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FEATURE

PROFILE

FILM

AGENDA

How difficult is it to get fair pay for fair work?

Good question.

Gallery owner Rob Malasch: goodbye China, hello LA.

So just how freaking weird is David Lynch and his mind anyway?

A local international film festival, some storytelling and a stack of home movies.

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By Arnoud Holleman

The term ‘Iraqi metal’ now joins a long list of subgenres... Alternative metal.

American metal. Avant-garde metal.

Baroque metal. Black grind punk.

Black metal. Brutal death metal. Brutal thrash metal. Celtic battle metal. Chaotic hardcore. Christian metal. Classic metal. Cybergrind. Dark metal. Death metal. Doom metal. Drone metal. Early metal. Extreme metal. Epic heavy metal. Folk metal. Funk metal. Goregrind.

Gothic metal. Grindcore. Groove metal.

Grunge metal. Happy metal. Hair metal.

Hoempa metal. Industrial metal. Melodic black metal. Melodic death metal.

Metalcore. Neo-classical metal. NSBM (National Socialist Black Metal). Nu metal. NWOAHM (New Wave of American Metal). NWOBHM (New Wave of British Heavy Metal). Pagan metal.

Power metal. Progressive metal. Punk metal. Rapcore. Scandinavian death metal. Sludge metal. Speed metal. Stoner rock. Suicidal black metal.

Symphonic metal. Symphonic black metal. Tanzmetall. Technical death metal. Thrash metal. True metal. Troll metal. Unblack metal. Vedic metal.

Viking metal. War metal. White metal...

Rumour has it, only the last two of these subgenres has found its way onto Dick Cheney’s iPod.

Features Inbox Bikes and trees . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Nature Calls Worts and all . . . . . . . . 4 News Fair work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Amstergraph NL wine . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 A Quick Bike Fix Conversion . . . . . 5 Street Fashion Muffin effect . . . . . . 6 Report Get a Smoke . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 The People Versus Panama . . . . . . . 6 Profile Rob Malasch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Main feature Baghdad metal . . . . . . 8 3 Questions Kid Sublime . . . . . . . . . 13 Lekker Bezig Tsubaki . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Film Review Lynch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Agenda Short List 11 / Music 12 / Clubs 13 / Gay & Lesbian 14 / Stage 14 / Events 15 / Art 16 / Addresses 17 / Film 18 / Film Times 20

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AROUND TOWN

Inbox

The arrogance of bikers

Nature calling

By Mark Wedin

Submitted by: Roger Doughty By: email Date: 4 October Subject: Bikes!

Driving what was formerly known as the opstapper for 40 hours a week on the Prinsengracht, I consider myself something of an expert of the study of the mental state of cyclists. Most of them also drive cars, but as one man told me, when he is cycling he is ‘wearing a different hat’.

Most days I am subjected to various levels of verbal abuse accompanied by the prominent display of one of their fingers, a strange demonstration indeed. I have even experienced a bicycle being thrown at the bus, much to the amusement of the passengers, especially as the said bicycle was of no further use to its angry owner!

Markings on the road are, it seems, by these mounted lunatics regarded as art, and red lights or other signs as some sort of street decorations. Considering that, as was reported in a paper at the beginning of the year, around 500 of these individuals in the Netherlands end up in a box each year, I would suggest they are not that bright.

So what is their problem? We all have to share the road, and with a bus, which of course is regarded as ‘environmentally friendly’, you would think that a degree of tolerance would prevail. But no!

They choose to bat along on the footpath, their ears plugged up being entertained in their own private little world with total disregard for the disembarking passengers, shouting and ringing their bells at even the elderly or handicapped folk just going about their business.

The law of averages dictates that shortly the inevitable is going to happen and I, as a professional driver, will ensure that the heaviest penalty will be thrown at this arrogance.

Charming but muddled Submitted by: Lorenzo Capitani By: email Date: 27 September Subject: Trees, nature, tourism (?)

When I was on ‘vacation’ in Amsterdam I noticed that there where some thumbtacks on trees. Now the problem is not as serious as in London. I have been campaigning on this issue a lot in the UK. Nevertheless there where the love for the environment is sincere (and one does notice the windmills and other elements, though recycling bins made available to the public are not present, it’s good for education and gives the example) one should also care for trees.

Yes the damage on trees does seem to be minor, but the main issue is the rust which is poisonous for the plant.

Why harm trees when there is no need. . . or the reason is trivial and momentary?

Should you not impose a fine on those that put signs on or harm trees? It can be easily policed as there are police in Amsterdam. I did notice that patrols do stop people. It doesn’t take much while you are walking on your daily patrol to notice things.

Congratulations on the ability to manage the coffeeshops and the porn industry which shows that a community can use reason when facing the difficulties born from diversity of thought.

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

Nature’s source for navel fluff We don’t normally do this. This paper was always meant for locals who have been here for some time. But in this one case, we’re going to take the opportunity to welcome the latest newbie: the navelwort. Welcome to Amsterdam, buddy. We love your name.

The navelwort (or penny-pies or muurnavel) most likely got here the same as any other new wild plant: it hitched. Every summer, when Amsterdammers go on holiday, they unknowingly bring back a variety of specimens—seeds in their shoes, bulbs in their tent, that sort of thing. But depending on their original climate, most of the plants that locals pick up enjoy the ride but are never able to properly settle in our lowlands. That is, until things started heating up.

In the last 12 years, with average temperatures getting warmer, the number of new wild plant settlers has increased at a surprising rate. It used to be that local ecologists would only spot a new wild plant surviving in our city once every ten years. Now they document around six every year. So far, this hasn’t been a problem for the botanical bewoners, as the current crop of blooming expats are quite opportunistic, taking up residence in

places the locals never dreamed of—akin to students sleeping in shipping containers.

The navelwort, for example, normally found in southwestern Europe, now also thrives along the walls of Entrepotdok. Walk along those old shipping warehouses, currently stylish homes to yuppies, and you’ll see their lovely belly-button shaped leaves (on the plant, that is, not on the yuppies). You might also pick one to munch on—they’re edible and they taste like cucumber (again, still not referring to the yuppies). The navelwort’s charming flower spikes are now mostly gone—they bloom from May through the summer—but those only distracted from the plant’s real character: its enticing rosette of belly-button shaped leaves, each covered in a layer of fine hairs. Yep, our newest neighbour is nature’s own fuzzy navel.

Thanks to Ton Denters, stadsecoloog.

Got nature tips? naturecalls@amsterdamweekly.nl

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AROUND TOWN

Labour

By Marlous Veldt

DECENT JOB A new campaign promotes normal work for normal pay.

In the early morning of 7 October cleaners, taxi drivers, supermarket cashiers and other people working in precarious conditions gathered on the Thalys platform of Amsterdam Centraal. Armed with the green-and-white flags of the FNV trade union campaign Gewoon Goed Werk, they were on their way to a European manifestation in front of the Eiffel Tower; one of hundreds of events for a World Day for Decent Work taking place from Bahrain to Kathmandu. Journalists were invited to hop on the train with them and record their stories.

The youngest union member in the carriage was 24-year-old Patrick Jousma from Drenthe. Jousma has been working in the same distribution centre for supermarket Super De Boer for four years on contracts with an uitzendbureau. He makes €11 per hour, before taxes, based on a 32-hour work week, but is regularly only called in for work three days a week. ‘I would love to have the security of a permanent contract,’ he says. ‘At the moment I live alone, so I go to my mother for dinner if I don’t have enough work. But if I start living with a girlfriend and maybe have children, of course I want to be sure I can pay for rent and food.’

The international campaign for decent work has been ongoing for a decade, but until recently FNV considered it an issue for FNV Mondiaal, the department that supports unions in the non-Western world. In the Netherlands the trade union focussed on preserving

collective rights and permanent contracts, which often meant they would not help if you had a conflict with your uitzendbureau or other temporary employer. But FNV members forced precarious work on the union’s Dutch agenda, because they saw that in Europe new workers like Jousma are increasingly becoming ‘working poor’— people who work one or more jobs, often on unstable contracts, and still live below the poverty line.

According to FNV the number of people in the Netherlands on low level wages has doubled over the past 30 years. Currently, 1.25 million people in the country earn €10 or less per hour and around 1.9 million people work through uitzendbureaus or on temporary contracts.

Also on the Thalys, but only travelling as far as Rotterdam, were Victor and Liza, two domestic workers from the Philippines. For €10 an hour they clean private houses in Amsterdam, without a resident or work permit. ‘Our problem is that we don’t have the same benefits as regular workers,’ says Victor. ‘We get no health insurance or sick leave, and so it’s prohibited for us to get ill. We have no holidays or holiday benefits and of course the rules are “no work, no pay”.’

To improve their situation, Victor and his colleagues founded the Commission for Filipino Migrant Workers.

With the FNV they are striving for equal rights for migrant workers in the

Let’s hope the FNV doesn’t look into working conditions at Amsterdam Weekly.

Netherlands. ‘Whether we are legal or illegal,’ says Victor, ‘if the FNV starts to lobby for work permits for all the workers that cannot express themselves, we will have courage to ask for more. Not too much, but what a regular worker gets.’

An international group of cleaners from Germany, Poland, Russia and the Netherlands working in a Center Parcs holiday resort has already shown that this can be effective, even when your employer is a shady uitzendbureau. ‘Our employer tried to pit us against each other,’ says Sonja Kippes, a 33-year-old German woman who has worked at the resort for eight years. ‘Some of us got holiday benefits and others didn’t. Some got extra money to work on weekends and others didn’t. They didn’t give us sick pay and they paid us less per hour than the Dutch cleaners.’ But after eight months of actions that included another trip to Paris to speak to the owner of Center Parcs, and pressure by trade unions from several European countries, the cleaners now receive equal pay for equal work.

Rien Marchant, a woman in her fifties working on a permanent contract in an Albert Heijn, thinks it is good that the FNV is looking out for precarious workers as well. ‘As older workers, we negotiated hard to add an extra wage level for young employees to the collective agreements for supermarkets this year,’ she says. ‘So our solidarity with the youth is high. What we would like is for the youth to show more solidarity with the rest of the community. For example by joining a union or another social organisation.’

More info at: www.fnv.nl www.wddw.org www.gewoongoedwerk.nl

Illustration by Hijack Your Life

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Number of wine producing companies in NL 2004 - 30 / 2007 - 68 Source: Centraal Bureau van de Statistiek

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A quick bike fix

By Pete Jordan

A conversion I’d grown so used to my boy sitting in his little seat between me and my handlebars.

We’d had so much fun singing and gabbing. He’d pointed out bikes lying on the sidewalks (one never realises how many of them there are until a two-year-old utters ‘Uh oh’ for each one). But when he grew too big for that seat, my heart broke.

The first time we rode in his new rear seat, our communication was strained.

Him: [Mutters something.]

Me: ‘What did you say?’

Him: ‘...brown...’

Me: ‘What?!’

Him: ‘...KITTY!...’

I pulled over. ‘Sorry,’ I said, ‘but I can’t hear you. What did you say?’

‘I asked, Did you see that brown kitty cat back there?’

‘Oh,’ I said, looking back and seeing no cat. ‘No, I didn’t see him.’

Stupid rear seat, I thought.

My wife’s solution for my frustration: a bakfiets. I was skeptical though. Sure, the boy would be up front again, but I was leery of the status symbol some place on bakfietsen. I didn’t want to clunk around town in an SUV on two wheels. But when Amy Joy rode home with our son in a bakfiets, she indicated how much he enjoyed his new ride. Status symbol or not, the boy was ecstatic—a prince chauffeured in his very own coach, a smile stretched across his face from ear to ear. I rushed over, eager to take my turn chauffeuring the prince.

React: bikes@amsterdamweekly.nl

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AROUND TOWN

The people versus...

Street fashion

By Mo Veld

By Floris Dogterom

Waist to waste

Illustration by Tomas Schats

Public enemy bring the noise For some folks, fun only starts at midnight—at least on the weekend. Other people like to hit the sack at about exactly the same time. No problemo, one would argue, unless the first group doesn’t give a rat’s ass about the second group’s right to sleep. Which is what happens every weekend around the Panama club at Oostelijke Handelskade in Zeeburg.

Resident Pieter Gerritse, who lives in an apartment on Veemkade, close to Panama, says the patrons of the club keep him up through the dead of the night with drunken shouting and the extra traffic noise the clubbers generate. Gerritse, who represents a group of annoyed residents, says: ‘It’s the same story every weekend. The problem is, Panama doesn’t even have a license for the dance nights, but the authorities gedogen it.’

Now, gedogen needs a little explanation.

It literally translates as ‘to condone’, but it’s also more. It’s a great Dutch institution. Yes, drugs are illegal, but grass is condoned, provided that you buy it in a bona fide coffeeshop (a convenient side effect of which is that the government can tax it). Condoning a situation also implies that it can be reversed.

But instead of cancelling the dance nights at Panama, stadsdeel Zeeburg will institutionalise them. Gerritse: ‘Through the zoning plan for this area, Panama will get the official approval for the dance nights. It means they can do that seven nights a week. Incidentally, I have nothing against the club, but only against the behaviour of the visitors.

And against Zeeburg, who’re totally ignoring the interests of the residents.’

In a reaction, Zeeburg alderman for public space Nico Papineau Salm says that the objections of the residents do play an important role in the decision-making process around Panama . ‘Once the zoning plan has been approved, Panama will need a user’s license from us, which lays down rules for a good coexistence of the club and its environment, for example, by restricting the number of dance nights per week. There are also restrictions for noise levels. I want to express that the club has already shown willingness to reduce the inconvenience in the past years, for instance through hiring parking attendants. But you have to realise that horeca [bars, clubs, etc.] in a big city will always cause some bustle.’

Something to report? thepeopleversus@amsterdamweekly.nl

There’s one street fashion topic that has been niggling me for some time now: the dropping waistline, and simultaneously, the altogether disappearance of the waist. It’s a gruesome sight for anyone from my Helmut Newton generation, but I’m afraid this is what hipster pants, combined with a laissez faire, laissez passer lifestyle, do.

Let’s start with women. Who hasn’t witnessed the sight of a woman in low-cut hipster jeans, bent forward on her bike in front of you, with her thong peaking out? Nine out of ten times, what used to be her waist is just shamelessly bulging out over the pants’ lowered waistline. It seriously makes my stomach crunch, and believe me, my stomach doesn’t need crunches. I’ve been told that it has something to do with ‘post feminist attitude’, women no longer aiming to please the opposite sex at their own discomfort, but I don’t buy it. It’s just what happens if you let the comfort of lowered waistlines and a grazing alcohol infused food pattern get the best of you. Ladies, seriously, leave the love handles to the opposite sex! Besides, fashion is cruel. So guess what? The high waist is making a major comeback. It’s the ‘elite fit’ now that there are hardly any women left with the stomach for it—for keeping it tucked in all

day, that is. Poise is the new ‘it’ word, not pout. There, I’ve really said it.

For men it’s a different story.

Men are supposed to have love handles—firm ones preferably— but alas, men’s waistlines have been dropping even lower thanks to hiphop. How exactly one can wear a baggy trouser strapped under the buttocks in a hands-free manner is still a big mystery to me, but at least the sight of the male torso exposed is generally more attractive. Maybe because they don’t wear thongs with this look?

Anyhow, clothes are most definitely about sex. But these super-tight cut jeans that are sweeping the streets since Cheap Monday became the hype, bring an altogether new awkward look when worn in the same irrational way. I can see how they are less likely to drop to your ankles, but apart from that, they just create the weirdest wide-angle look. I’m Photo by Mo Veld all for a happy, relaxed tummy for deeper breathing and stuff, but as a yoginista I also know that nothing good ever came from ‘letting it all hang’.

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Leisure

By Jaro Renout

STILL SMOKING When the national smoking ban was first initiated, a number of clubs and cafes organised wacky theme nights that poked fun at the law and found creative ways around it. Now, five months later, people are getting less and less amused.

According to various studies, horeca profits have been sliding downward and with winter approaching—making the idea of standing outside for a smoke far less attractive—an increasing number of businesses are putting ashtrays back on the table. Some owners are actually looking forward to their day in court, even working on the possibility of getting compensation.

Take those small and cosy cafes that we love so dearly. Since most of them are too tiny to renovate spaces to accommodate the new laws, they have to interpret the legislation in a more subtle way—they have to subtly ignore them. Otherwise they’ll go broke. Considering the fines that start at 80 euros and escalate quickly, one could say they’ll do both.

