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An eye for the coming season pages 13-16

Inside Uitmarkt page 8 How criminal is Jong Zuid? page 4 / HEMA as El Hema page 4 A new fashion mag hits the streets page 5 STAGE: Parade turns into a waterfall p. 6 / FILM: Wolfsbergen, skilfully stillful p. 21

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Short List . . . . . . . . . . . . .6 Music/Clubs . . . . . . . . . .10 Gay & Lesbian . . . . . . . .12 Stage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12 Art . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17 Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18 Dining . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20 Film . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .21 Classifieds/Comics . . . .26

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Happy New Year. Forget January—it all starts again here, and in a couple of days. September is the true new beginning. It’s all gonna change now. It’s all gonna happen. This is the season to listen to that band, groove to that DJ, sit back for a play, lean in to a good movie or just finally read that book. Or, maybe to get a job. Happily, it has just been revealed that the unemployed can get a subsidy to seek assistance from tarot card readers and astrologers. Yes, you too can reintegrate with your personal sponsor space alien! Meanwhile, hundreds of parliamentarians are investigating the few dozen people who have taken advantage of this. Of course, the soothsaying model is one that can and should be applied at every level of society, even the cultural. Just imagine: it’s Friday night. You’re all dressed up with nowhere to go. Consult your Nightlife Prophet and a good time is guaranteed. No more duff drama, dreary discos or gruesome galleries. A good time will be had, always, by all. Leave nothing to chance: use clairvoyance!

On the cover DANCE THE BLUES Illustration by Sanstitre.ch

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AROUND TOWN

Arabian HEMA Making over the common shop.

FRANK KOK

By Mark Wedin

Portrait of a city saloon The good, the bad and the not all that bad.

By Remco Andersen In the very early hours of Sunday 13 August, a man in a black hooded sweater enters Cafe Jong Zuid. Holding a gun, he calmly walks up to one of the customers and executes him with a shot through the head. The shooter quickly leaves the way he came, disappears around a corner and has since vanished without a trace.

The shooting, which the police were quick to label a ‘professional liquidation’, once again put the spotlight on a bar that has always enjoyed a dubious reputation.

Cafe Jan Steen, as it was called until 2004, was founded in the early ’70s on the corner of Jan Steenstraat and Ruysdaelkade—the latter notorious for its window prostitution. The owners soon discovered that most of their clientele, if not all of them, had been in trouble with the law one way or another, albeit mostly for petty crime, and decided to turn the cafe into a stichting, a form of enterprise where the company has an ideological rather than financial aim. This enabled them to be subsidised by the city and keep beer prices low. Ex-delinquents now officially ran Jan

Steen. Add to that a couple of known gangsters rumoured to be among the clientele, and the bar had established its reputation of being a penozecafe: underworld bar.

‘The stigma of being a hangout for criminals is something I’ve worked to get rid of ever since I took over the bar in 1991,’ says proprietor Erwin Kost. ‘The stichting has long been a thing of the past and I’ve even changed the name; I was tired of all the cabbies warning me about my own bar whenever I took a taxi there.

It didn’t help though. Whenever something happens in the neighbourhood—and this is an eventful neighbourhood—the media still seem keen to connect it to us. A couple of weeks ago there was a violent incident in a children’s playground not far from here, and it was reported as a “stabbing near Cafe Jong Zuid”, or something like that, as if we had anything to do with it! Nobody ever bothers to take a look inside. Do you know that, since the shooting, you’re the first reporter to come in here and ask us what kind of place this is?’

It’s a Friday night, about 11 o’clock, and the bar is half-full. Although it’s not too big, it houses two pool tables and a variety of arty posters that, according to one customer, the owner changes around every three months. Behind the bar, a scattering of handwritten cocktail recipes surrounds a sign saying ‘no change for the parking meter’. While speakers dispense Top 40 music, the customers, most of whom are male, are laughing and talking in thick Amsterdam accents. Judging by the way they are all on first-name terms with the barmaid, most of them seem to be regulars.

The bartender says she’s working alone tonight: her usual colleague is still a

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bit shaken from last week; she was working the night of the shooting. Her colleague is here as a customer, however, and fortunately doesn’t mind talking to me, so long as I don’t mention her name.

‘I’ve been a bartender here for three years now, and it’s definitely one of the nicest places I’ve worked at,’ she says.

‘All kinds of people come here. I have construction workers stopping by for a sandwich in the morning, people reading a newspaper over lunch, kids from the high schools nearby having a coffee on their break and all sorts of people from the neighbourhood. We get quite a lot of students too; they probably like the cheap beer.

‘Of course I’m shocked by what happened, but it hasn’t caused me to look at my job differently. The guy who was shot wasn’t a regular, I’d seen him only once or twice before. In my opinion, this could have happened anywhere. Unfortunately, it happened here. De Steen—we all still call it that—isn’t the kind of place where violence is a part of life. If it were, I’d have left ages ago. I enjoy working here and although tonight’s a bit slower than usual, I’m sure things will pick up again and we can all just get back to business.’

All in all, Jong Zuid doesn’t seem like a bad place to hang—even if you’re a law abiding citizen. Sure there are a couple of burly characters I wouldn’t want to get into an argument with, but I spot those in every bar. It’s just one of those places that attract working-class Amsterdammers.

Maybe not all of them angels, but a demon hole it is not.

Those who love HEMA (and who doesn’t?), but have always longed for a more exotic and ethnic version, can now breath a sigh of relief and head to Mediamatic this weekend for the opening of El Hema, an Arabic version of the ultra-Dutch chainstore.

There will be halal sausages shaped like HEMA worst, Arabic chocolate letters, camel’s milk, tunics, djellabas and school notebooks that read from right to left. In short, loads of affordable, high-quality merchandise in the familiar no-nonsense HEMA style, with all items drawing exclusively from Arabic culture.

Being at Mediamatic, it’s of course an art exhibition rather than a genuine shop.

And the opening will actually only have a somewhat limited selection of El Hema goods. In-shop stock will continue to pile up however, as the good folks at Mediamatic have shaped the exhibition as an open competition. Anyone can submit their ideas for Arabic HEMA supplies, all the interesting ones will be invited to construct their product for display and winners will be chosen on Museumnacht, 3 November.

‘The reason we started this was the fact that another cultural organisation, the Khatt Foundation, did this project with Dutch type designers called Khatt Kufi & Kaffiya,’ explains Willem Velthoven, board director at Mediamatic and one of the El Hema initiators. ‘They’re teaming up Dutch type designers with Arabic designers to make new Arabic fonts. So we thought: how can we have an exhibition that accompanies this? And we decided to make it tangible in a shop context.’ Thus, El Hema was born. But not without a few labour pains.

Soon after the project was announced, the real HEMA threatened legal action claiming that Mediamatic was breaching their trademark. In a letter to Mediamatic, HEMA stated, ‘It is unmistakable that Mediamatic is unjustly trying to hook into

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Is Willem Velthoven wearing a real HEMA?

the concepts developed by HEMA. This can confuse the public, and is completely unacceptable to HEMA.’ Velthoven responded in a press release saying: ‘I am extremely surprised and disappointed by HEMA’s aggressive reaction.

How can an exhibition lead to confusion of the public? Everyone knows HEMA. We are all fans of HEMA here. That is why I am especially disappointed by their attitude.’

Fortunately, after constructive meetings, HEMA agreed to allow the exhibition to continue as planned, realising that none of the products are for sale, nor would they be sold anywhere outside the exhibition.

Mediamatic even invited them to take part in judging the final entries in the El Hema competition. ‘Basically, we resolved it by being really nice,’ says Velthoven. ‘Of course, they had some worries, but later they realised that they actually quite liked the exhibition.’

Naturally, all of this brought El Hema extra attention long before the opening.

‘The response in general has been amazingly varied,’ says Velthoven, ‘from smart and understanding, to extremely stupid and shortsighted and racist remarks. One of the typical things is that, in the larger proportion of reactions, people don’t seem to understand the difference between Arabic and Islamic. We say El Hema is the Arabic version of HEMA and they hear it’s the Islamic version of HEMA, or the Muslim version. The Dutch HEMA is not a very religious place. I’ve been calling it “the church of Dutch culture”, but that’s more in a manner of speaking. The Arabic HEMA will also be a very non-religious place, which doesn’t mean that we deny the possibility of our visitors having religious convictions, but we are not into religion with El Hema; we are not trying to comment on religion.

There are of course areas where religion and culture mix. I suppose a non-religious Dutch person can still be called a Christian, just as you can call a lot of non-religious Arabic people Islamic, because they grow up in an environment where spirituality and ethics are dominated by that belief system. So, we do have halal smoked sausages, because it’s much more a general part of the culture. People don’t necessarily like eating pork even if they’re not religious.’

Velthoven also points out that their Arabic HEMA is perhaps closer in feel to the original HEMA than most people may realise. ‘HEMA was actually founded by immigrants: in 1920, by Jewish people, who in those days were a much more separate group in Dutch society. They had funny eating habits, funny clothes, a different weekly calendar. And now it’s the most Dutch department store. That’s something we also like about it, something that the Dutch identify as ultra-Dutch was actually made by people who were not very long ago considered aliens. A lot of things people are now worried about with clearly recognisable groups, like Moroccans, you’d find with the group that founded HEMA.’ El Hema, 25 August-5 November, Mediamatic, Oosterdokskade 5.

B612: NFMOTB The New Fashion Mag on the Block.

By Anneloes van Gaalen During this summer’s AIFW, a new fashion magazine was launched. Or should we say, yet another fashion magazine was launched, because a trip to the glossies aisle of the newsagent reveals a mind-boggling array of style-related publications. So, given the abundance of titles available— plus the equally impressive amount of e-zines that are brought out on a quarterly, monthly, weekly and even daily basis, why the need for a new one? The creative duo behind B612 sit down to explain all.

Stylist Maaike Holvast and journalist Kirstin Hanssen met while working at CODE magazine, where Holvast was fashion editor. After leaving CODE, Holvast—whose publishing experience dates back to home-made childhood magazines sold in the schoolyard—started playing with the idea of setting up her own.

Before long, Hanssen was involved and B612 was born.

‘I came up with the idea and concept, and asked Kirstin to support me with the production. Officially, I’m the founder and creative director of the magazine and Kirstin’s the editor-in-chief. But we work really closely together on everything,’ Holvast explains. ‘We first talked about a photocopied ’zine, but the idea slowly grew and grew, and then suddenly we had our first issue: a fifty page, professionally designed and printed publication in A5 format, with the look and feel of a home-made mag. It was an almost organic thing. There was never any real stress.’

No stress? An organic thing? It almost sounds too good to be true, especially given the fact that both women left the relatively safe world of freelance writing and styling for this much more precarious publishing adventure. That surely must have created tension, not least because they put their own money into the endeavour. Hanssen explains: ‘We both continue to freelance as well: we can’t live off this project alone.’ Holvast adds: ‘I see this magazine as a creative expression, not something I’m going to get rich from. In the meantime, I can make money doing freelance styling and image consultancy for companies. For me, that is the perfect combination.’

A perfect combination that Holvast was happy to pay for—literally. ‘I’ve financed the whole project myself, which means we’re completely independent.’ And it’s exactly this independence that sets B612 apart from similar publications.

‘Earning money wasn’t a motivation when starting working on the project,’ says Hanssen. ‘I think B612 fits excellently with the time we’re living in now. It’s all about indie culture, about working together, about doing what you really want by following your heart, about avoiding the system and creating your own world.

Nobody on this planet asked us to create B612. We just did and it’s so great and fascinating to hear the reactions from all over the world.’

Yes, from all over the world. The B612 girls think big: their target audience and editorial focus is international by nature.

Hanssen says: ‘Our target audience is probably a niche market, but spread all over the world: anyone with a bigger than average interest in fashion and/or culture, and anyone who appreciates smaller, independent publications. We think our readers are people who are fascinated by societal developments, who also wonder about life and human behaviour in general.’

And so what can these readers expect

Maaike Holvast (left) and Kirsten Hanssen (right) cuddle cows.

to read about? Well, the first issue, titled Lovely Creatures, zooms in on our changing relationship with nature and the fact that animals are becoming ubiquitous in fashion, from haute couture to streetwear.

Holvast explains: ‘Dogs, in particular, are no longer purely pets, but also fashion accessories. B612 has translated this theme in, for example, a report about cow cuddling, a fashion shoot with the mascot of a denim brand and a story about Pet Fashion Week in New York.’

The second issue’s theme is yet to be revealed, but will also deal with one particular trend. ‘With B612 we want to ask questions about why certain things are a trend, and what they mean,’ says Holvast, ‘and especially how they are linked to our society and the way we see ourselves in it.’

That also explains the magazine’s title.

Those of you who took French at school and read Antoine de Saint-Exupery’s Le Petit Prince might recall that B612 is the name of the asteroid on which the main character of the book lives. Hanssen says: ‘This mini-planet is a condensed universe which represents the more complex reality of the “real world”—just like fashion can be seen as a representation of larger things in life.’

It remains to be seen what the future holds for the duo and their magazine, which is a real labour of love. At the moment, the main focus lies on promoting and selling the first issue. Holvast explains: ‘Our plan is to release the next issue in January 2008. By selling the magazine we can earn back the costs. Maybe we’ll find some financial partners as well. In that case we would like to come out on a quarterly base.

That would be great, as there are so many great themes to tackle!’ www.myspace.com/b612mag

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The Streets, Friday, Melkweg

Pop: Rilo Kiley

THURSDAY 23 AUGUST Art: Happy II Tease The big splash of Amsterdam Gay Pride weekend may have sailed away a couple of weeks back but, though your tugs are probably well hoisted on shore by now, the wind in the wings of the ABC Treehouse is still celebrating l’homme desire—or is l’homme dessert a more suitable expression?—with this ongoing exhibition. Nine artists have selected wares to put on display for your pleasure. Ranging from classical hommages to cartoon portraits, rambling ocean romps to the sparks of leather restraints and posed Adonis to the downright hot and raunchy steamer, these men have done themselves proud. Keep an eye out in particular for the work of Darren Sullivan, Harald Seiwert, Taco van der Werf and (especially) the delectable treats of René Zuiderveld, whose pieces will undoubtedly make your mouth water. And everything hung in the gallery is for sale, so see if you can get a good purchase. And hurry: this is the last week. (John Hartnett) ABC Treehouse, Until 30 September.

FRIDAY 24 AUGUST Festival: Waterval Festival Following hot on the heels of De Parade’s tour of the Randstad this summer, Waterval moves onto its fourth year in a row, keeping up the theatrical carnival feel, while adding a new array of treats to the menu, but bringing it to the opposite side of town, this time.

(Though they’ll surely be hoping for a run of better weather than De Parade enjoyed.) As always, you’ll find the Summerstage workshops where you can pick up some new tricks, be they performance based or the simple pleasure of cooking. Always popular is the Silent Disco, although it could be argued that it’s more fun to watch than to participate in. Big draws this weekend in particular will be the Drakenboot Festival, if you wanna take to the water with friends on a Chinese canoe, and the annual Waterfeest, which features a host of local urban acts, plus celebrated rock diva Ellen ten Damme. Beyond that, there’s tons of music, theatre, open-air films and frivolity. If the weather holds—or rather, appears—then there are free screenings to look forward to at the West Beach Film Festival on Friday and Saturday nights. You lounge on the terrace of the Sloterparkbad, as films are shown on a screen in the lake. Weekend nights even close with a fireworks party. See www.watervalfestival.nl for a full rundown of events. (Steven McCarron) Sloterpark (Fri-Wed 15.00-late), various prices. Until 2 September.

The appearance of porn stars in music videos is not at all a new happenstance. Big names like Jenna Jameson and Ron Jeremy have done it and, in fact, these days it’s difficult to tell the jiggling extras angling for the camera in just about any rap video apart from the standard adult entertainer. Los Angeles band Rilo Kiley decided to venture a bit further down this well-beaten path with the video for their newest single, ‘The Moneymaker’, by telling auditioning ladies that they were trying out for a softcore film. Coming back together after pursuing other projects on the side, the band has produced a rawer, harder-driving compilation than ever before. While the end result could have been cheap fluff or even an over-the-top parody, Rilo Kiley execute their latest transformation with the skill and dexterity of an X-rated professional.

(Stephanie Shewchuk) Paradiso, Kleine Zaal, 21.00, €10 + membership.

Pop: The Streets 2002’s Original Pirate Material by The Streets was one of those albums that are said to perfectly capture the mood of a generation—or, in that case, the male British part of it—by telling simple little stories about everyday life, in which a lot of people could recognise themselves. Then, when Mike Skinner went from cult classic to bestseller, from homemade garage to concept album, and from queuing in the kebab shop to shagging famous people, his songs were still about the things that were happening to him in his daily life. Only those experiences weren’t shared by that many people anymore. Regardless, Skinner’s a talent, and this tour offers a preview of his fourth album, which is due out next year and which, unusually, will have live instruments on it. Also, The Streets shows are, if not always quality sound, always quality fun. So let’s put on our Classics and have a little dance, shall we? (Sarah Gehrke) Melkweg, The Max, 21.00, €20 + membership.

