kamp Jezus A play about religion— critical but non-judgmental—by Flemish-Dutch theatre collective Wunderbaum. Features a hammond organ! With English subtitles. Introduction at 19.30.

Stadsschouwburg, (Tues 20.30), €10-€22.50 Theatre: TF-1: Rococo Multidisciplinary performance

by Hotel Modern, about bears, sex and hand cameras.

With English surtitles. Theater Bellevue, (Tues, Wed 20.30), €16

EVENTS Festival: Klanken aan ‘t IJ The south bank of the IJ continues on with the noise. International artists combine visual arts and technology to create extraordinary sound installations. Each day utensils such as bottles, pans and shoes are converted into amazing works of art and give rise to a whole new sound experience.

See www.muziekcentrumnederland.nl. Various locations, (Thur-Sun), free Auction: Charity Art Auction Bid on a number of Dutch and British artworks and help raise money for Macmillan Cancer Support. A party follows in the catacombs below, from 22.30. See www.theannapuranaexperience.eu. Posthoornkerk, (Fri 20.30), €20 Party: Notopia The usual nutty mix of poetry, live jams, singer-songwriters, DJs and all-round entertainments. Blijburg, (Fri 21.00-03.00), €8 Festival: Ladyfest Amsterdam Bravely embracing the F-word, this community based, non-profit festival boasts various music and art projects, driven to rejuvenate feminism. See www.ladyfestamsterdam.nl and Lekker Bezig, p. 11. Various locations, (Thur-Sun), free Art/Talk: Friday Night Vincent van Gogh and the French still life, explained by assistant-curator Fleur Roos Rosa de Carvalho. Van Gogh Museum, (Fri 20.00), museum entry cost Festival: Koningsstraatfeest 2008 A slew of stuff on one street: music performances (from both adults and children), art exhibitions, extreme bike demonstrations, massage tables and entertaining talk shows.

Koningsstraat, (Sat 15.00-22.00-ish), free Performance: 3e Wilhelmina Huiskamerfestival Professional cabaretiers, stand-up comics, musicians, theatre makers and opera singers from Oud-West do their thing—in the living rooms of Wilhelminastraat. See www.huiskamerfestival.nl.

Wilhelminastraat, (Sat 20.00), €10 Feest der Kritiek What exactly is the profile of the multidisciplinary critic? A particularly apt question for the writers of this paper, as we take on the whole town, weekly. Film expert Dana Linssen (NRC, Filmkrant), musicologist Saskia Törnqvist (Het Parool) and performing arts editor/writer Rob Perrée try to uncover an answer. It’s technically intended for all levels of art critics, but anyone interested is welcome. De Brakke Grond, (Sat 20.00), €5

The Hyena Men & Honey Collectors Foam, opens Friday 5 September, until 2 November Photos by 2008 KLM Paul Huf Award winner Pieter Hugo, made while traveling in Nigeria with a group of animal charmers and their hyenas, monkeys and snakes in tow. (Sat-Wed 10.00-18.00, Thur, Fri 10.00-21.00)

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Galerie Gabriel Rolt (Wed-Sat 12.00-18.00), opens Saturday, until 11 October Birth Copulation Death Drawings by Frank van Hemert.

Teylers Museum (Tues-Sat 10.00-17.00, Sun 12.0017.00), Haarlem, opens Saturday, until 22 November Blueprint Room New work from Rijksakademie resident Lotte Geeven. Mart House (Thur-Sat 13.00-18.00), opens Saturday, until 11 August 2009

Opening New Drawing Exhibition Gothic funny nightmare graphics by Ewan Cameron. De Nieuwe Anita (various times), opens Thursday, until 16 September

Open Ateliers: Openbare Werken Ruigoord The planets must be lining up to bring all these numbers together: the 35th year of Ruigoord and the 5th year of their Open Studios sees Simon Vinkenoog (80) and Niels Hamel (75) participating in the raw artistic energy that keeps Ruigoord village alive. Walk through and see what they’re up to. Ruigoord, (Sat, Sun 12.00-18.00), free

Young Identities Teenage portraits by Jasper Groen.

Melkweg Galerie (Wed-Sun 13.00-20.00), opens Thursday, until 28 September

Literature: Manuscripta Official opening of the book season with more than 200 authors who have published books in the last year, or will in the coming year, offering signings, lectures, discussions, you name it. Writers include: Marjan Berk, Hugo Brandt Corstius, Jan Brokken, Ronald Giphart, Arthur Japin, Annemarie van Haeringen, AF Th van der Heijden, Nicolaas Klei, Hanco Kolk & Peter de Wit, Dick Matena, Erwin Mortier, Harry Mulisch, Hans Münstermann, Hagar Peeters, Wanda Reisel, Jan Siebelink, Ed van Thijn and Simone van der Vlugt. See Short List. Westergasfabriek, (Sun 11.00-18.00), €10

The New Generation Photography by Sofie van Dam, Beatrice Jansen, Sofie Knijff and Isabella Rozendaal.

Hup Gallery (Fri 17.30-22.00, Sat, Sun 12.00-18.00), opens Friday, closing Sunday

Foreign Ground Works by young internationals: Erik de Bree, Danielle Itzhaqi, Yehudit Mizrahi and Masha Osipova. Ververs Gallery (Thur-Sat 12.00-17.30), opens Friday, until 17 October

The World’s Biggest Baloney Noncommissioned print work by Raph(aël) Logobar Bartels featuring giant cured meats. Opening provides Vegetarian Hot Dog Music by All Out K and a Baloney Buffet to get your snack on. De Duivel (20.00-late), opens Friday Better Spectacles Recent works on paper by Nik Christensen, who reinvents everyday objects, setting them in the foreground of figurative landscapes.

Craving cured meats? Head to The World’s Biggest Baloney at De Duivel.

Dan Walsh New minimalistic works from the American artist coming out of Brooklyn, New York. Slewe Gallery (Tues-Sat 14.00-17.00), opens Saturday, until 4 October Delight Group exhibition with artists inspired by various African countries and cultures. Arti et Amicitiae (TuesSun 13.00-18.00), opens Saturday, until 5 October Grafisch Gezelschap De Luis Retrospective of works by artist group De Luis, which caused a furore with their often poetic and bizarre output between 1960 and 1980. Rembrandthuis (Mon-Sat 10.00-17.00, Sun 11.00-17.00), opens Saturday, until 16 November Hinke Schreuders, Manon Bovenkerk, Awoiska van der Molen Embroideries, drawings and photographs from the three talented artists. Wetering Galerie (Wed-Sat 12.30 -17.30), opens Saturday, until 11 October Homer This three–screen slide installation by veteran artist Pablo Pijnappel follows a narrative about his friend’s move to a small Alaskan fishing village called Homer. Like much of his oeuvre, this piece employs methods of cinematic deconstruction and collage to tell a more or less linear story. Galerie Juliette Jongma (Wed-Sat 13.00-18.00), opens Saturday, until 11 October

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Ingrid Baars Powerful images of the female form built up with various photographic layers and elements.

Blow Up Gallery (Thur, Fri 14.00-18.00, Sat 13.0018.00), opens Saturday, until 25 October John O’ Carroll Drawings, paintings, books and sculptures by the English artist, much of it based on archaeological findings, which he witnesses first-hand two months every summer, making accurate drawings at digging sites in Egypt. Galerie Roger Katwijk (WedSat 12.00-18.00), opens Saturday, until 4 October Jos Dijkman & Joke de Jong Angelic drawings and sculptures. Royal Gallery (Wed-Sun 12.00-18.00), opens Saturday Leven op de maan Recent works on paper by Tomas Hillebrand and Marijke Sjollema. Galerie Smits (WedSat 13.30-17.30), opens Saturday, until 8 October Neil Clements, Alex Dordoy, Morag Keil Och! Three Scottish artists present their latest paintings and installations. Grimm Fine Art (Thur-Sun 12.00-18.00), opens Saturday, until 9 October Silent Times Drawings and oil pastels from Lies Neve.

AYAC’S (Fri, Sat 13.00-17.30), opens Saturday, until 4 October Soul Mirrors Travel through nightmares and fairy tales, as seen through the work of Andrea Lehman, Greek artist Tassos Missouras and Leopold Rabus of Switzerland. Galerie Hof & Huyser (Tues-Sat 13.0018.00), opens Saturday, until 4 October Usable Pasts, Concerted Forgettings Group exhibition examining national paradoxes, identities and histories, with a focus on collective cultural memory.

Part of SMART’s grand reopening, celebrating the completion of work to the 4000 square metre lab building, which now boasts six gallery spaces, an auditorium/theatre, a reading room, two cinemas, ten artists’ studios, a digital suite and cafe/restaurant LAB111. Come for the exhibition, stay for the countless other offerings. See Short List. SMART Project Space (Mon-Sat 12.00-22.00, Sun 14.00-22.00), opens Saturday, until 25 October Dirk Bakker New paintings. Beeldend Gesproken (Wed, Thurs 13.30-18.30, Sat 14.00-17.00), opens Sunday, until 20 September Kees van Bohemen Overview exhibition showing paintings and gouaches by the artist (1950-1985). Jan van der Togt Museum (Wed-Sun 13.00-17.00), Amstelveen, opens Sunday, until 10 October

Museums Lectori Salutem Delving into the history of books, with original objects, beautiful manuscripts and books from Dutch collections, photographs and texts. Allard Pierson Museum (Tues-Fri 10.00-17.00, Sat, Sun 13.0017.00), closing Sunday 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), cl`osing Sunday 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), closing Sunday Beyond Paradise Group exhibition which highlights

AGENDA: ART the interaction between tourism and contemporary art. This includes travel brochures, postcards, advertisements, films and so on. Artists include Bik van der Pol, Patricia Esquives, Arnout Killian and more.

Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam (Tues-Sun 11.00-17.00), closing Sunday

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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 Kors van Bennekom—Kors’s Choice An exhibition celebrating the 75th birthday of the Amsterdam photographer Kor van Bennekom, the street photographer, theatre photographer and family photographer, whose remarkable oeuvre reflects the history of the Netherlands in the second half of the 20th century. Foam (Sat-Wed 10.00-18.00, Thur, Fri 10.00-21.00), until 14 September Me! Me! Me! An interactive exhibition that touches on self representation on the internet and fashion, on the far reaching consequences of modern communication and on our self image and the way we experience the world around us. The exhibition also highlights our own cultural potential with a minimal ecological footprint. In the process, art and fashion activists Andrea Crews will transform Mediamatic’s new location into a world fashion centre. Mediamatic Tues-Sat 11.0017.00, Sun 12.00-17.00, until 14 September NL28 Olympic Fire An exhibition in which scale models, film, debate and theatre help visitors to imagine that the Netherlands is organising the Olympic Games in 2028, a century after the Games in Amsterdam.

Nederlands Architectuurinstituut (Tues-Sat 10.00-17.00, Sun 11.00-17.00), Rotterdam, until 21 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 Rogier Verkade: Recht in Beeld Triptych photo sets; two of the photos are Creative Commons licensed images from sites like Flickr, with Verkade creating a third image to complete the trio. Centrale Bibliotheek (Daily), until 28 September Deep Screen—Art in Digital Culture Contemporary multidisciplinary works of art which are all in some way marked by today’s digital culture. The jury, chaired by guest curator Andreas Broeckmann, has selected 18 artists out of the 200-plus submissions. Stedelijk Museum CS (Daily 10.00 -18.00), until 30 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 10.0018.00), until 30 September Presence of Mind—A Choice from the Collection

by Wolfgang Tillmans The Stedelijk Museum regularly invites artists to select from the collection, coloured only by their own artistic perspective. This time, the German photographer Wolfgang Tillmans (1968) offers a fresh perspective amidst the context of his

Cy Twombly: Photographs 1951-2007 Huis Marseille, opens Saturday 6 September, until 23 November Photos by the renowned American artist, in celebration of his 80th birthday. As a photographer, Twombly still has the eye of a painter, who explores rather than captures his subjects—still lifes, flowers, interiors, seascapes. His ‘dry prints’, a specialised version of colour prints from a copy machine, are being shown for the first time in the Netherlands. (Tues-Sun 11.00-18.00)

own oeuvre. Stedelijk Museum CS (Daily 10.00-18.00), until 30 September

and memorabilia about the Amsterdam Gay Games.

Centrale Bibliotheek (Daily), until 8 October

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. It reveals how artists are using photography to respond artistically to the enormous changes currently taking place in African economic, social and cultural life, but 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

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

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 30 September Gay Games Amsterdam 1998—10 jaar later Photos

‘Druksel prints’ by Werkman A presentation by the Stedelijk Museum dedicated to the ‘druksel prints’ of Hendrik Werkman, who, in the ’20s, developed the technique of printing parts of a print one at a time to compile the total image on a page. Van Gogh Museum (Mon-Thur, Sat, Sun 10.00-18.00, Fri 10.00-22.00), 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. Sidibé was one of the first African photographers to gain recognition in the West.

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Foam (Sat-Wed 10.00-18.00, Thur, Fri 10.00-21.00), until 15 October Stad uit de School Designs by former students of the Amsterdam Academy of Architecture. ARCAM (Tues-Sat 13.00-17.00), until 25 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 Black is Beautiful A journey of discovery though the history of art, which for the first time aims to highlight the attractiveness of the black person in the art of the Lowlands. It turns out, many great masters have portrayed black people. Their fascination will be illustrated in 135 paintings, drawings and manuscripts from collections here and abroad, including artists like Rembrandt, Breitner, Sluijters, Appel and Dumas. Nieuwe Kerk (Fri-Wed 10.0018.00, Thur 10.00-22.00), until 26 October Inside Out Personal portraits in word and image show how youths deal with religion and the part it plays in their daily lives. Bijbels Museum (Mon-Sat 10.00-17.00, Sun 11.00-17.00), until 2 November Sonic Voices, Rocking Hard Audio artist Nathalie Bruys co-curates this exhibition, showing a personal selection from very diverse approaches, each making use of sound and music. The works have been created by young artists with highly varied backgrounds, all with a sincere love of music, audio and art in common. Montevideo/Time Based Arts (TuesSat 13.00-18.00), until 2 November Een Juweel van Een Tas Cool jewels and bags in a retrospective which celebrates Hester van Eeghen’s 20 years of design. There’s also 24 new bags designed for this exhibition. Tassenmuseum Hendrikje (Daily 10.00-17.00), until 6 November 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 Atlas Maior. De wereld van Blaeu Exquisite examples of Joan Blaeu’s maps, made in Amsterdam’s Golden Era, when the industry of cartography was in full bloom. UvA: Special Collections Library (Mon-Fri 10.00 -17.00, Sat, Sun 13.00-17.00), until 23 November Art of the State Photographs and video works by sixteen artists from Israel. Through their works they reflect upon their country: the community in which they live, the numerous cultural and religious differences among Israel’s population and the current political situation. Joods Historisch Museum (Daily 11.00-17.00), until 30 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. The most famous of these is Chassidische Legenden. Joods Historisch Museum (Daily 11.00-17.00), until 30 November

Drie Meiden in Verzet—Hannie Schaft en de Zusjes Oversteegen Exhibition about Hannie Schaft—’the girl with the red hair’—and Truus and Freddie Oversteegen, the girls she collaborated with in the resistance movement, and the difficult choices forced upon them in WWII. Verzetsmuseum (Tues-Fri 10.00-17.00, Sat-Mon 11.00-17.00), until 7 December 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 Art from the Bar Psychotic alcohol-fueled drawings made on beer coasters by visitors of this cafe/gallery between 1993 and 2000. Plus photos by Deborah Hempel. De Duivel (Sun-Thur 20.00-03.00, Fri, Sat 20.00-04.00) Walking in Rome with Bernini, Michelangelo and Leonardo Retrospective of Italian artist Mario Padovan’s work in Rome from 1963-1997. Paule Carre (Mon 13.00-18.00; Tue, Wed, Fri 10.00-18.00; Thur 10.00-20.00; Sat 10.00-17.00), closing Wednesday Naturellement Diverse works by 19 young and talented artists. Walls Gallery (Wed-Sun 12.00-17.00), until 12 September Homo Urbanus—Homo Sapiens? An outdoor exhibition promoting young artists from Latvia.

Westergasfabriek (Daily 12.00-20.00), until 15 September Aerosol Symphonies Part II After the success of last summer’s collaborations, this concept, which sees classical music and street art collide, is back for a sequel. Participants include Laser 3.14, Two Things, Maoma, Modderfokker, The London Police, SIT, Juice, Peter Pontiac, Def P, Hugo Kaagman, Blade, Quik, Weazel, Wayne Horse and quite a few more. Yes, it’s hip to be square. GO Gallery (Wed-Sat 12.00-18.00, Sun 13.00-17.00), until 16 September Between Dark and White First part of a trilogy of exhibitions by Erica van Loon, Erik Olofsen and Anami Schrijvers. Featured are varied works inspired by the theme ‘Mental Space’. For each installment, one of the trio will take the lead. P/////AKT (Thur-Sun 14.0018.00), until 21 September

ADDRESSES 11 Oosterdokskade 3-5, 625 5999 Allard Pierson Museum Oude Turfmarkt 127, 525 2556 De Appel Nieuwe Spiegelstraat 10, 625 5651 ARCAM Prins Hendrikkade 600, 620 4878 Arti et Amicitiae Rokin 112, 624 5134 AYAC'S Keizersgracht 166, 638 5240 Badcuyp 1e Sweelinckstraat 10, 675 9669 Beeldend Gesproken Borgerstraat 102, 612 1847

Mediamatic Vijzelstraat 68, 638 9901 Melkweg Lijnbaansgracht 234A, 531 8181 Melkweg Galerie Marnixstraat 409, 531 8181 Montevideo/Time Based Arts Keizersgracht 264, 623 7101 Muziekgebouw Piet Heinkade 1, 788 2010 Het Muziektheater Amstel 3, 625 5455 NDSM-werf TT Neveritaweg 15, 330 5480 Nederlands Architectuurinstituut Museumpark 25 Rotterdam, 010 440 1200

