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CITY SECOND BY PETER CLEUTJENS In this issue and... You could make a film out of it... Last Saturday, the extreme right group, Nationalistische Volks Beweging (NVB), packed lunches and left their provincial homes and came all the way to De Baarsjes to protest against the moving of a war memorial—a white cross—something they saw as a terrible portent of Islamification. And as is natural and expected, the extreme-left Anti Fascistische Actie (AFA) got out of bed earlier than usual to stop them. But they were not alone, as they usually are: they were supported by a group of Ajax hooligans who went for the skinhead skulls like dogs after juicy bones. Defeated before they’d even begun, the group of 40 NVBers had to be protected by the police, before being bussed away from the scene without ever having had a chance to demonstrate. Yes, this is a special town indeed. While the rest of the world’s hooligans tend to gravitate to the far right, in Amsterdam they chant ‘We are the Jews! We are the Jews!’ and anti-fascists shake hands with hooligans. Unity is found in the strangest of places. A happy ending, just like the movies?

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AROUND TOWN

SIMON WALD-LASOWSKI

Hopefully, just a typical day at the re-invented Volkskrantgebouw...

Very well bred Newspaper building re-opens as an urban resort for the arts. By Sarah Gehrke As anyone who has ever been house hunting in Amsterdam will testify, empty space isn’t necessarily the first association this town evokes. Nevertheless, there is lots of it all over the place: thousands of square metres of office space are deserted, waiting to be put to good use. One of the initiatives that try to do just that are Urban Resort. The foundation has rented the former Volkskrant building on Wibautstraat to create a broedplaats for artists, creatives and media, social and cultural organisations. It celebrated its official opening last Friday. The building, with all its 1960s charm, is now fully occupied by people of all sorts. Most of the doors are open. Up on the sixth floor sits Andy Birnbaum, a producer and musician, who has worked with Zuco 103 and Benny Sings, among others. What is now his studio used to be the old server room of the Volkskrant offices. The intranet connection is still intact throughout the building, a fact that Birnbaum will

use for his work: ‘The plan is to work with the recording studios that are situated in the basement of the building,’ he says. ‘With audio streaming, I can make the recordings up here. I also work with people from the fifth floor, musicians as well as people from other media. It’s like an open market here, and the communication is very fast.’ One floor down, film-maker Elad Larom agrees. ‘It’s a very good platform to meet other creatives, and to work with them. It’s very fruitful. And there’s a pretty unique mix of people in here as well.’ This unique mix of people has not been created by chance. All of the tenants have been carefully selected by Urban Resort and Kaos Projects, the project bureau that has been commissioned to help put it all together. The concept is cooperation. Prospective tenants had to apply in groups or collectives, one per floor. ‘Or at least, that was the plan,’ says Jan Gieszen of Kaos Projects. ‘In reality, often the groups were too small, so we had to introduce them to other groups, and that’s how it all came together.’ Gieszen’s colleague Hans Pollen chimes in: ‘We try to stimulate cooperation not only between the people on one floor, but also within the whole building. And eventually, we hope, there’ll be interaction with the neighbourhood, too.’ ‘I know everyone on my floor, and at least one person on every other floor,’ says Doreen Westphal, whose office is located on the fourth storey. Westphal is a

designer who’s having international success with her label Krejci. The bags she makes for it are fabricated out of bike inner-tubes and the linings of air mattresses—and they’re really quite chic. ‘I’m glad to always have people around,’ she adds, and says she definitely plans to work with some of them. ‘Most of the people on this floor have a more critical approach to their environment, and I always try to act responsibly as well.’ Her bags are made in a social workshop in Warsaw, and she considers starting up a recycling project in India. ‘I don’t only want to make fancy design stuff,’ she says. ‘It’s gotta have an edge to it. It’s gotta have attitude.’ Walk up the stairs, and find more attitude in the office of Hiphop World on the fifth floor. They came here because they needed an office for organising their biggest project so far: the Splash Festival Winter Edition. It’s a collaboration with the German hiphop and dancehall festival of the same name. Hosted by Biz Markie, it will star Sean Price, Grand Puba, DuvelDuvel and more big names, plus some Stones Throw underground heroes. ‘Our aim is to start doing things that go beyond the hiphop circuit,’ says Nanno Reveco, ‘and being based in this building certainly helps with that. The first event that originated here was our Culture Clash Party, which featured live visuals and hiphop and electro DJs, some of which have their studios in here, too.’ ‘For most of the people here, moving into this building meant making that one step further with their work,’ according to Bram Koning, who does art management and works with several people in the building. ‘It’s not really for starters, more for people who have come quite far already professionally. Also, it’s really good for people who come from outside the country and haven’t really got a network in Amsterdam yet.’ They can all meet and chat and network over a coffee, way up on the seventh floor, in the former Volkskrant canteen, where the Canvas cafe and restaurant is going to open its doors on 2 November. And this place, too, has a concept: ‘We plan to have exhibitions by different artists in here, who will style the entire room, including the furniture,’ explains Thijs Timmers, who thought up the concept for Canvas. The exhibitions will change three or four times a year, and after each one is finished, people are gonna be able to buy the furniture that has been redesigned by the artists.’ ‘We’ll also have mobile units that are going to cater for the entire building. They’re made out of the steel elements that were in here already. We want to use as much as possible from the stuff we found here anyway, because it’s not only a way to save money, but also to reclaim some of the identity of the building. That Sixties style, you know.’ Ah, the Sixties charm. It’s good to hear that it’s not going to be lost entirely. www.urbanresort.nl

Enter darkness A festival that goes beneath the surface. By Marinus de Ruiter Now that the days are getting shorter, the Amsterdam Underground Festival seems the perfect opportunity to let our eyes get used to the darkness ahead of us. This year, the event lets visitors descend into new subterranean realms created through the development of the Noord-Zuidlijn. Strap on your hardhats, put on some rubber boots and discover what happens in the city below sea level. ‘Every year we want to open up another part of the underground world of Amsterdam,’ says Nienke van der Wal, financial director of the festival. ‘Our path basically follows the development of the NoordZuidlijn. Eventually, we’d love to have a year where we could open up all these spaces at once.’ Last year, the festival introduced its audience to historical basements. In the second year, the event has grown considerably—from 5,000 to 15,000 anticipated visitors—so three brand new underground spaces have been opened up to accommodate the expanded crowds. The largest location, Caisson 1 near Dam, is a shaft that reaches 24 metres below NAP. Its sole function is to accommodate the large drill that will dig out the new metro line. ‘It’s a bizarre experience to be in that space,’ says Van der Wal. ‘Nobody comes there now and after it is used, it will disappear. It was very complicated to make it suitable for audiences.’ For the theatrical installation at Caisson 1, audience members must wear hardhats and rubber boots, because creator Christiaan Mooij decided to leave a sheet of water to wade through. Non-traditional theatre, where experience is the essential element, is always the point of departure for the festival’s programme. ‘We offer room to a new generation of theatre-makers,’ says Van der Wal. Both she and artistic director Dirk Coppens have backgrounds in theatre. ‘We’re always looking for something different than what is normally offered in theatres. We want audiences to actively explore what we offer them.’

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Caisson 1: before the drilling starts.

Aside from theatre, the festival contains music, cinema and art. For Caisson 1, video artist Michal Butink created a new work that is projected onto a wall next to the flight of stairs built especially for the festival. ‘For me, it’s ideal to show my work outside the art scene,’ she says. ‘My work is about people in public space. By concentrating on their everyday movements, these movements become special. In her recent work Flash, Butink filmed people photographing each other and she discovered that using a flashlight had an extraordinary effect on the images she recorded. For her new work, she regularly flashed people walking by on the street. In slow motion, these flash moments appear otherworldly, as if the people are lifted from the screen. As a large video projection on the wall, this work becomes a beacon of light in the deep, dark space of Caisson 1. At another location, Brugkelder 485, which normally accommodates the counterweight of the Oosterdok bridge, Gerindo Kamid Kartadinata deliberately leaves his audience in the dark. His one-man performance Charms uses only a 40-watt bulb for lighting. ‘The exciting thing is that you don’t see what’s happening at first,’ he says. ‘You see a carpet, a stool and a lamp shining downward. Then suddenly my head appears and slowly the observers become aware that I’m hanging upside down.’ Kartadinata’s performance is built around an ingenious construction, which involves one man, a lamp, a tree trunk and a counterweight hanging on ropes and reels, balancing each other. By adjusting the installation, the actor illustrates stories and anecdotes picked from the oeuvre of Russian absurdist author Daniil Charms, who is known for his often ultra-short, pointed and humorous writings. ‘When I imagine him writing, I see him at home, hanging around a bit, which is basically what I’m doing in my performance,’ says Kartadinata. ‘There’s one story where he describes being born. He’s placed in the water and he floats away. I try to recreate the floating feeling conjured up in the story. Then there’s another, where he stands before a guard and suddenly disappears. At that moment I just lift myself out of the light very quickly. My show is not about acrobatics, but it does create fantastic images.’ Throughout his lifetime, Charms suffered greatly from Stalinist oppression. As a dissident, his writings were monitored closely by the regime. ‘He always wrote around things and in that way my theatre is similar,’ says Kartadinata. ‘These days it’s difficult to directly comment on social issues in theatre—people don’t want to see it, because they are flooded with it in their daily lives already. If you decide to comment on the way we live, you can do it in an absurdist or poetic form, which gives people the opportunity to look at things in a different light.’ Amsterdam Underground Festival, 27-30 September, various times and locations, €2.50-€10, www.amsterdamunderground.nl.

Snippets of media Festival takes a ride to the other side of new media. By Mark Wedin Though not related to John Adams’ composition of the same name, this Saturday’s Short Ride in a Fast Machine festival is expected to have the same rapid, easily digestible and fully satisfying feel of the famous minimalist piece. Programmed by Submarine Channel, known for their fresh, cross-media savvy productions in various fields, this event promises 12 hours of new-fangled short films, animations, games, music videos, trailer sequences and, of course, a big party at the end to rest your weary eyes. Yaniv Wolf, of Submarine Channel, shares some of the more enticing reasons to attend. ‘Our latest project, which is big news, is the first documentary shot entirely in Second Life, called My Second Life: the Video Diaries of Molotov Alva,’ explains Wolf. ‘The director, Douglas Gayeton, will be flying in from San Francisco to introduce the film before the screening this Saturday.’ Though the concept of the film might sound like pure insubstantial hype, they’re excited about it because, after being bought by HBO, it’s being submitted to the Oscars. Naturally, the idea that a film made entirely in a virtual world could win one of the most recognised of

movie awards in the actual world, might be somewhat irritating to real-life directors, but those on the edge of tomorrow eat this stuff up—which doesn’t mean they don’t question it’s lasting ability. ‘Before the film, there will be a panel called ‘Hot Spot #003 Virtual Worlds: Don’t believe the hype!’ explains Wolf. ‘The Second Life director will talk about his film and what will be the possible future of Second Life or other virtual worlds. And two other interesting people, Peter Marx, who develops online worlds for MTV, and Chris Carella, the creative director for The Electric Sheep Company, will discuss the big question: what will happen with these virtual worlds? Is it just a hype that will be over in two years, or should we invest in it? We had the same question here at Submarine Channel. Should we build things in virtual worlds and invest in them or are you just investing a lot and it will be over in a year?’ There is also a section of the programme entitled Forget the Film, Watch the Titles. ‘We selected the most stunning title sequences from movies, video games, TV—everything—from around the world. But it’s not only a collection in the way that youtube could be considered a collection: we also present interviews with the makers and give more information about what it is to make such a title sequence, what the producer did before and a link to see what other title sequences each producer has made.’ Along with that, there are various other modified collections presented, including several hours of their favourite new music videos from around the world and new video game trailers, both fitting nicely in the short theme. ‘And much of it comes from everywhere—Japan, Africa,

World’s first documentary filmed entirely in Second Life. Welcome!

North America—it’s really an international presentation.’ Submarine, the production company behind Submarine Channel (their online platform), is known for award-winning documentaries for public broadcasters like VPRO and FBS, and they will also be screening a few of their latest works at the festival, including the entire animated series Naked, which employed rotoscoping, where live actors are filmed, then animators literally draw over each frame of film creating a highly characteristic style of animation. ‘The documentary is about boys and girls in puberty talking about very private subjects—the changing of their bodies, sex, sweating, all the things teenagers are occupied with but perhaps are normally uncomfortable talking about—a big reason why we chose to animate over the film. It’s a lot of work, you’re working for a week just for one minute.’ Next to this animation, Han Hoogerbrugge’s Hotel, an eerie interactive flash animation in the style of choose-yourown-adventure books, will also be screened. ‘We’re lucky to be able to produce things like Hotel through Submarine Channel—it’s really our playground where we can show all these nice works by artists we love. And this Saturday you can physically come to that playground.’ 29 September, 14.00-03.00, €7.50 day, €12.50 evening, €17.50 both, Stadsschouwburg, www.submarinechannel.com.

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27 September-3 October 2007 ‘With a camera around them, people tend to work a bit harder.’

