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Culture is now available in a handy chart format! page 4 On set with Eddy Terstall page 4 World federation of Turkish oil wrestling page 5 ART Inside Inside Design p. 11 / MUSIC: Patrick Watson likes getting chatted up p. 13 / FILM: A sextet on sex p. 19

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

Searching for ‘Mormonen’ on www.beeldbank.amsterdam.nl gets you three hits. Two images are of churches and the third is of a teepee set up on Spui, with a Mormon dressed like an Indian pointing out something in a big book, while a grumpy old lady walks by.

A search for ‘cultuur’ strangely only gets 16 hits—one photograph, perhaps most tellingly, is of a yawning young girl.

Strangely, a search for ‘culture gets you a lot of pictures of old guys in suits.

Meanwhile a search for ‘film’ gets 84 and they are all beauties. The first photo, from 1927, is of a Rembrandtplein cinema covered with an explosion— albeit a black and white one—of advertising for Fritz Lang’s Metropolis; the most recent, from 2005, is a colour reproduction of the blank, eyeless facade of the Nederlandse Film en Televisie Academie building. By searching ‘worstelen’, one gets three images of wrestling men, all from the 1920s. Two of the matches are taking place in gyms, while the third has the fellows squirming around on some industrial bridge.

Six out of the eleven hits for ‘design’ feature demolition work.

On the cover A BITE OF STACKS OF BLACK AND WHITE Photos courtesy of the Beeldbank at the Stadsarchief, Amsterdam

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AROUND TOWN Turn left for populism A day in the filming life of Eddy Terstall.

By Sarah Gehrke

Final piece in culture’s jigsaw Reams of text converted into metres of colour.

By Floris Dogterom A Monday afternoon in De Balie. Ruben Maes is asking a woman from an audience of cultural sector representatives whether she knows what a datascape cultuur is.

She says she doesn’t, and that she’s only here because her teacher asked her to come. Her teacher, also present, says that it’s ‘a collection of data that is more easily accessible than Google.’ That remains to be seen, but, without a doubt, the datascape cultuur is the most colourful report you’ll ever come across. The book is in the form of a leporello, a concertina-type folder. Spread out completely, it comprises seven metres of brightly coloured information on the state of the Dutch cultural sector. Lots of infographics and cartoonish figures, not so much text.

A forum with the likes of Jo Houben of Kunstenaars & Co, and other players from the sector, discuss some of the report’s topics—which is structured along 14 themes—like how the cultural sector can learn from the way sport is organised in this country and the definition of ‘amateur art’. Stimulating the discussion is one of the main goals of Johan Idema, who invented the datas-

cape cultuur. Judging from the event today, he’s off to a good start.

One week prior to the presentation and Idema throws light on his brainchild.

Idema is a consultant with the Amsterdam-based LAgroup Leisure & Arts Consulting and, as such, is very familiar with the subject. However, he emphasises that this particular project is an independent co-production with designer Hendrik-Jan Grievink and a group of likeminded professionals.

‘There are many, many reports on the cultural sector, large parts of which stay unread,’ states Idema. ‘Moreover, nobody has ever combined all those reports.’

Which is exactly what Idema aimed at with datascape cultuur, for which he (‘I had an intern to assist me’) scanned some 200 reports. His report, however, is anything but the classic grey acres of text. He explains: ‘Today’s society is about images, an example of which is the increase of info graphics in the media: people are accustomed to images. By making this report a very visual experience, we aim at illustrating the complicated relations in the cultural field in an accessible way.’

Still, it seems a hell of a task to give an overview of the state of something as broad as Dutch culture in a seven-metre leporello, simply because the word ‘culture’ might refer to society, the world, life, if you will. ‘Defining culture is a topic of fascinating discussions,’ says Idema.

‘But they usually don’t lead to a conclusion. On the other hand, the definitions of culture that are being used in all those reports are always too narrow. That’s why we came up with the iceberg info graph.’

It shows the classic ‘high culture’—theatre, opera etc—on top, while the base consists of phenomena like games, graffiti and amateur art. But what are games doing there? Idema says: ‘We want to

This is what Dutch culture looks like.

show that there is more to culture than a ballet performance. Another graph shows that forty per cent of the Dutch visit a cultural institution at least once a year, while sixty per cent are engaged in a form of amateur art. This kind of insight has only been made possible because of this report. We put the jigsaw puzzle together for the first time.’

Idema claims that the datascape cultuur shows three things. ‘There are the basic figures—how many people visit a museum, how many CDs are sold and so on. Then we present eye-openers, surprising new views. And we bring up topics for further discussion.’ The latter should not be mistaken for opinions: ‘We don’t really have an opinion. We just present the cultural sector with a mirror.’ On second thoughts, Idema admits he does take a position here and there. ‘Governmental policy documents always speak of the social and geographical distribution of culture. You can ask yourself if the latter is always a good idea. Sure, you can travel with your theatre troupe to Heerenveen and perform there, but you could also have spent the travel time on improving your show so much that Heerenveen will come to you.’

Heritage is another subject Idema and co bring up for discussion. ‘Until now, there is only one category of heritage, which goes from the Rietveld chair to monuments and anything in between. But what about gay marriage, euthanasia and the greenhouse tomato? They also belong to Dutch cultural heritage. How do we deal with that?’ Idema will send datascape cultuur to many players in the cultural field. What is the effect he’s hoping for? ‘If this subject is discussed extensively, we will be very happy.’

In a one-room apartment in Westerpark, a man in a suit is sitting on a sofa by the window. He’s here to visit his daughter, a small and pretty girl in her 20s, who is sitting opposite him. Her boyfriend walks in, and he’s greeted enthusiastically by them both. However, he doesn’t seem to share their enthusiasm. Apparently, he doesn’t like the scene that’s presented to him, and he makes some nasty comments. The older man decides to leave.

As soon as he has walked out the door, a heated discussion breaks out between the young couple.

It’s a problematic relationship they’re having. They’ve got different backgrounds. Her father is a successful left-wing politician. His family is well-off, but with decidedly working-class roots.

His dad doesn’t trust politicians, and he certainly doesn’t like seeing his son being involved with the daughter of one. The son himself feels uncomfortable about her background, too.

The couple are standing between sofas, fighting. Meanwhile, the other half of the apartment is rammed with people, all witnessing the scene of domestic unrest. There’s lots of cables, all sorts of equipment, spotlights and a camera. The man who has just left the flat is actor Tom Jansen. The fighting couple are Tara Elders and Johnny de Mol. And this is the set of the new Eddy Terstall film Vox Populi, a black comedy about politics, class difference and two families clashing. It is to be the follow up to Sextet, which is released this week (see review on p. 19).

It’s taken several years of preparation before shooting could start. Originally, the film was supposed to be released before the national elections that had been set for May of this year. But then, when the last cabinet went down, the elections were moved to November 2006, so the time schedule for the movie couldn’t be synchronised with the changed circumstances. Even then, early shooting was considered, so they’d still be in time.

But financing wasn’t completed. The film is now scheduled to be released next summer.

‘Vox Populi is a political comedy,’ says Terstall, ‘about a left-wing politician.

He is very politically correct, but his horizon is quite limited. He is isolated, in a way, in his upper-class, grachtengordelworld. Through the family of his daughter’s boyfriend, he comes into contact with a whole different set of ideas and opinions from the ones that he’s used to. They are more right-wing, with more

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populistic opinions. The encounter with these opinions changes him personally.

But it also makes him completely revise his whole political agenda under the influence of this family. He goes from one extreme to another—from his own leftwing political correctness to the populistic notions of his in-laws. He can’t find a middle way.’

Terstall is no stranger to the world of politics. A PvdA member, he has advised the party several times. ‘In comparison to making films, in politics, I can try to bring across more concrete changes. I can also assist the PvdA in many ways, because I know how the media functions. But with my films, I can reach people in another way. I can try to have an influence on their opinions.’

Just like the release plans for his film, his political ambitions, however, have been compromised by the early elections: there had been talk of Terstall running as candidate for the PvdA. But when the election date was moved forward, he made it known that he didn’t have time, since the film wasn’t finished yet. However, Terstall continues to be an active party member and, this summer, he was involved in a minor scandal around PvdA member Ehsan Jami. Terstall was allegedly assigned by party leaders to exert influence on Jami, who had caused controversy by establishing the Centraal Comité voor Ex-Moslims. In a conversation, Terstall supposedly told Jami to be more careful about his tone. Although eventually the accusations turned out to be the result of a deliberately misquoted ironic email, the whole affair probably didn’t do much to better Terstall’s impression of the political climate in Holland.

‘What I want to show with this film is how easily voters can be influenced, but also how a lot of politicians are very inclined to adopt standpoints that are popular with the larger public.’

Back in the Westerpark apartment, this larger public—as represented by the male half of the fighting couple—repeats the argument with his sweetheart, over and over again. And action. And cut.

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Action in Westerpark.

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Worldwide wrestling The slippery slope to oil wrestling, Turkish style.

By Suzanne Schreve It’s 11am on a Saturday, and thumping beats fill the air upstairs at the Tropenmuseum. Crowds, sitting on either side of the hall, wait in anticipation, necks craned to the corner of the room from where wrestlers will appear. The bass line gets faster, layered now with Asian melody. Just then, a little round man wearing a fez appears, flapping his arms about. Behind him, two young boys waving Dutch and Turkish flags, follow his every move. They make up the fanfare whose duty it is to hype the crowd and introduce the three Turkish oil wrestlers who have now entered the room.

Oil wrestling has a long history: it was introduced to Turkey when Turkish freestyle wrestling met Graeco-Roman Olympic oil wrestling after the 10th century. Dressed in nothing more than leather trousers and a layer of olive oil, two of them step onto opposite corners of a rubber mat. When they meet in the middle, both bend down to do what looks like slap and tickle. It seems a bit odd but, as the MC explains: ‘Wrestling is not about punching or kicking.

Because they are smeared in oil, they can only really grab hold of each others trousers. It’s tradition to tug at them before the game.’ After the fighters have given each other a final hug to confirm both are as slippery as each other, fighting begins.

‘During a tournament, fights are held continuously in ten divisions, from schoolboys to forty-year-old master wrestlers to determine who will be the basphelivan or “chief hero” of Turkey,’ says Emir Barhan, one of the organisers.

‘The annual three-day wrestling tournament in Kirkpinar in Turkey is the world’s oldest sanctioned sporting competition, having been held since 1360.

Current rules state that matches can last up to forty minutes.’ This means a lot of greasy groping and limb weaving, but most of the time, one of the fighters just lays belly down on the floor, legs spread in order to hold his body in the most strategic stable position. ‘There are three ways you can win: either by getting your opponent on his back, lifting him up for three steps, or turning his belly-button to face the heavens,’ the MC tells us. When the fighting slows down, so does the live music. The beat moves with the wrestlers, but if the wrestlers sit in a stand-off for too long, the musicians will up the beat to entice their fighters to battle.

Oil wrestling is Turkey’s national

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sport. Because the Netherlands is home to over 300,000 people of Turkish descent, one would think it would widely practised here. But it appears this isn’t the case.

Nes Yilmaz, wife of an MC in Turkey and mother of two wrestlers, talks about the difficulties facing Dutch Turkish oil wrestling. Until six years ago, annual tournaments were held featuring local fighters and original Turkish champions flown in especially for the occasion. It was during that time that Stella Braam published an article in Het Parool and republished her book Grijze wolven: een zoektocht naar Turks extreem-rechts [Grey Wolves, a search for the Turkish extreme right]. After publication, Braam was forced to go into hiding after she received numerous death threats from the Grey Wolves.

‘The writer linked this group—who are said to deal with the Turkish mafia—to wrestling, because it is still Turkey’s national sport. But there really is no connection. I think someone wanted to

An entirely innocent heterosexual sport activity.

blemish our reputation, and they succeeded. Now we struggle to acquire external funding. One tournament costs a lot of money, especially if you take into account all the costs involved for flying in the major wrestlers,’ Yilmaz says. And just as every sport has gone commercial, oil wrestling hasn’t been left behind either. Barhan recounts how, instead of the fighter’s name being displayed on the back of their trousers, fighters now display sponsor’s names, such as Mercedes and Coca-Cola. But it’s not just the taint of organised crime and sponsorship issues that stand in the way of oil wrestling in the Netherlands.

It is, as Yilmaz says, ‘the bloody football.

Kids today don’t want tradition.’

Although both sports are played on a grassy pitch, it seems a shame that the one, soaked in tradition, should now be drowned out by the other.

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So how hot are archives anyway?

Amsterdam’s new city archive on Vijzelstraat is one of the largest in the world and is now open for business. And some folks are particularly excited—especially when the numbers and the details turn into some serious stories.

BY STEVE KORVER

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o can archives be hot and thrilling?’

‘Very,’ replies Hans Visser (1958), head of information services at Amsterdam’s Stadsarchief, as his eyes begin to glimmer. His response was not quite a ‘hell yeah!’ but it was very close.

Of course, part of the excitement stems from the archives new location, the epic De Bazel building, a former bank* built between 1919 and 1926, which is now, after

a €65 million renovation, as light-infused inside as it is in-your-face imposing from outside. Open since August, the Stadsarchief this week unveils, complete with Queen, pomp, and much circumstance, its Schatkamer or ‘treasure room’. This intricately designed and restored two-floored hall—really the ultimate hang-out for the Egyptian mummy crowd—will feature such prizes as the paperwork that shows how Amsterdam bankers helped finance

the ‘Louisiana purchase’ in 1803, when the US doubled in size by making the largest land deal in history with a cash-strapped Napoleon. But it will also have seven-inch singles from the great Rotterdam singer of Amsterdam songs, Louis ‘De Kleine Man’ Davids (1883-1939).

But the true richness of this collection is its 35 kilometres of files—and it ain’t just knipsels. The stored memory of Amsterdam and its millions of residents also

includes books, magazines, newspapers, letters, drawings, prints, photos, films and sound recordings.

Visser himself began working at the archive as a librarian in 1991, when it was still the Gemeente Archief and located on Amsteldijk. In 2000, he took on his present job of making the archives as accessible as possible to the public. He can still get all worked up about the role. ‘I can’t imagine anything more suspenseful. The whole of

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Clockwise from top left: De Bazel (the Stadsarchief’s new home), Paul George de Bruyn Ouboter (maybe), Westerdokstraat in the 1950’s (complete with Ma and Tante), example of market traders ID cards.

life, and especially society, is locked up in the archive. It’s not just official government records, but also private collections from cultural institutions, businesses and famous Amsterdammers. Pretty much “everything” tussen haakjes.’

‘Now, thanks to digitalisation and a proper organisation of the collection, a lot of it is easily accessible through the website. We have two million scans online already. If we continue at the rate we’re now going at—ten thousand scanned documents a week—we should have the most important parts of the collection, which number approximately two hundred and twenty five million pieces, online in the next ten years.’

Good God. These ambitions sound near Mormon-like.

Mormons as the archivist’s archivist The Mormons come up a lot in conversations with archive aficionados. A quirk in the religion has members tracing their family trees to find the names of ancestors who had died before benefitting from being saved, Mormon-style. Once documented, these past relatives can be baptised by proxy in the temple. Currently, about 2.4 million rolls of microfilm containing two billion names are stored behind 14-ton doors in the Granite Mountain Records Vault, a climate-controlled repository built into a Utah mountain range. And, yes folks, it was designed to withstand a nuclear blast.

‘We know the Mormons well, of course. They started coming here in the 1960s to copy huge amounts of information. There’s nothing childish about their approach,’ says Visser. Of most interest to the Mormons, and anyone wanting to do a bit of carving into their family tree, are the Stadsarchief’s identity records. Currently all 1.1 million ‘person cards’ from between 1939 and 1964 have been digitalised, along with about 600,000 ‘family cards’ from between the late 19th century and 1939.

