Amsterdam Weekly: Vol 5 Issue 41, 23-29 Oct 2008

Volume 5, Issue 41

23 - 29 OCTOBER 2008

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when house came home It was 20 years ago, when RoXY helped create a dance revolution. page XX

Four to the floor!

It was 20 years ago, when house found a home at the RoXY. page 8

FEATURE

PROFILE

MUSIC

AGENDA

The high price of live music.

Who’s responsible for ticket surcharges?

Need more face time at work? Try cleaning toilets.

A lady explains.

Who makes great breakcore fuck-ups and is totally not a woman? DJ Donna Summer.

Boom, boom, glitch... All that is audible at Amsterdam Dance Event.

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City Second

By Peter Cleutjens

Amsterdam Dance Event is in the house this week, representing all the latest revolutions in electronic music.

But for the real cutting-edge, one should pay tribute to the 70-year-old bionic banjo player Eddie Adcock, who recently picked his way through brain surgery that was intended to control a tremor in his right hand.

During his deep brain stimulation, he was kept conscious to pluck his instrument so that the surgeons could fine tune the placement of electrodes in his brain meant to control his fine motor skills. Adcock: ‘It was the most painful thing I’ve ever endured. And it was risky. But I did it for a reason: I’m looking forward to being able to play music the way I did years ago, prior to getting this tremor. It means that much to me. I’m far from being done!’

So forget about your house, techno, minimal, electro and hiphop DJs. This is real hardcore.

Features Inbox Quiet in the back . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Nature Calls Ladybugs . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Feature Ticket prices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Amstergraph Non-smoking kills . . . . . 5 A Quick Bike Fix Beautiful . . . . . . . . 5 Street Fashion Birds of paradise . . . . 6 Report Gunpoint . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 The People Versus Concrete . . . . . . . 6 Profile Henriette Billy Leclercq . . . . . . 7 Main feature RoXY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Lekker Bezig OneFourOne . . . . . . . . 14 3 Questions DJ Donna Summer . . . . . 15 Film Review Vox Populi . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Agenda Short List 11 / Music 13 / Clubs 15 / Gay & Lesbian 16 / Stage 16 / Events 17 / Art 17 / Addresses 19 / Film 21 / Film Times 23

Plus The Mouth Kapitein Zeppos. . . . . . . . 24 Night in the Life L'Affiche . . . . . . . . 24 Classifieds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Eefje Wentelteefje . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

On the cover Photo by Cleo Campert www.cleocampert.nl

Next week Migrants

Corrections In last week’s issue the Kid Sublime photo on page 13 was by David Cohendelara, and the Minimaal Feestmaal photo on page 14 was by Jeroen Geusebroek.

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Amsterdam Weekly_23-29 October 2008

AROUND TOWN

Inbox

Salt and vinegar, please! And shut up there in the back!

Nature calling

By Mark Wedin

Submitted by: Bas Jacobs Function: Musician (The Ik Jan Cremers, Pfaff) By: email Date 17 October Subject: music opinion There’s a Dutch saying saying all Dutch are vinegar pissers. Without pissing vinegar myself, I think that’s true. Fuck tolerance, not just because it’s a nice thing to say, but because it’s true, just as much as saying tolerance is a Dutch thing. It’s not.

Seriously!

If you go and see a band at an Amsterdam venue you’ll find out, without going to the little boys’ room that the Dutch pee a lot of vinegar. They talk throughout the show, preferably near the bar, they have some rarely well constructed comments on the people performing and they want everything to be normal —without defining that standard.

In that cultural setting I moved to Amsterdam about 15 years ago, with the sole purpose that this was the town where it was all gonna happen. And I wasn’t the only one. NO! Loads of people from Holland and the rest of the world have had the same idea. Only to find out this is not the place where it happens. Unless you make it happen. Which you can, if you show some serious backbone and make sure you avoid trying to understand that undefined standard of normality. And not smoke dope all day every day.

Anyway, I moved to this town and started a band, and made sure I was well known enough to be the one on the guestlist and watched bands perform. And I liked it. But—and this is a big but—I couldn’t say I liked what I saw. Hell no! That’s not an opinion, that’s enthusiasm and that’s the very thing we don’t like in Amsterdam. So after a few shows I noticed I was up near the bar pissing vinegar.

I do like vinegar. On my salad, but not as a dressing when I’m in a venue. So I started organising nights trying to avoid all the territorial pissings. (Thanks Kurt!) And people started performing and people started reacting. And I thought it was good. I thought I was god. But then just for a second. Maybe two, possibly three, seconds later I realised, nothing had changed. They were all still pissing vinegar. Only a door further away. Behind my back and that’s even worse. So I stopped. Full stop.

My point is, without taking any, that there’s a lot happening in Amsterdam. It’s just too bad that it’s always destroyed by these hoo-haas in the back trying to formulate an opinion.

But take a close look and you’ll find out that there are plenty of places you can go to and enjoy whatever is brought to you, for no other means than to enlighten you in a very bright way. Does that sound too complicated? Respect the work of the people out there, like Subbacultcha, Now Hear This, Le Club Suburbia and Pageturner, and you’ll know there’s a lot of good stuff happening in town.

And there are loads of good bands around playing good old fashioned Amsterdamse School fuzzy wuzzy rock.

And if you happen to come across someone pissing vinegar? Offer him some chips to go with the vinegar and make sure you always carry salt when you go and see a band in Amsterdam.

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

Illustration by Simon Volodia

They look so innocent This time of year, your house might get invaded. Every October, Asian ladybugs (AKA veelkleurig Aziatisch lieveheersbeestjes) sneak inside homes to hibernate through the winter. After spotting these charming little buggers cuddling up in a corner of your room, you might, understandably, reach for the vacuum cleaner. And you’re not the only one.

They were brought here about ten years ago to be employed in farms and greenhouses as highly effective bio-controllers—they aggressively feast on agricultural pests like aphids. Of course, many soon escaped their work duties and have been roaming the country, working, you might say, freelance.

Left to their own devices, these beetles are terribly efficient. Not only are they taking out large proportions of aphids, they’re also eating the babies of their more common European relative, the seven-spot ladybug. And they sometimes bite people (though that doesn’t really do much harm). Flesh biting, baby eating beetles. Not exactly welcome house guests.

Here, as in Britain and Germany, there is a very active watch to see how and where they’re spreading. Oddly

enough, in Amsterdam they seem to be diminishing in number. Two years ago, local entomologists estimated there were around 10,000 in Oosterpark. Last year, only 2,000 were counted. This year, they’ve been hardly seen at all. Unless the IND is ramping up efforts to boot out foreigners, the cause has evaded scientists.

Here’s how to know if you’ve spotted one: they have a varying number of spots and an assortment of colours, from pumpkin orange and tomato red, both with black spots, to fully black with red spots, and varying shades in between. Their most distinguishing mark is found between the head and the main body, where the spots merge together to form an ‘M’ shape. M for murderer.

Could be a good idea for next week’s Halloween costume.

The baby-eating Asian ladybug.

Special thanks to Ben Brugge, entomologist at the Zoölogisch Museum Amsterdam.

Got nature tips? naturecalls@amsterdamweekly.nl

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Service charges

AROUND TOWN

By Colin Delaney

A TRICKY FINANCIAL SITUATION Ther’s a lot of musical money flowing down the river, but where’s it headed?

Last week triphop pioneer Tricky played at Paradiso. His recently released album had reinvigorated my interest, so I rushed to an outlet and bought two tickets.

Somehow I’d spent €64.90 (without beer or T-shirt) before he took the stage.

How’s that? Well, two tickets (€52), two service costs (€6.90), two Paradiso monthly memberships (€6). Gig-going is getting more expensive, and it’s not only due to egotistical rock stars or diminishing record sales. The add-on costs are spiralling out of control.

One add-on we can easily accept is the membership required at both Paradiso and Melkweg; either €3 monthly or €18 annually (which allows discounts and deals that a monthly member doesn’t get).

Melkweg’s Marketing Manager Jon Heemsbergen explains, ‘It’s a multi-disciplinary, cultural centre. Melkweg theatre, cinema, gallery and media room are small-sized rooms. It’s not possible to gain profit here. A small part of our income, nine per cent, is subsidised by the municipality of Amsterdam. Because of the membership regulation, Melkweg is able to do what we do for all our customers.’

Service charges are more complicated. ‘If you buy a ticket on the night of the show we don’t charge any service costs,’ says Heemsbergen. ‘In advance at Melkweg box office, we charge €1.50€2.50 per ticket for the service, to cover our costs. If you buy a ticket at a Ticket Service outlet, you pay more. But you actually pay for the guarantee to get in.’

But does that excuse the breakdown of service costs which often faces the con-

sumer at other outlets?

Event companies and venues like Paradiso and Melkweg have a contract with leading ticketing distributor Ticket Service (Ticketmaster internationally) to sell their tickets. Ticket Service also takes a fee from the customer on a sliding scale based on the purchase amount, rather than its processing cost, because, as Peter van Ruijven, General Manager of Ticket Service Netherlands says, ‘You can’t put our standard fee on low prices, so we invented the relation with the ticket price.’

Had I bought my €26 ticket online I’d have paid a €4.15 service charge instead of €3.45 from the outlet. I’d also have paid €1.06 to receive my ticket as a PDF document in my inbox, or in the post.

However, a ticket to the delightfully named Fuck Buttons this week for €12.50 will have a €3.55 online service charge and €0.56 delivery fee. This sliding rate in delivery fee, Van Ruijven says, is due to ‘dealing with software licensing costs.’

Why do I pay two service charges

by Ticket Service when I buy the two tickets as one service? ‘All our costs are related to one sold ticket.’ And why can’t I buy tickets to more than one event in one purchase, thus reducing charges? Van Ruijven says they’re working on it. ‘Perhaps in time.’

‘When we chose Ticket Service they were the biggest and best distribution network physically and that was important to us,’ says Jeanine Albronda, Head of Publicity and Marketing at Paradiso.

‘Both Melkweg and Paradiso are exper-

Opinions of our writers and illustrators may not be the opinion of all.

imenting with online companies that are cheaper than Ticket Service for eticketing. They offer different ways of charging the customers. The fee systems are very important because that affects our customers, and that’s who we work for.’ So should Ticket Service be worried? ‘They didn’t have competition and now they do. It’s easy to see that they should be worried. We’re watching what they’ll do and how they’ll respond.’

A relatively new avenue for event companies and venues such as Sugar Factory is Paylogic. Commercial Director Jan Willem van der Meer says, ‘We charge a fee of €1.95 per transaction to the event company, not the consumer.

This is our sole income. It’s up to the event company what they want to do with that fee. They might include it in the ticket price, add it as a service charge or even inflate that service charge.’ The big difference to consumers is only one booking fee whether you buy one or multiple tickets, and there’s no charge for sending a PDF. Should you fear the internet, you can buy tickets from Primera, with a €3 per ticket booking fee.

So should we boycott Ticketmaster over service charges like Pearl Jam did in 1994? The effort by the band was appreciated but resulted in few gigs in the US over the next three years, and realistically, we’d rather not wait till 2011 for proper show lineups.

There are no great alternatives—at least while online companies still fight for position in the market. To see a band whose ticket is available through Ticket Service, Van Ruijven says the best way is via an outlet store, paying cash. Otherwise you could pin your hopes on lastminuteticketshop.nl for half-price tickets on the day, or hope it doesn’t sell out and buy your tickets at the door.

But that’s risky, and you may face a scalper’s wrath. It’s a tricky business.

More tickets at: www.marktplaats.nl

Illustration by Simon Volodia

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Google this...

‘music for the deaf’ Amstergraph

Drop in horeca profits over July and August 2008 compared to same time previous year.

Average: 4.4% / Cafes: 26 % / Clubs: 31% Source: Koninklijk Horeca Nederland

Graph by Nicole Martens

A quick bike fix

By Pete Jordan

A beautiful sight Early morning, on the Nassauplein, I ride up and join six other cyclists who have already stopped behind the bridge’s lowered crossing guard. The roadway swings up. There’s nothing to do but wait. Mostly, we wait by watching the ship laden with sand glide along the Singelgracht.

By the time the bridge reopens for traffic, dozens of us have crowded together to make the crossing. Our pack slowly inches forward. Soon we attain a cruising speed.

We cross the bridge, cross Marnixstraat and then fall in line for the upcoming curves. One by one we lean left, then we lean right, as we curve around Haarlemmerplein. We are a beautiful sight. We snake through the streets as if it were July and we were in the French countryside on racing bikes. But actually it is autumn and we are in the middle of the city, clad in coats and scarves.

We peddle onto the Haarlemmerdijk.

Cyclists outnumber motorists twenty to one. Our pack thins out as some of us veer off to the newsstands, cafes, grocers. Others zoom ahead. Some lag behind. I fall in with a leisurely-paced group and trail a woman whose toddler passenger stretches out his hands to allow the cool breeze to blow through his fingers. I let go of my handlebars and do the same.

Though my day has not formally begun, my day has already been made.

React: bikes@amsterdamweekly.nl

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AROUND TOWN

The people versus...

Street fashion

By Floris Dogterom

By Mo Veld

Birds of paradise

Illustration by Tomas Schats

It’s a concrete jungle In one of the oldest parts in town, close to Nieuwmarkt, is Nieuwe Jonkerstraat. The 17th-century step- and clock-shaped gables on the side of the street make for a classic postcard picture. The house on number 13, which is 27 metres wide, is the odd one out. Where the 17th-century buildings are 13 metres high, this house, with its early 20th-century carpentry and sloped tiled roof, is only six metres high, which allows for the sun to shed some light in the otherwise dark and narrow street. But that’s going to change. That is, if stadsdeel Centrum and owner Oscar Stradmann have their way. Stradmann intends to build a couple of storeys on top of the building, to the effect that it will be as high as the adjacent premises, something that future resident Reine Lust is dead against.

Lust is an architect and designed the condo opposite of number 13, where she’s going to live herself. She has lodged an objection with the stadsdeel. Lust says: ‘As a resident I am opposed to the extended building because there will be no more sunlight coming in. But that’s not all. The workshop at number 13 is a so-called ‘class two’ building. It’s not a monument like the 17th– century houses, but there are strict conditions if you want to alter it. Because the building is low and the surrounding houses are high, it lends a characteristic relief to the street. Making the building seven metres higher will undo that relief.

Furthermore, the extended building will be made of polyester concrete, when in fact they should use the same material as that found in the historical buildings.’

The weirdest part though, is that Stradmann, because he’s not allowed to build right on top of the original building, has erected a new building behind it, to the effect that it mushrooms over the original roof, thus creating a gloomy triangular space between the tiles and the concrete.

In a reaction, Denise Juthan, spokesperson for stadsdeel Centrum chairwoman Els Iping, says she doesn’t want to comment on the case pending the result of the objection procedure, which is expected in November. So, depending how the case goes, you might want to hurry over if you want to experience Nieuwe Jonkerstraat in its historical glory, without a light absorbing concrete blob.

Something to report? thepeopleversus@amsterdamweekly.nl

According to Richard Florida, a celebrated urban studies theorist and writer of the bestsellers The Rise of the Creative Class and, more recently, The Flight of the Creative Class, gay-friendly cities tend to have a thriving cultural economy.

Mr Florida basically put the creative economy at the top of the global agenda, as Al Gore did with global warming.