Bijbels Museum Herengracht 366-368, 624 2436

Nederlands Uitvaart Museum Tot Zover Kruislaan 124, 694 0482

Bimhuis Piet Heinkade 3, 788 2150

De Nieuwe Anita Frederik Hendrikstraat 111, 06 4150 3512

Blijburg Bert Haanstrakade 2004, 416 0330

Nieuwe Kerk entrance on the Dam, 638 6909

Blow Up Gallery Hazenstraat 67, 665 3435

OBA Oosterdokskade 143, 0900-2425468

De Brakke Grond Nes 45, 626 6866

OCCII Amstelveenseweg 134, 671 7778

Cafe Pakhuis Wilhelmina Veemkade 576, 419 3368

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

Cafe Sappho Vijzelstraat 103, 423 1509

Paradiso Weteringschans 6-8, 626 4521

Centrale Bibliotheek Oosterdokskade 143, 523 0900

Patronaat Zijlsingel 2, Haarlem, 023 517 5858

Chiellerie Raamgracht 58, 320 9448

Paule Carre Cornelis Schuytstraat 44, 675 6800

Church Kerkstraat 50-52

Perdu Kloveniersburgwal 86, 627 6295

Club 8 Admiraal de Ruyterweg 56B, 685 1703

Posthoornkerk Haarlemmerstraat 124

CoBrA Museum Sandbergplein 1-3, Amstelveen, 547 5050 Compagnietheater Kloveniersburgwal 50, 520 5320 Concertgebouw Concertgebouwplein 2-6, 671 8345 Consortium Veemkade 570, 06 2611 8950 Desmet Studios Plantage Middenlaan 4A, 521 7100 De Duivel Reguliersdwarstr 87, 626 6184 Foam Keizersgracht 609, 551 6546 Fotogram Korte Prinsengracht 33, 624 9994 Frascati Nes 63, 626 6866

PRIK Spuistraat 109, 06 4544 2321 Rembrandthuis Jodenbreestraat 4, 520 0400 Royal Gallery Koningsstraat 37, 06 290 28461 Ruigoord Ruigoord 15, 497 5702 Same Place Nassaukade 120, 475 1981 Slewe Gallery Kerkstraat 105A, 625 7214 SMART Project Space Arie Biemondstraat 105-113, 427 5953 Stadsschouwburg Leidseplein 26, 624 2311

Galerie Bart Bloemgracht 2, 320 6208

Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam Rozenstraat 59, 422 0471

Galerie Gabriel Rolt Elandsgracht 34, 785 5146

Stedelijk Museum CS Oosterdokskade 5, 573 2911

Galerie Hof & Huyser Bloemgracht 135, 420 1995

Stubnitz Odinakade, NDSM-werf

Galerie Juliette Jongma Gerard Douplein 23, 463 6904

Studio 80 Rembrandtplein 17, 521 8333

Galerie Roger Katwijk Lange Leidsedwarsstraat 198-200, 627 3808

Studio K Timorplein 62, 692 0422 Sugar Factory Lijnbaansgracht 238, 627 0008

Galerie Smits Fokke Simonszstraat 29, 06 43001833

Tassenmuseum Hendrikje Herengracht 573, 524 6452

Gemeentemuseum Stadhouderslaan 41, Den Haag 070 338 1111

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

GO Gallery Prinsengracht 64, 422 9580

Tropenmuseum Linnaeusstraat 2, 568 8200

Grimm Fine Art Hazenstraat 24, 422 7227

Tuin Park Ons Buiten Riekerweg 15

Heineken Music Hall ArenA Boulevard 590, 0900 300 1250

UvA: Special Collections Library Oude Turfmarkt 129, 525 2141

Stefan à Wengen—Nightology Paintings by the Swiss artist. Witzenhausen Gallery (Hazenstraat) (Thur-Sat 12.00-18.00), until 4 October

Hetveem Theater Van Diemenstraat, 626 9291

Van Gogh Museum Paulus Potterstraat 7, 570 5200

Huis Marseille Keizersgracht 401, 531 8989

Van Zijll Langhout Brouwersgracht 161, 06 2825 9620

Hup Gallery Tesselschadestraat 15, 515 8589

Ververs Gallery Hazenstraat 54

Spade-Scrape Artist James Beckett pays hommage to Wilhelm Riphahn, city architect in pre-war Cologne. Van Zijll Langhout (Mon-Fri 11.00-17.00), until 15 October

IIAV Obiplein 4

Verzetsmuseum Plantage Kerklaan 61, 620 2535

Jan van der Togt Museum Dorpsstraat 50, Amstelveen, 641 5754

Walls Gallery Prinsengracht 737

The Photo Academy Award 2008 Starring the short-listed works. Among the prizes: an exhibition in Foam and publication in de Volkskrant and Elle.

Fotogram (Mon-Thur 09.30 -21.00, Fri, Sat 09.30 17.00), until 17 October

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

Westerunie Klönneplein 4-6

Maloe Melo Lijnbaansgracht 163, 420 4592

Winston Kingdom Warmoesstraat 129, 623 1380

Mart House Prinsengracht 529, 627 5187

Witzenhausen Gallery (Hazenstraat) Hazenstraat 60

Group Exhibition Featuring Joris Woertman (installations) and photographers Emmy Beenken and Bas van Tol. Galerie Bart (Thur, Fri 11.00-18.00, Sat 12.0017.00), until 27 September

Westergasfabriek Haarlemmerweg 8-10, 586 0710 Wetering Galerie Lijnbaansgracht 288, 623 6189

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Film preview

By Mutaleni Nadimi

Africa in the Picture Until 10 September at Het Ketelhuis and No Limit.

LEADING BY EXAMPLE Film festival shines a light on African leadership and American politics.

Following some open-air teasers in recent weeks, the 11th edition of the Africa in the Picture festival is in full swing at Het Ketelhuis this week. The annual event showcases a unique selection of films from the African continent and its diaspora, com-

FILM Festivals Africa in the Picture A look at the Black Continent and its stories through the most recent film productions.

See article above and www.africainthepicture.nl. Het Ketelhuis, No Limit Ladyfest In addition to lectures and workshops (and parties!), the Ladyfest programme features several shorts and films, including Rise Above, a documentary on seminal dyke punk band Tribe8, a video-essay by Ursula Biemann on the sex trade, a compilation programme about sex workers, and lots and lots of music clips and other sexy stuff. See also Lekker Bezig on p. 11. Cavia

Open Air Fados After Carlos Saura made his series of flamenco films, the Portuguese invited him to do a similar job on their national musical form, fado. The film features a lineup of great musicians, including Chico Buarque and Caetano Veloso—who aren’t exactly fado singers, but who’s counting? Showing along with Saura’s Tango as part of the Amsterdam Roots Festival. In Portuguese with Dutch subtitles. 90 min. Filmmuseum Open Air

New this week The Accidental Husband This is a hotchpotch of genres: romcom, screwball comedy and a little Bollywood sauce. Relationships guru and radio host Dr Emma Lloyd (Uma Thurman) advises one of her listeners to call off her wedding with fireman Patrick Sullivan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan). The jilted Sullivan then decides to give Lloyd a taste of her own medicine, making her hesitate about her upcoming marriage with well-off and dependable businessman Richard Bratton (Colin Firth). Torn between two suitors, the charming Sullivan and the uptight Brat-

prising more than 50 new feature films, shorts and documentaries—the kind of flicks that are rarely seen in European cinemas. Naturally world cinema film buffs will delight in the opportunity to get in touch with the current African crop.

ton, you’ll never guess who Lloyd will walk to the altar with... thanks to a half-hearted script, contrived plot, silly stereotypes and ludicrous coda, The Accidental Husband is unsurprisingly embarrassing. Directed by Griffin Dunne. (GR) 90 min. Pathé ArenA, Pathé De Munt Bangkok Dangerous A sympathetic killer for hire who’s compelled to avenge his best friend, Kong (Pawalit Mongkolpisit) is a precociously world-weary innocent whose ability to focus on his work is attributed in part to the fact that he can’t hear and doesn’t talk.

He’s caught up in an audio-visually complex drama that’s better than slick, though it feels pointless— another homage to a kind of film-making that’s had more than it’s share. In Thai with Dutch subtitles. (LA) 105 min. Pathé ArenA, Pathé De Munt Bikkel TV author Bart de Graaff led a short life—he passed away in 2002, at 35—but he definitely accomplished quite a bit in the time he was given. This documentary, directed by Leo de Boer, pays homage to his legacy and his no-nonsense attitude, by combining many of his interviews with recollections from his close friends, family and colleagues. Vividly on display here is his signature wit and sarcastic sense of humour, which helped him overcome a chronic, and eventually fatal, kidney disease. 89 min. Het Ketelhuis, Kriterion Ciao Stefano A washed out, ageing rock guitar player (Valerio Mastandrea) returns from Rome to his hometown in the Italian countryside. He hasn’t become a rock star, merely a session man looking for the next paid gig. Plus his girlfriend just dumped him, so what a perfect time to go back to native Rimini. Once there, he finds out that his dysfunctional family has gotten worse.

His retired father only thinks about golf, his big brother, who runs the family business, is a neurotic mess, and his younger sister just quit her studies. It’s an unusual Italian comedy, known originally as Non pensarci. In Italian with Dutch subtitles. 105 min. Kriterion Dagen Zonder Lief A group of twentysomething friends, leading their lives in different parts of the world, gather in the small provincial city where they originated.

