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The esoteric as open book Seeking oneness at the Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica in the Jordaan page 6 How does a weekly stay relevant for 130 years? page 4 Sex and Texel: Jan Wolkers RIP page 5 Hanging art, hanging out and drinking Freedom beer page 13 MUSIC: An improvised conversation with Misha Mengelberg p. 10 / FILM: Balkan dogma p. 19
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CITY SECOND BY PETER CLEUTJENS In this issue and... Fire plays a large part in alchemy, and it also seems to be playing a largerthan-usual role in real life these days, as well. In the last week, a series of cars have been torched in Slotervaart, Osdorp and Geuzenveld-Slotermeer in the wake of the fatal shooting of 22-year-old Bilal B, after he attacked two police officers with a knife. Meanwhile, in Amersfoort, the Armando Museum burned, along with not only 13 of the eponymous artist’s paintings, but also several works by Old Masters—all depicting the theme of wood and forests. And according to the Alchemy Electronic Dictionary: ‘Fire is one of the Four Elements of alchemy. Fire in the alchemical sense carries the archetypal properties of activity and transformation. It is associated with the operation of Calcination and represented by the metal lead... Trees symbolize the processes of transformation. A tree of moons signifies the Lesser or Lunar Work; a tree of suns signifies the Greater or Solar Work.’ Something to think about, anyway...
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Green party How does a weekly stay relevant for 130 years? By Steve Korver In his modest office on Westeinde across from the Nederlandsche Bank, Koen Kleijn, interim editor-in-chief of the Groene Amsterdammer, thinks hard about how a weekly can stay relevant for 130 years—and still attract the likes of Michel Houellebecq and ‘professor of European Thought’ John Gray to take part in the sold-out anniversary celebrations at Stadsschouwburg this Saturday. ‘Well, it’s getting easier to stay relevant now because most magazines are becoming less relevant as they embrace more and more lifestyle stories. But actually, if the truth be told, we haven’t always been relevant...’ So how does a paper, especially one that constantly flirts with financial disaster, survive all the decades? An impressive list of contributors helps, along with subscribers with a strong sense of ownership. De Groene Amsterdammer originated in the late 19th century as a magazine dedicated to covering ‘industry, trade and art’ and with a policy to be as liberal—as in open to many voices—as possible. For the majority of its history, the magazine has indeed been ahead of the curve both culturally and politically,
with sharp attention being paid to social problems and the position of workers, women, the poor and minorities. It only stopped publishing once, during World War II. Rob Hartmans, author of De Groene van 1877—Geschiedenis van een dwars weekblad and a regular contributor, describes a rather bizarre scenario: ‘It had to keep appearing at the beginning of the war, because the Nazis not only banned magazines but, until you were banned, you had to keep publishing. So the Groene appeared between June and October 1940 but stripped of all politics, which was very strange because, up until then, it was full of it—in particular, anti-fascist politics. The publisher then forced it into bankruptcy by not paying a bill to a collaborator. But I don’t think anyone was reading it, anyway.’ Right after the war, however, with the public hungry for words, the Groene started again and did very well. Hartmans explains: ‘Until the late Sixties, it was a “fellow traveller” kind of magazine. It wasn’t a huge fan of communism or the USSR, but it did find the USA a much more dubious proposition. But its focus on art and culture also made it the most important intellectual magazine in the country. If you wanted to be up to date on what was happening in this world you had to read it. Most of the bigname writers, critics and intellectuals wrote for it.’ But then the Groene lost all its plurality by becoming an action mag for the radical left, as its editorial board was taken over by a new generation from the politicised student movement. All was now in the service of the revolution.
Hartmans regards this era as the Groene’s nadir: ‘The paper always had this tension between journalistic ethics and political engagement, but in the 1970s it went seriously dogmatic, publishing unreadable political tracts. Their ideology became, in fact, anti-anti communist—if you can follow that logic... It just got lost in the leftism of stingingnettle soup and goat-wool socks.’ Kleijn, while too young to have taken part, knows many of the tales: ‘You could only write about certain books that supported the right struggle. So all these endless staff meetings were about if this or that was politically correct. I’m very glad I wasn’t part of it then. When the address-printing machine broke, the publisher suggested they get something electronic to do that job. The editors rebelled: “Of course not! We’ll get some volunteers and write the addresses by hand! We’ll do that every week! We’re an action paper!” Looking back today, it really boggles the mind.’ But Hartmans does not want to overstress that era: ‘It has become a cliché that still sticks to the Groene, but everything changed over twenty years ago, when Martin van Amerongen took over. Culture became a value to itself as it got freed from any connection to the “revolution”. The discussion again became more about what’s interesting literature. It became more critical.’ Kleijn describes the legendary journalist: ‘He was old school: three piece suits, cigars and writing books about Wagner and Mozart. Here was a guy who had actually read all these 19th-century German philosophers and he served as a father figure to a younger generation of
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journalists who wrote stories that put the Groene back on the map.’ Van Amerongen was also the recipient of one of many cash infusions. Kleij says: ‘There is one anecdote about Van Amerongen getting saved by some dodgy money. The phone rang on a Friday afternoon. There was some software tycoon who had had bad press because he had been implicated by insider dealing and so his drinking buddies said: “Hey, if you want to do something good then you should give this guy some money.” So he called Van Amerongen and said: “Come over and pick up a hundred grand.” Then some other slurring drunk guy said: “I’ll put in another hundred grand, too!” Thanks to that, the paper managed to survive some more months.’ But Kleijn, while observing that the paper’s fortunes are looking up—‘we’re actually paying our debts!’—attributes the magazine’s survival to the dedication of all the people who have been involved. ‘We don’t pay CAO wages. We pay a ludicrous amount to freelancers. I think the homeless magazine pays better. Even subscribers call up with ideas on how we can save a few cents here and there. It’s remarkable really.’ Hartmans observes: ‘Well, the best flowers grow near the abyss. And living near the precipice keeps you alert and careful. You can’t afford to get lazy.’ De Avond van De Groene Amsterdammer, 27 October, 20.00, Stadsschouwburg, sold out.
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SCULPTURE BYYVO SPREY / PHOTO BY SIMON WALD-LASOWSKI
Wolkers: ahead of the Dutch literary game.
The Big One is no more Literary giant Jan Wolkers dies at 81. By Floris Dogterom And then there was one. After the demise last Friday of author, sculptor and painter Jan Wolkers, Harry Mulisch is the last of the post-war Dutch literary giants still alive. Together with WF Hermans and Gerard Reve, Mulisch formed the socalled ‘Big Three’, although some thought
Wolkers should have been a member of this elite, making it the Big Four. Wolkers, however, held a different opinion: ‘There’s only the Big One.’ By which he jokingly referred to himself. Wolkers grew up in a Calvinist family of 11 in the village of Oegstgeest, now a Leiden suburb. Although he distanced himself from Christianity when he was a teenager, the language of the Bible laid the foundation for his authorship. Initially, Wolkers was an fine artist only. In 1957, he studied at the Paris workshop of the sculptor Ossip Zadkine. In 1961, when he was 36, he debuted as a writer with Serpentina’s petticoat, a collection of short stories. Wolkers’ great success, however, started with his next book Kort Amerikaans, in which he wrote about his brother Gerrit, who died of diphtheria in 1944. In many of his more than 30 books
he used these kinds of autobiographical facts. In 1969, Wolkers published his most famous work Turks fruit, in which he described the downfall of his marriage with his second wife Olga. As in many of his books, sex and death are prominently present in a way that had never been seen before in the somewhat insipid Dutch literature of the time. It gained Wolkers mass popularity with a whole generation of readers, certainly after director Paul Verhoeven turned the book, in 1973, into one of the biggest box office hits in the history of Dutch cinema. Wolkers, who influenced many modern-day Dutch writers, and to a lesser extent fellow ‘sex writer’ Jan Cremer, is personally responsible for freeing the Netherlands from its heavy Calvinistic approach to sensuality. In the early ’80s, Wolkers retreated from Amsterdam to Texel. Every now and then he published a book, albeit no more novels. He stayed in the picture, however, on the one hand through his paintings and sculptures (the Auschwitz monument in Wertheimpark with the broken mirrors is his work), on the other, through his frequent appearances in the media. One of his favourite subjects was nature, more specifically the nature of his Texel backyard; he enthusiastically spoke about it with his characteristic light-hoarse voice. Writer, poet and journalist Theun de Winter has been friends with Wolkers since 1969, he says over the phone from Texel. De Winter, then an editor of the noisy student magazine Propria Cures, wrote a letter of support to Wolkers, who had protested against Amsterdam police violence against the Provos. De Winter says: ‘In his reply letter, his last sentence was: “The spoonbill is back on Texel!” Walkers and De Winter became intimate friends. After Wolkers had settled on Texel, De Winter regularly visited Wolkers and
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his wife Karina, for copious dinners. ‘He was a very generous, amiable, vital man, who loved good food, fine wines and champagne,’ says De Winter. ‘After dinner, we would watch football. Jan would constantly make remarks and shout at the referee. Those were memorable nights.’ De Winter says he learned a lot from his friend. ‘Jan was a man of wide reading. He could recite many Dutch and foreign poems. And I am a great admirer of his work, especially his metaphorical language. Jan was a very good observer. We would go walking in the dunes and if he noticed something in nature, he’d immediately produce a wonderful metaphor. Like him, I love finding the right word.’ According to De Winter, Jan Wolkers has been of great importance to Dutch literature. ‘Like other great writers like [Flemish] Hugo Claus and Gerard Reve, he was an artist. And the way he wrote about sex was completely new at the time.’ Theo Timmer runs Het Open Boek bookshop and publishing house in Den Burg, the main village on Texel. After the news of Wolkers’ death, Timmer decorated his shop windows with Wolkers’ books. ‘Jan always exhibited great affection for Texel. He loved nature and could tell about it very nicely.’ Timmer has published a few bibliophile editions of Wolkers’ work. ‘Wonderful mini-stories about Texel. We loved publishing our own products of a great author.’ Over the years, Wolkers visited Timmer’s bookshop on numerous occasions. ‘When Jan and Karina went shopping, Jan would rather come to us to have tea and engage in small-talk. Uncomplicated gezelligheid. Jan’s death has taken everyone on the island by surprise. Anyone could see he was becoming an old man, but he still had a very vital mind. When he was on the phone you could really have a laugh with him. We didn’t expect it to happen so quickly.’