Amsterdam always made a fine case for proving Florida’s theories, as it’s known for its flourishing gay community and notorious creative class. One of the extras that comes with a happy gay and cultural community is an enhanced level of fashion. Vanity, a taste for glamour and grandeur and a constant urge to break away from the mediocrity of the masses are natural-born treats of this creative class. For some, it even becomes their mission in life to show the rest of us how boring and bourgeois we really are. They take it upon themselves to stand out on a freak level to shock and amuse.

Amsterdam has known quite a few ‘birds of paradise’, like Mathilde Willink and Fabiola, who took this kind of extreme self-expression to the level of art. Those were the roaring days, when the creative class was an autonomous and spontaneous phenomenon.

Times have changed. The 1980s took fashion theatre under-

ground, reserving all the wild eye candy for the club scene, and by the turn of the century, when globalisation kicked in, we probably got so impressed by the rest of the world that we lost our creative spontaneity altogether. Instead we became the nation of near-rigid conceptuality. Although this has successfully put us on the map of the global creative economy, which has become the official ‘it’ economy, at the street level I find there’s something missing.

Our dear fashion freaks have become rather mainstream and hardly manage to turn heads anymore. Still copy and pasting from the golden ages of flamboyance, most don’t even outdo the early 1980s post-disco label and endorsed dandy–punk look imprinted in our collective memories by i-D magazine. Like this lovely gender- teasing youngster I found oozing adolescence while spliffing his time away on a couch Photo by Mo Veld at SPRMRKT during some kind of vague after-hour special sale party.

As much as I appreciate any kind of explicit display of style, I doubt he’s going to be the Boy George of the era.

React: inandout@amsterdamweekly.nl

Report

By Jaro Renout

STICK UP JOINT Apart from writing about Amsterdam, I also sell dope to its inhabitants. Nothing Tony Montana-ish though, I’m a dealer in a coffeshop. It’s a regular day job, with security, pension, the works. And yes, I pay taxes. One of the reasons for choosing this line of work was the illusion that you could smoke during office hours. But het rookverbod shattered that plan to bits.

Could it be worse? Yes, apparently.

You could get robbed.

It’s 22.10 on a Sunday night. There are four customers in the coffeeshop as the day creeps to an end. The door opens and two guys walk in. Their faces are partly covered by scarves, one of them brown, the kind your grandma would wear. In a strange way it contradicts the black NY cap and the shiny black jacket.

Then I see the gun. Or was it guns?

Black cap says something like, ‘Okay, give me the money!’ waving his piece. I look at it more closely. It’s not a regular badass gun as the NRA likes them. It’s one of those sports guns with a square barrel instead of round and it’s probably fired by gas. The gun, the scarf, the cap... It doesn’t make sense. Frankly, I don’t believe them, and I expect them

to burst out laughing anytime now, revealing their true identities. They’re probably just friends of mine on a particularly bad practical joke streak.

By now black cap has had enough of my motionlessness and utters words like, ‘What are you standing around for, give me the fucking money!’ It is at that moment my brain realises I’m being robbed.

‘Fuck me!’ I think immediately. ‘I’m going to be at the police station the rest of the night.’

Black cap tells me to move away so his partner in crime can start doing some real work like loading the money from the drawer into a plastic bag. I’m standing there, hands up. After a while I start to imagine I look ridiculous, but lowering my

hands does not seem part of the protocol so I decide to get used to it for now. I look around. The customers are trying desperately to imitate those living statues you see around town As, in fact, we all are.

I tell black cap that everything’s cool, no worries, do your thing. He responds by telling me to shut up and stop looking at him. Fair enough. After a couple of minutes they leave in a leisurely Sunday stroll sort of way. I call the police and my boss.

Game over.

Now, I am not going to tell you which shop. It’s not important. Or the paltry amount they took, for that matter. But for anyone thinking about robbing drugstores, I have some advice: don’t give up your day job, if you have one. I know I won’t. ___

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am interrupted. A sweet, overweight British tourist stops about a metre from the counter... embarrassed.

‘Sorry, my husband’s downstairs,’ she says in her friendly cockney twang, apologising for not having any change. ‘That’s OK, go to the toilet!’ Henriette Leclercq answers back in her no-frills Kinkerbuurt Amsterdams-turnedEnglish. The deed done, the British lady returns five minutes later with a shiny euro coin: British fair play.

These days, the price for a leak and all other moments of relief in public places in Amsterdam ranges between €0.20 at Centrale Bibliotheek to €0.50 at Centraal Station, with a traditional standard like the Bijenkorf at €0.30. Henriette—at Magna Plaza—charges €0.40. Those jingling yellow coins in her saucer are actually her living.

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PROFILE

CONVERSING IN THE MAGNA LOO Emporio Armani... Swarovski... Polo Ralph Lauren... Gucci... Henriette Billy Leclercq, toilet lady.

By André Dryansky

Henriette Billy Leclercq Born 1937 Toiletvrouw, Magnaplaza

So these coins are your source of income?

Yes, after I pay Magna and the Monument board, I know what I have. But most times there is still money lying around here... maybe 30, 40 or 50 euros and I use it to go shopping. But I am going to stop that, because it is becoming too crazy to keep track.

How many people come by per day?

Two hundred per weekday. During the weekend, at least three to four hundred people per day.

Are they people who complain about the price?

There are people who give more than what is asked for. People aren’t that bad, in general. But some ask why they have to pay for nothing and I explain that they use the towels, the toilet paper and the soap to wash their hands. There are also many people who stand there waiting for their change, no matter how long it takes. They stare at you with a mean face waiting for their dubbeltje!

So how did you get into this work?

I am not somebody who is fanatically ambitious. I just do what I find nice and I find this incredibly nice!

What do you find nice about it?

To look people straight in the face.

People see people everywhere but they never have anything to do with each other. But with this job you get to know something more about people.

Many other toilet ladies refused to talk to me because they felt they would be laughed at.

That is absolutely not true. But it is the case that they are still perceived as dienstmeisjes—servant girls.

The attitude when there were dienstmeisjes all over the Netherlands still exists. And that means a whole load of things. You are often disregarded. You are spoken to from above. That hasn’t changed one bit.

For example?

For example, men are very proper.

I see that every day. But the women are so awfully sloppy!

In what way?

I’d give the ladies’ room about a fourout-of-ten in terms of overall cleanliness because the ladies always leave on the floor what they could put in the bin. Something here doesn’t make sense. These ladies come here to look at all those nice things in the shops. Afterwards they use the toilet and think that I will clean it all up. At two minutes before seven, right before I can go home and when I’m almost done with everything, a lady always shows up. Then I have to start all over again: take the mop and the bleach out of the closet and fill up the pale with water.

What exactly does your job require?

You have to take care of everything.

Every housewife understands what that means. You spray the mirrors and make sure everything is in order, that there is enough toilet paper. And when I leave, I always leave a toilet open in case of emergencies.

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And why always toiletvrouwen and never men?

Society determines what can and what cannot be done for men. But there is one hotel in Amsterdam that only hires men—Hotel Cassa.

I find that very progressive because I find that men lead standardised little lives!

people think I should wear a smock, like at the Bijenkorf, but for me that kind of smock comes straight out of the 16th century and today nobody should wear them any more. Just a regular T-shirt like me. A T-shirt costs nothing, but a smock...!

What are the necessary qualities to be a toiletvrouw?

Being polite is part of it, of course.

You cannot insult people nor have a big mouth, but sometimes you feel like exploding. If something bad happens, you should be able to speak your mind, but you have to watch your words because you cannot go too far. So you end up becoming very irritable. But you see that bulletin board behind me? we’re going to cover it up with floral paper.

It’s going to be gigantic. It’s going to be a real earth shaker!

People will come into the toilets in a happier mood and leave in a happier mood too.

I understand that you are not on salary, so how do you get paid?

I sort through all that money in the saucers and take it to the bank. Then the bank sends it to Magna. Magna takes care of the service costs—the toilet paper, the towels—and I get what’s left.

Just as I am about to turn off my pocket recorder, Henriette confesses to me that she is one of the writer/artist Jan Cremer’s ex-wives. At first she doesn’t want me to write that down but then changes her mind: ‘What the hell, at least he will know where I am!’ ___

Photo by Danielle van Ark

‘Men are very proper. I see that every day.

But the women are so awfully sloppy!’

And what do you see in this place that others don’t?

I look right out onto Queen Beatrix’s Palace... behind the toilet window.

Does it ever get dangerous here?

Sometimes there is someone sitting in there for a little longer than you would like.

How are the working conditions?

I am renting the place so nobody can tell me what to do. Some

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F E AT U R E

THE REVOLUTION WAS AMPLIFIED (AND IT LOOKED GREAT TOO)

As the Amsterdam Dance Event rolls into town, it’s worth asking: why Amsterdam? The answer, according to a new book by journalist Job de Wit, is the RoXY, the legendary club on the Singel born in 1987, which burnt down in 1999.

By Jules Marshall / Photography by Cleo Campert

T

he transvestites, the elitist door policy, the famous punters (from Madonna to Julio Iglesias; Neneh Cherry was turned away at the door for wearing trainers), its championing of the new House music. The RoXY was famous for many things, but its most enduring legacy was to ignite a revolution in how music was produced and consumed in the Netherlands.

‘It’s a very important part of music history in the Netherlands,’ says journalist Job de Wit. ‘It was the last time anything really major happened here. The whole Dutch story begins in Amsterdam, with RoXY and the Soho Connection parties in the docklands, and that was twenty years ago this past summer.’

With his RoXY en de House Revolutie, which looks at the rise of the club and its early, influential years, De Wit wanted to point out that it’s not just about dance music but about a whole new way of going out. ‘Before 1988, there were DJs playing the hits of the day and if you liked the song you’d have a little dance around your handbag, or if not, you’d go to the bar and chat. After house, the music went on and on.’

It’s no coincidence that ADE is in Amsterdam, says De Wit. ‘RoXY put the city on the map in mainland Europe.’ Joost van Bellen, resident DJ at the RoXY from the start, agrees. ‘That’s why it generated a revolution here in Holland, by making Holland one of the first countries to have its own music and clubs.’

More than that though, Van Bellen continues, ‘the madness and creativity of RoXY set a tone for a long time for how a club should be, with great decor, side acts, beautiful flyers, and so on’, and this has a reverberation still felt today. But things very nearly did not work out for the initiators of this revolution.

Building a scene Artist Pieter Giele, creative director in the mid-1980s of the Amsterdam alternative arts space Aorta, and Peter Schrama, the publisher of Vinyl magazine, teamed up with Belgian DJ Eddy de Clercq with the aim of creating something wonderful. Originally planning to host parties at different locations, De Klercq had been blown away

by New York’s Paradise Garage club and dreamt of re-creating something similar in Amsterdam.

Giele found the location, a disused cinema, and the trio set out on what they thought would be a question of ripping out the seats, levelling the floor and hup, bringing on the public.

In fact, the building was what’s known in the construction trade as a ‘right bloody mess’; it needed gutting and rebuilding.

Giele set to the task with a passion, to the extent that he found it impossible to reign in his hands-on perfectionism. Bars, stairs, podium, toilets, even the electricity wiring—Giele personally oversaw the lot. His motto: Ab igne ignem capere (one fire ignites another) proved to be eerily prescient.

A 14-month rebuild from the ground up went three times over budget, but the RoXY emerged as part club, part artwork, all money pit. The owners missed the New Year’s Eve 1986 and Koninginnedag deadlines, but RoXY finally opened at the end of July 1987, the paint still drying, with a borrowed sound system, no money to buy drink and DJs who couldn’t mix.

For the first few months things looked desperate; nothing seemed able to break the old ‘dance around the handbag then back to the bar for a drink’ mentality. Open five days a week, it played a mix of funk, rare groove, rap, hiphop and a little bit of tentative (and very badly received) ‘acid house’. Not chic enough for the trendies, because it was alternative, but too expensive for the underground crowd, the club was falling between two stools and losing money hand over fist.

‘You would imagine house would have grown out of the existing disco, soul, funk nights that we already had in Amsterdam,’ says De Wit. ‘But these people were not interested. House was “boring weird music made by computers”, and only brought to life by left-of-centre types from the alternative scene. They were more interested in creating liberating experiences, enjoying something outrageous and new and seeing where they could go with it.’

House in the house The catalytic event that finally jump-started the RoXY to life came on the first weekend of September 1988, when DJ Paul Jay and Maz

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Weston’s Soho Connection brought Danny Rampling, Judge Jules and a ferry full of nutters over to show the Dutch how to do it. Following a party on the Java island, the next night they hit the RoXY and the penny finally dropped: this is how you go crazy at a house music night.

The fuse was lit, and for the next three years the club went from strength to strength. Creative plans gradually became more elaborate, the door policy ever more exclusive.

Pinky Keijser and Lennart Vader were responsible, along with artist Matthew Whitehead, for the decor in this period. Most notable were the massive inflatables they created: giant flowers, babies, frogs and most spectacularly, a space ship that descended from the roof when ‘aliens’ stepped out of it. ‘It was a unique space for experimenting in,’ Vader says. ‘It was ready-made theatre where you could release your wildest fantasies on a guaranteed public of a thousand. We were very lucky being part of it.’

Obviously, the club was not just about decor and music but also drugs, especially ecstasy, initially legal. Van Bellen recalls how the RoXY had to call the police to tell them something weird was going on. ‘We told them: people are selling something that’s not illegal but we think there’s a problem as we have big time dealers inside. Can you help us? And they had no idea; we had to show them pills and educate how people looked when they took a pill!’

RoXY en de House Revolutie ends in 1991. ‘I felt the period between 1988 and 1991 was the essential period in which the real revolution happened,’ says De Wit. De Clercq quit, the scene and the music was fragmenting into acid house, deep house, ethno house, garage house, hip house, mellow house, soft house, soul house, techno house and tribal house—all with their own scenes and places to meet.

The RoXY evolved, putting on a gay night, Hard, with hardcore S&M performances, women descending in cages from the roof and peeing over the crowd-type antics. These quickly made the RoXY even more notorious. ‘Crazy things were happening,’ laughs promoter Bertie Brands. ‘It was always trying to shock and see how we could push things, silly things—RoXY was famous for shocks, but in the end you can’t shock because the public gets used to it.’

‘It’s only natural to look back with nostalgia,’ says Cameron, ‘but most people I know who were involved do not look back in that way; they don’t mourn the passing of RoXY, but are looking to the future. In all honesty, there was no “RoXY” even in the last years of the club’s existence. It had changed already, but no one had the courage to close what had become such an institution.’

The audience may look back with nostalgia—they spent their youth there and now they’re older—and to be fair, says Cameron, ‘the 1990s were really an extraordinary decade all over the world. The end of history, the fall of the Berlin Wall. There was a real sense of optimism that we really were heading for Paradise. It’s hard now to imagine the euphoria—and no, it wasn’t the drugs, just a feeling that everything was going to be good.

That whole carefree, hedonistic vibe completely stopped after 9/11. It seemed a bit silly. The disappearance of the RoXY is not responsible for that global change in mood.’

‘It was always trying to shock and see how we could push things, silly things—RoXY was famous for shocks, but in the end you can’t shock because the public gets used to it.’

Legacy?

According to De Wit, the real legacy of RoXY is its alumni and the vision they took with them from the experience of being part of the club. Countless graphic designers, artists, dancers and other creatives were able to start out on their careers as a result of RoXY patronage. Many of them are currently employed by Van Bellen’s Meubel Stukken party agency and use their experience to throw what are the closest modern interpretations of RoXY-style parties. (Curious youngsters who never made it to the original should check out their Original Warehouse Acid Party, Saturday 1 November at the Powerzone.)