But their reunion only sparks feelings of disillusionment and sadness. This fresh, honest look at generational problems from Belgian director Felix Van Groeningen, already screened at this year’s Rotterdam Film Festival, boasts a great jazz score by pianist Jef Neve. 100 min.

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This year’s theme is ‘Leadership’, and as we know, politicians aren’t the only ones who fight for it. Musicians, athletes and your everyday average people are the heroes of their own personal and universal quests for authority over their own destinies. And this is a good historical moment to deal with the topic, especially given Barack Obama’s current campaign for the US presidency, which is reverberating in media streams around the world.

So with perfect timing, the festival presents, in collaboration with Democrats Abroad Netherlands, a special night on 4 September, featuring screenings of Fired Up, Ready to Go!, about a group of grassroots Obama campaigners in New York, and Chisholm ’72—Unbought & Unbossed, a documentary about Shirley Chisholm, the African American woman who stood as an eligible presidential candidate in the 1972 US elections. And if you can handle yet more US political debate, don’t miss Spike Lee’s We Wuz Robbed, about the controversial 2000 presidential elections.

As messy as it may get in the US, African politics are infamous for their dark twists and bloody endings, as already seen across the continent this year. During the festival, three movies deal with the deaths of African leaders: Congo’s Patrice Lumumba in Assasination: Colonial Style—Patrice Lumumba, An African Tragedy, Cameroon’s Felix Moumie in Death In Geneva and Burkina Faso’s ‘President of the

Estômago Drifter Raimundo Nonato (João Miguel) arrives penniless in a big Brazilian city and lands a job at a snack bar for food and lodging. But when he ends up in the kitchen, it turns out Raimundo is surprisingly talented, working miracles with the simplest of ingredients. His cooking not only wins him the affection of prostitute Íria, who is happy to sleep with him in return for good food, but a wealthy restaurant owner offers him a dream job. Course, things are never as they seem in this delicious comedy drama from Brazil. In Portuguese with Dutch subtitles. 100 min. Cinecenter, Pathé Tuschinski The Love Guru Mike Myers reportedly developed the character of guru Pitka during stand-up comedy skits over the course of several years, but it doesn’t show in this painfully pun-free comedy. Myers mugs and giggles like a hyperactive toddler, but he looks like a hideously deformed troll doll. He has zero chemistry with love interest Jessica Alba, and only Justin Timberlake manages to elicit a few laughs as the ridiculously well-endowed Canuck ice hockey goalie Jacques ‘Le Coq’ Grande. The Love Guru is a grating, juvenile and terribly unfunny experience that makes you feel sorry for Myers, and is definitive proof that he’s lost his mojo. (LvH) 86 min. Pathé ArenA, Pathé De Munt The Panman: Rhythm of the Palms Steelpan player Harry Daniel wants to pass on the traditions of steelpan music to the younger generation so badly that, in his attempts to do so, he jeopardises his family life.

When he meets the young and talented Jacko, he believes he’s finally fulfilled his wishes. But when Harry’s glory begins to fade, Jacko turns against him and switches to rock music. Panman, the opening film at the Africa in the Picture festival, is the first independent film production made on the island of Saint Martin and also received the Best Film Award at the Hollywood Black Film Festival. In English with Dutch subtitles. 90 min. Het Ketelhuis, Rialto Vliegen naar de maan (3D) This adventure comedy, the first CGI animation feature specifically designed for 3-D, would have been more impressive if most of its images weren’t so drab. Its story about three young flies who hitch a ride aboard the Apollo 11 is meant to inspire, and the flight and moon-landing sequences make good use of the 3-D format. But the little heroes and their families are surprisingly ugly, with faces

Musicians are freaks... Check out the Music 4 Your Eyes programme at Melkweg Cinema.

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Poor’, Thomas Sankara, in Fracticide In Burkina.

But as festival director Heidi Lobato says, ‘This is a festival for everybody.

Leadership is a theme throughout all these films and they present diverse stories of interest to everyone.’ Beyond the politics, Lobato invites us to take a cue from the multitude of stories on offer—to be in charge of our own music, sports, sexualities, dreams, histories and futures.

Titles like A Good Day to Be Black and Sexy should fuel your desire to dress up and make a night of it, and This Is Nollywood promises to deliver hilarious insight into the serious business of filmmaking in Nigeria.

Other festival highlights include the heady Panman, Rhythm of The Palms, the first independent feature film from Sint Maarten; the dreamy Terra Sonumbula, based on the Mia Couto novel set in war-devasted Mozambique, about the absurd effect of war on reality; Fangafrika, Voice of The Voiceless a homage to hiphop in Francophone Africa; and Mo & Me by the son of the late Mohamed ‘Mo’ Amin, Kenya’s renowned press photographer, who risked his life to literally put Africa in the picture.

For more African cultural diversity, there’s a special Gay Africa film night on 8 September, and a ladies’ night on 10 September (bring your mother, sister or oma for free). www.africainthepicture.nl

resembling skulls, and the colors are so faded and muddy, the movie feels tired and bungled. Film includes a live-action epilogue by astronaut Buzz Aldrin. (AG) 89 min. Pathé Tuschinski Wanted Timur Bekmambetov, who wrote and directed the Russian blockbusters Night Watch (2004) and Day Watch (2006), makes his US debut with this big, cruel, stupid action movie about an office dweeb (James McAvoy) who gets recruited into an ancient cult of assassins. The primary visual motif is a close-up of an engraved bullet ripping through someone’s head in slow motion, and the movie’s moral universe is divided between people who kill for money and the rest of us suckers. Angelina Jolie apparently doesn’t see the conflict between humanitarian work and horseshit like this. (JJ) 110 min. Pathé ArenA, Pathé Tuschinski

Still playing Caos Calmo Pietro (Nanni Moretti), while enjoying a day out at the beach with his brother Carlo (Alessandro Gassman), saves a woman from drowning. When they head home, he finds out his wife has died unexpectedly. His grief takes him from his TV executive desk to a bench, where he sits every morning waiting for his tenyear-old daughter to finish classes. Life circles around him, and Pietro starts observing all the little bits of action happening in the square, trying to find a new meaning to his existence. Look out for a cameo by Roman Polanski. Based on the award-winning novel by Sandro Veronesi. In Italian with Dutch subtitles. 105 min. The Movies, Pathé Tuschinski, Rialto Cordero de Dios The debut of Argentinean director Lucía Cedrón tells the story of a family torn apart by the military regime of dictator Videla. Its central figure is Guillerma, whose father died during the junta, after which she and her mother fled to Paris. The film opens with the kidnapping of Guillerma’s grandfather in 2002; gradually, Guillerma learns what really happened. The glamorous-looking cast and soft-focus lighting are somewhat out of step with the grim events, yet the film has its moving moments, especially when dealing with Guillerma’s childhood memories. And it is praiseworthy that Cedrón dared to tackle the painful subject of the junta in all its moral complexity. In Spanish with Dutch subtitles. (MM) 91 min. Rialto

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German ad men transformed them into concept-rock mimimalists who wore black robes and matching tonsures, and whose sole album, Black Monk Time, presaged the rise of heavy metal and punk. This absorbing video documentary by Dietmar Post and Lucía Palacios tells the Monks’ story with precision and flair, climaxing with a 1999 reunion gig in New York. But it’s the witty and unsentimental interviews with the five band members that reveal their focus and idiosyncratic brilliance. (PM) 100 min. Melkweg Cinema

Special screenings Across the Universe This marvelous musical set

to the Beatles’ songbook deserves a better life than it’s had, and maybe an award or two. It’s the 1960s, and Jude (Jim Sturgess) is a Liverpool ship welder who decides to move to New York. There he befriends Max (Joe Anderson) and falls in love with his sister Lucy (Evan Rachel Wood). They all live together in a bohemian flat in the Greenwich Village until the Vietnam War takes Max away and Revolution knocks at their door. Director Julie Taymor (Frida) choreographs some amazing numbers to the sounds of the Fab Four, and guest singers include Bono, Joe Cocker and Eddie Izzard. (MB) 133 min.

Melkweg Cinema Amphibian Man A few decades before Tim Burton directed Edward Scissorhands, this 1962 fantasy fairy tale told a similar story of a fantastic creature, brought to life by a visionary scientist, who enters a community as an outcast. Here, the fishermen of a small town fear the ‘sea-devil’, who is the amphibian man of the title.

This piece of vintage sci-fi was a gigantic box office hit when first released in Russia, with more than 65 million tickets sold. In Russian with English subtitles. 82 min.

De Nieuwe Anita The Devil and Daniel Johnston Singer-songwriter Daniel Johnston became a cult figure in the popmusic underground largely because of his mental illness. Raised by West Virginia fundamentalists and racked by manic depression, Johnston tirelessly promoted himself in the ’80s with homemade cassettes whose romantic longing and demonic fantasy were embraced by alternative icons like Kurt Cobain and Sonic Youth. This engrossing documentary by Jeff Feuerzeig carefully distinguishes between the singer’s fans, who celebrate his illness, and his friends and family, who’ve had to live with his destructive behavior. Still, you wonder whether Feuerzeig is examining the singer’s exploitation or participating in it. (JJ) 100 min. Melkweg Cinema

Dutch Cocaine Factory There was a time (let’s

say, the 1920s) when this country took pride in having the best (legal) cocaine factory in the world. What happened? Who decided to ban the commerce of that deliciously hip cocaine wine? (Easy answer: think US of A.) And what happens now, when cocaine addicts are not only victims of acute paranoia, but have a few actual reasons to complain about how their lives are followed too closely by the government? This 2007 documentary by performance artist Jeanette Groe-

Elegy Adapted from Philip Roth’s novella The Dying Animal, this film charts the older man/younger woman dynamic. After work, sixtyish, self-centred and hedonistic professor of literature David Kepesh (Ben Kingsley) has three things on his mind: sex, sex and more sex.