SATURDAY 25 AUGUST Art: Off Screen The video and multimedia artworks in the group exhibition Off Screen purposely challenge the relationship between what we see, hear and think, in order to make us more aware of the world beyond our perception. For his intense video projection ‘Aion’, the Danish sound artist Jakob Kirkegaard recorded images and sounds from empty spaces in the radioactive forbidden zone at Chernobyl, two decades after the infamous nuclear reactor meltdown. In another room, Mark Bain created a system that amplifies the sounds coming directly from the outside of the gallery. On an

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equally twisted note, Jeroen Diepenmaat set up mounted birds that play gramophone records of bird sounds with their beaks. Among the other artists in the exhibition are Christian Marclay, Janet Cardiff, Justin Bennett, Ann Lislegaard and Michael Snow. (Marinus de Ruiter) Montevideo/Time Based Arts (Tues-Sat 13.0018.00). Until 7 October.

Singer-Songwriter: KHL Festival Using your imagination, you could think of the Oostelijke Havengebied as the Greenwich Village of Amsterdam. Then, as fantasy gets the better of you, you suddenly find yourself on a trip down memory lane with the Oostelijke Handelskade slowly transforming into Bleecker Street. Or is it MacDougal Street? And hey, isn’t that KHL one of its famous coffeehouses? Well, no, and it ain’t Gerde’s Folk City either. But this weekend it’s certainly a place to discover a wealth of budding musical talent and to find out if Amsterdam has a Joan Baez or a Bob Dylan in its midst. To coincide with the Uitmarkt, KHL presents a two-day fest of singer-songwriters and other musicians, taking their cues from jazz and soul to folk and electronics. Among them, there’s a few who already enjoy success, such as Job Chajes. With Drikusman, an outfit named after a Dutch folk dance, the leader/saxman of the Amsterdam Klezmer Band plays Latin jazz with a touch of European melancholia, making for a change from the surplus of soul-baring strummers. (Peter Bartlema) KHL Koffiehuis, 12.00-00.00, free.

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Rock: DeVotchka As a band, DeVotchka have retained the rare ability to fly significantly under the radar while still attaining great success. In addition to fusing punk and folk together with Greek, Slavic, Bolero, Romani and Mariachi music (a feat in itself), the group have toured with burlesque model Dita von Teese, convalesced with indie superstars Arcade Fire and have been on the receiving end of a Grammy nomination for their work on the Little Miss Sunshine soundtrack. With such accomplishments, one may wonder why the band hailed by the New York Times as ‘the most musically versatile band of the Gypsy-punk trendlet’ hasn’t become a familiar name by now. Though some may point to the particular niche the music occupies, the answer lies more within DeVotchka themselves. Approached by McDonald’s to have one of their songs featured on a commercial, the group turned down the billions-and-billions-served kingpins of fast food. Clearly, they are fans of doing it on their own terms, their own way, which is exactly how indie rockers with an Eastern Bloc influence should be.

Check them out in the intimate confines of Bitterzoet while you still can. (Stephanie Shewchuk) Bitterzoet, 21.00, €7.

SUNDAY 26 AUGUST Stage: David Vos It may be hard to tell—for the imitation ghetto rap and soulless dance/trance/house electronic thumping does largely drown it out—but there’s more to Dutch music than just awkward, pale imitations of American or British innovations. As part of the Robisco Summer Festival, gifted singer David Vos will be performing classic Dutch music of recent vintage accompanied by Nettie Krull on piano. Vos will perform songs

by Ramses Shaffy, who had a string of hits through the 1970s, like ‘Sammy’, ‘Pastorale’, ‘In de armen van de stad’, ‘Aan de andere kant van de heuvels’ and ‘Laat me’—which only two years ago was again in the charts. Shaffy’s music has been described as a mixture of Tom Waits and Frank Sinatra, so if you think you’ve heard it all, think again. Vos will also sing pieces by the creative and talented lyricist Lennaert Nijgh, as well as other Dutch(wo)men who have dedicated themselves to making quintessential Nedermuziek. If you’re looking for some truly homegrown culture, then an evening with the honey-voiced Vos at the enormously charming Roode Bioscoop, a former socialist cinema, is your ticket. (David Lee) De Roode Bioscoop (Sun-Tues 20.30), €15.

TUESDAY 28 AUGUST Reggae: Don Carlos He may have missed out on the big time with Black Uhuru, but on the roots reggae circuit Jamaican Don Carlos (born Euvin Spencer) is still a well-known and popular face. The sweet-voiced singer from West Kingston’s notorious Waterhouse district— breeding ground of many a reggae star—was one of the original members of the band that Derrick ‘Duckie’ Simpson founded as Black Sounds Uhro in the mid-1970s. But after having recorded only a few singles, he left to pursue a solo career. While Black Uhuru underwent several personnel changes to become one of the world’s most popular reggae groups of the decade, Don’s profile was on the rise as well with recordings for an array of top-name Jamaican producers. Having managed to gain more financial and artistic control, he put his solo career on halt in 1990 for a reunion of the original Black Uhuru line up. But things went sour and, after losing a lawsuit over the name, Carlos once more went out on his own to spread the Rasta faith.

(Peter Bartlema) Melkweg, Oude Zaal, 21.00, €17 + membership.

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INSIDE UITMARKT

by Steven McCarron

Culture in the capital heads upstream This summer’s been a bumpy ride. Festivals, parties, barbecues and film screenings have been accompanied by wind, rain, lightning—even glimpses of sun. But worry not: even if we have to deal with the inconvenient truth of yet more crap weather, we still have a new cultural season exploding into action this weekend. And where else to get a taster than Uitmarkt, the annual ribbon-cutting ceremony? With hundreds of events taking place from the evening of 24 August through to the night of 26 August, you can pound the streets and enjoy free samples of your fave local acts, while discovering a bunch more. The only catch is that, with so much on, it’s tricky to know where to look. So here you have it folks: a handy highlights package.

Informatiemarkt An ideal starting point is the Uitmarkt’s information market, stretching along Piet Heinkade from Muziekgebouw to Pakhuis de Zwijger, then outside Panama.

For tickets and additional info, there’ll be Uitburo offices at both points, plus on Java-eiland. The markets are home to 120 vendors (and possibly some unofficial cultural invaders), so you can collect programmes, leaflets, promo freebies and even get to chat with some folks who have events to sell in the coming months.

Don’t forget to pick up an official Uitmarkt guide for a complete list of all weekend performances.

The Terrain Seen and done it all before? Think you can handle Uitmarkt with eyes closed and hands tied behind your back? Think again, as 2007 sees the party moved to the Oostelijk Havengebied, celebrating the IJ’s regeneration. All of the area’s multipurpose venues are staging events, which

Friday 24 August Music: Opening Lights! Camera! Action! TVs switch on and the festival officially kicks off with house band New Cool Collective, and a host of special guests, including local guitar faves Voicst, who’ll preview a new track.UPC Podium, 20.50-22.00 Jazz: Lefties Soul Connection Dance jazz action from these fiery kings of the swing. Podium Provincie Noord-Holland, 21.30-22.00 Urban: BO! Showcases & Open Mic Diverse hiphop, R&B and soul talents, promoting music from Zuidoost in particular. Special guests include Manu feat. Blaxtar, Amo Lab and BBoy Elite Movement. The Remix, 22.00-00.00 Pop: Krezip Once-promising power pop guitar band turned trashy TMF pop tart sell-outs, but may still be worth catching for a couple of oldies. UPC Podium, 23.00-23.40 Hiphop: Illicit Hard-hitting live set from the popular hiphop quintet. Podium Provincie Noord-Holland, 23.30-00.00

Saturday 25 August Dance: Mortal Coil (Work in Progress) Dance Works Rotterdam test the waters with some choreographies from artistic leader Ton Simons. 11, 12.00-12.30

means you can wander in and out of the Muziekgebouw, Bimhuis, NEMO, Pakhuis de Zwijger, Lloyd Hotel, Theater Fabriek, Pakhuis Wilhelmina, the new library and PostCS. There’s also the usual outdoor stages: on Java-eiland, The Remix focuses on youth and urban culture (look out for ZO! Cultuur from Amsterdam Zuidoost, specialists in the scene), while the UPC Podium serves mainstream acts; you’ll find Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds Live and Podium Provincie Noord-Holland off Piet Heinkade. The official guide lists all 36 locations.

Theater op het Leidseplein Away from the main terrain, Leidseplein continues the tradition of its own Uitmarkt celebration to kick-off the new theatre season. Hosted in Stadsschouwburg, Theater Bellevue and Melkweg, this year you can catch full shows (in Dutch) like Romeinse Tragedies, Boys in the Band and Bloedverwanten. Tickets (€2.50) from the central Uitburo.

Amsterdamse Boekenmarkt This year, the book market can be found on Piet Heinkade between the two information markets. Open on Saturday and Sunday from 11.00-18.00, more than 100 sellers will line the street. Bookworms get further thrills from the weekend’s literary salons in the Openbare Bibliotheek.

Kunstxpo Celebrating Oostelijk Havengebied’s reputation as a nursery for artistic talents, this year features a complete art exhibition of works by 300 artists, displayed in pakhuizen, theatres, concert halls, hotels and special outdoor display areas. An architectural presentation will also take place on Saturday evening in Passenger Terminal Amsterdam.

World: Absurdo Energetic percussion spectacle that combines influences from South America, Africa and the more contemporary sound of drum & bass. Nemo Dakterras, 12.00-12.30 Cabaret: CTRL+ALT+DEL Comedic internet improv theatre from the Geen Familie lads. In Dutch. Theater Fabriek, Grote Zaal, 12.00-12.30 Dance: Just Shut up and Dance! A fusion of dance styles (contemporary, jazz, folk, salsa and hiphop) performed by young dance company The Kisshoff Moves. 11, 13.00-13.30 Dance: Scapino Ballet Rotterdam The contemporary dance troupe preview their choreographies for the coming season. Muziekgebouw, 13.30-14.00 Urban: Battle of Amsterdam Young dancers, musicians and artists recently took over Dam Square. Now the victors take on the Uitmarkt audience. The Remix, 13.30-13.45 Jazz: Susanne Alt Quartet Next month this awardwinning sax gal launches her new album at Bimhuis, but for those who can’t wait, this preview show should tide you over. Bimhuis, 14.00-14.30 Cabaret: Kasper van Kooten Loud musical comedy as the popular cabaret star of stage and screen presents the highlights of his Zangzaad show. In Dutch.

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popular musicals to have you throwing up last night’s funky jazz. Fear not, however, as the musical karaoke torture, with help from the Metropole crew, carries on throughout the day. UPC Podium, 13.00 Americana: Smutfish Twangy roots rock from this pleasing bunch from the barren lands of Den Haag.

Cafe Pakhuis Wilhelmina: BUMA Cultuur Podium, 13.30-14.00 World: Xam Xam Performing a programme titled ‘Poetry From Senegal’. Bimhuis, 14.00-14.30 Comedy: Comedytrain Featuring a barrage of jokes from top stand-up comedians. In Dutch. Theater Fabriek, Cabaret Cafe, 14.00-14.45

Andy Andy Warhol, Warhol, Stedelijk Stedelijk Museum Museum Art: Stedelijk Museum Previewing the upcoming season at the Stedelijk, including some special Warhol-tastic samples. Pakhuis de Zwijger, 15.0015.30 Rock: Malle Pietje and the Bimbos The sketchiest, messiest, trashiest trio ever to appear on an Uitmarkt stage? Possibly. So show your support with a hearty moshpit and invade the stage during the third song.

Cafe Pakhuis Wilhelmina: BUMA Cultuur Podium, 15.30-16.00 Dance: VANMANENMIX Celebrating the 75th birthday of choreographer Hans van Manen, Introdans present excerpts from their tribute compilation.

Muziekgebouw, 15.30-16.00 Workshop: Waag Society Getting technological, Waag style. In their workshop ‘Circuit Bending’ you can get familiar with technology, both inside and out.

Pakhuis de Zwijger, 17.00-17.30 R&B: Replay—De Trip Musical time travelling, from the ’50s to the present, celebrating ‘black music’ through the decades. The Remix, 17.00-17.30 Big band: Metropole Orchestra It wouldn’t be an Uitmarkt without some Metropole. In this programme, they’re joined by Dutch chanteuse Wende Snijders.

UPC Podium, 18.00-20.30 Music/Theatre: Ellen ten Damme The actress/singer previews her upcoming theatre tour, titled Von kopf bis fuss and is sure to play her new single ‘Stay’. Podium Provincie Noord-Holland, 19.00-19.30 Dance: Sarcasmen A Hans van Manen work performed by Het Nationale Ballet. Muziekgebouw, 19.30-20.00

Jazz: Karnatic Lab Contemporary jazz with bold klezmer and gypsy influences in this set from trio STriCat. Bimhuis, 14.30-15.00 Americana: Rootsclub Texmex, country, blues and rock ’n’ roll. Cafe Pakhuis Wilhelmina: BUMA Cultuur Podium, 14.30-15.00 Classical: Cello Octet Conjunto Ibérico South American passion, featuring works by Brazilian composer Villa-Lobos and Argentine Alberto Ginastera.

Muziekgebouw, 14.30-15.00 Urban: Caprice Not a traditional show from the Amsterdam soul star. Today he introduces six young musical talents who’ll flex their skills in funk, R&B and dancehall. The Remix, 15.00-15.45 World: No Blues Arabic folk blues, as the band present songs from their second CD Ya Dunya. Cafe Pakhuis Wilhelmina: BUMA Cultuur Podium, 15.3016.00 Film: IDFA 2007 All you need to know about the spectacular documentary festival, due back in town in November. Pakhuis de Zwijger, 16.00-16.30 R&B/Hiphop: Ninthe She was last year’s hot tip for urban success, and as of yet, it hasn’t quite happened. Her upcoming debut album may well change that, however. The Remix, 16.15-16.35 Dance: 4 Go The new guest choreographer programme performed by Dansgroep Krisztina de Châtel.

Muziekgebouw, 16.30-17.00 Music/Theatre: Echte Liefde? Urban Myth’s new multimedia exploration of Shakespeare sonnets, with guest spots from the likes of Huub van der Lubbe, Spinvis, Sara Kroos and Freek de Jonge. Pakhuis de Zwijger, Sun 17.00-17.30

Jazz: Tineka Postma Quartet Contemporary jazz samples from new CD A Journey That Matters.

Bimhuis, 20.00-20.30 Theatre: Hollandse Nieuwe Old and new works by the Made In Da Shade/Cosmic Theater group, who recently brought hits like HRMNNH! (Kung Fu Hossel) to Amsterdam. Pakhuis de Zwijger, 20.00-20.30 Rock: De Kift Dramatic cacophonies bubbling with characteristic brass and guitar assaults from the longrunning theatrical art punk band. Cafe Pakhuis Wilhelmina: BUMA Cultuur Podium, 20.30-21.00 Funk: Seven Eleven P-funk inspired ensemble who love to throw elements of hiphop and jazz into their energetic and brash mix. The Remix, 20.30-21.00 Jazz: Randal Corsen Group Antillean folk and jazz from the pianist’s new CD Armonia. Bimhuis, 21.0021.30 Contemporary: Electric Counterpoint Steve Reich’s acclaimed work for 15 guitars, presented as a teaser for September’s OUTPUT Festival. Bimhuis, 22.0022.30 Pop: MTV A selection of Dutch acts, including Jeckyll & Hyde, C-Mon & Kypski, Delain and Moke, perform to earn a slot at the MTV European Music Awards 2007.

UPC Podium, 22.30-23.30 Jazz: Scallymatic Orchestra Funky party jazz from the groovin’ eight-piece, closing the Saturday night feest. Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds Live, 23.30-00.00

Sunday 26 August Jazz: Yuri Honing Wired Paradise Original jazz concepts from the acclaimed sax player. Bimhuis, 13.00-13.30 Multimedia: PICNIC Exploring the creative and innovative options available throughout next month’s PICNIC ’07 festival. Pakhuis de Zwijger, 13.00-13.30 Urban: Gospelfestival Amsterdam Out to prove that gospel music has true hiphop and pop crossover potential, as a precursor to next month’s gospel gathering in town. The Remix, 13.00-14.00 Music/Theatre: Musical Sing-a-Long Yes, it’s early enough in the day for the prospect of singing along to

TrackAddicts Funk: TrackAddicts ‘RockstarFunk’ from the explosive seven-piece ensemble. The Remix, 19.00-19.30 Contemporary: Ensemble MAE Modern classical meets electronica as the acclaimed group (formerly Maarten Altena Ensemble) showcase their Perspectives programme. Muziekgebouw, 19.30-20.00 Latin/Jazz: Rumbatá Big Band Led by percussionist Jaime Rodríguez, this vibrant bunch intertwine salsa, Colombian rhythms, folk and jazz with absolute ease.