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16th-century polyglot Bible.
All is one The world-famous Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica in the Jordaan celebrates its 50th anniversary with a symposium and a new exhibition. The library is attracting increasing attention from the general public with an interest in unorthodox religiousness. BY FLORIS DOGTEROM PHOTOS BY JUDITH JOCKEL ‘Better not put your rucksack on that chair. It’s seventeenth century,’ says Esther Oosterwijk-Ritman, matter of factly. It’s living history all around in the Huis met de Hoofden on Keizersgracht, even more so now that Joost Ritman, founder of the Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica—also known as the JR Ritman Library—has bought the property, with the intention of moving his complete collection of books to this monumental grachtenpand. His daughter Esther is director of the library and pulls up two other 17th-century chairs to the table, where she gives the interview. ‘Sitting on them is fine. Rucksacks tend to have sharp protrusions.’ Oosterwijk-Ritman has brought a few specimens from the library’s present residence on Bloemstraat, and has laid them out on the table. These are not your ordinary books, however. There is a 14th-century manuscript of the Grail legend. There is a 17th-century book by the German theosophist Jacob Böhme and the manuscript it is based on. In the margin, in red pencil, three-and-half centuries
ago, someone wrote exact instructions for the printer. Oosterwijk-Ritman says: ‘For book historians this is unbelievably interesting.’ Then there is a first edition of De Civitate Dei by Saint Augustine, dated 1470, with exquisite margine decorations. The books on the table represent a small fortune but, as Oosterwijk-Ritman puts it, ‘the immaterial worth is invaluable.’ Amsterdam businessman Ritman gained enormous wealth from the production of disposables for airline companies. Ritman has a deep interest in spirituality and began collecting rare books after his mother gave him a copy of a 17th-century edition of the Aurora, another work by Jacob Böhme. In 1957, Ritman decided to establish the private library Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica, which opened its doors to the public in 1984. The library holds a collection of over 20,000 volumes in the fields of Hermetic philosophy, alchemy, mysticism, Rosicrucians, and gnosis and Western esotericism. On 25 October, the Ritman Library will celebrate its 50th anniversary with a two-day—private— conference.
God is the cosmos is man ‘Amsterdam has always been a centre of freedom of religion and press,’ says Oosterwijk-Ritman. ‘After the fall of Antwerp in 1585, many people fled to the Northern Netherlands. Over time, Amsterdam became a melting pot of all kinds of people who took views on life and spirituality that didn’t exactly match with the official, Christian doctrine. That freedom of expression is reflected in our collection, which is unique in its kind.’ The library derives its name from Hermetic philosophy, which itself comes from Hermes Trismegistus, who never really existed. He is rather a legendary figure whose name is a conflation of the Greek god Hermes and the Egyptian god Thoth. It was believed in the Renaissance that he was a contemporary of Moses; hundreds of texts from the first century BC have been attributed to him. Oosterwijk-Ritman explains: ‘Hermetic philosophy deals with the relationship between God, the cosmos and man, and sees God as the fountainhead of all life. “All is one” is the core of the doctrine. The Hermetic texts state that there will always be certain people with this inherent knowledge, knowledge of God that cannot be learned. It is called “gnosis”, the Greek word for knowledge.’ Oosterwijk-Ritman goes on to explain that, in Hermetic philosophy, the cosmos is the revelation of the divine. Man is a micro-cosmos, and as such a mirror image of God. Therefore, it is man who is best capable of knowing God and accordingly may even become his equal. ‘One can imagine that that wasn’t a very popular way of thinking with the religious authorities in those days.’ The library director says she fully appreciates the essence of the doctrine. ‘I look upon this wisdom as an important source in my life.’ In the first centuries CE, Alexandria in northern Egypt was a melting pot of many cultures, where Hermetic writings were also studied. There, Hermetic philosophy was influenced by Eastern philosophies, among many others. In the 15th century, Cosimo de’ Medici, ruler of Florence, was given a codex by a monk who had returned from Macedonia, which contained a work by Hermes Trismegistus. Medici commissioned Marsilio Ficino to translate it into Latin. It was printed in 1471. The work, now known as the Corpus Hermeticum, had an enormous influence on the Renaissance way of thinking. Since man and the cosmos are the mirror image of God, nature is also God. That notion encouraged Renaissance scholars to study nature, in an attempt to get closer to the deity. Spectacular discovery The Huis met de Hoofden was built in 1622 and derives its name from the ornaments on the outside, which depict the heads of six Greek gods. In 1634, arms merchant Louis de Geer bought the premises. De Geer was interested in religious reform, for instance in reconciling the Lutheran and Protestant churches— to no avail, as a matter of fact. He got acquainted with Comenius, who had much bigger plans, for he wanted to reform the whole world. The Czech philosopher and theologist’s basic idea
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was to appoint a council which would deal with every aspect of human life, including politics and religion. It was his ideal to look for things that unite people. Oosterwijk-Ritman says: ‘Only a few weeks ago we discovered something unbelievably spectacular. De Geer maintained close ties with the Swedish royal house, and somehow his library ended up in Norrköping. As it turns out, De Geer’s collection bears many similarities with ours. Once we have moved in completely, the Huis met de Hoofden will be the home base of a collection of books not unlike that which existed in the seventeenth century. My father’s patronage is true to a long-standing tradition. In that respect, there is a straight line from Medici via Louis de Geer to the Ritman Library.’ And there’s more. It’s no coincidence that the anniversary exhibition is devoted to Jacob Böhme. In 1600, Böhme, a shoemaker by profession, had a vision in which a blueprint of the creation was revealed to him. Based on that vision, he started writing down his ideas, which he claimed were perfectly in line with Christianity. Böhme attracted many admirers, also abroad, one of them being the Amsterdam businessman Abraham Willemsz van Beyerland. Van Beyerland was eager to collect Böhme’s manuscripts and also translated and published them. With the exhibition, the library celebrates Van Beyerland’s role as a keeper of Böhme’s manuscripts at a time when it proved impossible to safeguard and publish the now-famous Christian theosophical writings in Lutheran Germany. OosterwijkRitman says: ‘Van Beyerland visited De Geer here, in this house, without any doubt whatsoever. And Comenius lived here. That’s an exciting thought.’ IKEA feel Somehow, with the centuries-old books in mind, you’d envision the present library on Bloemstraat to be a place like the Huis met de Hoofden, with high ceilings, lots of marble and dark brown bookshelves. But in the Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica in the Jordaan, the ceilings are low, the wear-resistant carpet has a non-descript colour and the white bookshelves have an IKEA feel about them. Oosterwijk-Ritman comments wryly: ‘We liked the idea of putting old books in a modern environment.’ The ground floor and the reading room on the first floor have open bookshelves filled with modern books. Admission to this part of the library is open to all. The rare book room with the pre-1800 books and manuscripts is not accessible to the general public. Yet these books are readily available on request to scholars visiting the library. Oosterwijk-Ritman states that the people are increasingly interested in Hermetic philosophy. The interest coincides with a more open and questing attitude towards religion in general. The director herself says she really enjoys reading Hermetic texts. ‘What’s so good about it? The texts often consist of really short passages that express an idea or a view, enough to give me food for thought.’ Jacob Böhmes Weg in die Welt opens 29 October, Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica, Bloemstraat 15, 625 8079, www.ritmanlibrary.nl.
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that which is below is as that which is above. In the mirroring principle [see main article] you see the same idea in Hermetic philosophy, albeit a bit more complicated.’ Pijnenburg states that studying old philosophical works is relevant for modern society, in that it is important to understand how people think and what the underlying development is. ‘There is so much material that still needs to be documented, for instance, the history of ideas and the role of Hermetic and Platonic philosophy in that history. Many philosophers today don’t realise that their ideas are the same as the ancient ones.’ Pijnenburg is very fond of the library. ‘I like studying here. They have all the books I need.’ Upon leaving she looks at the walls of books and sighs: ‘There is still so much to read.’