When he meets dazzling young student Consuela (Penélope Cruz) he starts rhapsodising about her breasts, but Consuela wants a true relationship.

Kepesh, mesmerised by her and acutely aware of his age, veers between possessiveness and his desire not to get emotionally involved. Elegy has classy performances and is nicely shot, but is also quite gloomy and prone to philosophical platitudes. Roth’s humour is sorely missed. Written by Roth and Nicholas Meyer and directed by Isabel Coixet, with Patricia Clarkson, Dennis Hopper and Deborah Harry. 107min. (GR) 107 min.

Cinecenter, Pathé ArenA, Pathé Tuschinski Le Fils de l’épicier A road movie of sorts, with a very French twist. The story is a bit flimsy: a young man (the grocer’s son of the title) helps his parents when they’re in trouble and sorts himself out along the way. The film’s strength is in its humane view of its characters and painterly eye for the landscape. As Antoine (Nicolas Cazalé) grudgingly drives his dad’s delivery van around, his brusqueness doing little for his sales or relations with the old clientele, we’re treated to breathtaking wideangle shots of Provence. Close friend Claire (Clotilde Hesme), former femme fatale Lucienne (Liliane Rovère) and increasingly senile father Clément (Paul Crauchet) play crucial, and sometimes very funny, roles while Antoine adjusts to his new life. Eric Guirado directed this feel-good film with an eye for the individual. In French with Dutch subtitles. (KE) 96 min. Cinecenter The Forbidden Kingdom When a white, kung-fu obsessed geek is entrusted with a magical weapon by his mortally wounded pawn-shop owner, he suddenly finds himself in ancient China on a mission, involving the first ever smackdown between Jet Li and Jackie Chan! Even if both stars are past their prime, their fighting scenes, using acrobatics and wire works, with a only a little help from CGI, are still a joy to behold.

And while the film is clearly aimed at a teen audience,

Must see:

The Monks—The Transatlantic Feedback Melkweg Cinema, Tuesday

Peppermint Candy A film of daunting scope and power, Peppermint Candy opens inauspiciously enough, with a highly disturbed man, Yongho, screaming in the face of an oncoming train. We go backward from there, not in conventional flashbacks but in carefully labeled, irregular dollops—three days earlier, three years earlier, ten years before that— making history seem a lot less linear. It’s not the first film to be structured in reverse, but it’s by far the most devastating. And the story of Yongho becomes a scathing indictment of the history of South Korea, the derailment of his life less a question of personal psychology than the betrayal of a generation. In Korean with English subtitles. (RS) 129 min. Filmmuseum De Schattenberg Elusiveness sets the tone of this documentary about Dutch Indonesians ‘repatriated’ to a country they had never seen. Filmmuseum

nendaal received its world premiere at IDFA last year.

In Dutch with English subtitles. 55 min. Het Ketelhuis End of the Century: The Story of the Ramones Singer Joey, bassist Dee Dee and guitarist Johnny Ramone died in such quick succession that it almost seemed staged, as if some celestial voice had counted off ‘1— 2—3—4!’ This 2003 profile by Michael Gramaglia and Jim Fields follows the punk pioneers from their early days as glue-sniffing losers in Queens to their epochal debut at CBGB in 1974 and through their 22-year career.

The story unfolds in standard ‘behind the music’ fashion, but it’s also genuinely sad: few bands have burst onto the scene with such a perfectly realised look, sound, and philosophy or been more trapped by their own meatheaded genius. (JJ) 108 min. Melkweg Cinema Glastonbury Founded in 1970, the bucolic music festival in southwest England has hosted a phenomenal array of artists over the years, and this documentary by Julien Temple (The Filth and the Fury) only scratches the surface with its performance footage of Nick Cave, Toots and the Maytals, Morrissey, Billy Bragg, the Skatalites, Cypress Hill, Babyshambles, Björk, Coldplay, Chemical Brothers,

older ‘chop sockey’ fans will probably get a kick out of it as well. (LvH) 113 min. Pathé ArenA, Pathé De Munt

Grace Is Gone Stanley Philipps (John Cusack) is a taciturn store manager and an emotionally distant father to his two young daughters. When his wife dies during her tour of duty in Iraq, he is unable to break the news and instead takes his girls on a road trip to postpone the inevitable. John Cusack is phenomenal in the lead, expressing intense pain and grief through a quick stare or nervous twitch, and the two child actresses are equally amazing. With no obvious politics in play, the emotions in the film go straight to the heart and tear duct. (LvH) 85 min. The Movies Happy-Go-Lucky Poppy (Sally Hawkins) teaches kindergarten in North London, lives in a flatshare with 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.

(MB) 118 min. Studio K, De Uitkijk 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

Paranoia or pro-anoia? Dutch Cocaine Factory.

Blur, Radiohead, Pulp, Ray Davies, Joe Strummer, Richie Havens and many others. Despite the 138minute running time, Temple holds all the artists to one song (or less), devoting about half the movie to a kaleidoscopic montage of festivalgoers past and present. (JJ) 138 min. Melkweg Cinema Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten Julien Temple directs this straightforward look at Joe Strummer’s life, from his unusual childhood growing up as the son of a British diplomatic family in Turkey, to his early music interests and later success as leader of seminal punk band The Clash. Celebrity fans lining up to tell their Clash tales in front of Temple’s camera include Martin Scorsese, Jim Jarmusch, Matt Dillon, Johnny Depp, John Cusack and Steve Buscemi. Lots of previously unreleased footage (including some early band rehearsals with quite embarrassing musical results) will make fans happy. 123 min.

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Monks—The Transatlantic Feedback The Monks were a short-lived rock band launched in the mid-’60s by five army vets in Germany. They began as a run-of-the-mill combo, but an encounter with two

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.

Kriterion, The Movies, Pathé Tuschinski Julia The title character of this new film by Erick Zonca and Camille Natta resembles Gloria, the Gena Rowlands character in the 1980 John Cassavetes film of the same name. Like Gloria, Julia (a superb and brazenly unglamorous Tilda Swinton) harbours little maternal instinct beneath her tough exterior. But where Rowlands slowly turns into a grudging heroine, cold-hearted, scheming Julia, who kidnaps a rich man’s grandson for ransom, stubbornly sticks to her plan—until the inevitable redeeming final act, that is.

It’s a shame Zonca (director of the award-winning La Vie rêvée des anges) and Natta didn’t dare go all the way. (BS) 138 min. Kriterion

Keane This sobering drama about a schizophrenic man desperately trying to be normal is finally, after four years, getting a Dutch release. Damian Lewis (Dreamcatcher, Friends & Crocodiles) is superb as the tormented lead, but he is helped by two equally excellent supporting actresses, Amy Ryan (the lousy mother in Gone Baby Gone) and Abigail Breslin, who play a woman and her 7-year-old daughter living in the same shabby hotel. The scenes between Keane and the little girl are the beating heart of the film, filled with love and sadness—not for who Keane is, but for who he could have been. Directed by Lodge Kerrigan. (BS) 100 min. Filmmuseum Lemon Tree This bittersweet comedy-drama by Israeli director Eran Riklis tells the story of Salma, a Palestinian widow whose lemon grove stands dangerously close to the new country house of the Israeli Defence Minister. When an order is issued to cut down the trees for security reasons, her fight to defend them takes on a greater significance. Hiam Abbass, the Anna Magnani of the Middle East, turns in a great performance as Salma, amid a strong supporting cast. In Arabic/Hebrew/English with Dutch subtitles. (MB) 106 min. Rialto

Secret Sunshine Lee Shin-ae is a widow in her early 30s and a former concert pianist, who’s left Seoul with her young son, Jun, to make a new life in the southern town of Miryang. When her car breaks down on the outskirts, the boss of an auto repair shop comes out to lend a hand. We follow Lee Shinae as she tries to fit into her new hometown, but gossip abounds, and the local pharmacist tries to convert her to Jesus. The latest film from Lee Changdong received several plaudits at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival. In Korean with Dutch subtitles 142 min.