Bimhuis, 20.00-20.30 Music/Theatre: Into the Woods Adaptation of Stephen Sondheim’s award-winning Broadway musical/fairytale. Panama: Rabobank Podium, 20.30-21.00 Funk/Soul: Food For Funk A rip-roaring funk show.

The Remix, 20.45-21.30 Pop: Mieke Giga & Band A wild flurry of rock ’n’ roll and glam from the expressive singer who loves to tackle works from heroes like Nina Hagen and Roxy Music. Podium Provincie Noord-Holland, 21.00-21.30 Singer-songwriter: Sophie Zeyl Fusing live electronics, subtle beats, raw guitars and absorbing vocals, the singer performs works from her album Two Ways of Running. KHL Koffiehuis, 21.30-22.00 Rock: Bettie Serveert Veterans of the indie rock scene, the band, fronted by Carol van Dyk, celebrate the 15th anniversary of their acclaimed debut album Palomine. Podium Provincie Noord-Holland, 22.3023.00 Performance: Cirque du Soleil Loosely based on the Greek myth of Icarus, their show, Varekai, has toured all over the world, but is only now launching in Europe.

Whether the Canadian circus’ mix of acrobatics, colourful costumes and music excites you or makes you feel suddenly ill, it’s always a bit of a visual spectacle, so it isn’t such a bad way to end your weekend.

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Thursday 23 August Classical: Klankruimte Der Gooden Fluyt-hemel: Exploring the incredible acoustics of the old church with the renaissance recorder sounds of The Royal Wind Music. Oude Kerk, 15.30, €5 Opera: Le nozze di Figaro Mozart’s popular comic opera performed by Het Gelders Orkest and Kamerkoor Mnemosyne. Concertgebouw, Grote Zaal, 19.30, €29.75/€35 Jazz: Andy Birnbaum Dinner concert, with the jazz pianist assisted by clarinettist David Kweksilber and percussionist Jos de Haas. Badcuyp, Zuidpool, 20.00, €4 Rock: Bloodhound Gang Ludicrous and silly comedy rock. They don’t have that many jokes in their armoury, but the ones they do have certainly appease their fans. Plus there’s never any shortage of cover song tomfoolery and physical antics. Melkweg, The Max, 20.00, €20 + membership Heavy: Murphy’s Law NY Hardcore that’s doused in as much party spirit as straight-out angst. Support from Nothing Down and Icepick. Winston Kingdom, 20.00, €7 Pop/Rock: Subbacultcha! The Tall Poppies Tour tryout, featuring sets from Hallo Venray, The Sugarettes, Appie Kim and Vox Von Braun. Bitterzoet, 20.00, €6 Punk: B.U.S.H. Brazilian skate trash and old-style hardcore. Also with local punks Desperate Cries and Heros & Zeros. OCCII, 21.00, €5 Flamenco: Dos Aguas Launching their new CD Destellos del Arte Flamenco. Badcuyp, Noordpool, 21.00, €6 Folk: Gavin Mee & Rose Irish singer-songwriter with fiddle player. Mulligans, 21.30, free Singer-songwriter: Open Mic Session from the Amsterdam Songwriters Guild. Skek, 22.00, free

Friday 24 August Jazz: Dirindi Double bill of rhythmic Brazilian style jazz. Concertgebouw, Koorzaal, 19.00, 21.00, €12.50 Classical: Radio Kamer Filharmonie Performing Brahms’ Double Concerto in A and First Serenade in D; conducted by Gérard Korsten, with solo violinist Christian Tetzlaff and cellist Tanja Tetzlaff. Concertgebouw, Grote Zaal, 20.15, €19.50 Pop/Rock: Berry Zegt Indie night organised by Berry Jungle. Sets from Ken Sent Me, Eon and Airbag. Winston Kingdom, 21.00, €5 Reggae: Jamaican Clash Featuring Jamaican stars Richie Spice and his brother Spanner Banner. De Kade, Zaandam, 21.00, €20 Classical: MidsummerVoices 2007 Choir and orchestra performing Haydn’s Stabat Mater and Scarlatti’s Te Deum; conducted by Jeroen Spitteler.

Waalse Kerk, 21.00, €12 Pop/Rock: Rilo Kiley Catchy guitar pop from the Los Angeles-based outfit, who venture from melodic power pop to more folky influences. Their new album Under the Blacklight sees them returning to action following a period of experimentation and solo projects—most noticeably, singer Jenny Lewis’ successful country soul release Rabbit Fur Coat.

Also see Short List. Paradiso, Kleine Zaal, 21.00, €10 + membership Pop: The Streets Alwight guv’nor! Eclectic dance hiphop pop with a cockney twist. See Short List. Melkweg, The Max, 21.00, €20 + membership Hiphop: Typhoon Serious Nederhop from the former winner of the Grote Prijs van Nederland. Melkweg, Oude Zaal, 21.30, €10 + membership Rock: Berightback ’60s-style roots rock. Maloe Melo, 22.00, €5 Dox Family Night More late-night family fun with sets from Benny Sings, Wouter Hamel, Giovanca, Easy Aloha’s and whoever else fancies a turn. Sugar Factory, 22.00, €9/€11 Folk: Goesting Folk rock. Camping Zeeburg, 22.00, free Blues: Peter Lavell Band Blues pop. Mulligans, 22.00, free

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Hallo Venray, Subbacultcha!, see Thursday

Rock: The Hormonauts A horny mix of surf, rockabilly, punk and ska. Cafe Pakhuis Wilhelmina, 22.00, €7.50 Funk: 2NFRO A brush with reggae, soul, funk and urban grooves. Badcuyp, Noordpool, 22.30, €8

mance of two of his string quartets. Concertgebouw, Kleine Zaal, 20.15, €25

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Saturday 25 August

World: Nadara Transylvanian gypsy dance folk. Concertgebouw, Grote Zaal, 20.15, €16.50/€19.50

Singer-songwriter: KHL Singer-Songwriter Festival Folkified fest to coincide with the Uitmarkt. See Short List. KHL Koffiehuis, 12.00-00.00, free

Tuesday 28 August

Reggae: Reggae on the Beach Reggae festival with diverse dub stylings. Live bands include Rude Rich and the High Notes, Splendid, Natural Nation, Marq Marquis and the 4ward Family, and The Low Budgetarians. Hosted by the Covenant Soundsystem, there’ll also be a host of DJs keeping the relaxed vibe flowing into the early hours. Blijburg, 12.00-03.00, €5 Pop/Rock: Spelen voor de GRAP Featuring diverse and dynamic live sets from the likes of MeloManics, Food for Funk, Furistic, Check 1-2, General Electric Paradise, John Carrie and Moor Green. Melkweg, 20.00, free Rock: We vs Death Still fresh from their recent Japanese tour, these Dutch post rockers make a magical noise, mixing rhythmic guitar and thick atmosphere with blasts of brass. De Nieuwe Anita, 20.00, €6 Classical: Radio Filharmonisch Orkest Along with the Groot Omroepkoor, today the orchestra dip into the heart of the Brahms repertoire, particularly his Choral Preludes; conducted by Jaap van Zweden.

Concertgebouw, Grote Zaal, 20.15, €29.75/€35 Rock: Berry Zegt Rock night organised by Berry Jungle. Sets from Dog Called Phenix and Jeremy’s.

Winston Kingdom, 21.00, €5 Pop/Rock: DeVotchka Indie folk, gypsy roots and even some mariachi from this hotly tipped band. Not only have they toured with burlesque starlet Dita von Teese, they soundtracked last year’s surprise movie hit Little Miss Sunshine. See Short List. Bitterzoet, 21.00, €7 Classical: MidsummerVoices 2007 (See Saturday) Waalse Kerk, 21.00, €12 Folk: John O’Dreams Singer-songwriter from the same mould as Christy Moore. Mulligans, 22.00, free Blues: Marcel Scherpenzeel Band Maloe Melo, 22.00, €5

Sunday 26 August

Rock: Billy Talent MySpace presents yet another Melkweg show from these whining Canadian Green Day wannabes. Melkweg, The Max, 20.00, €15 + membership Classical: Duisburger Philharmoniker Prokofiev’s First Symphony; Suite from Cinderella; and Shostakovich’s Second Cello Concerto. Conducted by Jonathan Darlington. Concertgebouw, Grote Zaal, 20.15, €19.50 Classical: Jerusalem Quartet More Brahms. This time with pianist Stefan Vladar spicing up the quartet’s sound. Concertgebouw, Kleine Zaal, 20.15, €25 Reggae: Don Carlos Roots reggae and dancehall from the acclaimed Jamaican star. He’s also a member of Black Uhuru. See Short List. Melkweg, Oude Zaal, 21.00, €17 + membership Singer-songwriter: Open Mic Open podium for songwriters organised by the Amsterdam Songwriters Guild. Cafe Sappho, 21.00, free Singer-songwriter evening Hosted by Ken Parsons, featuring the winner and other finalists from the Mooie Noten 2007 competition. Twstd, 21.00, free

Wednesday 29 August Classical: Het Reizend Muziekgezelschap Careerspanning works by Brahms. Concertgebouw, Kleine Zaal, 20.15, €19.50 Folk: Denison Witmer Although frequently tagged as folk music, Philadelphia’s Witmer has a modern slant on the genre, reminiscent of late songwriter Elliott Smith at times. Most recently, he was in town with songwriting pal Rosie Thomas. Paradiso, Kleine Zaal, 20.30, €6 + membership Reggae: Jam Session With Ghettowish. Volta, 21.00, free

Singer-songwriter: KHL Singer-Songwriter Festival Folkified fest to coincide with the Uitmarkt. See Short List. KHL Koffiehuis, 12.00-00.00, free

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Rock: Garage Sale Trashy rock fun with 25 and The Anomalys. Winston Kingdom, 17.00, €5

Thursday 23 August

Jazz: The Brass Penguin Laidback beach jazz from DJs and live musicians. Blijburg, 17.00, free Opera: Carmen Bizet’s world renowned work, performed today by Stichting Opera Zuid and Het Brabants Orkest. Concertgebouw, Grote Zaal, 19.30, €29.75/€35 Heavy: Soulfly Tribal trash metal with the guttural roar of Brazilian vocalist Max Cavalera, formerly of Sepultura. Melkweg, The Max, 20.00, €20 + membership Classical: Jerusalem Quartet The Brahms theme at Concertgebouw this week continues with a perfor-

Wildvreemd Right through August, Vreemd is celebrating its second birthday, building towards some mega parties at the end of the month. But there’s still plenty of weird and wonderful activity to enjoy already.

This wild version features underground legend Aron Friedman, Marc Lansley and Prutt. Sugar Factory, 23.00-05.00, €8 Riot One room of electro, pop, house and baile funk.

The other dishes out hiphop and R&B with no regrets.

Guests include Hitmeister D, Melly Mel, Manga, Fanny West and many others. Studio 80, 23.00-late, €7.50, free before 00.00

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Friday 24 August

Rich! Not one for the students, then? With Sunnery James, Ryan Marciano and many more. Hotel Arena, 23.00-04.00, €6 Rex...Electronation Electronation special focused on modern live electronic music. Tonight with hit record producers Shlomi Aber and Quince, plus Terry Toner and Taras. Sugar Factory, 23.00-05.00, €10

Betty en Billie’s BeatBoutique Betty en Billie’s BeatBoutique ’60s, soul, nostalgia and keiharde hits Pacific Parc, 22.00-03.00, free Playhouse Label Night Featuring MyMy (Berlin), Roman Flügel (Frankfurt) and Steffi. 11, 22.30-04.00, €12 Habbekrats Hippin’ and hoppin’ grooves. Bitterzoet, 23.00-04.00, €5 Summer Classics All those juicy ’80s and ’90s classics. Anyone for Whigfield? Hotel Arena, 23.00-04.00, €10 Stir Fry Disco, funk and Latin, all with a ‘nu’ twist.

Odeon, 23.00-05.00, €10 Paradisoul A Legends Special, with DJ Manga and friends. Paradiso, 23.59-05.00, €10 Club Rascal Indie guitar dance party. Think: Bloc Party, Maxïmo Park and CSS. Melkweg, Oude Zaal, 23.59-late, €6 + membership The Basement Hip urban grooves, touching on hiphop, R&B, soul and dancehall. Melkweg, The Max, 23.59-late, €10 + membership

Saturday 25 August Rebel Up! Soundclash Diasporic sounds from the global underground: mestiza beats, gypsy funk, roots, Arabic, African rhythms, Latino, Asian and gritty electronics. As always, profits go to charity. OCCII, 22.30-04.00, €4, free before 23.30 Static Techno and electro from Paul Ritch (France), Margaret Dygas (Berlin) and Static resident Bart Skils.

11, 22.30-04.00, €12 Plaats Delict With De Rockejagers, Lil’Vic and Rednose Distrikt. Club Meander, 23.00-04.00, €5

Splinternieuw Eclectic house and urban tunes from the likes of Ryan Marciano, Sunnery James, Marly Mar, Goodgrip, Fullscale, Jay-B and many more.

Odeon, 23.00-05.00, €14 Studio 80 invites Michel de Hey Funky techno from the internationally renowned Rotterdammer. Studio 80, 23.00-late, €10

Sunday 26 August Voltt Loves Summer All-day techno feast, and for those still not wanting to let the party die, an afterparty follows in Paradiso. NDSM-werf, 11.00-23.00, €22.50 Salsa Lounge Latin exotica with traditional salsa clashing with modern electro. Newbies can take in a salsa workshop to get you in the groove. Hotel Arena, 17.00-01.00, €18.50

Monday 27 August

GAY& LESBIAN Friday 24 August Social: Thank God It’s Friday Begin your weekend in style with DJs, snacks and drinks from 5pm until 3 in the morning. De Engel van Amsterdam, 13.00-03.00, free Club: Women’s night Busy, popular night for lesbians and their friends. Tonight with DJ Suna. Cafe Sappho, 22.00, free Club: Gossip This night, no doubt named in honour of Ms Ditto, has come at just the right time. Lesbian events (Cafe Sugar, Garbo in Exit) are dropping like flies, so this women-only club from Laughing Buddha will fill an increasingly gaping hole. Music is of the chunky, funky, electro sort, and the girls will be reasonably trendy. Please go, because Your Lesbian Community Needs You. Take responsibility! Club 8, 22.00-03.00, €8

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Wednesday 29 August

Club: UNK It’s all here tonight, gay or straight or inbetweeny, hUNKs, pUNKs, spUNKS and so on. Tonight’s DJs are OL (Berlin Hilton), Lupe and Michael Nunes.

Club 8, 23.00-04.00, €8

Wildvreemd The weird birthday celebrations kick in, only on a Wednesday rather than a Thursday. Troy Pierce will be arriving from Berlin to blaze a trail of unforgettable techno and electro, and then there’s also guests like Boris Werner, Mal Borrowed & Frei Bauwerker and Kelly Hirina. Sugar Factory, 23.0005.00, €10

Tuesday 28 August Film: Movie Night This evening’s film is Männer wie wir, Sherry Horman’s touching, genuinely funny and inspiring German comedy about a gay football team who take on the straights, one of the highlights of last year’s Roze Filmdagen. PRIK, 19.00, free

Wednesday 29 August

Cheeky Monday True skool jungle and drum & bass, featuring players from the local and international scenes. So take a break with some breakbeats. Winston Kingdom, 22.00-03.00, €6

Rub-A-Dub Inna Winston Reggae and dub special hosted by the Covenant Sound. Special guests are Black Prophet & Thunderstrike from Ghana. Winston Kingdom, 21.00, €5

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Club: Sexy & Gorgeous New women’s night, hosted

by Caroline and Paulien, with DJ Gorgeous. Cafe Sappho, 21.00, free

Sunday 26 August Pancake Party Back by popular demand, PJs—that’s pancake jockeys—Robbert and Rutger. While the boys toss, DJ Xavier (X4) spins the fattest (but hopefully not greasiest) ’70s, ’80s and ’90s hits from 21.00-1.00. PRIK, 17.00-21.00, free

DJ night: Like It or Not Do you really like it? Is it really kicking? DJ Mayday plays her favourite tracks. Free snacks, too. De Engel van Amsterdam, 21.00-01.00, free Club: F*cking Pop Queers Queers love pop, and this is where they get their fill. Expect Madonna and electro, urban and indie, new and classic. ArtLaunch Cafe in the smaller room. Studio 80, 23.00-05.00, free before 00.00, €5 after

STAGE Ongoing Theatre: Roman Tragedies Merging Shakespeare’s Coriolanus, Julius Caesar and Anthony and Cleopatra into one big play about politicians going down. Watch either in two parts on separate nights or opt for the sixhour marathon—the audience can walk in and out as they like—and there’ll be catering, too. In Dutch.