But for all the RoXY has done for Amsterdam on a creative level, the city has not always been very supportive of the scene it fostered. De Wit agrees that they focussed too much on the drugs aspect that today is a zero tolerance policy. ‘They’re not making clubs or clubbers safer, just sending out a political message that does not help anyone and is really biting our own tail if you want to attract tourists and an important part of the city’s cultural industry. Amsterdam could be more of a vital clubbing city than it is right now.’

‘Those three years from 1988 to 1991 really reinforced Amsterdam as a city of tolerance and creativity.

That still works, it’s still the reason a lot of people come to Holland and part of the reason ADE is so well attended.’

Van Bellen agrees on the stupidity of zero tolerance, but points out that ‘the city supports the ADE, Muziek Centrum Nederland supports clubs like our RAUW, to do events in other cities. The government and city organisations do support some things and give out licenses, but on the other hand they’re influenced by the EU and US war on drugs. It’s a part of the whole globalisation thing; Amsterdam is just not the same city it was twenty years ago.’

‘Back then there was maybe one warehouse party a weekend, and the RoXY,’ says Van Bellen. ‘Now there are so many clubs, most of them smaller like Flexbar, Studio 80, Pakhuis Wilhemina, Bitterzoet—all places where young artists and DJs can find work and young promoters can do their first parties, who need designers for flyers. So in a way it’s better than the old days. But I’m still waiting for a young generation to do something so outrageous and crazy that even I go “oh no, this is terribly wrong”. I’m still waiting for them to make me feel like an old sucker.’

‘It’s hard now to imagine the euphoria—and no, it wasn’t the drugs, just a feeling that everything was going to be good. That whole carefree, hedonistic vibe completely stopped after 9/11.’

The end The club continued until 16 June 1999, when Giele died of a stroke at age 44. After lying in an open coffin (dressed in trademark leather trousers and clutching his beloved crowbar), he was taken by boat to the Zorgvliet cemetery.

Shortly before 9 pm on 21 June at his wake back at the RoXY, as the Rolling Stones’ ‘Miss You’ faded from the speakers, a pyrotechnic clock by Eric Hobijn was ignited, and sparks got into the air conditioning.

As smoke filled the club, half the guests thought it was just another stunt. They soon evacuated. No one was hurt. In the end, it took 70 fire fighters and two boat-mounted water cannons fighting into the night to control the blaze. The iconic club was gone for good.

Van Bellen: ‘You have to remember that the RoXY was shit too. It had terrible nights, boring nights, nights of terrible music. It is a myth in a way, especially the way it ended. The last years were not that great. In De Wit’s book you get the impression of all these crazy things happening—yes there were, but not every day.’

Brands: ‘It was a sign when it burnt down; maybe it was time to stop. It had passed its best for a few years when it burned. The place itself was beautiful, but done, so much had been done it could not keep on without repeating itself. It was good that it shut then.’

Richard Cameron had never been to the RoXY before he started work as a glass washer in 1993. He started throwing small parties (V.O.L.V.O.), which at the end of 1994 evolved into Easy Tunes, a sort of anti-party party.

RoXY en de House Revolutie by Job de Wit is published by Uitgeverij LJ Veen.

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Aquil Copier, I Haven’t Sent You Any Air Mail, Saturday, 2x2projects

THURSDAY 23 OCTOBER

SATURDAY 25 OCTOBER

Festival: Amsterdam Dance Event

Aquil Copier: I Haven’t Sent You Any Air Mail

It will be a good week in Amsterdam for girls who love DJs. And for boys who love DJs. And for girls and boys who are, in fact, DJs. That’s because hundreds of them will be flocking into town for the annual Amsterdam Dance Event, which means many, many parties in over 40 locations all over the city—so you better pack those dancing shoes. But those who take it all a bit more seriously should remember to bring their business suit too, as ADE is also one of the world’s biggest conferences for the clubbing business (which is, however, long sold out). Last but not least, those who are still a bit green behind the ears are also catered for at ADE, with several workshops and a DJ and producer seminar that’ll ensure a steady flow of young talent will be there to sell out all the editions as well. (Sarah Gehrke) Various locations, times and prices.

Until Saturday 25.

At first glance of the paint on canvas works of Aquil Copier, one quickly assumes he must have built up many, many air miles. But thanks to Google Maps, this DutchItalian painter has been able to build up a whole oeuvre of aerial perspectives from the comfort of his studio. While one can place him in the tradition of Dutch landscape painting, his view is surprisingly modern and very askew. Obsessively filigreed threads of oil paint suggests abstraction before the eye focuses to recognise them as very realistic hedges, trees or borders. Do a Google image search on his work to get a taste. Then go see them for real. (Steve Korver) 2x2projects (WedSat 13.00-18.00). Until 29 November.

FRIDAY 24 OCTOBER

Experimental: Fuck Buttons

Conference: Blog08—Rock Stars of the Web The very first edition of Blog08, a one-day event dedicated to blogging, vlogging and the blogosphere, promises a jam-packed programme of top Dutch and international speakers. Launched by two blog-savvy Dutch twentysomethings, Ernst-Jan Pfauth and Edial Dekker, Blog08 will feature main acts such as the barely-old-enough-to-drink-inAmerica Pete Cashmore, founder and CEO of Mashable; the only woman so far, Belgian Clo Willaerts from Sanoma Magazines Belgium; and local serial entrepreneur and amateur shoe shiner, Boris Veldhuizen van Zanten. Keywords for the day (or tags for you bloggers) include ‘personal branding’ (all about you), ‘journalism vs blogging’ (fun for the entire Web 2.0 family) and boosting traffic (a good thing in blogging terms).

Keep your eyes peeled for the Blog08 guitar picks being handed out as trinkets.

(Natasha Cloutier) Pakhuis de Zwijger, 08.45-17.45, €195.

TUESDAY 28 OCTOBER What’s in a name anyway? Fuck Buttons have been slowly breaking into the public eye— at least that of the indie rock brigade—enjoying lots of raised eyebrows at the moniker.

But there’s more to this British experimental duo than a wee sweary word. Like how, with the aid of their magic boxes (containing the fuck buttons?), anyone lucky enough to catch them live gets shaken to their core with extreme noise terror, extreme volume and extreme bursts of prettiness. Toy instruments chime, atmospheric layers overlap, virtual distorted guitars undulate with growing volume and intensity, and eventually the indecipherable screams kicks in—all while maintaining the balance between hypnotic beauty and the sonic beast. It’s the perfect noise symphony for the fucked state we’re in. (Steven McCarron) Paradiso, Kleine Zaal, 22.00, €12.50 + membership.

WEDNESDAY 29 OCTOBER

Rock: The Walkmen

Rock: AC Berkheimer

Sean McGowan woke up in bed with the Pixies one morning and discovered he had spawned The Walkmen. That’s them at their best. Frontman Walter Martin stalks the stage, gravel-throated, growling blues melancholy while accompanied by tight, energetic clanging guitar. Swaying between upbeat new wave and more inward laments, The Walkmen have hardly evolved stylistically since 2004’s Bows + Arrows, which made their name, though this year’s You & Me displays the pleasure of a mature band getting to know itself. One of the better bands to emerge from the post-Strokes New York guitar revival, they put on a great live show. (Simon Hodges) Paradiso, Kleine Zaal, 19.00, €10 + membership.

How to convince Amsterdammers to go and see a Rotterdam-based band? ‘That shouldn’t be a problem,’ says Dagmar Veenstra, bass guitarist and vocalist for AC Berkheimer. ‘We don’t really have a Rotterdam sound. We’re much more internationally oriented.’ This two boys/two girls indie band produces a ‘wall of sound’, reminiscent of My Bloody Valentine, but limiting themselves to just one amplifier per musician. AC Berkheimer’s debut album In a Series of Long Days, released by record label Subroutine, got great reviews, praising the band’s melancholy sound and brilliant vocal delivery. Some might call the band’s music dark or even depressing, but what could be more fitting in a time of financial crisis and stormy autumn weather? (Laura Groeneveld) Paradiso, Kleine Zaal, 23.30, €6.

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AGENDA: MUSIC Must see: Music

Thursday 23 October Classical: Amsterdamse Cello Biennale The last few days of the amazing cello feast. Until 25 October. See www.amsterdamsecellobiennale.nl. Muziekgebouw, various times and prices Pop: Cocoon Light and breezy acoustic indie pop from the French duo. Paradiso, Kleine Zaal, 20.00, €8 + membership Latin/Jazz: Tempranillo Expect a bit of just about everything from this Dutch band, out to seduce audiences with their energetic blend of flamenco, Celtic, jazz and blues. Badcuyp, Zuidpool, 20.00, €4 Classical: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Good ol’ Mariss Jansons is back in the saddle to conduct renditions of Brahms’ Third and Dvorák’s Eighth. Concertgebouw, Grote Zaal, 20.15, €20/€60 Contemporary: Asko|Schönberg A Cello Biennale special with works by Liszt, Numan, Lann, Meriläinen and Bedford. Guest cellists are Anssi Karttunen and Hans Woudenberg. Muziekgebouw, 20.30, €25 World: Manu Katché He’s played drums for Sting and Peter Garbriel but don’t hold that against him. With recent album Playground he’s created his own moody affair. KIT Tropentheater, 20.30, €23 Latin: Marcos Valle & Wanda Sá A tribute party for 50 years of bossa nova by multi-instrumentalist Marcos Valle and Brazilian singer Wanda Sá. Seeing as this is still very much dance music it’s all part of Amsterdam Dance Event. And, of course, Valle’s been heavily sampled by the likes of Jazzanova, 4hero and Gotan Project. Bimhuis, 20.30, €18 Experimental: MKM! Featuring John Peel fave Lianne Hall, experimental cellist Bela Emerson and guitar pop from local indie rockers The Bent Moustache. OCCII, 21.00, €5 Electronica: W.H.E. Are Not Dead Yet Drum & bass mainstays Noisia will perform a special set alongside dubstep and grime acts from the Lowlands. Expect to be shaken, stirred and mashed up. See Lekker Bezig, p.14. OneFourOne, 21.00, €6 Pop/Rock: 3voor12 Live radio and TV session featuring sets from a balladeer (pop/rock), Diggy Dex (hiphop) and The Subs (electro). Desmet Studios, 22.00, free, tickets: www.3voor12.nl Electronica: Rock! Rock! Rock! DJ Donna Summer is a big draw tonight for his usual glitchy sonic nightmares, but there’s a killer live programme, too. The very sexy Krause presents her crunching electro rock, plus there’s live sets from Hakki Takki and Capacocha.

See 3 questions, p.15. Cafe Pakhuis Wilhelmina, 22.00-late, €8

Friday 24 October Rock: The Walkmen New York indie rockers. See Short List. Paradiso, Kleine Zaal, 19.00, €10 + membership Classical: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra A lovely birthday surprise as the RCO celebrate 120 years of classical quality. There’s performances of Beethoven’s Egmont Overture and Piano Concerto No.3; Rossini’s ‘Una voce poco fa’ from Il barbiere di Siviglia; Falla’s Siete canciones populares españolas; Berio’s ‘Azerbaijan Love Song’; and Strauss’s Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche. So what’s the surprise? Maybe pianist Mitsuko Uchida and mezzo-soprano Tania Kross will jump out of a cake.

Concertgebouw, Grote Zaal, 20.15, €50/€60

Photo by Jamie B. Wolcott

Curtis Eller De Nieuwe Anita, Saturday 25 October This banjo player from New York is capable of breaking out a convincing yodel, but he emotes mostly in thoughtful bluegrass and folk. Lyrical prettiness occasionally makes way for political vitriol, but entertaining audiences remains the priority.

De Nieuwe Anita, 20.00, €6

Rock: Go Back to the Zoo, The Stutters Local rock ’n’ roll fun. Who remembers Morris Minor and the Majors’ ‘Stutter Rap (No Sleep Til Bedtime)’? Cafe Pakhuis Wilhelmina, 22.00, €5 Classical: Amsterdamse Cello Biennale See Thursday. Muziekgebouw, various times and prices

Saturday 25 October Folk: Juana Molina Acoustic folk and pop with light flourishes of electronica from the Argentinian-born singer-songwriter. Paradiso, Kleine Zaal, 16.00, €8 + membership Rock: I Am Kloot There’s an understated confidence in the way this Mancunian band write and perform.

Popular across the world, they arrive with no real bombast or hype, just a strong execution of guitar pop that sees them playing to more people on each visit. Paradiso, Grote Zaal, 19.00, €17 + membership Singer-songwriter: Daniel Johnston & The John Dear Mowing Club Adored but always fragile, American indie icon Johnston teams up with rootsy Dutch band The John Dear Mowing Club for a European tour.

Paradiso, Kleine Zaal, 20.00, sold out World: Omara Portuondo Colouful songs and tales of tragic love from this renowned Cuban singer, who’s worked with the likes of the Buena Vista Social Club, Tropicana and Orquesta Aragon. Carré, 20.00, €34-€43 Classical: Eduardo Isaac The guitarist plays ‘Music From the Americas’. Concertgebouw, Kleine Zaal, 20.15, €30

Jazz: Humcrush & Sidsel Endresen Endresen, with her unique combination of jazz tones and spoken word, joins forces with the sparse but funky Norwegian duo Humcrush. Bimhuis, 20.30, €15

Electronica/Jazz: An Evening of Experimental Music BJ Nilsen, Hild Sofie Tafjord, Hildur Gudnadóttir and Thomas Ankersmit experiment with tones, drones, noise and melodies. Bimhuis, 20.30, €15

World: Özlem Taner & Mikail Aslan Ensemble & Nilüfer Akbal A Turkey Now! production that brings three greats of Turkish and Kurdish folk music to one stage. KIT Tropentheater, 20.30, €23

Jazz: Chris Barber Jazz & Blues Band Dixieland jazz from the 78-year-old trombonist. Concertgebouw, Grote Zaal, 20.30, €42.50

Electronica: Adi Dick This soulful singer and beat maker from New Zealand recreates his own songs on stage with the help of his trusty guitar and looping machine. Winston Kingdom, 21.00, €7.50

Hiphop/Electronica: Appletree Nights The three agencies Appletree Records, 100% Halal and Deux d’Amsterdam bring you a special night of music, design and visuals, with live performances by Nobody Beats The Drum, Pêche Noir and The Pigtails. Bitterzoet, 21.00, €7.50

Kickin’ it old skool! Bomb the Bass are back on Saturday.

Pop/Rock: Hit Me TV Electro pop and rock. Support from This Is Total War. Winston Kingdom, 21.00, €7.50 Electronica: Bomb the Bass Tim Simenon and Paul Conboy on vocals and Minimoog, with added visuals and sounds mixed in live by Italian brothers Claudio and Valerio Spoletini—a scratch DJ/VJ team known as V-Scratch. Will they do ‘Beat Dis’ and ‘Say A Little Prayer’? Don’t hold your breath.