Coffeeshops, more accustomed to delicately dancing around the laws, are building aquarium-like structures for people who enjoy some tobacco in their joint.

Here you will find everyone inside huffing and puffing and frequently blowing the

house down, while sardines around the world are having a good laugh about it.

The rest of the coffeeshop is mostly empty, because naturally non-smokers still have no interest in dropping by.

Some people will continue smoking no matter what. They consider it as natural as breathing. And a large grey area is developing in the Amsterdam bar circuit with different cafes around town developing their own set of rules—and smokers are quickly learning where they can and cannot go.

Of course, we’re not going to give away names and serial numbers (we learned our lessons from WWII) but we can mention a few on the sly. For example, ‘Bar Locaal’ noticed when their terrace closed down, all the people just stay there even when the chairs and tables had been removed. So they’ve decided to allow smoking inside later in the evening. Then there’s the small underground hiphop joint where, you guessed it, smoking spliffs is totally allowed.

Spliffs of course, meaning with tobacco— they’re not savages. And of course cafe `De Tevreden Rocker’ remains packed to the max due to their 1980s-like policy that dictates a never–surrender attitude towards repression. Of any kind. They

smoke and they’re not being sissy about it. Oh, and then there’s this local bar that has a loyal Ajax crowd on game days.

When there’s football on TV, everyone smokes. For those fans, if the game is close, it’s pretty much impossible to not smoke.

But those rebel bars remain few and far between, and the majority of smokers will likely spend much of the winter standing outside, puffing in the cold.

More info: www.horeca.org www.hiermaghetwel.nl www.rokerskerk.nl

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ob Malasch doesn’t like to stay put. In the Amsterdam art scene, everybody knows Rob Malasch—and Rob Malasch knows everybody. He used to work in the theatre world, making the 1982 play De Fotograaf with composer Philip Glass.

Because of his many acquaintances in the art world, journalism was an easy for him since he was able to casually interview the likes of Andy Warhol and Robert Mapplethorpe.

Starting a gallery only seemed like a logical next step. He was the first to get NY-based 1960s Fluxus art to Amsterdam, and he’s still on mark when it comes to trends in art. He has moved his succesful art gallery Serieuze Zaken around Amsterdam four times. Recently, he went back to Lauriergracht, right next to the spot where he started around 15 years ago. He plans to stay there— and continue to bring in art from all over the world.

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PROFILE

MOVING THE ART SCENE Gallery owner Rob Malasch has a new location and a new obsession. Goodbye China. Hello LA.

By Judith Hornman

What was wrong with the old spot?

Nothing, really. All this moving around, I like to look at it as a voyage of discovery throughout Amsterdam. I started next door, at number 98, then moved on to Willem de Zwijgerlaan, Hazenstraat, and before I came back here I was on Bilderdijkstraat for a couple of years. I really wanted to get out of the little circle of galleries, you know: Test the water elsewhere. But something funny tends to happen when I move somewhere: other galleries pop up out of nowhere. When I went to Amsterdam West, I was the only gallery owner. Good, I thought, it’s new, the rent is cheap here, that’s great.

But it didn’t take long. In just a few years, a dozen galleries formed around me. Now it’s a hotspot.

That’s the point where I say: I’m out of here!

Housing is not the only thing where you seem to lead the field.

Do you have the same ‘I’m out of here’ approach when it comes to art?

Definitely. It excites me still to find new and young talents. I was the first to introduce the Young British Artists in Holland, showing work by Tracey Emin, Marc Quinn and Sarah Lucas. And ten years ago, I started taking an interest in the work of Chinese artists. People didn’t understand at the time though.

They said it was a disgrace, that I was exploiting those poor Chinese.

Well, just look at them now! Chinese art is huge. But I’m kind of done with it, obviously, after ten years. It’s just not about the big money for me. I just want to show people what they haven’t seen before. It’s about originality and, well, also what I like. Apparently, that works for people. I guess they like the same.

Photo by Danielle van Ark

‘The Amsterdam art scene is dead. To be successful, you need to work extremely hard, be seen everywhere, have a killer instinct and loads of ambition. Here, there are too many grants for artists. They all sit in their comfy NDSM-werf studios and brood on stuff.’

Your latest focus is on LA, with the exhibition A Blvd called Wilshire. What’s going on there?

To keep informed, I travel around a lot, talking to people.

When I was in New York some time ago, I got the impression they weren’t too happy about Los Angeles: it’s quickly

becoming a threat when it comes to art talents. It’s tough to survive there. You really have to work your hands to the bone. But it’s starting to produce some brilliant artists.

I had never liked LA, it’s too big, too stretched out. But I must say I changed my mind completely; it has changed a lot the last few years. Downtown has really become a city centre, with plenty of attention for the arts. Marlene Dumas has a beautiful exhibition on there which won’t even tour in Europe. Can you imagine? She lives three canals down from here and you have to go all the way to LA to see her work! It’s ridiculous.

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Rob Malasch Born 1947 Gallery owner, Serieuze Zaken Studioos

What about the art scene in Amsterdam?

God no. The Amsterdam art scene is dead. To be successful, you need to work extremely hard, be seen everywhere, have a killer instinct and loads of ambition. Here, there are too many grants for artists.

They all sit in their comfy NDSMwerf studios and brood on stuff.

And they’ll keep brooding. But believe me, nothing is going to come out of that egg as long as everything is neatly institutionalised. I believe in individuals, not institutions. When you add a certain amount of grants, I believe you lose the same amount of strength.

Besides, how can they possibly expect Amsterdam to be an art hotspot if they close all the museums? Take Sandberg [director of Stedelijk Museum, 1945-1962]: he made such a difference. He got the ball rolling, dared to take risks.

That pays off. Amsterdam was the magic centre of the world by the end of the ’60s. Now everything just simmers. Nothing happens. It’s quite disturbing.

Why not move the gallery abroad, then? Or start new ones elsewhere?

Ha! Just the thought of having different galleries over the world. It sounds nice, but Amsterdam is a perfect operating base. I can show art no one else has seen here yet.

That works for me. That’s my ambition. I’m free to do as I please and travel as much as I like. It’s true that a lot of buyers here are interested mainly in the market value of art— they buy something and sell it for much more. I like to stay sharp, and so should art buyers. They shouldn’t trust a reputation just for the sake of it. [Smiles mischieviously.] That’s why I also like to put completely different work, like that of Sylvia Kristel, on my walls—I don’t want to make it too easy for them.

Won’t you ever get bored of owning a gallery?

You never know. I started this gallery as a hobby when I was a journalist for Het Parool, since I had so many artist friends. Needless to say, I hardly ever wrote again. I still have a soft spot for it though, as I do with organising new things. [He looks at the aviary with birds, in the middle of the gallery.] Maybe I’ll start breeding chinese quails next!

Visit: Serieuze Zaken Studioos Lauriergracht 96, 427 5770, www.serieuzezaken.info Open Wed-Sat 12.00-18.00, first Sunday of month 12.00-17.00.

A Blvd called Wilshire, part 2: Wives, Wheels and Weapons, with Terry Richardson, 18-30 October.

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F E AT U R E

How an Iraqi refugee lives for metal.

By Luuk van Huët

ormally there are jokes to be made about thinning ponytails, greying manes and skin-tight leather pants overshadowed by pendulous beer bellies, but while heavy metal in the Netherlands has become a bit passé, the opening film at this year’s edition of the International Amsterdam Film Festival makes it clear that heavy metal in Iraq is a serious business. Deadly serious.

Heavy Metal in Baghdad is a hard-hitting documentary made by the film branch of the growing multimedia empire Vice about Accrasicauda, the only Iraqi heavy metal band, currently in exile in Turkey.

The film shows how four young Iraqi metalheads named Firas, Tony, Marwan and Faisal share such a passion for their music that they were willing to risk their lives just to express that love. When you can get shot by an insurgent for allegedly expressing a favourable opinion about American culture or by a fundamentalist who thinks you worship Satan, openly wearing a Metallica T-shirt takes some real cojones. The documentary focuses on the incredible difficulties the band faces in pursuing their dreams of making music to bang heads to.

In the end, it shows how the hopes and dreams of an entire generation of Iraqis have been crushed by the war, which has them fleeing the country in search for a better life.

Arguably the band’s biggest fan is 21-year-old Mike Mohammed Muklus, the film crew’s guide as they follow the band from their departure from Iraq to the relatively safer city of Damascus in Syria. Muklus has since managed to escape to Antwerp, where he was interviewed by phone while visiting the local Vice headquarters.

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14,000 American dollars to get stuffed into a small box in the back of a van which was used to smuggle me into Belgium. I was stuck in that box for nine days without being able to eat anything and nothing to drink but a bottle of water. We would sometimes have a little clandestine break, in which I could get out, but those were few and far between. I still have back problems despite arriving in Hasselt 10 months ago. I moved to Antwerp last month. I finally have my refugee status papers so I can stay in Belgium legally. The government has granted me asylum. It also means I’m not allowed to go back to Iraq again since I was forced to run away. I lost a lot.

I haven’t been able to graduate. Most of my friends who stayed have graduated, some of them died.

What made you decide to leave Iraq?

I hope the film will show people that there’s still a whole lot going on in Iraq, even though it shows only a fraction of what is happening there. Even though it is only a drop, it represents a whole sea. You might not want to believe me, but the situation is much worse than what you see in the movie.

I could’ve died in an explosion if I took an earlier cab once. I wanted to check out this guitar store I had heard about, but it was quite far away. I missed a cab, and had to wait half an hour before the next empty one came by. When I arrived at the store, the first thing I saw was a watermelon lying next to a newspaper, both covered with blood. A Mercedes full of explosives had driven into the newsstand, which was located next to a watermelon salesman. To this day, nobody knows why a suicide bomber targeted that shop.

They were just normal guys with regular work. If I had caught that earlier cab, I would’ve been there at the time of the attack.

‘I’m never, ever going to go back to Iraq, because I want to live my life as a free person. I can finally grow my hair long and wear black clothes, get tattoos, paint my nails black and have piercings.’

So, why did you love heavy metal so much when it actually made your life more dangerous?

Well, sometimes you can’t tell why you love something and not hate it. Heavy metal is a reflection of our life as we experience it.

Instead of romantic songs about having a girlfriend and feeling in love, heavy metal is about the relationship we have with life, and it expresses some of the sadness we feel when we are alive. Some songs are just like the answers we would give if someone would ask us about our life. It’s just like the feelings that are expressed in a new song by Metallica called ‘Sunrise Never Comes’. The music video of that song deals with Iraq.

How did you get from Iraq to Syria and finally Belgium?

Getting from Iraq to Syria itself wasn’t so hard. There’s a bus service between the two countries and millions of Iraqis have already used it to flee the region. From Damascus to Turkey was a bit trickier, but going from Turkey to Belgium was a real enterprise. I paid

What has happened to your family?

Some of my family has fled to Syria, and others have gone to Jordan. I don’t have any family in Iraq anymore, and I don’t think any of us will ever be able or even want to go back. I’ve lost two cousins, an uncle, good friends, our neighbours and I’ve left my house, my city and my country behind. You just have to go, otherwise you’ll probably die.

The problem with going to Syria is that a minority of the Syrians treat the Iraqis very badly. Since the Iraqi people fled to Syria in great numbers, there are Syrians that take advantage of the situation by making everything more expensive, charging Iraqi refugees extra. So most Iraqi refugees have financial problems as a result. But it’s also angered a lot of Syrians who blame the Iraqis for making everything expensive. There’s a lot of anger and hate towards the Iraqis. Some Syrians will fight you for no reason, while the authorities capture Iraqis who don’t have a visa, sending them right back to Iraq.

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How did you get to know Accrasicauda?

When I still lived in Baghdad, I heard about the band. I didn’t get a chance to see them, however, because I lived very far from the place they performed and it was too dangerous for me to go and see them. Later, when I had fled to Damascus, I wanted to learn to play the guitar. Through some acquaintances I eventually met Tony. He agreed to teach me and then told me about Accrasicauda.

Then I met the other guys and we quickly became good friends. We used to live together all the time, eat together and hang out. It was very cool. Later on, I was very happy to help them out with the only concert they gave in Damascus.

Mike Mohammed Muklus, before he let his hair grow.

Are you still in touch with the guys from Accrasicauda?

The guys from the band are still in Turkey right now. It sucks that I couldn’t attend their concert there. I didn’t have a passport or address, or even cash for tickets. I hope it’ll be possible to see them when they go to the United States. I especially miss Tony. Not only was he my guitar tutor, but after a while he became more of a brother to me. I’m not going to even look for another guitar tutor here in Antwerp. I just want to study the things Tony taught me, practice the techniques he taught me and I’ll study the books that he gave me. I talk to him and the drummer every once in a while using the chat function on MySpace or Yahoo. I go online when I can and when I see they are also online—which isn’t too often—we chat.

What was your role was in the making of the documentary?

I was hanging out with the band in Syria and helping them out with their concert, when I got into a conversation with the guys from Vice, Eddie Moretti and Suroosh Alvi. They asked me if I wanted to help them out with the documentary by acting as a translator and guide for them. So I hung out with them for those three days and told them all I could about the life Iraqis endure in Syria, showing them around town and around the Iraqi cemetery.

Did you learn to speak English by listening to bootlegged heavy metal music, like the rest of the band?

I learned English by listening to American music, watching movies, playing video games and speaking to American soldiers. Sometimes I don’t even know how I learned English, you know?

Do you ever see yourself going back to the Middle East, let alone Iraq?

I’m never, ever going to go back to Iraq, because I want to live my life as a free person. I can finally grow my hair long and wear black clothes, get tattoos, paint my nails black and have piercings. I wouldn’t be able to do that there. I just want to be myself. I’m not harming anybody else and I’m not harming society by being myself.

Americans claim to have brought freedom to Iraq, but instead of bringing freedom they’ve just managed to make the situation much more complicated without bringing freedom.

‘I hope the film will show people that there’s still a whole lot going on in Iraq, even though it shows only a fraction of what is happening there.

Even though it is only a drop, it represents a whole sea. You might not want to believe me, but the situation is much worse than what you see in the movie.’

What are your plans for the future?

I hope I can study engineering or communication; otherwise I may study to become a computer technician. I was quite good at that back in Iraq, so if I study for a while and improve myself, I can get a certificate for it. A certificate from Iraq is impossible to get. My friends would have to risk their lives to get it for me and that’s not worth it to me. They’d have to go to the Belgian embassy, they’d have to have it translated and there’s a ton of paperwork, too. Of course, every consulate and the Ministry of Education are in the Green Zone, which, in itself, is almost impossible to get into. It’s also a very dangerous place as well. I’ve already lost three of my friends and I don’t want to lose another.

What do you want people to take away from the film?

I want to tell people that they should never cover up who they are.

That they should never be forced to be someone they aren’t. Why do people always live their lives under cover? You have the freedom here to be who you want to be. It’s our life and our future, so live it like you want to.

Heavy Metal in Baghdad is the opening film of the Amsterdam International Film Festival, 16-19 October, various locations, www.iaff.nl (see Short List).

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Home Movie Day, Saturday, Filmmuseum.

THURSDAY16 OCTOBER

best way to get to know the instrument. See www.amsterdamsecellobiennale.nl.

(Mark Wedin) Muziekgebouw, various times and prices. Until 25 October.

Film: International Amsterdam Film Festival This film festival may change its name every year, but that doesn’t alter the fact that it’s a worthwhile viewing experience. The opening film is the incredible documentary Heavy Metal in Baghdad (see feature, on p.8), but don’t miss out on Beautiful Losers, a documentary on the New York underground art scene that sprouted the likes of Harmony Kormine and Mike Mills; the rope-skipping spectacle of JUMP! or the old-school video game aesthetics of 8-BIT. Besides the documentaries, narrative film-making is represented by the neo-noir Boarding Gate by Olivier Assayas, and Gael Garcia Bernal’s directing debut Deficit. Besides an eclectic array of great films, the IAFF also offers a workshop by the award-winning producer Christine Vachon, tasty treats and a blazing party at Sugar Factory. See www.iaff.nl. (Luuk van Huët) De Balie, Melkweg, Uitkijk, various times, €8.50 per screening, €24 day pass. Until Sunday.