Esther Oosterwijk-Ritman in her rare chair.
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The University of Amsterdam has a chair in Hermetic philosophy. But it wouldn’t be there if the Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica wasn’t based in Amsterdam, says Joyce Pijnenburg. As a Masters’ student of Mysticism and Western Esotericism, Pijnenburg has the run of the library. She first learned about its existence when she went to an exhibition in Venice about alchemy. She discovered that a big part of the books had come from Amsterdam. ‘It was a wonderful exhibition,’ she says. Originally, Pijnenburg wanted to become an astrologist, but she chooses to be somewhat reticent about this. ‘Now I want to be a researcher, and I know that people won’t take me seriously if I talk about astrology in that way. I am interested in the history of astrology. The basic system behind astrology stems from Hermetic and Platonic philosophy. Astrologists say that
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In the high table in the middle of the rarebook room, one of the most precious gems of the library’s collection lies open. In one of the top corners of one of the pages is a beautiful, detailed miniature against a background of gold leaf. The characters look like they are printed, but they are not, says Dr Martine Meuwese. It’s handwritten—printing had not been invented yet. And Meuwese should know: the book was the subject of her Masters’ thesis. It is a 13th-century version of the Grail legend in French, which has been copied at the beginning of the 14th century, presumably somewhere in Flanders or northern France. Meuwese’s interest in the legends of King Arthur, the Knights of the Round Table and the quest for the Grail arose when she studied art history and medieval French literature. ‘The stories are wonderful,’ she says, ‘and very poetic. In the numerous medieval literary works in which the Grail appears it assumes many forms and functions. Sometimes it’s a stone, sometimes a dish or a cup, and in this text it’s a bowl in which the blood of the crucified Christ is caught by Joseph of Arimathea. But what all versions have
Rare books in the Comeniuszaal.
in common is that the Grail is a supernatural object that has the power to supply food or heal the wounded. And you can only find it if your heart is pure.’ Nearly 20 years ago, Meuwese discovered that this illustrated manuscript was kept at the Ritman Library and wrote a letter asking permission to study it. ‘I didn’t have high expectations. After all, I was only a student. But I immediately got a letter in reply, inviting me to come over and talk about it.’ ‘I can read it now like I would read a newspaper,’ she says, thumbing through the priceless manuscript with her bare hands. ‘No problem. The pages are parchment—animal skin in other words. It’s really strong. But you have to wash your hands first and be careful not to have perfume on them.’ After all her years of study, Meuwese still hasn’t had enough of Arthur and the Grail: she compiled the exhibition King Arthur in the Netherlands for the Ritman library in 2005, and she participates in a pan-European research project at Universiteit Utrecht about all medieval versions and manuscripts of the Arthur legend. ‘It gives me the chance to take my students to this wonderful library. They love it when they can see and touch such a valuable medieval book.’
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Tribal Art Fair, Thursday, De Duif
THURSDAY 25 OCTOBER
SATURDAY 27 OCTOBER
Event: Tribal Art Fair
Pop: Marc Almond
The relatively freshly renovated—and really quite stunning—‘dove’ church, across the canal from Amstelveld, provides the perfect contrasting backdrop for the fifth annual Tribal Art Fair. The market brings in dealers from around the Netherlands to exhibit their evocative collections of objects from the tribal cultures of the world. In short: one-stop shopping for all your mask, sculpture, ritual objects and good ol’ fashioned club and spear needs. As a bonus, there are a variety of tours and lectures organised as well in case you want to, for example, bone up on Dogon mask rituals. See www.tribalart-fair.com for more information. (Steve Korver) De Duif, Thur 18.00-21.00, Fri-Sun 11.00-18.00, €4.50. Until Sunday.
‘Singer of Tainted Love comes to Amsterdam’. It’s quite tragic when an artist, whose career has spanned over 25 years and has included numerous musical changes and highlights, still gets remembered in the press for his first hit. Which was a cover of a Gloria Jones hit, anyway. An inventive one, yes, but what about the fab songs he made with the Willing Sinners or as Marc and the Mambas? Then there are his very intelligent Jacques Brel covers, his songs about the poet Georges Bataille and his album of Russian songs. Not to mention his collaborations with Nico, PJ Proby and Gene Pitney. A near-fatal motorcycle accident in 2004 almost ended his career, but he has crawled back—like he did when overcoming his drugs and tranquilliser addiction. The last time Almond played a solo gig in Amsterdam was in 1995. I still have the T-shirt—which sort of erases the other memory of that evening: Marc was very, very late. Rumour had it he was held up at the Thermos Sauna. A thing he hopefully won’t do this Saturday when he comes to town to perform songs from his latest album, Stardom Road. (Willem de Blaauw) Paradiso, 20.30, €20.
FRIDAY 26 OCTOBER Jazz: The Necks The music of Australian trio The Necks is so slow that it’s almost static. The sparse chords and notes of pianist Chris Abrahams and the minimal, repetitive double-bass motifs of Lloyd Swanton leave room for master drummer Tony Buck to lay down an infinite variety of trickling percussive sounds. Signature CDs like Aether and Drive By consist of single-track, one-hour improvisations that demonstrate the strength of concentration of all three players. The Necks have exceeded their underground status by winning two Australian Grammys, or ARIAs, for best jazz album. The tranquil, experimental sound pieces of The Necks require some patience at first, but after a while, the listener becomes transfixed and, like meditation, the music will offer the opportunity to open your third eye, or third ear, if you will. (Marinus de Ruiter) Bimhuis, 21.00, €14.
Club: Fok Stijl! Under the moniker ‘new balls for old cows’, DJs Frankie D (ex-Junkie XL) and Trailertrash (AKA Killahman, ex-Controverse All Stars) have resolutely decided to fuck any sense of style and just play the fat and greasy funky stuff. Basically, they’ll play anything produced between 1957 and 2007—‘a particularly fruitful period’ according to the DJs—no matter what the genre, as long as the dance floor stays grooving. This new monthly club night even comes with its own house band, Sleurhuthonden, that will kick in for short stretches once or twice a night to break out in electro murder ballads or washtub Nederhop. In actual fact, the Sleurhuthonden is a different band every time. How’s that for dwars? Yes, it’s totally fokked. (Steve Korver) Club 8, 22.00-04.00, €5 before 00.00, €7.50 after.
World: Culture Musical Club Later for Freud: in matters musical, geography is destiny. For proof, consider the Culture Musical Club, a big band—some 16 members strong—that regale us with the wildly varied stylings of their homeland, Zanzibar. A spice island off the east African coast, Zanzibar has been a port of call for centuries, and the local musical tradition, called taarab, includes scents and tastes from all over. Using instruments as diverse as oud, accordion, tabla, violin, dumbek and more, the group proffers taarab’s sometimes hyperkinetic, sometimes trancelike rhythms, all while accompanying poetry sung in Swahili. Frequent ambassadors, the group gig all over the globe, and have recorded several CDs. When not on the road, they still play weddings back home. All of which adds up, tonight, to one clear geographic imperative: be there. (Steve Schneider) Tropentheater, Grote Zaal, 20.30, €20.
Club: Halloween Parties Samhain starts on Saturday in Amsterdam, as the first of a bewitching bunch of Halloween parties start rolling out. First up is the Cruise-Inn’s (22.00-03.00, €11 + membership) rock ’n’ roll take on ghosts ’n’ ghouls, with The Daltonics, Bang Bang Bazooka and The Tazmanian Devils; and DJs Hank & Benny. Just don’t forget to frost your quiff with cobwebs. Over on Leidseplein, Boom Chicago’s popular annual bash (22.00-05.00, €18.50) is themed around ’50s sci-fi movies. This year it’s ‘Return of the Galactic Terror’: come dressed as a retro-trash space alien or humanoid, and you could win €500. Fast-forward a few days to All Hallow’s Eve proper, and Amsterdam BeatClub are follwing up last year’s creepy success with another Mondo Trasho fancy do:
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Ghouls a Go-Go features live acts from the likes of Miss Whips, Marquis DuCharles and a Carnival of Hellucinations, backed up with the usual ABC stalwarts on the decks of the dead. Again, the best costume snares a prize. Those who want a wicked bit of Wicca on water should head to MS Stubnitz, where Asrai, Huron and Compulsory Skin are backed by DJs Idan and Rep.G.Host. There are also costume parties at the Winston, Maloe Melo and Hard Rock Cafe. Don’t forget you’re to get dressed up. And make sure you’re home by midnight. You never know what might happen, otherwise. (Kim Renfrew) Various times, locations and prices.