Sugar Factory, 21.30, €10 Classical: Amsterdamse Cello Biennale See Thursday. Muziekgebouw, various times and prices

Sunday 26 October Contemporary: Radio Monalisa Matinee Contemporary guitar music from Argentina, France, Russia and Belgium, performed by Belgian twins Tania and Veerle D’Hoest and the Dutch Anido Guitar Duo. De Cameleon, 12.00, €10 Classical: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Pianist Mitsuko Uchida sits in for works by Beethoven, Brahms and Strauss; conducted by Mariss Jansons. Concertgebouw, Grote Zaal, 14.15, €20/€60 World: Mlimani Park Orchestra Imagine this: a taxi and transport organisation with its own house band. That’s exactly how the Tanzanian Mlimani Park Orchestra got started 30 years ago, and they’ve been churning out dance hits ever since. The swinging band, with Hassan Bitchuka on vocals, set a groove with hypnotic guitar melodies, a brazen horn section and pulsating bass. Just don’t expect a ride home afterwards. KIT Tropentheater, 15.00, €23 Classical: Toets des Tijds Pianist Georgina Collington and singer Lara Diamand perform songs by Copland, Gershwin, Weill, Rorem and Bernstein.

Werkgebouw Het Veem, 15.00, €12 Classical: Sunday Casual Classics An intimate performance from members of the Amsterdam Symphony Orchestra. This time British-German cellist Adrian Brendel does Bach. Cristofori, 16.00, €25 Heavy: Dub Trio Heavy metal dub grooves. Actually, the dub part isn’t always that prominent, whereas

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By Jaro Renout

Gerson Naarden, OneFourOne ‘We are an organisation that builds bridges between starters in any creative field and the cultural world. Through coaching and initiating events we offer them the possibility to take their ambitions to the next level.

‘We started out around four years ago. It came out of SJA [Stedelijk Jongerenwerk Amsterdam] circles, which is basically the biggest organisation concerned with how young adults, aged 15 to 25, spend their free time. OneFourOne focuses solely on culture though. In any form. Of course music, and especially hiphop, is a big slice of the cake, but it’s bigger than that.

Theatre, poetry/spoken word, dance, art or photo expositions— everything is possible. Where we try to make a difference is especially in the organisation and production aspects of taking an act to the stage. There are a lot of young adults out there who have the drive and the energy to conjure up local events, but they still lack the contacts and experience to do it on their own.

We collaborate with other groups when we can, the purpose being that we can all learn from each other, so people will be capable of creating chances for themselves in the future.

‘We have no boundaries in what we do or don’t do, but of course the people that come to us for support often bring their own project. In that case, they decide what the content is.

Hiphop is a main artery in youth culture, so it’s not surprising that a lot is connected to it. It was also the initial starting point for us. But we also believe in supporting new and relatively unknown forms and genres, like dubstep for example. In Britain it’s huge, while here it’s still underground. We want to help build the scene.

‘This week you’ll find us at the Amsterdam Dance Event.

We are represented four nights in a row. Which ultimately means that we are being taken very seriously. We’re proud of that.’

the crunching riffs are. There’s an element of Faith No More too, and funnily enough, Mike Patton has collaborated with them in the past. Paradiso, Kleine Zaal, 16.30, €7 + membership Singer-songwriter: Heather Nova Back in 1994 she walked this world. Fourteen years on she’s recovered, but is still most comfortable with her sparse acoustic pop and breathy vocals. Either way, Amsterdam audiences lap it up. Paradiso, Grote Zaal, 19.30, sold out

Photo by Joost Benthem

More info: www.onefourone.nl Check out: W.H.E. Are Not Dead Yet (dubstep), 23 October, Overtoom 141, 21.00; Last Man Standing—Producers Battle, 24 October, Overtoom 141, 21.00; DROP (BeatDrop release party), 25 October, Overtoom 141, 21.00; Mind The Gap (open mic), 26 October, Studio K, 20.00

loudly. The new album is a bit more electric and percussive, which may be reflected in this show—so long as she’s left the sax and spoken word spots at home. Support from the very funny anti-folk performer Hamell on Trial and Anais Mitchell. Paradiso, Grote Zaal, 19.30, €25 + membership Classical: Janine Jansen A trio of Tchaikovsky works with violinist Jansen performing with Den Haag’s Residentie Orkest and talented friends. Concertgebouw, Grote Zaal, 20.15, €24-€47

Pop/Rock: Magic Bubble Sunday A new platform for local and international pop and rock bands. The Dealers are visiting from London, plus there’s prison rockin’ from Johnny Cash tribute A Boy Named Sue. Winston Kingdom, 20.00, €8

Singer-songwriter: New Moon Festival An evening with local and international singer-songwriters including Ken Parsons, Katbite, Paulina Dubaj and Fabiana Dammers. Paradiso, Kleine Zaal, 21.00, €5 + membership

Hiphop: Mind the Gap Open mic night for MCs, singer-songwriters, spoken word artists and anyone sniffing for beer. See Lekker Bezig,above. Studio K, 20.00, free

Experimental: DNK-Amsterdam Electro acoustic session featuring Berlin percussionist Burkhard Beins.

SMART Project Space, 21.30, €5

Experimental: Winterjong This Dutch band offers a dreamy evening of music mingled with poetry. Badcuyp, Zuidpool, 20.00, €4/€9

Tuesday 28 October

Classical: Kinga Dobay The mezzo-soprano performs Mahler, Poulenc, Brahms and Rossini. Backed by pianist Roger Braun. Concertgebouw, Kleine Zaal, 20.15, €30 Jazz: James Carter Quintet Hailed as one of the best of his generation, James Carter is a force to be reckoned with on the sax and clarinet. Known for his energetic performances coupled with his deep knowledge of everything jazz, tonight he’s backed by trumpeter Dwight Adams, pianist Gerard Gibbs, bassist Ralphe Armstrong and drummer Leonard King. Bimhuis, 20.30, €20 Rock: Subbacultcha! Local post punk from The Wooden Constructions and Midwest craziness from Mahjongg. Studio K, 21.00, €6

Pop: Headphone Belgian electro indie pop. Paradiso, Kleine Zaal, 20.00, €8 + membership Classical: Le Concert d’Astrée Performing Händel’s cantatas ‘La terra è liberata’ and ‘Delirio amoroso’. Concertgebouw, Grote Zaal, 20.15, €42.50/€49.50 Pop/Rock: Amanda Palmer Gothic piano pop from one half of the punk cabaret duo The Dresden Dolls. Her new solo album was produced by fellow piano pop star Ben Folds, nodding to Twin Peaks with its title Who Killed Amanda Palmer? Not that it sounds drastically different from her work in the duo. Support from Zoe Keating and the wonderful Jason Webley. Melkweg, Oude Zaal, 20.30, €12.50 + membership

Monday 27 October

Pop/Rock: The Pigeon Detetives Energetic but not massively inspiring Britpop from Leeds. That said, they can still nail a pop chorus. Melkweg, The Max, 20.30, €14 + membership

Singer-songwriter: Ani DiFranco The original Righteous Babe is back to promote recent disc Red Letter Year. Always at her best when slapping her acoustic guitar about like a bad boyfriend/girlfriend, she attracts a hardcore following, so don’t dis her too

World: Ogan Sadan Band This Amsterdam-based bass player, originally from Turkey, takes his dual background and creates—with the help of his multicultural band—a blend of Turkish, African, Latin and jazz music. Badcuyp, Noordpool, 21.00, €8

Experimental: Fuck Buttons Brutal but beautiful music from this British noise duo. See Short List. Paradiso, Kleine Zaal, 22.00, €12.50 + membership

Wednesday 29 October Americana: Stacey Earle & Mark Stuart Country, folk and blues straight from Tennessee. Paradiso, Kleine Zaal, 19.30, €9 + membership Funk: Funky Foolish Funk till you can’t funk no more. Board the mothership for an evening filled with live acts, open mic, art, DJs and other funky tomfoolery. Music ranges from funk (duh!) to rock, dubstep and soul. Bitterzoet, 20.00, €7.50 Jazz: Lizz Wright The 28-year-old sultry songstress takes listeners back to her Georgia roots with a mix of jazz, gospel and R&B. Paradiso, Grote Zaal, 20.30, €18 + membership World: Misirli Ahmet & Ensemble This popular percussionist, who has developed his own unique style of playing the darbuka (an Arabic drum), tonight performs a mix of Arabic, Indian, Latin and jazz music. Part of the Turkey Now! festival. Bimhuis, 20.30, €18 Jazz: Bembeya Jazz The legendary Guinean supergroup Bembeya Jazz sets the dancefloor in motion with a fusion of traditional folk, Afro-Cuban grooves, jazz, whiffs of Congolese rumba and Afrobeat. Melkweg, Oude Zaal, 21.00, €22 + membership Americana: Easton, Stagger & Phillips Soulful acoustic country tunes from Tim Easton, Leeroy Stagger and Evan Phillips. Paradiso, Kleine Zaal, 21.00, €9 + membership Pop/Rock: Go Back To the Zoo Powerful rock and pop tunes that’ll apparently make you want to feed the animals. Winston Kingdom, 21.00, €6 Jazz: Groove Night A Jazz Impuls special, providing a platform for turntablists, DJs and jazz cats. Tonight it’s Monsieur Dubois with special Indian guests.

Pakhuis de Zwijger, 21.00, €7.50 Pop/Rock: Classic Noodlanding! A Locals Only!

Latenight special featuring Rotterdam shoegazers AC Berkheimer. See Short List. Paradiso, Kleine Zaal, 23.30, €6

Classical quality: The RCO celebrates 120 years this week. Take in beautiful music from just €20.

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DJ Donna Summer Cafe Pakhuis Wilhelmina, 23 October

Thursday 23 October K-Space Sessions: Brownswood Recordings Brownswood Recordings night featuring UK radio personality DJ Gilles Peterson digging deep in his crates with the help of DJs Lefto and BPM. From jazz to Afrobeat and beyond. K-Space, 18.00-20.00, free Strafwerk Get ready for some techno, baby! Ray Okpara (DE), Berend Kirch and Jeroen Kok work the decks, while others entertain the punters with a DJ contest. Winston Kingdom, 20.00-03.00, €7.50 Power Versus Power Label Night Hardcore, breakcore and even religious speed breakcore from international DJs—not to mention a VJ called Nuns With Guns. OT301, 22.00, €5 Brownswood Recordings Afterparty Drag yourself over from K-space and continue the groove. Bar Struik, 22.00-01.00, free entrance with ADE badge 15 Minutes Several hiphop/funk DJs showcasing their skills with quick-fire 15 minute sets. Hosted by MC Seven. De Duivel, 22.00-04.00, free Terminal M & Great Stuff Recordings Diverse electro and techno sounds from Monika Kruse (DE), Gregor Tresher (DE), Erman Erim (live, DE), Soares & Unders, Tomcraft (DE), AudioJack (UK), Butch (DE) and Rainer Weichhold (DE). Flex Bar, 22.00-05.00, €12.50 Grandmaster Woo/Sellout Sessions DJ Don Diablo celebrates the release of his latest album Life is a Festival along with partners in music hooliganism Audio Bullys (GB), rapper Example (UK) and DJ Manga. Hosted by MCs Melodee and Bizzey. Jimmy Woo, 23.00-04.00, €12 Never Grow Up Minimal and techno from Carlos Valdes, Sandrien, Brent Roozendaal, Pitto and many more. Well, there’d have to be to survive 11 hours of partying. Club 8, 23.00-10.00, €6 Vreemd Goes Forward With special guest DJ François K, and crew members John Daly and Tedd Patterson from his legendary Wave Music label and the newly formed booking agency Forward. Mixed in is a bit of electro-dub by DJ Brendon Moeller, AKA Beat Pharmacy. New York is undoubtedly in the house. Sugar Factory, 23.59-05.00, €14

Friday 24 October Hiphopcafe 4 Elementz: Graffiti Special Hiphop beats provided by DJ Eliza and the Dynamite Soul DJ Team. The focus of this party is always on some element of hiphop: this time graffiti takes the spotlight.

Also featuring live street art. Fusion, 19.00-23.00, free Bassculture #8 A mix of DJs and live musicians.

OT301, 22.00, €10 Compost Blacklabel Night DJs Jay Sheppeard (UK), Phreek Plus One (I), Michael Reinbith (DE) and Nuno Dos Santos remember to recycle their waste food.

Studio K, 22.00-04.00, €8

You can call him Donna, or simply Jason Forrest. This noisy electronic experimentalist is head honcho of Cock Rock Disco records, promoting glitchy, manic noise rock mash-ups and electro pop. But it’s still his own breakcore fuck-ups that grab the most attention. This week Amsterdam Dance Event offers electronic goodies for all tastes, but there’s nothing quite like stepping into the raucous firing line of DJ Donna Summer.

Music for rocking? ‘There’s too much... Foreigner’s 4 is timeless rock music as it was meant to be made: anthemic, fist pumping and slightly coy. And also Public Enemy’s Fear of a Black Planet, which is probably the one recording I’ve listened to more than anything else in my entire life—it’s still ahead of its time. For moshing I’d choose Nation Of Ulysses’ Plays Pretty For Baby, super spazzy noise-punk from Washington DC that forces you to get up and freak the fuck out!’

Music for mellowing? ‘Everything by Steely Dan but especially the albums Gaucho and Katy Lied. These two guys wrote some of the best music ever. Brilliant, complex, refined—like enjoying a fine meal.’

Music for loving? ‘Nick Drake’s Bryter Layter is warm, cuddly and perfect for snuggling beneath the sheets.’

Photo by Jane Stockdale

Website: www..cockrockdisco.com www.myspace.com/djdonnasummer

Last Man Standing: Producers Battle A select group of hiphop producers battle it out for eternal fame and various prizes. See Lekker Bezig, p.14. OneFourOne, 22.00-late, €6

up what they call ‘real house music’. Techno, electro and garage fits, so long as it has that feel.

Whatever you call it, they’ll spin it. Bitterzoet, 01.00-04.00, €7.50

Beat Dimensions Local label showcase of electronics, abstract hiphop and experimental beats.

With DJs Aardvarck, Cinnaman and guests Mike Slott and Take. Bimhuis, 22.30-03.00, €10

Saturday 25 October

Monsters! Get ready for some dirty electro-funkhouse from the likes of Sick Girls, Kid Rêve and more! Club 8, 23.00, €8 High School Dig out your ill-fitting jeans and shoulder pads—oh wait, those are enjoying a comeback anyway—as resident DJs Vanwells and Aiscream give ’80s and ’90s classics funky new twists. Winston Kingdom, 23.00-04.00, €7.50 Plastic Dreams With Rednose Distrikt (Aardvarck, Steven de Peven), Parra Soundsystem (Tom Trago, Mr Wix & MC Lyrical Tie) and DJ Joost van Bellen.

Studio 80, 23.00-05.00, €10 OI! DJ Gomes, head honcho of grime and dubstep in the Netherlands, brings the noise, with special guest DJs from the UK. Wear your trainers and bring a whistle. Paradiso, Grote Zaal, 23.59-05.00, €12.50 Best of Supermarket The Risk Soundsystem posse, consisting of DJ/producer Mike Richters, MC John Agesilas, DJs Leroy Rey and Chocolate Brown and producer/techie Ro Achterberg, serve

ADE: After Dance Event Pixel, Soulrock and Bleifrei present techno, minimal and house for anyone still standing. Flex Bar, 12.00-04.00, €7 Sffeervol Unofficial ADE afterparty with DJs Cream and Manga. Expect soothing soul and bangin’ hiphop beats.