Filmmuseum We Feed the World This documentary looks at various aspects of the food industry, all of which have been affected—not to say deformed—by globalisation. The segment showing the life cycle of chickens might cause you to toss your cookies, but the whole film will help you question the sanity of our global economy, which does seem to revolve around money after all. This makes the final interview with the CEO of Nestlé, in which he makes an utter buffoon of himself, into an effective cathartic moment. (LvH) 96 min. Filmhuis Griffioen

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He’s Still Walking The Cow The Devil and Daniel Johnston, Melkweg

Mataharis Three women work at a seedy detec-

tive agency in this lively, likable film by Icíar Bollaín (Take My Eyes). Each of the female detectives has her own charm, but all of them are real women— overbites, underbites, bumpy noses and all. Will they sell out? Will a comatose marriage be revived with the help of lovers and lingerie? The empowering choices they eventually make inspire a hearty ‘good for you, girl’. In Spanish with Dutch subtitles. (KE) 100 min. De Uitkijk Midnight Meat Train This grim and sick adaptation of a story by Clive Barker suffered from a prolonged stay in distribution hell, and the only thing that prevented it from becoming a straight-to-DVD title was a flaming legion of horror fans. They will get what they expected and then some, as director Ryuhei Kitamura assaults your senses like Sam Raimi on acid. The titular subway line is haunted by a Frankensteinian brute (a truly menacing Vinnie Jones) and when a nosy photographer (Bradley Cooper) goes investigating, the situation quickly turns crimson. If you’re looking for the goriest film this year, look no further. (LvH) 85 min.

Pathé ArenA, Pathé De Munt Mongol At last, here’s proof that a bold, big-budget epic from the Eastern steppes can compete with the

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classics from Hollywood and New Zealand. This German/Russian/Kazakh coproduction is the first of a planned series of biopics on the life of the legendary Genghis Khan, and the bloody battles, excellent cinematography and sprawling locations are very impressive.

However, the first act of the film suffers from repetition and Asano Tadanobu’s practically saintly Genghis is a little hard to take. The utter anticlimax of an ending also makes Mongol hard to recommend. In Mongolian with Dutch subtitles. (LvH) 120 min. Pathé Tuschinski The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor A belated third installment to the horror franchise that began with The Mummy (1999) and continued with The Mummy Returns (2001). Rob Cohen (The Fast and the Furious) directed; with Brendan Fraser, Jet Li and Maria Bello. 114 min. Pathé ArenA, Pathé De Munt La Noche de los girasoles If you had plans to visit the lovely Spanish countryside for your summer holidays, you might reconsider after watching this grim and downbeat Hitchcockian Spanish art house thriller. A rape and murder in a rural town set up the Rashomonlike structure in which six characters are followed in six seperate chapters, with each chapter cleverly expanding the audience’s knowledge and deftly expanding our point of view. The depravity and dark view of human nature might be too much to stomach for the faint of heart, as every ounce of innocence is squeezed from the film throughout the two hours of running time.

In Spanish with Dutch subtitles. (LvH) 118 min. Kriterion North by Northwest Hitchcock’s classic 1959 comic mistaken-identity thriller. Cary Grant plays an unsuspecting businessman caught up in a cheerfully complicated web of intrigue involving some microfilm, the United Nations, a crop duster, Eva Marie Saint and Mt Rushmore. What more could you ask for? 136 min.

Filmmuseum Savage Grace Julianne Moore is the perfect fit in yet another portrayal of a woman on the verge of a mental breakdown. In this tale based on real events in the lives of Brooks and Barbara Baekeland, director Tom Kalin specifically decided to focus on Barbara’s unhealthy relationship with her son. Moore immerses herself in her portrayal of beautiful Babs, who, having married far above her social and intellectual level, has turned into an affected, needy woman. The film could have done without the end titles informing us of the fate of Barbara’s equally twisted son, which underline the exploitative nature of the story and undermine the potency of the final shot. (BS) 96 min.

Cinecenter, The Movies Singh is Kinng Happy Singh (Akshay Kumar) is a sweet village boy who is always ready to help people but winds up causing chaos and confusion. The villagers send him to Australia to bring back crime lord Lucky Singh, but life takes a turn and Happy becomes the crime lord instead. Turn your brain off before you watch this long sermon on good behaviour, respecting other people and sacrificing yourself for the happiness of your loved ones. At least the camerawork and editing make up for it, and Javed Jaffrey is always fun to watch. In Hindi with Dutch subtitles.

(SD) Pathé ArenA Star Wars: The Clone Wars Since the last three Star Wars films consisted basically of flabbergasted performers trying to act against a green screen, with CGI filling in the rest, an animated film narrating the epic ‘Clone Wars’ that took place between Episodes II and III seemed like a good idea. But the wooden voice characterisations, convoluted plot and disorienting action make this little more than an advertisement for the upcoming Clone Wars TV series. If you really need this much Star Wars, try the previous animated series, the highly stylized Star Wars: Clone Wars (2003-2005), directed by Genndy Tartakovsky and available on DVD. (LvH) 98 min.

Pathé ArenA, Pathé De Munt The Strangers Young lovers Liv Tyler and Scott Speedman, arriving at his parents’ remote summer

AGENDA: FILM home after a wedding, are terrorised in the wee hours by three masked assailants whose motives are never explained. Making his debut as writerdirector, Bryan Bertino exploits all the old horror standbys—the phony based-on-a-true-story preface, the knock on the door in the dead of night, the eerily skipping record on the turntable, the malevolent figure glimpsed in soft focus over the heroine’s shoulder. There’s nothing remotely new here, but the movie has the taut, queasy feel of an early ’70s drive-in shocker: old-fashioned suspense without any guarantee of old-fashioned mercy. (JJ) 90 min.

Pathé ArenA This Is England In Meantime (1983), Mike Leigh explored what might produce a skinhead in London’s East End. Harking back to the same year on the north coast of England, writer-director Shane Meadows builds on his own memories of what turned him into a skinhead, making his hero (Thomas Turgoose) a lonely outcast who’s recently lost his father in the Falklands war. The way this 12year-old on summer holiday falls under the protective influence of first a relatively gentle gang leader (Joe Gilgun), then an ex-con more prone to rapid mood swings and racial hatred (Stephen Graham), is masterfully charted and acted, as are the boy’s early forays into sex. This 2006 film falters only when it drifts too predictably into a coming-ofage moral fable. (JR) 102 min. Studio K Wild Child A spoiled Southern Californian (Emma Roberts) is sent off to a strict English boarding school, where she finds herself in the middle of yet another banal across-the-pond romantic comedy. 100 min.

Pathé ArenA, Pathé De Munt The X-Files: I Want to Believe The second bigscreen spin-off of the cult TV show is a ‘standalone’ that nonfans can follow without knowing the series’ fiendishly complicated backstory. The problem is that only a fan would be inclined to tolerate this dunderheaded mystery, in which the FBI recruits former agents Mulder (David Duchovny) and Scully (Gillian Anderson) to help find a missing woman. In addition to the usual paranormal stuff, writer-director Chris Carter has added some canned Catholicism: clues arrive in the visions of a wiggy pedophile priest (Billy Connolly), and in a groaner of a subplot, Dr. Scully, now employed as a surgeon, struggles to save a dying boy whose only hope is a radical new treatment and a whole lot of faith. (JJ) 104 min. Pathé ArenA, Pathé De Munt You Don’t Mess With the Zohan A battle-fatigued Israeli commando gives himself a makeover, assuming a new identity as a New York hairstylist. That’s more high-concept than most Adam Sandler comedies, with the star creating a distinctive character amid all the meshugas. Though a bunch of the jokes are milked too thin, there are some absurdly goofy sight gags—like a hacky sack game enlisting a family pet—and a lineup of fun, silly cameos by guests from Chris Rock to Mariah Carey. John Turturro and Rob Schneider play the hero’s inept Arab nemeses, but skinheads and greedy tycoons are the ones who really get bashed in this lightweight amiable parody. Sandler cowrote the screenplay with Robert Smigel and Judd Apatow, and Dennis Dugan directed. (AG) 113 min.

Pathé ArenA, Pathé De Munt Edited by Massimo Benvegnù. This week’s films reviewed by Lisa Alspector (LA), Massimo Benvegnù (MB), Shyama Daryanani (SD), Angela Dress (AD), Don Druker (DD), Kate Eaton (KE), Sarah Gehrke (SG), Andrea Gronvall (AG), Jack Helbig (JH), Luuk van Huët (LvH), JR Jones (JJ), Dave Kehr (DK), Iris Maher (IM), Peter Margasak (PM), Mike Peek (MP), Julie Phillips (JP), Gusta Reijnders (GR), Kim Renfrew (KR), Jonathan Rosenbaum (JR), Martin Rubin (MR) and Bregtje Schudel (BS). All films are screened in English with Dutch subtitles unless otherwise noted.

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FILM TIMES Thursday 4 September until Wednesday 10 September. Times are provided by cinemas and are subject to last-minute changes.

Cavia Van Hallstraat 52-I, 681 1419 Ciné Interzone Film Club Tues Ladyfest Thur-Sat One Day Thur 21.00 Remote Sensing Thur 21.00 Rise Above: The Tribe 8 Documentary Fri 19.00 Sex Workers Speak up Fri 19.00.

Cinecenter Lijnbaansgracht 236, 623 6615 Elegy daily 16.15, 19.15, 21.45, Sun also 11.00, 13.30 Estômago daily 16.30, 19.00, 21.45, Sun also 11.00, 13.45 Le Fils de l'épicier daily 19.15, Sun also 11.15, 14.00 Il y a longtemps que je t'aime daily 16.15, 19.15, 21.45, Sun also 11.00, 13.30 Savage Grace daily 16.30, 22.00.

Filmhuis Griffioen Uilenstede 106, Amstelveen, 444 5100 We Feed the World Thur 19.30.