Contemporary: Bang on a Can All-Stars Thursday nights mean new music at Muziekgebouw this season, and the fun—yes, I really mean fun—starts this week with a visit from New York scenesters Bang on a Can. An ongoing project for 21 years already, these musos never play it easy, refusing to fit easily into any genre box. Earlier this year they released a completely live rendition of Eno’s Music For Airports, marking 30 years since the release of the original synthetic sound installation. But tonight is all about looking forward, featuring premieres by Lukas Ligeti, All-Star founder Julia Wolfe and Sonic Youth noise-maker Thurston Moore. There’s even a piece by special guest, Iva Bittovy, the amazing Czech avant-garde violinist and singer. Expect sonic fireworks, just not in the classical sense.

(Steven McCarron) Muziekgebouw, 20.30, €31.

FRIDAY17 OCTOBER

SATURDAY18 OCTOBER Film: Home Movie Day ‘You’re like an old-time movie,’ says old-time man Scott McKenzie. ‘One that I’ve already seen.’ But Scott, actually there are many old-time movies you haven’t already seen—and neither have we. That’s because they’ve been hidden away in dusty attics.

Now is the time to get them out for this sure-to-be colourful Home Movie Day. It celebrates the phenomenon of amateur films, because they can be valuable documentations of time, and because we all enjoy some Super-8 romance sometimes.

Right? Bring your old family flicks to Filmmuseum, get them polished up by the digitalisers of SuperSens, and then marvel at your old-time memories on the big screen.

You may even win a prize—though hopefully you have something better than your cat falling off the TV. Otherwise you can still be happy about the fact that even Scott McKenzie still has things to learn. (Sarah Gehrke) Filmmuseum, 12.00 onwards for submissions, screenings at 18.00, 19.30, €7.80.

Event: Storytelling Festival Were you one of the unlucky ones to have missed out on mummy’s bedtime stories?

Well, here’s an opportunity to indulge in the experience anyway. This weekend you can climb onto one of the ships at NDSM and listen to stories about Moby Dick, mermaids, Christopher Columbus and other gripping tales of sailors and the sea. Some of the storytellers are Nilo Berrocal Vargas (Peru), Michael Harvey (GB) and Fons Boer (Netherlands). There’s an international route with only English stories included, and storytelling grannies, mummies, and young and grown-up kids are welcome too. To find out where to be and when see www.storytellingfestival.nl. (Isabel Serval) NDSMwerf, various prices. Also Sunday.

Classical: Amsterdamse Cello Biennale Of all the instruments in the symphony orchestra, cellos are perhaps the most easily likeable. With a soothing baritone voice and a heartfelt higher register, the sound of a cello can draw in the most uninterested listener. And at the Amsterdamse Cello Biennale you’ll find the best of what cellos can offer, from old baroque models to new ones fresh from the craftsman’s worktable. Of particular interest is Frances-Marie Uitti and her spectacular two-bows-in-one-hand technique that’s more than mere acrobatics, it’s breathtaking modern music in action. The programme also includes Bach & Breakfast, where each morning features a different cello suite from the granddaddy of the fugue; an Elliott Carter programme, celebrating the great academic’s coming 100th birthday with performances of all of his cello music; and of course, a slew of cello classics—in particular, the Elgar concerto on Wednesday is maybe the

MONDAY 20 OCTOBER Rock: The Last Shadow Puppets When Miles first met Alex, they had a long and interesting talk. The talk was about violins, black leather jackets, Scott Walker, rascals, monkeys, film soundtracks and about the fact that they both had the exact same haircut. Man, they really bonded that night, those two. Probably they drank loads of beer as well. Then they went on to form a band and to sell out many concerts. Now Miles always has to talk about Alex instead of talking about rascals. And Alex still has to talk about violins. But nonetheless, they’re liking it a lot. And so are we. (Sarah Gehrke) Paradiso, Grote Zaal, 19.30, sold out.

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AGENDA: MUSIC Must see: Pop/Rock

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Bohren & der Club of Gore Paradiso, Kleine Zaal, Sunday 19 October It’s unofficially freaky noise day at Paradiso. The fun—of sorts—gets underway this afternoon with these terminally laggard Germans and their death jazz slowcore which will vibrate your socks off. Support from British experimentalist Alexander Tucker, whose latest album is titled Portal.

MUSIC Thursday 16 October Classical: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Nielsen’s Sinfonia Espansiva and Mendelssohn’s Scottish symphony. Conducted by Herbert Blomstedt, with soprano Marieke Steenhoek and baritone Mattijs van de Woerd. Concertgebouw, Grote Zaal, 20.15, €20/€50 Hiphop: The Opposites Nederhop. Support from Dio and Flinke Name. Paradiso, Grote Zaal, 20.30, €15 + membership Contemporary: Bang On A Can All-Stars Iva Bittová’s special blend of contemporary and Eastern European folk music is brought onstage by the explosive experimental nature of Bang On a Can. See Short List. Muziekgebouw, 20.30, €31 Singer-songwriter: Jakob Dylan and The Gold Mountain Rebels Acoustic pop from the former frontman of The Wallflowers. Remember them? Hopefully not. Anyway, he’s the son of Bob and Sara Dylan, with his songwriting talent seemingly coming from the mother’s side. Melkweg, Oude Zaal, 20.30, €20 + membership Jazz: Christian Scott Quintet This 22-year-old trumpeter, originally from New Orleans, is one of the bright young things in jazz, leaning on tradition while forging a new path. Bimhuis, 20.30, €18 Funk: Popcast Live Featuring the funky jazz of South Africans New Academics. Support from local reggae maestros Karmakonga. Sugar Factory, 21.00, €7.50 Experimental: Kong Pack Electro acoustic percussive improv with elements of punk. Played by Tim

Hodgkinson, Roger Turner and Thomas Lehn. OT301, 21.00, €5 Rock: Jaya the Cat Winston is back! Having skipped a few weeks of programming to clean up the house, they’re gonna party extra hard this weekend. Special guests for the opening night are Dutch-American raprockers Jaya the Cat and groovy Aussie songwriter Rob Sawyer. Obviously, DJs take the party through till late.

Winston Kingdom, 22.00, €7.50 Latin: Sinas Heavy on the percussion and Latin rhythms, Sinas are an eight-piece worldly jazz act intending to connect with their audience through dance-friendly moves. Tonight they present their new album. Paradiso, Kleine Zaal, 22.00, €8 + membership Pop/Rock: 3voor12 Live radio and TV session featuring sets from Face Tomorrow (metal), De Hardheid (ska) and Silence Is Sexy (guitar pop). Club Desmet, 22.00, free, tickets: www.3voor12.nl

Friday 17 October Classical: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra See Thursday. Concertgebouw, Grote Zaal, 20.15, €20/€50 Jazz: Tineke Postma Group Sax gal Postma has picked up rave reviews in the US for her latest album A Journey That Matters. Special guest tonight is Turkishborn singer Esra Dalfidan. Concertgebouw, Kleine Zaal, 20.15, €30.50 Folk: Amy MacDonald Catchy folk rock/pop from the popular Scottish lass. After its release last summer, her debut album This Is the Life casually conquered the UK after a slow burning start, and is now sitting on the shelves of a fresh supply of Dutch 30-somethings.

Melkweg, The Max, 20.30, sold out Flamenco: Enrique de Melchor The son of legendary guitarist Melchor de Marchena, Enrique is joined by guitarist Melchor Jimenez, singer Marta Heredia and percussionist Carlos Heredia. KIT Tropentheater, 20.30, €23

Back from IKEA, Winston is reopened. Hooray!

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Jazz: Joris Roelofs Quartet Saxophonist, flautist and clarinet player Roelofs, accompanied by a piano, bass and drums, launches his new CD. Bimhuis, 20.30, €15 Rock: Aux Raus Dance rock to make your head snap off. Support from Adolf Butler and Firestone. Winston Kingdom, 21.00, €7.50 Rock: Now Hear This! Sets from Henry’s Phonograph and The Margarine Sandwiches. OT301, 21.30, €6 Rock: Killer and the Coolcats Jerry Lee Lewis tribute band. Maloe Melo, 22.00, €5 Funk: Kiss Me Kill Me, Rundfunk Optimistic funk and soul music from the Amsterdam band, and raw jazz from Delft DJ collective Rundfunk. Badcuyp, 23.00, €8

Saturday 18 October Classical: Ensemble Machete East meets West. As well as composed classics, there’s improvised folk songs from Croatia, Germany, Mexico and Sweden.

KIT Tropentheater, 20.15, €10 Classical: Nederlands Philharmonisch Orkest Soprano Sally Matthews guests, with renditions of Mahler’s Fourth and Haydn’s Symphony No.88. Concertgebouw, Grote Zaal, 20.15, €32/€37.50 Classical: Amsterdam Cello Biennale—Opening Concert Dutch and international cellists perform a variety of classical pieces, including the William Tell Overture. See Short List. Muziekgebouw, 20.30, €33.50 Rock: Teoman Another instalment of the Turkey Now! festival. Rather than world music or classical, Teoman arrives in Paradiso to showcase the grander rock moves of the Turkish scene. Paradiso, Grote Zaal, 20.30, €27 + membership Electronic: Fujiya & Miyagi Look beyond the Japanese name and you have an English electro pop outfit influenced by the likes of ’70s Krautrock bands such as Can and Neu! as well as early ’90s electronic artists like Aphex Twin. Paradiso, Kleine Zaal, 20.30, €8 + membership Rock: Kittie This femme fatale Canadian quartet found themselves plastered all over heavy metal mags in the late ’90s, sadly because they were girls with guitars rather than being girls who were great. A decade on, they’re still doing their Black Sabbathstyle thing. Melkweg, Oude Zaal, 20.30, €12 + membership

AGENDA: MUSIC/CLUBS 3 questions:

Kid Sublime Kid Sublime, AKA Jacob Otten, started young. Growing up in Naarden, he began playing drums and piano at five and started a hardcore punk band at 15 before discovering his true passion: scratching. At 17, he won his first contest, and at 19 he became Zuco 103’s tour DJ, a beatmaker for the collective Rednose Distrikt.

Then he retired for a bit... Since 2005, he’s been focusing on his solo career, releasing the albums Basement Soul and most recently—last week in fact—Rappin’ Black on which he collaborated with US homeboys like Camp Lo, Illa Jay (Yance Boys) and Defari (Likwit Crew).

Favourite music for rocking?

The MOP album Firing Squad. When you are drunk and rocking out at a club and you hear these gasten screaming, you just automatically start pogoing.

Favourite music for mellowing?

The Slum Village album Fan-Tas-Tic, Volume 1. And of course, everything by Miles Davis because it’s nice and restful music—jazz done in a real sexy and bluesy way.

Favourite music for loving?

The Dwele album Some Kinda and D’Angelo’s album Brown Sugar. This music is especially made for a girl.

It’s all about lovin’, broken hearts, etc.

Website: www.myspace.com/kidsublimeandlesdeal

US in preparation for new album Where Are You, Bambi Woods?. The result? Counting Crows fans will be happy at least. Melkweg, Oude Zaal, 20.30, €14 + membership

Rock: The Last Shadow Puppets Retro guitar pop from of Alex Turner of the Arctic Monkeys and Miles Kane of The Rascals. See Short List. Paradiso, Grote Zaal, 20.30, sold out

Jazz: Dutch Jazz Orchestra Jubilee Celebrating its 25th anniversary with music from American composers and arrangers Mary Lou Williams and Billy Strayhorn, who both worked extensively with Duke Ellington. Bimhuis, 20.30, €18

Jazz: Jazzmania Big Band Fun jazz from the big band that’s nurtured many young stars over the past two decades, and won this year’s Dutch National Big Band Competition. Bimhuis, 20.30, €8

Roots: Subbacultcha! Lo-fi acoustic goodies from The Burning Hell and United Steel Workers of Montreal.

Slap your thighs and get ready for a hoedown. De Nieuwe Anita, 21.00, €6

Classical: Tribute to Piatigorsky Former pupils of Gregor Piatigorsky, Godfried Hoogeveen and Nathaniel Rosen (along with pianist Frank van de Laar), pay tribute to the renowned Russian musician.

Muziekgebouw, 20.30, €23.50

Pop/Rock: Five O’ Clock Heroes Retro Brit guitar pop. Since all Amsterdam’s fans of Brit guitar pop already have tickets for Paradiso tonight, you can also use your Last Shadow Puppets tickets to get into Melkweg for free. Melkweg, Oude Zaal, 21.00, €12 + membership

Rock: The Bloody Honkies Another night of highenergy rock ’n’ roll partying at Winston, this time with The Bloody Honkies, Nuff Said and Mustango. Winston Kingdom, 21.00, €7.50 World: Adaya Lavi Bossa grooves. Skek, 21.30, free Pop/Rock: Iglu & Hartly Eighties guitar flashbacks from this Californian mob, who’ve just enjoyed a big hit in the UK with the single ‘In This City’. Paradiso, Kleine Zaal, 22.30, €9 + membership

Monday 20 October Classical: Hebrew Songs Works by Szymon Laks, Ernst Bachrich, Jeff Hamburg and Rokus de Groot; performed by soprano Irene Maessen, flautist Eleonore Pameijer, violinist Ursula Schoch, cellist Stephan Hebler and pianist Marcel Worms. Uilenburger Synagogue, 20.15, €15

Sunday 19 October

Classical: Nederlands Philharmonisch Orkest See Saturday. Concertgebouw, Grote Zaal, 20.15, €32/€37.50

Classical: When We Were Trees The Dutch Youth String Orchestra competes with young musicians from Croatia-based group Cellomania in an afternoon of Dutch and world premieres. Muziekgebouw, 14.00, €23.50

Jazz: Dr Lonnie Smith Trio Considered by many to be the world’s top jazz organist, this prolific, multifaceted musician plays everything from Coltrane to Hendrix and Beck. Bimhuis, 20.30, €20

Experimental: M83 Part-two of the freaky noise fest is headlined by this French shoegazish electronic duo, who make an exceptionally pretty noise when they want to. Cinematic and melodramatic is what they do best. Support comes from the predictably unpredictable Jackie-O Motherfucker, with their multi-instrumentalist jams. The evening starts with early sets from Valet and White Rainbow. Paradiso, Grote Zaal, 18.00, €13 + membership Classical: De Nederlandse Bachvereniging Jos van Veldhoven conducts for a grand performance of Haydn’s Die Schöpfung. Concertgebouw, Kleine Zaal, 20.15, €40/€47 Singer-songwriter: a balladeer Acoustic pop from Marinus de Goederen, who spent a year living in the

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Singer-songwriter: Aimee Mann Haunted by contractual difficulties throughout half of the ’90s, talented songwriter Mann fought long and hard to bring her music to the public. The battle was obviously worth fighting—over the past eight years she’s accrued an impressive international following for her melancholic underground pop music, with her work on the wonderful Magnolia soundtrack proving a real highlight. What’s more, recent album @#%&*! Smilers sees her back on form following the slightly lacklustre The Forgotten Arm. Melkweg, The Max, 20.30, €22.50 + membership Classical: Amsterdam Sinfonietta Selections from Bach and Dvorák, as well as Mahler’s swansong, performed by three cellists. Muziekgebouw, 20.30, sold out

Jazz: Groove Collectors Come and get your groove on. A big band initiative dreamed up to help funk flourish and groove grow in Amsterdam’s music scene, and featuring top NL musicians. Sugar Factory, 21.00, €7.50 Experimental: DNK-Amsterdam A concert series for new live electronic and acoustic music. Tonight is Open DI Night #7, with input from the likes of Yota Morimoto, Ronald Boersen, Mike Majkowski and Cor Fuhler. SMART Project Space, 21.00, €5 Experimental: MKM! Sets from Deathroes (US) and The Feeling of Love (FR). OCCII, 21.00, €5

Tuesday 21 October Contemporary: Frances-Marie Uitti A pioneer in avant-garde and contemporary music, Frances-Marie Uitti shows off her revolutionary two-bow technique.

Muziekgebouw, 17.30, €11 Classical: Amsterdam Symphony Orchestra Works

by Mozart, Tchaikovsky, Ravel and Haydn; conducted

by Peter Sánta, with cellist Adrian Brendel. Concertgebouw, Grote Zaal, 20.15, €35 World: Rachid Zeroual & Ensemble Master Moroccan flautist mixing classical Arabian music with Berber folk and elements of jazz. Concertgebouw, Kleine Zaal, 20.15, €31.50 Rock: Motorpsycho Norwegian psychedelic rockers.