Stadsschouwburg, (Thur 20.15, Sun 16.00), €21.50-€39 Music/Theatre: Ierse Tijgers An impassioned representation of the Celtic country’s culture through folk music. De Roode Bioscoop, (Thur, Fri 20.30), €15 Music/Theatre: Shhh...It Happens A truly freaky musical, set in an old, deserted amusement park where the evil Max Majestic has captured a bunch of hostages. Having transformed them in his ‘Freakmachine’, his evil masterplan is to set up his own freakshow. But the freaks have a plan of their own.

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“classical” or “jazz”,’ he says. ‘Speaking as ith the soundtrack to Once a composer that has had a problem being Upon a Time in the West in any one particular box, I’ve experithe all time best-selling enced that it’s hard for people to take album in the Netherlands, music out of that box and see it as an honit was about time for a Dutch music festiest expression of an individual. In this val to pay tribute to the world’s most festival, that’s part of the exercise. We prolific film composer, Ennio Morricone. want to take Morricone out of the “film” Coincidentally, the B-Oost festival is holdbox and just play the music as it is.’ ing its Morricone tribute in the year the In the first half of the concert at composer was presented with an honMuziekgebouw aan ’t IJ, the Metropole orary Academy Award.

Last February, 78-year old Morricone, who has created soundtracks to about 500 films, received the special Oscar from Clint Eastwood, the actor who starred in the Italian-made spaghetti westerns that lifted the

BY MARINUS DE RUITER. PHOTO BY SANSTITRE.CH composer to stardom. The juxtaposition of Italian and Western influences is what makes the music for these cowboy films so appealing, according to Vince Mendoza, director of the Metropole Orchestra.

‘There’s a deeply human feeling in his music,’ says Mendoza on the phone from his Los Angeles home. The conductor, composer and arranger will lead his orchestra through a selection of Morricone’s career highlights at the main concert of the festival.

‘His music is the contemporary extension of Puccini and Verdi— the Italian humanity comes through it. That makes his music dramatic, even without the films.’

In recent years, the music of Morricone has proven its crossover potential. Hip remix albums appeared, and artists from Metallica to Gnarls Barkley have used the composer’s music in some form or another. Mendoza identifies with the broad appeal of the Morricone style.

‘People tend to put music in boxes, for instance “film music”,

Orchestra will play selections from Morricone’s best-loved scores, from Sergio Leone-directed films like Once Upon a Time in the West and The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, to the music of Hollywood blockbusters like The Untouchables and particularly The Mission, which is the pinnacle of Morricone’s work, according to Mendoza.

In the second half, contemporary composers like Maarten Ornstein and

ENNIO WAYYOU WANT IT A festival B-Oost for every Morriconehead.

28-30 SEPTEMBER Output Festival Three days of electric guitar without the tired riffs or endless blues you’d expect at such events. The line-up is adventurous: from erratic axeman Fred Frith in a soundscape created by artist John Luther Adams, to melodic maestro Jan Akkerman, who’ll churn out chops to a thunderous groove created by 150 guitar students. Elsewhere, there are pieces by Berio, Ligeti, Reich and other contemporary composers. See www.outputfestival.com. (Marinus de Ruiter) Muziekgebouw aan ’t IJ and Bimhuis. Also 29 and 30 September.

musicians such as cellist Ernst Reijseger and rapper Raymzter will autumn 2007 pay their own tributes to the music of Morricone. ‘We could play Morricone’s pieces just the way he has composed and arranged them, but then again, it’s so much fun to see what the new generation of musicians does with it,’ says Ronald Keizer, director of the B-Oost festival.

For this unorthodox approach, Keizer received official permission from the maestro himself. ‘I visited him in his home—or rather, his palace—in Rome,’ says Keizer. ‘My knees were shaking, because people told me that he was a difficult man. Of course, I only had ten minutes before I was out on the street, but we had a good conversation after all.’

Although Keizer invited him, Morricone isn’t able to come to the festival. The reason why is a private matter, like much of the rest of his life.

One of the few spicy details Keizer can come up with is that Morricone scored a series of soft erotic movies in his early days as a composer. Some of this music will be performed at the festival, as well as music from his short and rather obscure career as an experimental trumpet player.

‘There’s a certain mystery that surrounds him,’ says Mendoza about the lack of biographical details available.

‘My guess is that he was probably too busy composing, given the tremendous output he’s had over the years.’

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22 SEPTEMBER The Decemberists Every time this lot bring their ‘literary’ folk indie rock to Amsterdam, venues get fuller and tickets sell faster. It’s the word-of-mouth effect about these silly Americans breaking gig rules, unafraid of Ye Olde Audience Sing-a-long, re-enactments of Dutch sea battles and an ability to turn mistakes into special tangents no other night of the tour will experience.

(Steven McCarron) Paradiso, Grote Zaal, 19.30, €17 + membership.

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19 NOVEMBER Soul: Pointer Sisters

14 OCTOBER Battles

18 OCTOBER Amsterdam Dance Event

Battles were good at Motel Mozaïque 2006.

Great, at times. Yet it’s hard to comprehend how that underground group became so hyped: they were too much of a mindfuck to be popular, making a dissonant, mathematical racket. Then you realise their pedigree: drummer John Stanier is formerly of Helmet and performs with Tomahawk, and Tyondai Braxton is son of avant-jazz master Anthony. They only released their debut album this year and, despite the mix of rock, jazz and electronics, new fans are gravitating to their groove. (Steven McCarron) Melkweg, Oude Zaal, 20.30, €12 + membership.

There’ll be workshops and meetings at this mega-conference for dance music professionals from around the world.

What’s more interesting, though, is that the insightful organisers realised that such an event should also be a platform for all the DJs and producers—and that means big booming parties aplenty. What started in 1996 with 40 acts has evolved to more than 500 DJs transforming Amsterdam into dance heaven. So put on your dancing shoes and get on out for the fancy footwork! (Sarah Gehrke) Various times, locations and prices. Until 20 October.

Putting soul legends back on stage where they belong (remember Smokey Robinson last July?), Paradiso now turns to the ultimate wedding/Eighties/cheesy disco band. This trio—who really are siblings and called Pointer— have such powerful voices, they’ll blast away winter cobwebs and put a fat grin on the coolest hipster’s lemon-sucking face. Resistance to dancing is futile in the face of ‘Jump’ and ‘I’m So Excited’. (Kim Renfrew) Paradiso, €27.50 + membership.

26 NOVEMBER Jazz: Sonny Rollins A tenor sax player who competes with Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young and John Coltrane in legendary stakes, Rollins helped invent bebop and played with greats like Miles and Monk. At 77, Rollins is still equipped to blow away audiences, and his latest CD Sonny, Please is winning a string of awards. His band, while younger, are just as hot: Clifton Anderson on trombone, Bobby Broom on guitar, Bob Cranshaw on bass and Kimati Dinizulu on percussion. (Steve Korver) Concertgebouw, €56.50-€67.

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formance. ‘It’s really important—for us e live in an ageing society. and for the play—that the whole audiAs the years go by, the perence can interact,’ stresses Duyves, while centage of people who are De Wit enthuses: ‘Mass interaction! That’s 65 and older becomes ever what we’re about!’ Everything the audilarger. But what is a source of headaches ence does gets edited, remixed and for politicians occupied with pension projected on the beamer. PIPS:lab are policies serves as inspiration for the mulknown to never use pre-recorded materitimedia collective PIPS:lab. al, so everything is recorded live. And ‘We wanted to do a project about they can do some pretty amazing things elderly people,’ says Keez Duyves. with that.

‘They’re such a large part of the population.’ So their new show is centred on the aged. But PIPS:lab wouldn’t be PIPS:lab without their computers, so they had to get older people acquainted with new media. ‘Multimedia for old people!’ beams Thijs de

BY SARAH GEHRKE. PHOTO BY SANSTITRE.CH Wit, another crew member. ‘It’s actually not new—in Holland, there’s already special internet for the elderly. You know, with extra-large fonts and so on.’ And Daan van West, his colleague, adds: ‘I think it’s become cool to be old. Because there are so many old people, it’s become obvious that they’re an important customer base.

So nowadays companies have started to make these rollators that look hip and stuff...’

From the elderly, it was only a little step to an even larger ‘population group’: the dead.

Thus, Diespace was born.

PIPS:lab present the site at their shows, and each audience member is given a free ‘light’ account, which they can configure during the show. Using light sticks. To draw their names in the air. Which are then projected on a beamer. Yes, it works. And yes, this is what PIPS:lab’s shows are like.

As in all their shows, audience interaction is the most significant element of the per-

So, what’s the future plan for PIPS:lab? ‘Conquer the world! Establish a dictatorship somewhere in the middle of something!’ Thanks. Anything else? ‘Multiply ourselves and make up loads of virtual personalities!’ Fair enough. Apart from these minor goals, PIPS:lab also plan a DVD—interactive, of course. ‘It’s a challenge because a DVD has a very strict, linear format,’ says Duyves. ‘But we want to make it like a show.’ Furthermore,

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there’s a tour planned for 2009, together with old friends Zuco 103. autumn 2007 But back to Diespace: ‘It is possible to purchase a premium account,’ De Wit informs me. On this subject, www.diespace.nl gives the following information: ‘The Diespace premium account comes standard with two years of activity after a registered death. After two years a yearly fee of €29.99 is required. Infinite* accounts are available. (*Infinitely until technology surpasses the applied technology, or any data— or other unforeseen disaster. If any of this happens, your surviving relatives can request a digital backup when available.)’

‘You know what the funny thing is? I really do believe that people are gonna do it at some point,’ muses Duyves. ‘Scan their personalities. Create a virtual self that can exist after their death.’ ‘So many people are already living a large part of their lives online,’ adds Van West.

‘Only today, technology is not yet ready to fully implement our diespace plans.’

Nevertheless, there’s a whole lotta action going down at the show. Funky rollator dance routines, a DJ in a granny dress and a host cheering on the audience from a wheelchair. During our interview, there are also many allusions made to a smelly mouse called Schlumberger, which might or might not serve as a future carrier of virtual intelligence.

Whether it will really star in the performance remains unclear.

We’ll just have to go and check.

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BLOGGING FROM THE AFTERLIFE Multimedia mavens PIPS:lab create an internet community for the dead.

Diespace, Frascati, 25-29 September, www.pipslab.nl, www.diespace.nl

30 AUGUST Amsterdam Fringe Festival The Amsterdam answer to Edinburgh is open to every act that deviates from mainstream theatre, played in a wide variety of locations, from halls seating up to 300, to clubs, bars and basements. Shows tend to be on the more challenging side of the spectrum, and the Amsterdam festival plays along with this tradition by staging naughty shows in the Red Light District. Don’t be shy: let the fringes tickle you.

See www.tf-2.nl. (Marinus de Ruiter) Various locations and prices. Until 8 September.

19 SEPTEMBER Robodock Festival Now an ‘arts and technology’ festival, squat-rooted Robodock cannot hide the fact that it’s a festival of exploding thingies, where visitors indulge in wonderful, post-apocalyptic worlds of battling robots, orchestral pyrotechnics, brainmelting videos and musical performances.

For their 10th anniversary, not only is the theme—‘Rhythm, Time and Transformation’—appropriate, but also the headliners: those old timers of robotic

Fellini film of the same name, this story is about the triangular relationship between Zamp, a cruel and power-crazed rapper, Gul, his sweet girlfriend, and Matto, a talented human beatbox. Gul and Matto are regularly abused by Zamp but manage, in the end, to set themselves free of his ruthless grip. (Sarah Gehrke) Westergasfabriek.

Until 30 Nov

18 NOVEMBER Crossing Border destruction, Survival Research Laboratories, famed for the ‘most dangerous shows on Earth’. Check www.robodock.org.

(Steve Korver) NDSM-terrein. Until 22 September.

4 OCTOBER Nederlands Dance Theater Four appearances in one season isn’t bad for a visiting dance company. But then NDT’s ties with Amsterdam go back a long way, and the journey from Den Haag can be made within the hour. In October, Jirí Kylián’s dream-like Bella Figura will be presented along with Trio by William Forsythe, set to a Beethoven score, and Drawn Onward, an intense choreogra-

phy for five dancers by Paul Lightfoot and Sol León. Just before Christmas, the company again presents a Kylián production, Tar and Feathers, plus new work by LightfootLeón. A new choreography by Alexander Ekman, a product of NDT’s group of young dancers, completes the programme. (Terri J Kester) Muziektheater. €20-€36. Until 6 October. Also 17, 18 December.

17 NOVEMBER Strada A multimedia performance by young street artists that includes dance, music, theatre, photography, film and art—25 clips, but only one story. Based on the

With remarkable timing, Den Haag’s literature and music festival Crossing Border has roped in Salman Rushdie for an onstage interview. Last June, the author was knighted by the UK’s Queen Elizabeth, only to find himself divorced from his wife a month later. Of course, this is just gossip to the Dutch audience and press—they will gather in the city of the Hofstadgroep to hear what the writer— who lived under a death threat for a decade—has to say about our own scandals related to criticism of Islam. Will the fresh Sir Salman comment on Hirsi Ali or Van Gogh? See www.crossingborder.nl for the full programme. (Marinus de Ruiter) Koninklijke Schouwburg, Den Haag.

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downwards too much. As we approach msterdam Noord. Just when I his humble abode, Eddy points out the thought I was out, it pulls me advantages of the Kunststad construcback in. But seeing that MTV, tion: ‘Rather than giving someone a the future Filmmuseum and finished space to work in, the people that cinema-wrecker John de Mol are here work on it themselves. This ensures flocking to the other side of the IJ, a litthat they feel more responsible for the tle ferry trip is in order to check out one space itself. The participants are a mixof the most creative breeding grounds of ture between artists and more our fair town. professional people. Like this guy over MTV’s posh, newly built office stands here—he’s an industrial designer.’ Eddy out in the desolate, post-apocalyptic industrial wasteland that is indicative of most of the neighbourhood. I shake hands with the orange overall-wearing multimedia artist Andrew Eddy, who leads me into the cavernous recesses of the NDSM

BY LUUK VAN HUËT. PHOTO BY SANSTITRE.CH shed, a towering hulk of a building the size of 10 football fields.

This is the site where Kunststad is being erected. A continuous pounding I associate with this construction process turns out to emanate from the indoor skate park located in the same space. Eddy dryly notes: ‘If you close your door and turn up the music, you hardly notice it.’

Thick green iron beams prop up the ceiling like giant metallic trees, while the immense space is filled by a hodgepodge of structures in various stages of completion.

Eddy explains: ‘These are all casco’s, which are rented out to be finished by the tenants themselves. The water is actually from a well located sixty metres underground.

Like most aspects of the Kunststad, it was an environmentally conscious decision.’

Clambering along a metal staircase that leads up and on to the second floor of the building, I take care not to look

waves at two men sitting in the immaculate office of Konings Design, and they wave back.

‘The official opening of Kunststad is in October. Right now, a lot of people are on vacation, so it isn’t all that crowded.

Still, it’s great to walk around a bit and see the activity. It’s like you’re outside without actually being outside.’

As we continue our tour, a tantalising smell wafts across from another of

ART CITYAMSTERDAM A first look at an indoor town of artists arising at NDSM-werf.

29 SEPTEMBER Verborgen Vrouwen There weren’t a lot of options open if you were a woman in the Golden Age: motherhood, service, whoring, death by pox, that type of thing. Then there was religion.

Recently, Ons’ Lieve Heer discovered a list of ‘spiritual virgins’, women who devoted themselves to the hidden church. The exhibition gives free reign to 12 artists, who reimagine the lives of their historical sisters. See www.verborgenvrouwen.nl.

(Kim Renfrew) Museum Ons’ Lieve Heer op Solder. Until 4 November.

the spaces. I step inside it and see a cheerful blonde woman roasting big chunks of aubergine. ‘Are you stay- autumn 2007 ing for dinner?’ asks Suzan Hidding. ‘I’m making a stew that normally contains lamb, but because of the vegetarians I’ve left that out. I’m also making chicken in pomegranate sauce and walnuts, with couscous and a salad.’

Who could resist?

When I ask what her other activities are, besides cooking scrumptious meals, Hidding replies: ‘I’m a smith. I work with precious metals. I make jewellery and objects. I stumbled upon this place by accident, actually. I had been here a couple of times, when I heard that just two of the locations were still available. They probably were eager to attract some ladies as well, because most of the participants were guys.’

Well, that policy seemed to have worked out, as one of Eddy’s neighbours is conducting a bout of home improvement, but she’s willing to talk shop for a moment.

Rianne van Duin is a graphic designer and illustrator; she explains how she moved into the Kunststad: ‘I’m building this together with five friends, including a film-maker and a set designer. We’ve never worked with each other before—though we might do that in the future— but it’s not something we set out to do. One of us is acquainted with two girls who already set up shop here, so we ended up settling here.’