Bitterzoet, 22.00-03.00, €7.50

Beat Drop Release Party DJs, producers, designers and artists collaborate in a party to celebrate the release of an exclusive Beat Drop CD. See Lekker Bezig, p.14. OneFourOne, 21.00-02.00, €5 (incl. free CD)

Monday 27 October

Vrijbuiters Go Berlin Underground A long, long night with Afrilounge, Estroe, Daze Maxim, Bart Skils, Carlos Valdez and Sandrien. Studio K, 22.00-11.00, €15

Heartbroken Love with a tear in the eye and soul, jazz, funk, hiphop for the ears. DJs Frankie D. and Gewoon Mark ‘E’. Studio 80, 22.00-late, €5

Body Music Risk Soundsystem and friends. Jimmy Woo, 23.00-05.00, €12

Tuesday 28 October

Magnetron Music Labelnight It’s all styles go at this party, featuring Jackal and Hyde (live, US), Mr Ries, Le Le (live), Seymour Bits and many more.

Flex Bar, 23.00-05.00, €10

Sunday 26 October ADE Afterparty: Electronation The official electro-fried afterparty with very special guests promised. (Yes, this party actually starts at 4am on Sunday morning.)

Winston Kingdom, 04.00-09.00, €10

It’s an Amsterdam Dance Event frenzy of activity. For even more party listings see www. amsterdam-dance-event.nl.

Cheeky Monday True skool jungle and drum & bass, featuring players from the local and international scenes. Winston Kingdom, 21.00-03.00, €7

dinsDAG 3 Minimal and techno extravaganza from Dag 3 and friends. Winston Kingdom, 22.00-03.00, €5

Wednesday 29 October Funky Foolish The funky bit’s until 23.30, followed by the foolish bit until 03.00. Expect lots of soul, funk, hiphop and beats, not to mention an art show. Bitterzoet, 20.0003.00, €7.50 Katapult Weekly event, with Boys versus Girls! and Les Amateurs de Vinyl versus FNNNN. Studio 80, 23.00, €5

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

Found Magazine Event Boom Chicago, Sunday 26 October Found Magazine is an American-based collection of found items sent in by readers from around the world: love letters, birthday cards, kids’ homework, to-do lists, telephone bills and doodles. Now, Found performers Davy and Peter Rothbart bring their rowdy and exhilarating reading-and-music extravaganza to Amsterdam, along with sword swallower Brett Loudermilk and Los Angeles DJ Andrew Cohn. Boom Chicago, 20.15, €15

GAY&LESBIAN STAGE Edited by Willem de Blaauw.

Thursday 23 October

Opening

Exhibition: Lesbian ConneXions IHLIA-homodok’s latest exhibition, on the 6th floor, includes work from 56 female photographers from 16 countries, shot between 1998 and 2002 during their travels through Europe. Until 31 December. Centrale Bibliotheek, 10.00-22.00, free

Theatre: Goal MC’s (Made in da Shade/Cosmic Theater) trademark mix of theatre, music and visuals tracks the rise and fall of star footballer Garra.

No voetbalvrouwen allowed. Compagnietheater, (Thur-Sat 20.30), €18

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

Theatre: Will You Ever Be Happy Again With the help of documentary elements and the autobiographical stories of one German and one Serbian performer, this performance approaches issues that come up in the aftermath of a war. Is it possible to escape the past and have a fresh start? How intertwined are personal and national identity? In Serbian and German, with Dutch surtitles on Thursday and Friday; English surtitles on Saturday and Sunday. Hetveem Theater, (Thur-Sat 20.30, Sun 16.00), €9

Friday 24 October DJ night: 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 Party: Gayminded Time for gays and lesbians to take over this club, with DJs Beto el Bravo, MBC and Eko spinning ’80s dance classics, Latin house and future house, plus male and female strippers—though not performing at the same time, we hope! More, 23.00-04.00, €15

Saturday 25 October Party: Pancake Party Hungry homos head to this groovy bar for a tasty pancake, starting at €2. Create your own and choose from various toppings. PRIK, 16.00-20.00, free Party: (Z)onderbroek Drop your pants and dance in your most sexy briefs/Y-fronts/boxers or jockstrap at this menonly afternoon fun cruise party. Church, 16.00-20.00, €8

Performance: The Art of Flipbook Combining new media with the very old media: In his Daumenkinographie, German artist Volker Gerling presents his photo flip-books, projecting them on a big screen and telling the stories that came up when he made them. In English. Frascati, (Fri, Sat 21.00) Dance: Poetic Disasters Inspired by the Chaos theory, which is not about chaos but about complex dynamical systems. Likewise, this dance performance by Club Guy & Roni is not chaotic at all, though still kinda wild. De Brakke Grond, (Tues, Wed 20.30), €14

Happy hour: Ladies Night No doubt pussies galore as it’s Ladies Night at this happy homo and lesbo hang-out.

Special cocktail happy hour for ladies between 22.0023.00, plus surprises. Getto, 22.00, free

Cabaret: Thuis A music and cabaret programme about the absurdities of domestic life. The performers Speelman & Speelman are real-life brothers, so they should know. Theater Bellevue, (Tues, Wed 20.30), €13

Party: UNK Ade Special Lupe & Golden Years, ZoëXenia and Steady will be spinning for slags, hags, fags and everyone in between at this special Amsterdam Dance Event night. Club 8, 23.00-late, €8

Cabaret: Kasper van Kooten—Veelvraat Actor/ musician/singer Kasper van Kooten wants it all and gives all in his latest show, aptly titled Glutton. De Kleine Komedie, (Tues-Sat 20.15), €7.50-€15

Wednesday 29 October Dining: Getto Burger Queens Feeling hungry? Tonight all burger dinners at this funky restaurant/bar are just €10. Getto, 18.00, €10

Dance: Go Big or Go Home When do you make it big? Where is home? Nita Liem’s Don’t Hit Mama, comprised of a group of young dancers from all corners of the world, find answers to these questions through dance. Rozentheater, (Tues-Wed 20.00), €9

Mmm... Getto burgers are amazing all week, but a bargain on Wednesday.

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AGENDA: EVENTS/ART Art: Opening

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, (Thur 20.30), €13.50 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 full-length ballet. This also holds true of the sublime music Mozart wrote for the serial philanderer. Het Muziektheater, (Thur, Fri 20.15, Sun 14.00), €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, (Thur, Fri, Sun 12.30), €14 Theatre: De Familie Avenier (1+2) All four parts of Maria Goos’ family epos can now be seen on consecutive days or, for the hardcore theatre goers, in a marathon. 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. Stadsschouwburg, (Thur, Wed 19.00), €12.50- €39 Theatre: 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, (Thur-Sat 20.30), €12 Theatre: De Familie Avenier (3+4) See Thursday.

Stadsschouwburg, (Fri 19.00), €12.50- €39 Theatre: De Familie Avenier (Marathon) See Thursday. Stadsschouwburg, (Sat, Sun 14.00), €12.50- €39

Photo by Matt Cheetham

High Five Concrete Image, opens Thursday 23 October, until 15 November Five weeks, five screens and five audio-visual remixes. High Five transports you into the tripped-out headspace of audio-visual sampling gurus Addictive TV, inviting you to become absorbed into the artists domain of what you see is what you hear. Opening party on Saturday night with Addictive TV live in the house.

Concrete Image (Thur 12.00-21.00, Mon-Wed, Sat 19.00, Sun 13.00-18.00)

EVENTS Multidisciplinary: Club Ambras Live music, photography, theatre, comedy and poetry in what should be an entertaining night with something for everyone. Live acts include Typhoon, Rico (Opgezwolle), Giovanca and Muppetstuff. Rozentheater, (Thur-Sat 20.00), €10 Conference: Blog08 Love blogging but don’t know how to make money from it? Try charging a buttload for people to hear you talk about your blog. Well, in all seriousness, this conference has some of the most successful bloggers around, including Pete Cashmore of Mashable, the 10th most popular blog worldwide, and Hugh MacLeod, the cartoonist responsible for GapingVoid. See Short List and www.blog08.nl for more. Pakhuis de Zwijger, (Fri 08.45-17.45), €195 DJ: Masterclass—François Kevorkian New DJ/producer event. Learn the tricks from one of the DJ greats.

Sugar Factory, (Fri 19.00), €10 Festival: UN me Interviews, debates, music, film and comedy revolving around the many issues the UN does (and does not) work to fix. Pakhuis de Zwijger, (Fri 19.00-02.00), €5 Workshop: CycleRecycleCycle With help from expert bike fixer-uppers, pimp your old clunky bike into a spankin’ new ride. Every Saturday until 2 November. Pietheinkade/Blauwhoedenveem, (Sat 14.00-16.00), €10 Tour: IKBLIK! Guided 2.5 hour walk through Bos en Lommer starting at Podium Mozaïek. There’s performances by diverse artists back at the venue at 14.00.

See www.kudde.info. Podium Mozaïek, (Sat-Sun 11.00, 11.30, 12.00, 13.30, 14.00), €5 Event: Barbie in Amsterdam—Barbie’s Happy Hippie Happening The original Pussycat Doll is back, but this time the plastic blonde vixen will grab a messy brown wig and dress up as Yoko, while Ken does his best John Lennon impression in a recreation of the infamous Amsterdam bed protest. And we all know, if it wasn’t for Barbie’s interference, Ken would still be rocking the world today with his groovy beat combo The Barbiturates. Mercure Hotel Amsterdam aan de Amstel, (Sun 10.00-16.00), €4.50

Debate: Enlightenment Cannot Exist Without the Art of Printing A debate with linguist Thomas Milo and graphic designer Tarek Atrissi, two authorities in Arabic typography, throwing light upon the Arabic art of printing from different points of view. De Levante, (Sun 20.00), free Poetry/Music: Wonder—Notebook Living A force from nature, this poet/artist/wonder woman paints her own mysterious world with sights, sounds and visuals. Paradiso, Kleine Zaal, (Sun 21.30), €7.50 Dance/Music: Flamenco Biennale The second biannual flamenco fest offers, yep, everything flamenco, from dance performances and concerts to movies, workshops, masterclasses, exhibitions and lectures given by Spanish musicologists. Some of the many flamenco masters performing include Andrés Marín, Isabel Bayón, Miguel Poveda, Juan Gómez ‘Chicuelo’, Joaquín Grilo, Diego Carrasco and Moraíto Chico. See www.flamencobiennale.nl for the full whack. Until 2 November. Various locations, (SunWed), various prices Discussion: De Staat van de Democratie—VS Dutch democracy experts discuss the current political climate in the US ahead of the election. Also with music from the Blue Grass Boogiemen. De Balie, (Mon 20.30), €6 Workshop: Club Voyeur—Doe-het-niet-zelf Animatiedagen Jam session for animation artists, VJs and video artists in preparation for a presentation at the upcoming Museumnacht. Get moving with video, Flash, 3-D, clay, paper and more. De Brakke Grond, (Mon-Wed 10.00-22.00), free

ART Opening Het Oog van de Flat An opportunity to look through the eyes of the ‘Egeldonk’, an apartment building in Zuidoost that is due to be demolished. You can also take in panoramic 3-D photos taken from its windows. Informatiecentrum Stadsdeel Zuidoost (Daily), opens Thursday, until 20 November The New Easy An exhibition curated by Lars Eijssen and hosted by agentur, this real-life offshoot of an online concept invites you round to the curator’s home to view works by Mark Bain and Anne de Vries. See www.larseijssen.com/NewEasy. Eikenweg 9m (Thur 20.00-00.00), opens Thursday Erik van der Weijde: Siedlung Siedlung, German for ‘settlement’, features 220 black-and-white photos of detached houses. In Nazi Germany in the 1930s, the National Socialist Party set up a huge construction programme to provide these Seidlung houses for workers who agreed to become party members. Foam (Sat-Wed 10.00-18.00, Thur, Fri 10.00-21.00), opens Friday, until 10 December

Lecture: Lothar Hempel Weekly lectures, this time by the German artist. In English. De Ateliers, (Tues 17.00), €4

Evan Hecox: Urban Abstract in Amsterdam Skate artist Evan Hecox’s debut solo show in Amsterdam is a continued exploration of urban landscapes in locales as disparate as Berlin, Mexico City, Long Island, Tokyo and his native San Francisco. Chiellerie (Daily 14.00-18.00), opens Friday, closing Wednesday

Lecture: Now is the Time: Art & Theory in the 21st Century Second in a series of lectures about how social topics relate to contemporary art. Tonight University of Chicago professor WJT Mitchell and visual artist Sean Snyder examine how 9/11 and its many after-effects influence the art world. In English. Oude Lutherse Kerk, (Tues 20.00), €7.50

Helen Levitt: In the Street A retrospective of work by the renowned American street photographer Helen Levitt, famed for portraying the dynamics of New York street life from 1930 onwards, paying special attention to the innocent and adventurous world of children at play. Foam (Sat-Wed 10.00-18.00, Thur, Fri 10.00-21.00), opens Friday, until 18 January 2009

Debate: Het Grote Amerika Debat Recurring political discussions between politicians and journalists, turning their attention to the coming US presidential election. In Dutch. De Rode Hoed, (Wed 20.00), €4

Aquil Copier: I Haven’t Sent You Any Air Mail Beautiful painted landscapes (diverse techniques) as seen from the air. See Short List. 2x2projects (Wed-Sat 13.00-18.00), opens Saturday, until 29 November

Poor Ukraine. Not only a lack of funds for an election, all the debates in town focus on the US.

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AGENDA: ART David Goldblatt Works by the renowned South African photographer. Galerie Paul Andriesse (Tues-Fri 11.00 -18.00, Sat 14.00 -18.00), opens Saturday, until 6 December Group Exhibition Diverse works from the likes of Zilvinas Landzbergas and Alex Winters. Galerie Fons Welters (Tues-Sat 13.00-18.00), opens Saturday, until 22 November Helgi Thorsson: Garry and Berry Go Ga-Ga Icelandic artist Thorsson presents a solo exhibition of life-sized gnomes (he calls them ‘elvur’), monsters and figurines from a forgotten pop world. Fantastical music, video, drawings and paintings are also on show. Galerie van Gelder (Tues-Sat 13.00-17.30), opens Saturday, until 20 December Kumi Oguro: First Class Hysteric Young Japanese photographer Oguro looks at the relationship between film and photography, creating a mysterious environment, where time and place no longer seem to exist.

Soledad Senlle Gallery (Mon-Sat 11.00-17.00), opens Saturday, until 22 November Open Ateliers Zuid Meet and greet with more than 70 artists in Oud-Zuid. Central expo and meeting point is Hilton Amsterdam (Apollolaan 138), but grab your bike and take an art ride after checking out the route on www.openatelierszuid.nl. Various locations (Sat-Sun 12.00-18.00), opens Saturday Set #3 Bastiaan Meijer presents the site-specific media installation Drijven. Pakhuis Wilhelmina (Sat, Sun 14.00-19.00), opens Saturday The Mona Lisa Project Showcasing 100 takes on the Mona Lisa by Florentijn Bruning, created with materials such as spray paint and lacquer. GO Gallery (Wed-Sat 12.00-18.00, Sun 13.00-17.00), opens Saturday, until 6 December

Museums Stad uit de School Designs by former students of the Amsterdam Academy of Architecture. ARCAM (Tues-Sat 13.00-17.00), closing Saturday 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), closing Sunday 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 show22.15), closing Wednesday Inside Out Personal portraits in word and image show how youths deal with religion and the part it plays in their daily lives. Bijbels Museum (Mon-Sat 10.00-17.00, Sun 11.00-17.00), until 2 November Sonic Voices, Rocking Hard Audio artist Nathalie Bruys co-curates this exhibition, showing a personal selection from very diverse approaches, each making use of sound and music. The works have been created by young artists with highly varied backgrounds, all with a sincere love of music, audio and art in common. Montevideo/Time Based Arts (Tues-Sat 13.00-18.00), 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 (Wed-Sun 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

Grafisch Gezelschap De Luis Retrospective of works by artist group De Luis, which caused a furore with their often poetic and bizarre output between 1960 and 1980.