Sometimes heavy, sometimes light, they love to work out their atmospherics in long, progressive songs— newest album Little Lucid Moments gets close to 60 minutes with just four ‘songs’. Paradiso, Grote Zaal, 20.30, €20 + membership Classical: Purple In Pärt Cellists Elias Arizcuren and Giovanni Sollima bring together an acoustic collage,

Two hands are better than one. It’s the same with cello bows when Frances-Marie Uitti plays.

combining the music of Jimi Hendrix, Marin Marais and a wonderful piece by Arvo Pärt. Muziekgebouw, 20.30, €26

Wednesday 22 October Classical: Mit Innigem Ausdruck Revel in romanticism as cellist Harro Ruijsenaars and pianist Rian de Waal perform works by Schumann, Liszt and Chopin. Muziekgebouw, 16.00, €18 Jazz: Herbie Hancock The flamboyant jazz pianist finds himself back in the grand surroundings of Concertgebouw. His most recent release, River: The Joni Letters—a tribute to Joni Mitchell—won a Grammy, plus tickets for tonight are getting scarce, so Hancock is very much still relevant in 2008. Concertgebouw, Grote Zaal, 20.15, €49.50/€58 Big band: West End Big Band Big band classics and funky Latin rhythms from this local 18-piece group. Badcuyp, 20.30, €5 Classical: Holland Symfonia Part of the Amsterdam Cello Biennale, the Holland Symfonia will perform Romeo en Julia with the help of three leading soloists and conductor Dmitry Yablonsky.

Muziekgebouw, 20.30, €31

CLUBS Thursday 16 October WKND Proclaiming a school night to be weekend... wild! Let’s see if this weekly house party (today with Ille Bitch and Timstr) can live up to it. Studio 80, 23.00-late, €5 Blue Note Trip Weekly jazz and dance fusion featuring DJ Maestro and special guests. Melkweg, 23.30-late, €8

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Friday 17 October Nachtburo presents Slinger! Getaway are really getting in the DJs now. One of their new nights is this electro/house party by Nachtburo, with a line-up featuring DJs Egbert Jan Weeber and Dax & Clockwork.

Getaway Café, 21.00-03.00, free Dedicat3d: Manu Le Malin Drum & bass conquers all, but techno and electro play a part too. With Manu Le Malin, The Driver, Kotzaak Klan, Promo and Dr Macabre. Melkweg, 22.00-late, €18 Disco Exota Disco, but with style—provided by DJs Gstring, Zip and Noir. Club 8, 22.00-04.00, €5 Au10tique Weekender Au10tique celebrate one year of putting the soul into house music. Tonight DJ Rutger Docter is accompanied by Melon and VJ Rick Robin. Sugar Factory, 23.00-05.00, €11 The Basement Ladies Night A hiphop bash with DJs Waxfiend, MBA, Qlick, Lady S and Abstract. The ladies are treated well indeed—they get in for free during the first hour. Melkweg, 23.59-late, €11.50

Saturday 18 October Living Legends #3 On the Living Legend nights, Steven de Peven introduces a wide range of legendary people from all sorts of cultural niches. This time it’s Jules Deelder’s turn: the poet, writer, jazz connoisseur and Nachtburgemeester of Rotterdam is sure to provide some quality jazz tunes. Canvas, 20.00-late, €10 De Nachtspelen It’s more or less a huge club night with a winter sport theme. Lots of DJs, live bands and drunken frivolities combine with ironic team competitions like schnitzel slam, digital winter sport, arm wrestling, snowball plastering and a Yeti hunt. See www.denachtspelen.nl for full programme. Westergasfabriek, 22.00-06.00, €30 Au10tique Weekender On the second night of Au10tique’s birthday celebration, Rutger Docter brings over Olaf Boswijk for support on the decks. De Kring, 22.00-04.00, €8

Minimaal Feestmaal’s Verjaardagsmaal Studio 80, Kleine Zaal, Friday 17 October The title says it all—and so does the line-up, which includes David Labeij, Thomas Laurèn, Loops, Paul Hazendonk, and many, many more. 23.00-late, €8

Club Rascal IN.D.I.S.C.O! With DJs Dash & Bx. Club 8, 22.00-04.00, €5 Rebel Up! Soundclash Diasporic sounds from the global underground: mestiza beats, gypsy funk, roots, Arabic, African rhythms, Latino, Asian and gritty electronics. OCCII, 22.30-04.00, €4 Cafaine This party stars Elektrawolf, the collaboration of Kraftwerk’s Wolfgang Flür and Anni Hogan, the musician and DJ that used to hang out with Marc Almond a lot—so get ready for some really old electro. On top of that there’ll be DJ sets by Massimo Sex D’Electro and Clockwork. Sugar Factory, 23.0005.00, €10 Gemengd Zwemmen Two rooms of swimmingly diverse noise. The Max has ¿Que Pasa? with DJ Eduardo; in the Oude Zaal, there’s alternative dance, pop, rock and indie hits. Melkweg, 23.59-late, €9

Sunday 19 October Wicked Jazz Sounds Jazz, hiphop, broken beats, nu-jazz, funk and Afro sounds, as classic vinyl collides with live musicians. Sugar Factory, 23.00-05.00, €9.50

Monday 20 October Cheeky Monday True skool jungle and drum & bass, featuring players from the local and international scenes. Winston Kingdom, 22.00-03.00, €7 Heartbroken Love with a tear in the eye and soul, jazz, funk and hiphop on the ears. DJs: Frankie D. and Gewoon Mark ‘e’. Studio 80, 22.00, €5

Wednesday 22 October ADE A Different Lektroluv Nite NEWS presents live sets from Dr Lektroluv, Shameboy and The Subs. In the Oude Zaal, PIAS presents The Hacker, Agoria and Kiko.

Melkweg, 22.00-late, €15 + membership

GAY&LESBIAN Edited by Willem de Blaauw.

pimps in full working gear get a free glass of bubbles. Church, 22.00-04.00, €12.50 Mirrorball The second edition of this dance party includes a performance by ex-‘Weather Girl’ Marta Wash, also known for her solo-hits ‘Strike it up’ and ‘Everybody Dance Now’. The latter will be no problem, helped by DJ Jerry Black and Dekky, plus hostess MayDay and NY drag queen Sherry Vine.

Marcanti, 23.00-05.00, €30

Thursday 16 October Thursday Stress Stopper Relax after your Thursday evening shopping spree. Sip a cocktail while having a rejuvenating chair massage. Getto, 21.00, free Lezzie Chill Out The name says it all. Chat, chill, dance and/or flirt. And sip sexy cocktails. Cafe Sappho, 21.00, free

Monday 20 October Horsemen & Knights Popular Sunday afternoon sex party for big men and their admirers. And we don’t mean body size. Dresscode: naked or underwear. Free entrance for those who fit the category and pass the ultimate measure test. Cockring, 15.00-21.00, €8

Friday 17 October Friday Weekend Madness Start the weekend with a bang at this happy homo hang-out. Audio host DJ Danny spins electric beats from today and yesteryear. Getto, 17.00, free D & C Dance & Cruise party at this cool cruise club.

Shirts are optional, and so is the rest of your wardrobe. Dance, flirt and do all kinds of other unholy stuff. Admission includes one drink and there’s even a tiny smoking lounge for those desperate to suck on something else. Church, 20.00-00.00, €10

Wednesday 22 October Getto Burger Queens Feeling hungry? Today all burger dinners at this funky restaurant/bar are just €10.

Getto, 18.00, free

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Twisted Italo Disco Tunes Happy house tunes from the past with DJ Delitto Nova. From ‘Ride on Time’ to ‘I Say Yeah’ and other feet-tapping classics. PRIK, 22.30, free

Saturday 18 October Hookers’ Ball You might get laid, but you won’t get paid at this fun, freaky and sexy Hookers’ Ball. Aimed at gays, straights and anything in between. Sluts and

Amsterdam Dance Event kicks in on Wednesday.

Opening Theatre: Vrede A comedy about grief, and the absurdity that sometimes shines through all the sadness if somebody has died. De Brakke Grond, (Thur-Sat 20.30), €16

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Performance: Hidden Trees Betsy Torenbosch’s performance/dance/theatre/multimedia show is a collection of life stories of elderly people who live in Amsterdam but were born in other European countries. De Brakke Grond, (Thur-Sat 20.30, Sat also 15.00), €16 Music/Theatre: Spica Theatre, song and live cooking all come together in this Orkater production, which is inspired by Peter Greenaway’s The Cook, the Thief, his Wife and her Lover. In Dutch. Theater Bellevue, (Thur 20.30), €17.50 Theatre: Lady M There is a near-forgotten lady in Macbeth that only appears in one scene. But one day she has enough of being sidelined, and in this play she takes over to tell her version of the story of her queen. In Dutch. Theater Bellevue, (Thur-Sat 20.30), €13 Theatre: Medea Fatal jealousy, revenge, infanticide—Euripides’ Medea isn’t a very nice woman. But at times, the play lets the audience get swept along with her madness. In Dutch. Theater Bellevue, (Fri, Sat 20.30), €16 Theatre: All the Lonely People and Me A solo performance (obviously) about loneliness. Claire Fleury brings together popular science, philosophical observations and video art. But still she’s all alone on the stage. In Dutch. Theater Bellevue, (Tues, Wed 20.30), €13.50 Performance: Nothing Can Surprise Us A performance with lots of movement, film and video, and a wee bit of text, about self-fulfilling prophecies and trying to prepare for the things to come. Frascati, (Wed 20.30), €12

Ongoing Theatre: Lex, een pathologische comedy The goodbye show of d’Electrique offers you the once-in-a-lifetime chance to meet Lex: Darwinist, Nietzschean and possibly Taoist-to-be. Lex has three plans: saw his hand off, meet a woman, become happy. Lex, thus, isn’t really what you’d call normal. But that would be boring anyway, wouldn’t it? Frascati, (Thur-Sun 20.30), €16 Theatre: About Falling A co-production with APAP and Tanzfabrik Berlin, with a concept by Diego Gil and Igor Dobricic, About Falling is about, yup, falling, and about our bodies in relation to a fall, and about recovering from all that falling. Hetveem Theater, (Thur-Sat 20.30 Sun 16.00), €9 Theatre: De Kopvoeter Het Syndicaat reprise Esther Gerritsen’s award-winning play about a disabled artist who paints with her mouth. As her popularity begins to surge and her works become known, she feels it crucial to keep her handicap a secret. In Dutch. Frascati, (Thur-Sat 21.00), €14 Dance: Don Giovanni Turbulent seduction scenes, exuberant feasts, ingenious disguises, passion, disappointment, rage and deadly revenge: the story of Don Juan is the perfect vehicle for a grandly conceived fulllength ballet. This also holds true of the sublime music Mozart wrote for the serial philanderer. Het Muziektheater, (Fri, Sat 20.15), €20-€59 Theatre: Sexappeal A little lunch theatre is the perfect addition to your diet. This one, a co-production of Bellevue and Mugmetdegoudentand, is about three ageing actors auditioning for the role of their lifetime.

Hopes are high, and so are the stakes. In Dutch. Theater Bellevue, (Fri, Sun, Tues, Wed 12.30), €14

A G E N D A : S TA G E / E V E N T S Dance: Wonderland Improvised dance and music performance for the whole family. OT301, (Sun 16.00), €4

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Theatre: De Familie Avenier (1+2) All four parts of Maria Goos’ family epos can now be seen on two consecutive days. Depicting the history of a Brabant family throughout the decades and an ever-changing society, the story begins at New Year’s Eve 1955, while part four is set almost 50 years later—and the family, as well as the world they’re living in, have changed radically. Parts three and four are to follow tomorrow.

(Tues 19.00), €12.50-€39 Theatre: De Familie Avenier (3+4) See above.

Stadsschouwburg, (Wed 19.00), €12.50-€39

EVENTS Music/Poetry: Pageturner A mix of singer-songwriters (not the boring ‘la la la’ kind though) and edgy poets. Guests include Pfaff, Razorblade Jr, Gram and Secret Love Parade. OCCII, (Thur 21.00), €5 Multidisciplinary: Do & Flow Fashion, rock, photography and dance music collide in this early programme. Sugar Factory, (Fri 19.00), €7 Books: Jon Jordan Writer Jordon reads from his recently published debut novella In the Name of Sarah Pogford. He will also speak with Lisa Friedman of the Amsterdam Writing Workshops about the process of bringing your private writings into the public domain, thus getting that first book published. In English. ABC Treehouse, (Fri 19.30), free Event: Storytelling Festival Master storytellers from around the world gather to share various tales related to ships and sea voyages recounted on the holds of moored ships. Man or woman, illiterate or not, if you’re a human with working ears, you’ll probably enjoy this immensely. See Short List and www.storytellingfestival.nl for full programme. In English and Dutch. NDSM-werf, (Sat, Sun various times), various prices Art/Auction: Art4Water Artists auctioning work to raise money for water-based projects in Africa. The works can be sampled in the preceding days between 11.00 -17.00. Oude Kerk, (Sat 14.00), free Art/Sport: CycleRecycleCycle With help from expert bike fixer-uppers, pimp your old clunky bike into a spankin’ new ride. Every Saturday until 2 November. Pietheinkade, (Sat 14.00-16.00), €10 Sport: 33rd ING Amsterdam Marathon Somebody call the IND. Now! It’s reported that 8000 more foreigners will be running loose in the streets this weekend. Crikey! Fortunately, there’s a map online at www.ingamsterdammarathon.nl, showing where these dastardly invaders of freedom and Dutch culture will be. It’s recommended that you avoid these strange aliens and their little shorts. Various locations, (Sun all freaking day), free

[Purgatorio] Popopera Stadsschouwburg, Sunday 19 October Having gone through hell, Emio Greco and PC Scholten get a little closer to the light in their journey through Dante’s Divine Comedy. Subtitled ‘I Got Life’, part two of their trilogy takes us to purgatory, doing so with music by Bang on a Can composer Michael Gordon, and dancers who’re equipped with black electric guitars. Stadsschouwburg, (20.30), €10-€25

Lecture: Koenraad Dedobbeleer Weekly lectures, this time with the video and visual artist. In English. De Ateliers, (Tue 17.00), €4 Discussion: Felix & Sofie Interviews with philosophers Richard David Precht and Pieter Lemmens.

Precht has written about age-old concepts like morality, thinking and consciousness with regard to the latest developments in science and medical discoveries about the brain. Lemmens considers whether humans control their own technology and inventions or vice versa—a particularly apt question considering the ruling corporate and military cultures of the day. Precht speaks in English, Lem-

Got somewhere to be on Sunday? Leave early. The Amsterdam Marathon is likely to block your route.

mens in Dutch. Felix Meritis, (Tues 20.00), free Presentation: Pecha Kucha Night Amsterdam Having started in Tokyo a few years back, this networking and idea-sharing night has quickly spread around the world. Twelve speakers from various branches of the seemingly all-encompassing ‘creative industry’ (including architects, advertisers, furniture designers, artists, etc) each present 20 slides for 20 seconds each. In between presentations will be music, drinks, business card swapping and lots of chit-chat (pecha kucha, in Japanese). ExperimentaDesign Lounging Space, (Wed 21.00), €7

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AGENDA: ART

Art: Opening

CoBrA 60: Scribblers Daubers Cheaters Sixty years ago the experimental CoBrA artists were described as ‘Scribblers, Daubers, Cheaters’. Nowadays, CoBrA is the most important post-war art movement in the Netherlands. This exhibition pays tribute to the rebellious spirit of this international group of artists in a scintillating tribute, with over 70 superb works from the 1940s and 1950s. CoBrA Museum, (Tues-Sun 11.0017.00), opens Saturday, until 25 January 2009

Usha Rappange Bhalla: Living Glass

Karin van Dam, Ronald Noorman Sketches and installation by Van Dam, drawings by Noorman.