And before 1811, people were registered through the church via ‘birth books’, ‘wedding books’ and ‘grave books’. The database now has five million names and counting.

Numbers into stories But numbers are numbers that only get exciting when they become a story. Visser comes up with a serious one: ‘There was a Jewish man, who came from a family of market traders, who was given away during the war by his parents, who were being transported to concentration camps. He ended up in the countryside, being raised by [another] family. After the war, no one from his [birth] family returned and he had no mementoes of them. About four years ago, he had heard about our files of market licences, and that on these licences are photos. Through them, he actually found photos of not only his parents but also his grandparents. That had an impact, let me tell you...

‘Or it can be more trivial. A friend of mine who lived on Westerdokstraat during the 1950s looked it up in our image bank [the online beeldbank currently has over 220,000 photos] and not only found a pic-

Amsterdam Weekly ture of his house but, in front of it, his mother and aunt, along with his father’s VW Beetle. If you look closely, you can even make out his grandmother in the window. That’s just fantastic. Imagine that moment of recognition! And it’s exactly those instances of petit histoire coming to life that makes this great work.’

The glint in Visser’s eyes is now turned up to 11.

Murder and manslaughter ‘Well the gleam in my eye is from the fact I’m allergic to dust—not really the best start for someone who spends so much time in archives,’ states Eric Slot (1960), journalist and crime historian, who was recommended by several archive users as the best person to help find a nice, hot archive story.

In his favourite bar—Cafe De Zwart on Spui—he is smoking cigars. We drink beer.

It is old-school journalism at its best.

Slot is naturally happy about the squeaky clean and freshly dusted Stadsarchief. ‘The only thing I miss is Louise’s soup, now that the staff canteen is separate from the public one.’

Slot made a splash last year with the book De dood van een onderduiker (Mouria, 2006) which used archival

stuff, but by combining that with other information, such as from the police archives, which you need special permission for, or from some other private or business archives—not to mention the newspapers and magazines.

‘Newspaper clippings alone are an incredible source of information, and at the Stadsarchief that’s all thanks to some crazy guy who started to preserve newspaper clippings in 1840 on every imaginable subject. So now if you want to know something about bathhouses in Amsterdam—I wouldn’t know why, but just imagine—you now have in one handy a place all the articles on bathhouses since 1840. And it’s the same with murder and manslaughter. Very handy.’

Another amazing feature of the archives is the staff. ‘There’s a specialist in everything there. If you have a picture of an Amsterdam street and you have no idea where it is, there’s someone there who will know—as long as you can catch them running down the halls. And that kind of knowledge only builds up over many, many years.’ In other words, by working in and creating archives, one becomes an archive. With your own personal built-in search engine.

‘So now if you want to know something about bathhouses in Amsterdam—I wouldn’t know why, but just imagine—you now have in one handy a place all the articles on bathhouses since 1840. And it’s the same with murder and manslaughter. Very handy.’ research to question film-maker Louis van Gasteren’s claim that, in 1943, he had beaten to death the hiding Jewish man, Walter Oettinger, because Oettinger’s erratic behaviour threatened resistance people.

Whenever anyone suggested other motives besides this relatively noble one, Van Gasteren would initiate a lawsuit, as he did against Slot himself when the ‘Murder on Beethovenstraat’ was featured as one of 100 murders covered in his 1998 book Wandelingen door moorddadig Amsterdam [‘Walks through murderous Amsterdam’].

Slot’s publisher decided to remove the book from the stores.

Understandably resentful, Slot was motivated to dig deeper, and spent a total of three working years—spread over the next seven—doing just that. When Van Gasteren took him to court to stop the product of his toils, the judge saw no reason to ban the book, since it was based on documentation and made no mention of what could have been the real motive.

Slot has also dug deep into other affairs. His first book Vijf gulden eeuwen.

Momenten uit 500 jaar gemeentefinancien, Amsterdam 1490-1990 (Gemeente Amsterdam, 1998) was commissioned by the city itself to investigate its own financial dirty laundry. Not surprisingly, Slot found lots of fraud.

So what has been the happiest of eureka moments for Slot? ‘With De dood van een onderduiker, it was probably what I found in the child protection service archive—and very lucky it was, since they only saved one out of every ten boxes of their collection. There was a dossier about the sister of Van Gasteren—who was having some trouble raising her child—and there was an actual statement from Van Gasteren in 1956 about something that happened ten years before. Bingo. He said she had had a relationship with a German soldier—and that was information that I could do something with. Only then did I realise the power of combining these different archives.

‘But, of course, there are also these other moments of pure coincidence. For example, I was looking for one of the original detectives working on the Van Gasteren case. All I knew was that he was called Timmerman. And while I was actually working on a whole other subject I just stumbled across him. And those kinds of moments happen a lot. Especially because you don’t go through an archive once or twice or three times. You go through them at least ten times because you have to go back every time you find something new.

Only then can you make more connections and discoveries.’

Mixing it up ‘The Stadsarchief is especially interesting since it’s so impossibly huge,’ says Slot.

‘When taken separately an archive may only be of passing interest, but when you use it with others you can really get somewhere. Of course those “family cards” and “residence cards” are incredibly boring

Keeping it present Currently, Slot is busy working on a book about the criminal underworld of the penose on the Wallen during the 1950s and 1960s and is in the archive almost daily, out to reconstruct life as it was then. ‘You can take the police records and compare with pictures in the Stadarchief’s image bank

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with all these pictures of buildings, where you can see exactly what they were: a liquor store or a carpenter workshop or a bordello. And all these details you can use to fill in the blanks of a particular police report of a crime that occurred there. The more extra information and local colour you get, the more you actually begin to see it as it actually was.

‘As far as I’m concerned, the nineteenth century could have never existed.

But there are still so many interesting and entertaining stories to be written from archives that can say a lot about what’s happening right now. This Wallen book will reflect what’s happening now in the criminal circuit. For instance, with the famous prostitute murders of Magere Josje and Chinese Annie in the 1950s: there’s a lot more in the police report than ever reaches the papers. And it’s those extra details that help make the story. The basic story is very simple: woman murdered and killer never found or convicted, anyway. But the real story is about the relations between the people involved. These dossiers can also tell you exactly how those peeskamers looked. Everything is described and in words that never made it to the Dikke van Van Dale. You just can’t invent that sort of stuff... Reading these reports you really begin to sense the police’s relative naivete.

They were used to the husband standing over the wife with a bloody knife, and now they were confronted with these murders of prostitutes by unknown assailants. They were just not used to it. And actually it’s these murders and a few others that are the precedent for the liquidations of today.

Those murders changed everything. The police had to become more systemised and detailed in their documentation to ensure a conviction.’ In other words, the archives had to become much thicker.

What story is Slot itching to research next? ‘My latest book De vergeten geschiedenis van Nederland in de Tweede Wereldoorlog (2007) ended with a few postwar affairs One of them began in 1945, when a man claiming to be Paul George de Bruyn Ouboter was arrested heading east across the border at Enschede. He had a SS mark tattooed on his arm. But he was Dutch. And, most likely, he did something highly criminal on the eastern front and maybe even in the Netherlands itself. The authorities spent five or six years trying to figure out his real name. He said he was born in Amsterdam, but there were no records. There’s still a huge dossier on him.

But who was that man? They never found out, so eventually he was freed and he went directly to South America.’ Slot pauses, ‘And that says quite a bit... And I think I can still find out his true identity by diving into the archives.’

‘And there are thousands of stories like that still to be found yet within the Stadsarchief. And really if you can’t find something, anything, no matter what it is, go to the Stadsarchief. It’s probably just waiting there.’

It’s enough to make a person into a glinty eyed Mormon.

Opening Weekend, 15-16 September, Stadsarchief, Vijzelstraat 32, Saturday 10.00-17.00, Sunday 11.00-17.00, www.stadsarchief.amsterdam.nl. * The feature ‘De Bazel, The Building and Madame Blavatsky’ by Kim Renfrew on the cosmic history of De Bazel building appeared in Amsterdam Weekly, 7-13 September 2006, Volume 3, Issue 35. It can be looked up at the Stadsarchief.

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SHORT LIST

Klit! Animation Festival, Saturday, Filmhuis Cavia, De Nieuwe Anita and Het Ketelhuis

THURSDAY13 SEPTEMBER Classical: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Call it the Fritz Lang Effect: a creator responsible for significant, even visionary, work comes to America and cheeses out big time. For the last 15 years of his life—in the US—Kurt Weill pumped out scads of musicals, most as perishable as pastry shells. But before his exile, in Germany, Weill was a composer of considerable skill and renown, most notably for his Brecht collaborations, such as The Threepenny Opera and Mahagonny. Tonight, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra will let us sample What Might Have Been, with a reading of Weill’s last-ever orchestral score, his Second Symphony, which had its premier in Amsterdam in 1934. Rarely performed, it’s a flavourful, three-movement work, Neo-Classical in style and showing why Weill was admired by Stravinsky and Milhaud. Also on the bill are the Dutch premier of the German neoRomantic composer Detlev Glanert’s Theatrum bestarium and the world premier of Delft-born Theo Verbey’s LIED, a trombone concerto commissioned by the orchestra.

All told, both new and old are here for discovery. Markus Stenz conducts. (Steve Schneider) Concertgebouw, Grote Zaal, 20.15, €35.

FRIDAY14 SEPTEMBER Rock: Sleazefest It’s been nearly a decade since the first Sleazefest started in a decidedly humble location: on a farm, surrounding a smoking barbecue piled high with various meats. With a few music-makers and lots of intoxication, it was no less sleazy then, but it’s been growing steadily ever since, always popping up in a new location. This year sees the festival spurring its usual filthy behaviour at the MS Stubnitz. And the line-up of performers is as delightfully sordid as ever, including fave local acts Pedro Delgados, Pussycat Kill Kill Kill, 3-1, Yeah! and T-99, along with grimy DJs like DJ Bone and Mappe Nawi. The big act for this year, however, is the Venezuelan Kid 606—flying in from his current home in San Francisco. Known for producing a variety of weird and complicated beats that can’t be danced to (at least not by the average biped)—genres like glitch and IDM come to mind—Kid 606 also pulls out some hardcore and breakcore, when the mood is just right. And so far, the mood at Sleazefest has never been wrong. (Mark Wedin) Stubnitz, 20.00, €9.99.

Classical: Arab Orchestra of Nazareth While many think of September as the back to school season, Muslims revere it as the holiest time of the year. The sacred practice of Ramadan unfolds during the middle of the month, bringing introspection, charity and fasting to the forefront, along with other strict observances. This year at the Muziekgebouw, another icon will be honoured as the Arab Orchestra of Nazareth teams up for the first time with Bahraini singer Hind at the Ramadan Festival. Performing together, they will unveil an ode to beloved singer Umm Kulthum, who was prized both for her unique voice and exceptional ability to connect with her audiences. The ultimate goal of the festival is to bring music lovers together, regardless of religious inclination, and the Arab Orchestra, consisting of Christians, Jews and Muslims, certainly brings credence to the cliché that music is an international and intercultural language. Whatever your spiritual disposition, be sure not to miss this special collaboration. (Stephanie Shewchuk) Muziekgebouw, 21.00, €35.

Event: Eric Staller and Miss T present unTITled This wacky theatrical evening, presented by film-maker Miss T and artist Eric Staller (famed for urban UFOs such as his Volkswagon Beetle covered with 1659 computerised lights or his circular bikes for seven) is subtitled ‘a TITillating evening of the sublime, the sensual and the surreal’ and is meant to celebrate the release of Miss T’s new DVD Sietske’s Super Shorts, featuring such instant classics as Godz***a vs the Netherlands, Visit From Outer Space and Burka Boogie Woogie. And these shorts are indeed super: for instance, imagine, if you will, a hypnotic aerial shot of dancing breasts and then… and then… Well, you’ll just have to see for yourself or go to www.misst.com for the spoiler. They will be joined by the ridiculous costumiers Nepco (www.nepco.nl)—alone, always worth the price of admission—and together they’re ‘going to trance-port you to a laughing place. You will feel like you are in a wonderful film, surrounded by dreamy and delicious sights and sounds.’ No really: believe the hype. Music courtesy of Charley Rhythm, the Pigtails and the Burka Big Band.

(Steve Korver) Sugar Factory, 21.00, free before 22.00, €8 after 22.00.

Film: Lost & Found The evening that screens ‘lost images and sounds’ takes place in a very special place: the Theatrum Anatomicum, in one of the turrets of De Waag on Nieuwmarkt. This singular location was where folks could come and watch the slicing and dicing of corpses—as immortalised in the Rembrandt painting ‘The Anatomy Lesson of Dr Tulp’. Now you yourself can come to marvel at slices of forgotten celluloid and video history. Since 1997, the folks of Lost have asked their network of friends and artists to send tapes, CD-roms, films,

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video and slides that are dear to them but have never found their rightful place. Tonight is that place, where this evocative visual garbage is shown and where art and pulp meet. See www.lost.nl for more details—and how you can send in your own found objects for the next Lost evening. (Steve Korver) Theatrum Anatomicum, 21.00, €7.

SATURDAY15 SEPTEMBER Film: Klit! Animation Festival With a name that could stir up controversy—but which actually just means ‘tangle’ in Dutch—the first Klit! Animation Festival Amsterdam deserves all the attention it can get. The programme of mostly short, colourful and dynamic films exposes the rampant growth of animation talent in the Netherlands and Belgium. Aside from a student competition, the festival has a Golden Klit! Award, available for international film-makers: this open competition features renowned animators such as Bill Plympton, who contributes his film noir murder drama Shuteye Hotel. Additionally, the 20 films in the Panorama programme represent the finest flicks the festival has discovered in recent years, including a jerky rendition of the classic 1651 book Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes and a story about the sex lives of animals, called Fauna Sutra. (Marinus de Ruiter) Filmhuis Cavia, De Nieuwe Anita and Het Ketelhuis (Sat 14.00-02.00), €10.

Art: White Cube Treasure seekers beware—artist Daniël Dennis de Wit has found the perfect way for audiences to revisit a contemporary art show by hiding a natural pearl with a minimum value of €1,000 somewhere in the exhibition space at P//////AKT. With this work, the conceptual artist proves that even clean and minimal ‘white cube’ spaces have their unseen nooks and niches. Inspired by the theme of the show, the white cube as a safe environment for art on the one hand and something to be challenged on the other, Hendrik Jan Hunneman will manipulate the exhibition space by adding architectural elements. In a less subtle gesture, Michiel Kluiters will break through the space and create a temporary balcony on the rear of the building. Other artists included in the show are Karina Bisch and Steve van den Bosch. (Marinus de Ruiter) P/////AKT (Thurs-Sun 14.00-18.00). Until 7 October.

SUNDAY16 SEPTEMBER Party: Iconoclash Contemporary art magazine HTV has invited Marc Bijl to curate its 70th issue. Bijl, whose visual art and performances are often inspired by punk activism and squat culture, came up with the title ‘Radical Losers’. Today, the special issue is launched in De Veemvloer with performances and a DJ appearance by Bijl himself, plus concerts by three of his bands, Gotterdämmerung, Golden Retriever and Judopak, a group that usually show up in martial arts outfits. Meanwhile, the stage is open for a variety shows starring a divergent range of artists who will perform poetry, short statements and more iconoclastic art. HTV, previously known as HTV/De IJsberg, was founded by several independent art institutions in the 1980s, and is principally created by and targeted towards artists. This year the magazine celebrates its 12 1⁄2-year anniversary.

(Marinus de Ruiter) De Veemvloer (Sun 20.00), free.