TUESDAY 30 OCTOBER Roots: Cowboy Jack Clement Few folks have had Johnny Cash call them in the middle of the night to tell them about a dream featuring a mariachi band. Fewer still would have then stayed up the rest of the night to arrange the horns for Johnny’s standard ‘Ring of Fire’. Few have heard of Jack Clement—fewer still of his ukulele-picking persona Pineapple Jack—but he’s worked as songwriter, producer, and sound engineer with some of the biggest names in the biz. Born in 1931, his career kicked in at Sun Studios where he sat behind the mixing board for the likes of Roy Orbison, Carl Perkins, Charlie Rich and Jerry Lee Lewis. He also wrote some of Cash’s best songs: ‘Ballad of a Teenage Queen’, ‘Guess Things Happen That Way’, ‘Dirty Ol’ Egg-Sucking Dog’ and the profoundly titled ‘Flushed from the Bathroom of Your Heart’. He produced Townes Van Zandt’s first albums and much later even produced three tracks for U2’s Rattle and Hum sessions in Memphis. In between, he managed to lose his fortune by financing a bad horror film. Yes, lots of stories... And the name of the documentary of his life?—Shakespeare Was A Big George Jones Fan. So come for the songs, and stay for the anecdotes. (Steve Korver) Paradiso, Kleine Zaal, 21.00, €8.50 + membership.
WEDNESDAY 31OCTOBER Film: Help! They’re ancient history, your grandmother’s music, you don’t care about that retro crap. And still, despite everything, you fall for The Beatles: their enthusiasm, their catchy music, their utter Sixtiesness. Help! (Richard Lester, 1965) is their silly second film; its plot, such as it is, concerns a ruby ring, belonging to Ringo, that is needed for an ancient religious sacrifice. The Fab Four were all stoned out of their gourds during the filming, and it shows. But the soundtrack stands up pretty well, especially John’s title song; ‘Ticket to Ride’ and the acoustic, Dylan-inspired ‘You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away’. This big-screen evening (for the DVD release) comes complete with a making-of documentary and a live interview with Irene Crul, founding member of the Nederlandse Beatles Fanclub. Extra credit for local fans: go to geschiedenis.vpro.nl and watch the newsreel footage of the Beatles’ 1964 Amsterdam canal tour. (Julie Phillips) Pathé Tuschinski, 21.00, €10.
Jazz: Trio 3 Heavy is as heavy does, so when you look back at the Golden Age of Venturesome Jazz—a time running roughly from 1960-72, you can’t get any heavier than the players that make up Trio 3. Bassist Reggie Workman worked and recorded with Trane, Monk, Shepp, Blakey and myriad more. Drummer Andrew Cyrille was, most notably, the rolling thunder behind Cecil Taylor’s most memorable tempests. And alto player Oliver Lake has done pretty much everything else, all over the jazz world—including cofounding the World Saxophone Quartet and the Black Artists Group—but also prowling into performance art, commissioned scores and painting. Sure, these guys made their names Way Back When, but they’re not the sort to keep their gazes in the rear-view mirror. Expect new explorations of energy and improvisation, all informed by lifetimes of heavy lifting. (Steve Schneider) Bimhuis, 21.00, €16.
Gay: Bückstück—brutale Musik There couldn’t be a more appropriate evening to celebrate the Queen of Goths, though it would be limiting to label Siouxsie Sioux as merely regent of the dark side. Susan Ballion, as her mother calls her, began her career as a suburban kid, one of the Bromley Coningent who’d hang around the Sex Pistols. She and a few mates picked up some instruments; a couple of raw songs and a gig at the 100 Club propelled her on a musical journey that hasn’t stopped in over—astonishingly—30 years. The Banshees knocked out some of the best (post-)punk records of all time, from the choppy Sinopop of ‘Hong Kong Garden’ to the swirling loveliness of ‘Arabian Knights’ via cover versions that range from unexpected (‘Wheels on Fire’) to the oddball (‘Il Est Né le Divin Enfant’). The Creatures, a side project with (now ex-) husband and fellow-Banshee Budgie, created some weird records that still exert a massive influence: you can clearly hear 1983’s Feast in M.I.A.’s 2005 Arular, for example. The gays love her because of the hair and make-up, the lezzas for her fuck-you feminism, so tonight’s official Siouxsie Pre-Party (in advance of Friday’s Melkweg gig) should be busy. Three lucky visitors will snare pairs of tickets; another three will win copies of the Ice Queen’s new (and very first solo) album, Mantaray. (Kim Renfrew) PRIK, 21.00-24.00, free.
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Instant composers taking it sweet, low and slow.
Moving through the motions of improvisation with Misha Mengelberg of the ICP Orchestra.
FOUR SCORE AND THREE HOURS LATER MUSIC ICP Orchestra Saturday 27 October, Bimhuis, 21.00, €16 By Mark Wedin
This year, Instant Composer’s Pool (ICP) turns 40 and they’ve been celebrating with a slew of typically raucous and unpredictable performances, culminating this Saturday at the Bimhuis. Pianist Misha Mengelberg, one of their co-founders—and the man who many cite as the mind behind the madness (though he would never accede to this)—sits down with me at posh cafe De Keyser, where the dress code is uncomfortable and the lingo requires a small apple in the throat. Mengelberg ignores both rules, and the staff fall over themselves to accommodate him. Naturally, a man with a life-long involvement in spontaneous music is not only erratic when seated behind the piano, but also in nearly every aspect of life. Telling him the interview is for a little portrait piece about ICP is akin to
asking him to play a simple straight-ahead tune for a group of church ladies. He’ll give the same reply, ‘Yes, that’ll be fine,’ and then proceed to lay his sweater on the piano strings and attack the keys in a manner that might later require 30 Hail Mary’s from each lady to purge themselves of the experience—all the while, behaving as if he’s doing exactly what was requested. Mengelberg starts innocently enough, by ordering an espresso—his fourth of the day. ‘You can get these in the US now,’ he beams. ‘For a while, they had the machines but nobody knew how to use them.’ Then, with a little goading, he recalls ICP’s origins, with him, Han Bennink and Willem Breuker starting it all. ‘When Willem left in ’74,’ he explains, while eyeing the biscotti next to his espresso, ‘ICP became something that I felt responsible for. From that point on I wrote a lot for ICP, until ’94, when I thought the orchestra was more or less a failure and I wanted to get rid of it.’ He grabs the biscotti for closer inspection. ‘But I didn’t. I gave it a new impulse by stopping writ-
ing, and then others contributed.’ He takes a bite and gives the cookie the kind of compliment he reserves only for the greatest of music. ‘It’s good.’ Then he talks for 14 minutes about Taoism, carefully writing his favourite book titles and author’s names in my notebook. His transitions—musically and conversationally—can be so smooth and natural, you don’t realise he’s drifted away from the subject until it’s too late. I ask if Taoism is part of ICP’s methodology. ‘What? No, no.’ There are other moments, however, when he switches direction with such abruptness, that if you weren’t paying attention, it would jerk you upright, wondering how he got there. After seven minutes of childhood memories regarding the zoo in Kiev (where he was born), 27 minutes about his uncle conducting in the Concertgebouw, 16 minutes about the war and an eight-minute anecdote about his encounters with Thelonius Monk, he steers back to the original theme. I’m beginning to get a feel for what it’s like to take part in an ICP rehearsal which, rumour has it, involves a lot of head scratching. ‘Well, not so much,’ says Mengelberg. ‘We only use the rehearsals when we play tunes. And it’s a fantastic group of people—the best musicians of their time. I don’t think there’s a better trumpet player than [ICP’s] Thomas Heberer. And Ab [Baars on saxophone] is interesting. There’s an originality in his voice, a great player in all senses, his ideas about how to organise himself and the groups he plays with—he could easily become a leader for ICP.’ Mengelberg once said he’s happy with only a few gigs a month—a schedule far from ICP’s reality. Next week alone, they have six shows planned. ‘It’s too much,’ he says. ‘I’d like to play two or three gigs a year.’ That would leave a lot of free time, particularly for a man who admits a hatred for practising. He says he’d use the extra time to sleep. ‘I like to sleep. I’m a real sleeper.’ Then, somehow, he sets up a segue into Belgian beer, modulates into French wine and then leaps into communism. This lasts for 47 minutes, runs counterpoint to him rearranging cookie crumbs around the table into an abstract pattern, and ends with him ordering an Irish coffee. A coda is then presented, which reveals his expectations for the next 40 years of ICP: ‘Oh, nothing special. I think it will dry out when most of the people with some notion of the direction of music are dead. That’s all.’ He smiles, we walk out of the cafe without paying and he offers to give me a ride home. Clearly, Mengelberg, like every ICP member, doesn’t need his instrument to create an instant composition. He uses whatever’s at hand, and the result is always memorable, if not always easily comprehensible.