Going for gold Did a documentary help the national women’s hockey team win the big prize? Director Niek Koppen ponders on the motivational powers of the camera. BY MARINUS DE RUITER PHOTO BY JUDITH JOCKEL

eel like you’re on the verge of a breakthrough in whatever you’re doing, but you just need that extra little push? Then hire a documentary film-maker to film you. It certainly didn’t stop the Dutch national women’s hockey team from winning the gold medal at the 2006 world championships. Minke Booij, captain of the popular team, admits that she was afraid that the making of the documentary Goud would turn out differently. ‘Now I’m very glad that we did it,’ she says. ‘This was the ideal moment.’ Niek Koppen, the film’s director, feeds the myth about the power of the documentary process. ‘It has a stimulating effect,’ he claims. ‘From experience, I know that our presence never bothers people. On the contrary, with a camera around them, peo-

ple tend to work a bit harder.’ Koppen says that sports commentators already regarded the film crew’s presence as a positive influence on the team. ‘Someone said that the smartest move of coach Marc Lammers was to bring us,’ he says. The director also heard similar comments when he set out to film the electoral victory of the then Prime Minister Wim Kok in 1998. ‘Kok asked his people to give him one good reason why he should allow us access,’ says Koppen. ‘One advisor suggested that people around him would behave themselves better in the presence of a camera. This was the argument that convinced Kok, because at the previous election he had to cope with a lot of quarrelling.’ The camera didn’t stop Booij from being argumentative, however. In Goud, the team captain, who was crowned as the

world’s best field hockey player in 2006, can be seen falling out twice with the coach and other players. ‘That was quite a shock to see,’ she admits. ‘In the film, you see other players getting upset, angry or emotional as well. This is the true picture.’ Although she champions the documentary as a whole, Booij points out that some of the film—especially the beginning, which captures the two-week training tournament—feels overdramatised. ‘It looks like we’re losing all the time, but that’s not true,’ she says. ‘What’s good about this part is that it expresses a very heavy period right before the tournament, where a lot of players were injured. Four had to be dropped from the selection. This took us a lot of energy and we weren’t playing very well.’ The collaboration with camera and sound crew took the team some getting

used to. ‘When they were placing microphones in front of the dugout we had to pick up our sticks; I told them they had to find a better way to do that,’ says Booij. camera- and sound-people people were constantly at close range, even in the field. ‘At a certain point, it was getting too dicey for them, so they started wearing helmets,’ Booij laughs. Although Booij says she remained aware of the camera throughout the tournament, this doesn’t appear so in the film. Goud seems to be a prime example of direct cinema, the style of up-close documentary filming where the director remains invisible—the so-called ‘fly on the wall’ effect. The hockey players are caught sweating, panting, crying, laughing, bathing, dressing and sleeping, seemingly unbothered by director, crew or the equipment around them. It’s true, Koppen is influenced by direct cinema: The War Room, DA Pennebaker’s direct documentary on Bill Clinton’s 1992 presidential election race, inspired the Amsterdam director to make his film with Kok. However, direct cinema makers are known to use small cameras to stay close to their subjects, which wasn’t the case with Goud. ‘I have a full crew with me, sometimes even with two cameras,’ says Koppen. ‘I don’t understand how, in the case of direct cinema, a film-maker can literally remain invisible during the film making. During this process you have to be present and visible, I believe. We try to become part of the group and hang out with them, everywhere and all the time. It’s the best way to become unnoticed. At a certain moment they don’t pay attention to you anymore.’ Koppen brought a female assistant, Esther Gaarlandt, not only to have access to places the male members of the crew were not allowed, like dressing rooms and showers, but also to have someone the same age as the players, someone they could relate to. ‘In the end, they see me as an old man,’ says Koppen. So why would a 51-year-old film-maker want to hang out with a group of women in their teens and 20s? ‘Can you imagine the amount of jokes I have to deal with?’ he says. ‘They even asked my wife how she coped with this.’ Koppen started out with the idea of doing a sports film before he got involved in hockey by a friend who works for the national hockey association. ‘Originally I was triggered by the idea that a sports team is a similar phenomenon to Big Brother,’ he says. ‘These people have not chosen to be with each other and at any moment they can be dropped from the group by their coach. I wanted to capture that tension.’ At the last moment, after the victory, Koppen must have felt left out too. ‘We were at McDonald’s and he wasn’t allowed to film there,’ Booij laughs. ‘He got very mad, but they refused to help us while the camera was in the building. So eventually we said “Get outta here, let us eat!”’ The 2006 World Champion women’s hockey team will attend the red carpet premiere of Goud on 28 September, 20:30, Stadsschouwburg, Utrecht. The NFF will show the ﬁlm on 29 and 30 September and 1, 2 and 4 October. In cinemas from 4 October. See www.ﬁlmfestival.nl.

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7 ‘It’s degrading to an audience to do that work for them and to tell them what to think.’

Show,don’t tell Director Nanouk Leopold explains how she puts the quiet and reflective back into cinema. BY LAURA GROENEVELD PHOTO BY JUDITH JOCKEL

anouk Leopold is feeling jetlagged. She has just returned from the Toronto film festival, where she attended the screening of her latest film, Wolfsbergen, which was included in the festival’s world cinema programme. Since the film premiered at the Berlinale last February, Leopold has participated in many public screenings and interviews, even going on a crosscountry arts cinema tour this summer. ‘I almost overdosed on the amount of responses I got,’ she says. Nevertheless, Leopold is still interested in hearing people’s reactions on her work. ‘It’s fascinating to experience how people respond to your film, and how that response is related to the viewers’ own mentality and age. It’s exciting. Will they be able to accept the main

characters’ choices, or will they fight them?’ While that last bit may be true for every film to some extent, it certainly applies to Leopold’s work, which at times has been described as minimalist and ‘cinema of silence’. Her three feature films, Îles flottantes, Guernsey and Wolfsbergen, are characteristic in their use of still shots and lack of dialogue. Much is left unsaid and unexplained in these films, as they focus on the moments in between the big drama rather than showing the drama itself. Especially for moviegoers who are used to more fast-paced action and less subtlety, sitting through a Leopold film can, in some cases, feel like an endurance test. ‘I don’t like to explain things too much, not even in my personal life,’ says

Leopold. ‘I could easily give four different explanations for the same action and they will all completely contradict each other. Giving explanations is only a way of making sense of reality. And I happen to think it’s much more interesting when people have to do that for themselves. I’d even go as far as to say it’s degrading to an audience to do that work for them and to tell them what to think.’ Judging by Leopold’s international success and critical acclaim, it seems her trademark work of quiet cinema is welcomed as something much needed. ‘In Toronto, someone came up to me after a screening and thanked me for taking her seriously. It reminded me that people do feel a need for films that challenge them. It isn’t always necessary to spell out what’s going on with the characters on screen.’

While Wolfsbergen only came out this summer, the script was written by Leopold directly after her 2001 debut, but shooting was postponed because of financial troubles. ‘Writing the script of Wolfsbergen was an immediate response to the reactions I’d got to my first film, which is about three women who are on the verge of turning thirty,’ Leopold says. ‘People kept saying I’d created something especially for my generation, while I personally believe a film should be for all ages... So this time it really became important to me to create a story with lots of different characters of all ages.’ Her mission to make something for everyone resulted in a story about a family that has lost the ability to communicate with each other. Eighty-something Konraad decides he doesn’t want to live beyond the first anniversary of his wife’s death, and calmly informs his family of his suicide plans by sending them a letter. The family doesn’t warm to his decision, to say the least, but at the same time desperately fails to address the topic in a more constructive ‘let’s talk about this openly’ kind of way. Its theme is reminiscent of Leopold’s previous film, Guernsey, in which a woman is left questioning her own existence and marriage after stumbling upon the hanging body of a seemingly happy co-worker, but never talks about her gruesome discovery. ‘In all my films I try to analyse the bonds that exist between people,’ Leopold explains. ‘I want to test how strong those ties are, to see what they can or cannot have.’ But to Leopold, that doesn’t mean characters have to talk about the emotional turmoil they’re experiencing. ‘I think people talk a lot, but don’t really say a lot. It’s actually quite hard to express what you want to say.’ Until now, Leopold has written all of her scripts herself, with the exception of one TV film. ‘So many important decisions are already made during the writing of a script, that at this stage of my career it’s important for me to write them myself,’ she says. ‘Right now I’m still very much experimenting with translating what I want to say into images. But I could see how that’s just a phase I’m going through.’ Funnily enough, writing gives away a hidden side of Leopold. ‘I actually love writing dialogue,’ she smirks. ‘It’s just that I throw out most of it when I rewrite.’ During the next stage of filming, rehearsals, another significant portion of dialogue is done away with. ‘By then, the actors have become so familiar with their roles that often it turns out a line of dialogue is unnecessary and can easily be replaced by a certain glance or expression.’ But most gets lost during the editing of her films. ‘I cut out entire parts, story lines and locations,’ Leopold says. ‘It’s only during the editing process that the real film emerges and everything falls into place. Up until that moment I’m only collecting.’ Wolfsbergen is playing at Het Ketelhuis.

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27 September-3 October 2007 ‘I wanted it to be a sort of a gallery in which every maestro can express themselves.’

A feast of sight and sound Indonesian film-maker Garin Nugroho makes an emotional journey back to his childhood with a spectacle showcasing the best of Java's music, dance and art. BY LINAWATI SIDARTO PHOTO BY JUDITH JOCKEL

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hoose a simple story line. The art in the film—the music, dance and installations—are already complex enough,’ says Garin Nugroho, as he takes a bite out of a brownie at Cafe Vertigo in the Filmmuseum. ‘It’s a sort of meeting between classical Javanese performing arts and Broadway.’ Actually, ‘simple’ is not the first word which comes to mind after watching Opera Jawa, Nugroho’s two-hour feast of dance, drama, music, shapes and colours. The story is based on a fragment from the Hindu epic Ramayana, in which Sinta, the wife of King Ramaya, is abducted by the demon Rahwana. Translated to present-day Indonesia, the story becomes a tragic love triangle between the couple Siti (Artika Sari Devi) and Setyo (Martinus Miroto), with the local bully Ludiro (Eko Supriyanto) trying to lure Siti from her marital bed. The couple used to be the leading cast for the Ramayana dance—a staple folk entertainment in Java—but have exchanged their stage life for a more staid, married existence. Setyo sells pottery at local markets,

but is stricken by poverty and progressively sinks deeper into distress. Meanwhile Siti, who tries to fill her role as the traditional wife, is tempted by the brutal yet magnetic Ludiro, the rich slaughterhouse-owner who employs thugs to take care of his competitors. Siti is torn between her secure love for Setyo and the excitement of Ludiro’s animal attraction. Nugroho, Indonesia’s most important living film-maker, succeeds by not just painting a black-and-white sketch of the characters. The loathing, or sympathy, for each personality is never complete. He tries to make the viewer understand the motives and circumstances behind crucial actions taken by all three, which culminate in the unavoidable catastrophic ending. For Opera Jawa, Nugroho brought together artists from different genres, each of them undisputable stars in their fields. ‘I have always been a big fan of dancers, musicians and installation artists. I wanted it to be a sort of a gallery in which every maestro can express themselves,’ he says. And the result is dashing, especially given that the movie, in which all the dialogue is sung, was shot in 14 days. ‘Budget con-

straints,’ he shrugs, nonchalantly. Opera Jawa is one of the films that was commissioned by theatre and opera director Peter Sellars for last year’s New Crowned Hope festival, commemorating Mozart’s 250th birthday. Nugroho, however, had already been thinking about the idea of a ‘gamelan musical’ for the past five years. Unlike other opera movies, Nugroho uses an original score written especially for the film by Rahayu Supanggah, a composer who is firmly rooted in traditional Javanese music but also an expert in contemporary music, and who has worked with the likes of US stage director and playwright Robert Wilson and Italian director Sergio Leone. His haunting, lyrical score is lightened by the comical musical performance of the rotund Slamet Gundono, who appears as a sort of jester throughout the movie in a Marlboro cowboy hat. A master of shadow puppetry in real life, Gundono performs a memorable blues number, accompanying a love-stricken Ludiro dancing his sorrows away in a smoky bar filled with shady characters in dark glasses and vague uniforms.

The setting and location of Opera Jawa is a throwback to Nugroho’s childhood. He grew up in Yogyakarta, the cradle of Javanese culture, in an intellectual family where art and literature were part of everyday life. His father was a publisher of books, his mother an official at the post office. ‘Our house was used for dancing lessons,’ the 46-year-old director recalls. Several of his siblings became artists, including one brother who is a potter. The choice for the Ramayana fragment was, in a way, also a trip to the past. ‘The story of Sinta’s abduction is something every Javanese child knows by heart.’ It is told by mum at home, storytellers on the street, and performed in dances and shadow puppet shows. Even the choice in how to end the film came from his experience of oral storytelling from his youth. ‘The storyteller would start with a prayer and end with a message and again a prayer. I got a lot of criticism by ending the movie with the funeral and prayer, and not ending it earlier during the deaths of the characters,’ Nugroho says. ‘All in all, it was an emotional project for me.’ Indeed, the last part of the film, could have been left out without changing the overall feel. And, indeed, many reviewers have criticised the film for being too slow, and too long at 120 minutes. With hindsight, would he have considered making it shorter? ‘This is already the short version! Originally it was four hours long,’ Nugroho grins. While the movie’s length could be a point of contention, even the strongest critics have to concede that every frame is breathtakingly beautiful. Of all the leads, only Devi is not a professional dancer, and she makes up for that by the fragile intensity in which she plays the part of Siti. As Ludiro, Supriyanto dominates the screen whenever he appears, whether accompanied by an ox’s severed head, seducing Siti or lying in foetal position on his mother’s lap. The internationally acclaimed dancer, who accompanied Madonna on her Drowned World tour, is able to use his whole body to express anger, desire, anguish and humour. Two of the film’s most memorable scenes include him moving under Siti’s skirt in a stylised menage a trois, and another with him slowly removing strands of hair from Siti’s face with his toes. While violence is an essential part of Opera Jawa, it is kept at a distance with faraway shots of battles on a beautiful beach. Close-ups are of red wax dripping on life-size, dangling, silver-painted puppets. ‘One message of the film is that extremism, whether it be in the form of power or poverty, always results in violence,’ said Nugroho, who dedicates the film to ‘all the victims of violence and disasters.’ Central Java’s already beautiful rural setting—with its palaces, corn fields and temples in the background—is intensified by the use of cloth and colour which would make Christo whistle. So sit back, relax, and let your eyes and ears feast on the two-hour poetic beauty of Opera Jawa. Opera Jawa is playing at Rialto.

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SHORT LIST

Ensemble Champ d’Action (Output Festival), Monday, Muziekgebouw

World: Four Elements

FRIDAY 28 SEPTEMBER Contemporary: Output Festival A horrible side effect of playing electric guitar is the so-called ‘guitar face’, an expression involving displaced tongues and eyebrows and which comes from playing raucous rawk riffs that are just too good. There won’t be many examples of this facial expression at the Output Festival, however—the event is aimed at exploring the electric guitar in contemporary music, where experimentation and innovative composition are favoured over lightning-fast solos, endless blues jams and headbanging riffs. Headliner Fred Frith is a prime example of a player who always tries to challenge the instrument. Since the 1970s, Frith has been releasing recordings of intricate guitar pieces made by manipulating the strings with screws, bolts and tweezers. While Frith maxes out to the ambient composition Veils by John Luther Adams, another headliner, Jan Akkerman, will join 150 guitar students to create a thunderous wave of electric sound. Meanwhile, several ensembles will play pieces by contemporary composers such as Ligeti, Reich and Berio. (Marinus de Ruiter) Bimhuis, 18.00, €14. Until 30 September.