Festival: Hiphop Essentials Although some have said that hiphop is dead (the most conspicuous of the lot being American artist Nas), it’s clearly still alive and kicking at this celebration of the genre taking place in the Tropenmuseum, of all locations. Even as plenty of mainstream music continues to make it onto Amsterdam radio, Dutch hiphop has definitely made its presence felt. But as any enthusiast can tell you, it’s not just about the music, it’s also a way of life. At the one-day Hiphop Essentials festival, both Dutch and American artists will perform, photographs and graffiti art will be displayed and a few short documentaries and films will be shown chronicling the development of all things hiphop.

And—not forgetting one of the most important things—we get a look into breakdancer Aruna Vermeulen’s impressive sneaker closet. If you live and breathe the lifestyle or if you view it merely as a cultural phenomenon, Hiphop Essentials is a sure bet either way. (Stephanie Shewchuk) KIT Tropentheater, 10.00-17.00, museum entry price.

Electronica: Shitkatapult 10th Anniversary Duck and cover your ears. Aural excrement will be thrown towards the electronica fetishists at the 10th anniversary party of Berlin-based record label Shitkatapult, known for its output of anarchistic dance music. Ambient techno veterans Sun Electric will set the mood, followed by laptop experimentalist Jan Jelinek, who is known for captivating soundscapes, as well as hypnotic minimal techno sets. Shitkatapult’s founder Sascha Ring, aka Apparat, will leave behind the band he was with this year and perform a good old solo set of new wave-inspired electronic music. Finally the label’s co-founder T Raumschmiere and turntable maestro Daniel Meteo will lift the crowd to a higher state of consciousness with raving DJ sets, catapulting their heavy brand of techno into the night. All acts are visually tied together by video artist Synken. (Marinus de Ruiter) Paradiso, Grote Zaal, 20.30, €12 + membership.

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Shibusashirazu, see Friday

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

Big band: Shibusashirazu Boasting a repertoire from free jazz to funk, from Japanese traditional music to popular ‘Enka’ and night club jazz, all performed by 25 musicians and assisted by butoh dancers, actors, go-go girls and others who just happened to stumble onto the stage, Shibusashirazu shows start off at musical theatre before getting more and more out of control. Expect energetic spontaneity, and ponder how the audience will also be able to fit into the venue. Bimhuis, 21.00, €16

Thursday 13 September Rock: The Police Stadiums are the ideal place for Sting and the boys these days. Not only do they get to charge extortionate prices, but the trio get to spread themselves so far apart on stage that they never need to acknowledge anyone else is up there with them. On a brighter note, you get to hear all the old hits without a lute in sight. Amsterdam ArenA, 19.30, €49-€89 Singer-songwriter: Ayo A performer unsuccessfully trying to fight off comparisons with Tracy Chapman, Lauryn Hill and Corinne Bailey Rae. Paradiso, Grote Zaal, 20.00, €16 + membership Classical: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra A performance of premieres, plus Weill’s Second Symphony. See Short List. Concertgebouw, Grote Zaal, 20.15, €35 Pop/Rock: Operator Please Australian teenage quintet whose super-sweet punk-pop tunes have brought them success faster than it takes to finish a game of ping pong against a Chinese wunderkind. Paradiso, Kleine Zaal, 20.30, €7 + membership Ska: The Aggrolites Retro rocksteady rubadub and reggae from this sunny LA bunch. Melkweg, Oude Zaal, 20.30, €12 + membership Jazz: Bert Joris / Dado Moroni Quartet The Belgian trumpeter and Italian pianist, performing songs from recent album Magone. Bimhuis, 21.00, €14 Experimental: Grey Daturas Atmospheric noise rock from Australia, in the same droning vein as Isis and Sunn O))). Stubnitz, 21.00, €5 Rock: Jack Molton Distortion Launch party for the local rockers’ new CD. Cafe Pakhuis Wilhelmina, 21.00, free Singer-songwriter: Eamonn Dowd Mulligans, 21.30, free

Friday 14 September Rock: The Police (See Thursday) Amsterdam ArenA, 19.30, €49-€89 Singer-songwriter: XOXO Tour Australia’s newest live music collective presents an international celebration of ‘Women in Australian Music’. Winston Kingdom, 20.00, free Classical: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra (See Thursday) Concertgebouw, Grote Zaal, 20.15, €35 Heavy: Gorefest Roaring death metal and thrash from this reformed Dutch outfit who made their name way back in the early ’90s. Melkweg, Oude Zaal, 20.30, €13 + membership

Robust, Galapagos4 Hiphop: Galapagos4 Night One of the most respected independent hiphop labels around, Galapagos4 are presenting the best of the underground Chicago hiphop scene. Key guests are Qwazaar, Robust and Mestizo, plus spinning from DJs Kip Kill Again and Dubpirates. OCCII, 21.30, €6 Rock: Los Tiki Boys Surf rock. Maloe Melo, 22.00, €5 Soul: Mardi Grass Featuring funk soul groovers The Souldiers and a host of live bands and DJs. Blijburg, 22.00, €5 Funk: Skek Wordt Eén Jaar Birthday party featuring funk lovers The Tunes. Skek, 22.00, free Rock: Vegas for Millions Debut album launch from the glamorously named rock ’n’ roll trio. Spiritual home: the Mersey shores. Factual home: Holland. Paradiso, Kleine Zaal, 22.15, €7 + membership

Saturday 15 September Hiphop/R&B: Block Party Urban party, including a Last Man Standing freestyle battle. Studio West, 13.00, free Singer-songwriter: Patrick Watson Compared to Nick Drake, Jeff Buckley and Antony and the Johnsons, expect an impressive vocal performance—if you have tickets. See article, p.13. Paradiso, Kleine Zaal, 19.00, sold out Opera: Madrigals Only three full-length operas have survived from Monteverdi’s body of work. To shed light on more aspects of this genius of the early Baroque, three of his smaller works are being presented together in one programme: Lamento d´Arianna, Il ballo delle Ingrate and Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda. Performed by De Nederlandse Opera. Westergasfabriek, 20.00, €55

Classical: Arab Orchestra of Nazareth Middle Eastern ensemble that brings people together. See Short List. Muziekgebouw, 21.00, €35

Classical: Nederlands Philharmonisch Orkest Performing Beethoven’s Pastoral Symphony (No.6) and Debussy’s La Mer; conducted by Yakov Kreizberg.

Concertgebouw, Grote Zaal, 20.15, €33

Experimental: AUXXX: Abstract Blues Moods A new channel for unconventional artists, featuring sets by Duke Garwood (UK), Minister Kebab and Cor Fuhler.

OT301, 21.00, €5

Pop/Rock: Fiction Plane Maybe you wanted to see The Police this week but couldn’t afford the ticket or didn’t fancy the mile-high views? Have a go at Fiction Plane then. Their melodic guitar pop is quite reminis-

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Food design. Visual design.

Textile design. Industrial design.

Design: it’s freaking everywhere.

GETTING INSIDE THE BRAINS OF DESIGN DESIGN Inside Design Amsterdam, 13-16 September, Westergasfabriek, €9.50.

By Anneloes van Gaalen

Design is many different things to many different people. Some marvel at the simplicity of IKEA’s Billy bookcase, while others believe design equals hefty price tags and applies only to furniture with aluminum legs.

For the fourth time in a row, ELLE Inside Design is offering a glimpse into this world, one that encompasses much more than just furniture and home accessories. The route leads visitors to shops, restaurants, hotels, galleries and museums, where design is on display in all forms. We got a head start and sat down with a number of up-and-coming designers from different sides of the spectrum, all of whom are involved in the event.

Marije Vogelzang Age: 29 City: Amsterdam Occupation: Food Designer Design: For me, design is a way to communicate an idea to people. In my work, I use food and design to relate a story. For example, I use design when showing obese children that food is more than just fat and calories. I want to make them enjoy food again, make them see that there are fun aspects to healthy food.

Work: I’m not a cook. I attended the Eindhoven Design Academy and so I approach food as a designer would. Having said that, I don’t really care too much about whether or not people perceive it as design. At the end of the day, it’s also just food—food that is meant to be eaten and enjoyed.

Inside Design: During the event I will be giving lectures on food design and every single night we will serve a special designer dinner at Proef in the Westergaspark.

HNNH—Hannah Bonjer Age: 26 City: Amsterdam Occupation: Visual Communication Designer Design: ‘Real’ design is something that touches people, something that communicates, that hits a nerve and that also has a function. I guess I have quite an ambiguous view on design. I see it as a luxury product, but also as a necessary element to survive in society, as well as a reflection of that society.

Work: In every single design I try to find a way of connecting and communicating, each time with different people, in different ways.

Emotions, identities, personalities, the human being and our urban environment are endless sources of inspiration for me. This, in combination with my hunger for doing research, results in design that is both personal and rational.

Inside Design: In 2006, I graduated with honours from the Eindhoven Design Academy with the book 8 1 19 19 1 8 My Document and the animation Composition 8 1 19 19 1 8. I will be showing that book during the event. I also designed the invitation for the Design Scoops | New Cultural Projects shows and the accompanying catalogue.

Aleksandra Gaca Age: 38 City: Delft Occupation: Textile Designer Design: For me, design means an act of creation, a creative process that results

The way to a person’s heart is through the… design.

in a previously unknown quality. It has a unique thought behind it and it results in innovative concepts or products. It surprises, intrigues and challenges. It stimulates progress. It can initiate a new style or trend, or even change history.

Work: When I work on a new fabric, I do not analyse whether the end result will qualify as ‘design’ or not. For me, designing is a search process in which I try to make my ideas, my vision, into something real, something tangible. I am fascinated by three-dimensional woven fabrics and experiment with self-made weaves and unusual materials in search for as yet undiscovered new structures and patterns.

Inside Design: At Inside Design, I will be presenting textiles from my latest collection, Architextile. It is my latest attempt in realising extreme threedimensional weave structures. I initially developed them for acoustic panels and wall coverings. In these latest works, I combine opposite materials such as mat and glossy or wool and metal.

Jonas Samson Age: 26 City: Utrecht Occupation: Industrial Designer Design: Design is the process of consciously giving shape to products. Form and function are always connected, but with design, the form adds something to the product. I believe good design is art.

Work: I strive to create things that are completely new. That can be a new shape or form, but also a new way in which a product is used. Do I think it’s important that my work is regarded as design? It took a lot of sweat and tears to become a trained designer, so it would be rather embarrassing if you didn’t see that reflected in my work.

Inside Design: During the event, I will be showcasing my wallpaper design. It’s a high-tech light-emitting wallpaper that makes it possible to use a twodimensional flat surface as light source, instead of a 3D object. As long as the wallpaper is turned off, it cannot be distinguished as a source of light.

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Bimhuis, 21.00, €16 Pop: Rooney Pop rock from California, just the way it’s supposed to sound: sunny and full of melodic hooks.

Melkweg, Oude Zaal, 21.00, €11 + membership Experimental: Another Nice Mess Mash-up breakcore destruction from The Jason Forrest Band. Support from the ever-eclectic DJ Marcelle. OT301, 22.00, €5 Rock: The Red Shots Red hot rockabilly. Mulligans, 22.00, free

Sunday 16 September Hiphop: Hiphop Essentials Workshops and performances geared towards young people. See Short List. KIT Tropentheater, 10.00-17.00, museum entry price Classical: Nederlands Philharmonisch Orkest (See Saturday) Concertgebouw, Grote Zaal, 14.15, €33 World: Guafa Trio Contemporary acoustic music from Colombia. KIT Tropentheater, 15.00, €18

Wednesday 19 September Classical: Lunch Concert Preview of tonight’s RCO performance. Concertgebouw, Kleine Zaal, 12.30, free Funk: Hipdrop Live session featuring members of C-mon & Kypski, Zuco 103 and Lefties Soul Connection. With DJs Bart Fader and Alviz. Bitterzoet, 20.00, €5

13-19 September 2007 Superstijl Democracy on the dancefloor. Hotel Arena, 23.00-04.00, €10 Bietkelder An AmsterdamBeatClub gathering. Paradiso, Kelder, 23.00-05.00, €7 Discocult presents: Zero dB A provocative, innovative and addictive brew of hard jazz, electro, latin, hiphop and house. Sugar Factory, 23.00-05.00, €10

Opera: Madrigals (See Saturday) Westergasfabriek, 20.00, €55

Skit With Don Diablo, Lucien Foort, Billy The Klit, Marc Benjamin, Ryan Marciano, Sunnery James, Fetish Ferdy, Leon Benesty and Guerilla Speakerz.

The Powerzone, 23.00-05.00, €15

Classical: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Bruch’s Violin Concerto No.1 and R Strauss’ Eine Alpensinfonie; conducted by Mariss Jansons, with solo violinist Gil Shaham. Concertgebouw, Grote Zaal, 20.15, €55

Timezone Expect a surprising and flamboyant mix from Madonna to Nouvelle Vague, from Daft Punk to... you get the idea. And don’t forget the ’80s, ’90s, ’00s pop-dance-new-wave and burlesque goodies. Odeon, 23.00-05.00, €10

Singer-songwriter: Xavier Rudd Singin’ surfer dude who loves to incorporate a bundle of various instruments into his hypnotic performances. Paradiso, Grote Zaal, 20.30, €17 + membership

Studio 80 invites Michel de Hey Tunes from the Rotterdam techno star. Studio 80, 23.00-late, €10

Vette Analoge Shit Top class indie noise rock from These Monsters (UK), Amsterdammers Soda P and atmospheric youngsters Zeal. Stubnitz, 21.00, €6 World: Xam Xam—Poetry From Senegal A visual concert based on the poetry of Leopold Sédar Senghor: poet, philosopher and ex-president of Senegal. The texts of Senghor inspired pianist and composer Thijs Borsten to create this concert concept, with vocalist Mola Sylla writing new work and video images that amplify the poetry and offer a view on today’s Senegal. Bimhuis, 21.00, €14

Classical: Wonderkinderen aan ’t IJ Youngsters with terrifying musical talents. Muziekgebouw, 15.00, €50

Sonic Warfare The best dubstep party in Amsterdam. With its mix of dub, reggae, jungle, 2step and hiphop, international names like Goth Trad (Japan), Mala (UK), Kromestar (UK), Hijak (UK), Silkie vs Quest (UK) and Amsterdam resident U Dub, the urban underground is preparing its aural assault.

Melkweg, Oude Zaal, 23.59-late, €12 + membership

Saturday 15 September Groove Inc Soul and funk classics. Blijburg, 21.00, free Club Rascal Indie dance guitar prance party. Expect the likes of Bromheads Jacket, CSS, Maxïmo Park and other jaggy student music. Club 8, 22.00-04.00, €5 TeleRatio? With I:Cube (Paris), Melon and Olaf Boswijk. 11, 22.30-04.00, €12

Pop/Rock: Jovink en de Voederbietels Nederpop outfit make it to their 15th anniversary. Melkweg, Oude Zaal, 19.30, €14.50 + membership

Klash! Back in black with eight CD players, four turntables, three mixers and a whole lotta DJs. Bitterzoet, 23.00-04.00, €7.50

Hardcore: Sick of it All With 20 years of fury and classic NYC hardcore riffage behind them, there’s no secrets to their success. Melkweg, The Max, 19.30, €16 + membership

Sound of Love Soulful and funky house music. Hotel Arena, 23.00-04.00, €15 Earth Clubnight Special As if their Earth Trilogy at Paradiso wasn’t enough, now Earth resident Onno leads this night of deep rockin’ beats, along with a host of Earth residents. Sugar Factory, 23.00-05.00, €12.50

Pop/Rock: Bloomsday Rising Straight-ahead Counting Crows-style guitar rock from this San Francisco outfit. Hotel Arena, 20.00, €5

Passion vs L.O.S.T. A clash of the titans, with club, house and electro tunes. Odeon, 23.00-05.00, €10

Opera: Madrigals (See Saturday) Westergasfabriek, 20.00, €55

Mr Stubnitz Featuring David Labeij, Frank Haag, Bart Skils, Daniel Sanchez, Lauhaus & Boris Werner, Juan Sanchez, Makcim, Radar and Robert Powlson. Stubnitz, 23.00-late, €10

Tango: Martin Alvarado & Group Argentine tango.