Rembrandthuis (Mon-Sat 10.00-17.00, Sun 11.00-17.00), until 16 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 Story, Apartment, Endless Night, 1.9.4.7, 1906 to the Skin and Mother’s. Foam (Sat-Wed 10.00-18.00, Thur, Fri 10.0021.00), until 16 November Birth Copulation Death Drawings by Frank van Hemert.

Teylers Museum (Tues-Sat 10.00-17.00, Sun 12.00-17.00), Haarlem, until 22 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 11.00-18.00), until 23 November Art of the State Photographs and video works by sixteen artists from Israel. Through their works they reflect upon their country: the community in which they live, the numerous cultural and religious differences among Israel’s population and the current political situation. Joods Historisch Museum (Daily 11.00-17.00), until 30 November 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 (TuesSat 10.00-17.00, Sun 11.00-17.00), until 13 December Palestine 1948 On 14 May 2008 it will be exactly 60 years ago that the State of Israel was founded. This long term presentation shows how this event affected the lives of individual Palestinians. Tropenmuseum (Daily 10.0017.00), until 4 January 2009 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 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), 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 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), until 25 January 2009 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), until 29 March 2009

Galleries 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), closing Saturday

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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), closing Saturday

AGENDA: ART/ADDRESSES Art: Opening

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), closing Sunday Niemand kan het Images that inspired former photographer Hans Aarsman’s theatre piece of the same name. De Brakke Grond (Mon 10.00-18.00, Tues-Fri 10.00-20.30, Sat 13.00-20.30, Sun 13.00-17.00), closing Sunday Inferno Dark paintings by Italian duo Two Things.

De Duivel (Daily), until 31 October 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 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 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 [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

Body Bunnies Volkskrantgebouw, opens Friday 24 October, until 15 November.

PLANETART presents Katinka Simonse’s installation, which poses the idea that pets are no longer chosen as a loyal friend, but purely for aesthetic values and consumption. A mere toy, in fact. (Mon-Fri 12.00-17.00, Sat 14.00-17.00)

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

Nobody in the Chair. Nobody in the Books. Nobody in the Rain Spacious and surreal oil paintings by Sebastian Burger and Heide Nord. Galerie Gabriel Rolt (Wed-Sat 12.00-18.00), until 22 November

Jan Roeland New paintings. Slewe Gallery (Tues-Sat 14.00-17.00), until 8 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), until 22 November

Iris Roskam: Iris in Slumberland Glass artist.

Witzenhausen Gallery (Thur-Sat 12.00-18.00), 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 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), until 15 November Geert Bartelink: Het rijk der fabelen Colourful and artistic tales of the rich. AYAC’S (Fri, Sat 13.00-17.30), until 15 November Régine de Festes: Creation & Mythology Paintings and sculpture 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 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

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

Wetering Galerie (Wed-Sat 12.30 -17.30), until 22 November Moderne Mexicaanse Meesters Work by four Mexican artists: Emilio Sánchez Díaz, Alejandra Nettel, Anna Kurtycz and Veronica Elizondo. Galerie Wies Willemsen (Fri-Sun 10.00-18.00), until 4 December 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 13.00-18.00), until 6 December 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 Nisja Architectural paintings by a young Polish artist.

Radar Gallery (Fri-Sun 13.00-17.00), until 20 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

Have a beer with darkness at the Duivel’s Inferno exhibition.

ADDRESSES 11 Oosterdokskade 3-5, 625 5999 2x2projects Veemkade 350, 489 7471 Amsterdams Centrum voor Fotografie Bethaniënstraat 9, 622 4899 De Appel Nieuwe Spiegelstraat 10, 625 5651 ARCAM Prins Hendrikkade 600, 620 4878 Aromatique Nieuwe Spiegelstraat 11b, 624 0044 De Ateliers Stadhouderskade 86, 673 9359 AYAC'S Keizersgracht 166, 638 5240 Badcuyp 1e Sweelinckstraat 10, 675 9669 De Balie Kleine-Gartmanplantsoen 10, 553 5151 Bar Struik Rozengracht 160 Bimhuis Piet Heinkade 3, 788 2150 Bitterzoet Spuistraat 2, 521 3001 Blow Up Gallery Hazenstraat 67, 665 3435 Boom Chicago Leidseplein 12, 530 7300 De Brakke Grond Nes 45, 626 6866 Cafe Pakhuis Wilhelmina Veemkade 576, 419 3368 Cafe Sappho Vijzelstraat 103, 423 1509 De Cameleon 3e Kostverlorenkade 35, 489 4656 Carré Amstel 115-125, 524 9452 Chiellerie Raamgracht 58, 320 9448 Church Kerkstraat 50-52 Club 8 Admiraal de Ruyterweg 56B, 685 1703 CoBrA Museum Sandbergplein 1-3, Amstelveen, 547 5050 Concertgebouw Concertgebouwplein 2-6, 671 8345 Concrete Image Spuistraat 250, 625 2225 Consortium Veemkade 570, 06 2611 8950 Cristofori Prinsengracht 581-583, 626 8485 Desmet Studios Plantage Middenlaan 4A, 521 7100 De Duivel Reguliersdwarstr 87, 626 6184 Filmmuseum Vondelpark 3, 589 1400 Flex Bar Pazzanistraat 1, 486 2123 Foam Keizersgracht 609, 551 6546 Frascati Nes 63, 626 6866 Fusion Marnixstraat 285, 020-6221171 Galerie Bart Bloemgracht 2, 320 6208

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Galerie Fons Welters Bloemstraat 140, 423 3046 Galerie Gabriel Rolt Elandsgracht 34, 785 5146 Galerie Hof & Huyser Bloemgracht 135, 420 1995 Galerie Paul Andriesse Withoedenveem 8, 623 6237 Galerie Smits Fokke Simonszstraat 29, 06 43001833 Galerie van Gelder Planciusstraat 9A, 627 7419 Galerie Wies Willemsen Ruysdaelkade 25, 470 1073 Gallery WM Elandsgracht 35, 421 1113 Getto Warmoesstraat 51 GO Gallery Prinsengracht 64, 422 9580 Grimm Fine Art Hazenstraat 24, 422 7227 Hermitage Amsterdam Nieuwe Herengracht 14, 530 8751 Hetveem Theater Van Diemenstraat, 626 9291 Huis Marseille Keizersgracht 401, 531 8989 Hup Gallery Tesselschadestraat 15, 515 8589 Informatiecentrum Stadsdeel Zuidoost Anton de Komplein 150 Jan van der Togt Museum Dorpsstraat 50, Amstelveen, 641 5754 Jimmy Woo Korte Leidsedwarsstraat 18, 626 3150 Joods Historisch Museum Jonas Daniel Meijerplein 2-4, 531 0310 K-Space Nieuwezijdsvoorburgwal 262 KIT Tropentheater Mauritskade 63, 568 8711 De Kleine Komedie Amstel 56-58, 624 0534 De Levante Hobbemastraat 28, 671 5485 Maison Descartes Vijzelgracht 2A, 531 9500 Melkweg Galerie Marnixstraat 409, 531 8181 Melkweg Lijnbaansgracht 234a Mercure Hotel Amsterdam aan de Amstel Joan Muyskenweg 10, 665 8181 Mezrab 2de Laurierdwarsstraat 50 Montevideo/Time Based Arts Keizersgracht 264, 623 7101 More Rozengracht 133, 528 7459 Motive Gallery Elandsgracht 10, 330 3668 Muziekgebouw Piet Heinkade 1, 788 2010 Het Muziektheater Amstel 3, 625 5455 De Nieuwe Anita Frederik Hendrikstraat 111, 06 4150 3512 Nieuwe Kerk entrance on the Dam, 638 6909 OBA Oosterdokskade 143, 0900-2425468 OCCII Amstelveenseweg 134, 671 7778 Odeon Singel 460, 624 9711 OneFourOne Overtoom 141, 670 3313 OT301 Overtoom 301, 779 4913 Oude Lutherse Kerk Singel 411, 623 1572 OUTLINE Oetewalerstraat 73, 693 1389 P/////AKT Zeeburgerpad 53, 06 5427 0879 Pakhuis de Zwijger Piet Heinkade 179-181, 788 4444 Pakhuis Wilhelmina Veemkade 570-596, 645 5941 Paradiso Weteringschans 6-8, 626 4521 Paule Carre Cornelis Schuytstraat 44, 675 6800 Persmuseum Zeeburgerkade 10, 692 8810 Pietheinkade/Blauwhoedenveem Platform 21 Prinses Irenestraat 19, 344 9449 Podium Mozaïek Bos en Lommerweg 191, 580 0380 PRIK Spuistraat 109, 06 4544 2321 Radar Gallery Eerste Rozendwarsstraat 17-H, 06 2416 3300 Rembrandthuis Jodenbreestraat 4, 520 0400 De Rode Hoed Keizersgracht 102, 638 5606 Ronmandos Prinsengracht 282, 320 7036 Rozentheater Rozengracht 117, 620 7953 Slewe Gallery Kerkstraat 105A, 625 7214 SMART Project Space Arie Biemondstraat 105-113, 427 5953 Soledad Senlle Gallery Sloterkade 171, 615 1395 Souterrain Messinastraat 38 Stadsarchief Amsterdam Vijzelstraat 32 Stadsschouwburg Leidseplein 26, 624 2311 Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam Rozenstraat 59, 422 0471 Studio 80 Rembrandtplein 17, 521 8333 Studio K Timorplein 62, 692 0422 Sugar Factory Lijnbaansgracht 238, 627 0008 Theater Bellevue Leidsekade 90, 530 5301 Tropenmuseum Linnaeusstraat 2, 568 8200 UvA: Special Collections Library Oude Turfmarkt 129, 525 2141 Van Gogh Museum Paulus Potterstraat 7, 570 5200 Verzetsmuseum Plantage Kerklaan 61, 620 2535 Volkskrantgebouw Wibautstraat 150 Werkgebouw Het Veem Van Diemenstraat 410 Westergasfabriek Haarlemmerweg 8-10, 586 0710 Wetering Galerie Lijnbaansgracht 288, 623 6189 Winston Kingdom Warmoesstraat 129, 623 1380 Witzenhausen Gallery Hazenstraat 60, 644 9898 Zuiderkerk Zuiderkerkhof 72, 552 7987

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Film review

By Arjan Welles

Vox Populi Opens Thursday at Het Ketelhuis, Kriterion, Pathé Tuschinski

POLITICS AS A CROWD PLEASER The new Eddy Terstall film takes on politics but avoids showing any deliberate intention.

Mainstream Dutch cinema supposedly suffers from a dishonourable reputation for creating lots of controversy and containing a large amount of bluntness. The work of established directors like Paul

FILM Amsterdam Weekly recommends.

New this week El Olvido New documentary by director Heddy Honigmann (The Underground Orchestra, Forever) focuses on old waiters and bartenders working in Peru, telling stories from their lives and their country.

We all know bartenders know a lot of jokes, but they are also masters in the art of surviving with style, dignity and poetry in a world which is out of control.

Honigmann makes them talk about the gigantic inflation in Peru, the fall of the middle class, the corruption, the violence of Shining Path and that of the local Army. You’ll definitely feel like having a cocktail afterwards. In Spanish with Dutch subtitles.

92 min. Rialto, De Uitkijk Rocknrolla Guy Ritchie probably thinks of himself as the British Quentin Tarantino. His latest is simply another revisit of the gangster picture genre, filled with somewhat sharp dialogue, funky characters and unbridled violence. One Two (300’s Gerard Butler) is a London scam artist learning the ropes from shark Lenny Cole (Tom Wilkinson). The underworld gallery around them is populated with all kinds of colourful peeps providing, if not plot, at least overacting and expensive costume design. The best is crooked accountant Stella (Thandie Newton at her sexiest), the rest is rather forgettable, even if not as bad as Mr Ritchie’s most recent oeuvre. I know you’re all waiting for a Madge joke, but I am not going to give you one.

(MB) 114 min. Kriterion, Pathé ArenA, Pathé De Munt Son of Rambow A delicate balance of sweetness and absurdity marks this British comedy by Garth Jennings (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy), about lonely schoolmates who forge an unlikely friendship as they collaborate on a video sequel to the brutal Sylvester Stallone flick First Blood. Direct-

Verhoeven and Dick Maas comes to mind as good examples. To a large extent, the films of Eddy Terstall also contribute to this reputation. His latest, Vox Populi, the final part of his trilogy on contemporary

ing the project is a rebellious bully (Will Poulter) who’s been abandoned by his rich father to the care of a neglectful older brother. His Rambo is a meek artist (Bill Milner) whose widowed mother is raising him under the strict doctrine of a pacifist Christian sect. Jennings’s film, with its missing fathers, sometimes threatens to become cloying, but it’s almost always righted by a healthy dose of slapstick or the spectacle of little kids posing as muscle-bound killers. I can’t imagine a better movie for children and adults to enjoy together. (JJ) 96 min. Kriterion

La Zona A Mexican gated community is entered by

three petty thieves trying to stage a robbery. Two are killed by the locals, while the third gets trapped inside La Zona and can’t escape. Moral and logistical dilemmas hit the community, as they try to cover up the events from the State Police to keep their status quo.

Amazing feature film debut by Mexican film-maker Rodrigo Pla—definitely a name to watch. In Spanish with Dutch subtitles. (MB) 97 min. Studio K Vox Populi Eddy Terstall gets political. See review above. Het Ketelhuis, Kriterion, Pathé Tuschinski

Still playing The Accidental Husband This is a hotchpotch of genres: romcom, screwball comedy and a little Bollywood sauce. Relationships guru and radio host Dr Emma Lloyd (Uma Thurman) advises one of her listeners to call off her wedding with fireman Patrick Sullivan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan). The jilted Sullivan then decides to give Lloyd a taste of her own medicine, making her hesitate about her upcoming marriage with well-off and dependable businessman Richard Bratton (Colin Firth). Torn between two suitors, the charming Sullivan and the uptight Bratton, you’ll never guess with whom Lloyd will walk to the altar... with its half-hearted script, contrived plot, silly stereotypes and ludicrous coda, The Accidental Husband is unsurprisingly embarrassing. Directed by Griffin Dunne. (GR) 90 min. Pathé ArenA, Pathé De Munt 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

Dutch society in all its aspects, adds a more politically candid chapter to his resume.

Though a graduate in sociology and politics, Amsterdam-based Terstall apparently never intended to weave politics into his scripts. However, on a deeper level there is almost always a political message lurking somewhere in his films. The first instalment of his trilogy, Simon, not only continued the director’s fascination with the common man, but was also his most refined work so far. Its follow-up, the mosaic-like Sextet, was more vulgar than Simon and just as unpolished and straightforward as Terstall’s earlier work.

It is unclear what drew Terstall towards Vox Populi, despite the evident political nature of the story. The film centres on Jos Fransen (Tom Jansen), an ambitious and flamboyant left-wing politician in a mid-life crisis. A few weeks before the elections, his daughter, young actress Zoe (Tara Elders), gets involved with the simple military policeman Sjef (Johnny de Mol), and the politician soon gets acquainted with Sjef’s family. Not only is Jos whole-heartedly welcomed by his daughter’s new in-laws, he also becomes influenced by their demagogic political views and their outspoken ideas on certain immigrants. Due to his refusal to take a position on these matters, Jos is losing voters to right-wing competition, so he becomes more and more convinced that uttering the opinions of the common man is his guarantee to political success.