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21 SEPTEMBER Michael Subotzky Beaufort West sounds more glamorous than it is: it’s the name of a town halfway between Johannesburg and Cape Town—and halfway between hope and despair. In the eponymous exhibition, Subotzky focuses on the community centred on a prison in the middle of a roundabout. His eye for subtle contrasts in a town dominated by unemployment, violence and drug abuse, betrays profound understanding of a place that never quite shed the chains of apartheid. (Terri J Kester) Foam.

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12 OCTOBER Andy Warhol—Other Other Rooms

Voices,

Thoroughly Modern Andy is probably the person singularly most responsible for contemporary culture. His all-consuming star-fucker mentality dribbled over celebrity, taking trashy idols and elevating them to high culture. But he didn’t half do some great graphics, canonising everyone from Queen Beatrix to Joan Collins (perhaps not a huge gulf, after all). Using film, video, audio and pictures, the Stedelijk exhibition aims to show the development of an artist who, once he’d found a formula, stuck to it to the end. (Kim Renfrew) Stedelijk Museum CS. Until 13 January 2008.

19 OCTOBER Modern Masterpieces from Moscow—Russian-Jewish artists, 1910-1940 The period 1910-1940 could be seen as the rise and fall of many things. But in pre-revolution Russia, Jewish artists such as El Lissitzky rose, not only providing blueprints for the Soviet avant garde that would follow, but also embracing themes of Jewish identity. As the 1920s unfolded, their fall was inevitable as Stalin embraced socialist realism. This exhibition also features works from Altman, Labas, Tysjler, Falk, Tsjasjnik, Katsman and Nikritin.

(Steve Korver) Joods Historisch Museum.

Until 10 February 2008.

McGinley’s Celebrating Life does just that. With youthful panache, the 20-year-old photographer portrays his friends in a road movie of frozen images that owes much to Robert Frank and Richard Avedon. Glorifying freedom and escapism, the pictures make calculated use of the beauty of the American landscape, punctuated by motels and gas stations. The zest for life, love and friendship oozing from them can’t fail to affect viewers. (Terri J Kester) Foam. Until 6 January.

22 DECEMBER Afghanistan Afghanistan doesn’t get much of a mention these days besides reports on the evening news. Welcome, then, to this exhibition from the National Museum of Kabul, which boasts no fewer than 220 pieces stretching back thousands of years. The archaeological finds reflect a long history: Bronze Age vases from Tepe Fullol, jewellery from Tilla Tepe and ivory from Begram, as well as artefacts from Greece, China and India—all point towards a very complex culture. (Kim Renfrew) Nieuwe Kerk. Until 20 April 2008

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his own war back home. More than 50,000 alking through a laptop to Sierra people were killed, and more than 500,000 Leone was unsettling. The voice displaced in a conflict that is considered by of someone speaking from a many as the cruellest in African history. place where so much horror The centrepiece of Sierra Leone in the had happened actually made the images of Picture is Newton Aduaka’s Ezra. ‘No hand, amputated limbs, of eight year olds with no vote!’ is the rebel’s cry in the film—and AK-47s, of villagers shrieking amid bullets indeed, once your hands are hacked off, and flames, take on a reality. But Jonathan you cannot put your ballot card into the Bundu’s voice was a joyful voice, full of box. Aduaka’s hard-hitting feature depicts positive energy and hope.

Bundu is 32, born and raised in Sierra Leone’s capital Freetown. He got through the civil war, which devastated his nation from 1991-2002, by travelling around the country as a theatre actor, attempting to bring a message of peace.

BY ANDRÉ DRYANSKY. PHOTO BY SANSTITRE.CH As a part of Africa in the Picture’s special focus on Sierra Leone, the festival has invited Bundu to Amsterdam to unveil King of the Stalls, his first short, produced last year at the UNESCO/British Council-backed Scriptnet workshop for budding film-makers in post-war Freetown. The film tells the story of street children surviving as pickpockets, but redeeming themselves through education.

‘Now, I fight with my talent the war of corruption, the war of bad governance,’ Bundu stresses.

Ruth Louz, AITP’s programmer, explains why they have chosen this West African country for special focus this year: ‘With Charles Taylor’s trial going on in Den Haag since 4 June, and the 11 August elections in Sierra Leone, the time for Sierra Leone in the Picture is now.’

Liberia’s ex-president and warlord Taylor is accused, among other things, of starting the civil war in neighbouring Sierra Leone, in order to take control of its enormous diamond reserves and fund

the blanked-out memories of Ezra, a child soldier who was forced, under the influence of amphetamines, to destroy his own village. It won the top prize at this year’s FESPACO in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, the Cannes of African cinema. In 2000, it was estimated that there were 300,000 child soldiers fighting in 30 countries around the world—120,000 of them in Africa.

The other Scripnet shorts accompany-

REFRAMING SIERRA LEONE The Africa in the Picture festival dedicates a special programme to a country and its comeback.

15 SEPTEMBER Klit! Animation Festival Rest assured: klit is the Dutch word for tangle. Animation film-makers often get tangled in tape, wires and whatever props they use, so, with a little empathy, Klit! seems an appropriate name indeed for an animation festival that features a range of work from amateurs, students and even

ing King of the Stalls are just as powerful: Toy Gun, The Cursed Ones, Scars autumn 2007 and Victims. All of them deal with the scars—mental and physical—of the war, but all of them carry a message of reconciliation and forgiveness of a country resurrecting itself.

‘The people in Sierra Leone are very aware that the war is over. The people now want people who can deliver opportunities. I am one hundred per cent optimistic. We want development. We went through a terrible war and all this explains why the elections came out peacefully,’ Bundu explains.

Bundu is so optimistic that he’s just finished Insay di Saloon [‘Inside the salon’] a 10-episode sitcom about the elections, set in a hairdresser’s and geared at encouraging people to vote. AITP will screen one of the episodes.

Bundu is also hoping to generate support in Europe for two upcoming features: That Baby and Inheritance, both about conditions for women in his country.

Two strong documentaries round off the focus: Raquel Cepeda’s Bling: A Planet Rock, follows hiphop artists Kanye West, Pall Wall and Wu-Tang’s Raekown, and reggaeton star Tego Calderon, as they travel to Sierra Leone with former child soldier and bestselling writer Ishmael Beah. There, they confront the reality of where their diamonds come from. The second film is Ishmahil Blagrove’s critique on the efficacy of the post-war reconstruction, The People Are Not Happy.

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Africa in the Picture runs 6 to16 September at various locations, www.africainthepicture.nl

6 SEPTEMBER Films van Jacques Tati It’s a terrible thing that Les Vacances de M Hulot should have been desecrated into the milk-livered slop of slapstick that is Mr Bean’s Holiday. The only way to repair the damage is to go back to the source and see how proper physical comedy is done. Tati was originally a mime (but don’t let that put you off) who transformed his art for the big screen, making largely wordless, genuinely hilarious, takes on modern mores that transcend borders and generations. This mini-fest includes Playtime, Jour de Fête, and Mon Oncle, one of the 20th-century’s most persuasive arguments against cold, mechanistic modernism, and one which plays to the gallery for laughs.

(Kim Renfrew) Melkweg Cinema, €6 per film. Until 18 September.

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(Luuk van Huët) Ketelhuis.

Until 4 November.

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some professionals showing their skills in stop motion, CGI and other laborious techniques. See www.klitfest.nl. (Marinus de Ruiter) Filmhuis Cavia and De Nieuwe Anita, 14.00-02.00, €10 pass.

26 SEPTEMBER Nederlands Film Festival Utrecht-based director Jos Stelling opens the national cinema event he founded in his hometown with his new feature Duska, about a film professional experiencing a midlife crisis. Other heavy handed—and star-studded—pics are Nadine, about a baby-kidnapping mother, and Wolfsbergen, starring Jan Decleir as a suicidal patriarch.

(See review p.XX.) As a counterpoint to these weighty dramas, the festival features

comedy workshops for actors and audiences. See www.filmfestival.nl. (Marinus de Ruiter) Various locations in Utrecht, €8 per film. Until 8 October.

To celebrate its 20th anniversary, Amsterdam International Documentary Film Festival has gone interactive. When voting closes at the end of August, visitors to www.idfa.nl will have compiled the all-time IDFA Top 20, which will be screened at the festival. This year’s programme, featuring 250-odd international documentaries, will burst into print and onto screens at the end of October. (Terri J Kester) De Balie, Pathé Tuschnski and Pathé de Munt. Until 2 December.

2 NOVEMBER Amsterdam Film Experience

19 DECEMBER Roze Film Dagen

The fresh-faced film festival returns for a second helping of fine international short films that crosses boundaries of genre, media and storytelling with tuktuk tomfoolery to boot. Aspiring film-makers with visions of grandeur should note that sending in your prized productions is possible until 1 September. This year, categories include Beautiful Stories Interestingly Told, Of The Big Screen (Invading Public Space) and Guerrilla Techniques. Sweet.

The film festival that puts the ‘gay’ into Christmas Day is back this year in its attenuated, five-day version. Expect the usual mix of international features and a reasonable balance between lesbian and gay stuff. Then there’s the mixed-bag shorts (some brilliant, some not so), plus themed movies and talks. The whole event is bracketed by opening and closing parties. (Kim Renfrew) De Balie and Filmhuis Cavia. Until 23 December.

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Performance: Cafe Paradiso The Grote Zaal is transformed into a chilled out Grand Cafe space this week. The result is a relaxing atmosphere and you can wander in and out when it suits you, enjoying a mix of set performances and open stage slots that allow musicians, comedians and general attentionseekers a chance to present themselves and try to win you over. Paradiso, Grote Zaal, (Thur-Sat 21.00), free Comedy: Stand-Up Comedy Show Featuring varying performers and MCs. In English and Dutch. Comedy Cafe, (Thur-Sat 21.00, Sat also 23.00), €15 Theatre: Midzomernachtdroom Shakespeare’s fabulous classic A Midsummer Night’s Dream amidst the glorious setting of the Amsterdamse Bos. Pack a picnic. In Dutch. Theater het Amsterdamse Bos, (Thur-Sat, Tues, Wed 21.30, €10 (Thur-Sat), €5 (Tues, Wed) Music/Dance: *[WEGO]* A rock concert and a modern dance performance at the same time. Three dancers and four musicians from five different countries work together as a band, producing astounding results. Paradiso, Kleine Zaal, (Fri 01.00), €10 Cabaret: Now&Lauw Urban improv comedy. In Dutch. Comedy Theater, (Fri 23.30), €10 Comedy: In Your Face! Comedy Improv Show. In English. Comedy Cafe, (Sun 21.00), €13 Music/Theatre: David Vos Stories and music by Jacques Brel, Lennaert Nijgh, Ramses Shaffy and many other famous writers. See Short List. De Roode Bioscoop, (Sun-Tues 20.30), €15 Music/Dance: Wonderland Improvised dance and music performance for kids and family. With the dancers Makiko Ito, Sylvain Meret, Masako Noguchi and Vincent Cacialano. Music by Michael Moore and Colin McLean. OT301, (Tues 13.00), €4 Music/Theatre: ‘n Pikketanissie Songs straight from the heart of the Jordaan performed by Theater Group Flint in an epic former socialist cinema. De Roode Bioscoop, (Wed 20.30), €15 Theatre: Thom Pain Will Eno’s off-Broadway smash about a young man who appears out of the wilderness to offer his views about our world. In Dutch.

Rozentheater, (Wed 22.00), €7.50

Jakob Kirkegaard, Off Screen, see Opening

ART Opening El Hema What would an Arabic HEMA look like? Halal sausage? Arabic chocolate letters? Affordable high quality headscarves? Tunics or djellebas? School notebooks with lining for Arabic, reading from right to left? Camel milk? Arabic poetry on duvet covers? Jibril and Jamilah children’s champagne? Mediamatic is looking at Arabic-Dutch art, design and culture, and in the process is presenting an exhibition of fun, surprising, touching and sometimes provoking designs. You can even just use it as a space for eating tasty Halal foods, if you prefer. See article p. 4. Mediamatic (WedSat 18.00-22.00, Sun 14.00-18.00), opens Friday, until 4 November Goddamn Contemporain Groupshow featuring works

by Regina Kelaita, Taatske Pieterson, Gerbrand Burg-

er, Ron Hooghiemstra, Margit Aba, Orpheu de Jong, Tomas Adolfs, Polly Sykes, Monica Tormell, Tarja Szaraniec, Tijmen Hauer, Newsgroup and Robin Vanbesien. Plan B (Sat, Sun 13.00-17.00), opens Friday, until 9 September Off Screen With their videos, audio works and sculptures in this exhibition, several artists investigate visual and acoustic space in relation to one another. The discrepancy between image and sound is central to their investigations, in which the tension between visual and auditive space is sought out and exploited. See Short List. Montevideo/Time Based Arts (Tues-Sat 13.00-18.00), opens Saturday, until 7 October

Museums Facing Death Drawings by Antwerp artist Eugeen van Mieghem (1875-1930) of his great love and muse Augustine Pautre. Even though she’d taken ill with tuberculosis in 1904, Van Mieghem continued to draw her, capturing her physical decline, much in the same way that Rembrandt had poignantly drawn his dying

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Although rarely exhibited as such, most of his famous early photos were originally made as stereo images, but in this collection, offering a unique impression of the photography pioneer’s life and work, the range of vintage prints, remarkable stereo pictures and personal documents will be displayed as originally intended.

Foam (Sat-Wed 10.00-18.00, Thur, Fri 10.00-21.00), closing Sunday

the Stedelijk Museum. This year, the museum has supplemented the selection with a separate category of printed matter: unusual publications devoted to poetry, some of which were produced in small editions. Stedelijk Museum CS (Daily 10.00-18.00), until 30 September

Henk Wildschut: Shelters A photo series looking at illegal immigrants in Southern Europe and the huts they build on public land. De Balie, closing Sunday Guus Voermans: Moving Sculptures Inventions and sculptures. Bold, bizarre and often quite startling, the automated constructions from the Tilburg-born artist offer a pretty unusual alternative to most art you’ll find in Amsterdam this summer. KochxBos Gallery (WedSat 13.00-18.00), closing Tuesday

From Hero to Zero A presentation by photographer John Geven, based on the story of his life. Paralysed and seated in a wheelchair since a diving accident in 1989, his series of extraordinary portraits of famous Dutch people attempts to show the ups and downs of life, photographing subjects in their ‘hero and zero’ moments. Oude Kerk (Mon-Sat 11.00-17.00, Sun 13.00-17.00), until 1 September Le Corbusier He’s by far the most famous and according to many the most important architect and urban designer of the 20th century, but he was also a painter, sculptor, photographer and textile designer. In this first major retrospective since 1987, more than 450 original drawings, models, paintings, tapestries, films, photographs, sculptures, items of furniture and interiors will be exhibited together to demonstrate the strength and influence of Le Corbusier. Nederlands Architectuurinstituut (Tues-Sat 10.00-17.00, Sun 11.0017.00), Rotterdam, until 2 September Hell is Other People With its title derived from a line in the play Huis Clos (No Exit) by French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, guest curator Nathalie Zonnenberg invites three young European artists to reflect on contact with ‘the other’. Contributing artists are Köken Ergun (Turkey), Sejla Kameric (Bosnia) and Gal Kinan (Israel). Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam (TuesSun 11.00-17.00), until 9 September Mitch Epstein: American Work One of the world’s most renowned contemporary photographers, in American Power Epstein focuses on the complex relationship between American energy supply, the status of America as a world power and the American landscape. Additionally, there’s a selection of shots from his series Family Business, the story of his father’s furniture company going bust. Foam (Sat-Wed 10.00-18.00, Thur, Fri 10.00-21.00), until 19 September The Best Designed Books Every year, The Best Designed Books Foundation presents a selection of the most outstanding book designs of the past year in

Han Singels: Polder Holland Following in the footsteps of Paulus Potter, Aelbert Cuyp, Gerard Bilders, and Willem Roelofs, Indonesian photographer Han Singels has trekked for years through the polders of North Holland, the riverbanks of Gelderland and the pastures of Utrecht. All in order to photograph cows in these magnificent landscapes. Huis Marseille (TuesSun 11.00-18.00), closing Sunday

Held/Hero Held/Hero Commemorating the 400th birthday of one of the greatest heroes in Dutch history, Michiel de Ruyter, this exhibition focuses on heroes, hero status and hero worship in the Netherlands. It demonstrates that the nation has had and still has genuine heroes, highlighting official heroes, folk heroes, controversial heroes and personal heroes. The display is divided into five main themes: National Hero, Folk Hero, Hero or Not, Personal Hero and Michiel de Ruyter. Nieuwe Kerk (Daily 10.00-18.00), until 11 November