Muiderpoorttheater, 20.30, €9 World: Oi Va Voi Gypsy and klezmer meets beats and modern pop. Support from Caspian Hat Dance.

Patronaat, Haarlem, 20.30, €13 Electronica: Shitkatapult 10th Anniversary Label night celebrating the Berlin-based dance label’s anniversary. See Short List. Paradiso, Grote Zaal, 20.30, €12 + membership

Wildvreemde Pixels, see Thursday

Rock: 3xLixe New Yorkers Vaz offer up ’80s-inspired post-punk that’s moody and atmospheric. Locals Dusty Blinds are a tad more upbeat, preferring to assault audiences with their melodic guitar pop. The bill is completed by Razorblade Jr, frontman of Gone Bald, who goes solo tonight. OCCII, 21.00, €5

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Jazz: Niels Tausk Straight jazz from the Dutch trumpeter and his band, tonight launching new album Blown Away. Bimhuis, 21.00, €14

Monday 17 September Classical: Nederlands Philharmonisch Orkest (See Saturday) Concertgebouw, Grote Zaal, 20.15, €33

Thursday 13 September Electrorated Electro groovin’ with DJs Mr Man & Mark Daniels, Lo Poll, Terry Toner, Morties and Noelie. Winston Kingdom, 22.00-03.00, €5 Poptrash Three decades’ worth of rock, electro and hiphop with The Punchout DJs. Special guest DJ this week is indie electro rocker Blake Miller from LA. Melkweg, The Max, 23.00-05.00, €5

Rock: Chin Up Chin Up Melodic indie guitar rock from Chicago. Support from Storm and Eva Braun.

Bitterzoet, 21.00, €6

Wildvreemde Pixels Weird electo and even weirder performances, featuring Dapayk, Carlos Valdes, Bert de Rooij, Ölene Kadar and others. Sugar Factory, 23.0005.00, €10

Tuesday 18 September

Riot! One room of electro, pop, house and baile funk.

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

Studio 80, 23.00-late, €7.50, free before 00.00

Opera: Madrigals (See Saturday) Westergasfabriek, 20.00, €55 Classical: Nederlands Philharmonisch Orkest (See Saturday) Concertgebouw, Grote Zaal, 20.15, €33 Classical: Symphonic Echoes of Pink Floyd Yes, the Noord Nederlands Orkest performs symphonic renditions of Pink Floyd. And you thought there was a better chance of seeing a flying pig. Heineken Music Hall, 20.15, €29.50 Latin: Illapu One of Chilli’s most important—and most popular—bands, Illapu have been going strong since 1971. Melkweg, The Max, 20.30, €17.50 + membership

Friday 14 September 40up: Rock Now Rollater Dance night for the 40+ crowd. Expect stuff like The Beatles, Stones and James Brown. Melkweg, The Max, 21.00-late, €20 + membership Uptight Indie versus booty, with Kill All Hipsters and the Intifida Soundsystem. Club 8, 22.00-04.00, €5 Freitag Friday vibes with Daso, Jama, Marcus Gehring and Madou. Flex Bar, 22.00-05.00, €10 Mono With Marek Hemman, Lauhaus and the Mesjokke DJs. 11, 22.30-04.00, €12

Technopunks Sleeparchive (Berlin), From Karaoke to Stardom (Paris), Aron Friedman, Rauwkost, Deimos, Diachrona and Recovery Sounds. Studio 80, 23.00late, €12 Bassline Bass heavy beats, including a live set from hiphoppers The Opposites. Paradiso, 23.59-05.00, €12.50

Sunday 16 September WickedJazzSounds Jazz, hiphop, broken beats, nujazz, funk and Afro sounds, as classic vinyl collides with live musicians. Sugar Factory, 23.00-05.00, €9.50

Monday 17 September Beatsclassics Like WickedJazzSounds but aimed at dance music, dancefloor classics have new life breathed into them by a wily bunch of live musoes performing. Sugar Factory, 22.00-01.00, €7.50 Cheeky Monday True skool jungle and drum & bass, featuring players from the local and international scenes. Winston Kingdom, 22.00-03.00, €6

Tuesday 18 September Les is More Electro, minimal, techno and breaks.

Winston Kingdom, 22.00-03.00, €5

Wednesday 19 September Rub-A-Dub Inna Winston Reggae and dub special hosted by the Covenant Soundsystem. Special guests are Barka Moeri. Winston Kingdom, 21.00late, €5 Helter Skelter A new Wednesday night concept at Sugar Factory. All about rock ’n’ roll, pop, electronica and forgotten classics, it’s a rockin’ dance night to please the musical purists rather than the fad followers. Sugar Factory, 23.00-04.00, €6.50

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Fave singer-songwriter rides a balloon to nowhere and the sound that comes out on the way is simply grand.

PARADISE BY WAY OF PARADISO MUSIC Patrick Watson 15 September, Paradiso, sold out.

By Rob AndristPlourde

Instrumentalist/songwriter Patrick Watson arrives in Amsterdam on Saturday to play a one off, sold-out show at Paradiso.

His recent gig at Lowlands will be entering many local critics’ list for ‘best concert of 2007’—and he consistently gets tagged as the one to watch. Touring to promote his multiple award-nominated album Close to Paradise, Patrick Watson comes in from the Montreal cold to warm up Amsterdam for the evening.

Describe your latest release Close to Paradise...

It’s a Vietnamese expression that means when you’re halfway somewhere: ‘Oh! I’m exhausted; I’m close to paradise.’

That was pretty much the recording of the record. We didn’t know if we were going to finish it; everybody was too afraid to pick it up because it was too mixed with different things. A lot of people thought it wouldn’t fit anywhere. I kept on telling the label: if it doesn’t fit anywhere, maybe that’s because it fits everywhere.

When you perform songs from the album, are they direct interpretations, or do the shows take on a life of their own?

We do a lot of sonic experimentation on stage. When you make a record, you make it for someone to listen to by themselves, in the car or on headphones. But

when you play a show, you’re playing for people together. It’s a different concept altogether. You approach a show to have fun with a bunch of people—audience and band.

You’ve been touring since February.

How’s life on the road?

Once you’re on tour, everything becomes basics: you want food, you want sleep and you want to see pretty girls. And play a good show, really. All the simple things in life become amazing. A good meal becomes magic. A beautiful woman makes your day.

Tell us about the songwriting process.

I’ll write a film in my head and then write the soundtrack for it. It takes me a while to find the words, but I generally know what the song is supposed to be about.

Sometimes I have a daydream; a lot of times I’ll start playing a piece and then the film will start coming to me. For example ‘Weight of The World’ is a would-be animated film. There’s a character who’s looking at this rope hanging from the sky from a hot air balloon.

Above it is this woman persuading him to grab the rope. He grabs it and the hot air balloon starts rising. So he grabs onto the ground to stop himself from rising, but the ground comes with him. He realises that if he lets go now, he’ll let everyone down because he’s taking them with him.

If he keeps on going up, he’s taking them to nowhere. So the song is about making stupid decisions.

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GAY& LESBIAN Thursday 13 September Exhibition: Monument van Trots Exhibition about the Homomonument, housed in the gay and lesbian archive’s new home. See www.monumentvantrots.nl for more. IHLIA-Homodok, until Sunday 6 January Happy hour: After Shopping Cocktail Sale Cocktails €5: everything must go! PRIK, 19.00-22.00,

Friday 14 September Social: Thank God It’s Friday Weekend drinks with DJs, snacks and drinks from 5pm until three in the morning, when it isn’t even Friday any more. De Engel van Amsterdam, 13.00-03.00, free Club: Women’s night Busy, popular night for lesbians and their friends. Tonight DJ Gorgeous. Cafe Sappho, 22.00, free Club: Twisted Tunes This week, the tunes are all twisted up by Hans and Cees. PRIK, 22.00-03.00, free

Saturday 15 September Club: Furball Cafe Furry or not, PRIK is hot. But you’ll have more fun if you’re hirsute or in pursuit. PRIK, 19.00-01.00, free Club: Xpress New open-minded party with sexy cocktails and snacks. Cafe Sappho, 21.00, free

Sunday 16 September Music: Easy Sunday Easy like Sunday evening: live jazz and soul music provide a nice, laid-back sabbath vibe. Soho, (18.00-02.00), free Club: InRealLife Back after a summer vacation, it’s the women’s afternoon session for dancing, chatting, lounging and more dancing. This afternoon, with DJ SSSmile. CREA Café, 16.00-21.00, €6 Social: Transgender Cafe Transgender collective Noodles (www.n00dles.nl) organise a monthly cafe at Saarein for people with transgender feelings and their friends and admirers. Saarein, 17.00-00.00, free

Tuesday 18 September

Een Soort van Mooi

STAGE Opening Breakfastklub (Don’t you forget about me) Adapted from the ’80s teen film by John Hughes about very different kids trapped in Saturday detention, the story is given a contemporary Amsterdam makeover, mixing together six contrasting youths from diverse modern subcultures. In Dutch. Rozentheater, (ThurSat 20.00), €12.50 Theatre: Hoofd Jetse Batelaan’s first work for Ro Theater is set in a hospital. By depicting the daily routine there, he offers a subtle look at the absurdities that sometimes come forth out of everyday situations. In Dutch. De Brakke Grond, (Thur-Sat 20.30), €14 Performance: unTITled Eric Staller, Miss T and Nepco are back to present an interactive evening of music, film, live acts and special effects. See Short List. Sugar Factory, (Fri 21.30), €7 Dance: Parallel Event Dance concept from Jihyun Youn, touching on Oriental mysticism. Part of the Knowledge & Performing Arts series. Melkweg Theater, (Fri, Sat 20.30, Sun 16.00), €7/€15 Theatre: Nowhere Here ‘From beginning to end, no journey is the same’. This production by David Llewellyn Child, featuring Adrian Kennedy, explores the insanity in all of us. In English. De Cameleon, (Sat 20.30, Sun 20.00), €10 Theatre: 3 Zusters Chekhov’s play about the decay of the privileged class in Russia and the search for meaning in the modern world, centred on the three sisters of the Prozorov family. Performed by Joop van den Ende Theaterproducties, it features the best of the recent graduates of the country’s three biggest theatre schools. In Dutch. Stadsschouwburg, (Mon, Tues 20.15), €10-€19.50 Dance: Pulse / Onderstebavo Krisztina de Châtel always looks for different ways of doing contemporary dance. Pulse premiered last year in theatres, and now it has new life breathed into it in beautiful surroundings. Dansgroep Vanuit Marlies will also perform Onderstebavo. Westerkerk, (Tues 20.30), €16 Performance: Het Archief van Overtollige Kennis Karina Holla’s piece about a Soviet inventor and an American violist is steeped in the theatre, literature and tragic stories from the former Eastern Bloc.

Though it also has some great theremin moments, what with one of the lead characters being its creator. In Dutch. Frascati, (Tues, Wed 20.30), €12

Sitcom Film: Sitcom François Ozon’s inimitable take on the ins and outs of dark family secrets. PRIK, 19.00, free

Wednesday 19 September Talk: Gerardjan Rijnders Delivering the Mosse lecture under the title ‘De Buikvol’, the award-winning theatre director discusses his gay-themed work including Komrij’s Het Chemisch Huwelijk. Mozes & Aäronkerk, 17.00-19.30, free Club: Bückstück - brutale Musik The pop tourists take one more duck into Pandora’s record box before taking a summer holiday. PRIK, 21.00-00.00, free

Ongoing Music/Theatre: Into the Woods Stephen Sondheim’s award-winning Broadway musical fairytale.

M-Lab, (Thur-Sat, Tues, Wed 20.15), €20 Comedy: easyLaughs Comedy improv in English.

Two different shows every Friday night. CREA Muziekzaal, (Fri 20.30, 22.30), €10, €5 (late night) Dance: Hans van Manen Festival Het Nationale Ballet celebrate the 75th birthday of renowned choreographer Hans van Manen with a series of programmes featuring some of his most famous works. Sat and Sun features Programme 2, Tues features Programme 3. Het Muziektheater, (Sat, Tues 20.15, Sun 14.00), €20-€37.50

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ART Opening Bestemming Amsterdam Creative futuristic visions of metropolis Amsterdam, presented by 19 artists making use of a diverse array of disciplines.

Zuiderkerk (Mon 11.00-16.00, Tues-Fri 09.00-16.00, Sat 12.00-16.00), opens Thursday, until 17 October Checking In Works by students of the Vrije Vormgeving of the Sandberg Instituut. Lloyd Hotel (Daily 08.00-01.00), opens Thursday, until 30 September Full Circle Using the figure of the ‘circle’ as a conceptual parameter in this project, Eduardo Padilha and Michael Schwab have created a systematic multimedia installation, with the artists’ separate works overlapping and intersecting both visually and conceptually. Huis Rechts (Thur, Fri 14.00, 16.00, Sat 13.00 -17.00), opens Thursday, until 6 October ArtOlive Jong Talent ’07 Final exam pieces from 36 of the most talented graduating art students in the country. ArtOlive (Mon-Fri 11.00 -17.00, Sun 12.00-17.00), opens Friday, closing Sunday Chairs of Rank and Distinction Chairs. Yes, chairs.

Bloody expensive chairs. Posh chairs. Sometimes even pretty chairs. Museum van Loon (Wed-Mon 11.00-17.00), opens Friday, until 14 January 2008 Christien Jaspars: DO Emotional, poetic and beautiful photographs. Hup Gallery (Tues, Thur, Fri 10.00-17.00), opens Friday, until 31 October Heringa/Van Kalsbeek: Cruel Bonsai The first ever major museum solo exhibition by artist duo Heringa/Van Kalsbeek. Their extravagant sculptures appear at once poetic and slightly morbid and are inspired principally by nature in all its capricious irregularity. Stedelijk Museum CS (Daily 10.00 18.00), opens Friday, until 6 January 2008 Movimento Dance photos by Joris-Jan Bos. Theater Instituut Nederland (Mon-Fri 11.00-17.00, Sat, Sun 13.00-17.00), opens Friday, until 2 October Oude Werken Rednose Distrikt DJ Toby Paul curates this creative expo. Participants include Kristina Mirova, PIPS:lab, Cremola Baby and Hotmamahot. Chiellerie (Wed-Sun 14.00-18.00), opens Friday, until 21 September Black-Out Antwerp photographer Charif Benhelima both mesmerises and seduces the spectator with his latest photographic collection. Experimenting with Polaroids, the only non-reproducible photographic medium left, he let his subjects evaporate until the very verge of recognisability. We find ourselves not to be looking at an object, but at its trace or reminiscence. De Brakke Grond (Mon 10.00 18.00, Tues-Fri 10.00-20.30, Sat 13.00-20.30, Sun 13.00-17.00) opens Saturday until 14 October Cultural Connections A new platform initiated by Natascha Drabbe, this weekend she presents new work by 10 creatives from divergent fields, ranging from architecture to jewellery and from fashion to food design. There’s also a sneak preview of new cultural projects from Hans van Heeswijk Architects.