(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 antislavery 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. (JJ) 116 min. Studio K

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 co-wrote 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 welcome 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. Pathé Tuschinski

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 accomodation, and their brides meet on a fateful 1953 trip from London to Christchurch. Directed

by Ben Sombogaart from a script by Marieke van der

Hark! As the nights grow dark, The Dark Knight is due to leave the big screen soon so catch it while you can.

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Several thoughtless and naive appearances in talk shows lead to irritation among his political peers, but also to a substantial rise in the polls.

The abrupt shift in Jos’s political and idealistic views is a rather questionable point in the story. Despite a streamlined script, with a solid beginning and ending (rather unusual for Terstall’s work, Simon being the other exception), the protagonist simply develops too fast. And because Vox Populi doesn’t aim to be a spoof or satire, Jos’s sudden change costs the film credibility.

But more damaging is the lack of any clear intention from the director. Four years ago, Terstall wanted to retire as a film-maker to become a politician for the Dutch Labour Party (PvdA). Considering his political aspirations, did Terstall want to show how easily politicians compromise given the prospect of gaining votes?

Are the positions of Jos the director’s own, or is he criticising the recent change of tone in the Dutch political debate?

Such questions are left unanswered and therefore lead to a certain sense of dissatisfaction, which only gets worse when Jos crosses the thin line between popular opinion and right-wing extremist sympathies. As a response to the political situation of the Netherlands after two political murders and the rise of rightwing extremist parties, Vox Populi only partially manages to convince. Even though the humour and dialogue are rather amusing, its final statement remains unclear. ___

Pol, with Karina Smulders, Anna Drijver and Elise Schaap as the three young women, and a special appearance by Rutger Hauer. 130 min. Pathé ArenA, Pathé De Munt, Pathé Tuschinski Brideshead Revisited Many viewers will immediately associate Evelyn Waugh’s 1945 novel Brideshead Revisited with its 1981 TV adaptation starring the unforgettable Jeremy Irons. Now director Julian Jarrold brings a compressed version to the screen: in mid-’20s Oxford, young middle-class Charles Ryder (Matthew Goode) befriends upper-class flamboyant Sebastian Flyte (Ben Whishaw), who invites Charles to his magnificent home. There atheistic Charles meets Sebastian’s sister Julia (Hayley Atwell) and their Catholic mother (Emma Thompson). Bedazzled by their opulent world—and estate—he gets caught up in a web of faith, love, passion and guilt, which will mark him for life. Performances are fine and everything looks lush and sumptuous, but despite its grand themes the film remains oddly unaffecting.

(GR) 130 min. Pathé Tuschinski Caos calmo Pietro (Nanni Moretti), while enjoying a day out at the beach with his brother Carlo (Alessandro Gassman), saves a woman from drowning. When they head home, he finds out his wife has died unexpectedly. His grief takes him from his TV executive desk to a bench, where he sits every morning waiting for his ten-year-old daughter to finish classes. Life circles around him, and Pietro starts observing all the little bits of action happening in the square, trying to find a new meaning to his existence. Look out for a cameo by Roman Polanski. In Italian with Dutch subtitles. (MB) 105 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 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. (BS) 152 min. Pathé ArenA, Pathé De Munt Death Race This violent remake of the cult favorite Death Race 2000 (1975) retains little of the original’s tongue-in-cheek humor; instead writer-director Paul W.S. Anderson, who’s built his career on video-game

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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) De Uitkijk

Special screenings The Age of Innocence Martin Scorsese’s ambi-

tious and sumptuous 1993 film version of Edith Wharton’s 1920 novel about New York society in the 1870s manages to be both personal and true to its source. Incorporating chunks of Wharton’s socially knowing prose in the narration (regally spoken by Joanne Woodward), it tells the story of a young lawyer (Daniel Day-Lewis) who’s engaged to a debutante (Winona Ryder) but falls in love with her married cousin (Michelle Pfeiffer), a somewhat disreputable countess, and never succeeds in doing very much about it. (JR) 133 min. Rialto 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. In Spanish with Dutch subtitles. 90 min. Kriterion

A Mighty Heart Mariane Pearl’s 2003 memoir

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

Must see:

Control Melkweg Cinema, Monday

Control In this biopic on singer/songwriter Ian

Curtis, photographer and video director Anton Corbijn dares to be critical: Ian isn’t a tragic hero, but a bit of a wimp who uses his band as an escape from his own incompetence as a husband and father. The film is beautifully shot in black-and-white, though the stark contrasts and grey hues serve mainly to underline the desolation of the Manchester suburbs, and of Ian himself. (BS) 119 min. Melkweg Cinema Le Fils de l’épicier A road movie of sorts, with a very French twist. The story is a bit flimsy: a young man (the grocer’s son of the title) helps his parents when they’re in trouble and sorts himself out along the way.

The film’s strength is in its humane view of its characters and painterly eye for the landscape. As Antoine (Nicolas Cazalé) grudgingly drives his dad’s delivery van around, his brusqueness doing little for his sales or relations with the old clientele, we’re treated to

adaptations like Mortal Kombat and Resident Evil, targets the enormous gamer fan base. A disgraced race-car driver (Jason Statham) is framed for murder by a ruthless prison warden (Joan Allen in full icequeen mode) so she can make him the star attraction of her phenomenally successful reality TV show. Contestants in heavily armored cars cross road markers that activate their firepower and boost them to the next stage of the race. Co-stars Tyrese Gibson and Ian McShane are among the few characters spared from immolation, evisceration, or decapitation, presumably so they’ll be around for the sequel. (AG) 89 min.

Pathé ArenA, Pathé De Munt 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. Rialto Elegy Adapted from Philip Roth’s novella The Dying Animal, this film charts the older man/younger woman dynamic. After work, sixtyish, self-centred and hedonistic professor of literature David Kepesh (Ben Kingsley) has three things on his mind: sex, sex and more sex. When he meets dazzling young student Consuela (Penélope Cruz) he starts rhapsodising about her breasts, but Consuela wants a true relationship. Kepesh, mesmerised by her and acutely aware of his age, veers between possessiveness and his desire not to get emotionally involved. Elegy has classy performances and is nicely shot, but is also quite gloomy and prone to philosophical platitudes.

Roth’s humour is sorely missed. Written by Roth and Nicholas Meyer and directed by Isabel Coixet, with Patricia Clarkson, Dennis Hopper and Deborah Harry.

107min. (GR) 107 min. Studio K

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

breathtaking wide-angle shots of Provence. Close friend Claire (Clotilde Hesme), former femme fatale Lucienne (Liliane Rovère) and increasingly senile father Clément (Paul Crauchet) play crucial, and sometimes very funny, roles while Antoine adjusts to his new life. Eric Guirado directed this feel-good film with an eye for the individual. In French with Dutch subtitles. (KE) 96 min. De Uitkijk

Die Fälscher Before you say ‘Life Is Beautiful’,

take a look at this gritty Holocaust comedy/drama (bizarrely enough, a genre with many entries), which just won best film at the Ghent Film Festival. The amazing Austrian character actor Karl Markovics shines as Salomon Sorowitsch, the leader of a pack of Jewish counterfeiters who get ‘hired’ by the Nazis to run a concentration camp devoted to printing for-

an incredible filmic tour de force, both for the filmmakers 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 squemish. As far as we know this is fiction, while, by contrast, the Abu Ghraib images were not, yet we can’t help but being profoundly disturbed by McQueen’s work. 96 min. Cinecenter 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 Lake Tahoe A teenager crashes his family car and desperately looks for a way to fix it before going home. On his way, he meets a bizarre parade of characters who provide some mild, dry comedy bits. Borrowing heavily from the likes of Jim Jarmusch, Hal Hartley and Aki Kaurismaki, Mexican director Fernando Eimbcke is able to bring in a laugh or two, but ultimately his Lake Tahoe lacks the concrete sense of humor to be a successful comedy, while it doesn’t have enough depth for a strong social observation on Mexican youth. In Spanish with Dutch subtitles. 85 min. Cinecenter, Rialto Mirrors Kiefer Sutherland stars in this remake of the Korean horror flick Into the Mirror (2003). Like The Haunting (1963) and The Shining (1980), this is a thriller in which a vulnerable character is menaced by a building that pulsates with malevolence. Sutherland plays a former detective, disgraced and alcoholic, who now works the night shift patrolling a fabled department store gutted by fire. After he’s attacked by distorted images in the store’s many mirrors, the evil follows him across town to threaten his family. Director Alexandre Aja (High Tension, The Hills Have Eyes) keeps the suspense tight for most of the movie, only to fritter it away in an overblown ending. The real star of the movie is the towering production design of Joseph Nemec III (Terminator 2). (AG) 110 min. Pathé ArenA, Pathé De Munt

eign currency. The Germans’ plan is to destroy the world economy; the con men’s is merely to find a way to survive (and maybe get rich, too). Austrian writer/director Stefan Ruzowitzky nails the perfect tone in adapting the book by Adolf Burger, based on real-life events, and gets away with a gem. In German with Dutch subtitles. (MB) 98 min. Pathé ArenA 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

La Noche de los girasoles If you had plans to visit the lovely Spanish countryside for your summer holidays, you might reconsider after watching this grim and downbeat Hitchcockian Spanish art house thriller. A rape and murder in a rural town set up the Rashomonlike structure in which six characters are followed in six seperate chapters, with each chapter cleverly expanding the audience’s knowledge and deftly expanding our point of view. The depravity and dark view of human nature might be too much to stomach for the faint of heart, as every ounce of innocence is squeezed from the film throughout the two hours of running time. In Spanish with Dutch subtitles. (LvH) 118 min. Filmhuis Griffioen 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 Radeloos Paco (Marius Gottlieb) has to cope with the death of his father. Yara (Marloes van der Wel) wants to go to art school, but her mother (Renée Soutendijk) pushes for her to become a model and starve herself.

The two try and look for comfort in each other. Adapted from Carry Slee’s novel by director Dave Schram and screenwriter Maria Peters, Radeloos brings a faithful portrait of troubled adolescents to the screen.

110 min. Pathé ArenA, Pathé De Munt Un Secret Based on the autobiographical novel by Philippe Grimbert, Un secret tells the tragic story of Holocaust-survivor Maxime Grinberg (Patrick Bruel) as seen through the eyes of his son François (Mathieu Amalric). Maxime and his wife Tania (Cécile de France) seem a perfectly happy couple. As a child, François adores his beautiful, athletic parents and paints an idyllic picture of them. But at fifteen he discovers a family secret and learns that, in fact, his parents were brought together by tragic circumstances. Directed By Claude Miller. In French with Dutch subtitles. (MM) 105 min. Pathé Tuschinski Le Silence de Lorna Lorna is a young Albanian woman who just moved to Lieges. In order for her to obtain the

Yet another Eastern horror gets the Hollywood treatment. But it’s more smoke than Mirrors.

RR Railroad François Truffaut used to say ‘films are like trains’. But does the opposite also stand true— are trains like films? You can try and find an answer in this documentary by experimental film-maker James Benning, made of 43 shots of trains passing through American landscapes. RR can be seen as a commentary on the environment, a nostalgic look at a bygone era, or just simply, well... lots of cool trains.

111 min. De Balie Time of the Gypsies In this fanciful and folkloric 1989 film by Emir Kusturica (Underground), a young Gypsy falls in with an amoral gang of thieves. Pleasantly Felliniesque, and at times a bit more penetrating in its energetic magical realism, Gypsies hasn’t become a Kusturica classic like When Daddy was away on Business or Black Cat, White Cat, but it definitely deserves a second look. Ljubica Adzovic and Davor Dujimovic head a cast that’s composed mainly of nonprofessionals. In Romany/Serbo-Croatian with Dutch subtitles. (JR) 138 min. Kriterion

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EU citizenship, local criminal Fabio makes her marry Claudy, a junkie. Lorna’s dream is to open a bar along 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 minimalistic, 16mm handheld-style, with this grim contemporary drama that won them a well-deserved Best Screenplay award in Cannes this year. (MB) 105 min. Pathé Tuschinski, Rialto Het Zusje van Katia Mijke de Jong’s new film after her award-winning turn with Tussenstand proves to be another extreme cinematic experience. Katia’s sister (Betty Qizmolli) is a pre-teen girl, the daughter of a Russian prostitute (Olga Louzgina) living in Amsterdam-Noord and working the sex trade in the city. Her days don’t have much going on, apart from walking around the Centraal Station area, until it’s time to take the ferry across the IJ to patiently wait for her sister Katia (Julia Seijkens), a 17-year-old blonde beauty, who is literally adored by her sister. Based on the novel of the same title by Andrés Barba, Het Zusje van Katia is a film that doesn’t take any easy way out. In Dutch. (MB) 85 min. Kriterion Edited by Massimo Benvegnù. This week's films reviewed by Jennifer Lyon Bell (JLB), Massimo Benvegnù (MB), Angela Dress (AD), Kate Eaton (KE), Andrea Gronvall (AG), Luuk van Huët (LvH), JR Jones (JJ), Marie-Claire Melzer (MM), Mike Peek (MP), Gusta Reijnders (GR), Jonathan Rosenbaum (JR) and Bregtje Schudel (BS). All films are screened in English with Dutch subtitles unless otherwise noted.

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FILM TIMES Thursday 23 October until Wednesday 29 October.

Times are provided by cinemas and are subject to lastminute changes.

De Balie Kleine-Gartmanplantsoen 10, 553 5151 RR Railroad Fri, Sat 20.30.

Cavia Van Hallstraat 52-I, 681 1419 Kafka in Cavia Thur, Fri 20.00 Kung Fu Zombie Sat 20.30 Stille Nacht Sat 20.30.

Cinecenter Lijnbaansgracht 236, 623 6615 Burn After Reading Sun-Wed 16.00, 19.15, 21.45, Sun also 13.30 Estômago Thur-Sat 21.45 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, Thur-Sat also 21.45, Sun also 13.30 Lake Tahoe Thur-Sat 16.00, 17.45, 19.45, Sun-Wed 22.00, Sun also 11.15.

Cinema Amstelveen Plein 1960 2, Amstelveen, 547 5175 Anubis en het pad der 7 zonden Thur, Sat 15.45, Fri, Sun 16.45, Wed 16.30 Fireflies in the Garden Tues, Wed 20.30 De Kronieken van Narnia: Prins Caspian Fri, Sun 13.45, Wed 13.30 Sinterklaas en het Geheim van het Grote Boek Thur, Fri, Sat, Sun 11:30 SOS Kleine Zeehond (8 ) Thur 13.45 Spooktijd met Laban (4-8jr) Sat 13.45 Wild Child Thur, Fri, Sat 20.30.

Filmhuis Griffioen Uilenstede 106, Amstelveen, 444 5100 La Noche de los girasoles Thur, Fri, Tues 19.30.