Wetering Galerie, opens Saturday, until 22 November

Jan van der Togt Museum, opens Thursday, until 23 November

Renato Nicolodi: Beyond Mass A serene collection of architectonic cement sculptures, photographs, drawings and light boxes by the Belgian artist. Ronmandos, (Wed-Sat 12.30-17.30), opens Saturday, until 22 November

Unique glass art that mixes Indian art with Western techniques. Jan van der Togt Museum, (Wed-Sun 13.00-17.00)

ART

Javier Gómez, Sam Francis Glass art by Gómez and paintings by Francis. Jan van der Togt Museum, (WedSun 13.00-17.00), opens Thursday, until 23 November De wereld van Christiaan Andriessen A chance to view a hundred pages from the sketch diaries of Dutch artist Andriessen, originating from 1805 to 1808. Stadsarchief Amsterdam, (Tues-Sat 10.00-17.00, Sun 11.00-17.00), opens Friday, until 11 January 2009

Opening Protest! Campaign Posters from 1965 ‘A woman’s right to choose’, ‘Say no to nuclear weapons’, ‘No home, no throne’ and more classic posters paint a picture of prominent societal issues over the past 40 years. Who was protesting and how? And what were the protests about? Verzetsmuseum, (Tues-Fri 10.00-17.00, Sat-Mon 11.00-17.00), opens Thursday, until 29 March 2009 NL28 Olympic Fire An exhibition in which scale models, film, debate and theatre help visitors to imagine that the Netherlands is organising the Olympic Games in 2028, a century after the Games in Amsterdam.

Zuiderkerk, (Tues-Sat 10.00-17.00, Sun 11.00-17.00), opens Thursday, until 13 December

Kousbroek & Snoep Drawings in DoorKijken by Gabriel Kousbroek and photos in Coleoptera by Agniet Snoep. Chiellerie, (Daily 14.00-18.00), opens Friday, until 23 October Tia Ryan: Absentia Photographic portraiture that tries to bridge the gap between familiar iconography and the social reality of living in a covertly sexually-stratified and overtly multi-ethnic culture. Gallery WM, (Thurs-Sat 14.00-18.00), opens Friday, until 22 November Marjolein Rothman—Our Land Based on official Royal portraits and anthropological photography from the Dutch colonies, Our Land makes visible what escapes the eye: the ambiguous meaning of a history which still haunts the present. Motive Gallery, (Wed-Sat 13.0018.00), opens Saturday, until 6 December

Museums Miguel Ybáñez: The Anonymous Glance Contemporary cave paintings by this Spanish artist that aren’t in caves. Technically just contemporary paintings, really. Grimm Fine Art (Wed-Sat 12.00 18.00), opens Saturday, until 15 November Black is Beautiful A journey of discovery though the history of art, which for the first time aims to highlight the attractiveness of the black person in the art of the Lowlands. It turns out, many great masters have portrayed black people. Their fascination will be illustrated in 135 paintings, drawings and manuscripts from collections here and abroad, including artists like Rembrandt, Breitner, Sluijters, Appel and Dumas. Nieuwe Kerk (Fri-Wed 10.00-18.00, Thur 10.00-22.00), until 26 October David Verbeek Photos of Shanghai, Beijing and Taipei by the film director. Filmmuseum (Mon-Fri 09.00 -22.15, Sat, Sun one hour prior to show-22.15), until 29 October Inside Out Personal portraits in word and image show how youths deal with religion and the part it plays in their daily lives. Bijbels Museum (Mon-Sat 10.00-17.00, Sun 11.00-17.00), until 2 November

Want change? Organise a protest. Need inspiration? Go to the Protest! exhibition at Verzetsmuseum.

Sonic Voices, Rocking Hard Audio artist Nathalie Bruys co-curates this exhibition, showing a personal selection from very diverse approaches, each making use of sound and music. The works have been created by young artists with highly varied backgrounds, all with a sincere love of music, audio and art in common. Montevideo/Time Based Arts (Tues-Sat 13.00-18.00), until 2 November Pieter Hugo: The Hyena & Other Me Photos by 2008 KLM Paul Huf Award winner Pieter Hugo, made while travelling in Nigeria with a group of animal charmers and their hyenas, monkeys and snakes in tow. Foam (Sat-Wed 10.00 -18.00, Thur, Fri 10.00-21.00), until 2 November ExperimentaDesign Three ongoing exhibitions that make up the programme for the design biennale. Sunday Adventure Club takes place at Groenburgwal 44 (Staalstraat 7a/b); Droog Event 2: Urban Play takes place at Onder de Brug (De Ruyterkade 153-157) and the IJ waterfront; and Come to My Place can be found in the Westerhuis Gallery (Westerstraat 187). See www.experimentadesign.nl. Various locations (WedSun 11.00-18.00), until 2 November Censuur! Exhibition offering an overview of groups, institutions and individuals who’ve had dealings with censorship and the various forms of resistance against it, dating from the 17th century to the present.

Persmuseum (Tues-Fri 10.00-17.00, Sun 12.00-17.00), until 9 November If I Can’t Dance, I Don’t Want to be Part of Your Revolution III The third edition of this travelling platform for performance-related art embraces the theme of ‘masquerade’, with an exhibition and, of course, an ongoing performance series (see www.deappel.nl for schedule). Curated by Frederique Bergholtz and Annie Fletcher. De Appel (Tues-Sun 11.00-18.00), until 9 November Miyako Ishiuchi: Photographs 1975-2005 The first European retrospective of Japanese photographer Miyako Ishiuchi. While the artist brought attention to herself at Biennial 2005 in Venice with her collection Mother’s, the remainder of her work had not yet been presented collectively in Europe. Exhibited in Foam are ninety photographs from the series Yokosuka Sto-

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ry, Apartment, Endless Night, 1.9.4.7, 1906 to the Skin and Mother’s. Foam (Sat-Wed 10.00-18.00, Thur, Fri 10.00-21.00), until 16 November Atlas Maior. De wereld van Blaeu Exquisite examples of Joan Blaeu’s maps, made in Amsterdam’s Golden Era, when the industry of cartography was in full bloom. UvA: Special Collections Library (Mon-Fri 10.00-17.00, Sat, Sun 13.00-17.00), until 23 November Cy Twombly: Photographs 1951-2007 Photos by the renowned American artist, in celebration of his 80th birthday, As a photographer, Twombly still has the eye of a painter, who explores rather than captures his subjects—still lifes, flowers, interiors, seascapes. His ‘dry prints’, a specialised version of colour prints from a copy machine, are being shown for the first time in the Netherlands. Huis Marseille (Tues-Sun 11.0018.00), until 23 November Hendrik Werkman: The Blue Barge Exhibition containing Werkman’s preparatory studies for the suites of prints he made as an act of resistance for The Blue Barge during WWII. The most famous of these is Chassidische Legenden. Joods Historisch Museum (Daily 11.00-17.00), until 30 November New Leipzig School A younger generation of painters at Leipzig has created their own artistic vocabulary with tremendous craftsmanship which at the moment is driving the world crazy—in a good way. This is the first Dutch exhibition of the new movement, with particular focus on major trend-setters Neo Rauch and Matthias Weischer. CoBrA Museum (Tues-Sun 11.0017.00), until 11 January 2009 125 Favourites The Rembrandt Association celebrates its 125th anniversary with a five-part exhibition: key purchases from its history; returned Dutch artworks; old (non-Dutch) masters; comparatively modern works (Chagall, Matisse and De Kooning); and acquisitions from the last ten years. Van Gogh Museum (Mon-Thur, Sat, Sun 10.00-18.00, Fri 10.0022.00), until 18 January 2009 Stedelijk in de Stad—The Construction Cabin on Tour The Stedelijk’s artistic version of a construction cabin is touring the city from the Oosterdokseiland to the Museumplein, passing via Noord, Centrum, IJburg, Slotervaart, Zuid-Oost, Oost, Westerpark and De Baarsjes. See www.stedelijkindestad.nl. Various locations (various times), until 1 December 2009

Galleries Foreign Ground Works by young internationals: Erik de Bree, Danielle Itzhaqi, Yehudit Mizrahi and Masha Osipova. Ververs Gallery (Thur-Sat 12.00 17.30), until 17 October Activist Videoclips A PLANETART presentation of several rebellion videoclips, shocking film material and confrontational works of art. Volkskrantgebouw (Mon-Fri 12.00-17.00, Sat 14.00-17.00), until 18 October The Artists at Work Ronald Nijhof and Su Tomesen.

Presenting the 3-D installations ‘Das Zwischen’ and ‘Red Space’. Petersburg Project Space (Thur-Sat 13.00-18.00), until 18 October

AGENDA: ART/ADDRESSES Lekker Bezig

‘Tsubaki means camellia flower in Japanese. We like the image of this flower and see it as the symbol for short-lived beauty, and a good party is like that: temporary but intense beauty. We are Takako Hamano and Emiko Chujo and our next Tsubaki party is at Paradiso this Friday.

‘It’s a really full programme with the rock band Frying Dutchman from Kyoto, a fashion contest and the Tsubaki Chindon performance, and our good DJ friend Hito is bringing the Japanese drag queen Masu from Berlin. We’re exited about being in Paradiso for the first time because it gives us the opportunity to grow and realise our dreams since we started Tsubaki two years ago.

‘What I really love about our Tsubaki nights is that there’s always a very good mix of different nationalities, people dance a lot (we sometimes have Tsubaki cheer-girls to help get the feet to the beat), and it really feels like a local festival. In Japanese we call these matsuri, and our parties bring the feeling of openness and happiness that reminds me of Japan.

‘DJ Hito usually wears a kimono for the occasion, but for everyone else we have a pretty diverse dress code: sexy maid, school uniform, godzilla, ribon, lolita, Ninten-do, wasabi, sushi, J-Rock, PARAPARA, Salary-man or Fujiyama. You can win pretty cool prizes in our fashion contest like a seven-day rail pass for Japan or an Iki beer set, so we’re expecting nice outfits. We have some big plans for the future, but I’m not going to spill the secret yet. Amsterdam: just wait and see!’

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

ABC Treehouse Voetboogstraat 11, 423 0967

Maison Descartes Vijzelgracht 2A, 531 9500

Free Spaces Zuidas: Artists in Residence Group exhibition displaying their conceptual vision of what should and shouldn’t be done with the Zuidas. Platform 21 (Thur-Sun 12.00-18.00), until 2 November

Akhnaton Nieuwezijds Kolk 25, 624 3396

Maloe Melo Lijnbaansgracht 163, 420 4592

Amsterdams Centrum voor Fotografie Bethaniënstraat 9, 622 4899

Melkweg Lijnbaansgracht 234A, 531 8181

ANNO Westerstraat 35/49

Montevideo/Time Based Arts Keizersgracht 264, 623 7101

De Appel Nieuwe Spiegelstraat 10, 625 5651

Muziekgebouw Piet Heinkade 1, 788 2010

Arti et Amicitiae Rokin 112, 624 5134

Het Muziektheater Amstel 3, 625 5455

AYAC'S Keizersgracht 166, 638 5240

De Nieuwe Anita Frederik Hendrikstraat 111, 06 4150 3512

Badcuyp 1e Sweelinckstraat 10, 675 9669

Nieuwe Kerk entrance on the Dam, 638 6909

Beurs van Berlage Damrak 277, 530 4141

OCCII Amstelveenseweg 134, 671 7778

Jan Roeland New paintings. Slewe Gallery (Tues-Sat 14.00-17.00), until 8 November

Bitterzoet Spuistraat 2, 521 3001

Ostadetheater Van Ostadestraat 233 D, 679 5096

Blow Up Gallery Hazenstraat 67, 665 3435

OT301 Overtoom 301, 779 4913

Iris Roskam: Iris in Slumberland Glass artist. Witzenhausen Gallery (Thur-Sat 12.00-18.00), until 8 November

De Brakke Grond Nes 45, 626 6866

Oude Kerk Oudekerksplein 23, 625 8284

Cafe Pakhuis Wilhelmina Veemkade 576, 419 3368

OUTLINE Oetewalerstraat 73, 693 1389

Cafe Sappho Vijzelstraat 103, 423 1509

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

Chiellerie Raamgracht 58, 320 9448

Pakhuis de Zwijger Piet Heinkade 179-181, 788 4444

Church Kerkstraat 50-52

Paradiso Weteringschans 6-8, 626 4521

Club 8 Admiraal de Ruyterweg 56B, 685 1703

Paule Carre Cornelis Schuytstraat 44, 675 6800

Club More Amor Rozengracht 133, 344 6402

Perdu Kloveniersburgwal 86, 627 6295

Club Stereo Jonge Roelensteeg 4

Persmuseum Zeeburgerkade 10, 692 8810

CoBrA Museum Sandbergplein 1-3, Amstelveen, 547 5050

Petersburg Project Space Frans de Wollantstraat 84

Concertgebouw Concertgebouwplein 2-6, 671 8345

Platform 21 Prinses Irenestraat 19, 344 9449

Consortium Veemkade 570, 06 2611 8950

PRIK Spuistraat 109, 06 4544 2321

CREA Muziekzaal Turfdraagsterpad 17, 525 1400

Punt WG Marius van Bouwdijk Bastiaansestraat 15, 618 7848

Geert Bartelink: Het rijk der fabelen Colourful and artistic tales of the rich. AYAC’S (Fri, Sat 13.00-17.30), until 15 November

De Duivel Reguliersdwarstr 87, 626 6184

Radar Gallery Eerste Rozendwarsstraat 17-H, 06 2416 3300

De Engelenbak Nes 71, 626 3644

Retort Aalsmeerweg 103, 669 4669

Flex Bar Pazzanistraat 1, 486 2123

De Rode Hoed Keizersgracht 102, 638 5606

Régine de Festes: Creation & Mythology Paintings and sculptures by the French artist. Paule Carre (Mon 13.00-18.00; Tue, Wed, Fri 10.00-18.00; Thur 10.0020.00; Sat 10.00-17.00), until 20 November

Foam Keizersgracht 609, 551 6546

Rozentheater Rozengracht 117, 620 7953

Frascati Nes 63, 626 6866

De Service Garage Stephensonstraat 16

Galerie Bart Bloemgracht 2, 320 6208

Slewe Gallery Kerkstraat 105A, 625 7214

Galerie de Rietlanden Exposities Rietlandpark 193, 419 4705

Souterrain Messinastraat 38

[onderzoek] Sculptures by Erik Buijs which look like confused, hairless little people but is in fact an ironic commentary on humanity and its surroundings.

Galerie Bart (Thur, Fri 11.00-18.00, Sat 12.00-17.00), until 8 November

A Perfect Book The art of the photo book. Curated

by Wil van Iersel. Amsterdams Centrum voor Fotografie (Thur-Sat 13.00-17.00), until 8 November

Michiel van der Zanden Young painter from Brabant taking inspiration from digital ideas. Galerie Smits (Wed-Sat 13.30-17.30), until 12 November

Recollect Diverse works by American artist Chris Ballantyne, German artist Katrin Hoffert and Belgian artist Hans Vandekerckhove. Galerie Hof & Huyser (Wed-Sat 13.00-18.00), until 31 October Titus Dekker: (Sub)urban Views Drawn paintings of Amsterdam. Galerie de Rietlanden Exposities (WedSun 13.00-17.00), until 2 November

More info: www.myspace.com/tsubakinl

ADDRESSES

Irene Kopelman—Scale: 1:2.5 An ongoing series of artistic presentations. Kopelman is invited by guest curator Eva Fotiadi. OUTLINE (Thur-Sat 13.00-17.00), until 25 October

Inferno Dark paintings by Italian duo Two Things. De Duivel (Daily), until 31 October

Photo by Joost Benthem

Henk Visch: Stiks and stons wil brik yur bons Sculptures. Galerie Ferdinand van Dieten-d’Eendt (Thur-Sat 11.00-18.00), until 2 November

LAND Photos by André Mérian showing the landscape of humanity, with overflowing cities, shopping centres and the like. Maison Descartes (Mon-Thur 10.0018.00, Fri 10.00-17.00), until 8 November

Maartje Jaquet/Marcel Prins Photography & video and sculptures & constructions by the two artists, all with an animal theme. Royal Gallery (Wed-Sun 12.0018.00), until 26 October

By Isabel Serval

Tsubaki, Japanese party-organisers

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

Blow Up Gallery (Thur, Fri 14.00-18.00, Sat 13.0018.00), until 25 October

Erik Olofsen: State of Delusion Part two of Between Dark and White, with Olofsen exploring complex combinations of wood, cardboard, photographs and projections, and the impact of (increasing) mechanical reality translated into a cold environment where the human experience seems to have disappeared. P/////AKT (Thur-Sun 14.00-18.00), until 26 October

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Sanne Sannes Rare vintage works by Dutch photographer Sanne Sannes, who perished in a car accident in 1967. Renowned in the early ’60s for using photography as a means to create autonomous art, he was known as the ‘photographer of tomorrow’. Hup Gallery (Tues, Thur, Fri 10.00-17.00), until 21 November Structures Group exhibition that examines the structure of the art world from the perspective of the artist. Souterrain (Thur-Sun 12.00-17.00), until 7 December This Side of the Globe Travel photography from the Middle East and Asia by Kurt van Aert. Mezrab (Thur-Sun 15.00-20.30, Fri, Sat 15.00-22.30), until 31 December

Still need protest ideas? It’s the last couple of days of Activist Videoclips.