Design Scoops (Sat, Sun 11.00-19.00), opens Saturday, closing Sunday Ik liet alles lopen One big space, in which separate installations by Bart Scheerder, Arjen Lancel, Sander Goosen and Mies Baars both grow together and reject each other. Arti et Amicitiae (Tues-Sun 13.00-18.00), opens Saturday, until 7 October White Cube Is art safe or challenging? P/////AKT explores the options. See Short List. P/////AKT (Thurs-Sun 14.00 -18.00), opens Saturday, until 7 October Gert Jan Kocken: Defacing The hundredth exhibition in SMBA (since 1993) is devoted to the work of Amsterdam photographer Gert Jan Kocken. He is showing a series concerned with iconoclasm: photographs that focus attention on the fury that images have provoked in the past. In doing so, he poses questions about the way the image exercises its power today. Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam (Tues-Sun 11.00-17.00), opens Sunday, until 11 November Noorderlicht One of the premier photography festivals in the Netherlands, but yes, it does require a journey north to Groningen. (Well worth it, though.)

This year’s theme is ‘Act of Faith’, with 130 photographers from all over the world offering probing documentary images about belief. Various locations, Groningen (various times Tues-Sun), opens Sunday, until 28 October

Bestemming Amsterdam, see Opening

Museums Persia The St Petersburg Hermitage lends some of its dazzling collection of Persian art to Amsterdam. This exhibition includes antiquities of the Islamic period all through the end of the Qajar dynasty in 1925. Hermitage Amsterdam (Daily 10.00-17.00), closing Sunday The Present—The Monique Zajfen Collection New contemporary artworks that have been added to The Monique Zajfen Collection since 2006. Focusing on the human figure and spanning a range of disciplines, the works in this exhibition explore various aspects of the human condition. Stedelijk Museum CS (Daily 10.00-18.00), closing Sunday Sarah Bernhardt: The Art of High Drama An exhibition about the first international superstar. In the course of an astonishing career that spanned 60 years, Bernhardt became the West’s leading tragedienne. Her name became synonymous with acting and continued to cast a spell on players and audiences throughout the world, long after her death in 1923.

Besides paintings, photos, clothes and Art Nouveau theatre posters, the collection includes personal possessions, a recording of her voice and fragments of films in which she appeared. Joods Historisch Museum (Daily 11.00-17.00), closing Sunday Drawing Typologies—Proposal for Municipal Art Acquisitions Drawings A presentation of works by 30 contemporary artists who live and work in the Netherlands and employ drawing as a medium. Using five typologies to suggest the wide variety of ways in which artists use drawing as an artistic strategy, it not only presents 30 radical positions within the local field of drawing, but also reveals what makes drawing such an extraordinary and attractive discipline. Stedelijk Museum CS (Tues-Sun 11.00-17.00), closing Sunday 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), closing Wednesday To See or Not to See Hortus celebrates the 300th birthday of Carl Linnaeus, the most famous botanist ever, who wrote his major works in Amsterdam. Hortus Botanicus (Mon-Fri 09.00-17.00, Sat, Sun 10.00-17.00), until 30 September Liberation Music: Songs After Five Years of Occupation A musical memorial to the emotional release that followed the end of the occupation in 1945.

Verzetsmuseum (Tues-Fri 10.00-17.00, Sat-Mon 12.0017.00), until 30 September Corneille: Some of These Days Celebrating the 85th birthday of Corneille, one of the most sparkling artists of the CoBrA movement—and one of the longest surviving members of the ‘CoBrA Three’. Alongside his paintings, photographs, and film portraits of the artists can be seen during the exhibition. CoBrA Museum (Tues-Sun 11.00-17.00), until 30 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 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 Van Gogh’s Drawings: New Insights Works on paper seldom shown due to their light sensitivity, on display in the print room of the Rietveld building. While spanning Van Gogh’s entire career as an artist, special attention will be paid to several early drawings that have been added to the museum’s collection in recent years. Van Gogh Museum (Mon-Thur, Sat, Sun 10.00-18.00, Fri 10.00-22.00), until 7 October 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

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16 and auditive space is sought out and exploited. Montevideo/Time Based Arts (Tues-Sat 13.00-18.00), until 7 October Art Moves Art in Red Light presents works from more than 30 international artists, taking in installations, paintings, photography and multimedia art. Oude Kerk (Mon-Fri 11.00-17.00, Sun 13.00-17.00), until 8 October

seventeen years she has worked on an oeuvre comprising some 20 series of still-lifes and portraits. Most of these were photographed in strong and highly contrasting black and white, and are suitably striking, but her latest work is in colour, adding a new dimension.

Huis Marseille (Tues-Sun 11.00-18.00), until 25 November Meesterwerken uit de Gouden Eeuw Around one hundred 17th century drawings by Dutch artists, borrowed from the collection of Jean de Grez.

Rembrandthuis (Mon-Sat 10.00-17.00, Sun 11.0017.00), until 25 November

Galleries Metafiction Anne de Vries: Metafiction Constructing unusual and puzzling images using familiar, everyday objects, De Vries explores the boundary between the real and the unreal, resulting in a colourful series of fresh and surprising images. Foam (Sat-Wed 10.00-18.00, Thur, Fri 10.00-21.00), until 10 October Hans Eijkelboom Over the past few years, Dutch photographer Hans Eijkelboom has worked in three of the world’s megacities: Paris, New York and Shanghai.

These three metropolises not only each represent a different continent and culture, but in a certain sense also the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries, respectively.

Like a consummate sociologist, Eijkelboom has focused his camera on hundreds of individuals who all behaved or dressed in the same way. These shots were then chronicled and presented according to a set pattern as a catalogue of minute forms of human behaviour. Foam (Sat-Wed 10.00-18.00, Thur, Fri 10.00-21.00), until 21 October El Hema What would an Arabic Hema look like? Halal sausage? Arabic chocolate letters? Affordable high quality headscarves? Tunics or Djballas? 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. Mediamatic (Wed-Sat 18.00-22.00, Sun 14.00-18.00), until 4 November

Openbare Werken Ruigoord An open weekend to explore the studios and meet the resident artists. Ruigoord (Sat, Sun from 12.00), closing Sunday ILAP & Karel Goudsblom Featuring the video installation La Spazzatura. Horse Move Project Space (Fri-Sun 14.00-20.00), until 23 September Cathelijn van Goor: Time Makes Everything Falls Apart Drawings and paintings which have the feeling of film stills, capturing a moment in time. Kattenbak Oost (Daily 14.00-18.00), until 23 September Valérie Belin Three photo series by the French artist: Objets de Venise, Bodybuilders and Palettes. Maison Descartes (Mon-Thur 10.00-18.00, Fri 10.00-17.00), until 27 September Gijs Assmann: Have Faith Drawings and sculptures.

De Praktijk (Tues-Sat 13.00-18.00), until 29 September Florian Göttke Two works: Anthroprosaic is a group of small bronze monkeys in a model of a decrepit high rise building. The photograph ‘Friedrichsfelde Zoo Berlin Ruins’ shows monkeys living in real ruin, in an enclosure in the East Berlin Zoo, built from rubble of bombed out Berlin after WWII. METIS_NL (Wed-Sat 13.00-18.00), until 29 September Cécile Verwaaijen: Een Onbevangen Blik Colourful portraits of boys and girl, some with a touch of old Dutch classicism. AYAC’S (Fri, Sat 13.00-17.30), until 29 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

Johannes Girardoni, Paul Raguénès Diverse objects from French artist Raguénès and Austrian Girardoni.

Galerie Roger Katwijk (Wed-Sat 12.00-18.00), until 7 October

Middle East, the forum’s first guest will be Jack Persekian, curator at the Al-Ma-mal Foundation in East-Jerusalem and artistic director of the Sjarjah Biennale. In English. Felix Meritis, (Fri 15.00), free

Extra-Room Getting global with artists like Lucio Auri, Mat Brinkman, Knut Henriksen, Jeroen Jacobs and many more. Arti et Amicitiae (Tues-Sun 13.00-18.00), until 7 October

Performance: Friday Night The percussionist duo 4.20h plays early minimalist music by Steve Reich and discusses its origins, using video footage as examples. Also with DJ Goldfinger. Van Gogh Museum, (Fri 20.00), museum entry

Judith Quax: Sporters Photographs of diverse sports competitors in action. Het Ketelhuis (Wed, Sat, Sun from 13.00, Mon, Tues, Thur, Fri from 16.00), until 7 October Andres Serrano, Joanneke Meester New York artist Serrano presents the series Cycaden. Meester, AKA ‘scary skin sculptor’ from Kunstvlaai 2004, presents the installation ‘Need You’, featuring a large aluminium frame in which mutilated dolls hang and seedy mysteries unravel. Artspace Witzenhausen (Wed-Sat 12.00-18.00), until 12 October Falke Pisano New works that originate from the artist’s ongoing investigation into the curious existence of objects and the linguistic possibilities of the structure and properties of matter. Also works by Steve Van den Bosch. Ellen de Bruijne Projects/Dolores (Tues-Fri 11.00-18.00, Sat 13.00-18.00), until 13 October Hearts & Bones English artist Jodie Carey presents an installation of memorial slabs made of lard, adorned with flowers created from newspapers stained with coffee, tea and blood. There’s also a batch of raw and honest oil paintings by Brit Paul Haworth. Galerie Gabriel Rolt (Wed-Sat 12.00-18.00), until 14 October Summercamp Installation, video and photographs by Yael Bartana. Annet Gelink Gallery (Tues-Fri 11.0018.00, Sat 13.00-18.00), until 20 October The This & the That of a Category Error Works by Glasgow-based artists Joanne Tatham and Tom O´Sullivan. Collaborating since 1995, they make enigmatic images, sculptural objects and installations that are designed to inhabit a range of scenarios, activating their surroundings and cajoling the viewer into participating in an absurd kind of theatre. SMART Project Space (Tues-Sat 12.00-17.00), until 20 October

Michaël Borremans: Veldwerk A respected photographer, graphic designer and also painter, now the Belgian artist is taking on the medium of film, with this solo exhibition featuring the first peak at his cinematic works. De Appel (Tues-Sun 11.00-18.00), until 4 November Thomas Zipp: White Dada Solo exhibition of works by the Berlin artist, who writes texts and music, makes paintings, drawings, sculptures, objects, collages and photos, which he brings together in room-filling installations. De Appel (Tues-Sun 11.00-18.00), until 4 November 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 Scenes and Traces A lengthy exhibition focussing on three parts of the Stedelijk Museum collection: design, video, and photography. Stedelijk Museum CS (Daily 10.00-18.00), until 25 November Valérie Belin The first major overview of works by acclaimed French artist Belin (1964). Over the past

Music/Theatre: Nachtsalon Backstage The eighth n8 salon—appropriately enough staged in cooperation with Club 8—is an evening of food, music, workshops and performance. Composer Maarten Ornstein performs his ‘hearing game’ Zwaar Water; susies haarlok perform their new show; there’s a round table discussion with Michel Sluysmans; there are mini workshops; and in the foyer, drinks and DJ T-mus. Before the salon, you can eat with the cast and crew: book in advance if you desire dining. Theatermuseum, (Fri 20.00-23.00 (dinner 18.30)), €10, €15 incl dinner Festival: Open Haven Podium Venture out to Javaeiland for a day of water and culture. Music, dance, theatre, film and art all combine to form an exciting and interesting programme, with a diverse array of genres available, designed to appeal to young and old. Highlights should include the Spek Festival, hosted by NOWHERE, the musical selections at Cafe Pakhuis Wilhelmina and some wonderfully unique ways to relax over the weekend, be it saunas, massage or taking a dip. See www.openhavenpodium.nl.

Various locations, (Fri-Sun 13.00), €5 Festival: Jordaan Festival Getting in touch with the Jordaan during two days of partying and performances. Located at the bus station near Marnixstraat and Elandsgracht, expect a trip back in time with music from Het Rembrandt Duo, Peter Beense and Wolter Kroes, plus lots of other quaint goodies. See www.jordaanfestival.nl. Jordaan, (Sat 12.30, Sun 13.00), free

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 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

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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 Love is Like Oxygen Group exhibition as part of Liefde in de Stad. Participants getting loved up include Jonas Ohlsson, Gil & Moti, Joel Tauber, Erin Dunn, Ulrike Möntmann, Arno Coenen and The Rainbow Soul Club. W139 (Daily 11.00-19.00), until 30 September

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Film festival: Klit! Animation Festival Day-long festival of animation. See Short List. Filmhuis Cavia and De Nieuwe Anita, (Sat 14.00-02.00), €10 Dining/Party: Chocolate Club Toxicity-free dining and partying that’s all about raw food, cocktails and the only vice in the venue: chocolate. Finally settling into a new permanent location, dinner begins at 18.00, while a chilled party follows from 20.00 onwards. See www.chocolateclub.nl for reservation details. DanceStreet, (Sat 18.00), €5, €35 incl dinner Party: Iconoclash HTV magazine invites Marc Bijl to mash up the floor, punk style. See Short List. De Veemvloer, (Sun TBC), free Nachtsalon

EVENTS

Movement[s] Solo exhibition by Jamain Brigitha, who photographed and filmed five well-known dancers in public spaces. Melkweg Galerie (Wed-Sun 13.00-20.00), until 30 September

Debate: Critical Voices from Iraq Iraqi guests discuss their experiences and opinions on how to support the reconciliation process. In English. Felix Meritis, (Thur 19.00), free

Buenos Aires-Amsterdam Photos by Marc van der Aa. artKitchen (Wed-Fri 12.00-17.00, Sat 13.00-18.00), until 30 September

Debate: The Beijing Olympics will allow China to fool the world With guests Garrie van Pinxteren, Daan Schoemaker, Willem van Kemenade, Peter Ho and led by David Rennie. In English. De Rode Hoed, (Thur 19.45), free

Zwarte Muur: De Transatlantische Slavenhandel Photo portraits by Laura Samsom Rous, who specialises in the people, particularly the women, along the coast of Africa between Senegal and Angola—the region most affected by European colonisation and the Transatlantic slave trade. Melkweg Galerie (WedSun 13.00-20.00), until 1 October Eindexamens Fotografie Photos by Derk Alberts, Ruth Catsburg, Cassander Eeftinck Schattenkerk, Niek Geurts, Nathalie van Helvoort, Ernst van der Linden, Eyal Pinkas and Sabina Theijs. Amsterdams Centrum voor Fotografie (Wed-Fri 13.00-17.00, Sat 11.00-17.00), until 6 October

Design: Inside Design Amsterdam Just as Paris is the city of fashion, Amsterdam is the city of design.