Kriterion Roetersstraat 170, 623 1708 All White in Barking Sat 15.00 Cafe De Los Maestros daily 18.00 The Darjeeling Limited daily 19.30, Fri, Sat also 0.15 Erik of het klein Insektenboek Thur, Fri, Sun 14.45 Fietsmug & Dansmug Thur-Sun, Wed 13.30 Into the Wild daily 21.30 Het kleine spookje Laban Thur, Fri, Wed 15.00 Rocknrolla Thur-Mon, Wed 22.15, Thur-Sun, Tues, Wed 20.00 Sneak Preview Tues 22.15 Son of Rambow daily 17.30, Thur-Sat, Wed also 15.15, Sun also 12.45 Time of the Gypsies Mon 22.00 Vox Populi Thur-Mon, Wed 19.45, Thur, Sat, Sun, Tues, Wed also 21.45, Fri also 22.30, Sat also 23.45 Wall-E (NL) Thur, Fri, Wed 12.45, Sat 13.00, Sun 15.45, Wed also 15.15 Wonderful Town daily 18.00 Het Zusje van Katia Sat, Sun 14.00, Sat also 14.45, Mon 20.00, Tues 19.45.

Melkweg Cinema Lijnbaansgracht 234A, 624 1777 Control Mon 19.00 Hellboy II: The Golden Army Tues, Wed 21.00 [REC] Thur-Sat, Tues, Wed 20.30.

OT301 Overtoom 301, 779 4913 Inside Tues 20.30.

Pathé ArenA ArenA Boulevard 600, 0900 1458 The Accidental Husband Thur 11.25, 13.30, 15.35, 17.45, 19.50, 22.10, Fri, Sat 19.50, 22.10 Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging daily 12.25, 14.40, 17.10, 19.30, Thur-Sun also 10.15 Anubis en het pad der 7 zonden daily 12.00, 13.00, 14.00, 15.00, 16.00, 17.00, 18.00, 19.00, Thur-Sun also 10.00, 11.00 Babylon AD daily 21.45, Sat also 0.05 Bride Flight daily 12.20, 15.10, 17.50, 20.30, Sat also 23.20 Burn After Reading Sun-Wed 19.50, 22.10 The Dark Knight Thur-Mon, Wed 21.10 Death Race daily 21.50, Sat also 0.10 Eagle Eye daily 12.15, 14.50, 17.20, 20.00, Sat also 22.50 Eagle Eye (Imax) daily 12.45, 15.30, 18.15, 21.00, Sat also 23.40 Die Fälscher Tues 13.30 Heroes Fri-Wed 12.30, 15.40, 20.50, Sat also 23.45 Max Payne daily 12.10, 14.30, 16.50, 19.20, 21.40, Thur-Sun also 10.05, Sat also 0.00 Mirrors daily 18.10, 20.40, Sat also 23.10, Mon, Tues also 13.05, 15.35 My Best Friend's Girl daily 19.10, 21.30, Sat also 23.50, Mon, Tues also 11.45, 14.15, 16.45 Radeloos daily 13.40, 16.30, 19.15, Thur-Sun also 11.10 Roadside Romeo Fri-Wed 13.10, 15.20, 17.30, Fri, Sun also 10.50, Sat also 10.50, 0.20 Rocknrolla daily 13.50, 16.20, 18.50, 21.20, Thur, Fri, Sun also 11.20, Sat also 11.20, 23.50 Sex Drive daily 19.40, 22.00, Sat also 0.20 Sinterklaas en het Geheim van het Grote Boek Thur-Sun, Wed 11,40, 14.15, 16.40 Sneak Preview Tues 21.00 Space Chimps (NL) Thur-Sun, Wed 12.05, 14.10, 16.10, ThurSun also 10.10 Star Wars: The Clone Wars (NL) Thur-Sun 10.00

AGENDA: FILM Tropic Thunder daily 20.10, Sat also 22.40 Wall-E (NL) daily 17.30, Thurs-Sun also 10.20, 12.50, 15.10, Mon, Wed also 12.50, 15.10 Wanted daily 18.30, Thur also 20.50, Sat also 0.15 De Zeven van Daran: De Strijd om Pareo Rots Thur-Sun 10.30, Thur also 12.30, 14.30, 16.30.

Pathé De Munt Vijzelstraat 15, 0900 1458 The Accidental Husband Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 15.10, Sat 16.30 Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 14.20, 16.50, Thur, Fri, Sun also 11.00, Sat 10.50, 13.10, 15,45, Mon-Wed also 12.00 Anubis en het pad der 7 zonden Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 12.00, 14.15, 16.30, 18.45, Sat 12.45, 15.00, 17.15, 19.30 Babylon AD Thur, Fri, Sun 19.50, Sat 21.15 Bangkok Dangerous Sat 23.25 The Bank Job Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 18.15, 21.10, Sat 19.00, 21.40, Mon, Tues also 13.10, 15.40 Bienvenue Chez les Ch’tis Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 19.15, Sat 18.40 Bride Flight Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 12.20, 15.30, 18.30, 21.30, Sat 10.20, 13.15, 16.15, 19.15, 22.30 De brief voor de koning Thur, Fri, Sun 14.45, Sat 15.30, Wed 13.30 Burn After Reading Sun, Mon, Wed 21.20, Tues 21.50 The Dark Knight Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 21.00, Sat 21.45 Death Race Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 21.40, Sat 21.20 Disaster Movie Thur, Fri, Sun 22.15, Sat 23.40 Eagle Eye Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 12.40, 15.15, 18.00, 20.45, Thur, Fri, Sun, Mon, Wed 21.50, Thur, Fri, Sun 10.15, Sat 11.15, 14.00, 17.00, 20.00, 21.30, 23.00 Mamma Mia! The Movie Thur, Fri, Sun 11.45, 17.15, Sat 12.30, 18.15 Max Payne Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 12.15, 14.30, 17.00, 19.30, 22.00, Sat 11.00, 13.30, 16.00, 18.30, 21.00, 23.30 Mirrors Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 17.30, 20.10, Sat 19.20, 22.00, Mon, Tues 12.30 My Best Friend's Girl Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 12.30, 15.00, 17.45, 20.30, Thur, Fri, Sun also 10.15, Sat 11.45, 14.30, 17.20, 19.45, 22.15 Radeloos Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 13.30, 16.15, 19.10, Thur, Fri, Sun also 10.45, Sat 10.25, 13.00, 15.45, 18.45 Rocknrolla Thur, Fri, Sun 10.30, 13.15, 16.00, 19.00, 21.45, Sat 12.00, 14.45, 17.45, 20.30, 23.15, Tues 13.15, 16.00, 19.00, 21.45, Wed 16.15, 19.00, 21.45 Sex Drive Thur, Fri 11.15, 14.00, 16.45, 19.20, Sat 12.15, 14.50, 17.30, 20.15, Sun-Wed 13.20, 15.50, 18.20, Sun also 10.50 Sinterklaas en het Geheim van het Grote Boek Thur, Fri, Sun 10.20, 13.00, 15.45, Sat 10.15, 12.40, 15.15, Wed 13.00, 15.45 Sneak Preview Tues 21.30 Space Chimps (NL) Thur, Fri, Sun 11.30, 13.45, 16.10, Sat 11.30, 14.15, 16.45, Wed 13.45, 16.10 Tropic Thunder Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 18.40, 21.15, Sat 18.00, 20.45, Mon, Tues also 13.00, 15.45 Wall-E (NL) Thur, Fri, Sun, 10.40, 12.50, Sat 11.10, 13.45, Wed 12.50 Wanted Thur, Fri 21.50, Sat 22.45.

Pathé Tuschinski Reguliersbreestraat 34, 0900 1458 Anubis en het pad der 7 zonden daily 12.45, 15.30, Thur, Sat 18.45 Bottle Shock Thur-Sat, Mon-Wed 18.15 Bride Flight daily 17.15, 20.30, Fri-Mon, Wed also 14.15 Brideshead Revisited daily 12.15, 15.15, 21.00 Burn After Reading Sat 18.15, Mon-Wed 18.45 Entre Les Murs Fri 18.45 Estômago daily 18.15 Into the Wild Thur-Sat, Mon-Wed 21.10 Mamma Mia! The Movie daily 15.00 Mighty Heart, A Thur, Tue 13.30 Un Secret daily 12.30, 18.00, 20.45 Le Silence de Lorna daily 21.00, Thur-Sat, Mon-Wed also 12.15, 15.15 Vliegen naar de maan (3D) Fri, Sat, Wed 12.00 Vox Populi daily 16.00, 18.30, Thur-Mon, Wed also 13.30, Thur, Sat-Wed also 21.15.

Rialto Ceintuurbaan 338, 676 8700 Aanrijding in Moscou daily (except Wed) 21.45, Fri, Sat, Sun also 14.45 The Age of Innocence Sun 11.00 Bringing Out The Dead Wed 19.20 Caos calmo Daily (except Fri, Wed) 19.30, Sat also 12.30 Il Dolce e l'Amaro daily (except Wed) 17.15 Lake Tahoe Thur, Sat, Mon, Tues 18.00, Sat also 13.30, Sun 11.15 El Olvido daily (except Wed) 19.15, 21.15, Sat also 13.00, 15.00, Sun also 12.45 Pure Coolness Daily (except Fri, Wed) 17.00, Fri 16.45 Rialto Jong - Verhalen in de herfst Fri 15.00, Sun 15.00 Le Silence de Lorna Daily (except Fri, Wed) 19.45, 22.00, Fri 14.30, 19.30, 22.30, Saturday also 15.30.

Studio K Timorplein 62, 692 0422 Amazing Grace Fri, Sun-Wed 17.00 Bienvenue Chez les Ch’tis daily 17.15, 20.00 Elegy Fri, Sun-Wed 22.00 Het kleine spookje Laban Fri, Sun, Wed 15.30 Wall-E (NL) Thur-Sun, Wed 15.00 La Zona Thur, Sat 22.00, Fri, Sun-Wed 19.30, 21.30.

De Uitkijk Prinsengracht 452, 623 7460 Le Fils de l'épicier Thur-Sun 21.15, Fri 21.30 Last Days of Shishmaref Sun 13.00, Mon-Wed 21.15 El Olvido daily 17.00, 19.15 Wall-E (NL) Thur-Sun, Wed 15.00.

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AGENDA: FOOD & DRINK The Mouth

By Nanci Tangeman

BYOS: Bring Your Own Student Kapitein Zeppos Gebed Zonder End 3-5, 624 2057 Open Sun-Thur 12.00-01.00, Fri-Sat 12.00-02.00.

Cash, PIN, credit cards It’s like a clown car. You know those tiny Fiats at the circus that eject clown after clown after clown? A nondescript door near my table at Kapitein Zeppos is just like that car.

But instead of clowns, student after student after student emerges, each making a beeline to Zeppos’ bar or to the street for a smoke.

I always thought all those students hanging out on the Nes came from the nearby universities, but now I know the truth: they come out of a mysterious door. I’m meeting a friend after her night class and am disappointed to see that she comes in via the front entrance, not through the puzzling portal. Maybe the door only churns out full-time students.

Neither my student friend nor I have dined here recently and we’re in for a surprise. Kapitein Zeppos looks the same, as if someone’s thrown a party in a hothouse. Garden lights and houseplants cover the glass ceiling. Red velveteen settees line the walls. There’s lots of action, with pedestrians passing by on the tiny street and waiters in traditional black and white uniforms darting between tables. Everything’s reflected in the wood-trimmed windows and mirrors around the room.

Zeppos, we learn, has a new chef—Justin Kranenburg. We

can’t wait to try him out. I start with the Caesar salad (€9). The baby romaine lettuce is fresh and mixed with equally youthful carrots, asparagus and a lot of cheese. Sitting asymmetrically on top is a poached egg ala Marcel Wanders.

The salad is huge.

Student Friend has the aforementioned spicy salmon (€10), even after being warned of its kick. The square plate it’s served on looks out of place in the Zeppos we remember, and she detects a slight refrigerator aftertaste.

But overall, the flavours combine to make an appetising appetiser.

Kranenburg’s same creations are also available upstairs at Zeppos op Zolder. Rumour has it, this is where the career wait staff shine and a more romantic atmosphere really kicks in. We stick to the buzz of the alley-level cafe.

We’re well into our bottle of Chilean Santa Digna Cabernet Sauvignon (€23.50)—a spot-on suggestion by our waiter—by the time our main course arrives. We’ve both ordered duck, and when they appear, it’s as though an entire raft of waterfowl has landed on our table. Each order has a glazed breast, tender and seasoned with sake, soy and ginger. Next to that is a bowl of Phad Thai (€22.50), with pieces of ‘window duck’, those unlucky creatures on display in Chinatowns around the world. There was absolutely no need for a starter with this dish. We groan our way to the end of the meal, enjoying every bite. No starving students at this table.

Which reminds me to ask our waiter about that magic door.

He quietly reveals the mystery. I decide to keep it to myself. As usual, the imagination is much more interesting than reality— even in the midst of Kapitein Zeppos. ___

It’s as though an entire raft of waterfowl has landed on our table.

A night in the life...

By Sarah Gehrke

A poster-perfect buurtcafe l’Affiche Jacob van Lennepstraat 39 Open Sun-Thur 11.30-01.00, Fri-Sat 12.00-02.00 Cash, PIN ‘Ah man,’ says the girl as she sits down back again with her friends, ‘I just spent ages waiting in front of the toilet because I thought the door was locked. And then I realised it just opens to the inside instead of the outside. But you know, you don’t wanna be rude and harass the person that might be inside by rattling the door.’

Her friends nod understandingly, and a long conversation about public toilet etiquette follows.

It is a Sunday night, and Sunday nights offer the opportunity to drink with leisure and have debates about silly yet strangely important social phenomena. In order to do so, one goes to a buurtcafe—a neighbourhood cafe. Of course, it doesn’t necessarily have to be situated in your own neighbourhood. The important part about a buurtcafe is that it’s cosy, non-agitating, that there’s a reliable bunch of regulars sitting at one end of the bar (often a cat, too), that you never have to wait long for your drink, that the distances you have to walk in order to get

Beer price: €2.10 for a vaasje (Brand).

Emergency food: Hard-boiled eggs. For free!

Special interior feature: Upon trying to eat one of the hard-boiled eggs, one notices that some of them are, in fact, empty shells. So maybe they’re just an extra bit of decor?

Predominant shoe type: Inconspicuous.

Typically ordered drink: Beers, of the Dutch and of the Belgian sort.

Smoking situation: Benches and blankets outside.

Tune of the night: Ween, Chocolate and Cheese. The whole album!

Mingling factor: Medium-high.

State of toilets near closing time: Both at the beginning of the night and near closing time, and also all the time in between, the classic toilet signs on the doors are placed upside down. Which is, for some reason, hilariously funny—even more so, of course, near closing time.

from the table to the bar or to the outside to smoke are pleasantly short, and that everybody’s friendly. The people that work in buurtcafes are usually proud of the fact. Like the barman in l’Affiche. Without us ever having asked, he tells us: ‘this totally is a buurtcafe. It’s for drinking, eating, therapy... and more drinking.’

Unlike most buurtcafes that are often inconspicuous in appearance and theme, l’Affiche is a very beautiful little bar. It’s filled with wooden furniture and the walls have posters all over. At the one end there’s a heightened bit with two tables, for those who prefer not to mingle with the regulars or have their conversations overheard.

Behind the bar there’s lots of funny little pictures and signs that keep you entertained should you, by way of exception, have to wait for your drink for once.

In the meantime, the talk about public toilet etiquette continues. ‘So don’t you agree,’ says the girl, ‘that when you come out of a toilet and somebody’s waiting outside, you have to smile at them?’ Her female friend again nods approvingly. Her male friend just gives a blank look. ‘Okay,’ she admits, ‘maybe it’s just a girl thing then.

But anyway, it’s the rudest possible behaviour to not smile in this situation.

I feel really bad if someone does that to me.’ But she can rest assured for now.

It’s certainly not going to happen in a buurtcafe. ___

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