Ferdinand van Dieten-d'Eendt Spuistraat 270, 626 5777 Galerie Gabriel Rolt Elandsgracht 34, 785 5146 Galerie Hof & Huyser Bloemgracht 135, 420 1995 Galerie Juliette Jongma Gerard Douplein 23, 463 6904 Galerie Smits Fokke Simonszstraat 29, 06 43001833 Galerie Wies Willemsen Ruysdaelkade 25, 470 1073 Getto Warmoesstraat 51

Mezrab 2de Laurierdwarsstraat 50

Stadsschouwburg Leidseplein 26, 624 2311 Studio 80 Rembrandtplein 17, 521 8333 Studio K Timorplein 62, 692 0422 Sugar Factory Lijnbaansgracht 238, 627 0008 The Eagle Warmoesstraat 90, 627 8634 Theater Bellevue Leidsekade 90, 530 5301 Tropenmuseum Linnaeusstraat 2, 568 8200

Grimm Fine Art Hazenstraat 24, 422 7227

UvA: Special Collections Library Oude Turfmarkt 129, 525 2141

Hetveem Theater Van Diemenstraat, 626 9291

Van Zijll Langhout Brouwersgracht 161, 06 2825 9620

Huis Marseille Keizersgracht 401, 531 8989

Ververs Gallery Hazenstraat 54

Hup Gallery Tesselschadestraat 15, 515 8589

Werkteater Oostenburgergracht 75, 330 8832

Jan van der Togt Museum Dorpsstraat 50, 641 5754

Wetering Galerie Lijnbaansgracht 288, 623 6189

Jimmy Woo Korte Leidsedwarsstraat 18, 626 3150

Witzenhausen Gallery Hazenstraat 60, 644 9898

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AGENDA: FILM

Film review

By Massimo Benvegnù

Lynch Opens Thursday at Smart Cinema.

A WORLD IN BLACK Does a bizarre, twisted world view only exist in David Lynch’s movies or is it part of his reality?

A tall, imposing man dressed in black, with work boots and a pompadour of white hair, walks alone through the desolate surroundings of an apparently abandoned industrial landscape. He finds

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Festival International Amsterdam Film Festival Films, food and partying. See Short List and feature on p. 8. De Balie, Melkweg Cinema, De Uitkijk

New this week 1000 Journals A thousand blank journals are passed from hand to hand throughout the world, collecting stories, pictures and collages—slices of the lives they touch. It all started with 1000 blank books, released into the world in the summer of 2000 by Someguy, a San Franciscan artist. Someguy's instructions, stamped inside each journal, were simple: 'This is an experiment and you are part of it. Add anything you like, then pass it on.' One came back, filled. But where are the other 999? 1000 Journals investigates their worldwide journeys, and chronicles the self-governed collaboration of thousands of random people who added to this global 'message in a bottle'. Directed by Andrea Kreuzhage. Smart Cinema Amazing Grace Flawed but ambitious, this biopic of British parliamentarian William Wilberforce closely tracks the political maneuvering of the late 18th and early 19th centuries as reformers campaign to end Britain's participation in the slave trade. Ioan Gruffudd (Fantastic Four) never conveys the religious zeal that propelled the Tory politician, but he's ably supported by Benedict Cumberbatch as the hero's friend and ally William Pitt the Younger, steely Michael Gambon as a Whig MP who throws in with the anti-slavery crusade, and stormy Albert Finney as John Newton, a former slave trader who renounced his sin and became an Anglican clergyman. Directed by Michael Apted. De Uitkijk, Studio K (JJ)

a large can of green paint on the ground.

He puts his hands inside the can. What comes out is a woman’s jacket, totally soaked in green paint. The man hangs it on the wall and lets the paint drip. You

Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging Teen actress Georgia Groome stars in this high-pitched feel-good teen romcom from Bend It Like Beckham director Gurinder Chadha. All the usual suspects are present, from the embarrassing parents and the mad little sister, to the new-boy-in-town heart throb and the treacherous best friend. Angus... evokes sea-side town boredom well—film is shot in Eastbourne, reknowned in the UK for basically being one big retirement home. Formulaic, to say the least, and frighteningly comformist in an ‘all teen girls want is a boyfriend and they'll get one if they just be themselves’ kind of way, it ticks along, and judging by the reaction of the audience of teenagers I saw it with, it pretty much hits its demographic on the head.

Pathé ArenA, Pathé de Munt (AD) Bride Flight To escape personal drama and the suffocating environment of post-WWII Netherlands, three young families decide to emigrate to New Zealand.

The husbands leave first to look for work and accommodation, and their brides meet on a fateful 1953 trip from London to Christchurch. Directed by Ben Sombogaart from a script by Marieke van der Pol, with Karina Smulders, Anna Drijver and Elise Schaap as the three young women, and a special appearance by Rutger Hauer. Pathé ArenA, Pathé de Munt Chicago 10 At the 1968 Democratic Convention, protesters, denied permits for demonstrations, repeatedly clashed with the Chicago Police Department, who waged a week-long terror campaign, resulting in riots witnessed live by a television audience of over 50 million. Eight activists, including Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin and Bobby Seale, were charged with conspiracy to promote riots and brought to court in a trial that had a polarising effect on the country. By using an original mix of archival footage and capture-motion animation to re-enact the courtroom scenes, Chicago 10 presents contemporary history with a militant perspective, and explores the build-up to, and unraveling of, the Chicago Conspiracy Trial. Written and directed by Brett Morgen (The Kid Stays In the Picture). Smart Cinema Lynch A brand new documentary about controversial American director David Lynch doesn't shed any new light on him, but is still extremely entertaining to watch. See review above. Smart Cinema Max Payne After his wife and baby daughter are killed by a criminal group addicted to a new drug called

find yourself wondering if maybe it’s just a silly visualisaton of the concept of a ‘new coat of paint’. But since the man is David Lynch, it’s probably not that easy to explain.

During the course of two years, which approximately coincided with the making of his last feature, Inland Empire, David Lynch agreed to be filmed in his everyday life as an artist, painter, sound engineer, ambassador for trascendental meditation and yes, director of strange, obscure, experimental films. The end result is this documentary, simply titled Lynch, and the title is pretty much the only thing that’s obvious about it. But, as with films directed by, not just starring David Lynch, the best way to appreciate them is to just let them take you to strange places; like weird dreams after a heavy dinner, there will always be a way out, if only a sweaty awakening.

Lynch has always been an enigma.

He started as an experimental film-maker almost 40 years ago, then briefly flirted with Hollywood with uneven results—an acclaimed, almost mainstream-ish masterpiece like The Elephant Man was followed by the misfire of Dune. He then found himself in the odd position of creating disturbing cinematic trips (Blue Velvet, Wild at Heart) hailed by critics and festival juries, yet also produced one of the quintessential examples of auteur TV serialisation, Twin Peaks. Now his profile has taken another turn, with Mullholland Drive and Inland Empire

Valkyr, New York City cop Max Payne (Mark Whalberg) swears revenge and joins DEA, the Drug Enforcement Agency. While operating undercover to infiltrate inside the drug lords' organisation, he is wrongly accused of murder, and both Mafia and police are after him.

Based on the popular videogame series by the same name, directed by John Moore (The Omen... the ugly remake). Pathé ArenA, Pathé de Munt The Mourning Forest This 2007 Japanese film directed by Naomi Kawase won the Grand Prix of Jury at the Cannes Film Festival last year. A nurse (Machiko Ono), grieving for the death of her young son, grows close to an elderly man (Shigeki Uda), one of her patients who suffers from dementia, and who takes her on a mystical quest into the forest in the mountainous region west of Nara. Filmmuseum Sex Drive Gentle 18-year-old Ian (Josh Zuckerman) meets a hot willing babe online and decides it's finally time to shed his virginity, so he and his two best friends race off on a cross-country road trip to meet her at the appointed hour. It's an easygoing comingof-age comedy with all the trimmings (see: hot car, jail stint, true love), with the wit derived from fun characters, like best friend Lance as a highly unlikely ladies' man, Rex (X-Men's James Marsden) as Ian's hilariously testosterone-fueled big brother, and an awesome turn by Seth Green as a one-of-a-kind Amish farmer.

(JB) Pathé ArenA, Pathé de Munt Le Silence de Lorna Lorna is a young Albanian woman who just moved to Lieges. In order for her to obtain EU citizenship, local criminal Fabio makes her marry Claudy, a junkie. Lorna's dream is to open a bar with her boyfrend Sokol, but in order to free herself from Fabio, she must get rid of fake husband Claudy and use her 'European' status to pass on her Belgian citizenship to a Russian mafioso. The Dardenne brothers move away from their minimalist, 16mm handheldstyle, with this grim contemporary drama that won them a well-deserved Best Screenplay award in Cannes this year. (MB) Rialto, Pathé Tuschinski

Still playing Aanrijding in Moscou A recent hit from Belgium at the last Cannes Film Festival, this Flemish romantic comedy (sounds strange, eh?) is set in the proletarian suburb of

Films based on computer games. That always works out well. Good luck with Max Payne then.

bringing him back to more experimental, risky territories, the latter a perfect example of what you can do as an author in the realm of videomaking—unfortunately generating an inevitable offpsring of untalented, amateurish wannabes trying to glorify their home movies.

Lynch, directed by the mysterious brand ‘blackANDwhite’, doesn’t really help in cracking the code of ‘the World according to David Lynch’, but there’s at least one revealing scene. Remembering that old definition by Mel Brooks, who said ‘David Lynch is a Jimmy Stewart from Mars’, I always wondered myself if Lynch really was this strange, alien creature mumbling awkward truths, or if he played the part of the visionary, hallucinating character to fool viewers, admirers and mostly film critics. Among lots of really great stuff for Lynch fans, including behind-the-scenes footage from the set of Inland Empire, there’s one bit here where Lynch starts telling a story dealing with giant white rabbits and the suburbs of Philadelphia... and that’s where we can finally get a pretty straight answer about which planet he’s from—I won’t spoil it for you. Go watch it and judge for yourself.

After being shown in Rotterdam earlier this year, Lynch gets a limited release in Amsterdam thanks to the efforts of Smart Cinema, part of the Smart Project Space, which recently re-opened.

See www.smartprojectspace.net for a list of more experimental, alternative and underground works to be shown there. ___

Ghent called Moscou (Moscow). Matty (Barbara Sarafian) is somewhat unhappily married to Werner (Johan Heldenbergh), and they have three children. One day she bumps, literally, into truck driver Johnny (Jurgen Delnaet), and she has to start making choices which might affect the other members of her family. A funny, poignant debut by director Christophe van Rompaey, based on a script by Pat van Beirs and Jean-Claude van Rijckeghem. 102 min. Het Ketelhuis, Rialto Babylon AD Mathieu Kassovitz is one of those potentially great directors, yet to fulfil their potential in Hollywood. The fact that he publicly distanced himself from this muddled action sci-fi flick, citing the interference of the infamous meddling producers at Fox, doesn’t exactly raise any of the already deflated hopes for this film. If you are desperately longing for another patented Vin Diesel brooding anti-hero performance, or if you’re a big fan of Maurice Georges Dantec’s original novel, go check it out at your own expense and peril. Personally, I think it would be better to wait for the inevitable Director’s Cut on DVD. (LvH) 90 min.

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Bienvenue Chez les Ch’tis A smash box office hit

in France, this effervescent comedy is about prejudices and the differences between the north and south of France. To help his depressed wife, post office manager Philippe Abrams (Kad Merad) tries to cheat his way into a transfer to the Côte d’Azur, but when he’s discovered, he’s relegated to the dreaded Nord-Pas-de-Calais region with its freezing cold weather and inhabitants who speak the ‘Ch’timi’ dialect. But lo and behold, Abrams actually likes the North, and befriends locals, especially postman Antoine (Dany Boon, who also cowrote and directed the film). Bienvenue Chez les Ch’tis loses parts of its fun for non-francophone audiences, but there’s still enough left to enjoy this gentle and hilarious story. In French and Ch’timi with Dutch subtitles.

(GR) 106 min. Pathé De Munt, Studio K

Bottle Shock Loosely based on true events, this light-bodied comedy is set in scenic 1976 Napa Valley, where Jim Barrett (Bill Pullman), founder of the Chateau Montelena winery, has staked his business on developing the perfect chardonnay. Across the Atlantic, British oenophile Steven Spurrier (Alan Rickman), his Parisian wine shop failing, dreams up the ‘Judgment of Paris’, a blind tasting competition to pit traditional French labels against the upstart Californians. Rickman adds a wel-

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the film's jokes by improvising on the set. After 40 years, they still work. (MB) Filmmuseum

Alice in den Stadten Wim Wenders's roughly styled but sensitive 1974 film about fading cultural identities.

Long-faced Rüdiger Vogler, a Wenders favorite, is a German photojournalist in search of the Real America.

While in New York, he reluctantly accepts responsibility for Alice, a nine-year-old German girl abandoned by her mother. Together they return to Europe in search of the girl's grandmother, remembered, dimly, as living in a small village. Which one, they don't know.

Without a place to stop, the characters continue to move—restlessly, desperately, the end point always out of sight. (DK) OT301

La Planète Sauvage A 1973 Czech animated feature, directed by a Frenchman (Rene Laloux) and scripted by a Pole (Roland Topor). It tells of a race of 39-foottall giants with red eyes—called Draags—and their eventual war and conciliation with a subjugated race: tiny human-like pets of the Draags, called Oms. Obviously intended as a parable (the Draags have reached the pinnacle of scientific knowledge; knowledge that several rebellious Oms put to their own use), the film has a flat quality that cannot entirely be overcome by the sensational animation and the obvious good intentions of its creators. (DD) Filmmuseum

The Films of Marie Losier French-born filmmaker and curator Marie Losier lives and works in New York City, and has curated programs for the IFFR (Sweet Sixteen) and for various other festivals. The programme is composed of Losier's film portraits and short films, including her latest work Tony Conrad: DreaMinimalist, last of an ongoing series of portraits of avant-garde directors (George and Mike Kuchar, Guy Maddin, Richard Foreman). Smart Cinema

Shanghai Trance The feature debut of Dutch filmmaker David Verbeek is made up of three separate love stories edited together, all taking place in contemporary Shanghai. Poor boy Xu Yu watches his love interest leave when her suddenly rich family moves to a chic new district. Popular nightclub DJ Calvin and his girlfriend realise that their party lifestyle must come to an end. And Dutch architect Jochem (Tygo Gernandt) relocates to Shanghai and falls for the beautiful Zhang Yi. Filmmuseum

Must see:

The Party Filmmuseum, Tuesday, 19.30

Funeral Parade of Roses Matsumoto Toshio's

1969 work, with music by his longtime collaborator Toru Takemitsu, was said to have broken new ground in Japan for its innovative experimental form and for its treatment of homosexuality and drag. This film has a slender narrative involving a club owner and various drag queens, two of whom are his lovers, competing to be the main hostess. Matsumoto mixes documentary footage (student demonstrations, interviews with queens) and self-referential gestures (we see the cast and crew at work) to create a near anarchic form that challenges authority. (FC) Smart Cinema

sexual, misadventures on the road to Nashville. Featuring a shameless soundtrack which includes the immortal post-wedding classic 'I've Got a Ring on My Finger and a Stiff on My Hands', Highway of Heartache is the perfect film for all those out there who think John Waters is too refined for their taste. (MB) Cavia

Highway of Heartache A classic on the Camp Circuit, this colourful 1996 romp written, directed and produced by Gregory Wild, of Scorn-a-rama Pictures fame, tells the tale of luckless country singer WynonaSue Turnpike (Barbara Chamberlin) and her, mostly

Mijn grootmoeder Filmmaker Naomi Kawase explores her relationship with her grandmother through three of her short films, Snail (1994, 40min), See Heaven (1995, 10min) and The Setting Sun (1996, 45min). Filmmuseum

come astringency to a story padded with such fictional characters as a free-loving intern (Rachael Taylor) and a freeloading bon vivant (Dennis Farina). (AG) 108 min.