Electronica: Mr Hubba & el Mono Inventor Mr Hubba & el Mono Inventor are Barcelona’s Guillermo Martorell and Miguel Yuste. Their rare instrumentation (xylophones, melodicas and all kinds of analogue drum machines), the improvisational element and colourful compositions like ‘Do you realize the full meaning of marriage?’ make every live performance unique. Martorell and Yuste have toured all over Europe, Japan and the US since they began playing together in 2004. Their first album, Stargarder, was mixed by Christian Vogel (who has produced Super_Collider and Chicks on Speed in the past) and released by ex-Beck, ex-Siouxsie and the Banshees member David Brown on his label South China Music. This performance is part of the museum’s current Barcelona 1900 exhibition. (Laura Groeneveld) Van Gogh Museum, 20.00, museum entry cost.

New band = new possibilities, and the ingredients that make up Four Elements give ample reason for optimism. Describing itself as ‘India meets oriental jazz’, the quartet brings together one of Holland’s top-tier guitarists, Jan Kuiper (who’s played with, among innumerable others, David Murray and Arthur Blythe), beyond-virtuoso Indian violinist Kala Ramnath, Niti Ranjan Biswas on tabla and Moroccan percussionist Rhani Krija. The guys haven’t even recorded yet, but word is out that they marry fleetness to intensity while hopscotching the musical globe. In sum, tonight should offer wondrous playing + a fascinating evening of cross-cultural discovery. (Steve Schneider) KIT Tropentheater, 20.30, €16.

Rock: AMPsterdam It’s not a typo. It’s a cunning hybrid of the name of this city and Artists Meeting Place & Resource Collective. Thoroughly international, there are currently around 3,000 members using the site to share ideas, music, artworks, find band members or a floor to crash, or blog—all the usual virtual community things, then, but all with the same cultural goal. AMP isn’t just restricted to the virtual world, but makes occasional corporeal forays like the one tonight—the first outside the US—a showcase for the network’s performers who will do their thing, as well as share ideas, music, find band members... you get the picture. See www.pluginamp.com for more information and to get networking. (Kim Renfrew) Nationaal Pop Instituut, 21.00, €7.

Rock: Get Hustle Bands like The White Stripes and The Gossip have reached the charts with just guitar, drums and what seems essential to successful rock ’n’ roll music: strong vocal presence. The two bands have brought more attention to a whole wave of stripped-down duos and trios, from the Yeah Yeah Yeahs to The Dresden Dolls. Tonight, as part of Le Club Suburbia, OCCII welcomes an essentialist trio that comfortably reside in the underground: Get Hustle from Portland, Oregon. Electric pianist Mac Mann and drummer Maxamillion Avila create a rumbling sonic underworld, over which singer Valentine Falcon wails and howls in her demonic voice. Get Hustle exploit the fact that music is basically organised noise, and not just something to tap your foot to. (Marinus de Ruiter) OCCII, 21.00, €5.

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SATURDAY 29 SEPTEMBER Singer-songwriter: Heidi Happy It kind of sucks, but her name is not really Heidi Happy. And, in fact, most of singer-songwriter Priska Zemp’s songs are not so happy at all. OK, there are a few happy ones, but mostly they are stories that have made her sad or ‘made her scream, cry or even puke.’ Yes, the girl has lived and has made an art of singing from the heart. But there is one bit of good news: while she is based in Amsterdam, she is actually a bona fide Swiss! Oh, and the melodies are sweet indeed. This evening, she’ll unveil Back Together—which has already been released in Switzerland to much acclaim—backed by a full band complete with accordion, guitar, double bass, drums, viola and background vocal chorus. Get a pre-taste at www.heidihappy.ch. Delaney Davidson (of Dead Brothers fame) provides the support slot and DJs will round the evening off after 11pm. (Steve Korver) De Nieuwe Anita, 20.00, €6.

Club: David Gilmour Girls It’s the weekend of local CD releases: this one has the David Gilmour Girls—two guys, in fact—presenting their long-anticipated debut Vultures, after three successful 12-inch singles that saw the former punkers transform into spacey electro kraut-rocking groove kings who are also renowned for their remixes of Roxy Music and Linus Loves. Yes, this is the shit you can dance to. Tonight they’ll be playing the eight-song CD in its entirety, backed with a variety of musicians and DJs such as Voicst’s Tjeerd Bomhof, zZz, Josz LeBon, My Little Soundsystem, Typhus Hideous, Minx Pilot, 100% Vooraan, Kid Reve and RFH Delfos. (Steve Korver) Studio 80, 22.00, €5.

SUNDAY 30 SEPTEMBER Benefit: Meeting Point 10th Anniversary As a benefit for dfm radio, which is in dire need of studio upgrades, and as a celebration of Meeting Point reaching double digits, the show’s hostess with the mostest Ruth Dreier will MC a live version of the programme this afternoon, with a slew of savoury guests, including improv musicians Andy Moor of the Ex (guitar) and Mary Olive (violin), live sound enviros mixed by Colin McLean, unexpected turns from DJ Jack de Kuyper (AKA JdK) and modern dance moves by Michael Schumacher (how a dance performance is going to work on radio, your guess is as good as mine). In short, expect Meeting Point’s typical mix of atypical tunes, and now, with this live version, you can get close enough to smell the guests and watch the cigarette smoke stream between each word from Dreier’s gravelly monologues. (Mark Wedin), €5, OT301, also streams live on www.dfm.nu, 16.00-20.00.

TUESDAY 2 OCTOBER Theatre: Opening Night What’s your take on Cassavetes? Well, here’s one way of finding out (or confirming), as Toneelgroep Amsterdam and NTGent take the indie master’s 1977 movie to the boards. In the Stadsschouwburg version, Elsie de Brauw takes on the original Gena Rowlands role of Myrtle Gordon (and with aplomb: she won the 2006 Theo d’Or for the part), an ageing actress slipping into gloom and alcoholism. Things aren’t made easier when she witnesses the accidental death of her biggest fan (played by Jacob Derwig, who also gained a gong for best supporting actor). Bringing what many hail as one of Cassavetes’ greatest works—by turns spooky, tender, and fiercely insightful—is no mean feat, but Ivo van de Hove naturally pulls it off. Opening Night’s actual opening night was in March 2006, and after a successful tour, it’s back on home turf again. (Kim Renfrew) Stadsschouwburg (Tues, Wed 20.15), €11.50-€27.50.

WEDNESDAY 3 OCTOBER Pop: Menomena Menomena are a delightful Portland trio responsible for one of the albums of 2007 with Friend and Foe. Like a modern-day Soul Coughing, their songs are quirky, intelligent, layered and filled with unsuspecting hooks. For a trio, they make an impressive racket, too, but they’re particularly skilful in doing so, quickly swapping guitar for baritone sax, keeping one hand on the keyboard and another on the fretboard, and they have a drummer who actually has original percussive ideas. They share vocal duties too, each bringing a different timbre to songs. Despite online acclaim since 2003, the band only ventured into the Netherlands for the first time in July, performing at Metropolis in Rotterdam. Fun as they were—and they really did soar in brief moments—an afternoon slot with grizzled Rotterdam punks yelling, ‘Sneller, sneller!’ while trying to mosh, and a sound engineer prone to switching off mics, meant it wasn’t the best introduction for those not familiar with the tunes. Tonight, they’ll hopefully take off. (Steven McCarron) Paradiso, 19.30, €12 + membership.

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Radio Kamer Filharmonie, see Friday, Muziekgebouw

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Thursday 27 September Rock: The Raveonettes Dark and sultry rock ’n’ roll from the Danish duo, with material from their upcoming album, Lust, Lust, Lust, due at the start of winter. Paradiso, Kleine Zaal, 20.00, €13 + membership Rock: Zappa Plays Zappa Authorised retrospective of Frank Zappa’s music by his son Dweezil. Bringing the old songs to life are a host of special guests who were both involved with and appreciated his weird and wonderful world, including Aaron Arntz, Scheila Gonzalez, Pete Griffin, Billy Hulting, Jamie Kime, Joe Travers and Ray White. Melkweg, The Max, 20.00, €35 + membership World: Nacht van de Roma Gypsy music from Ljiljana Buttler & Mostar Sevdah Reunion, Erik Marchand & Taraf de Caransebes, and the Ubre Debre Zigeunerband. Concertgebouw, Grote Zaal, 20.15, €45 Contemporary: Amsterdam Sinfonietta Performing with harpsichordist and Baroque specialist Richard Egarr. Muziekgebouw, 20.30, €25 Rock: Jonathan Richman The Godfather of indie rock? Always eclectic but always interesting, expect a blend of tunes from the last 30 years. Melkweg, Oude Zaal, 21.00, €16 + membership World: Ot Azoj Klezmer Band Party to launch their new CD Express Orient. Cafe Pakhuis Wilhelmina, 21.00, €5 Heavy: Paviljonul32 Fast and political Romanian hardcore punk, plus there’s rumours of a special support band, too. Stubnitz, 21.00, €5 Electronica: Vive La Fête Raw Flemish electro pop duo, with Els Pynoo and ex-dEUS member Danny Mommens, presenting new album Jour de Chance. Paradiso, Grote Zaal, 21.00, €17.50 + membership Rock: The Holloways Cheeky Brit pop band who hit it big last year with the single ‘Generator’. Paradiso, Kleine Zaal, 22.30, €6 + membership

Friday 28 September Contemporary: John Luther Adams, Fred Frith (Output Festival) Six hours of hot and cold guitar. In the music of Alaskan composer John Luther Adams, tones are stretched and layered in slow motion until the harmonic continuation is almost inaudible. Tonight he presents a new version of his soundscape Veils, with the installation beginning at 18.00. From 22.30, guitarist/composer Frith will wander in Adam’s broad tone field for about an hour and a half. See Short List. Bimhuis, 18.00, €14 Rock: Savage Garage Trashfest T-99, The Bloody Hollies, Mark Sultan, Sixtyniners and Delaney Davidson. Blijburg, 19.00, €10 Contemporary: Radio Kamer Filharmonie (Output Festival) Opening performance of the festival, including works by Berio, Murail, Nieder, Van Bergeijk and Padding. Guitarists joining the orchestra are Wiek Hermans, Seth Josel and Patricio Wang. Muziekgebouw, 20.00, €25 Rock: Volbeat Melodic darkwave metal from Denmark, with a touch of classic rock ’n’ roll and country squeezed in. Metallica meets Johnny Cash, if you will.

Support from Waxy. Melkweg, Oude Zaal, 20.30, €11 + membership Rock: Jolly Roger Rock ’n’ roll party with live sets and DJs. Winston Kingdom, 21.00, €6 Rock: Mr Love and the Stallions CD launch party. Support from Kitty Got Sued and Planeausters. Cafe Pakhuis Wilhelmina, 22.00, free Rock: The Bastardz of Glitter The most star spangled outfit this side of the blues. Maloe Melo, 22.00, €5 Soul: The Souldiers Funk and soul party tunes. Badcuyp, Noordpool, 23.00, €8 Hiphop/Electronica: Waajeed Expect Detroit beats and a soulful delivery from the acclaimed hiphop producer and remixer. Paradiso, Kleine Zaal, 23.30, €12 + membership

Saturday 29 September Contemporary: Ensemble Modern Orchestra Compositions by Pintscher, André and Poppe receive their first Dutch performances; conducted by Pierre Boulez. Concertgebouw, Grote Zaal, 14.15, €23.50/€28 Contemporary: Nieuw Amsterdams Peil (Output Festival) Works by Feldman and Swoger-Ruston. Muziekgebouw, 16.00, €10 Pop: Stars Canadian indie pop fronted by the boygirl pairing of Torquil Campbell and Amy Millan, comparisons to the now defunct indie band The Delgados have followed them for a few years, though not being Scottish, they’re infinitely less dour in their execution. Paradiso, Kleine Zaal, 18.30, €10 + membership R&B: Robin Thicke Slick commercial grooves. Paradiso, Grote Zaal, 19.30, €15 + membership Contemporary: Ensemble Champ d’Action (Output Festival) Performing Stefan van Eycken’s Techno Park, Paul Newland’s Standing Jump and the Dutch premiere of Lois van Vierk’s Red Shift, all promising a unique Japanese cultural twist. Muziekgebouw, 20.00, €22.50 Pop/Rock: Stof Pop Six bands of varying styles get 30 minutes each to impress. Sugar Factory, 20.00, €15 Classical: Nederlands Kamerorkest Renowned works by Händel, Vivaldi, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert in this Classic FM performance. Concertgebouw, Grote Zaal, 20.15, €37.50 Latin/Jazz: Orlando Poleo y Chawaro Pure salsa and Latin jazz from the Venezuelan percussionist and his band. KIT Tropentheater, 20.30, €20 Pop/Rock: The Vagrants Female-fronted Aussie act who deal out raw rock ’n’ roll. Support from Haagse rockers Atombox, reggae pop lovers Karmakonga, and Australian singer-songwriter Rich Webb. Melkweg, Oude Zaal, 20.30, €10 + membership Pop: Charlie Dée Previously pigeon-holed as a sincere but soft soloist, the Dutch singer has been promoting a more upbeat radio-friendly band sound this year, growing into an adult pop star in the process. Melkweg, The Max, 21.00, €9 + membership Contemporary: Vloeimans, Voermans & Blom (Output Festival) A soundscape concert by jazz trumpeter Eric Vloeimans, guitarist Erik Voermans and DJ Gerrit-Jan Blom. Also featuring a set from the Italian/American ensemble Dedalo Guitar Project (two acoustic and two electric guitars), and also a unique solo appearance from Dutch guitar virtuoso Jan Akkerman. Bimhuis, 21.00, €14

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27 September-3 October 2007 Americana: Rootsclub Roots rockin’ country, folk and bluegrass. Maloe Melo, 22.00, €5

Rex...Electronation Electro, minimal, house and techno with a live bite. Special guests are Adultnapper (USA), Qbical, Dax and Clockwork. Sugar Factory, 23.59-05.00, €15

Rock: Nuff Said Power pop trio with great live reputation. Cafe Pakhuis Wilhelmina, 23.00, €5

Sunday 30 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

Contemporary: The Reverb (Output Festival) Closing the festival with a batch of workshops, presentations and concerts. Performers include the Dedalo Guitar Project and a selection of solo guitarists. Muziekgebouw, 14.00, €15 World: Di Gojim Turbo Balkan and Eastern European theatrical party music. Meervaart, 14.30, €20