This is why, for the fourth time, ELLE Wonen is organising the design route Inside Design Amsterdam, with not only shops, restaurants and hotels, but also galleries and museums taking part. While events are happening across town, Westergasfabriek is the main focal point. See article on p. 11. Various locations, (Thur-Sun 10.00-22.00), €9.50 Discussion: Café Mediterranée Hosting leading agents and thinkers from the cultural world of the

Discussion: Broeinest The theory and practise of using computers and the internet safely and securely. In Dutch with English translation. Plantage Doklaan 8-12, (Mon 20.00), free Literature: Daniel Mendelsohn Award-winning author and critic Daniel Mendelsohn will be discussing his latest book The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million, about the fates of family members who perished in the Holocaust, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award. In English. Felix Meritis, (Tues 20.00), €15 Debate: American Dream, Global Nightmare Pondering global politics with experts Fred Halliday and Frits Bolkstein. In English. De Balie, (Tues 20.30), free Festival: Robodock Machinistic entertainments of industrial proportions. It continues right through the weekend, but this opening party has plenty of sights, sounds and adventures to tempt you Noord on a Wednesday night. See www.robodock.org. NDSMwerf, (Wed 19.00), €17.50 Discussion: Pecha Kucha Night A Japanese speeddating approach to presentations. Twelve participants will show and discuss 20 slides for no more than 20 seconds each. There’s no room for boredom, just an overload of diverse information. In between there’s drinks and music. In English and Dutch. 11, (Wed 21.00), €5

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ADDRESSES 11 Oosterdokskade 3-5, 625 5999 ABC Treehouse Voetboogstraat 11, 423 0967 Amsterdam ArenA ArenA Boulevard 1, 311 1333

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NDSM-werf TT Neveritaweg 15, 330 5480

Ronmandos Prinsengracht 282, 320 7036

Nieuwe Kerk entrance on the Dam, 638 6909

Rozentheater Rozengracht 117, 620 7953

Theatermuseum Herengracht 168, 551 3300 Toomler Breitnerstraat 2, 670 7400

OCCII Amstelveenseweg 134, 671 7778

Ruigoord Ruigoord 15, 497 5702

Under the Grand Chapiteau Next to ArenA, 621 1288

Odeon Singel 460, 624 9711

Saarein Elandsstraat 119, 623 4901

OT301 Overtoom 301, 779 4913

Skek Zeedijk 4-8, 427 0551

UvA: Special Collections Library Oude Turfmarkt 129, 525 2141

Oude Kerk Oudekerksplein 23, 625 8284

SMART Project Space Arie Biemondstraat 107-113, 427 5953

De Valk IJplein 3, 637 2155

Soho Reguliersdwarsstraat 36, 422 9936

De Veemvloer Van Diemenstraat 410, 638 6894

Amsterdams Centrum voor Fotografie Bethaniënstraat 9, 622 4899

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

Annet Gelink Gallery Laurierstraat 187-189, 330 2066

Paradiso Weteringschans 6-8, 626 4521

De Appel Nieuwe Spiegelstraat 10, 625 5651

Pathé De Munt Vijzelstraat 15, 0900 1458

Arti et Amicitiae Rokin 112, 624 5134

Patronaat Zijlsingel 2, Haarlem, 023 517 5858

Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam Rozenstraat 59, 422 0471

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artKitchen Joris van den Berghweg 101, 622 3422

Persmuseum Zeeburgerkade 10, 692 8810

Stedelijk Museum CS Oosterdokskade 5, 573 2911

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Westergasfabriek Haarlemmerweg 8-10, 586 0710

AYAC'S Keizersgracht 166, 638 5240

The Powerzone Spaklerweg, 681 8866

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Winston Kingdom Warmoesstraat 129, 623 1380

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The Vault Prins Hendrikkade 194

Zaal 100 De Wittenstraat 100, 688 0127

Bimhuis Piet Heinkade 3, 788 2150

De Rode Hoed Keizersgracht 102, 638 5606

Theater Instituut Nederland Herengracht 168, 551 3300

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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 De Cameleon 3e Kostverlorenkade 35, 489 4656 De Cantine Rietlandpark 373, 419 4433 Chiellerie Raamgracht 58, 320 9448 Club 8 Admiraal de Ruyterweg 56B, 685 1703 Club Meander Voetboogstraat 3, 625 8430 CoBrA Museum Sandbergplein 1-3, Amstelveen, 547 5050 COC Rozenstraat 14, 623 4079 Comedy Cafe Max Euweplein 43-45, 638 3971 Concertgebouw Concertgebouwplein 2-6, 671 8345 Consortium Veemkade 570, 06 2611 8950 CREA Cafe Turfdraagsterpad 17, 525 1423 CREA Muziekzaal Turfdraagsterpad 17, 525 1400 DanceStreet 1e Rozendwarsstraat 10, 489 7676 De Engel van Amsterdam Zeedijk 21, 427 6381 Design Scoops Ertskade 105-111, 419 5825 Ellen de Bruijne Projects/Dolores Rozengracht 207A, 530 4994 Fantasio (Nationaal Pop Instituut) Prins Hendrikkade 142, 428 4288 Felix Meritis Keizersgracht 324, 626 2321 Flex Bar Pazzanistraat 1, 486 2123 Foam Keizersgracht 609, 551 6546 Frascati Nes 63, 626 6866 Galerie Bart Bloemgracht 2, 320 6208 Galerie Gabriel Rolt Elandsgracht 34, 785 5146 Galerie Roger Katwijk Lange Leidsedwarsstraat 198-200, 627 3808 De Hallen Grote Markt 16, Haarlem, 023 511 5775 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 Huis Rechts Vinkenstraat 154 Hup Gallery Tesselschadestraat 15, 515 8589 IHLIA-Homodok Oosterdokskade 143, 5230 900 Joods Historisch Museum Jonas Daniel Meijerplein 2-4, 531 0310 Kattenbak Oost Celebesstraat 1 Het Ketelhuis Westergasfabriek, Haarlemmerweg 8-10, 684 0090 KIT Tropentheater Mauritskade 63, 568 8711 De Levante Hobbemastraat 28, 671 5485 Lloyd Hotel Oostelijke Handelskade 34, 419 1840 M-Lab Aambeeldstraat 10E 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 METIS_NL Lijnbaansgracht 316, 638 9863 Montevideo/Time Based Arts Keizersgracht 264, 623 7101 Mozes & Aäronkerk Waterlooplein 205 Muiderpoorttheater 2e van Swindenstraat 26, 692 5421 Mulligans Amstel 100, 622 1330 Museum van Loon Keizersgracht 672, 624 5255 Muziekgebouw Piet Heinkade 1, 788 2010 Het Muziektheater Amstel 3, 625 5455

Stadsschouwburg Leidseplein 26, 624 2311

Van Gogh Museum Paulus Potterstraat 7, 570 5200 Verzetsmuseum Plantage Kerklaan 61, 620 2535

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Food with a view Villa Nieuwmarkt Nieuwmarkt 25, 420 2022 Open Mon-Fri 10.30-01.00 Sat, Sun 10.30-03.00 Cash, PIN, major credit cards.

Every time I emerge, like a time-travelling, humanflesh eating Morlock, from the Nieuwmarkt metro station, my eye zooms in to the left-hand corner. A cheerful yellow awning with an electric light-bulb necklace coquettishly yodels a silent ‘halloo’.

Villa Nieuwmarkt is well placed. Beneath the awning are terrace tables and outdoor chairs, with comfy cushions. Parked upon them are punters, who slurp large foaming beer tankards. They sit eyeing the Nieuwmarkt’s comings and goings: pigeons, pimps, police and passing people of all other types. The big Disney-looking De Waag stands as an imposing sight against the skyline.

Inside, the atmosphere is laid back and the decor has a cosy, well-used feel about it.

Easy music caressed my ear drums. I was warmly greeted by the barwoman, who was busy making coffee and tapping beer into glasses. I pondered my choices while drinking a superb iced coffee (€3).

The sandwich combinations looked mouthwateringly good: hot ones from the oven, like turkey fillet with melted blue cheese, paprika, red pesto and mushrooms. Or brie with bacon, tomato, walnut, egg, oregano and watercress.

Next, I scanned the club sandwiches. There are several types here, including a take on the traditional, with smoked chicken, bacon, egg, tomato and chilli mayo and the Villa Club, with goat’s cheese, Serrano ham, walnuts, paprika and tape-

THE UNDERCOVER GLUTTON My Glutton Muse appeared, tut-tutting in horror. How dare I order fried food! But I wanted to honour Pavarotti in my own, sweet way. nade, looked tempting. But I was after more substantial fare, so I went for the Villa Burger with cheese, tomato, onion and chips; not bad, at €7.50.

My Glutton Muse appeared, tut-tutting in

horror. How dare I order fried food! There were many more healthy options, fat boy! But I wanted to honour Pavarotti in my own, sweet way.

‘Here you are,’ said the waitress, placing my

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plate gently before me. My side order of grilled bacon and chilli mayo arrived alongside. The food looked attractive: the cheese had melted over the grilled beef patty, and chopped red onion was strewn over; some salad garnish—lettuce, tomato and cress—dribbled with sauce. The mound of chunky fries looked home-cut—but wasn’t.

The meaty burger was solid, and clearly made at a butcher’s, rather than in-house—it was perfectly acceptable, as far as commercial burgers went. This wasn’t gourmet dining, but it suited my mood fine. Maybe next time I’ll try a wrap tortilla with smoked salmon, cream cheese, egg and avocado.

Villa Nieuwmarkt’s current owners have five other venues, demonstrating the success of their formula of relaxed atmosphere, reasonable prices and good service. The specials board attracts the university students and passing tourists to the likes of daily changing pastas or vegetarian dishes. The dinner menu has more grand offerings, including grilled Dorado on potato, fennel and cheese mash with basil and cream sauce; or an unusual-sounding Thai rice salad with prawns, bacon, lychee, cashew nuts, broccoli, pak choi and cucumber, with coconut-madras dressing.

The desserts looked good, but I asked the barwoman if she could persuade the chef to make me something indulgent and gooey to end my calorific rampage. I received an enormous creation, consisting of chocolate ice-cream, sour amaretto cherries, pistachio nuts, thick chocolate sauce and whipped cream (€6). It looked unhealthily wonderful. I scoffed it slowly, savouring each sticky sweet mouthful.

I wanted to burst into an aria of praise to reach the late tenor’s ears to wish him buen appetito at that great Celestial Table in the sky, where he would be tucking into nectar and ambrosia. And, until we meet there, see you on Nieuwmarkt.

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19 Love’s young dream.

Eddy Terstall’s film about sex and multiculturalism has great sex but the opinions are a snooze.

FORGET POLITICS, MAKE MOVIES FILM Sextet Opens Thursday at Het Ketelhuis, Kriterion and Studio K. In Dutch.

By Marie-Claire Melzer

After Eddy Terstall finished Simon (2004), his moving, much-praised film about an Amsterdam drug dealer who is diagnosed with cancer, he was in the mood for something lighter. He decided

to make a film about sex.

The initial plan was to work with a group of directors, but Terstall ended up writing and directing all the stories himself. As it turns out, Sextet isn’t just a sex film; it also incorporates Terstall’s growing political activism. And that’s where Terstall proves he can’t quite go it alone.

The six short films that make up Sextet vary widely in style and tone—and in quality. There’s a black-and-white, sort-of-

educational film about a lesbian couple starring Katja Schuurman; a teenage comedy about a brother and sister (Tara Elders) who make a bet that she won’t get laid within a week, despite going out in a sexy outfit and acting completely dumb (if she does, he gets the bigger bedroom); a road movie with Jan Mulder as a retired football player/writer who meets a young admirer (Esmarel Gasman); a curious animated bit about a prostitute being molested in Tomand-Jerry style by a client; and a romantic drama about a struggling actor (Dirk Zeelenberg) who falls in love with a married woman (Gasman again).

Being a born-and-bred Amsterdammer, Terstall specialises in portraying city people, from no-nonsense autochtonen to slightly snobby students from the provinces. He could be called the Dutch Woody Allen: he shares with his American colleague a fascination for people and interpersonal relationships, and a talent for depicting them in a natural and humorous way. Simon got much atten-

tion for dealing with ‘typically Dutch’ topics such as gay marriage, euthanasia and drugs policy, but what really made it such a grand film was the great dialogue and the slice of life characters. (Apparently, Cees Geel was so convincing as the dealer that no one has dared to offer him another part since, forcing him into talkshow hosting.)

As far back as the romantic comedy Hufters & Hofdames (1997), Terstall has shown himself to be an excellent actor’s director, and Sextet is no different. Zeelenberg and Gasman are moving as the secret lovers; the story of their doomed affair is the best part of the film. The road movie with Mulder has its funny moments too, notably Annet Malherbe doing her Gooische vrouw bit as a fan who persuades Mulder to jump out of a cake at her friend’s birthday party.

But some sections are nearly unwatchable. Schuurman, eating pizza, drinking beer and cracking sex jokes, seems only an exercise in lesbian stereotypes. At the same time, we’re informed that the woman’s Moroccan neighbours are actually quite open-minded: the wife has a job (!), the husband doesn’t beat her (!) and they accept the lesbian couple (!). This seems at best superfluous, at worst insulting to our intelligence.

Terstall comes by his politics honestly—he’s active in the PvdA—but whereas in Simon he presented his topics subtly, embedding them in a good story, in Sextet the films often seem nothing but vehicles for his opinions about religion, sex, freedom of speech and more. Opinions are fine, but a good film also needs a gripping story and/or some style. Let Terstall please leave politics to the politicians and go back to making films.

Five-Word Movie Review

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

by Lisa Alspector (LA),Massimo Benvegnù (MB), René Glas (RG),Luuk van Huët (LvH),JR Jones (JJ),Dave Kehr (DK),Marie-Claire Melzer (MM), Mike Peek (MP),Gusta Reijnders (GR),Jonathan Rosenbaum (JR) and Bregtje Schudel (BS).All films are screened in English with Dutch subtitles unless otherwise noted. Amsterdam Weekly recommends.

Festivals Africa in the Picture The festival of new African films continues through to Sunday. Rialto CineBrasil Film Festival 2007 Until Saturday, this annual minifest showcases the best new Brazilian cinema. Offerings include a documentary on the celebrated architect Oscar Niemeyer, whose idealistic vision shaped the city of Brasilia; the fiction film Cheiro do Ralo (‘Drained’), about a man whose manipulative games are thwarted by a woman and a serious plumbing problem; and two music documentaries. One is a concert film on the singer-songwriter Tom Zé (with afterparty); the other, directed by Ricardo van Steen, tells the tragic life story of the great 1930s ‘samba poet’ Noel Rosa (also with music aftewards). All are subtitled in English. KIT Tropentheater, Kleine Zaal Cinemaztlán A joint festival curated by De Balie and Filmmuseum featuring more than 20 landmark Mexican films. The programme, which premieres several award-winning movies never seen in the Netherlands, will include an important retrospective of alternative Mexican films made during the ’60s and ’70s, and also

MODERN LIFE IS REALLY RUBBISH Mon Oncle, Melkweg Cinema

Talk to Me

a group of progressive Mexican contemporary films from 1999-2004, relating to changes happening throughout the country. All films in Spanish with English subtitles. Until 25 September. De Balie, Studio K

Festival Klit! Animation Festival A programme of short, colourful and dynamic films reveals the rampant growth of Lowlands animation talent. See Short List.

Cavia, Het Ketelhuis, De Nieuwe Anita

New this week Belle toujours Even after a second viewing, Belle Toujours remains a bit of a puzzle. The biggest mystery isn’t its subject matter—it’s a remarkably straightforward follow-up to Luis Buñuel’s seductive Catherine Deneuve classic Belle de Jour (1967)—but the fact that it was made at all. Ninety-eight-year-old film-maker Manoel de Oliveira’s tribute counteracts all the things that made the original great. In Belle de Jour, Séverine’s acts of self-abasement defied explanation; in Belle Toujours all the character’s motives are analysed. Do we really want

to know why Séverine (now played by Bulle Ogier) did what she did? Wouldn’t that defeat the purpose? In French with Dutch subtitles. (BS) 68 min. Filmmuseum The Bourne Ultimatum The third and probably best entry in Paul Greengrass Bourne series sees the return of Matt Damon as Jason Bourne, who’s hiding from his former principals at the CIA. A meeting with reporter Simon Ross makes him realise they’re still looking for him and activates memories from his dark past: Bourne must stay alive long enough to find out who he really is. In effect, this is an excuse for a really long, intercontinental chase sequence, as the film criss-crosses the world at an incredible pace. The definite highlight is a long pursuit on foot over the roofs of Algiers, ending in a really, really tough fight scene. It’s all a bit over the top, and The Bourne Ultimatum doesn’t have the same realistic feel that the first two movies had. You get amazing action in return though, with a little surprise at the end to top things off. With Joan Allen, Julia Stiles, David Strathairn and Albert Finney. (MP) 111 min. Pathé ArenA, Pathé De Munt, Pathé Tuschinski The Diving Bell and the Butterfly The latest from painter-turned-director Julian Schnabel (Basquiat) is a

poetic, moving filmed version of the memoir by Elle France editor Jean-Dominique Bauby, who at the age of 43 suffered a stroke that paralysed his entire body except his left eyelid. With Mathieu Amalric and Emanuelle Seigner. In French/English with Dutch subtitles. 112 min. Cinecenter, The Movies, Pathé Tuschinski Georgia Rule Take the ultimate LA brat (Lindsay Lohan) and send her off to spend the summer with Grandma (Jane Fonda) in Mormon country. There, she starts flirting with all two of the available men (Dermot Mulroney and Garrett Hedlund) and saying she has been sexually abused by her stepfather (Cary Elwes). Is it true or not?