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could still use some fine tuning. Gone are the days of Burtonesque villains and nippled crusaders. This is as grim and realistic as it gets. In Nolan’s Gotham City there are no superheroes or supercrooks, just very disturbed people—notably Batman’s nemesis the Joker, who, in the late Heath Ledger’s incarnation, has never been more deranged nor more menacing.

(His inventive pencil-disappearing-trick probably won’t find its way to children’s parties anytime soon.)

A haunting (and haunted) masterpiece. (BS) 152 min. Pathé ArenA, Pathé De Munt

De brief voor de koning A dull film of a beloved Dutch children’s book. Directed by Pieter Verhoeff (Nynke), who has no experience with fantasy films, this unconvincing coming-of-age story suffers from slavish faithfulness to the source. With Monic Hendrickx, Derek de Lint and Daan Schuurmans. In Dutch. (MP) 110 min.

Het Ketelhuis, Pathé ArenA, Pathé De Munt Cafe De Los Maestros For all you tango lovers out there comes this documentary about a group of legendary Argentinian tango musicians from the ’40s and ’50s, who gather for a concert in Buenos Aires. True, the premises are the same as Buena Vista Social Club, minus Ry Cooder and Wim Wenders calling the shots, but director Miguel Kohan keeps the music flowing like fine wine, and you'll have a hard time sitting still in the theatre chair. Produced, among others, by Gustavo Santaolalla, the Argentinian Oscar-winning composer of Brokeback Mountain and Amores Perros. In Spanish with Dutch subtitles. 90 min. Kriterion Calimucho Director Eugenie Jansen’s new film follows the travails of a small family circus in the Netherlands that has difficulties breaking even. Here Jansen utilises performers from an actual circus, with its melting pot of characters coming from Germany, Romania, Morocco and the Netherlands. And to add one more ethnic twist, the circus director’s daughter has an affair with a young hired-hand from Morocco. With Dicky Kilian, Ellie Teeuw and Tarek Hannoudi, written by Natasha Gerson. Het Ketelhuis, Rialto Cordero de Dios The debut of Argentinean director Lucía Cedrón tells the story of a family torn apart by the military regime of dictator Videla. Its central figure is Guillerma, whose father died during the junta, after which she and her mother fled to Paris. The film opens with the kidnapping of Guillerma’s grandfather in 2002; gradually, Guillerma learns what really happened. The glamorous-looking cast and soft-focus lighting are somewhat out of step with the grim events, yet the film has its moving moments, especially when dealing with Guillerma’s childhood memories. And it is praiseworthy that Cedrón dared to tackle the painful subject of the junta in all its moral complexity. In Spanish with Dutch subtitles. (MM) 91 min. Rialto

The Dark Knight There is nothing camp about

Christopher Nolan’s second (and vastly superior) outing in the Batman franchise—although Christian Bale’s slightly ridiculous, husky voice as Batman

Home Movie Day Take your old home movies and see them digitally transformed. See Short List. Filmmuseum

Eagle Eye Working in the finest tradition of brain-dead blockbusters, director DJ Caruso (Disturbia) and producer Steven Spielberg take a script riddled with absurdities and throw millions and millions of dollars at it. Two Chicagoans who don’t know each other (Shia LaBeouf and Michelle Monaghan) are coerced into carrying out a terrorist plot by a mysterious and omnipotent organisation that communicates with them by cell phones, manipulates their movements with split-second timing, and controls almost every electrical device in their path.

Caruso and Spielberg probably wanted to revive the paranoid style of ’70s political thrillers, but their story is so implausible it barely provokes a tremor. (JJ) 118 min.

Pathé ArenA, Pathé De Munt, Pathé Tuschinski Il Dolce e l’Amaro When his father dies in prison, Saro Scordia (Luigi Lo Cascio) is taken under protection by a powerful mafia boss (Renato Carpentieri). Growing up in Sicily in the 1980s, Saro leads a regular life, falling for a local school teacher, Ada (the lovely Donatella Finocchiaro) and having a distant friendship with Stefano (Fabrizio Gifuni), who’s ‘on the other side’ and studies to become a judge. But whenever the boss needs him, Saro meets his duties as a criminal, until one day he’s forced to make a choice. More than traditional Italian mafia movies, Il Dolce e L’Amaro resembles Goodfellas (plot, voice-over structure) or a good episode of The Sopranos, so it can’t be that bad. (MB) 98 min. The Movies, Rialto Het Echte Leven Martin (Ramsey Nasr) is a young film-maker, ready to start shooting his new film, starring his girlfriend Simone (Sallie Harmsen). But when the male protagonist bails out of the project, Martin is forced to cast crew member Dirk (Loek Peters), who has no previous acting experience, as Simone’s love interest. Het Echte Leven, the opening picture at the Nederlands Film Festival, is the fourth feature film by Robert Jan Westdijk (Zusje, Phileine zegt sorry). Het Ketelhuis, Kriterion, Pathé Tuschinski Elegy Adapted from Philip Roth’s novella The Dying Animal, this film charts the older man/younger woman dynamic. After work, sixtyish, self-centred and hedonistic professor of literature David Kepesh (Ben Kingsley)

El Ovido New documentary by director Heddy Honigmann about Peru and its people gets an advanced screening at the Rialto, followed by a Q&A session between Honigmann and Hans Beerekamp. Rialto

The Party This 1968 movie is one of the most famous slapstick comedies ever made. Peter Sellers is at his best as inept Indian background actor Hrundi V Bakshi, who, after inadvertently destroying a very expensive movie set, gets invited by mistake to a posh Hollywood party, where he meets and falls for a beautiful starlet, but mostly turns the event into one chaotic, extremely funny mess. Legend has it that Sellers and director Blake Edwards came up with most of has three things on his mind: sex, sex and more sex.

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

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

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Happy-Go-Lucky

Poppy (Sally Hawkins) teaches kindergarten in North London, lives in a flatshare with her best friend and fellow teacher Zoe, goes clubbing on Friday nights, and is the kind of person who, in the words of Eric Idle, always looks on the bright side of life. For example, she regards the fact that her bike has been stolen as motivation to improve her skills and decides to take driving lessons instead. That’s how she ends up meeting Scott (Eddie Marsan), who’s basically her opposite. Not much happens in Mike Leigh’s latest film, but Hawkins’s Poppy is one of the great characters of the current cinematic year. (MB) 118 min. Studio K, De Uitkijk

Hunger The directorial feature debut from artist Steve McQueen tells the story of IRA member Bobby Sands (Michael Fassbender) who led the 1981 Irish hunger strike in the Maze prison. But the history lesson is all in the opening titles. What follows next is an incredible filmic tour de force, both for the film-makers and the audience, as we’re taken into the hell of Sands and his inmates. Imagery and events portrayed here are definitely not for the squeamish. As far as we know this is fiction, while, by contrast, the Abu Ghraib images were not, yet we can’t help being profoundly disturbed by McQueen’s work. 96 min. Cinecenter, The Movies Il y a longtemps que je t’aime Kristin Scott Thomas is a talent who cannot be used often enough. Her characters are usually hard-as-nails socialites, who fanatically guard their real emotions with cynicism and acerbic wit.

In Il y a longtemps que je t’aime (I loved you for so long), she has never been more brittle, or so tough. Her Juliette has just been released after 15 years in prison for a crime that seems beyond comprehension. Still, Juliette has refused to defend her actions, even to her younger sister Léa (Elsa Zylberstein), who desperately wants to understand. A strong, composed debut by novelist Philippe Claudel. In French with Dutch subtitles.

(BS) 115 min. Cinecenter, Het Ketelhuis

Into

the Wild Moving, if somewhat overlong, account of the life of Christopher McCandless, with a

My grandma and your grandma, sitting by the fire. See Naomi Kawase’s grandma at Filmmuseum.

Tokyo Story The film that introduced Yasujiro Ozu, one of Japan's greatest film-makers, to worldwide audiences (1953). The camera remains stationary throughout this delicate study of conflicting generations in a modern Japanese family, save for one heartbreaking moment when Ozu tracks around a corner to discover the grandparents, alone and forgotten. A masterpiece of minimalist cinema at its finest and most complex. (DK) Filmmuseum Vader As part of the Naomi Kawase retrospective at the Filmmuseum, this compilation program features two series of Super-8 documentaries shot by the Japanese filmmaker, Embracing (1992) and Sky, Wind, Fire, Water, Earth (2001) dealing with her quest for her father, whom she never met.

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bravura performance from Emile Hirsch. At the age of 22, McCandless left his wealthy, dysfunctional family, gave his college cash to Oxfam and took off into the breathtaking beauty of the American wilderness. What starts as a run-of-the-mill road movie twists into an American Odyssey as, after two years away from it all, McCandless meets an untimely death in the wilds of Alaska. The usual Characters Met Along the Way include Catherine Keener, Vince Vaughn and Hal Holbrook. McCandless won’t stick with any of them, and gradually begins to unravel in his determined solitude.

The film becomes a meditation on the human need for human company, framed against some of the most glorious scenery the world has to offer. A triumph for Sean Penn as a director, backed by a custom soundtrack from Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder. (AD) 140 min. Kriterion, The Movies, Pathé Tuschinski Last Days of Shishmaref In Alaska, there are things that are even worse than Sarah Palin. Take for example what’s happening to the Inupiaq Eskimo community of Shishmaref, in the north-west corner of the state. Their native land is threatened by the sea as a result of global warming, and the 600 inhabitants of Shishmaref will soon be forced to move to the mainland and become the first community of ‘climate refugees’. This documentary by Jan Louter is part of a larger project that draws attention to the situation in this part of the world, which also includes a website, a photography book, an exhibition and an educational course. (MB) Het Ketelhuis, De Uitkijk Mongol At last, here’s proof that a bold, big-budget epic from the Eastern steppes can compete with the classics from Hollywood and New Zealand. This German/Russian/Kazakh coproduction is the first of a planned series of biopics on the life of the legendary Genghis Khan, and the bloody battles, excellent cine-

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matography and sprawling locations are very impressive. However, the first act of the film suffers from repetition and Asano Tadanobu’s practically saintly Genghis is a little hard to take. The utter anticlimax of an ending also makes Mongol hard to recommend. In Mongolian with Dutch subtitles. (LvH) 120 min. Kriterion My Best Friend’s Girl Dustin (Jason Biggs) asks his roommate and pal Tank (Dane Cook) for his services, which consist of giving women the worst date of their life, so that they reconsider and take their former lovers back.

But, of course, things go differently with Dustin’s ex-girlfriend, Alexis (Kate Hudson). Formulaic Hollywood romantic comedy from Howard Deutch, who directed one of the seminal films of the ’80s, Pretty in Pink. Boy, that was a long time ago. 103 min. Pathé ArenA, Pathé De Munt Pure Coolness Asema (Asem Toktobekova) goes back to her small village in Kyrgyzstan to visit her friends and relatives, along with boyfriend Murat (Siezdbek Iskenaliev). Once there, she finds out about the plan of kidnapping orphan Anara (Zarema Asanalieva) as a spouse for a local shepherd. Asema’s modern views on the Kyrgyz custom of bride kidnapping will eventually backfire on her. The second feature from director Ernest Abdyshaparov was a Hubert Bals Fund recipient in 2007. In Kyrgyz, Russian, with Dutch subtitles. 95 min. Rialto Savage Grace Julianne Moore is the perfect fit in yet another portrayal of a woman on the verge of a mental breakdown. In this tale based on real events in the lives of Brooks and Barbara Baekeland, director Tom Kalin specifically decided to focus on Barbara’s unhealthy relationship with her son. Moore immerses herself in her portrayal of beautiful Babs, who, having married far above her social and intellectual level, has turned into an affected, needy woman. The film could have done without the end titles informing us of the fate of Barbara’s equally twisted son, which underline the

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De Balie Kleine-Gartmanplantsoen 10, 553 5151 IAFF 2008 Thur-Sun Cavia Van Hallstraat 524, 681 1419 Highway of Heartache Thur, Fri 20.30 Ciné Interzone Film Club Tues 20.30 Cinecenter Lijnbaansgracht 236, 623 6615 Brideshead Revisited daily 15.45, 18.45, 21.45, Sun also 11.15 Estômago daily 21.45, Sun also 11.00, 13.45 Hunger daily 16.30, 19.30, 21.45, Sun also 11.00, 13.45 Il y a longtemps que je t'aime daily 16.15, 19.00 Lake Tahoe daily 16.00, 17.45, 19.45, 22.00, Sun also 11.15, 14.00 Cinema Amstelveen Plein 1960 2, Amstelveen, 547 5176 Anubis en het pad der 7 zonden Sat 16.30, Sun, Tues, Wed 15.30 Cinekid Sun, Tues, Wed De Kronieken van Narnia: Prins Caspian Sat 13.30 In Bruges Thur, Fri, Sat 20.30 Het kleine spookje Laban Tues 13.30 La Noche de los girasoles Wed 20.30 Pettson & Findus: Brief aan de koning Tues 15.00 Sinterklaas en het geheim van het grote boek Sat, Sun, Tues, Wed 11.30 Filmhuis Griffioen Uilenstede 106, Amstelveen, 444 5100 Wall-E Thur, Fri, Tues 19.30, Sat 14.30 Filmmuseum Vondelpark 3, 589 1400 Academiefilms Fri 19.30 Boy Meets Girl Sun 19.30 Confrontaties Sat 19.30 Eendjes voeren/Wat blijft beweegt Sat 19.30 Fietsmug & Dansmug Sun-Wed 13.45 Het geheugen aan het werk Thur 19.30 De grote verhuizing Sun, Wed 14.00 Home Movie Day Sat 12.00 Hotaru Tues 21.15 Kroniek van een familie Sat 18.00 Mijn Grootmoeder Mon 19.30 The Mourning Forest daily 17.15, Thur-Mon, Wed also 21.45, Tues also 19.15 The Party Tues 19.30 Secret Sunshine Fri 16.45, Sun, Mon, Wed 21.30 Shanghai Trance Thur, Fri, Sun, Mon, Wed 19.15, Sat 15.00, Tues 17.00 Suzaku Sun 15.30 Tokyo Story Thur-Sat 21.30 Vader Wed 19.30 Le Voyage du ballon rouge Sun 16.00, Mon, Wed 17.00, Tues 22.00 Het Ketelhuis Haarlemmerweg 8-10, 684 0090 Aanrijding in Moscou daily 19.00, 21.30, Thur, Fri also 16.45 Calimucho Thur, Fri 17.15 Cinekid Sat-Wed

exploitative nature of the story and undermine the potency of the final shot. (BS) 96 min. Cinema Amstelveen Un Secret Based on a true story, as told in Philippe Grimbert’s novel, the new film by Claude Miller is yet another haunting WWII tale. In French with Dutch subtitles. 105 min. Pathé Tuschinski Shanghai Trance The feature debut of Dutch filmmaker David Verbeek is made up of three separate love stories edited together, all taking place in contemporary Shanghai. Poor boy Xu Yu watches his love interest leave when her suddenly rich family moves to a chic new district.

Popular nightclub DJ Calvin and his girlfriend realise that their party lifestyle must come to an end. And Dutch architect Jochem (Tygo Gernandt) relocates to Shanghai and falls for the beautiful Zhang Yi. In Chinese with Dutch subtitles. 100 min. Filmmuseum Tropic Thunder This movieland farce gets off to a rousing start with fake coming attractions for a horrid fat-suit-and-flatulence comedy, a mawkish Oscar-bait drama about a mentally disabled man, and a Brokeback Mountain knockoff set in a medieval monastery.

The rest of the movie, in which a small crew of spoiled actors and inept filmmakers struggle to shoot a Vietnam epic in the jungle, never lives up to the hilarity of the opening, partly because the large-scale production smothers the gags but mostly because those gags are so easy to smother. With Stiller, Jack Black, Robert Downey Jr, Steve Coogan, and Nick Nolte, all of them upstaged by Tom Cruise in a spellbindingly grotesque cameo as a bald, pudgy studio executive. (JJ) 107 min.