Galleries Einav Leshetz: Holy The first solo exhibition of the young and upcoming Australian photographer Einav Leshetz. While most media representation of Israel is that of a struggling war-torn country, Leshetz instead offers an impression of Israel’s contemporary prosperity and culture, focussing more on a happy and peaceful vision that inspires hope and growth. Chiellerie (Wed-Sun 14.00-18.00) Alex Fischer Video works from the Hamburg-born but Amsterdam-based artist. Galerie Paul Andriesse (TuesFri 11.00-18.00, Sat 14.00-18.00), closing Saturday Cristóbal Hara: An Imaginary Spaniard An exploration of the perceived cultural identity of Spain, by native photographer Hara. Huis Marseille (Tues-Sun 11.00-18.00), closing Sunday

The Portrait Gallery Presenting an overview of portraits from 1950 to the present by ten veteran photographers, including Sanne Sannes, Ata Kando, Willem Diepraam, Machiel Botman and Barry Kornbluh. Hup Gallery (Tue, Thur, Fri 10.00-17.00), until 31 August Crimes & Splendors A selection of work from the politically charged British exhibition Paranoia. Featured is a series of night photographs by Dutch artist Martin Effert and video works by the likes of Mireille Astore, Lisa K Blatt, Norman Cowie, and Ricardo Giraldo Montes—all of which explore the essence of paranoia. Ronmandos (Wed-Sat 12.30-17.30), until 1 September

23-29 August 2007 Bradley, the innovative forms architect Sophia Vyzoviti devises, or the amazingly constructed shoes of Marloes ten Bhömer. Then there’s the computational origami of physicist Robert Lang, whose software calculates and prints the crease lines of extremely detailed, folded animals. Platform 21 (Thur-Sun 12.0019.00), until 30 September Somewhere Else An expansive installation by Lucia Luptukova, who has created a work that both stands in the gallery space and is itself an access point to areas of W139 that are not normally accessible: a system of corridors that meanders diagonally through the various layers of the building. Inside this new organic space, she has created display room tailor-made to accommodate the work of other artists. W139 (Daily 11.00-19.00), until 30 September

EVENTS Party: Summer Breeze Latin Night Formerly one of the most popular events at Vondelpark, Summer Breeze Latin Night has set up camp at Westergasfabriek for the summer and is offering adventures in Latin dance and music every Thursday. Each week there’s dining, drinking, DJs, workshops, and dance demonstrations for diverse Latin styles, so warm up those hips. Westergasterras, (Thur 19.00-01.00), free

Katharina Mouratidi: The Other Globalisation Photo portraits of international participants from the ‘Global Justice Movement’. Melkweg Galerie (Wed-Sun 13.0020.00), until 2 September Toy Artefacts Sculptures and paintings by Michiel Verweij, whose works strike a balance between playful and a dark state of suspense. Galerie Vriend van Bavink (Thur-Sat 13.00-18.00), until 4 September Expo This summer, De Levante gives carte blanche to Rietveld artists from Iran, Israel and Turkey. De Levante (Wed-Sun 13.00-17.30), until 30 September Happy II Tease After the success of last year’s collective exhibition of gay artists, the ABC Treehouse Gallery presents diverse works by ten new painters and photographers. ABC Treehouse (Thur-Sun 13.0018.00), until 30 September Platform 21=Folding Platform 21 presents a crosssection of the current developments in the world of folding—be it a sculpted paper dress by designer Zoe

Discuss & Dance For a Good Cause Discussion: Discuss & Dance For a Good Cause Eye-opening programme highlighting the issues facing China, in that AIDS/HIV is as big a problem there as the African epidemic that is more commonly reported. Featuring discussion panels, film screenings and, after 23.00, there’s a dance party. De Balie, (Fri 19.15), €12.50

23-29 August 2007 Talk: Friday Night Researcher Roelie Zwikker talks about Van Gogh’s stylistic development in his drawings. In Dutch. Van Gogh Museum, (Fri 20.00), museum entry Festival: Waterval Festival Following hot on the heels of De Parade, Waterval moves into its fourth season, keeping up the theatrical carnival feel, while adding a new array of treats to the menu. Look out a hearty batch of music, theatre, sport, film, workshops and more. Until 2 September. See Short List. Sloterpark, (Fri-Wed 15.00-late), various prices Walk: Museum Tours & City Walks This month’s theme is ‘Amsterdam around 1900’, providing an opportunity to follow in the footsteps of photographers like Breitner and Jacob Olie, who famously captured the changes occurring during the city’s second Golden Age. A museum tour precedes the city walk, beginning at 12.30. In English. Amsterdams Historisch Museum, (Sat 14.00), €15 excl museum entry: reserve at info@amsterdamcitywalks.com

ADDRESSES 11 Oosterdokskade 3-5, 625 5999 ABC Treehouse Voetboogstraat 11, 423 0967 Akhnaton Nieuwezijds Kolk 25, 624 3396 Allard Pierson Museum Oude Turfmarkt 127, 525 2556 Amsterdam ArenA ArenA Boulevard 1, 311 1333 Amsterdams Historisch Museum Kalverstraat 92, 523 1822 ARCAM Prins Hendrikkade 600, 620 4878 ArtOlive Polonceaukade 17, 675 8504 Artspace Witzenhausen Hazenstraat 60, 644 9898 Badcuyp 1e Sweelinckstraat 10, 675 9669 bak Lange Nieuwstraat 4, Utrecht, 030 231 6125 De Balie Kleine-Gartmanplantsoen 10, 553 5151 Bijbels Museum Herengracht 366-368, 624 2436 Bimhuis Piet Heinkade 3, 788 2150 Bitterzoet Spuistraat 2, 521 3001 Blijburg Bert Haanstrakade 2004, 416 0330 De Brakke Grond Nes 45, 626 6866 Cafe Pakhuis Wilhelmina Veemkade 576, 419 3368 Cafe Sappho Vijzelstraat 103, 423 1509 Camping Zeeburg Zuider IJdijk 20, 694 4430 De Cantine Rietlandpark 373, 419 4433 Chiellerie Raamgracht 58, 320 9448 Cineac Reguliersbreestraat 31-33 Club 8 Admiraal de Ruyterweg 56B, 685 1703 Club Meander Voetboogstraat 3, 625 8430 CoBrA Museum Sandbergplein 1-3, Amstelveen, 547 5050 Comedy Cafe Max Euweplein 43-45, 638 3971 Comedy Theater Nes 110 Compagnietheater Kloveniersburgwal 50, 520 5320 Concertgebouw Concertgebouwplein 2-6, 671 8345 Consortium Veemkade 570, 06 2611 8950 DanceStreet 1e Rozendwarsstraat 10, 489 7676 De Engel van Amsterdam Zeedijk 21, 427 6381 English Reformed Church Begijnhof 48, 624 9665 Etalagegalerie Weesperplein Metrostation Weesperplein Felix Meritis Keizersgracht 324, 626 2321 Filmmuseum Vondelpark 3, 589 1400 Flex Bar Pazzanistraat 1, 486 2123 Foam Keizersgracht 609, 551 6546 Frascati Nes 63, 626 6866 Galerie 37 Groot Heiligland 37, Haarlem, 023 551 8432 Galerie Bart Bloemgracht 2, 320 6208 Galerie Gabriel Rolt Elandsgracht 34, 785 5146 Galerie Jos Art KSNM-laan 291, 418 7003 Galerie Paul Andriesse Withoedenveem 8, 623 6237 Galerie Rob Koudijs Elandsgracht 12, 331 8796 Galerie Roger Katwijk Lange Leidsedwarsstraat 198-200, 627 3808 Galerie Vriend van Bavink Geldersekade 58 Gallery Vassie 1e Tuindwarsstraat 16, 489 4042 GEM Stadhouderslaan 43, Den Haag, 070 338 1133 GO Gallery Prinsengracht 64, 422 9580 Heineken Music Hall ArenA Boulevard 590, 0900 300 1250 Hermitage Amsterdam Nieuwe Herengracht 14, 530 8751 Horse Move Project Space Oosterdokskade 5 Post CS Hortus Botanicus Plantage Middenlaan 2A, 625 9021 Hotel Arena ’s-Gravesandestraat 51, 850 2400 Huis Marseille Keizersgracht 401, 531 8989 Hup Gallery Tesselschadestraat 15, 515 8589 Jan van der Togt Museum Dorpsstraat 50, Amstelveen, 641 5754 Joods Historisch Museum Jonas Daniel Meijerplein 2-4, 531 0310 De Kade Zuiddijk 9-11, Zaandam, 617 6972 Karthuizerhof Karthuizersstraat 155 De Kattenbak Spuistraat 227 KHL Koffiehuis Oostelijke Handelskade 44, 779 1575 De Kijkkasten Sint Nicolaasstraat KIT Tropentheater Mauritskade 63, 568 8711 KochxBos Gallery 1e Anjeliersdwarsstraat 3-5, 681 4567

Amsterdam Weekly Open Day: Open House at the ABC Treehouse Not only the cultural season opens this weekend, but so does ABC Treehouse. Drop in for a preview of upcoming events, classes and lectures. Take a sample of a yoga or public-speaking class, and meet the teachers who will be leading the writing and language courses.

ABC Treehouse, (Sat 14.00-18.00), free Book presentation: Nyk de Vries Short, absurd stories collected together in the book Motorman & 39 andere prozagedichten. De Vries is also a member of Dutch rock band Meindert Talma and the Negroes, so alongside spoken word elements, music also plays a key role in this book party. In Dutch. Paradiso, Kleine Zaal, (Sun 19.30), free Party: Cirque d’Intree Barbecue and party for Amsterdam’s fresh-faced and innocent students. After 23.00, Belgian electro whores Vive la Fête lead the party parade. For info on other student events happening this week, see www.intreeweek.nl. Westergasfabriek, (Wed 17.00-late),

De Levante Hobbemastraat 28, 671 5485 Maison Descartes Vijzelgracht 2A, 531 9500 Maloe Melo Lijnbaansgracht 163, 420 4592 Mediamatic Post CS, Oosterdokskade 5, 638 9901 Melkweg Lijnbaansgracht 234A, 531 8181 Melkweg Galerie Marnixstraat 409, 531 8181 Montevideo/Time Based Arts Keizersgracht 264, 623 7101 Mozes & Aäronkerk Waterlooplein 205 Mulligans Amstel 100, 622 1330 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 Nederlands Fotomuseum Wilhelminakade 332, Rotterdam, 010 213 2011 De Nieuwe Anita Frederik Hendrikstraat 111, 06 4150 3512 Nieuwe Kerk entrance on the Dam, 638 6909 OCCII Amstelveenseweg 134, 671 7778 Odeon Singel 460, 624 9711 Oosterkerk Kleine Wittenburgerstraat 1, 627 2280 Ostadetheater Van Ostadestraat 233 D, 679 5096 OT301 Overtoom 301, 779 4913 Oude Kerk Oudekerksplein 23, 625 8284 P60 Stadsplein 100A, Amstelveen, 023 345 3445 Pacific Parc Polonceaukade 23, 488 7778 Panama Oostelijke Handelskade 4, 311 8680 Paradiso Weteringschans 6-8, 626 4521 Patronaat Zijlsingel 2, Haarlem, 023 517 5858 Persmuseum Zeeburgerkade 10, 692 8810 Plan B2 Herengracht 32 Platform 21 Prinses Irenestraat 19, 344 9449 De Praktijk Lauriergracht 96, 422 1727 PRIK Spuistraat 109, 06 4544 2321 Rembrandthuis Jodenbreestraat 4, 520 0400 Ronmandos Prinsengracht 282, 320 7036 De Roode Bioscoop Haarlemmerplein 7H, 625 7500 Rozentheater Rozengracht 117, 620 7953 Ruigoord Ruigoord 15, 497 5702 Skek Zeedijk 4-8, 427 0551 SMART Project Space Arie Biemondstraat 107-113, 427 5953 Stadsschouwburg Leidseplein 26, 624 2311 Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam Rozenstraat 59, 422 0471 Stedelijk Museum CS Oosterdokskade 5, 573 2911 Studio 80 Rembrandtplein 70, 521 8333 Studio Apart Prinsengracht 715, 422 2748 Studio K Timorplein 62, 692 0422 Sugar Factory Lijnbaansgracht 238, 627 0008 Supperclub Jonge Roelensteeg 15, 344 6400 Tassenmuseum Hendrikje Herengracht 573, 524 6452 Teylers Museum Spaarne 16, Haarlem, 023 516 0960 Theater Bellevue Leidsekade 90, 530 5301 Theater Fabriek Amsterdam Czaar Peterstraat 213, 522 5260 Theater het Amsterdamse Bos Amsterdamse Bos 1, 640 9253 Tropenmuseum Linnaeusstraat 2, 568 8200 Twstd Weteringschans 157, 320 7030 Under the Grand Chapiteau Next to ArenA, 621 1288 UvA: Special Collections Library Oude Turfmarkt 129, 525 2141 Van Gogh Museum Paulus Potterstraat 7, 570 5200 Verzetsmuseum Plantage Kerklaan 61, 620 2535 Volta Houtmankade 334-336, 628 6429 Voormalig Volkskrantgebouw Wibautstraat 150 W139 Warmoesstraat 139, 622 9434 Waalse Kerk Oudzijdsachterburgwal 159, 623 2074 Westergasfabriek Haarlemmerweg 8-10, 586 0710 Westergasterras Klönneplein 3, 475 1412 Winston Kingdom Warmoesstraat 129, 623 1380 Wolf & Pack 232 Spuistraat, 427 0786 The Zebra Korte Leidsedwarsstraat 14, 330 5266 Zuiderkerk Zuiderkerkhof 72, 552 7987

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Oh go to Jo’s!

Eat at Jo’s Marnixstraat 409 Open Weds-Sun 12.00-21.00 Cash A few weeks ago I experienced a rather lacklustre meal at this place. I’d seen meatloaf with onion gravy—a dish a glutton cannot resist— advertised on the menu, but on that visit my luck was out, as they were in the throes of a festival, and I chose an uninspiring salad.

A good American meatloaf, if made well, is a mouthwatering joy to behold and I vowed, like General Arthur or Arnie Schwarzenegger, to return.

And so it happened that a couple of weeks later my chance arrived. I awoke from a weird dream, where I had been ordered by the giant, carved presidential heads of Mount Rushmore to seek out good ol’ American meatloaf. George Washington actually licked his stone lips at the memory of Betsy Ross’ recipe. (Jeez, what did I smoke before sleep?)

My mission, as an agent for PIG (Persons Into Grub), Dear Readers, was to seek out the aforesaid loaf and, well, to eat at Jo’s. The Glutton shimmied in, eyes darting around. An empty table, a landing spot. (Good move, Fatman). The place was full of laughter from ageing children (like me). Middle-aged hippies, escaping their kids. I knew I was on the right trail. Something homely in the factory feel of the space.

And there it was, written in black and white: ‘American meatloaf with onion gravy’. Triumphant fireworks exploded in my head. I gloated over the menu; to be sure, Mary-Jo had a

THE UNDERCOVER GLUTTON Meatloaf reminds me of childhood. I’d eat cold slices on rye bread with caraway seeds, all topped off with lettuce, mayo and loads and loads of peach chutney. few other seductive possibilities up her sleeve.

The vegetarians had a potato, artichoke and three-cheese quiche, or a pumpkin burrito with onions, paprika, beans and salsa, with—or with-

out, as you please—cheese.

For meat-eaters there was beef bourguignon, slow-cooked with red wine, bacon, ham and mushrooms—tempting, but not this time. Or

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there was Greek lamb stew, roast pork with grain mustard and roasted apple, to name a few.

Like armies, a rock band marches on its stomach, so Jo and her kitchen crew (wo)manfully provide the victuals to feed the bellies of the beasts. The menu changes daily to keep people happy, well fed and content.

My plate arrived: this was plain, wholesome Mom’s kitchen grub. Two big slabs of the loaf, with a cairn of oven-roast ’taters, some mixed vegetables (‘Aw, Mom, do I have to eat that?’), and a deluge of delicious gravy.

You would think the Glutton would have attacked his food—as usual—making piggy snorking noises, simpering moans and a hummed nasal cacophony.

But no. This time, etiquette prevailed. Emily Post would have been proud of me, as I delicately manipulated my fork and knife, conveying dainty tidbits to my churning maw, chewing and tasting.

Bloody good stuff—my report back to PIG would prove favourable.

There used to be a cafe on Kerkstraat that served meatloaf, all glazed with tomato paste and brown sugar to crust it. Alas, it doesn’t exist anymore. I once went there three days in a row to eat it: the counterman thought I had a crush on him, silly twit.

You see, meatloaf is something I just love. It reminds me of childhood. We ate it with whole boiled eggs stuck inside. I would eat cold slices of the stuff on rye bread with caraway seed, all topped off with lettuce, mayo and loads of peach chutney. It was wonderful.

This little mantra is uttered by loaf-lovers everywhere: mother’s meatloaf... mother’s meatloaf... That secret recipe and technique that elevates something simple into a dish to bring a sentimental tear to the eye. This meatloaf was good—not as good as I used to eat at home, granted, but not all that far off.