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Amsterdam Weekly Funk: Lefties Soul Connection Soulful four-piece plays numbers from latest album Skimming the Skum. Badcuyp, Noordpool, 23.00, €8
Saturday 27 October Hiphop: Splash Festival Billed as the biggest European hiphop festival (normally each Summer in Germany), Splash prematurely sets up a one-day winter edition here on a lovely autumn night. Lineup includes Black Milk, Butta Verses, Canibus, Duvelduvel, Grand Puba, Guilty Simpson, Sean Price, Mr Metaphor and Joell Ortiz. Melkweg, 20.00, €35 Punk: Hardcore ’n Punk Connection Fest Heavily tattooed and screaming anarchists Citizens Patrol, Annotation (DE), Union Town, Gascoigne, Straight A’s, Henceforth and Rush ’n Attack. De Kade, Zaandam, 20.00-01.00, €6
Culture Musical Club, see Saturday
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Classical: The Choir of St Laurance Church, Catford, London Large group consisting mostly of young boys and girls. Please, hold the altar-boy jokes, they’re just here to sing. Bethaniënklooster, 20.15, free
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Classical: Willem Brons Part of a series where the septuagenarian pianist performs the pieces that most fascinated him in life. Tonight, it’s Schubert’s last three piano sonatas. Concertgebouw, Kleine Zaal, 20.15, €26
Thursday 25 October
Opera: Opera meets Strass—Tosca A scaled-down version of the classic Puccini opera, with five soloists, a piano and small choir. Amstelkerk, 20.15-22.00, €15
World: Soelaas Eva Kieboom (singer) and Markus lmari (guitar) perform songs by Dutch composer John Ewbank, alongside Brazilian numbers. Badcuyp, Zuidpool, 20.00, €4, free with meal
Jazz: Kappe en Limberg Improv and compositions by trumpeter Christian Kappe and organist Hans-Martin Limberg. Orgelpark, 20.15, €12.50 Classical: Nederlands Philharmonisch Orkest Twentieth century music by Magnus Lindberg, Benjamin Britten, Brett Dean and Stravinsky, spliced with members of Het Toneel Speelt reading poetry of the same era. Concertgebouw, Grote Zaal, 20.15, €33 World: Culture Musical Club Hyperkinetic rhythm from Zanzibar. See Short List. Tropentheater, Grote Zaal, 20.30, €20
World: Met Bandu naar de maan Bandu Ensemble Shanghai, comprised of seven Chinese musicians equipped with bamboo flutes, fiddles, mouth organs, plucked strings, and percussion, perform new and traditional tunes from their native land. Muziekgebouw, 20.30, €20 Singer-songwriter: Channah, Katbite ‘tBlijvertje, 21.00, free Rock: Indie-Folk Night Dark folk from local outfit Dusty Stray, infectious respectable pop from These United States (US) and something of a Dylan reincarnation called Vandaveer (US). Winston Kingdom, 21.00, €6
Marc Almond Pop/Rock: Marc Almond Since the salad days of the ’80s, Almond still goes strong. See Short List. Paradiso, 20.30, €20
Luka Bloom
Classical: Paolo Giacometti Italian/Dutch pianist performs Schubert, Rossini and Ravel. Muziekgebouw, Grote Zaal, 20.30, €20
Folk: Luka Bloom Bloom (originally Barry Moore) is one of the most renowned singer-songwriters of Ireland, was in the band Moving Hearts with his brother Christy Moore, and has released a slew of solo albums. Support from Sabrina Dinan, also Irish. Patronaat, Haarlem, 20.30, €16 + membership World: Trio Druk-yul Trio from Bhutan perform sacred Buddhist songs on traditional instruments. And you know they’re good, cause two of them are the official singers for the royal family. KIT Tropentheater, 20.30, €16 + membership Jazz: Bart Lust Quintet Original jumpin’ tonal jazz from quintet led by the lead trombonist of New Cool Collective. Badcuyp, Noordpool, 21.00, €8
The Creeping Nobodies (Le Club Suburbia) Punk: Le Club Suburbia Katadreuffe (post-hardcore) and Canadians The Creeping Nobodies (post-punk) and Ghettonuns (electro punk). OCCII, 21.00, €5
Rock: Rocknacht The Wrong Jeremies and Labcane. Volta, 21.00, €5
Hiphop/R&B: Pete Philly & Perquisite Popular rapping singer and cellist are at it again. With support from La Melodia. P60, Amstelveen, 21.00, €13.50
Folk: Paul Martin and Jock the Box Irish singer and box player. Mulligans, 21.30, free
Jazz: The Necks Australian jazzy trio. See Short List. Bimhuis, 21.00, €14
Rock: Stworywodne Alt/indie trio from Poland. Stubnitz, 22.00, €5
Electro rock: Adult. Dark and twisted electroclash and punk duo from Detroit. Patronaat, Haarlem, 21.30, €12.50
Blues: Rob Taekema Bourbon Street, Thur 22:0004:00, free
Friday 26 October Hiphop: BO! Showcases & Open Mic Before they hand the mic to any bloke off the streets, first up are OG Shit, Darkside and DDC; with human beatbox MoBeats and rising star La Melodia. Grolsch Music Cafe, 19.30-24.00, €5 Rock: Black Stone Cherry Young popular rock band from Kentucky. Melkweg, 20.00, €12 + membership Classical: Een avond met Ronald Brautigam Benefit concert for the Mulanje Hospital in Malawi. One of the Netherland’s top pianists plays works by Beethoven, Mendelssohn and Ronald Stevenson. English Reformed Church, 20.15, €35
Hiphop: Amsterdam Art Attack Alongside MC Nazar, Sindibad, DJ Izzy and ChemicAli, you too can step up and grab the open mic. Volta, 22.00, free Singer-songwriter: Dox Family Night Various members of the Dox Record Label, including Sizeking and friends, NtjamRosie, Sneakerfreak, Stije and Steve Hartley; followed by DJs Ro Krom and KC the Funkaholic. Before 23.00, bring two family members and enter for the price of one. Sugar Factory, 22.00, €9 Folk: Neville, Egan, Moynihan and Green Traditional Irish sounds from banjo, concertina, fiddle, piano and accordeon. Mulligans, 22.00, free Rock: The Wildcats Rockabilly with roots in Rotterdam and Oberhausen. Maloe Melo, 22.00, free Jazz: Friday Night Live Live jazz, bi-weekly. Toomler, 23.00, free
Experimental: AUXXX—Punk = Futuristic Alchemy Happily milking cash cows Thuiskopie Fonds and Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst, AUXXX is now relaunching their monthly series with the pride of being able to pay the artists for the first time in three years, starting tonight with The Ex and Black Galaxy, featuring Nicholas Bullen of Napalm Death. OT301, 21.00, €5 Jazz: ICP Orchestra 40th anniversary show. See article p. 10. Bimhuis, 21.00, €16 + membership Rock: Driving School Electro indie-pop. Also Brit rock from The Van Bastens and irish folk-rock from Moor Green with John Carrie. Winston Kingdom, 21.0023.00, €6 Punk: HEX! Three Years! Anniversary show with French post-punks Guerre Froide, who had their heyday (kinda obscure, but still heyish) in the early ’80s, and have recently reunited. OCCII, 22.00, €6 Folk: Neville, Egan, Moynihan and Green (See Friday) Mulligans, 22.00, free
Sunday 28 October Classical: Hexagon Ensemble—The Russian Connection Woodwind quintet with piano perform compositions by Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov, Rimsky-Korsakov, Sergei Vasilenko and Paul Juon. Bethaniënklooster, 15.00, €16.50 Classical: Bijzondere bijbelverhalen Amsterdams Bach Consort performs Scarlatti’s Stabat Mater and two oratorias by Giacomo Carissimi: Jephta and Jona. English Reformed Church, 15.15, €18.50 Bluegrass: Blij Jam met Laurens Joense Happy bluegrass from the Dutch songstress. Blijburg, 17.00, free