Monday 1 October Flex Bar’s Toxic Chicken

Contemporary: Rozalie Hirs With the talented Amsterdammer performing original works for laptop and voice. De Cameleon, 16.00, €10 R&B: Robin Thicke (See Saturday) Paradiso, Grote Zaal, 19.30, sold out Rock: Creative Explosion Sets from Tourettes (Australia), Wicked Nature, Nascalines and A Change of Plan. Winston Kingdom, 20.00, €5 Classical: Jean-Yves Thibaudet Opening performance of the new masterpianist season, including crowd pleasers from Satie, Debussy, Messiaen and Brahms. Concertgebouw, Grote Zaal, 20.15, €34/€42 Pop/Rock: Kevin Devine American singer-songwriter who mixes melody with humour and political bite. De Nieuwe Anita, 20.30 World: Habib Koité Beautifully melodic African blues and pop from the renowned star from Mali. Melkweg, Oude Zaal, 21.00, €20 + membership Latin/Jazz: Mira Falk Quintet & Joana Espadinha Quartet Badcuyp, Noordpool, 21.00, €5 Jazz: The Tiptons All-female American sax quartet complete with drums. Stubnitz, 21.00, €7 Pop/Rock: Merry Pierce Indie band officially launching new album The Warm Aquarium. Paradiso, Kleine Zaal, 22.00, €6.50 + membership

Monday 1 October Classical: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment With tenor Ian Bostridge, expect a programme of Händel this and Händel that. Concertgebouw, Grote Zaal, 20.15, €38.50/€46.50 Heavy: Coheed & Cambria Progressive punk metal from New York. Known for their ’80s-style pinched harmonic squeals, the massive hair of vocalist Claudio Sanchez and their love of conceptual songwriting. Yes, slightly mental. Melkweg, Oude Zaal, 20.30, €12.50 + membership Pop/Rock: PopGrond Monthly Flemish pop celebration. This edition features sets from melodic outfit Absynthe Minded and intriguing electronic pop experimentalists Jerboa. De Brakke Grond, 20.30, €12 Jazz: Hans Dulfer Candy is off on tour, but she’s kindly persuaded her legendary sax playing dad and a bunch of friends to take up her Sugar Factory slot this month. Sugar Factory, 22.00, €11

Tuesday 2 October Contemporary: David Sylvian Formerly of Japan, the acclaimed progressive Brit composer is out on tour accompanied by Takuma Watanabe on keyboards, Theo Travis on saxophone and flute, Keith Lowe on bass and Steve Jansen on drums. RAI, 20.00, €39-€45 Big band: Jargon Blending a grand string section with electric guitars and computers, this elastic ensemble have certainly brought a new twist to the jazz field. Badcuyp, Noordpool, 20.30, free

Wednesday 3 October Classical: Lunch Concert Preview of tonight’s RCO performance. Concertgebouw, Grote Zaal, 12.30, free Pop/Rock: Tunng, My Brightest Diamond, Menomena A mixed bag of indie. See Short List. Paradiso, 19.30, €12 + membership Pop: Eye 2 Eye A male ‘close harmony’ duo performing their own material, while also covering songs from the likes of David Bowie, Seal and Simon and Garfunkel. Cafe Sappho, 21.00, free Jazz: TryTone Festival Contemporary jazz concepts, with sets from Jessica Sligter, Raphael Vanoli & Håvard Skaset Duo, Eirikur Olafsson and Trio Skar, Sligter & Silvola. Zaal 100, 21.00, €5

CLUBS Thursday 27 September Over(Vreemde)dosis Weird and wonderful noise from Steven de Peven, Zender and Sandrien. Sugar Factory, 23.00-05.00, €8 Little Sexmachine V With Zombie Disco Squad (London), Joa de Bellem, Wanna be Una Estrella, Miss B Have, Senor Wix and top secret guests. Flex Bar, 23.00-late, €10 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

Friday 28 September Heineken Refreshing Sounds Different artists pay tribute to the legendary Motown record label. Westergasfabriek, 21.00-late, €12.50 Fok Stijl Still not giving a Fok, with DJs Frankie D & Trailertrash and a live performance from Sleurhuthonden. Club 8, 22.00-04.00, €7 Acid Nouveau Featuring DJs Martin Eyerer (Stuttgart), Lupe and Michael von L. 11, 22.30-04.00, €12 Appelsap A Luffie Duffie special, promising a cool blend of soul, disco, R&B and hiphop. Melkweg, The Max, 23.00-04.00, €12.50 + membership Supermarkt Shopping for pop electro? Hotel Arena, 23.00-04.00, €10 Freitag Onderonsje Surprise! Flex Bar, 23.00-05.00, €8 Igloo Label Night Fresh Argentinian techno and minimal from Electronation, plus a power set from DJ Dave Ellesmere. Studio 80, 23.00-05.00, €8 T.N.T. An atmospheric club night that takes you back to the olden days, when it was still safe to approach the DJ for a spin of your favourite tune. Odeon, 23.00-05.00, €10 klinch: 030303 A cosy, progressive acid house party with beats driven by Luke Vibert and Mully. Melkweg, Oude Zaal, 23.00-late, €13 + membership Makro The first edition of a new dance party. Stubnitz, 23.00-late Via Brasil A Kindred Spirits Brazilian special, mixing samba soul, bossa nova, baile funk and batucadas, with Brazilian influenced house, hiphop and fusion. With KC The Funkaholic, Antal and Tom Trago. Sugar Factory, 23.59-05.00, €10

Saturday 29 September Flushit! Old and new toilet rave mixed with forgotten goodies. Flex Bar, 22.00-05.00, €8 Amsterdamaged Raw jungle and drum & bass party. OT301, 22.00-late, €5 Rebel Up! Soundclash Diasporic sounds from the global underground: mestiza beats, gypsy funk, roots, Arabic, African rhythms, Latino, Asian and gritty electronics. Profits go to charity. OCCII, 22.30-04.00, €4, free before 23.30 Fire! With special sets from English DJs Vince Watson and Jamie Anderson, along with appearances from Marnix, Brian S and Frederik Abas. Hotel Arena, 23.0004.00, €20 Gloss...Ibiza Edition! Ibiza may be dead, but you can still find sets from Ricky Rivaro, Roog, Gregor Salto and Baggi Begovic. The Powerzone, 23.00-05.00, €15 Namaste: The Arc of Goa Out-of-this-head beats, trance, electro, ambient and psychedelic jams. Stubnitz, 23.00-08.30, €22.99

Cheeky Monday True skool jungle and drum & bass, featuring players from the local and international scenes. Winston Kingdom, 22.00-03.00, €6

Wednesday 3 October Helter Skelter 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

GAY& LESBIAN Friday 28 September Club: Women’s night Busy, popular night for lesbians and their friends. Tonight with DJ Suna. Cafe Sappho, 22.00, free

Saturday 29 September Film: Flikker The Gemeentearchief Rotterdam is showing 14 hours of films about the Gay Liberation Movement in the 1970s and ’80s, selected by Arthur Bueno from the 8mm archives of Rob De Vries. De Vries, a keen amateur film-maker, subjected everything from drag queen performances to street demos to his ever-probing lens. Theater Lantaren/Venster, Rotterdam, 19.30 Club: Xpress New open-minded party with sexy cocktails and snacks. Cafe Sappho, 21.00, free Party: Aphrodite A new concept in Amsterdam lesbian life: the floating nightclub and gin palace, Aphrodite. After a cocktail and canapés, descend below deck to dance and drink as the cruise ship ploughs the IJ to Pampus and back. With DJ Bo Monde (Roxy, Havana, Club COC, PRIK), Sexy Galexy (Sydney, London) and the all-woman drum ensemble, Bumba Amsterdam. Dress-code: ‘over the top’ and ‘go for glam!’ 11, 21.00-03.00, €19.50 Club: Extravers Multigendered, polysexual club night of techno, minimal and electro, bolstered by VJs, art and performance. Club 8, 22.00-04.00, €7.50 Club: Roxy Colosseum A shot of glamour in the arm of disco, with a live performance from DJ/producer Nick Tcherniack (the legendary DTPM, London), DJ Chris B (Bangaluu, Berlin), MC Soul Diva Miss Bunty, and go-go boys galore. Odeon, 23.00-05.00, €17.50

Sunday 30 September Anniversary: Schorer Stichting 40th Anniversary Schorer Stichting—the charity that promotes the health and well-being of gays and lesbians—is celebrating its 40th anniversary with an afternoon of workshops, debates and entertainment. Comedian Sara Kroos kicks off proceedings. Then, Karin Spink, Carla Mulder, Karin Giphart and Vincent de Klerk lead discussions on parenting, internet dating and life after HIV. Felix Meritis, 13.00-18.00, free

Wednesday 3 October Film: Gay Classics This month’s offering is Plata Quemada, an Argentinian film (in Spanish, English subtitles), based on a true story, about two bank robbers on the run who become lovers. Marcelo Piñeyro directs. After the film there’s a two-for-one drink offer at April, and BIHP on Keizersgracht (www.bihp.nl) is offering a special three-course set menu before the film for €19.50. Reservations: 622 4511. Pathé De Munt, 21.00, €7

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Desilucy, see Thursday, Rozentheater

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STAGE Opening Music/Dance: Slodkie Solo Based on and inspired by the project Slodkie, where choreographer Malgorzata Haduch had been working with 13 performers, searching for individual body language. The material of her new solo is a metamorphosis of their 13 experiences and desires. Music by Chris Storey. OT301, (Thur 21.00), €6 Theatre: Desilucy A black comedy about the double lives of Cuban big band leader and TV producer Desi Arnaz, and American comedy actress Lucille Ball. In Dutch. Rozentheater, (Thur-Sat, Wed 22.00), €7.50 Performance: Ramadan Nights 2007 A LoungeM special featuring Promise, Tevazu, Souiri and Raj Mohan. Podium Mozaïek, (Sun 20.00), €12.50 Music/Dance: Blind Date–okt 2007 Fantasten Marle Brouwer and Bart Rijnink get up close and personal in this physical exploration of the human condition. Theater Bellevue, (Mon 20.30), €13.50 Theatre: Opening Night John Cassavetes’ 1977 smash about the personal and professional turmoil tearing apart a Broadway actress. Ivo van Hove directs Toneelgroep Amsterdam and NTGent. In Dutch. See Short List. Stadsschouwburg, (Tues, Wed 20.15), €11.50-€27.50 Theatre: Onomatopee A co-production from tg STAN, De KOE, Dood Paard and Maatschappij Discordia, expect politically comical theatre. In Dutch. Frascati, (Tues, Wed 20.30), €12 Performance: Kijk mama, ik dans! Cathartic and raw performance, with Flemish star Vanessa van Durme delving into her colourful, but not pretty, life story. In Dutch. Theater Bellevue, (Wed 20.30), €16

Ongoing Music/Theatre: Zeeuwse Nachten 2 How far do we go to defend indigenous culture? From the folks at Volksoperahuis comes a performance about Holland, and in particular, the culture of immigration. All in a playful music style, naturally. In Dutch. De Brakke Grond, (Thur-Sat 20.30), €14 Comedy: Comedytrain A lively selection of stand-up comics. In Dutch. Toomler, (Thur-Sat 20.30), €13.50 Comedy: Stand-Up Comedy Show Featuring varying performers and MCs. In English and Dutch. Comedy Cafe, (Thur-Sat 21.00, Fri, Sat also 23.30), €10/€15 Comedy: easyLaughs Comedy improv in English. Two different shows every Friday night. CREA Muziekzaal, (Fri 20.30, 22.30), €10, €5 (late night) Comedy: Now&Lauw Urban improv comedy. In Dutch. Comedy Theater, (Fri 23.30), €10 Dance: Open Stage DanceStreet, (Sat 19.30), €4 Performance: Ashton Brothers The most final and lastest Ballyhoo! performance ever? Let’s not shed a tear just yet, but wait and see if it’s actually true this time. Meervaart, (Sat 20.30), €12.50 Music/Dance: Monday Match A dynamic monthly event in which a dancer invites a musician (or vice versa) to form the basis of a unique improvisation lab. With the invitation of even more guests onto the stage, original one-time works will be born left and right. Bimhuis, (Mon 20.30), free

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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), closing Sunday Movimento Dance photos by Joris-Jan Bos. Theater Instituut Nederland (Mon-Fri 11.00-17.00, Sat, Sun 13.00-17.00), closing Tuesday 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 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), until 17 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

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Melvin Moti: E.S.P The latest film by Rotterdam artist Melvin Moti combines hypnotically slow-moving images of a bursting soap bubble with the story of the dream logs kept by JW Dunne, a British military officer endowed with paranormal powers. Stedelijk Museum CS (Daily 10.00-18.00), until 4 November

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ART Opening 4 Galleries Featuring diverse contributions from galleries Witteveen, Maria Chailloux, Roger Katwijk and Wit. Loods 6 (Daily 11.00-19.00), opens Thursday, until 7 October Humberto Duque Drawings and animations from the Mexican artist. agentur: in transit (Thur 19.00-22.00, Fri-Sun 15.00-18.00), opens Thursday, closing Sunday Marieken Verheyen: Elswhere Photographs taken in Western Africa, Arab nations and former Dutch colonies. De Balie (Daily), opens Thursday, until 7 November Rob Houkes Portrait photography. As a bonus, there’s also prize-winning works from the Zilveren Camera 2006 competition. Fotogram (Mon-Thur 09.30-21.00, Fri, Sat 09.30-17.00), opens Thursday, until 31 October Het Kattenbak Collectief presents: Itself Featuring diverse work from Kattenbak artists. Oudezijds Achterburgwal 78A (Fri 19.00-03.00, Sat, Sun 13.00-17.00), opens Friday, closing Sunday

Inside-Out: Photos from Amsterdam Collections and Archives The city of Amsterdam contains within its perimeters a treasure of high-quality photography. Much of this wealth can be found in collections and archives, such as the Stedelijk Museum, Rijksmuseum, Stadsarchief and Maria Austria Instituut, and for this exhibition, Foam has compiled an exhibition showing work from the vaults of all four institutions. Foam (Sat-Wed 10.00-18.00, Thur, Fri 10.00-21.00), opens Friday, until 5 December Multiple M: Moslims, Mode & Muziek Exploring the modern world of Muslim youth through photography, film, music and fashion. As always with Imagine IC projects, expect an interactive installation featuring ongoing specials. Imagine IC (Tues, Wed, Fri, Sat 11.00-17.00, Thur 11.00-21.00), opens Friday China Now Featuring 75 works by 40 artists, many of which come from the Essl Museum in Vienna, this exhibition aims to highlight some of the best examples of contemporary Chinese avant-garde art. CoBrA Museum (Tues-Sun 11.00-17.00), opens Saturday, until 27 January 2008 Marjo van den Boomen: With Arms Wide Open...#2 After her succesful With Arms Wide Open…, this new exhibition delves deeper into the same disturbing subjects, commenting on a materialist society that reduces children to the latest consumer product. KochxBos Gallery (Wed-Sat 13.00-18.00), opens Saturday, until 10 November The Mills of God Grind Slowly Film and drawings by Riccardo Arena. Galerie Knap (Tues-Sun 12.00-18.00), opens Saturday, until 27 October Verborgen Vrouwen About the life and work of around twenty pious spinsters from the 17th century, 12 contemporary artists reflect on the role and choices of religious women associated with the church. Museum Ons’ Lieve Heer op Solder (Mon-Sat 10.00-17.00, Sun 13.00-17.00), opens Saturday, until 4 November