And will it make you laugh and cry—in the right order?

From Garry Marshall, the man who glamourised prostitution in Pretty Woman and turned BDSM into comedy in Exit to Eden, comes another twisted take on sex, romance and, ultimately, sense of humour. Yes, nowadays Hollywood green-lights comedy-dramas about molested stepdaughters. Should we be surprised? Or simply disgusted? (MB) 113 min. Pathé ArenA Sextet Amsterdammer Eddy Terstall directs a sex film with political overtones. See review above.Het Ketelhuis, Kriterion, Studio K A Sunday in Kigali Canadian journalist Bernard Valcourt (Luc Picard) goes to Rwanda in 1994 to make a documentary about AIDS. He falls in love with a pretty waitress (Fatou N’Diaye), then gets separated from her

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20 in the growing storm of violence. Directed by Robert Favreau from an autobiographical novel by Gil Courtemanche. In French with Dutch subtitles.118 min. Rialto Talk to Me Don Cheadle stars as Ralph Waldo ‘Petey’ Greene, who followed a prison term for armed robbery in the early ’60s with a long career as a media personality and social activist in Washington, DC. After playing such upright guys in Hotel Rwanda and Reign Over Me (unreleased here), Cheadle must have reached naturally for the part of the raunchy, rebellious Greene, but he would have been better cast as Dewey Hughes, the AM radio programmer who gave Greene his first shot (well played instead by Chiwetel Ejiofor).

The early scenes of Greene misbehaving on the air are pretty funny, thanks mainly to Martin Sheen as the apoplectic station manager. But the movie’s trite cartoon of the black power era—especially coming from Kasi Lemmons, who made her directing debut with the hauntingly ambiguous Eve’s Bayou is disappointing.

(JJ) 118 min. The Movies, Pathé ArenA, Studio K

Still playing 1408 This Stephen King horror adaptation is a breath of fresh air in a genre exhausted by lacklustre teen slashers, irreverent remakes and torture porn. No disposable hottie-of-the-month in the lead here; instead we get the always likeable John Cusack. He plays troubled Mike Enslin, writer of corny haunted house books (wink, wink), whose new subject is a bland-looking but supposedly haunted hotel room. While he doesn’t believe in the supernatural, the hotel manager, played

by Samuel L Jackson, warns him that no less than 56 people have died there—all within an hour of entering.

Once Mike is inside, all spooky hell does indeed break loose and poor Mike must face the room’s evil (including such personal demons as his deceased young daughter). While the ending might be a bit ambiguous or vague for some, rest assured that Room 1408 will terrify you as much as it does Mike. Directed by Mikael Håfström. (RG) 94 min. Pathé ArenA, Pathé De Munt 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, writer-director 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 De Munt

Angel François Ozon has added another master-

piece to his oeuvre. You could call it a postmodern costume drama, since it’s set in the early 20th century, but the dazzling visual style also refers to ’40s and ’50s Hollywood melodramas, and bits of contemporary televi-

sion culture keep turning up too. Angel (Romola Garai), a writer of pulp novels with a shocking lack of taste and talent, is a highly ironic character. But the film is too multi-layered to be a simple parody, and Ozon turns out to have a heart for his Angel. As a viewer, you can’t help feeling for her too. To catch all of it, you’ll probably need to see it twice. (MM) 134 min. Cinema Amstelveen Una Ballata Bianca Actors Carmela and Nicola Lanci make their debut at age 80 in this poetic exploration of loneliness, love, age and death. Director Stefano Odoardi based his first feature film on a play by Dutch theatre director Kees Roorda. In Italian with English subtitles. 78 min. Filmmuseum Belle de jour Though it may not equal the sublimity of his last three features, Luis Buñuel’s 1967 masterpiece remains a seminal work that clarifies his relationship with Hitchcock. Like Hitchcock, Buñuel was a prude with a strong religious background and a highly developed sense of the kinky and transgressive; what he does here with Catherine Deneuve parallels Hitchcock’s encounters with Tippi Hedren. Adapting a novel

by Joseph Kessel, Buñuel and Jean-Claude Carriere recount the story of a frigid but devoted upper-class housewife (Deneuve) who secretly works at a highclass brothel to satisfy her masochistic impulses.

Placing her fantasies, dreams and recollections on the same plane as her everyday adventures, Buñuel comes closer to the French New Wave than he did before or after, and much of his secondary cast reinforces this association, including Michel Piccoli, Macha Meril and Pierre Clementi as a dandyish gangster. In French with Dutch subtitles. (JR) 101 min.

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Belle de jour Goodbye Bafana Director Bille August tells the story of Nelson Mandela as seen through the eyes of his prison guard. In 1968, James Gregory (Joseph Fiennes), a white South African policeman fluent in Xhosa, is transferred to Robben Island, the notorious prison where Mandela (Dennis Haysbert of 24) is being kept under tight control. Obviously, their relationship will be distrustful at first, and border dangerously on friendship by the end of the movie (and the consequent end of apartheid in South Africa). In its didactic pace, Goodbye Bafana plays more like a history lesson on the life and times of the African leader than the powerful, must-see political drama it could have been. (MB) 118 min. The Movies, Pathé Tuschinski Hairspray A filmed version of the Broadway musical of the John Waters film. Slightly reprehensible, but it does swing. Pathé ArenA, Pathé De Munt, Pathé Tuschinski, Studio K

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 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 La ragazza in vetrina An Italian immigrant falls in love with an Amsterdam window girl in this 1960 comedy/drama from Italian filmmaker Luciano Emmer.

The plot is a bit thin, but the pyschological study of the characters involved makes this film a unique gem.

Though it’s not graphic in its display of sexual attraction, it was destroyed by Italian censors; as a result, Emmer—who comes from a family with Dutch origins—stopped making movies for 30 years to pursue a career in advertising. (He apparently had a nose for business: when he couldn’t get pimps on the Wallen to rent windows to him during the filming, he began exploiting them himself, with success.) A patient reconstruction enables us to watch this movie now as it was originally meant to be. With Lino Ventura and Marina Vlady. In Italian/Dutch with English subtitles.

90 min. Filmmuseum Rescue Dawn In one of his most Hollywood-style films in ages, Werner Herzog allows himself to fictionalise

13-19 September 2007 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 Vietnameserun 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 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) Pathé ArenA, Pathé De Munt 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 full-frontal 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 diarystyle 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 With her third feature, a kaleidoscopic

portrait of a family that first falls apart and then tries to reconnect, Dutch director Nanouk Leopold shows us that her previous film, the visually arresting Guernsey, wasn’t a fluke. Where most Dutch movies are heavy with cumbersome dialogue and low on visual finesse, Leopold dares to be different. She lets the images speak for themselves. Not everyone will ‘warm’ to Leopold’s detached and rigid visual style and distant protagonists, but for the rest, Wolfsbergen will prove to be a rare cinematic treat. (BS) 93 min. The Movies, Pathé Tuschinski

Special screenings Amsterdam door vreemde ogen Clips and shorts from foreign films shot in Amsterdam, including an episode of the 1955 American spy series Secret File, USA, which featured a very young Rijk de Gooyer in a supporting role. Filmmuseum The Apartment This 1961 Billy Wilder comedy stars Jack Lemmon as a miserable cog in the wheels of a big office and, as his love interest, the incredibly watchable young Shirley MacLaine. 125 min. Rialto Babel In a North African desert, two bored boys herding goats decide to try out their gun. The shot causes a chain reaction that changes the lives of an American couple (Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett), a rebellious, deaf teenage girl in Japan and a Mexican au pair caring for two American children. According to director Alejandro González Iñárritu, this is the third film in a trilogy that began with 21 Grams and Amores Perros. It’s all about relationships, love in the midst of adversity and communication. In many languages with Dutch subtitles. 142 min. Pathé Tuschinski

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Fountain A love story by the director of Requiem for a Dream and Pi promises not to fit the mould, but Darren Aronofsky has confounded critics and audiences alike with this spiritually infused rumination on death and grief, with a plot spanning a millennium. Bashing the film as an exercise in New Age dilly-dallying is an easy, cynical response, but opening your mind, or even crown chakra, and letting the film overwhelm you is the better way to go. Superb performances by Hugh Jackman and Rachel Weisz, resplendent visuals and the luscious, non-digital effects help to immerse viewers with ease. (LvH) 97 min. OT301

Knallhart Fifteen-year-old Michael (David Kross) moves to a gritty Berlin neighbourhood, where he is beaten and blackmailed by the school bullies. Then a chance meeting with the local drug lord turns his life upside down. He starts delivering to local dealers in exchange for money and protection from his high school enemies. But who will guard Michael from his guardians?

Knallhart resembles the 1981 film Christiane F one generation on, and director Detlev Buck has pimped the film’s style accordingly: in the first hour, the shaky images and flashy editing make the film seem too selfconsciously ‘cool’. But as Michael penetrates ever deeper into Berlin’s criminal milieu, the film gains power and a surreal intensity. In German with Dutch subtitles. (MP) 98 min. Filmmuseum Open Air

Living in Oblivion A very funny 1994 comedy by New York writer-director Tom DiCillo, cinematographer of Stranger Than Paradise, about the nightmares of shooting an American independent feature. The story comes in three acts, and even though the first is funnier than the second and the second funnier than the third, the whole thing is still pretty entertaining. The comedy here recalls at times Truffaut’s Day for Night, though the characters are much thinner. With Steve Buscemi, James LeGros, Catherine Keener, Dermot Mulroney and Danielle von Zernick. (JR) 87 min.De Nieuwe Anita Mon Oncle Jacques Tati’s 1958 film is a transitional work: Hulot is still here, but he no longer occupies the foreground; set off to one side, as the eccentric uncle of a desperately modern family, he is more of a visiting sprite, suggesting a human alternative to the mechanical life forms that occupy the centre of the story. In French with Dutch subtitles. (DK) 110 min. Melkweg Cinema

Pi Max (Sean Gullette) sees everything in terms of numbers in this distressing existential horror story (1998) that’s also a science fiction thriller. He spends all of his time feverishly searching for order in chaos, analysing the stock market and scrutinising the digits of pi for patterns. We’re sucked into his spiralling selfdestruction—or messianic self-sacrifice—as he passionately argues about the value of mathematical and numerological studies with his former mentor, who’s given up his own research after suffering a stroke. Montages stress discrete shots of symbolic and abstract images even as powerfully logical associations seem to be forged. Written and directed by Darren Aronofsky, this is a seductive movie about alienation.

(LA) 84 min. OT301 Playtime The most visually inventive film of the ’60s is also one of the funniest. In Jacques Tati’s remarkable 1967 comedy about man and his modern world, M Hulot goes from fear of his ultra-modern, glass-towered environment to a poetic transcendence of it. A masterpiece among masterpieces. In French with Dutch subtitles.

(DK) 126 min. Melkweg Cinema

Rushmore In this 1998 film by Wes Anderson (The

Life Aquatic by Steve Zissou, The Royal Tenenbaums), Jason Schwartzman plays an ambitious working-class pupil who’s flunking out of a private high school—the Rushmore of the title—because he’s too engrossed in extra-curricular activities. To make matters worse, he develops a crush on a young widow (Olivia Williams) who’s a grammar-school teacher there. His two best friends are a schoolmate who’s much younger and a disaffected millionaire alumnus (Bill Murray) who’s much older, and part of the lift of this movie is that it

creates a utopian democracy among different age groups. Things come to a crisis when the millionaire becomes the hero’s romantic rival. Stylistically fresh and full of sweetness that never cloys, this is contemporary Hollywood film-making at its near best.

(JR) 93 min. Cavia Vanishing Point Now that Quentin Tarantino has name-checked it in Death Proof, there may be new life for this 1971 road movie. After driving non-stop from San Francisco to Denver, a silent macho type (Barry Newman) accepts a bet that he can make it back again in 15 hours. A blind DJ named Super Soul (Cleavon Little) cheers him on while the cops doggedly chase him.

While Richard Sarafian’s direction of this action thriller and drive-in favourite isn’t especially distinguished, the script by Cuban author Guillermo Cabrera Infante (writing here under the pseudonym he adopted as a film critic, G Cain) takes full advantage of the subject’s existential and mythical undertones without being pretentious. You certainly get a run for your money, along with a lot of rock music. (JR) 98 min. iLLUSEUM Workingman’s Death To a soundtrack by John Zorn, Austrian film-maker Michael Glawogger portrays the lives of Ukrainian coal miners, Pakistani salvagers, Indonesians who haul sulphur from an active volcano, and butchers in a Nigerian slaughterhouse in this 2005 documentary. With English subtitles. 122 min. OT301 Yesterday’s Future Music Today A special benefit evening for the Illuseum, to help pay the cinema’s veterinary bills. Includes a live concert by Rotterdam cult star Harry Merry, DJing by Italy’s Madame P, and a series of surprising short films, all starring animals. iLLUSEUM

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De Balie Kleine-Gartmanplantsoen 10, 553 5151 Cinemaztlán Tues, Wed. Cavia Van Hallstraat 52-I, 681 1419 Klit! Animation Festival Rushmore Thur, Fri 20.30.

Cinecenter Lijnbaansgracht 236, 623 6615 The Diving Bell and the Butterfly daily 16.15, 19.00, 21.45, Sun also 11.00, 13.30 Ensemble,c'est tout daily 16.30, 19.30, 21.45, Sun also 11.15, 14.00 Das Leben der Anderen daily 15.45, 18.45, Sun also 12.45 The Lookout daily 22.00 La Sconosciuta daily 16.15, 19.00, 21.45, Sun also 11.15.

Cinema Amstelveen Plein 1960 2, Amstelveen, 547 5175 Angel Tues, Wed 20.30 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Sat, Wed 15.30, Sun 13.45, 16.30 Nuovomundo Thur 15.00 Ocean's Thirteen Thur-Sat 20.30 Zoop in Zuid-Amerika Sat, Wed 13.30, Sun 12.00.

Filmhuis Griffioen Uilenstede 106, Amstelveen, 444 5100 Cashback Thur, Fri, Tues 20.30.

Filmmuseum Vondelpark 3, 589 1400 Amsterdam door vreemde ogen Amsterdam door vreemde ogen 1 Amsterdam door vreemde ogen 2 Una Ballata Bianca Fri-Sun, Tues 17.45 Belle de jour daily 19.30, Thur-Mon, Wed also 21.45, Tues also 22.00 Belle toujours daily 21.30, Thur-Mon, Wed also 17.15, Sun also 15.45 César et Rosalie Thur, Mon, Wed 17.00, Sun 15.30 La ragazza in vetrina daily 19.45 Sven en zijn Rat Sun, Wed 14.00 Willie en het wilde konijn Sun, Wed 13.45.

Filmmuseum Open Air Vondelpark, , Knallhart Fri 21.15. iLLUSEUM Witte de Withstraat 120, 770 5581 Vanishing Point Sat 21.00 Yesterday's Future Music Today Fri 21.00.

Het Ketelhuis Haarlemmerweg 8-10, 684 0090 Adam's Apples daily 19.45, 21.45, Thur-Sat, Mon-Wed also 17.45 De Avonturen van het Molletje Sat, Sun, Wed 13.45 Harry Potter en de Orde van de Fenix Sat, Wed 15.00 Italianetz Sat-Mon, Wed 17.00 Klit! Animation Festival Das Leben der Anderen daily 18.45, 21.15, Sat, Sun, Wed also 14.15 Sextet daily 19.30, 21.30, Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed also 17.30 Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill Sun 15.00 Willie en het wilde konijn Sun, Wed 13.45, 15.00, 16.15.