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Pop: ABBAsolutely Swedish cover band. Come on, hold back the groan and sink into the guilty pleasure. Carré, 20.00, €30-€65 Heavy: Creative Explosion With metal bands Uber Madsen, Silverpill and .unethical. Winston Kingdom, 20.00-3.00, €5 Singer-Songwriter Night Vanessa Peters (US), Chicago Mike (US) and MC Hansen (authentic Americana from Swiss cowboy). So it’s kind of a US night, as well. KHL Koffiehuis, 20.30, €6 Experimental: A Cursing Brain Duo that combines beats and noise with improvised electronics, voice, guitar and bass clarinet. Stubnitz, 21.00 Big band: The Metropole Orchestra Pianist and arranger Bill Dobbins performs with the big band. Bimhuis, 21.00, €14 Jazz: Ready for Freddy Groovy jam session with mixed bag including Jos de Haas (percussionist, New Cool Collective), Alex Oele (bassist, Yinka) and from Zuco103 Stefan Schmid (organist) and Stefan Kruger (drummer). Badcuyp, Noordpool, 21.30, €5
Monday 29 October
Flabr Guest, see Saturday
CLUBS Thursday 25 October Roland-jan Soulful grooves and funky vibrations. Pacific Parc, 11.00-01.00, free
Béton Armé Experimental: Béton Armé Duo 7090 (violin and piano) with a guest trombone, viola and cello, perform Iannis Xenakis and premiere of a new piece by Cor Fuhler. Bimhuis, 21.00, €14
Huiskamerhits Rock, electro and, you guessed it, chart toppin’ hits. Bitterzoet, 22.00, €5 ArtyFunky Kick-off for a new party night, with a smattering of art, beats, food and probably a lot of students from the art school in Utrecht (you’ve been warned). Club 8, 22.00-03.00, €5
Big band: Biggles Full big band that nails the classic sounds of the genre, here every Monday night. Casablanca Muziek, 21.00, free
Friday 26 October
Experimental: DNK-Amsterdam Subtle noise performance by Gert-Jan Prins, followed by noisy subtelty from audio/visual performing group Telcosystems. OT301, 21.30, €5
Perfume Expect deliciously fragrant funk from the likes of DJ Steven Quarre, E-Jay and Peter Kan. Club NL, 22.00-04.00, €5
Pop/Rock: Vampire Weekend Light-hearted poppy punkers from NYC. Paradiso, Kleine Zaal, 21.30, €6
Tuesday 30 October Classical: Songs of Sir Edward Elgar In commemoration of the 150th birthday of the British composer, Soprano Amanda Roocroft, baritone Konrad Jarnot and pianist Reinild Mees perform his songs, including the cycle Sea Pictures, while paintings from his contemporaries are projected on the walls. Concertgebouw, Kleine Zaal, 20.15, €28 Jazz: Dejima Ensemble World jazz from Ad Peijnenburg (baritone sax), Yuki Saga (voice) and Satoshi Rei Ueda (yueqin and guitar). Zaal 100, 22.00, €3
The ZOO Animal friendly beats. The Zebra, 22.00, €10
ADHD Sessions - 5 Year Anniversary A herd of wild DJs go at it to celebrate the date, including Joel Mull, Dave Ellesmere, Mark August, Jeff Rushin, Nomar, Wesdex and Denis Lagies. First 30 guests receive a free 5 Year Anniversary mix CD from Recovery Sounds. Studio 80, 23.00, €10 Club Tropicana With DJs Wiebthroat and Pusha Mau de hitklapper. Club Meander, 23.00, €5
Splash; in the Oude Zaal, there’s alternatieve dance, pop, rock and indie hits with DJs Tommi and L-Dopa. Melkweg, 24.00, €8
Sunday 28 October SalsaLounge Spicey latin mixes from Rishi Bass, Leroy Styles, D-Rashid and their amigos. Hotel Arena, 17.00-1.00, €18.50 WickedJazzSounds Jazz, hiphop, broken beats, nujazz, funk and Afro sounds, as classic vinyl collides with live musicians. This week’s invaders are Paul van Kessel, Urvinson, Phil Horneman, Gilian Baracs and Benni von Gutzeit. Sugar Factory, 23.00-05.00, €9.50
Monday 29 October Monday Mayhem Random DJs burn off the Monday blues. Club Meander, 22.00, €6 Cheeky Monday True skool jungle and drum & bass, featuring players from the local and international scenes. Winston Kingdom, 22.00-03.00, €6
Tuesday 30 October Voidd Sessions Electro, Techhouse and Pro-tech. Winston Kingdom, 21.00, €6
Wednesday 31 October
Supermarkt Big beats and pop that fit conveniently into a shopping basket. Hotel Arena, 23.00-04.00, €10 Melange! With the motto klein maar fijn, expect an intimate space with house, minimal and techno. Escape, 23.00-05.00, €10 TNT Fave tunes from the ’80s and ’90s. Odeon, 23.00-05.00, €10 Stubnitz (Haloween Festival)
Wednesday 31 October
Saturday 27 October
Classical: Lunchconcert Renowned conductor Kurt Masur leads the orchestra through Schumann and Tchaikovsky. Concertgebouw, Grote Zaal, 12.30, free
Tipitina & Chef World grooves and Balkan beats. Pacific Parc, 11.00-03.00, free
Funk: Maceo Parker Legendary sax player known for many years of music with James Brown continues to tour the world with them long funky fingers. Paradiso, 20.30, €22 Classical: Requiem voor... derde editie Playing on the All Hallow’s Eve theme, Cappella Amsterdam performs funeral tunes, requiems and elegies by Purcell, Howells and Brown. Muziekgebouw, Grote Zaal, 20.30, €20
Annual Halloween Bash Can’t wait till Wednesday? Don your costume tonight and, if you’ve the best one, win €300. Hard Rock Cafe, 21.00, free Soigne Elegant and sophisticated evening for those able to dance in high heels. Free champagne for the first 100 guests. The Zebra, 21.00-04.00, €10 Au10tique Deep house and soul from DJs Rutger Docter and Melon. De Kring, 22.00-04.00, €10 eRRorKREW Acid, house and techno in Zaal 1; electro, Italo and disco in Zaal 2. Studio 80, 23.00, €8
Jazz: Trio 3 Heavy jazz. See Short List. Bimhuis, 21.00, €16
Plaats Delict With DJs Rockejagers a.k.a. Geza, Woes and other small time crooks. Club Meander, 23.00, €5
Rock: Drop the Leash Bands Clayborn and Slave Calle Shiver stop here during their European tour (which is mostly in NL) Maloe Melo, 22.00, €5
De Revolutie Club house and HipHop Funk. Odeon, 23.00-05.00, €14
Opera: Yo! Opera Festival Maybe not as catchy as MTV Raps but, now in its fourth edition, this festival is successfully creating a centralised scene for youth opera—not only the traditional sort, but also new forms that incorporate Arabic music, yodelling, rap and folk. If you’re looking for a use for your kid’s boisterous screaming, this might the place. See www.yo-opera.nl. (Until 4 November.) Various locations, Utrecht, Various times and prices
Halloween festival With live acts Asrai, Huron and Compulsory Skin (GER); and DJs Idan and Rep.G.Host. Stubnitz, 20.00 2 Jaar Ontfront Birthday bash from the stylish hiphop masquerade troupe. Laser 3.14’s got a new message waiting upstairs, while a flock of DJs downstairs mix tunes related to his line. In typical Ontfront manner (and since it’s Halloween), you’re expected to arrive wearing a mask. Bitterzoet, 21.00, free, €5 after 22.00 Halloween parrrty! Devilish beats and demonic lighting. Come in costume. Winston Kingdom, 21.00-03.00, €6.66 The Happening Halloween dress party with DJs Julia P & Anna Vodka; also The Time Flies (live). Maloe Melo, 22.00-04.00, €5
Rex...Electronation Electro, minimal, house and techno with a live bite. Special guests are Agoria, Tron, Roel H, Generik and Kleurbeur. Sugar Factory, 23.00-05.00, €15 Flabr Guest Everlasting trance music from DJs Apex (UK), Flabtub and Principles of Flight (live). Ruigoord, 23.00-late, €10 Gemengd Zwemmen Two rooms of swimmingly diverse noise. In The Max, it’s a hiphop afterparty for
Halloween Ball Masque Amsterdam BeatClub—Halloween Ball Masque Expect terrifying music, hellish costumes and bloodcurdling side shows. Bring your kids! Paradiso, 23.00-05.00, €6
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Ashtray collections, shit on a plate. Five years of low-threshold art now in handy book format.