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25 jaar BINNEN Celebrating 25 years of design in the gallery, previously exhibited artists offer up recent design works. Galerie Binnen (Wed-Sat 12.00-18.00), opens Wednesday, until 17 November

Valérie Belin The first major overview of works by acclaimed French artist Belin (1964). Over the past 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 The Present Order Group show exploring themes of sci-fi, pop and pop culture. De Hallen (Tues-Sat 11.0017.00, Sun 12.00-17.00), Haarlem, until 25 November

15 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 Inger Kolff: Niet voor de poes Recent paintings. Suzanne Biederberg Gallery (Wed-Sat 14.00-18.00), until 18 October Laser 3.14: A Room at the Overlook Hotel The words (and more) of local street artist Laser 3.14 find themselves locked up indoors for once. Wolf & Pack (Sun, Mon 13.00-19.00, Tues, Wed, Fri, Sat 12.00-19.00, Thur 12.00-21.00), until 19 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 Christien Jaspars: DO Emotional, poetic and beautiful photographs. Hup Gallery (Tues, Thur, Fri 10.00-17.00), until 31 October

Planet Ocean Another outdoor photography exhibition hits Amsterdam. This time it’s the oceanic photography of Haarlem-born Dos Winkel. While the shots are undoubtedly beautiful, an ecological theme runs throughout the collection. Stopera (Daily), until 27 November 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), until 6 January 2008

Galleries 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 13.00-18.00), closing Sunday 3rd Rockabilly Art Exhibition Diverse artworks celebrating the rockabilly genre. De Cantine (Daily 12.00-17.00, 18.00-22.00), closing Sunday Buenos Aires-Amsterdam Photos by Marc van der Aa. artKitchen (Wed-Fri 12.00-17.00, Sat 13.00-18.00), closing Sunday Checking In Works by students of the Vrije Vormgeving of the Sandberg Instituut. Lloyd Hotel (Daily 08.0001.00), closing Sunday 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), until 6 October

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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

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), 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), until 7 October

PICNIC ’07

EVENTS Thursday 27 September Multimedia: PICNIC ’07 A fascinating festival boasting fresh creative and innovative ideas, PICNIC is one of the world’s leading events where creative minds from the realms of media, entertainment, science and the arts convene. Workshops, seminars, lectures, parties and gaming back up the main conference programme. Even if you’re not into the more technical aspects of the event, be sure to check out the PICNIC at Night programme, offering three mighty parties over the coming days: Viva la Creacion!, Heineken Refreshing Sounds, and Short Ride in a Fast Machine. See www.picnicnetwork.org. Westergasfabriek, (Thur-Sat various times), various prices Design/Shopping: Woonbeurs Everything you need to know about contemporary home interior design. See www.woonbeurs.nl. RAI, (Thur-Sun 10.00-22.00), €15 Festival: Amsterdam Underground Festival We’re going underground and it’s gonna be great. Embrac-

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16 ing the worlds of film, art, music, theatre and a desire to explore the literal underworld of Amsterdam, four unique spaces will be open to the public this weekend: Caisson 1, the submerged cathedral; Oog van ’t IJ; Brugkelder 485, the hidden bridge cellar; and below the IJ-river, the secret tunnel. See www.amsterdamunderground.nl for full entertainment and tours schedule and article on p. 4. Various locations, (Thur-Sun various times), €2.50-€10

ADDRESSES 11 Oosterdokskade 3-5, 625 5999 ABC Treehouse Voetboogstraat 11, 423 0967 agentur: in transit Rokin 114A, 06 1438 2096 Amsterdams Centrum voor Fotografie Bethaniënstraat 9, 622 4899 Amsterdams Historisch Museum Kalverstraat 92, 523 1822

Fotogram Korte Prinsengracht 33, 624 9994

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

Frascati Nes 63, 626 6866

Pacific Parc Polonceaukade 23, 488 7778

Galerie Binnen Keizersgracht 82, 625 9603

Paradiso Weteringschans 6-8, 626 4521

Galerie Gabriel Rolt Elandsgracht 34, 785 5146

Pathé De Munt Vijzelstraat 15, 0900 1458

Galerie Knap Huidenstraat 21

Platform 21 Prinses Irenestraat 19, 344 9449

Galerie Roger Katwijk Lange Leidsedwarsstraat 198-200, 627 3808

Podium Mozaïek Bos en Lommerweg 191, 580 0380

De Hallen Grote Markt 16, Haarlem, 023 511 5775 Hortus Botanicus Plantage Middenlaan 2A, 625 9021

Friday 28 September

Annet Gelink Gallery Laurierstraat 187-189, 330 2066

Hotel Arena ’s-Gravesandestraat 51, 850 2400

Party: Blijburg’s Herfstbal Most beaches in town are already running for cover, but not Blijburg. Embracing the approaching autumn and winter seasons, they’re ready to keep on partying, with plenty of DJs, live music, food and drink. Blijburg, (Fri 18.00-late), free

De Appel Nieuwe Spiegelstraat 10, 625 5651

Huis Marseille Keizersgracht 401, 531 8989

ARCAM Prins Hendrikkade 600, 620 4878

Huis Rechts Vinkenstraat 154

Arti et Amicitiae Rokin 112, 624 5134

Hup Gallery Tesselschadestraat 15, 515 8589

artKitchen Joris van den Berghweg 101, 622 3422

IHLIA-Homodok Oosterdokskade 143, 5230 900

Artspace Witzenhausen Hazenstraat 60, 644 9898

Het Ketelhuis Westergasfabriek, Haarlemmerweg 8-10, 684 0090

AYAC'S Keizersgracht 166, 638 5240

Saturday 29 September Walk: Museum Tours & City Walks This month’s theme is ‘The Golden Age’, providing insight into the most important era in the history of Amsterdam: the 17th century. A museum tour precedes the city walk, beginning at 12.30. In English. Amsterdams Historisch Museum, (Sat 14.00), €15 excl museum entry: reserve at info@amsterdamcitywalks.com Multidisciplinary: Short Ride in a Fast Machine 2007 A cross-media mini-festival. See article p. 4 and www.submarinechannel.com. Stadsschouwburg, (Sat 14.00-03.00), €7.50-€17.50

Badcuyp 1e Sweelinckstraat 10, 675 9669

KIT Tropentheater Mauritskade 63, 568 8711

bak Lange Nieuwstraat 4, Utrecht, 030 231 6125

KochxBos Gallery 1e Anjeliersdwarsstraat 3-5, 681 4567

De Balie Kleine-Gartmanplantsoen 10, 553 5151

De Levante Hobbemastraat 28, 671 5485

Bimhuis Piet Heinkade 3, 788 2150

Lloyd Hotel Oostelijke Handelskade 34, 419 1840

Bitterzoet Spuistraat 2, 521 3001

Loods 6 KNSM Laan 143, 418 2020

Blijburg Bert Haanstrakade 2004, 416 0330

M-Lab Aambeeldstraat 10E

De Brakke Grond Nes 45, 626 6866

Maison Descartes Vijzelgracht 2A, 531 9500

Cafe Pakhuis Wilhelmina Veemkade 576, 419 3368

Maloe Melo Lijnbaansgracht 163, 420 4592

Cafe Sappho Vijzelstraat 103, 423 1509

Mediamatic Post CS, Oosterdokskade 5, 638 9901

De Cameleon 3e Kostverlorenkade 35, 489 4656

Meervaart Meer en Vaart 300, 410 7777

De Cantine Rietlandpark 373, 419 4433

Melkweg Lijnbaansgracht 234A, 531 8181

Carré Amstel 115-125, 524 9452

Melkweg Galerie Marnixstraat 409, 531 8181

Poetry/Music: CrimeJazz Words, poetry and musical expression. Bitterzoet, (Sat 21.00), €7.50

Club 8 Admiraal de Ruyterweg 56B, 685 1703

METIS_NL Lijnbaansgracht 316, 638 9863

CoBrA Museum Sandbergplein 1-3, Amstelveen, 547 5050

Montevideo/Time Based Arts Keizersgracht 264, 623 7101

Party: Notopia Music, theatre, art... expect a party with lots of creative flair. Blijburg, 21.00, €6

Comedy Cafe Max Euweplein 43-45, 638 3971

Museum Ons' Lieve Heer op Solder Oudezijds Voorburgwal 40, 624 6604

Comedy Theater Nes 110

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The Powerzone Spaklerweg, 681 8866 De Praktijk Lauriergracht 96, 422 1727 PRIK Spuistraat 109, 06 4544 2321 RAI Europaplein 22, 549 1212 Rembrandthuis Jodenbreestraat 4, 520 0400 Ronmandos Prinsengracht 282, 320 7036 Rouge Amstel 60, 420 9881 Rozentheater Rozengracht 117, 620 7953 SMART Project Space Arie Biemondstraat 107-113, 427 5953 Stadsschouwburg Leidseplein 26, 624 2311 Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam Rozenstraat 59, 422 0471 Stedelijk Museum CS Oosterdokskade 5, 573 2911 Stopera Waterlooplein 22, 551 8117 Strand West Stavangerweg, 682 6310 Stubnitz Odinakade, NDSM-werf Studio 80 Rembrandtplein 70, 521 8333 Sugar Factory Lijnbaansgracht 238, 627 0008 Suzanne Biederberg Gallery 1e Egelantiersdwarsstraat 1, 624 5455 Theater Bellevue Leidsekade 90, 530 5301 Theater Instituut Nederland Herengracht 168, 551 3300 Theater Lantaren/Venster Gouvernestraat 133, Rotterdam Toomler Breitnerstraat 2, 670 7400

Museum van Loon Keizersgracht 672, 624 5255

Under the Grand Chapiteau Next to ArenA, 621 1288

Muziekgebouw Piet Heinkade 1, 788 2010

Van Gogh Museum Paulus Potterstraat 7, 570 5200

Nationaal Pop Instituut, 428 4288

Verzetsmuseum Plantage Kerklaan 61, 620 2535

De Nieuwe Anita Frederik Hendrikstraat 111, 06 4150 3512

W139 Warmoesstraat 139, 622 9434

Nieuwe Kerk entrance on the Dam, 638 6909

Westergasfabriek Haarlemmerweg 8-10, 586 0710

OCCII Amstelveenseweg 134, 671 7778

Winston Kingdom Warmoesstraat 129, 623 1380

Felix Meritis Keizersgracht 324, 626 2321

Odeon Singel 460, 624 9711

Wolf & Pack 232 Spuistraat, 427 0786

Flex Bar Pazzanistraat 1, 486 2123

OT301 Overtoom 301, 779 4913

Zaal 100 De Wittenstraat 100, 688 0127

Foam Keizersgracht 609, 551 6546

Oude Kerk Oudekerksplein 23, 625 8284

Zuiderkerk Zuiderkerkhof 72, 552 7987

Concertgebouw Concertgebouwplein 2-6, 671 8345

Wednesday 3 October

Consortium Veemkade 570, 06 2611 8950

Quiz: MusicMind? Think you know everything about music? Think you can spout your knowledge at the drop of a hat, even in high-pressure situations? Then this music quiz night may be for you, and if you can find some worthy mates to be at your side, you might even walk away with a nice prize. Sugar Factory, (Wed 20.00), €15 for competing teams, free to watch

DanceStreet 1e Rozendwarsstraat 10, 489 7676

CREA Muziekzaal Turfdraagsterpad 17, 525 1400 Ellen de Bruijne Projects/Dolores Rozengracht 207A, 530 4994

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Souper Trouper Soup en Zo Jodenbreestraat 94A, 422 2243 Open Mon-Fri 11.00-20.00, Sat, Sun 12.00-19.00 Cash What foul weather. Perfect, though, for a hearty bowl of something warm, brimming with goodness, flavour and comfort. For the past seven years, Soup en Zo has been providing exactly what is needed for the inclement months. There are two outlets, one around the corner from the bustling Waterlooplein, and what is known as ‘The Shop’ on Nieuwe Spiegelstraat which, alas, because of city ordinances and finger wagging, is only able for takeaways. As for me, I prefer to sit and slurp, watching the lunch crowd stare up at the soup bulletin board in the way stockbrokers hungrily stare at commodities listings. The beauty of this place is that the perplexed may taste little samples from the bubbling pots, to help them make up their minds. And there is quite a lot to choose from: 15 a day, in fact. They change according to what’s available and the machinations of chef Martin. Of course, there are always stalwarts such as tomato. Shakespeare’s glutton, Sir Toby Belch, would have ‘cut a caper’ for this joint’s rich mutton soup, filled with veggies and barley, and Esau himself would happily have renegotiated his birthright after Soup en Zo’s lentil potage. Well, feast your eyes on what was available on the day I visited: Indonesian chicken; Colombian corn and avocado; Mexican black bean; spicy spinach and coconut; tomato Provencale; North African lentil; potato, leek and mild mustard.

THE UNDERCOVER GLUTTON What arrived was laid me made me sit and blink. It looked like an aerial view of Prospero’s Island. How in heaven’s name could I begin to describe it to you? I tasted them all (the crowd behind me began consulting their watches and muttering murderously), eventually plumping for a hearty seafood stew.