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In her third film, Nanouk Leopold combines a strict visual regime with a poignant tale of family ties.

TOUGH EXTERIOR, WARM HEART FILM Wolfsbergen Opens Thursday at The Movies and Pathé Tuschinski.

By Bregtje Schudel

Wolfsbergen is only Nanouk Leopold's third feature, but she already stands out in what —for better or worse—is called Dutch cinema. Where most homegrown movies are heavy with cumbersome dialogue and low on visual finesse, Leopold dares to let the

images speak for themselves.

Although the family members in Wolfsbergen aren’t great communicators, ironically, the trouble starts because one of them communicates far too well. That’s Konraad (Piet Kamerman), the family patriarch. At the beginning, he sends all his relatives, except his highly susceptible granddaughter Eva (Karina Smulders), a letter explaining that, at the first anniversary of his wife’s death, he will end his own life.

Not everyone reacts as expected; Konraad’s daughter Maria’s (Catherine ten

Bruggencate) first response is to go to a plastic surgeon; her oldest daughter Sabine (Tamar van den Dop) avoids the letter altogether. Only their husbands, Ernst (Jan Decleir) and Onno (Fedja van Huêt) are open to dialogue. Onno and Sabine’s daughter Haas (Merel van Houts), meanwhile, is faced with problems of her own.

Leopold’s previous film, Guernsey, was lauded—and criticised—for its rigid visual style. Not everybody warmed to her detached camera and distant protagonist, who dispassionately observed her own life and the lives of those around her.

In Wolfsbergen, Leopold has widened her range—following not one but all the members of a four-generation family— but not her method. Her camera is as static and reserved as ever, the actors barely moving in the frame, giving her scenes the feel of a still life. This may not sound like a very alluring prospect, but it is. It’s exactly this rigorous simplicity that makes the images striking and powerful.

Take, for instance, a scene early on in the film, where a glass door poses as a visual

as well as an emotional barrier between two characters.

The acting is understated, but effective. Every big emotion is repressed: even movement is as minimal as possible, exemplifying the isolation of the characters. Nobody seems to be able to communicate how they feel normally.

Maria alienates herself even further from her husband, locking herself away in bathrooms and separate bedrooms. Onno and Sabine’s marriage isn’t faring any better, either. Sabine only opens her mouth for disparaging remarks, while Onno meekly lets himself be verbally abused. Their daughter Haas sees it all, but is unable to cry out, although a lot of the crockery tends to mysteriously break during parental disputes.

It’s in these small details that Leopold really excels. The broken plates stand for something bigger, just like Maria’s plastic surgery doesn’t stem from vanity, but from an inability to cope with her father’s, and her own, mortality. Leopold offers us small glimpses in the lives of people who are not only stuck in the world but in themselves, not knowing what to do with the emotional turmoil that rages just below the surface.

The characters don’t blow up, they implode. Like Sabine who, on receiving some very harsh news, silently withdraws into a catatonic state, neglecting everything and everybody, even her two children.

That’s not to say that Wolfsbergen is an overtly bleak or depressing film. Those who look closer will discover that there's a real beating heart behind its tough exterior.

Some ties are forever broken, but others can be mended. And there are lighter moments, as when dentist Ernst—the most sympathetic member of the bunch— explodes at a client because she hasn’t flossed.

Five-Word Movie Review

FILM Edited by Julie Phillips.This week’s films reviewed by Massimo Benvegnù (MB),Shyama Daryanani (SD), Angela Dress (AD),René Glas (RG),Andrea Gronvall (AG),Luuk van Huët (LvH),JR Jones (JJ),Joshua Katzman (JK),Dave Kehr (DK),Shelly Kraicer (SK), Marie-Claire Melzer (MM),Mike Peek (MP),Julie Phillips (JP),Gusta Reijnders (GR),Jonathan Rosenbaum (JR),Marinus de Ruiter (MdR) and Bregtje Schudel (BS).All films are screened in English with Dutch subtitles unless otherwise noted.

Amsterdam Weekly recommends.

New this week Alpha Dog Teenage drug dealers in swank Southern California, determined to collect from a stubborn client, kidnap his 15-year-old brother (Anton Yelchin), but the kid has the time of his life being a hostage.

Apart from the grim forebodings of tragedy, writerdirector Nick Cassavetes seems to have modelled this ambitious, fictionalised account of a true story on Larry Clark’s kiddie-porn shockers, but he doesn’t know what to leave out, and the movie becomes excessively complicated with ancillary agendas. The actors— including Emile Hirsch, Ben Foster, Bruce Willis, Sharon Stone and Harry Dean Stanton—ham it up even as Cassavetes keeps swerving away from them for new distractions. With Justin Timberlake. (JR) 117 min. Pathé ArenA, Pathé De Munt Because I Said So Throughout most of her career Diane Keaton has shown sound instincts, so it’s a mystery why she failed to sniff out this false, brittle comedy as a waste of her gifts. She plays a single mother so

YIKES! SANDRA BULLOCK CAN ACT! Infamous, Pathé Arena, Pathé De Munt

Gypsy Caravan: When the Road Bends overbearing and clinging that she’s supposed to be cute and funny, but her nearly pathological interference in the life of her unmarried youngest daughter (Mandy Moore) is instead tedious and sad. A priggish architect (Tom Everett Scott) and an easygoing musician (Gabriel Macht) answer the online ad the daughter doesn’t know mom placed on her behalf, and frumpy Moore suddenly (and unbelievably) finds herself with two ardent lovers.

There’s a lot of innuendo but precious little eroticism under Michael Lehmann’s direction. (AG) 101 min.

Pathé ArenA, Pathé De Munt Disturbia Probably the only factor saving Transformers from devolving into pure military and/or robot fetishism was lead actor Shia LeBeouf. In Disturbia, his screen presence isn’t occluded by giant robots, so he can truly shine in this charming thriller about suburban voyeurism. LeBeouf plays Kale, a teen under strict house arrest who suspects his neighbour of being a serial killer. His suspicion slowly turns into an obsession, making the film into a modern take on Hitchcock’s Rear Window. It’s a shame that the ending feels so out of sync with the rest, but by then Disturbia has probably won you over with its slow but suspenseful build-up. Directed by DJ Caruso; with Sarah Roemer

and Carrie-Anne Moss. (RG) 104 min. Pathé ArenA, Pathé De Munt

Gypsy Caravan:

When the Road Bends Another Gypsy music documentary, this one about five orchestras on tour in the US. The groups come from different countries and musical traditions, from the flamenco of Antonio El Pipa, who sings with a Tom Waits growl, to the ‘Balkan funk’ of Romania’s Fanfare Ciocarlia, who played on the soundtrack to Borat. Yet they are all Roma; the film explores their cultural roots while it celebrates their music. Directed by Jasmine Dellal. 89 min. Rialto Love Conquers All This sensitive debut from young Malaysian director Tan Chui Mui, about a young girl from the countryside who is seduced into prostitution in Kuala Lumpur, won a Tiger Award at this year’s Rotterdam Film Festival. In Mandarin with Dutch subtitles.

90 min. Filmmuseum Rescue Dawn In one of his most Hollywood-style films in ages, Werner Herzog allows himself to fictionalise the true story he told in his 1997 documentary Little Dieter Needs to Fly. Now we actually get to see German-born fighter pilot Dieter Dengler (Christian Bale) crash into

the jungle of Laos, end up in a Vietnamese-run PoW camp, survive all the accompanying horrors with his fellow prisoners and, ultimately, escape. Rescue Dawn is an often harrowing experience, chiefly because of Bale’s and the other actors’ starved-looking physiques and ditto acting. Conventional as the film may be, Herzog still seems to terrorise his cast and crew, and for the better. With Jeremy Davies and Steve Zahn. (RG) 126 min. The Movies, Pathé ArenA Summer Palace In this ambitious epic, students Yu Hong and Zhou Wei discover a world of intense sexual and emotional experimentation against the backdrop of the uprising at Tiananmen Square. Writer-director Lou Ye (Suzhou River) filmed Summer Palace with a nervous hand-held camera and made the first mainland film to show male and female fullfrontal nudity. He didn’t screen Summer Palace for the Chinese officials; as a result, in 2006 he was banned from making movies for five years. Yet you never hear any character discuss anything remotely political, not even in Yu Hong’s diary-style narration, and the film ends up saying very little beneath the poetic voice-overs and sexual encounters. It’s overlong, and both action and characters lack the kind of emotional core that holds your attention. In Mandarin with Dutch subtitles. (GR) 140 min. Rialto

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Wolfsbergen This kaleidoscopic portrait of a family

that first falls apart and then tries to reconnect is a rare cinematic treat. See review on p. 21. The Movies, Pathé Tuschinski

Still playing Antônia This world-cinema version of Dreamgirls is a lot heavier on the realism and a lot lighter on the escapism. Four young African-Brazilian women decide to quit their background-singing ways and form their own rap group to escape the poverty and dangers of the favelas of São Paulo, but their claim to fame is quickly undermined by internal disagreements and external pressure. The disbanding and subsequent final reunion of the four feisty femmes is predictable and at times even clichéd, but the talented actresses, all musicians in their own right, dazzle brightly enough to forgive the film these shortcomings. In Portuguese with Dutch subtitles. (LvH) 90 min. Rialto Becoming Jane Jane Austen, whose main topics seemed to be love and marriage, never married herself. Why? An interesting question, one which director Julian Jarrold took as the starting point for an Austen biopic mixing fact with fantasy. The film’s visual style is unspectacular, not to say dull. A moment of contemplation: scene in a garden. Smouldering passion hindered by 18th century politeness: flushing cheeks and clumsy gestures. This has been done before and far more convincingly; the witty Austen deserves a more original approach. Yet the film has its entertaining moments, and you can give Jarrold credit for having the courage to turn Saint Jane into a human being. (MM) 120 min. Cinecenter, Pathé Tuschinski Death at a Funeral This irreverent British ensemble comedy, directed by Muppeteer Frank Oz, mischievously explores what happens when a dysfunctional family gathers for their father’s burial.

The characters begin pursuing their own agendas and seeking their own forms of familial redemption, leading to bad behaviour, outrageous faults, skeletons in the closet—in short, to riotous mayhem. Death at a Funeral doesn’t make you laugh out loud, however; the occasional snigger is about it. The events are just too milked out. For instance, a new fiancé who desperately wants to make a good impression on his uptight inlaws accidentally ingests a designer hallucinogen, leaving him prone to uncontrollable bouts of delirium and nudity. This is great fun at the beginning, but after a while you’ve seen enough of the joke. With Matthew Macfadyen, Keeley Hawes, Andy Nyman and Jane Asher. (GR) 95 min. Pathé Tuschinski Death Proof It’s unclear whether the Quentin Tarantino/Robert Rodriguez exploitation-flick double bill Grindhouse will ever reach our cinemas in its original form, but luckily this extended version of Tarantino’s half stands on its own. Kurt Russell plays Stuntman Mike, a shady has-been who stalks and attacks two groups of women with his death-proofed stunt car.

Unfortunately for him, his second group of intended victims are professional, kick-ass stunt driver gals.

While two thirds of the film are pure chick-flick, Tarantino excels in the carnage and chases even more than the dialogue. The cinematography and soundtrack are both exemplary. (LvH) 127 min. Kriterion, The Movies Ensemble, c’est tout Claude Berri’s romantic comedy stars Audrey Tautou as an anorexic artist who works as a cleaner. She’s rescued by eccentric aristocrat Philibert (Laurent Stocker) and invited to share the palatial family home he lives in with his chef friend Franck (Guillaume Canet). Tautou and Canet hate each other on sight and then, by the rules of film logic, fall in love; eventually and predictably, the misfits come together to form a family. Based on the novel by Anna Gavalda; the English title is Hunting and Gathering. In French with Dutch subtitles. 97 min. Cinecenter

Half Moon Half Moon A renowned Iranian-Kurdish musician, Mamo (Ismail Ghaffari), following the fall of Saddam Hussein, has been given permission to perform at a concert in Iraqi Kurdish territory. He assembles his many sons, all musicians, and sets off in a school bus driven by a faithful friend, Kako (Allah Morad Rashtiani). As touching as it sounds, Bahman Ghobadi’s Half Moon is a delicate road comedy, as they encounter a host of problems during the voyage—not least that Mamo believes the success of the project depends on the presence of a female singer, Hesho (Hedye Tehrani), despite it being illegal for women to sing in public in Iran. In Farsi with Dutch subtitles. 114 min. Rialto

Infamous Much of the liveliness of Capote (2005) derived from the built-in fascination of following Truman Capote from Manhattan high society to rural Kansas while he wrote his true-crime thriller In Cold Blood. This feature by writer-director Douglas McGrath, made around the same time as Capote but held back, covers the same subject with a provocatively different tone, starting out as a flip comedy and making more of an issue of Capote’s homosexuality.

Its putative source is Truman Capote (1997), George Plimpton’s non-book of gossipy quotes, and much of the story seems invented, especially the tragic relationship between Capote (Toby Jones) and Perry Smith (Daniel Craig). More ambitious than Capote yet wildly uneven, this finally has too many competing agendas, though it certainly holds the interest. With Peter Bogdanovich (as Bennett Cerf), Sandra Bullock (as Harper Lee), Jeff Daniels, Sigourney Weaver and Hope Davis. (JR) 110 min. Pathé Tuschinski London to Brighton Two young women flee London for the seaside, hoping to get through the next 24 hours alive. British director Paul Andrew Williams’ 2006 debut thriller is well-acted and well-made. 85 min. Cinecenter

London to Brighton La Marea In this debut feature by Argentinean filmmaker Diego Martinez Vignatti (director of photography for Batalla en el cielo), a young woman’s life is brutally transformed after she loses her husband and son in a car accident of which she is the sole survivor. We’re taken through her raw grieving process as she withdraws to a small hut on a deserted beach and struggles to imagine a way forward. In Spanish with Dutch subtitles. 83 min. Rialto

Molière This biography of French playwright Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, better known under his pseudonym of Molière, gets the Shakespeare in Love treatment—bits, scenes and characters from his plays resurface in real life happenings—from director Laurent Tirard and screenwriter Grégoire Vigneron. What could have been a very light divertissement becomes a very heavy handed affair instead: Romain Duris (Arsène Lupin) tries his best to give charm and action to the lead character, but fails miserably to give him inspiration—quite essential when you portray a writer. While a general knowledge of Molière’s ouevre could be of help in the appreciation of this film, don’t feel obliged to rush to the library, as it’s not worth it.

In French with Dutch subtitles. (MB) Het Ketelhuis Mon fils à moi ‘Mon dieu, quelle histoire!’, exclames Mother as she exits her son’s bedroom. We could very well say the same: she has just successfully demanded to see her teenage son’s privates. In this unusual and well-done pyschological study from first-time French film-maker Martial Fougeron, the always amazing Nathalie Baye stars as an overpossessive mother who will try anything to prevent her 12-year-old son from reaching a healthy puberty. Obviously, as in every bourgeois French-suburban drama we’ve ever seen, events unfold in tragic terms. Mon fils à moi is definitely not to everyone’s taste, but Baye’s performance surely earns her a place in the Hall of Fame of Cinematic Mothers from Hell—Freudians, you’ve been warned. In French with Dutch subtitles. (MB) 90 min. Cinecenter Planet Terror Robert Rodriguez’s half of the original twopart Grindhouse, stretched to feature length, is less true to the exploitation formula than Tarantino’s Death Proof was: there’s way too much extremely sophisticated CGI and special effects, plus a cornucopia of explosions to boot. But that doesn’t make this riotous zombie flick, featuring a go-go dancer with a machine gun for a leg, any less of a guilty pleasure for the seasoned gore-hound.

Rodriguez does go overboard with scratching and discoloring the film stock for that classic grindhouse look, possibly to compensate for all the explosions. (LvH) 105 min. Kriterion, Pathé ArenA, Pathé De Munt

Special screenings Boy Culture Actor Derek Magyar (Star Trek: Enterprise) makes an impressive feature debut in this sombre video drama about a financially savvy but emotionally distant male escort. A creature of habit, he’s always restricted his client list to a select few, but when one of his regulars dies, he allows a mysterious elderly recluse (Patrick Bauchau) to fill the vacancy.

The hustler is suspicious that the older man wants only to talk, but gradually he begins to open up, which both improves and complicates his situation with his two hot roommates (Darryl Stephens and Jonathon Trent). Director Q Allan Brocka (Eating Out) keeps the tone downbeat for too long, but one can’t fault his ambition in tackling the elusive connections between love, sex and money. (AG) 88 min. Rialto Clair de femme A man (Yves Montand) who has just been left by his terminally ill wife and a woman (Romy Schneider) who has just lost her son put together their loneliness for one night. This slow and depressing 1979 film is far from director Costa-Gavras’s best work. In French with Dutch subtitles. (MB) 101 min. Filmmuseum Une Femme à sa fenêtre In this 1976 film by Pierre Granier-Deferre, Romy Schneider plays the wife of a playboy ambassador, stationed in Athens in 1936.