HANGING AT THE CHIELLERIE
Homomonument, see Thursday
GAY& LESBIAN Thursday 25 October
ART Book launch 5 Jaar Chiellerie (€5.50) with Formatie Rock, Chiellerie, 26 October, 17.00, free By Steve Korver
We’re sitting on a bench in the sun outside the Chiellerie on Raamgracht. The cabaretier Freek de Jong walks by and glances inside, alerted by a sign for Club Zonder Filter, the name of the artist collective who are setting up for their opening that evening. The gallery’s owner—and the city’s nachtburgemeester—Chiel van Zelst shouts out ‘Go have a look!’ De Jong responds, ‘Ah I remember the days when there was cabaret without filter’ before stepping inside the exhibition space. Van Zelst began his gallery five years ago—‘actually there’s still debate about the exact date—but somewhere in July 2002,’—in a former insurance office in Bos en Lommer. ‘It was a Quentin Tarantino affair with ceiling fan, wood panelling and smoked glass.’ In short: not your traditional big white space. ‘I was using the place as a studio, but since I usually finish a painting in about an hour, that left another twenty-three to play with. There were two windows and the artist Wal Russ and I thought we’d fill them each week with a different artist.’ The first show was from André Noorda, who’d built a disco ball satellite dish, and people showed up to hang out, talk art, talk shit and drink Freedom beer. So then Van Zelst thought ‘OK, who’s the next sucker?’ ‘We built a bar and put the numbers one through fifty on it, where people could sign up to be the artist of the week. Once you put your name there you were
bound. Even though a lot signed up while drunk, I can’t remember anyone ever backing out. ‘Some people just showed up with a painting strapped to the back of their bike. Others, like Serge Verheugen, set up a whole Love Outlet complete with silkscreened shirts. One guy just shat on a plate and left it in the window. I was living there but the smell wasn’t that bad and anyway—that’s art.’ From there, things just grew—the only subsidy came from selling beer. ‘I always tried to get subsidies, but I never got money, only recognition as: “Oh you’re the guy who always asks for subsidy and never gets it.”’ But now, things have changed. Van Zelst has a lease at his new location until 2021. ‘We still stick to the same rules: no birthday celebrations, no art by children and no incense or open fires. And I still only select based on people and not on art. It can be an ashtray collection as long as there’s a story behind it. Quality is like the stock exchange. It can be high or low. And if it’s low, who cares? I only have to live with it for a week. If people want to show something, I tell them to come back next week to talk and if they show up, that’s a good sign.’ Seen any larger trends occurring in the art world? ‘At the beginning there were lots of photographs and now there’s a lot of street art. Next year who knows? Ceramics maybe?’ Loud laughter ensues. After establishing the artist-of-theweek concept—and of-the-day at last year’s Kunstvlaai—on Museumnacht, Van Zelst will be presenting them every 15 minutes at the Stedelijk’s Andy Warhol show. In retrospect, this seems inevitable
Exhibition: Monument van Trots Exhibition about the Homomonument, housed in the gay and lesbian archive’s new home. See www.monumentvantrots.nl for more. IHLIA-Homodok, until Sunday 6 January Social: Thank God It’s Friday Weekend drinks with DJs, snacks and drinks from 5pm until three in the morning, when it isn’t even Friday any more. De Engel van Amsterdam, 13.00-03.00, free Club: Women’s night Busy, popular night for lesbians and their friends. Drinking and dancing guaranteed. Cafe Sappho, 22.00, free
Friday 26 October Party: Oktober Weinfest Get your lederhosen on Heidi! It’s time to celebrate wein, frauen und yodelling. Ja! Rouge, 16.00-late, Happy hour: Happy hour and bingo Happy hour from 17.00-19.00. Blow all the money you saved on cheap drinks at bingo, from 19.00-20.00 Saarein, 17.0020.00, Club: Twisted Funky House Tunes DJ BO’s the selecta, playing Amy Winehouse to Real el Canario to Hed Kandi to Armand van Helden. PRIK, 22.00-03.00, free
Saturday 27 October Sex club: (Z)onderbroek Drop your pants and boogie at this sexy new underwear party for men with a strict (un)dress code of briefs, boxers, jockstraps, swimming costume, or shorty sports pants. See www.gala-amsterdam.nl for more. Club La, 16.0020.00, €8 Club: Twisted Crispy Tunes DJ RAF Gives it some Smiths, New Order, Miss Kittin and Roisin Murphy. PRIK, 22.00-03.00, free
Wednesday 31 October Club: Bückstück - brutale Musik Queer electro and straight pop. Tonight is a Siouxsie Sioux special. See Short List. PRIK, 21.00-24.00, free Club: F*cking Pop Queers Queers love pop, and this is where they get their fill. Expect Madonna and electro, urban and indie, new and classic to battle it out on the floor they call dance. ArtLaunch Cafe in the smaller room. Studio 80, 23.00-05.00, free before 00.00, €5 after
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STAGE Opening Music/Dance: Music/Dance 301 Six, count ’em, six international guitarists improvise off the fluid manoeuvrings of dancer Manuela Tessi. After, dancehall, dubstep and African beats by DJ Andy Ex (of youknow-which arty punk band). OT301, (Fri 21.00), €5 Theatre: Hollandse Nieuwe Ten-year anniversary of the festival with workshops, readings and masterclasses aimed at promoting and developing the talents of new thespians and theatre-makers. This year’s theme is ‘Family’. See www.cosmictheater.nl. In Dutch. Westergasfabriek, (Thu, Fri, Sat various times), various prices Performance: The Peking Acrobats High flying escapades and outrageous balancing acts from the fastest growing communist country around. RAI, (Fri 20.15), €22.50-€32.50 Theatre: Dood in Venetië Solo performance by Henk van Ulsen (winner of various awards including two Louis d’Ors) of text from Thomas Mann’s revered 1912 book. In Dutch. Theater Bellevue, (Sat 20.30, Sun 15.00), €15-€17.50 Theatre: Arabische Nacht A dark tale of five folks dealing with a swelteringly hot night and longing for better horizons than that of their three-room flat on the Amstel. Rozentheater, (Tue, Wed 20.00-22.00), €11 + membership Theatre: Bambi 12 The mime troupe attempts to shape a lifestyle guide for an uncertain survival, focusing on time and the unavoidable future. Frascati, (Tue, Wed 20.30), €10.50-€14
Ongoing Theatre: Korte Termijn Geluk Tragic comedy about two goldfish, starring Elien van der Hoek and Fransje Boelen. In Dutch. Theater Bellevue, (Thu, Fri, Sun, Tue, Wed 12.30), €12 Comedy: Comedytrain A lively selection of stand-up comics. In Dutch. Toomler, (Thur-Sat 20.30), €13.50 Comedy: Stand-Up Comedy Show Featuring varying performers and MCs. In English and Dutch. Comedy Cafe, (Thur-Sat 21.00, Fri, Sat also 23.30), €10/€15
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Opening K’ranti! De Surinaamse persgeschiedenis, 17742007 An overview of Surinamese newspapers, magazines and photojournalism, offering a look at the country’s press history. Persmuseum (Tues-Fri 10.0017.00, Sun 12.00-17.00), opens Thursday, until 2 March 2008 Cádiz-Amsterdam vice versa Mixed exhibition with new paintings, photos and installations by artists from Cádiz, Spain; part of an exchange project, thus Amsterdam artists are now over there. Oude Kerk (Mon-Sat 11.00-17.00, Sun 13.00-17.00), opens Friday, until 11 November Franz Baumgartner New dreamy landscapes by the German artist. Galerie Hof & Huyser (Tues-Sat 13.0018.00), opens Friday, until 8 December Van Gogh en Bernard: een kunstenaarsvriendschap Revealing the significant friendship between the crazy painter and Emile Bernard, with paintings, drawings and letters that display their unrelenting exchange of ideas and art. Van Gogh Museum (MonThur, Sat, Sun 10.00-18.00, Fri 10.00-22.00), opens Friday, until 27 January 2008 Alicia Framis Portraits by the Spanish photographer. Annet Gelink Gallery (Tues-Fri 11.00-18.00, Sat 13.0018.00), opens Saturday, until 8 December
C’est la f#cking vie Theatre/Dance: C’est la f#cking vie Female duo Stuk perform a play about two dancers about to become stars, but get locked in the changing room just before going on stage. In Dutch. Stubnitz, (Thu 20.30), €7.50
Peter Struycken Solo exhibition by the 68-year-old Dutch artist. Galerie de Expeditie (Wed-Fri 11.00-18.00, Sat 14.00-18.00), opens Saturday, until 8 December Scott Eggert New city images by the photographer/media artist. Visible Art (Mon-Fri 10:0020:00, Sat-Sun 12:00-20:0)0, opens Saturday
Theatre: 3 Zusters Chekhov’s play about the decay of the privileged class in Russia and the search for meaning in the modern world, centred on the three sisters of the Prozorov family. In Dutch. De Brakke Grond, (Thu, Fri, Sat 21.00), €14 Comedy: easyLaughs Comedy improv in English. Two knee-slapping shows every Friday night. CREA Muziekzaal, (Fri 20.30, 22.30), €8, €5 (late night)
Zomersprookjes Zomersprookjes Large glass sculptures shaped like seashells, each one playing a different story, reciting summer tales by more than 60 writers and poets. Located on Terras and Atrium. Muziekgebouw (Sat 12.00-22.00, Sun 10.00-14.00, opens Saturday
Now&Lauw Comedy: Now&Lauw: Urban Improv Comedy Weekly ha-ha with Wilko Terwijn and Nabil Aoulad Ayad. In Dutch. Comedy Theater, (Fri 23.30), €10 + membership Dance: Romeo and Juliet Het Nationale Ballet performs Rudi van Dantzig’s ballet version of the tragic romantic tale, with Prokofiev’s classic score played by the Holland Symfonia. Het Muziektheater, (Fri, Sat 20.00, Sun 14.00, Tues, Wed 20.00), €22.50-€52.50
De Bank Ghent-based production company Victoria chose six confident young artists and gave them two years of free space to research and develop their ideas. This series of performance art, installations, plays and films is the result. De Brakke Grond (Mon 10.00-18.00, Tues-Fri 10.00-20.30, Sat 13.00-20.30, Sun 13.00-17.00), opens Wednesday, closing Saturday