Servings here come in three sizes; being hungry and a glutton, I naturally wanted large. It cost €5.95 (though prices vary from soup to soup). I chose fresh coriander as my topping, and a corn-

bread roll to sop my soup. I snuffled into my polystyrene cup. The aroma made me dizzy with delight. It was a rich tomato base with fennel, green beans, onions, thyme, potato and fish; there was something very North African to it. The coriander crashed cymbals on my tongue. Flavour, depth and texture transported me away from the lousy weather of Northern Europe. I closed my eyes and tasted the sun. But my feast wasn’t over yet. I wanted to try their tuna mousse salad with bacon and red onion (€6.50). What arrived made me sit and blink. It looked like an aerial view of Prospero’s Island. How in heaven’s name could I begin to describe it to you? The foundations were made of mixed green lettuce—lots of it. Then a generous mound of creamy textured tuna mousse, with capers, Tabasco—maybe a hint of tomato ketchup, a touch of lemon juice? It was very good. This was practically hidden under more foliage, as well as chopped cucumber, tomato slices, marinated olives, all juicy with flavour, chopped red pepper, red onion and an abundance of toasted pine kernels, cashew nuts, and walnuts. And, somewhere on the mountain peak, some fine wispy beansprouts. The vinaigrette dressing was one of the best I have tasted in Amsterdam. I watched the busy action as I digested my food and chatted with the chef, who described his recipe for chowder. ‘Onions, garlic and bacon are browned in butter before white wine’s added. Add potatoes, so it thickens... Clams, cockles and celery. Then cream and dill...’ He grinned and shrugged his shoulders when I asked when the chowder would be on the board. ‘Who knows? Maybe tomorrow, or the next day.’ Suddenly, I understood why regulars keep returning: daily reinvention of an excellent product. I’ll be back.

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The Brave One

FILM Edited by Julie Phillips.This week’s films reviewed by Massimo Benvegnù (MB),Shyama Daryanani (SD), René Glas (RG),Meltem Halaceli (MH),Luuk van Huët (LvH),JR Jones (JJ),Dave Kehr (DK),Steven McCarron (SM),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.

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between outbursts of violence slowly finds her way back to music. Directed by Chris Kraus. In German with Dutch subtitles. 112 min. Cinecenter, The Movies, Rialto You Kill Me John Dahl’s previous neo-noirs have been too cynical perhaps, but this crime comedy has such a goofy script (by Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely) and such an eccentric cast that it kept me curious about what would happen next. An alcoholic Polish-American hitman in Buffalo (Ben Kingsley) gets sent to San Francisco by his uncle and boss (Philip Baker Hall) to dry out. Thanks to Alcoholics Anonymous and the funeral home where he gets a job, he winds up with a strange assortment of company, including a gay man (Luke Wilson), a real-estate broker (Bill Pullman), and a well-to-do lover (Téa Leoni). Even if you can’t accept all the movie’s curveballs, you might still be amused. (JR) 92 min. Pathé De Munt

New this week The Brave One It is a well-established rule that when a film starts with scenes of a ridiculously happy couple, catastrophe will befall them. This is the case with radio presenter Erica Baìn (Jodie Foster): after a brutal assault in Central Park, her fiancé dies and Erica is severely wounded. Once she’s patched up, she starts roaming the streets at night as a wrathful vigilante. At first, director Neil Jordan cleverly avoids the pitfalls of this kind of revenge movie. There’s no such thing as righteous violence: it’s an addiction to which Erica slowly succumbs. It’s a shame Jordan decides to change sides at the end. (BS) 122 min. Pathé ArenA, Pathé De Munt

Knocked Up The premise is simple: a constantly

stoned loser (Seth Rogen) and a successful young career woman (Katherine Heigl) get drunk and sleep together, with an accidental pregnancy as a result. The way writer/director Judd Apatow blends a geeky coming-of-age flick for guys with a heartfelt romantic comedy is outstandingly smart but, above all, hilarious. Normally you should trust your own judgement, but in this case it is best to just follow the hype. Let’s add to the hyperbole: could this year’s sleeper hit be one of the defining comedies of this decade? (RG) 129 min. Pathé ArenA, Pathé De Munt, Pathé Tuschinski Vier Minuten German prison drama with Monica Bleibtreu starring as a stiff piano teacher who struggles with her past. Hannah Herzsprung plays her pupil, a rebellious inmate and former piano wunderkind, who in

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You Kill Me

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 Adam’s Apples Directed by Anders Thomas Jensen, who might be the hottest thing from Denmark since

certain cartoons, this black comedy stars Mads Mikkelsen, ‘the Danish Johnny Depp’, as Ivan, an insanely optimistic preacher with severe problems who rehabilitates ex-cons in his rural church. Adam (Ulrich Thomsen), a recently released neo-Nazi, arrives to test his fate repeatedly, leading to a clash of conflicting ideologies. Whether the film is moralistic or nihilistic is anyone’s guess, but it didn’t garner a Silver Scream Award at the AFFF for nothing, and the very Scandinavian undercurrent of dark humour keeps the film enjoyable and fresh during most of the running time. In Danish with Dutch and French subtitles. (LvH) 94 min. Filmhuis Griffioen, Het Ketelhuis 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 high-class 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. Filmmuseum 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 filmmaker 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 analyzed. Do we really want to know why Séverine (now

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played by Bulle Ogier) did what she did? Wouldn’t that defeat the purpose? In French with Dutch subtitles. (BS) 68 min. Filmmuseum

Bordertown Bordertown Lauren Adrian (Jennifer Lopez), a Chicago journalist with Latin blood but an unhealthy relationship to her roots, gets sent to Ciudad Juárez, the Mexican border city known for its NAFTA-boosted factories, where a series of rapes and killings of young maquiladoras (factory workers) has been taking place. Teaming up with former colleague Alfonso Diaz (Antonio Banderas), she starts investigating and winds up campaigning for those poor women, exploited and killed in the name of American capitalism. Of course she’ll end up being censored by her editor (Martin Sheen) and the Powers That Be. Though based on real events, Bordertown doesn’t rise above TV drama levels, mostly because of Gregory Nava’s corny script and hapless direction. And J-Lo still looks too glamorous on screen to be a believable pasionaria. (MB) 115 min. Pathé ArenA, Pathé De Munt The Bourne Ultimatum The third and probably best entry in Paul Greengrass’s 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

Special screenings The Awakening of the Beast José Mojica Marins’ 1969 feature about psychedelics and sexual perversion among Brazilian youth, starring Mojica Marins’ notorious character/alter ego ‘Coffin Joe’. Sui generis. Also showing is a brief documentary and interview with Coffin Joe. iLLUSEUM

A Canterbury Tale Very nearly plotless, this 1944

film by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger represents one of the few times the narrative cinema has approached the lyrical ideal. Crossing wartime Britain, a group of travellers—including an American GI, a young woman from London and an English officer— linger in a small farming village, ostensibly to solve a peculiar mystery (someone is putting glue in the local girls’ hair), but really because of the spell (quite literal, in P and P’s mystical vision) cast upon them by the countryside. Over the hill lies Canterbury Cathedral, and as parallels begin to emerge with Chaucer’s pilgrims, the characters find themselves being drawn to it, for a soft-pedalled climax that represents the fulfilment of their individual quests. Strange and wonderful, this film is the first of a month-long Powell & Pressburger series. (DK) 123 min. Filmmuseum

The Devil and Daniel Johnston Singer-songwriter Daniel Johnston became a cult figure in the popmusic underground largely because of his mental illness. Raised by West Virginia fundamentalists and

racked by manic depression, Johnston tirelessly promoted himself in the ‘80s with homemade cassettes whose romantic longing and demonic fantasy were embraced by alternative icons like Kurt Cobain and Sonic Youth. This engrossing documentary by Jeff Feuerzeig carefully distinguishes between the singer’s fans, who celebrate his illness, and his friends and family, who’ve had to live with his destructive behaviour. Still, you wonder whether Feuerzeig is examining the singer’s exploitation or participating in it. Screening on Cinemanita’s first anniversary; party follows. (JJ) 100 min. De Nieuwe Anita Manhattan Short Film Festival This year, the one-day Manhattan Short Film Festival celebrates its 10th anniversary. What began with 14 films projected onto the side of a truck in Central Park has now evolved into on of the biggest film festivals of its kind, with screenings all over the world. The 12 entries that made it to the final will be screened in 99 cinemas worldwide, with the audiences determining the winners. Kriterion Moonstruck Good, corny fun develops when ItalianAmerican widow Loretta Castorini (Cher) falls in love with her fiance’s brother, Ronny Cammareri (Nicolas Cage). Director Norman Jewison and screenwriter John Patrick Shanley milk the New York settings, accents and folkways for all they’re worth (1987). (JR) 102 min. Rialto

The Science of Sleep Michael Gondry’s flick is a bit more lightweight than his previous efforts, but that doesn’t have to be a bad thing. The Science of Sleep is a rumination on love and longing, in this case the love felt by the dopey Stéphane for his lanky neighbour Stéphanie, which he expresses by presenting her with all kinds of inventive doodads. While Stéphane is cocksure and confident in his cardboard-riddled dreams, he turns into a clunky kid in real life. Gondry’s inventive low-fi aesthetic is always appealing, as are the two leads, Gael García Bernal and Charlotte Gainsbourg. Also showing are Gondry’s video clips for Björk, Massive Attack, Daft Punk, The White Stripes and more. In Spanish/English/ French with Dutch subtitles. (LvH) 105 min. OT301 Snowcake Director Marc Evans brings us a portentous tale of friendship, loss and uninteresting dark secrets. Depressed ex-convict Alex gets stranded in a sleepy Canadian town teeming with such quirky-yet-loveable characters as high-functioning-autistic Linda and sexcrazed Maggie. Alan Rickman and Sigourney Weaver undoubtedly thought they were doing something special (and disabled characters and Oscar nods tend to go hand in hand). Yet the developments feel forced, or unfocused at best. Weaver’s portrayal of Linda could have been the icing on the (snow)cake. Instead, her performance is all quirks and no personality. (BS) 112 min. Pathé Tuschinski

Tim Burton minifest Filmhuis Cavia celebrates the Lifetime Achievement Award which that rascally Burton recently received at the Venice Film Festival by screening six of his finest flicks. While the gloomand-doom crowd snivel at his kid-friendly remake of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005) and go ape-shit over the ham-fisted Planet of the Apes (2001), blaming Burton’s wife Helena Bonham Carter for supposedly ruining his mojo, the deliciously morbid stop-motion feature Corpse Bride (2005) shut them right up. Top picks are Ed Wood (1994, showing 26 September), a moving testament to creativity, however misguided, and the Gothic fable Edward Scissorhands (1990) which first united Burton with Johnny Depp, his favourite star. (LvH) Cavia

La Vie en rose Any director would have had a hard time adapting Edith Piaf’s eventful life—filled with neglect, disease and death—into a 140-minute movie, yet Olivier Dahan eschews any pretence of coherence. Seemingly at random, he jumps through time, barely differentiating between important and less relevant events. We get to see the winning match of Piaf’s lover, boxer Marcel Cerdan, but not her role in the French resistance. Both Piaf and Marion Cotillard (giving a remarkable, fragile performance as ‘The Little Sparrow’) deserve better. In French with Dutch subtitles. (BS) Pathé ArenA

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27 September-3 October 2007 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

Crank

Crank If there’s a film that will consign to an unmarked grave the tired critic’s cliché about how flashy flicks feel ‘just like a video game’, it’s the hilarious and delirious Crank. Jason Statham is at his most hooliganesque as the assassin Chev Chelios, who is injected with a Chinese designer poison that will kill him unless he keeps his adrenaline levels unnaturally high. The mayhem that ensues seems to be inspired by a marathon session of Grand Theft Auto on acid, condensed into 90 minutes of pure, unadulterated, drug-saturated ultraviolent fun for the politically incorrect action junkie. (LvH) Pathé ArenA, Pathé De Munt Disturbia Probably the only factor saving Transformers from devolving into pure military and/or robot fetishism was lead actor Shia LeBeouf. In Disturbia, his screen presence isn’t occluded by giant robots, so he can truly shine in this charming thriller about suburban voyeurism. LeBeouf plays Kale, a teen under strict house arrest who suspects his neighbour of being a serial killer. His suspicion slowly turns into an obsession, making the film into a modern take on Hitchcock’s Rear Window. It’s a shame that the ending feels so out of sync with the rest, but by then Disturbia has probably won you over with its slow but suspenseful build-up. Directed by DJ Caruso; with Sarah Roemer and Carrie-Anne Moss. (RG) 104 min. Pathé ArenA, Pathé De Munt 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 age 43 suffered a stroke that paralysed his entire body except his left eyelid. With Mathieu Amalric and Emmanuelle Seigner. In French/English with Dutch subtitles. 112 min. Cinecenter, The Movies, Pathé Tuschinski Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer As federally mandated by the No Marvel Superhero Left Behind Act, this sequel to Fantastic Four (2005) drags in the Silver Surfer, who looks like a gigantic hood ornament and, given voice by Laurence Fishburne, has about as much personality. The original quartet (Ioan Gruffudd, Jessica Alba, Chris Evans, Michael Chiklis), with their bizarre and frequently comic superpowers, are amusing enough to carry another installment, though the first movie’s genesis story was more fun than the perfunctory doomsday scheme trotted out here. Tim Story directed; with Julian McMahon and Andre Braugher. (JJ) 92 min. Cinema Amstelveen 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. Pathé Tuschinski Gypsy Caravan: When the Road Bends Another Gypsy music documentary, this one about five orchestras on tour in the US. The groups come from different countries and musical traditions, from the flamenco of Antonio El Pipa, who sings with a Tom Waits growl, to the ‘Balkan funk’ of Romania’s Fanfare Ciocarlia, who played on the soundtrack to Borat. Yet they are all Roma; the film explores their cultural roots while it celebrates their music. Directed by Jasmine Dellal. 89 min. KIT Tropentheater, Kleine Zaal 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