Filmmuseum Vondelpark 3, 589 1400 Le Ballon Rouge & Crin-Blanc Fri, Sat 17.15 Black Beauty Sun, Wed 14.00 Dagen zonder Lief daily 21.45 Green Fish Sat, Mon 19.00 Keane Thur 22.00, Fri-Sun, Tues, Wed 21.30, Sun-Wed 17.00 Het kleine sprookje Laban Sun, Wed 13.45 North by Northwest Sun, Tues, Wed 19.15 Oasis Sun, Wed 19.00 Peppermint Candy Fri, Tues 19.00 De Schattenberg Thur-Sat 17.00, Sun, Tues, Wed 17.15 Secret Sunshine Thur 19.00 Le Voyage du ballon rouge Mon 17.30.

Filmmuseum Open Air Vondelpark Fados Fri 21.15.

Het Ketelhuis Haarlemmerweg 8-10, 684 0090 Africa in the Picture daily Bikkel Thur-Sat, Tues, Wed 16.45 De brief voor de koning Sat, Wed 14.15 Dutch Cocaine Factory Thur, Fri, Tues 18.00, Sat, Wed 15.30 Het kleine sprookje Laban Sat, Wed 12.45 The Panman: Rhythm of the Palms Sat, Wed 13.30 De Staat van ontkenning Thur-Sat, Tues, Wed 16.45.

Kriterion Roetersstraat 170, 623 1708 Bikkel daily 17.15, 19.45 Ciao Stefano daily 17.00, Thur-Tues also 19.15 The Darjeeling Limited daily 19.30 Hellboy II: The Golden Army Thur-Mon, Wed 21.45, Fri, Sat also 0.00 High Noon Mon 22.00 Into the Wild Thur-Sun, Tues, Wed 21.30 Julia daily 16.45 Het kleine sprookje Laban Sat, Sun, Wed 15.30, Sat, Sun also 13.30 Lang leve de koningin Sat, Sun, Wed 14.30, Sun also 12.15 La Noche de los girasoles daily 22.00, Fri, Sat also 0.15 Sneak Preview Tues 22.15 Wall-E (NL) Sat, Sun 13.00.

Maison Descartes Vijzelgracht 2A, 531 9500 Beyond Paradise film programme Thur 19.00.

Melkweg Cinema Lijnbaansgracht 234A, 624 1777 Across the Universe Sat 19.00, Mon 21.30 The Devil and Daniel Johnston Sun 19.00 End of the Century: The Story of the Ramones Wed 19.00 Glastonbury Mon 19.00 Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten Fri 19.00 The Kids Are Alright Thur 19.00 Lou Reed's Berlin Sat 21.30, Wed 21.00 The Monks - The Transatlantic Feedback Tues 19.00.

The Movies Haarlemmerdijk 159-165, 638 6016 Caos Calmo daily 17.15, 19.30, 21.45, Sun, Wed also 15.00, Sun also 13.00 Dialogue avec mon jardinier daily 17.00, Sun also 12.30 Factory Girl daily 19.45, Sun, Wed also 15.15 Grace Is Gone daily 17.30, 19.45 Into the Wild daily 19.15, 22.00 Nim's Eiland Sun, Wed 14.45 Savage Grace daily 17.30, 21.30, Sun also 12.45 Wall-E daily 21.30 Wall-E (NL) Sun, Wed 15.15, Sun also 13.15.

De Nieuwe Anita Frederik Hendrikstraat 111, 06 4150 3512 Amphibian Man Mon 20.30.

No Limit Geldershoofd 80 Africa in the Picture daily.

Pathé ArenA ArenA Boulevard 600, 0900 1458 The Accidental Husband daily 11.50, 14.15, 16.20, 18.30, 20.40, Sat also 22.50 Bangkok Dangerous daily 12.20, 14.40, 16.50, 19.10, 21.40, Sat, Sun also 10.00, Sat also 0.00 De brief voor de koning Fri-Sun, Wed 13.30, Sat, Sun also 11.00 The Dark Knight (Imax) daily 11.20, 14.30, 17.40, 20.50 The Dark Knight Thur-Sun, Tues, Wed 19.15 Deception Sat 22.00 Elegy daily 20.30, Sat also 23.00 The Forbidden Kingdom daily 18.20, 21.00, Thur, Mon, Tues also 13.00, 15.40, Sat also 23.30 Get Smart daily 16.15, 18.50, 21.20, Thur-Tues also 13.30, Sat, Sun also 11.00, Sat also 23.50 Giorni e nuvole Tues 13.30 Hancock daily 14.35 Hellboy II: The Golden Army daily 16.30, 19.00, 21.30, Thur, Fri, Mon, Tues also 11.30, 13.50, Sat also 23.50 Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull daily 16.40 Kung Fu Panda (NL) Sat, Sun, Wed 12.10, 14.20, Sat, Sun also 10.00 The Love Guru daily 13.20, 15.20, 17.30, 19.40, 21.50, Sat, Sun also 11.20, Sat also 0.00 Mamma Mia! The Movie daily 20.10 Meet Dave daily 12.10, 14.10, 16.10, 18.15, 20.15, 22.15, Sat, Sun also 10.10, Sat also 0.20

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Midnight Meat Train daily 22.20, Thur, Fri, Mon, Tues also 12.30, Sat also 0.20 The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor Thur-Mon 18.40, 21.10, Thur, Mon also 11.45, Sat also 23.40 Nim's Eiland Sat, Sun, Wed 12.30, Sat, Sun also 10.15 Singh is Kinng daily 11.40 Sneak Preview Tues 21.00 Star Wars: The Clone Wars Thur, Fri, Mon 14.20, 16.30 Star Wars: The Clone Wars (NL) Fri 12.00, Sat, Sun 10.00, 12.10, 14.20, 16.30, Wed 13.30 The Strangers daily 22.10, Sat also 0.15 Superhero Movie daily 16.00, 18.00, Thur-Mon, Wed also 20.00, Thur, Fri, Sun, Mon, Wed also 22.00, Thur, Mon, Tues also 12.00, 14.00, Sat also 0.30 Wall-E daily 13.10, 15.30, Sat, Sun also 10.50 Wall-E (NL) Fri, Wed 11.45, 13.55, 16.05, Sat, Sun 10.30, 13.10, 15.45 Wanted Mon 19.45, Tues, Wed 12.30, 14.50, 17.20, 20.20 Wild Child daily 18.10, Thur-Mon, Wed also 11.30, 13.40, 15.50, Tues also 16.00 The X-Files: I Want to Believe daily 17.50, Sat also 22.40 You Don't Mess With the Zohan daily 14.25, 17.00, 19.30.

Pathé De Munt Vijzelstraat 15, 0900 1458 The Accidental Husband Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 12.00, 14.15, 16.40, 19.00, Thur, Fri, Sun, Mon, Wed also 21.30, Tues also 21.20, Sat 13.00, 15.10, 17.30, 20.00, 22.30 Bangkok Dangerous Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 12.10, 17.00, 19.30, 22.00, Thur, Fri, Sun-Tues also 14.30, Sat 13.30, 16.00, 18.30, 21.00, 23.30 De brief voor de koning Fri, Sun, Wed 12.20, Sat 10.15, 12.50 The Dark Knight Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 21.00, Thur, Fri, Sun, Tues, Wed also 16.15, Thur, Fri, Sun, Wed also 19.45, Thur, Tues also 12.45, Mon also 12.30, 15.45, Sat 18.15, 20.15, 21.45 Deception Sat 23.15 The Forbidden Kingdom Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 15.15, 21.20, Thur, Fri, Mon-Wed also 12.30, Sun also 10.15, 12.40, Sat 11.10, 13.45, 16.30, 22.15 Get Smart Thur, Fri, Sun, Mon 18.30, 21.15, Thur, Mon also 13.00, Tues, Wed also 20.15, Sat 19.45, 22.45 Hancock Thur, Fri, Sun, Mon 15.45, Sat 17.15 Hellboy II: The Golden Army Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 16.00, 19.15, 21.45, Thur, Mon, Tues also 13.30, Sat 18.00, 20.30, 23.00 Kung Fu Panda (NL) Fri, Sun, Wed 13.30, Sun also 11.15, Sat 10.40, 12.45, 15.20 The Love Guru Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 13.15, 15.30, 17.45, 20.00, 22.15, Sun also 11.00, Sat 10.15, 12.30, 14.45, 17.00, 19.15, 21.30, 23.45 Mamma Mia! The Movie Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 14.45, 17.30, 20.30, Thur, Mon, Tues also 12.20, Sat 15.40, 18.10, 20.50 Meet Dave Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 12.00, 14.10, 16.30, Thur, Fri, Sun, Mon, Wed also 18.45, Tues also 18.40, Sat 11.00, 13.15, 15.30, 17.45, 23.35 Midnight Meat Train Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 20.10, 22.20, Sat 21.20, 23.40 The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor Thur, Fri, SunWed 18.40, Sat 19.30 Sex and the City: The Movie Thur, Fri, Sun, Mon 20.15, Sat 21.15 Sneak Preview Tues 21.30 Star Wars: The Clone Wars Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 12.40, Sun also 10.20, Sat 11.30, 14.00 Star Wars: The Clone Wars (NL) Fri-Sun, Wed 13.20, Sat, Sun also 10.50, Sat also 15.45 Superhero Movie Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 13.45, 15.50, 18.00, Sun also 11.45, Sat 10.15, 12.15, 14.30, 16.45, 19.10 Wall-E Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 12.25, 14.50, 17.15, Sun also 10.15, Sat 11.45, 14.15, 16.30, 18.45 Wall-E (NL) Fri, Sun 13.00, Sun also 10.30, Sat 10.15, 12.40, 15.00, Wed 14.30 Wild Child Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 12.00, 14.20, 16.50, 19.10, 21.40, Sat 10.45, 13.10, 15.50, 18.20, 20.45 The X-Files: I Want to Believe Sat 23.20 You Don't Mess With the Zohan Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 15.00, 18.10, 20.45, Sat 16.15, 19.00, 22.00.