Pathé ArenA, Pathé De Munt Wall-E It goes without saying that the new offering by the animating geniuses at Pixar is a marvel to behold and an example of old school Hollywood storytelling at its finest. But while the Pixars succeed in infusing the two most inanimate characters in cartoon history with compelling personalities—which was Pixar’s stated

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destinies together. Het Wapen van Geldrop is an atypical Dutch ‘road movie’, produced by Gijs van de Westelaken, written and directed by Thijs Römer. 88 min. The Movies Wild Child A spoiled Southern Californian (Emma Roberts) is sent off to a strict English boarding school, where she finds herself in the middle of yet another banal across-the-pond romantic comedy. 100 min.

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

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Amsterdam Weekly_16-22 October 2008

AGENDA: FOOD/DRINK

The Mouth

By Nanci Tangeman

Totally Bazaar Bazar Wereldeethuis Albert Cuypstraat 182, 675 0544 Open Mon-Thur 11.00-01.00, Fri-Sat 11.00-02.00, Sun 09.00-00.00.

Cash If Barack Obama were a restaurant, he’d be Bazar. No, I haven’t been brainwashed by emails speculating on Obama’s religion. But if it’s a symbol of multiculturalism you’re looking for, it’s the US presidential candidate. Bazar, however, runs a close second. At least when it comes to my stomach.

Tonight, Partner-in-all-things-global and I have invited friends representing Greece, Holland, Israel and the US (and there are only two of them). A Turkish waitress serves us. Two Thai goddess statues peer out from under the stairs.

Above us, Hebrew writing proclaims something to the effect that ‘to eat together is a bond as strong as oil’s to the light.’ It all gives me such a warm feeling—a global warm feeling, in fact.

The two-storey restaurant on the Albert Cuyp market is noisy, with chatter bouncing off its vibrantly tiled walls. The bar, made of brightly labelled food tins, sits altar-like in the middle of the former synagogue. The music reeks of Morocco or Turkey. Everything here is a global mix.

Even the menu is available in Dutch, Turkish, German, English, Spanish, Chinese, Italian and Arabic. And all the meat on the menu is halal—prepared according to Islamic law. (Now don’t get sidetracked with Obama emails!) You might say that in Amsterdam, halal is not so unusual. But consider Bazar’s Easter menu with dish-

es from Morocco, Turkey, Iran and Greece. What’s next? A kosher Christmas dinner?

We satisfy our own world hunger with meals served on colourful, giant platters. Our order of El Couscous is much more than couscous. Its extra long, grilled kebab has chicken, lamb, Turkish merguez sausage and turkey.

It’s served on top of spiced couscous with roasted vegetables, grilled tomatoes and saffron sauce (€12.50).

Abdhul’s Starter is really an entire meal with all sorts of delicious dishes I cannot pronounce: sigara böregi (deep fried yufka roll, or phillo, filled with feta, mint and parsley), sigara suçuk (fried dough filled with cheese and suçuk sausage), falafel, fried squid rings and a piece of Turkish pizza filled with tomato and veal mince called lahmacun (€10.50). The Bizar Bazar mixed grill comes with lamb, chicken and turkey, but can also be ordered with fish (€14.50).

There’s a dish of the day (€8.50), which you can order as a set menu with soup (New Delhi or Mercimek Çorbasi lentil) and yoghurt with whipped cream and honey for dessert (€15.75). Tonight’s fresh fish from the market is grilled butterfish, served with field greens and saffron rice (€11.50). Bazar serves alcohol, but also fresh mint tea and Turkish coffees. The restaurant opens early on Sundays to serve breakfast (Algerian ‘thousand hole’ pancakes called bahgrir) and most of the components to my unpronounceable meal are available separately as lunch entrees, as well. I think about returning for an early morning bahgrir after the US election day. Maybe I’ll be celebrating the results. Or maybe I’ll just be celebrating the menu. ___

Bazar’s Easter menu has dishes from Morocco and Iran. What’s next? A kosher Christmas dinner?

A night in the life...

By Sarah Gehrke

Pork rock The Minds Spuistraat 245 Open Mon-Thur, Sun 21.00-03.00, Fri, Sat 21.00-04.00 Cash ‘Shut the fuck up,’ says the guy behind the bar. He does that a few times, just to himself. But he is friendly, and he seems to be in a good mood. Chances are that he was just singing along to the music.

It’s a Thursday night, and we are in The Minds, because we felt like being in a punk rock place. We were a little tired and a little sad, and after all, there’s nothing quite like a punk rock place to lift your spirits. In the toilets there’s a skull sprayed on the ceiling, the barman has lots of tattoos, it’s quite dark, there’s a pinball machine called ‘No Fear’, and the music is loud and fast.

Aaaah!

What’s this song again? Queens of the Stone Age. Okay, let’s be a little flexible with the term punk rock then. But what’s the name of the song? ‘Ha!’ says the barman. ‘You can’t buy this. It’s an illegal recording of their 2002 concert in Melkweg.

The Queens were amazed when they came here. They were like “no—

Beer price: €1.50 for a biertje (Budels).

Emergency food: Don’t think so.

Special interior feature: A long row of skate decks decorate the wall above the window.

Unspecial interior feature: From the ceiling hang (roughly) 23 used army boots.

Predominant shoe type: Chucks, boots and fat skate shoes.

Typically ordered drink: Bottles of Budels.

Tune of the night: See left.

Mingling factor: Quite low.

Smoking situation: Quite good.

State of toilets near closing time: The neon light’s even more surprising than at the beginning of the night.

we didn’t record this... but it’s great! We want it!” So we burned a CD for them.’

And with that, our mood is rapidly improving.

As it gets later, the beers start getting shifted in a higher frequency. Two girls marvel at a pretty boy playing pool.

Two guys start a serious discussion about adverts on beer mats. And at the other end of the bar, there are two people playing a game we have not seen in about 10 years and have completely forgotten about in the meantime. It’s the one which involves two little pink plastic pigs, which you have to throw so they land in a certain way. As is the way with things you had forgotten about and then come across again unexpectedly, that little pig game delights us beyond measure, and we try to remember how it worked.

There are many positions the pigs can end up in, and they all get you different points. All the positions furthermore have names. The best name is ‘Pig Out’, a very complicated position that sets back your total score to nil. There’s only one thing worse than ‘Pig Out’: ‘Piggyback’. Piggyback is if one pig lands on top of another. In that case, the player is out of the game.

Not very punk rock, that. Unless, of course, you turn the whole thing into a drinking game. Which we sincerely hope they did. ___

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Starting on September 23 to September 28 (incl.). It’s a 2 rooms flat, furnished, bath in the bathroom, balcony. Price: 420EUR Deposit:400EUR. AMSTERDAM APARTMENTBeautiful apartment lily_ana@live.com 0623060540 One - two bed- with modern comfort. 2 adjoing bedrooms. Fully furroom apartament for rent im nished and equipped. At Rotterdam. sandrinha58@ Amsterdam Oost: plenty of hotmail.com commerce, public transport, ROOM IN OUD-ZUID 3 big pubs and green areas. Close bed, period home split on 2 to the highway, and at 15 floors, kitchen w balcony, big min from the airport. EUR liveroom, roof terrace, 1200- monthly (incl.) From bath+shower. Avail 15Oct, 20 October to 7 February E667 month exclu E1000 020-4637082

Housing Wanted ROOM WANTED, MAX 600 After 12 years, I am single again. Even worse: I am homeless. So now I am desperately looking for a room or apartment, short or long term, to make a fresh start. Preferably max. 600 euro per month, in a nice neighborhood. I am a Dutch male, 35 years old and I have a steady job. onno.karman@gmail.com

All inclusive with Cable and Internet. We're looking for clean and neat roommates with a job or a students. The 600/m bedroom is a double one ideal for a couple too. emilamsterdam@gmail.com

LOOKING FOR 2 profesionals to share furnished 220sqm,3 floor house in Duivendrecht.10min to metro waliking-15 to cetraal, bus station in front of d house, 25 min. by bike to centraal.2400 STUDIO/DOUBLE ROOM inclus.including cleaning. conMature, hard work and tact Resan on 0652457942 or responsible non smoking lady email on rokten@gmail.com is looking for a small studio or double room to rent. Please ROOM FOR RENTnice room contact eliana on 0634003351 for rent in amsterdam with or email sujaanieliana@ furniture 10 minutes from center 350 euros all includyahoo.com.br ed. call 0625347770 SPANISH STUDENT. Looking for a room for octuber .im from spain and im studing Housing for Sale here this year,i have to move APARTMENT IN DE PIJP from my house in octuber so Nice and lovely apartment for if some one is interesting in sale at the 1e Jan v/d Heijdenrent a room or shere a flat call straat 100-2 for 224.500. Look me please im very hurry. for foto’s at: http:// thanks elsa 0681792649 www.jaap.nl/huizen/#z=1072v LOOKING FOR A ROOM, a&srch=1072va Call me at Working and studying in 0614596377 A’dam, aged 26, I want to found room for 1 october, for 6 Other Spaces months, I’m clean and quiet SHARE A NICE OFFICE person, if you are interested we can make an appointment, Desk in beautiful office (sunI’m hopping your reply, call light, tall ceiling), nice location (close to Leidseplein), me at 06 19 89 84 42. cheap (100 euro), with 6 others. So, where's the catch?

Shared Housing You can only use it when I'm ROOM FOR RENT in shared away, which is more than half appartment; period: as soon the time (and all weekends). as possible till begin. of Call me to see if we can work november; only 3 weeks. loca- something out. Bart Klem tion: close to vondelpark 0618972168. price: 100 euro's all incl. call WORKSPACE (TEMP) me at 06- 42774518 Desk in an office for rent from STUDIO SHARE Studio 25 Oct to 15 Jan. Korte Leishare available on Rozen- dse Dwarstraat 12, next to gracht. Rent includes inter- Leidseplein. Office with six net & water, but not electric- independent journalists/writity or gas (estimated ers/translators. Monthly rent 50/mnth). Sharing a studio 270 euro, but negotiable. Bart (one large room) with prof (bart@bartklemresearch.nl; woman, 25, easy going, fun. 06 18972168) Excellent location in the heart of the Jordaan, fully furnished, etc. Email for viewings! goldfishgirl@hotmail.co.uk

NEED TO MOVE? Vracht Verhuizer for fast removal, transport & delivery.

English/Dutch/German speaking. Also in the evening hours and weekends. Service already from 35 Euro!! Call today and get removed the same day if needed. 0615149164/www. vrachtverhuizer.nl

FURNISHED BEDROOMS 2 Furnished bedrooms available in Amsterdam, 425 and 600 euro/month. Newly renovated house in quiet, friendly neighbourhood, completely equipped and furnished. LEND US A SPACE!! Two Near the Ajax Arena and 5 min kick-ass designers starting walk to metro and shopping. own firm in de Dam. Seeking

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For sale COOL BIZ CARDS Need a new cool business card designed differently from the usual ones? Want something more creative? Let’s sort it out! Email bizcardsdesign@yahoo.it or call Alessio 06 4292 5090.

FREE SOFA-BED:In good condition. To be picked up in Amstelveen. Contact 064340 4534 if you are interested.

WASHING MACHINE: BOSCH, 4 y/o, EUR150.

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CANONDALE MTBGreat M900 Handmade Alu frame, in great condition.

Running LX-XT kit but needs new fork, chain etc.

I am moving so don’t have time to rebuild frame...and I need the money! EU200 or nearest offer. See before buy. amar_agency@fastmail.co.uk

Transport NEED TO MOVE? VrachtVerhuizer for fast removal, transport & delivery. English/Dutch /German speaking. Also in the evening hours and weekends. Service already from 35 Euro!!

Call today and get removed the same day if needed.

0615149164/www. vrachtverhuizer.nl VAN DRIVERCall Dan the man with the van for removals, uplifts etc 0681703464 REMOVALS/TRANSPORT White Van Man offers the best service for any removals (big or small), deliveries and collections at affordable rates throughout Holland but also any other EU destination.

Friendly, efficient and reliable. For more info check www.whitevanman.nl or call on: 0623882184 BEST MOVING SERVICE We can move you with a Van of 10 m3 or with a truck of 30m3, we have hoisting service and even a elevator-service . and as many men as you want to help

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Services DINE WITH THE DUTCH Tourist, expat or immigrant in the Netherlands and want to know more about Dutch food and culture?

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PRINTS ON CANVASS Stock Clearing!! Low Prices!! Here's your chance to put something nice on your wall without burning a hole in your pocket.

Venue: 3 Admiraal de Ruijterweg. 0206 853 041.

CAT AND PET SITTING34year-old woman who loves animals likes to take care of your pets during your holiday. I can pay a visit every day, give them food, love and attention. I also take care of your plants, clean the litterbox etc.Tariff: 9,50 per visit. Contact: Anouk_lambrechts@yahoo.com, tel.0652305738 Amsterdam Longing for relaxed walk, beautiful nature, new inspiration? Want to enjoy different landscapes and pleasant rests not far from Amsterdam? Don´t know your way so well? Widely traveled Dutch anthropologist guides you on interesting routes throughout year and week. 06 52478975 PHOTOGRAPHYPortrait, fashion and music. check www.andresphotography.c om contact me for rates and info at andresinbox@gmail.com HOME VISIT MASSAGE by paul.exciteing and sensual call me 062 519 2654 CREATIVESERVICESPublic speaking, corporate presentation skills, unlock your creativepotentialandmore! visit:www.unlimitedcreativity.biz WEBDESIGN WORKStudent webdesign looking for

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EROTIC MASSAGE INFO Improve your massage techniques by learning some erotic skills. Come and enjoy a free cup of tea and browse our specialised books and films on the topic, or get a life demonstration. WHEN? 25 September WHERE? An all day event at Mail & Female.

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it every day, give them food, love and attention. I also take care of your plants, clean the litterbox etc.Tariff: 9,50 per visit.

Contact:anouk_lambrechts@yahoo.com,tel.06 -52305738, Amsterdam IMMIGRATION LAW Thinking about staying?

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THE YOGA COMMUNITY Weekly drop-in yoga classesinEnglish.Basicpostures, breathingexercisesandsimple meditation techniques.

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HEALING TAO is a system of exercises & meditations that can help you to enhance your overall health & vitality. Certified teacher offers basic course in English, Mon. evenings from Sept. 15 at Aurora Centrum, Amsterdam.

Open lessons Sept. 4 & 8.

Phone: 06-28625424. Email: info@ronfox.nl Web-site: www.ronfox.nl

EXCELLENT DUTCH Group lessons in Amsterdam&Randstad-PROFICIENCY in conversation with solid base of pronunciation,grammar & spelling–Beginner:every Fri., 19:00- 21.00, start 0310-08/ 12,00 p.h,small groups. Also private: 16p.h,private intensive and on-line, 06-36122870, www.excellentdutch.nl

SINGING LESSONS Singing lessons with a Musical Theater Professional singer. All levels Welcome for an interview/lesson.

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EVENING ACUPUNCTURE Not anymore: you have to rush to get a consult from him - one of the best Chinese medical acupuncturists in the Netherlands during your busy daytime. Evening acupuncture clinic will bring you all harmonization and balance of your body and mind. Please visit:http://www.eatms.nl/ic.ht ml for details.

PAIN, DIABETES? The PowerTube can help you in a very short time. Call for a free first treatment: 0206402750. More information: www.quickzap.nu SPANISH LESSONS With a native speaker with more than 5 years of experience.

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DRUMS LESSONS Professional player studying at the conservatorium van amsterdam. Teaching and Performing experience; Different Styles. Also children. Contact : 0650433880

LOOKING FOR ARTSPACE VOLUNTEERSPetersburg project space is an artist run initiave bases in Amsterdam Centre, more information about the space: petersburgprojectspace.org. As a non profit organisation, we are always on the lookout for enthousiatic volunteers! For more information mail to info@petersburgprojectspace.org.

Notices HALLOWEEN PARTYHalloween party and costume contest at CAFE ZOOL. 3 euro at the door, free shot included!Candy and cocktails will flow freely - please come in your best costume ready for tricks and treats with amsterdam´s other boys and gouls! Oude Leliestraat 9 - 10pm doors open

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