Half Nelson This is not your run of the mill flick about a dedicated, idealistic young teacher who pushes a class full of prospectless youngsters to unexpected heights. Sure, the description fits teacher Dan, played by Oscar-nominated Ryan Gosling, but the thing is, he turns out to be the worst possible role model. He is a secret drug addict, secret until one of his students (Shakeera Epps) finds out. Half Nelson is a harsh but heartfelt experience, with impressive acting by all involved. Gosling is especially striking as a selfdestructive, misguided shell of a man who tries but ultimately fails in everything he does. Directed by Ryan Fleck. (RG) 106 min. Kriterion Iklimler Bahar, a young television director, and Isa, a middle-aged teacher, are breaking up during a summer holiday in Kas, on Turkey’s Aegean coast. Isa blames the age difference, but in fact the problem is his affair with another woman. In rainy Istanbul the sequence of poetic images is disrupted by a long shot of rough sex. Isa decides to follow Bahar to Agri, where she is shooting a movie. Breathtaking shots of falling snowflakes follow, but will Isa be able to win back broken-hearted Bahar? Directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan, with himself and his wife Ebru Ceylan in the starring roles, Iklimler (‘Climates’) uses the director’s familiar technique of long steady shots and natural sounds to tell a sad love story in which the weather and beautiful landscapes reflect two people’s sorrowful separation. In Turkish with Dutch subtitles. (MH) 97 min. Rialto Infamous Much of the liveliness of Capote (2005) derived from the built-in fascination of following Truman Capote from Manhattan high society to rural Kansas while he wrote his true-crime thriller In Cold Blood. This feature by writer-director Douglas McGrath, made around the same time as Capote but held back, covers the same subject with a provocatively different tone, starting out as a flip comedy and making more of an issue of Capote’s homosexuality. Its putative source is Truman Capote (1997), George Plimpton’s non-book of gossipy quotes, and much of the story seems invented, especially the tragic relationship between Capote (Toby Jones) and Perry Smith (Daniel Craig). More ambitious than Capote yet wildly uneven, this finally has too many competing agendas, though it certainly holds the interest. With Peter Bogdanovich (as Bennett Cerf), Sandra Bullock (as Harper Lee), Jeff Daniels, Sigourney Weaver and Hope Davis. (JR) 110 min. Studio K La Marea In this debut feature by Argentinean filmmaker Diego Martinez Vignatti (director of photography for Batalla en el cielo), a young woman’s life is brutally transformed after she loses her husband and son in a car accident of which she is the sole survivor. We’re taken through her raw grieving process as she withdraws to a small hut on a deserted beach and struggles to imagine a way forward. In Spanish with Dutch subtitles. 83 min. Filmmuseum, Rialto Marock Rita and Youri, two privileged high school students in Casablanca, fall in love. The only trouble is, she’s Muslim, he’s Jewish. Laïla Marrakchi’s modern romance caused controversy when it came out in Morocco last year, but it was also a huge hit. In French with Dutch subtitles. 100 min. Studio K

A Mighty Heart

Mighty Heart Mariane Pearl’s 2003 memoir about the terrorist kidnapping and murder of her husband, Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, is ideal material for a suspense film, and this docudrama manages to be gripping even though the outcome is no mystery. Closely adapted by John Orloff, the movie functions as a police procedural, with the journalist’s pregnant wife (Angelina Jolie) and a team of U.S. and Pakistani officials struggling to navigate the Islamic underground of Karachi as they search for Pearl. But Orloff also captures the book’s human drama, as Mariane tries to remain hopeful in a steadily darkening situation, and its international sweep, as the rescuers are frustrated by tensions between Pakistan, India and the West. Director Michael Winterbottom is known for his war-zone dramas (Welcome to Sarajevo, In This World), and his crisp documentary style enhances the emotionally charged story. (JJ) 108 min. Cinecenter, The Movies, Pathé ArenA, Pathé De Munt, Pathé Tuschinski

Mr Brooks Finally, Kevin Costner seems to have seen the light. After innumerable performances as a tragicromantic-heroic Lone Ranger, Costner has once again—as he did in Clint Eastwood’s A Perfect World (1993)—started acting against type. In Mr Brooks, where he plays a respectable man who is also a notorious serial killer, the interaction between Costner and his bloodthirsty alter ego William Hurt is pure gold. Unfortu-

NFF: PICK OF THE FLIX Along with a roundup of the year’s Dutch film productions, the Nederlands Film Festival offers world or national premieres and retrospectives of important Dutch films. This year’s special guests include the successful children’s film producer Burny Bos and the German feminist director Margarethe von Trotta. (There will also be a presentation of the brand-new Dutch Film Canon, which you should feel free to ignore.) Here’s a selection of what’s new and what’s old in Utrecht. See www.filmfestival.nl for the full scoop. Ben X Nic Balthazar, 100 mins Ben (Greg Timmermans) is a mildly autistic student at a technical college who escapes from his fellow students into a world of online computer games, until one of his internet friends (Laura Verlinden) turns up in real life. The film is unusual in that several scenes take place in cyberspace, with virtual characters; these scenes were filmed in the actual role-playing game Archlord. The advance word of mouth is good on this one, which has already been chosen to represent Belgium at the Oscars. Dutch film-maker Burny Bos co-produced; dEUS, Arno and Sigur Rós feature on the soundtrack. (Julie Phillips)

Duska Duska Jos Stelling, 117 mins In 1995, his self-proclaimed magnum opus, De Vliegende Hollander (‘The Flying Dutchman’)—at the time one of the most expensive Dutch movies ever made—failed miserably both with the press and at the box office. His follow-up, No Trains No Planes (1999), was another flop, and since then it has been quiet around Stelling’s career. Now, not only is he back, but his new film, Duska is actually opening the NFF, the highest honour in Dutch cinema—besides actually attracting an audience, it’s the most difficult feat for all but the most star-studded, and big-budget of Dutch productions. Duska is neither, and it certainly isn’t for the masses. This wry comedy is perfect, though, to open a festival of the medium: Duska is an ode to cinema. The absurdist plot revolves around timid film critic Bob (Gene Bervoets), who is secretly in love with the cashier of the old movie theatre across the street. Even though this much younger woman (Sylvia Hoeks) is aware of her admirer, she doesn’t really react to this strange guy who sees the same films again and again just to be near her. Then Bob’s life takes an unexpected turn: a strange, Russian-speaking man arrives at his doorstep, announcing that his name is ‘Duska!’ and acting like he’s known Bob for ages. Because Duska (Sergei Makovetsky) looks as if he’s been travelling for a long time, Bob reluctantly lets him in for a drink. He never leaves. In a series of slapstick interactions (with hardly any dialogue at all, Duska is reminiscent of silent cinema) Duska maintains a ceaseless joviality while he slowly wreaks havoc in Bob’s life. The film isn’t as sharp as it could have been in its comic physical timing, but it’s interesting for its openended plot. Stelling leaves it to the viewer to decide whether Bob is going mad, whether or not Bob and Duska have a shared history, whether Duska is real at all. This lack of closure might raise an eyebrow or two, but it doesn’t lessen the enjoyment—at least, not for film lovers. For Amsterdam cinephiles Duska offers some bonus nostalgia: the cinema around which the plot revolves is the recently demolished Bellevue Cinerama. If anything, the movie is a rewarding farewell to one of the most beloved cinemas the city ever had. (RenéGlas) Goud Niek Koppen, 106 mins Documentary following the 2006 Dutch women’s fieldhockey team in their tense quest for a world championship. See article on p. 6. Bert Haanstra retrospective Working as an espionage photographer is a unique way to jump-start a film-making career, but Bert Haanstra (1916-1997) did just that, as a member of the World War II resistance group De Ondergedoken Camera. He spent the war taking clandestine photos of industrial installations to be used for Allied bombing campaigns. Afterwards, he turned to moving pictures, making the water-themed documentary Spiegel van Holland (1951) and the 11-minute ‘free’ (uncommissioned) documentary Glas (1958), which made him the first Dutchman to win an Oscar. (Glas is still shown in film schools as an example of How to Do It.) But real fame came with his first feature film, Fanfare (1958), a gentle comedy about a rivalry that divides a small-town marching band. It rates as the best-watched Dutch movie after Turks Fruit.

Yet documentaries—ones that combined a loose, intuitive approach with technical perfectionism—remained his passion. Some of his best were those he made with the great columnist Simon Carmiggelt, who provided the witty text and gentle voice-overs for Alleman (1963) and De stem van het water (1966), both highlighting how delightfully eccentric the Dutch actually are—especially when they are frolicking on the beach or selling cows at the market. Haanstra also employed his hidden camera to document the relationship between humans and animals in such films as the Oscar-nominated Bij de beesten af (1972) and the really quite hilarious Zoo (1962) which took us to Artis to see who was actually looking at whom. All these films, and more, are screening at the NFF. (Steve Korver) Nadine Erik de Bruyn, 107 mins After his promising debut, Wilde Mossels (2000), Erik de Bruyn had to wait seven long years to direct a second feature. Where his first outing was an autobiographical look at his own ‘escape’ from a childhood in rural Zeeland, Nadine, is based on observations from De Bruyn’s current circle of friends. As the women he knew approached 40, their lives seemed to him shadowed by a sudden panic. Was it too late to have children? Would they end up alone? The title character is the sum and exaggeration of De Bruyn’s observations. In her early 40s, Nadine has nearly given up hope that she will ever have a child. When she meets an old friend who has just become a father, she snaps. In a trance, she kidnaps the baby and flees the country. At first she enjoys being seen as a mother, but slowly she comes to grips with the fact that she will eventually have to return the child. De Bruyn never judges his leading lady, who is played by three different actresses (Halina Reijn, Sanneke Bos, Monic Hendrickx) in a mere 10-year time span. This emphasises women’s divergent approaches to the question of reproduction, and each actress brings her own qualities to the role. Reijn is perfect as the young, modern career junkie for whom having children is not yet an issue—at least not until her beloved father dies—while Bos brings a very subtle sense of desperation to Nadine while undergoing IVF treatment. Hendrickx’s effort is probably the most impressive; she’s the one desperate enough to steal a baby, but in a number of scenes one can still see some of the unconcerned youthfulness so characteristic of Reijn’s Nadine as well. The use of three actresses also gives the film a mildly surreal undertone that complements De Bruyn’s visual style, with his out-of-focus images and dream-like sequences that are still firmly rooted in reality. In several key scenes, the fact that people are talking is more important than what they are saying. De Bruyn focuses on body language, rather than letting us hear the cliches we know the characters will produce in these situations. One small problem is the voice-over in which Nadine reflects on her emotions. It’s a clumsy device that interrupts an otherwise very relevant and intriguing film. (Mike Peek)

Nadine Nightwatching Peter Greenaway, 120 mins Greenaway’s much awaited return to feature-film lengths is a fantasy involving the ‘making of’ Rembrandt’s De Nachtwacht. The British director’s aficionados will quickly realise that plot is nothing more than a reworking of past hit The Draughtsman’s Contract (painter conceals hints of a murder in his painting), with the addition of some humorous critique of the Dutch 17th-century bourgeoisie and excellent interior lighting to simulate the beloved Hollands licht. Martin Freeman (The Office) does a fine job portraying the master in the film’s long, elaborate takes, which can be both demanding on actors and hard on audiences. Not an instant classic like most of Greenaway’s early works, Nightwatching at least tries to be one, and almost gets away with it. (Massimo Benvegnù) Opera Jawa Garin Nugroho, 120 mins Garin Nugroho’s modern-day take on the Hindu epic Ramayana. See article on p. 8.

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20 nately, the story itself is rather clumsy and top-heavy with a lot of unnecessary subplots. Writer/director Bruce A Evans should have had faith in his intriguing lead character instead of burying him in an implausible storyline. (BS) 120 min. Pathé ArenA, Pathé De Munt No Reservations Sandra Nettelbeck’s wholly accessible Bella Martha (2001) is one of the most delightful comedies of recent years, so the idea of a remake with English instead of German dialogue is already pretty dubious, an insult to the capacities of both audiences and the original film-makers. Catherine Zeta-Jones plays a neurotic chef trying to get along with both her eight-year-old niece (Abigail Breslin), whose mother has been killed, and a sous chef (Aaron Eckhart) who joins her kitchen staff. She’s miscast, but she can’t be blamed for lacking the verve and smarts Martina Gedeck showed in the original: Carol Fuchs’ silly, mushy script has her character swerve without warning between obtuse rigidity and sweet normality, so to make her believable would have been all but impossible. Scott Hicks directed, and even the usually adept Patricia Clarkson as the heroine’s boss is set adrift. (JR) 103 min. Pathé ArenA, Pathé De Munt, Pathé Tuschinski Once A scruffy Dublin busker (Glen Hansard, in real life the frontman of indie rock band The Frames) finds his personal groupie in a young Czech flower seller, who becomes his songwriting partner and muse. Together, they form a band and decide to record a demo tape to send to the London record executives. This tiny little film has its charms: the spontaneity of its performers, the Irish settings, and lots of great folkrock songs that help you through its 90 minutes and its thin plot, which seems borrowed from one of those early MGM ‘Let’s-put-on-a-show’ musicals. But if you’re looking for more substance, Once might not be enough for you. (MB) Cinecenter

Pan’s Labyrinth By mixing the narrative setting he

already visited in The Devil’s Backbone with the Grand Guignol sensibilities he’s shown in his Hollywood films, Guillermo del Toro has managed to create a perfect, poignant fairy tale of the Grimm variety. Young Ofelia must undergo a perilous quest that takes her through the depths of the underworld and pits her against her nefarious new father. Bittersweet and darkly disturbing at the same time, this movie’s guaranteed to keep your inner child up at night with delicious fright. Just refrain from accepting candy from Fascists and fauns and you’ll be fine. In Spanish with Dutch subtitles. (LvH) 112 min. Cinema Amstelveen, The Movies

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Planet Terror Robert Rodriguez’s half of the original two-part Grindhouse, stretched to feature length, is less true to the exploitation formula than Tarantino’s Death Proof was: there’s way too much extremely sophisticated CGI and special effects, plus a cornucopia of explosions to boot. But that doesn’t make this riotous zombie flick, featuring a go-go dancer with a machine gun for a leg, any less of a guilty pleasure for the seasoned gore-hound. Rodriguez does go overboard with scratching and discoloring the film stock for that classic grindhouse look, possibly to compensate for all the explosions. (LvH) 105 min. Pathé De Munt

Sextet Dutch director Eddy Terstall shares with Woody Allen a fascination for people and interpersonal relationships and a talent for depicting them in a natural and humorous way. 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. But while the performances in the six short ‘sex films’ that make up this omnibus picture are consistently good, the style, tone and quality vary widely, and the films often seem like vehicles for Terstall’s views on religion, sex, freedom of speech and so on. Opinions are fine, but a good film also needs a gripping story and/or some style. (MM) 100 min. Het Ketelhuis, Kriterion, Studio K

Ratatouille In Pixar’s newest effort, Remy the rat

finds himself in the restaurant of his late hero, TV cook Auguste Gusteau, whose motto, ‘Anyone can cook’, inspired Remy’s dream of becoming the greatest chef in Paris. Saved from a horrible death by the gawky garbage boy Linguini, he starts working with him to achieve his goal. But Skinner, the evil new chef in Gusteau’s restaurant, is not that easily beaten. Oldschool Disney slapstick with a heart, Ratatouille is all about fun. Chases are numerous and feature incredible camerawork while putting kitchen utensils to maximum use. The animation is equally stunning, containing deeply saturated colors and realistic movement from both animals and humans. With a jazzy soundtrack and lots of great details, this feels like cinematic spielerei, a seemingly effortless home run into animation history. (MP) Pathé ArenA, Pathé De Munt, Pathé Tuschinski

La Sconosciuta

Sconosciuta A mysterious woman (Kseniya Rappoport) from an Eastern European country moves to a quiet, provincial town in Italy. Her goal is to get a job as a nanny for a wealthy family of local jewellers, taking care of their little daughter. Only through a series of hints and flashbacks do we come to know her past and, ultimately, her plans for the future. This gritty, noir-ish thriller from Giuseppe Tornatore (Cinema Paradiso) won all the major Italian awards last year. A wonderfully gripping score by Il Maestro Ennio Morricone contributes strongly to its Hitchcock-like settings. In Italian with Dutch subtitles. (MB) 118 min. Cinecenter, Kriterion, Pathé Tuschinski

Sven en zijn Rat Sun, Wed 14.00 Transe daily 17.00, Thur-Mon, Wed also 21.30 Willie en het wilde konijn Sun, Wed 13.45. iLLUSEUM Witte de Withstraat 120, 770 5581 The Awakening of the Beast, see www.illuseum.nl. Het Ketelhuis Haarlemmerweg 8-10, 684 0090 Adam's Apples daily 21.45, Thur-Tues also 19.45, Sun, Wed also 14.30 De Avonturen van het Molletje Sat, Wed 13.15 Duska Mon-Wed 19.00 Italianetz Thur, Fri 17.30, Sat-Wed 17.00 Das Leben der Anderen Thur-Sun 18.45, 21.15, Sat-Wed 16.00, Sat, Sun also 21.15 manier om thuis te komen: Umoja Live, Een daily 17.15 Sextet daily 21.30, Sun, Wed also 15.15 Willie en het wilde konijn Sat, Wed 13.00, 14.45 Wolfsbergen daily 19.30, Sun, Wed also 13.15.