Pathé Tuschinski Reguliersbreestraat 34, 0900 1458 Caos Calmo daily 16.15, 19.00 The Dark Knight Fri-Sun 20.30, Fri also 16.30, Sat, Sun also 17.00, Mon also 12.00 Elegy Fri-Wed 13.15, 21.45 Estômago daily 12.15, 15.00, 18.30, 21.15 Factory Girl Thur-Sun, Tues 18.45 Die Fälscher Thur, Tues 13.30 Into the Wild Thur-Sun, Tues 21.00 Mamma Mia! The Movie daily 12.45, 15.30, Thur-Sun, Tues, Wed also 18.15, 20.45 Mongol daily 12.30, 15.30, 21.30 Sex and the City: The Movie daily 18.15 Vliegen naar de maan (3D) Thur, Mon 16.00, Fri 14.15, Sat, Sun 12.30, Sat also 14.45, Sun also 15.00, Tues 16.30, Wed 13.30 Wall-E Thur-Sat, Mon, Tues 15.45, Thur, Fri, Mon, Tues also 13.00 Wall-E (NL) Sat, Sun, Wed 13.00 Wanted Tues 18.45, 21.15.

Rialto Ceintuurbaan 338, 676 8700 Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 21.45, Sat, Sun 14.00, Sat also 22.15 Caos Calmo daily 19.45, 22.00, Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed also 17.30, Fri, Sun, Wed also 14.45, Sat, Sun also 12.30 Cordero de Dios Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 17.15, 21.15, Fri-Sun, Wed also 15.15, Sat, Sun also 13.15, Sat also 17.15, 21.45 Edipo re Sun 11.00, Wed 19.00 Einexamenfilms Nederlandse Film en Televisie Academie Sat 16.00 Lemon Tree Thur-Tues 19.15, Fri-Sun, Wed 15.45 The Panman: Rhythm of the Palms Sat 19.30.

Studio K Timorplein 62, 692 0422, 3:10 to Yuma Sun 15.00, 17.15, 19.30, 21.45 De brief voor de koning Thur-Sat, Mon 17.15, Sat also 15.00 Finding Nemo (NL) Sat, Sun, Wed 14.30 Happy-Go-Lucky Thur, Sat, Mon 19.30 In Bruges Thur, Sat, Mon 22.00 Mamma Mia! The Movie Thur, Sat, Mon-Wed 19.45 This Is England Thur, Sat, Mon-Wed 22.15 Wacky Westerns Wall-E Thur-Sat, Mon-Wed 17.45, Sat, Wed also 15.30.

De Uitkijk Prinsengracht 452, 623 7460 Happy-Go-Lucky daily 19.00 Mataharis Fri-Wed 21.30 Wall-E daily 17.00, Wed 15.00.

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FOOD/DRINK The Mouth

By Nanci Tangeman

Shhhhhhhhh.

La Place, Openbare Bibliotheek A’dam 7th Floor, Oosterdokskade 143, 365 5330 Daily10.00-22.00 Cash, Pin I love salad bars. Sneeze guards or not, there’s something about achieving that ideal balance of vegetables, ideally balanced on an over-laden salad plate, that I find satisfying. It could be a control issue. (Not that I have any.)

Unfortunately, salad bars are not exactly the bars of choice in Amsterdam. Until recently, there have really only been two alternatives.

The first: Cafe de Jaren (Nieuwe Doelenstraat 20-22). It has a terrace overlooking a canal. It has free newspapers and an unimaginative salad bar that always makes me feel like I’m on a diet. I hate to feel like I’m on a diet.

The second option, La Place, has a wider selection. But as for ambiance, well, it’s fine if you’re shopping for bath towels or your stomach starts growling on the A9. The ubiquitous chain of cafes is usually associated with department stores or motorway turn-offs.

But now there’s a new hybrid of salad and scenery. La Place has opened a cafe at the top of the Central Library, smack in the centre of the hip new ODE (Oosterdokseiland) District. One chaotic day, I give in to the urge to control something (anything!) and head to the library and check it out.

The elevator door opens to the 7th floor. Fruits and vegetables are stacked high. Is this some movie set, ready for the car chase?

No, it’s just the typical La Place decor—abundance in abundance. I careen towards the salad bar and grab a plate, the largest of four sizes (€6.95).

Meticulously, I make my selection: fresh lettuce mix, roasted eggplant, marinated zucchini and sliced tomatoes, topped with toasted pine nuts. I totter under the weight of my creation.

An oddly chipper server explains the dressing choices. I opt for a tiny splash of sweet chili oil.

I haul my custom-made salad past the other food on offer, perfectly in control. A 10cm-tall piece of apple-nut tart calls my name. The wood-fired pizza sends a tempting aroma my way. I peek at the entrecôte, lamb chops and three choices of fish, but leave it all behind.

I pass up the fresh fruit choices— naked in a bowl or blended into a yogurt smoothie. And the freshsqueezed orange and grapefruit juice.

And the fresh mint tea and cappuccinos. I am in charge of my destiny. I even pass the wine and beer.

Outside, on the terrace, I can see all the way south to the Rembrandt Tower. People around me snap photos of the view and peer into binoculars. I gaze through the windows and watch the handful of diners inside, taking advantage of the library’s free wifi.

I’m happy to be outside on the shaded patio, eating the perfect salad. But then I notice one small detail that’s completely out of my control. No smoking on the terrace! I savour the fresh air on what may be the last smoke-free terrace in Amsterdam.

My day is completely back in control. I gaze out over the view and relish the feeling. ___

I am in charge of my destiny. I even pass the wine and beer.

A night in the life...

By Sarah Gehrke

The usual please

ment. They have all the inside information about their bar, which they sometimes exchange with knowing smiles. (‘Apparently,’ says one of them, ‘they have to use those really small glasses when somebody orders tap water. To save money on the water bill!’) Often they actually pretend to hate their local bar, or aspects of it.

Yet there are few cases where loyalty is stronger than the one a regular shows to their local.

And the idyllic setting that De Groene Olifant offers does justify some loyalty. Situated in Oost—near Artis—it has a beautiful interior, a very large terrace, sits near a canal and is surrounded by trees. The dinner menu looks promising, and they have many types of wine. It’s a summer Sunday night kind of place —come early, sit in the sun, have some snacks, drink with leisure, make lazy jokes, watch the other people and... listen to the regulars.

On their table, it’s back to the Olympics. The dramatic pause finally ends, and the speaker continues with his line of argument. ‘Darts!’ he exclaims. More questioning looks.

‘Well, everybody knows that dart players always drink beer! And why do they do that? To steady their hands! If that’s not doping, I don’t know what is!’ He then turns around and calls out the name of the waitress, to order another one. The usual. ___

De Groene Olifant Sarphatistraat 510 Open Sun-Thur 11.00-01.00, Fri, Sat 11.00-02.00 Cash, Pin, major credit cards ‘In a way,’ says the grey-haired man as he holds up his fluitje in the evening sun, ‘it’s really unfair that they do doping tests at the Olympics.’ The ensuing dramatic pause is filled with questioning looks from all sides of the table. It is an early summer evening, and the Olympics are the topic of the day. It’s all been discussed: the faked fireworks at the opening ceremony, the political implications of the whole thing, the one guy that ran oh so fast, and ah! onze hockey meisjes.

The man’s table is unmistakably the regulars’ table. For the last two hours, people have been turning up, sporadically and by themselves, to be greeted by everyone, before joining the group. They order their drinks with the quiet confidence that here, they are known.

Bar regulars are an interesting group, behaving with astounding constancy. They turn up daily. They never order a drink that’s different from their usual one. They know that they probably make up half the bar’s profit, and in turn they expect superior treat-

Beer price: €2 for a vaasje (Grolsch).

Emergency food: Nice borrelhapjes till almost closing time. And six different sorts of nuts!

Special interior feature: Behind the bar, a large array of elephants in all shapes and colours—oh hang on, actually they’re all in green. I wonder why...

Predominant shoe type: Nondescript.

Typically ordered drink: Bottles of wine.

Smoking situation: Huge terrace with sun all day.

Tune of the night: ‘California Dreamin’ by The Mamas and the Papas.

Mingling factor: Low. Unless you choose to mingle with the regulars.

State of toilets near closing time: The highly ‘interesting’ wall design can get a bit unpleasant after a few drinks, as the patterns tend to encourage dizziness.

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WEEKLY CLASSIFIEDS weight, balance moods, deal with food addictions or just learn to eat more healthy.

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