KIT Tropentheater, Kleine Zaal Linnaeusstraat 2, 568 8500 Cheiro do ralo Fri 20.30 CineBrasil Film Festival 2007 Thur-Sat Noel, poeta da vila Sat 20.45 Oscar Niemeyer: A vida e um sopro Thur 20.30 Tom Zé Sat 20.45.

Kriterion Roetersstraat 170, 623 1708 Planet Terror Fri, Sat 0.15, Sun 15.30, Mon, Wed 22.15 La Sconosciuta daily 20.00 Sextet daily 18.00, Thur-Sun also 22.15, Sat also 15.30 Sneak Preview Tues 22.15.

Melkweg Cinema Lijnbaansgracht 234A, 624 1777 Mon Oncle Thur, Fri 19.00 Playtime Mon, Tues 19.00.

The Movies Haarlemmerdijk 159-165, 638 6016 Death Proof Fri, Sat 0.00 The Diving Bell and the Butterfly daily 19.30, 21.45, Sun also 12.15 Goodbye Bafana daily 19.00, Sat, Sun, Wed also 14.15 The Lookout Fri, Sat 23.45 Pan's Labyrinth daily 22.00, Fri, Sat also 0.15 Ratatouille (NL) daily 17.15, Sat, Sun, Wed 14.45, Sun also 12.00 Rescue Dawn daily 16.45, 19.15, 22.00, Fri, Sat also 0.15, Sat, Sun, Wed also 14.45, Sun also 12.00 De Simpsons Film Sat, Sun, Wed 15.00, Sun also 12.30 Talk to Me daily 16.30, 21.30 Wolfsbergen daily 17.00, 20.00.

De Nieuwe Anita Frederik Hendrikstraat 111, 06 4150 3512, Klit! Animation Festival Sat 14.00 Living in Oblivion Mon 20.30.

OT301 Overtoom 301, 779 4913 The Fountain Tues 20.30 Pi Tues 20.30 Workingman's Death Sun 20.30.

1408 daily 12.10, 17.15, 19.30, 21.45, Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed also 14.40 Bordertown daily 20.20 The Bourne Ultimatum daily 11.50, 13.00, 14.20, 15.30, 16.55, 18.10, 19.25, 20.45, 21.50 Bratz: De Film daily 15.00 Crank Thur, Sun-Wed 22.15 Disturbia daily 16.15, 18.25, Thur-Mon, Wed also 22.00, Thur, Fri, Mon, Tues also 11.40, 13.55 Evan Almighty daily 17.55, Thur-Mon, Wed also 12.45, 15.30, Sat, Sun also 10.15 Georgia Rule daily 15.55, 18.35, 21.10, Thur, Fri, Mon, Tues also 13.15 Hairspray daily 13.10, 15.40, 18.30, 21.00 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix daily 11.45, 14.30, 17.25, 20.30 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (IMAX) daily 12.15, 15.15, 18.20 Das Leben der Anderen Tues 13.30 Mr Brooks daily 18.50, 21.30, Thur, Fri, Mon, Tues also 13.35, 16.10 No Reservations daily 13.20, 15.45, 18.15, 20.50 Ratatouille daily 13.45, 16.30, 19.05, 21.40, Sat, Sun also 11.05 Ratatouille (NL) Sat, Sun, Wed 11.30, 13.15, 13.55, 15.50, Sat, Sun also 10.40 Rescue Dawn daily 17.30 De Simpsons Film Sat, Sun, Wed 12.25, Sat, Sun also 10.10 The Simpsons Movie daily 21.20 Sneak Preview Tues 21.00 Talk to Me daily 20.15, Thur, Fri, Mon, Tues also 12.25 Wedding Daze daily 12.40, 14.50, 17.00, 19.10, Sat, Sun also 10.30 Zoop in Zuid-Amerika Sat, Sun, Wed 13.40, Sat, Sun also 11.25.

Pathé De Munt Vijzelstraat 15, 0900 1458 1408 Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 12.15, 14.35, 17.05, 19.30, 22.00, Sat 11.15, 13.35, 16.05, 18.30, 21.00, 23.30 Alpha Dog Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 18.55, Sat also 20.15 Because I Said So Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 19.05, Sat 20.20 Bordertown Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 21.40, Sat 23.05 The Bourne Ultimatum Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 13.15, 16.00, 18.45, 21.30, Sun also 10.30, Sat 10.05, 14.30, 17.15, 20.00, 22.45 Bratz: De Film Sat 12.05, Sun 10.10, Wed 13.05 Crank Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 18.05, Sat 10.55, 19.20 Die Hard 4.0 Sat 23.05 Disturbia Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 13.50, 16.25, 19.05, 21.45, Sun also 11.15, Sat 12.30, 15.05, 17.45, 20.30 Evan Almighty Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 16.15, Thur, Fri, Mon, Wed 13.30, Sat 15.25, 17.50 Hairspray Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 13.00, 15.45, 18.20, 21.05, Sun also 10.25, Sat 11.35, 14.15, 16.55, 19.30, 22.15 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 14.45, 20.20, Sun also 11.30, Sat 13.10, 16.15, 21.45 I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 18.35, Thur, Fri, Mon, Tues also 12.30, 15.05, Sat 17.05, 19.40 Mr Brooks Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 15.35, Thur, Fri, Sun-Tues also 12.40, Thur, Fri, Sun, Mon, Wed also 18.30, 21.15, Tues also 18.20, 21.10, Sat 14.50, 17.35, 20.25, 23.10 No Reservations Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 12.50, 15.25, 18.05, Thur, Fri, Sun, Mon, Wed also 20.45, Tues also 21.10, Sun also 10.20, Sat 12.45, 15.20, 17.55, 20.35, 23.15 Ocean's Thirteen Thur, Fri, Sun, Mon, Wed 21.20, Sat 22.30 Planet Terror daily 21.55 Ratatouille Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 12.00, 14.25, 17.15, Thur, Fri, Sun, Mon, Wed also 20.55, Tues also 20.50, Sat 10.40, 13.15, 15.50, 18.30, 21.15 Ratatouille (NL) Sat 10.25, 13.00, 15.45, Sun 11.40, 14.20, Wed 12.35, 15.15 De Simpsons Film Sat 10.05, 12.20, 14.45, Sun 11.25, 13.45, 16.10, Wed 14.05, 16.20 The Simpsons Movie daily 12.55, 15.15, 22.10, Thur, Fri, SunWed also 17.40, 19.55, Sat, Sun also 10.40, Sat also 17.30, 19.30 Sneak Preview Tues 21.15 Wedding Daze Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 12.05, 14.15, 17.20, 19.40, Sat 12.10, 14.25, 16.40, 19.05 Zoop in Zuid-Amerika Sat 10.45, 13.05, Sun 11.00, 13.30, Wed 13.40.

Pathé Tuschinski Reguliersbreestraat 34, 0900 1458 Babel Thur, Tues 13.30 Becoming Jane daily 18.30 The Bourne Ultimatum daily 12.45, 15.30, 18.00, 21.00 The Diving Bell and the Butterfly daily 13.15, 18.45, 21.45 Goodbye Bafana daily 12.30, 18.15, Thur, Fri, Mon, Tues also 15.15 Hairspray daily 13.45, 16.15, 19.00, 21.45 Infamous daiy 21.15 No Reservations daily 16.45, 19.15, 22.00 Ratatouille daily 16.00 Ratatouille (NL) Sat, Sun, Wed 13.00, 15.15 La Sconosciuta daily 15.45, 21.30, Thur, Fri, Mon, Tues also 13.00 Wolfsbergen Fri-Mon, Wed 13.30.

Rialto Ceintuurbaan 338, 676 8700 Africa in the Picture Thur-Sun The Apartment Sun 11.00, Wed 16.00 Gypsy Caravan: When the Road Bends Fri, Sat, Wed 16.15, SunWed 21.30 Half Moon Sat 14.00, Mon-Wed 19.00 Das Leben der Anderen Fri, Sat 16.00, Sat also 13.20, Sun-Tues 21.45, Mon, Tues also 19.15, Wed 16.00 La Marea daily 17.45, Sun also 11.15 Opera Jawa Wed 19.30 Summer Palace daily 19.30, Fri-Sun, Wed also 15.10 Sunday in Kigali,A daily 22.00, Sat, Sun 13.00.

Studio K Timorplein 62, 692 0422, Cinemaztlán Tues, Wed Hairspray Thur-Mon, Wed 16.45, 19.15 The Lookout Thur-Mon, Wed 22.00 Sextet daily 19.30 Talk to Me daily 17.00, 21.30.

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HOUTEN VLOERDELENNu Tues 19.30-21.00 at Trainbij Klaas Bierman: eiken en ing Centrum, Europaplein jatoba vloerdelen, multiplank.

127 near RAI. Tram 4 (stop Tevens leggen en verduDintelstraat). €10/class; with urzamen. Bel voor info of 10-card yoga strippenkaart advies 0229 542 179 of 06 5533 €9/class. Individual thera4838. peutic classes arranged by UPHOLSTERER For re- appt at €20/hr. cristina@theupholstering of all kinds of wheel-of-yoga.com/773 5307. furniture, modern and SINGING LESSONS On antique, boat and caravan Prinsengracht, beautiful cushions recovered or made atmosphere. Classical voice to measure, also curtains training, breathing techmade to measure, all styles niques, vocalization, scales, catered for, wide selection etc. For beg & professionals. of fabrics to choose from in From classic to jazz pop or all price classes. Contact rock, and all styles of singing.

Sophie Filangi 06 4154 7557.

Good prices + free intro leswww.alabonnechaise.nl. son. For more info call Michael on 320 2095 or mail COMPUTERS ajara77@yahoo.com.

PC HOUSE DOCTOR Specialised in virus/spyware VIOLIN LESSONSMaster sturemoval, h/w, s/w repair, data dent Composition at the Conrecovery, wireless, cable/ADSL servatorium van Amsterdam installation and computer gives violin lessons in English. lessons from friendly and expe- Broad experience in giving rienced Microsoft professional lessons at Conservatories in for reasonable price. Contact Greece. Call 06 2193 1571 for more information or a free Mario 06 1644 8230. introduction lesson. Kind regards, Tania Sikelianou.

COURSES sik_tania@hotmail.com.

IYENGAR YOGA CLASSES

POLE DANCING A'DAM Intensive Pole Dancing class in the centre of A’dam: Sun 9 + 16 Sept from 14.00 to 17.00, Intermediate Sun 23 + 30 Sept from 14.00 to 17.00. Email info@sexyinstructors.com.

SUMMER WORKSHOPS Drawing and painting workshops by professional artist, various techniques, all styles. Contact joneiselin@hetnet.nl/www .joneiselin.com.

WORKSHOP! UPHOLSTERY WORKSHOP NOW IN WESTERPARK! Recover and/or repair your own furniture with the professional advice of Sophie Filangi.

Every Tues and Thurs 19.00 to 22.00 (by appointment only). Including use of tools, excluding materials. €30 per session. Call for information 06 4154 7557.

PHOTOGRAPHY COURSE Learn how to take better pictures and improve your skills.

This 12-hour (6x2hours) workshop will cover the basics of photography. Lessons take place every 15 days on Thursday evenings (19.30 to 21.30)

at the ABC Treehouse Gallery in A’dam. For more information write to patricia@patriciaribas.com.

SPEAKING IN PUBLIC Workshop. Gain confidence, effective use of body language and much more, packed with tips and advice!

Tuesday 18th Sept, 19.30 22.00, Herculesstraat 109, A’dam Oud-Zuid. More info www.thespeaker.eu, info@ thespeaker.eu, Martyn 06 4638 8622.

IL CIELO OPEN DAY Il cielo Open Day on 23 Sept, 16.0018.00 at Mirror Centre about massage courses where you canlearnholisticmassage,foot reflexology, craniosacral and energy work also combined.

Weekly lesson of 4 or 6 hours each. For more info 06 3004 9738 or check www. ilcielo.org.

FREEFITNESSLESSONS12 freeopenlessonsonSept10-13.

Chi Kung/Qigong (Chinese fitness & energy training). Plus specifically for women - Gentle Fitness,DynamicFitness&Yoga Fitness for women. Locations: Jordaan,Centrum,Oud-Zuid& Baarsjes.InDutch/English.See:

www.sylfit.com&www.chikungtraining.com.

COOKING IN TUSCANY Italian regional cooking course with Italian teacher, 14-21 Oct. Englishspoken.Extrasinclfood related excursions, shopping in local markets, great regional wines, use of seasonal local products, great location. For info:http://cucinadelsole.typepad.com/the_sunny_kitchen/2 007/08/index.html.

LANGUAGES DUTCH LESSONS A'DAM Improve conversation/professionalpurpose/studies/NT2.Also online. Min indiv rate €15/hr.

Adults&childrenMon-Sat,10.0021.00. Also intensive courses.

Min.intensive:15hrs=€215,55. www.excellentdutch.nl. New: Super-intensivesummercourse.

Info: excellentdutch@hotmail.com, 06 3612 2870.

DUTCH LESSONS New eveningcoursesstartinginSept in the centre of A’dam. €200250 for 20 hrs. Visit www.mercuurtaal.nl or call 693 4250.

es, city language walks, NT2.

Starting every week at Link Taal Studio. Info: 06 4133 9323 or linktaalstudio@gmail.com.

DJ/music afternoon in Gallery KnapwithMadameP.Goodmusic for your ears... and your soul!

Huidenstraat 21, start at 17.00.

INTENSIVE DUTCH COURSE at Joost Weet Het! Small groups, fun classes and inexpensive! Excellent and fast learning method. Energetic, accessible and uncomplicated teachers. Classes 4x4 hrs/wk, 2/3/4 wks courses. Start 6 Aug and 1 Oct. Visit http://www.joostweethet.nl or email info@joostweethet.nl call 420 8146.

WANTED: BOXING CLUB I am new to A’dam, looking to get back into boxing. Can anyone recommend a boxing club in A’dam? Please forward info to:noll_nitton_@hotmail.com.

CYCLINGAmsterdam Cycling Club meets for weekly Sunday runs throughout the winter.

DamSquareattheCoffeeCompany, 9.30. 3-4 hour rides. Medium level of fitness and a racLEARN NOW! Castilian ing bike are recommended.

(Spanish), Italian, Dutch, FINE PHOTOGRAPHYThe English & more, with native Michael C. Hersey Gallery teachers. From Sept 2007 to features original B&W and June 2008 in A’dam . Stichtcolour photographs from ing Unlimited Europe AmsEurope and the U.S. & Canaterdam offers courses and conda. Specializing in architecversation, groups of up to 6 ture and landscape images. people. More info email: unlimwww.herseygallery.com. itedeurope@gmail.com or see PLAY AUSSIE RULES The www.unlimitedeurope.org.

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ANNOUNCEMENTS MIRACLE SPONSOR NOW! Sponsor sought to sponsor miracle for Reality Portal documentary bringing wheel chair man to John of God/Brasil. For more info: kevin@realityportal.info. Also check: JOHN OF GOD - DOCUMENTARY HERE >>>FREE! NOW! http:// www. youtube.com/watch?v=qyAmkOrye8. And his site >>> www.johnofgod.com.

HELP WRITING THESIS Looking for an experienced person to assist me in writing my final thesis at postgraduate level in English. Please contact: majita7@hotmail.com.

MODEL SCOUT For every attractivebustymodelyoufind, and we successfully shoot, you will receive a one time ‘finders fee’ payment of €100 cash.

IMPROVE YOUR DUTCH! Your referred model’s cup size Conversation, study groups, should not be less than D-Cup. private classes, intensive cours- DJ MUSIC NIGHT 14 Sept models@benson-media.com