When a communist leader (Victor Lanoux) escapes from the police by jumping through her window, she falls in love and decides to fight by his side. She is aided by another man who loves her, Raoul (Philippe Noiret). In French with Dutch subtitles. (MB) 106 min.

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Grizzly Man Werner Herzog’s characteristic fascination with the darker aspects of nature and humanity informs this documentary about Timothy Treadwell, a self-styled environmentalist who spent 13 summers among the grizzly bears in Katmai National Park in Alaska before he and his girlfriend were mauled to death in 2003. A failed actor, Treadwell was fastidious in videotaping his annual sojourns, and the footage becomes a bizarre performance piece, recording not only his good intentions but his narcissistic mania in the presence of his beloved bears. Like so much of Herzog’s work, this is an engrossing look at obsessive behaviour gone terribly awry. (JK) 103 min. The Movies Love Sick Halfway through this Romanian drama, two lesbian lovers debate the Vicomte de Chateaubriand and the difference between love and illness, giving an intellectual gloss to a movie that mostly just titillates.

The women are fellow university students in Bucharest, one a serious, well-behaved country girl (Ioana Barbu), the other a needy, impetuous city dweller (Maria Popistasu of Crash Test Dummies) mired in an incestuous relationship with her sociopath brother (Tudor Chirila). Director Tudor Giurgiu favours flash over substance, and for a film about passion this

is a curiously cold exercise with the source of the women’s ardour remaining a mystery. In Romanian with Dutch subtitles. (AG) 86 min. Rialto Mutant Aliens An angry astronaut returns to take revenge on the men who sent him into space in this 2001 animated film for adults, directed and drawn by the great Bill Plympton. 81 min. De Nieuwe Anita La passante du Sans-souci Romy Schneider, in what was to be her last movie, plays a gallant German woman who harbours an orphaned Jewish boy while living in exile and poverty in the Paris of the 1930s.

Flash-forwards to the 1980s reveal the boy, now grown into successful Swiss businessman Michel Piccoli, on trial for the assassination of a former Nazi official. The complicated structure, which includes a dual role for Schneider, doesn’t do much to freshen a familiar melodrama of feminine sacrifice, and Jacques Rouffio’s blocky, arid direction registers only the most obvious effects. With Helmut Griem, Maria Schell and Mathieu Carriere (1982). In French with Dutch subtitles. (DK) 110 min. Filmmuseum Le trio infernal In post-World War I France, a crooked lawyer (Michel Piccoli) and two German sisters (Romy Schneider and Mascha Gonska) build a partnership in crime, seducing old men for their money. Francis Girod’s 1974 black comedy, based on real events, is filled with grotesque situations. A morbid scene in which a corpse is dissolved in sulphuric acid caused a scandal at the time of its release. In French with Dutch subtitles. (MB) 103 min. Filmmuseum

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Ratatouille In Pixar’s newest effort, Remy the rat

finds himself in the restaurant of his late hero, TV cook Auguste Gusteau, whose motto, ‘Anyone can cook’, inspired Remy’s dream of becoming the greatest chef in Paris. Saved from a horrible death by the gawky garbage boy Linguini, he starts working with him to achieve his goal. But Skinner, the evil new chef in Gusteau’s restaurant, is not that easily beaten. Oldschool Disney slapstick with a heart, Ratatouille is all about fun. Chases are numerous and feature incredible camerawork while putting kitchen utensils to maximum use. The animation is equally stunning, containing deeply saturated colors and realistic movement from both animals and humans. With a jazzy soundtrack and lots of great details, this feels like cinematic spielerei, a seemingly effortless home run into animation history. (MP) Pathé ArenA, Pathé De Munt, Pathé Tuschinski Samson and Delilah A film of the opera by Camille Saint Saëns, staged in modern dress by Frisian opera company Opera Spanga. Directed by Corina van Eijk; with Charles Alves da Cruz, Klara Uleman, Peter Michailov, Mourad Amirkhanian, Vincent Le Texier and Charlotte Besijn. 100 min. Het Ketelhuis

The Simpsons Movie The Simpsons Movie Hi everybody! While hardcore fans have been griping for a decade about every other episode being The. Worst. Episode. Ever!, casual fans and people who don’t have such a herd of cows will probably enjoy this particular nuclear family’s meltdown. Most of the familiar faces from the show pop up throughout the flick, and enjoyment from those cameos and inside jokes can probably soothe even the most rabid fanboy, and if not, the prospect of new Futurama episodes should. If all else fails, Matt Groening should have some shorts laying around for you.

For eating, that is. (LvH) The Movies, Pathé ArenA, Pathé De Munt Slumming Sebastian and Alex are two upper-middleclass jerks who enjoy ‘slumming’: mocking and playing practical jokes on people they find in lower-class Viennese hangouts. Pia is a serious-minded primary school teacher who finds Sebastian online. Kallmann is a middle-aged failed poet and abusive drunk—repulsive, borderline schizophrenic, yet strangely lovable. For a lark, the jerks kidnap Kallmann, who’s passed out on a bench, and deposit him unconscious in a Czech border town. Darkly humourous, with a black, Mitteleuropa edge and dialogue that comes screwball-comedy fast, the film combines an edgy class consciousness with a propulsive narrative and quiet touches of fancy (Bambi, floating gnomes, a Javanese chorus line), and the spare, elegant photography gives the characters space to come to life. Austrian dystopic realism has never been this fun. Michael Glawogger (Workingman’s Death) directed. In German/Czech with Dutch subtitles.

(SK) 100 min. Filmmuseum La Stella Che Non C’è An eye-opening voyage into the heart of China, by way of an Italian maintenance manager from a steel mill. Soon to be made redundant, the mill has been dismantled and sold off. But Vincenzo (Sergio Castellitto) realises that the old furnace has a serious technical flaw, capable of causing a terrible accident. Unable to find help, he sets off for China himself, in the vain hope of finding the plant and being allowed to repair the furnace. Directed by Gianni Amelio. In Mandarin/Italian with Dutch subtitles. Het Ketelhuis

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

Pathé Tuschinski

Zwartboek In the closing days of World War II, a

Jewish cabaret artiste (Carice van Houten) is betrayed to the Nazis, escapes and joins a resistance group.

When she is assigned to seduce a German officer (Sebastian Koch) she falls in love with him, one of the many plot twists (some more, some less credible) in Paul Verhoeven’s complex, violent, gripping and deeply cynical adventure story. With Halina Reijn as a good-time girl, Thom Hoffman as a resistance leader and Michiel Huisman as a red herring. In Dutch. (JP) 139 min. Pathé ArenA

Still Life Still Life Most of what we read about China nowadays is about their incredible economic rise. Rest assured that behind the veil of success, misery is to be found. Filmmaker Jia Zhang-ke (Unknown Pleasures, The World) seems dedicated to showing us other aspects of a culture locked in massive change. His new film Still Life is a stunningly shot drama of people lost in the chaos of progress, in a city literally drowning as it is slowly engulfed by the reservoir of the Three Gorges Dam. Shot entirely on high-definition video, Still Life looks and feels like a documentary; and while the story itself is not, the background of the drowning city is very real indeed. As such, this blend of fiction and the real paints an alienating and disquieting picture of a country where the individual is merely an obstacle to progress. In Mandarin with Dutch subtitles. (RG) 108 min. Rialto

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23-29 August 2007

23-29 August 2007

FILM TIMES Thursday 23 August until Wednesday 29 August.

Times are provided by cinemas and are subject to last-minute changes. Film times also at www.amsterdamweekly.nl.

Cinecenter Lijnbaansgracht 236, 623 6615 Becoming Jane daily 16.15, 19.15, 21.45, Sun also 11.00, 13.30 Ensemble, c'est tout daily 16.15, 19.30, 22.00, Sun also 11.15, 14.00 Das Leben der Anderen daily 15.45, 18.45 London to Brighton daily 21.45, Sun also 13.45 Mon fils à moi daily 16.00, 19.45.

Les témoins daily 21.45, Sun also 11.00, 13.30.

Filmmuseum Vondelpark 3, 589 1400 La banquiere Sun, Tues, Wed 21.30 César et Rosalie daily 17.00, Sun also 14.30, Mon-Wed also 21.45 Clair de femme Sun, Mon 19.15 Une Femme à sa fenêtre Fri 19.15 important c'est d'aimer, L' Thur, Fri 21.30 Love Conquers All daily 19.45 La mort en direct Sat 21.30 La passante du Sans-souci Sat, Wed 19.15, Mon 21.30 Slumming Thur-Sun 17.15 Le trio infernal Thur, Tues 19.15 Zidane, A 21st Century Portrait Thur-Sun 21.45, Sun also 15.00, Mon-Wed 17.15.

Het Ketelhuis Haarlemmerweg 8-10, 684 0090 Adam's Apples Thur-Mon, Wed 17.15, 19.45, Thur-Sun, Wed also 22.00 De Avonturen van het Molletje Sat, Sun 13.45 Harry Potter en de Orde van de Fenix Sat, Sun, Wed 15.00 Das Leben der Anderen Thur-Mon, Wed 16.15, 18.45, ThurSun, Wed also 21.15, Sat, Sun also 13.30 Molière Thur-Mon, Wed 17.00 Samson and Delilah Sat, Sun 13.15 Shrek the Third Sat, Sun, Wed 15.15 La Stella Che Non C'è Thur-Mon, Wed 19.30, 21.00.

Kriterion Roetersstraat 170, 623 1708 Cashback Sat, Sun 17.45, Sun also 13.30, 15.30 Death Proof Thur-Mon, Wed 22.15 Planet Terror daily 20.00, Thur, Fri, Mon-Wed 17.45 Sneak Preview Tues 22.15.

The Movies Haarlemmerdijk 159-165, 638 6016 Death Proof Fri, Sat 0.15 Grizzly Man Fri, Sat 0.15 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix daily 16.15, 19.00 Pan's Labyrinth daily 22.00, Fri, Sat also 0.10 Ratatouille (NL) Sat, Sun, Wed 15.00, Sun also 12.30 Rescue Dawn daily 16.45, 19.15, 21.45, Sun also 12.15 Shrek de Derde Sat, Sun, Wed 14.15 De Simpsons Film Sat, Sun, Wed 15.15, Sun also 13.15 The Simpsons Movie daily 17.30, 19.30, 21.30, Fri, Sat also 23.15 Wolfsbergen daily 17.45, 19.45, 21.45, Sat, Sun, Wed also 14.45.

De Nieuwe Anita Frederik Hendrikstraat 111, 06 4150 3512, Mutant Aliens Mon 20.30.

Pathé ArenA ArenA Boulevard 600, 0900 1458 1408 Sat 22.00 Alpha Dog daily 19.10, 21.45 Because I Said So daily 12.20, 14.50, 17.10, 19.30, 21.50, Sat, Sun also 10.00 Bratz: De Film daily 13.50, 16.10, Sat, Sun also 11.30 Die Hard 4.0 daily 18.50 Disturbia daily 12.00, 14.25, 16.50, 19.15, 21.40 Evan Almighty Thur-Mon, Wed 13.40, 15.55, Thur, Fri, Sun, Mon, Wed also 18.15, 20.50, Sat also 18.40, Tues 16.30, 19.15, 21.35 Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer daily 16.30, 21.55 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix daily 14.30, 17.30, 20.30, Thur-Sat, Mon-Wed also 11.30 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (IMAX) daily 12.15, 15.15, 18.20, 21.25 Harry Potter en de Orde van de Fenix daily 15.35 I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry daily 15.30, 18.00, Thur-Mon, Wed also 20.45, Sat, Sun also 10.35 License to Wed daily 18.10, 20.40 Ocean's Thirteen Thur-Mon, Wed 18.35 Pirates of the Caribbean 3 daily 11.50 Planet Terror daily 22.00 Ratatouille daily 12.05, 14.35, 17.05, 19.35 Ratatouille (NL) daily 11.45, 13.00, 14.10, 15.40, 16.40, Sat, Sun also 10.15 Rescue Dawn daily 18.30 Shrek de Derde daily 13.10 De Simpsons Film daily 13.05, 15.20, Thur-Mon, Wed also 11.35 The Simpsons Movie daily 12.30, 14.40, 16.55, 19.05, 21.10, 22.15, Thur-Mon, Wed also 17.40, 20.00, Sat, Sun also 10.40, Tues also 17.15, 19.15 Sneak Preview Tues 21.30 Transformers Thur-Mon, Wed 21.20 Zoop in Zuid-Amerika daily 11.55, 14.20 Zwartboek Tues 13.30.

Amsterdam Weekly Pathé De Munt Vijzelstraat 15, 0900 1458 1408 Sat 23.45 Alpha Dog Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 18.10, 21.00, Sat 17.45, 20.30, 23.20 Because I Said So Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 14.20, 16.50, 19.15, 21.45, Thur, Fri, Mon-Wed also 12.00, Sun also 11.30, Sat 11.45, 14.15, 17.00, 19.45, 22.30 Bratz:De Film Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 12.10, 14.30, Sat 10.45, 13.15 Die Hard 4.0 Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 21.25, Sat 21.15 Disturbia Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 13.20, 16.00, 18.40, 21.15, Sun also 10.25, Sat 12.00, 14.40, 17.20, 20.00, 22.45 Evan Almighty Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 12.20, 14.45, 17.40, Sat 10.20, 13.20, 15.45, 18.15, 23.35 Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer Thur, Fri, SunWed 19.10, Sat 18.30 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Thur, Fri, SunWed 12.10, 15.10, 18.15, 21.20, Sat 11.15, 14.30, 17.30, 20.45 I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 15.20, 18.00, 20.30, Sat 17.40, 20.15, 23.00 License to Wed Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 15.45, 18.50, Sat 12.20, 18.00, 20.20 Ocean's Thirteen Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 20.00, Sat 20.50 Pirates of the Caribbean 3 Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 16.40, Sat 18.20

Planet Terror Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 13.50, 16.30, 19.30, 21.50, Sun also 11.20, Sat 11.00, 13.45, 16.40, 19.15, 21.45 Ratatouille daily 13.30, 16.15, 19.00, 21.30, Sat also 10.50, Sun also 11.00 Ratatouille (NL) Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 12.50, 15.30, Sat, Sun 10.15, Sat also 12.40, 15.10 Shrek de Derde daily 13.00, Sat, Sun also 10.40, Sun also 11.00 Shrek the Third Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 17.00, Sat 16.00 De Simpsons Film Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 12.00, 14.10, 16.20, Sat 10.30, 12.45, 15.00 The Simpsons Movie daily 17.15, 22.00, Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed also 15.00, 18.30, 19.40, Thur, Fri, Sun, Mon, Wed also 20.45, Thur, Fri, Mon-Wed also 12.40, Sat also 11.30, 14.00, 16.20, 18.40, 19.30, 21.00, 23.30, Sun also 10.15, 12.55, Tues also 21.10 Sneak Preview Tues 21.30 Transformers Thur, Fri, Sun, Mon, Wed 21.10, Thur, Fri, Mon-Wed 12.30, Sun also 12.50, Sat 14.50, 22.40 Zodiac Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 20.15, Sat 22.15 Zoop in Zuid-Amerika Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 14.25, Thur, Fri, Mon-Wed also 12.10, Sun also 10.15, Sat 10.25, 13.10, 15.30 Pathé Tuschinski Reguliersbreestraat 34, 0900 1458 Becoming Jane Thur 17.00, 20.00, Fri-Wed 16.00, 18.45, 21.30 Bugs 3D daily 12.00 Death at a Funeral daily 12.30, Fri-Wed also 18.10

25 Dinosaurs-Giants of Patagonia (3D) Thur 13.30, 15.00, Fri-Wed 16.30 Hairspray Fri-Wed 13.45, 21.45, Fri-Mon, Wed also 19.00 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Thur 15.00, FriWed 14.45, 20.45 Infamous daily 13.00, 15.45, 18.30, 21.30 Das Leben der Anderen daily 14.30, 17.30 Ratatouille Fri-Wed 21.00, Fri-Mon, Wed also 18.15 Ratatouille (NL) Thur-Mon, Wed 12.45, 15.30, Tues 16.15 Shrek de Derde Fri-Wed 13.30 Volver Tues 13.30 Wolfsbergen daily 12.00, 20.45.

Rialto Ceintuurbaan 338, 676 8700 Antônia Thur, Sat-Wed 21.15 Boy Culture Sat 23.00 Gypsy Caravan: When the Road Bends daily 22.00, Sat also 14.30 Half Moon daily 19.35, Sun also 15.00 Das Leben der Anderen daily 21.45, Sat also 14.45 Love Sick Fri 23.00 La Marea daily 19.30, Fri also 21.15, Sat, Sun also 16.15 Reprise daily 17.15 Still Life daily 17.25 Summer Palace daily 19.20, Sun also 14.30.

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