De Balie Kleine-Gartmanplantsoen 10, 553 5151 Filmbanktour #16: Love and Disaster Sat 20.30.

KIT Tropentheater, Kleine Zaal Linnaeusstraat 2, 568 8500 Gypsy Caravan: When the Road Bends Wed 20.30.

Cavia Van Hallstraat 52-I, 681 1419 Big Fish Fri 22.00 Corpse Bride Fri 20.00 Edward Scissorhands Thur 20.00 Sleepy Hollow Thur 22.00 Tim Burton minifest.

Kriterion Roetersstraat 170, 623 1708 Half Nelson Thur-Mon, Wed 22.15, Sun also 15.30, Tues 17.45 Manhattan Short Film Festival Sun 20.00 La SconosciutaThur-Sat, Mon-Wed 20.00, Sat also 15.30, Sun also 13.15 Sextet Thur-Mon, Wed 18.00, Fri, Sat also 0.15 Sneak Preview Tues 22.15.

Cinecenter Lijnbaansgracht 236, 623 6615 The Diving Bell and the Butterfly daily 16.15, 19.00, 21.45, Sun also 11.00, 13.30 Das Leben der Anderen daily 15.45 A Mighty Heart daily 16.30, 19.45, 22.00, Sun also 11.15 Once daily 19.30, Sun also 13.45 La Sconosciuta daily 16.00, 21.45, Sun also 11.00 Vier Minuten daily 16.15, 1900, 21.45, Sun also 11.00, 13.45.

Melkweg Cinema Lijnbaansgracht 234A, 624 1777 Death Proof Mon, Wed 19.00.

Cinema Amstelveen Plein 1960 2, Amstelveen, 547 5175 Fantastic Four:Rise of the Silver Surfer Sat, Wed 15.45, Sun 14.15 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Sun 16.00 Pan's Labyrinth Thur-Sat 20.30 Ratatouille (NL) Sat, Wed 13.30, Sun 12.00 De Simpsons Film Wed 15.45 Venus Thur 15.00, Tues, Wed 20.30.

The Movies Haarlemmerdijk 159-165, 638 6016 Death Proof Fri, Sat 23.45 The Diving Bell and the Butterfly daily 17.00, 19.15, 21.30, Sat, Sun, Wed also 14.45, Sun also 12.30 A Mighty Heart daily 16.30, 19.30, 21.45, Sun also 12.00 Pan's Labyrinth Fri, Sat 0.00 Ratatouille (NL) Sat, Sun, Wed 15.00, Sun also 12.45 Rescue Dawn Thur-Sat, Mon-Wed 17.15, 19.45, 22.00, Fri, Sat also 0.15, Sun also 20.15, 22.30 De Simpsons Film Sat, Sun, Wed 14.15 Talk to Me Fri, Sat 23.50 Vier Minuten daily 16.45, 19.30, 21.45, Sat, Sun, Wed also 14.30, Sun also 12.15.

Filmhuis Griffioen Uilenstede 106, Amstelveen, 444 5100 Adam's Apples Thur, Fri, Tues 19.30.

De Nieuwe Anita Frederik Hendrikstraat 111, 06 4150 3512, The Devil and Daniel Johnston Mon 20.30.

Filmmuseum Vondelpark 3, 589 1400 Una Ballata Bianca Thur, Sun, Mon 17.30 Belle de jour daily 19.30 Belle toujours daily 21.45 A Canterbury Tale daily 19.15 César et Rosalie Sun 15.30 La Marea Fri, Sat, Wed 17.30, Sun 15.15

OT301 Overtoom 301, 779 4913 The Science of Sleep Tues 20.30. Pathé ArenA ArenA Boulevard 600, 0900 1458 1408 daily 12.10, 14.40, 17.30, 19.50, 22.10 Bordertown daily 15.00, 17.20, Thur, Fri, Mon, Tues also 12.20, Thur, Mon, Tues also 20.00, Sun, Wed also 21.40 The Bourne Ultimatum daily 12.40, 15.10, 17.50, 20.40, 21.40,

Sextet 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. If all else fails, Matt Groening should have some shorts lying around for you. For eating, that is. (LvH) 87 min. Pathé ArenA, Pathé De Munt 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 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

27 September-3 October 2007 apoplectic station manager. But I was bummed out by 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. (JJ) 118 min. The Movies, Pathé ArenA, Studio K Transe A devastating film about trafficking in women by Portuguese film-maker Teresa Villaverde. Sonia, a young Russian, is forced into prostitution in Western Europe in a theme that recalls Lucas Moodysson’s Lilja 4-ever. But in style Villaverde is closer to David Lynch, and at times the film’s tone approaches pure horror. In Portuguese with English subtitles. 126 min. Filmmuseum Venus Some great films have been made about the love between an older man and a young woman: Stanley Kubrick’s Lolita (1962) and Billy Wilder’s Love in the Afternoon (1957), to name but a few. Unfortunately, Venus is not such a great film. There is nothing wrong with the story, by Hanif Kureishi; it’s just that the supposed chemistry between Maurice (Peter O’Toole) and Jessie (Jodie Whittaker) doesn’t come across. Kureishi clearly modeled Jessie on Matt Lucas’s Vicky Pollard (from the hilarious TV series Little Britain) and Catherine Tate’s equally mouthy Lauren (‘am I bovvered?’) from The Catherine Tate Show. Yet portraying a troubled teenage girl takes a little more than putting on a pink sweater and eating crisps. Whittaker’s Jessie simply isn’t as convincing as her comic counterparts on television. The scenes with O’Toole and his ex-wife (Vanessa Redgrave) however, are very moving. If only there had been more of those. (MM) 95 min. Cinema Amstelveen

Venus

Wolfsbergen With her third feature, a kaleido-

Talk to Me Don Cheadle stars as Ralph ‘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

scopic 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. See article, p. 7. (BS) 93 min. Het Ketelhuis

Thur, Mon, Tues also 13.50, 16.20, 19.00 The Brave One daily 13.30, 16.10, 18.50, 21.30, Sat, Sun also 10.55 Crank daily 22.15, Fri-Sun, Wed also 19.45 Disturbia Thur, Fri, Mon, Tues 12.00, 14.30, 16.50, 19.15, Thur, Fri, Mon also 21.35, Sat, Sun, Wed also 17.10, 19.35, 21.50 Evan Almighty daily 15.30, Thur, Fri, Mon, Tues also 12.00, Sat, Sun, Wed also 11.10 Georgia Rule Thur 11.55, 14.20, 17.40 Hairspray daily 13.10, 15.40, 18.30, 21.00, Sat, Sun also 10.50 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix daily 21.20 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (IMAX) Fri-Sun, Wed 14.00, 18.10, Sat, Wed also 11.00 Knocked Up daily 12.50, 15.30, 18.20, 21.10, Sat also 10.10 A Mighty Heart daily 20.15, Fri-Wed also 17.40, Fri-Mon, Wed also 11.55, 14.20, Tues also 15.20 Mr Brooks daily 18.40, 21.30, Thur, Fri, Mon, Tues also 13.40, 16.05 No Reservations daily 13.20, 15.50, 18.15, 20.50 Ratatouille daily 11.45, 14.10, 16.30, 19.10 Ratatouille (NL) Sat, Sun, Wed 10.00, 12.15, 13.30, 14.45, 16.10 Rush Hour 2 Fri, Sat 22.00 De Simpsons Film Sat, Sun, Wed 10.15, 12.20 The Simpsons Movie daily 18.00 Sneak Preview Tues 21.15 Talk to Me daily 20.30 La Vie en rose Tues 12.30 Wedding Daze daily 14.50, 17.00, 19.20, Thur, Fri, Mon, Tues also 12.30 Zoop in Zuid-Amerika Sat, Sun, Wed 10.20, 12.30.

No Reservations Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 12.20, 14.45, 17.45, Thur, Fri, Sun, Mon, Wed also 20.30, Sat 11.15, 14.15, 16.45, 19.30, 22.00 Ocean's Thirteen Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 19.10, Sat 19.45 Planet Terror Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 21.55, Sat 12.50, 22.40 Plata quemada Wed 21.00 Ratatouille Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 18.40, 21.20, Sat 17.20, 19.50 Ratatouille (NL) Fri 14.15, Sat, Wed 12.00, Sat also 14.30, 17.15, Wed also 14.25, Sun 11.15, 13.50 Rush Hour 2 Sat 22.30 De Simpsons Film Fri, Sun, Wed 12.55, 15.10, Sun also 10.45, Sat 10.15, 12.20, 14.40 The Simpsons Movie Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 12.00, 14.10, 16.30, Sat 10.45, 13.00, 15.10 Sneak Preview Tues 21.30 Wedding Daze Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 14.00, 17.15, 19.45, Sun also 11.30, Sat 10.20, 15.30, 18.00, 20.15 You Kill Me Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 21.50, Thur, Fri, Mon, Tues also 12.00, 16.45, Thur, Mon, Tues also 14.15, Sun, Wed also 16.55, Sat 22.45.

Pathé De Munt Vijzelstraat 15, 0900 1458 1408 Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 12.15, 14.30, 17.00, 19.30, 22.00, Sat 13.45, 16.00, 18.30, 21.00, 23.30 Bordertown Thur, Fri, Sun, Mon, Wed 18.40, Sat 18.20 The Bourne Ultimatum Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 13.00, 15.45, 18.45, 21.45, Sun also 10.30, Sat 10.45, 13.15, 16.15, 19.15, 22.15 Bratz: De Film Sat 10.15, 12.30, Sun, Wed 13.30, Sun also 11.00 The Brave One Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 12.10, 15.00, 18.00, Thur, Fri, SunTues also 21.00, Wed also 21.40, Sat 10.40, 14.00, 17.00, 20.00, 23.00 Crank Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 17.30, Sat 18.20 Disturbia Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 20.00, Sat 22.20 Georgia Rule Thur, Mon, Tues 13.45, 16.20, Fri, Sun, Wed 17.20, Sat 16.50, 19.40 Hairspray Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 12.50, 15.20, 18.10, 20.45, Sun also 10.25, Sat 11.00, 13.30, 16.30, 19.00, 21.30 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 20.15, Thur, Fri, Mon-Wed also 13.15, Sun also 10.15, 13.10, Sat 11.45, 14.45, 20.45 Knocked Up Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 12.30, 15.30, 18.30, 21.30, Sat 12.45, 15.45, 18.45, 21.45 A Mighty Heart Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 12.45, 15.15, 18.15, 21.15, Sun also 10.20, Sat 12.15, 15.00, 17.45, 20.30, 23.15 Mr Brooks Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 16.10, 18.50, Thur, Fri, Sun-Tues also 21.40, Thur, Fri, Mon, Tues also 13.30, Sat 15.15, 18.15, 21.15

Pathé Tuschinski Reguliersbreestraat 34, 0900 1458 Becoming Jane Fri-Sun, Wed 16.00, Mon 15.15 The Bourne Ultimatum daily 18.00, 21.00, Thur-Sun, Tues, Wed also 15.15, Thur, Fri, Wed also 12.30, Sun also 12.45, Mon also 12.00, 14.45 The Diving Bell and the Butterfly Thur-Sun, Tues, Wed 16.15, 21.40, Fri, Mon 13.30 Goodbye Bafana Thur-Sun, Tues, Wed 19.00 Hairspray Thur-Sun, Wed 21.30, Fri-Sun, Wed also 13.15, Fri, Sun, Wed also 18.45, Sat also 18.40 Knocked Up Thur-Sun, Wed 12.00, 14.50, 17.45, 20.45, Mon 12.15, 15.15 A Mighty Heart daily 21.50, Fri-Wed also 16.30, 19.10, Fri-Sun, Tues, Wed also 13.45, Mon also 12.45, 15.30 No Reservations Thur-Mon, Wed 18.30 Ratatouille Thur-Mon, Wed 15.45 Ratatouille (NL) Sat, Sun, Wed 13.30 La Sconosciuta Thur-Mon, Wed 21.15, Thur-Sun, Wed also 13.00, Mon also 12.55 Snowcake Thur, Tues 13.30. Rialto Ceintuurbaan 338, 676 8700 Iklimler daily 20.00, 22.00, Fri-Sun also 15.30 Das Leben der Anderen daily 17.30, Sat, Sun also 13.00 La Marea daily 17.45, Sun also 11.15 Moonstruck Sun 11.00, Wed 15.30 Opera Jawa daily 19.00, Sat also 15.30, Sun also 14.00 Summer Palace Thur 21.15, Fri, Sun, Wed also 16.15, Sun also 11.30 A Sunday in Kigali daily 17.15, Sat, Sun also 12.45 Vier Minuten daily 19.30, 21.50, Fri-Sun, Wed also 15.00. Studio K Timorplein 62, 692 0422, Infamous daily 19.30, Sun-Wed also 17.00 Marock daily 17.30, 22.00 Sextet daily 20.00 Talk to Me daily 21.45, Thur-Sat also 17.00.

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