Museums Noorderlicht One of the premier photography festivals in the Netherlands, but yes, it does require a journey north to Groningen. Well worth it, though. This year’s theme is ‘Act of Faith’, with 130 photographers from all over the world offering probing documentary
images about belief, and so on. Various locations, Groningen (various times Tues-Sun), closing Sunday Triënnale Amstelveen 2007 Artistic dialogue bursts out of Amstelveen. CoBrA Museum (Tues-Sun 11.0017.00), closing Sunday Michaël Borremans: Veldwerk A respected photographer, graphic designer and also painter, now the Belgian artist is taking on the medium of film, with this solo exhibition featuring the first peak at his cinematic works. De Appel (Tues-Sun 11.00-18.00), until 4 November Thomas Zipp: White Dada Solo exhibition of works by the Berlin artist, who writes texts and music, makes paintings, drawings, sculptures, objects, collages and photos, which he brings together in room-filling installations. De Appel (Tues-Sun 11.00-18.00), until 4 November Melvin Moti: E.S.P The latest film by Rotterdam artist Melvin Moti combines hypnotically slow-moving images of a bursting soap bubble with the story of the dream logs kept by JW Dunne, a British military officer endowed with paranormal powers. Stedelijk Museum CS (Daily 10.00-18.00), until 4 November Held/Hero Commemorating the 400th birthday of one of the greatest heroes in Dutch history, Michiel de Ruyter, this exhibition focuses on heroes, hero status and hero worship in the Netherlands. Nieuwe Kerk (Daily 10.00-18.00), until 11 November Gert Jan Kocken: Defacing The hundredth exhibition in SMBA (since 1993) is devoted to the work of Amsterdam photographer Gert Jan Kocken. He is showing a series concerned with iconoclasm: photographs that focus attention on the fury that images have provoked in the past. Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam (Tues-Sun 11.00-17.00), until 11 November Working Apart Together How do young architects currently function in Amsterdam? How do they go about setting up their own firms, and with whom do they seek to collaborate? How do they find and finance their office premises? This exhibition not only offers young architects a platform, but also provides insight into the daily experiences of young urban creatives. ARCAM (Tues-Sat 13.00-17.00), until 17 November Yamandú Roos: Totomboti Photos of the five Rastafarian men who make up the Totomboti foundation in the Pikienslee village of Suriname, making functional art with wood and teaching the villagers to use natural resources in sustainable ways. Foam (Sat-Wed 10.0018.00, Thur, Fri 10.00-21.00), until 22 November Scenes and Traces A lengthy exhibition focussing on three parts of the Stedelijk Museum collection: design, video, and photography. Stedelijk Museum CS (Daily 10.00-18.00), until 25 November Valérie Belin The first major overview of works by acclaimed French artist Belin (1964). Over the past seventeen years she has worked on an oeuvre comprising some 20 series of still-lifes and portraits. Most of these were photographed in strong and highly contrasting black and white, and are suitably striking, but her latest work is in colour, adding new dimensions. Huis Marseille (Tues-Sun 11.00-18.00), until 25 November Meesterwerken uit de Gouden Eeuw Around one hundred 17th century drawings by Dutch artists, borrowed from the collection of Jean de Grez. Rembrandthuis (Mon-Sat 10.00-17.00, Sun 11.0017.00), until 25 November The Present Order Group show exploring themes of sci-fi, pop and pop culture. De Hallen (Tues-Sat 11.00-
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of Stalin, displayed for the first time in the Netherlands. Joods Historisch Museum (Daily 11.00-17.00), until 10 February 2008 Verheerlijking van de Gouden Eeuw Harking back to an early 20th century movement to restore the look of Amsterdam’s grachtengordel to it’s glamorous Golden Age (17th century) origins, before and after photos are presented to highlight architect A A Kok and his son IJsbrand’s key involvement in the movement. Nederlands Architectuurinstituut (TuesSat 10.00-17.00, Sun 11.00-17.00), Rotterdam, until 17 February 2008 Aap, vis, boek. Linnaeus in Amsterdam Celebrating the 300th birthday of the renowned botanist in style, by displaying extremely rare books and other treasures of the period Linnaeus spent in Amsterdam. UvA: Special Collections Library (Mon-Fri 10.00-17.00, Sat, Sun 13.00-17.00), until 25 February 2008 Art Nouveau In the time of Russia’s last Tsar, Nicholas, the people of St Petersburg were particularly impressed with France’s latest art movement, buying what they could, while Russian artists created their own art nouveau. This exhibition displays some of the best of French and Russian art nouveau from the period. Hermitage Amsterdam (Daily 10.00-17.00), until 5 May 2008 Anton Mauve en Vincent van Gogh: de meester en zijn leerling Focussing on the influence of the crazy painter’s early teacher Anton Mauve, who witnessed Van Gogh’s first paintings in December 1881 (they were all drawings until then). Van Gogh Museum (Mon-Thur, Sat, Sun 10.00-18.00, Fri 10.00-22.00), until 7 September 2008
Galleries The Mills of God Grind Slowly Film and drawings by Riccardo Arena. Galerie Knap (Tues-Sun 12.00-18.00), closing Saturday Paraat #3 Two art initiatives team up to bring you some of the best final-year art projects in the land. Works also displayed in De Veemvloer. Horse Move Project Space (Wed-Sat 13.00-18.00, Sun 14.00-17.00), closing Sunday Under the Bridge & Other Places Conceptual photography from artist duo MariaMaria. Melkweg Galerie (Wed-Sun 13.00-20.00), closing Sunday 50 jaar Spoetnik A totally spaced exhibition, including archive photos of Sputnik and more. Posthoornkerk, closing Tuesday Christien Jaspars: DO Emotional, poetic and beautiful photographs. Hup Gallery (Tues, Thur, Fri 10.00-17.00), closing Wednesday Rob Houkes Portrait photography. As a bonus, there’s also prize-winning works from the Zilveren Camera 2006 competition. Fotogram (Mon-Thur 09.30-21.00, Fri, Sat 09.30-17.00), closing Wednesday Capital Moves Marc van der Aa’s take on the Amsterdam dance scene. Hotel Arena (Daily), until 2 November
Moderne meesterwerken uit Moskou Paintings and drawings made by Russian-Jews living under the rule
Local Ground Anneke Wilbrink: Local Ground Paintings of panoramic abstract constructions from the Koninklijke Prijs voor Vrije Schilderkunst 2006 winner. AYAC’S (Fri, Sat 13.00-17.30), until 10 November Supermodel Works by the members of artists collective Kultivator, including Malin Lindmark Vrijman, Kalle Runeson, Mathieu Vrijman, Marlene Lindmark, Henric Stigeborn and Mia Lindmark. W139 (Daily 11.0019.00), until 11 November Kunststad Diverse works from the new residents of the Kunststad. NDSM-werf (Fri 15.00-21.00, Sat, Sun 12.00-21.00), until 11 November Fatima Barzgne New drawings and paintings in the first solo exhibition of this Iraqi artist. Suzanne Biederberg Gallery (Wed-Sat 14.00-18.00), until 14 November Lou Reed’s New York The creative chameleon comes back, this time as photographic chronicler of the city he knows best. Serieuze Zaken Studioos, until 15 November 25 jaar BINNEN Celebrating 25 years of design in the gallery, previously exhibited artists offer up recent design works. Galerie Binnen (Wed-Sat 12.00-18.00), until 17 November Hidenori Mitsue: It’s There, It’s All There Paintings by the Dutch-based Japanese artist. Yoshiko Matsumoto Gallery (Wed-Sat 13.30-18.30), until 17 November
EVENTS Conference: The future of Google Examining the impact of the powerful search engine on media and entertainment, with speakers including Nils Rooijmans (Head of Search and R&D for ilse media), Mario de Vries (consultant for Triple P) and futurist Arjen Kamphuis. See www.clubofamsterdam.com. In English. Club of Amsterdam, (Thu 19.00-21.15) €30 Lecture: Buddhism—Love & Relationships Lama Ole Nydahl speaks about the rich path to personal development through relationships, followed by a short guided meditation. In English. De Rode Hoed, (Thu 20.00), €12 Book presentation: 5 Jaar Chiellerie Celebrating the new book for the little art gallery that could. Chiellerie, (Fri 17.00, Sat, Sun 14.00-18.00, Tues-Thurs 10.00-16.00), free Festival: Haarlem Salsa Dance Festival 2007: Rumbata Enormous salsa event with parties, live music and, for those in need, some of the smoothest dance teachers this side of Nijmegen. See www.salsafestival.nl. Various locations, times, and prices, Haarlem, (Fri, Sat, Sun) Open Ateliers: Open Ateliers De Pijp Walk through the walls that frame 58 artists in the lively neighbourhood. Various locations, (Sat, Sun 12.00-18.00), free Symposium: Seksualiteit en erotiek Various speakers explore sexual taboos in Suriname, including homosexuality, prostitution and the spread of disease. In Dutch. KIT Tropentheater, Kleine Zaal, (Sat 10.00) Market: Grootmoeders Tijd Antiek show with over 350 stands overflowing with beautifully aged artifacts. Veemarkthal, Utrecht (Sat 10.00-17.00) €5 Poetry/Music: Crimejazz Spoken word spewed out in all its various diversities. Tonight, featuring Ntjamrosie of Apple Tree records. In Dutch. Bitterzoet (Sat 21.00) €8
Light Painting Colourful, dreamy night photography by Brazilian Renan Cepeda. Gallery WM (Thur-Sat 14.00-18.00), until 17 November Eva Räder Paintings by the German artist. Galerie Gabriel Rolt (Wed-Sat 12.00-18.00), until 24 November Anthea Hamilton: Cut-Outs The British artist creates a temporary environment of found and shaped objects, including paint cans, candles, shoes, bamboo, perspex and string. Galerie Fons Welters (Tues-Sat 13.00-18.00), until 24 November The Generous Space Deceptively translucent paintings of light with only black and white by Wessel Huisman. Galerie Rademakers (Tue-Sun 11.00-17.30), until 2 December
Marieken Verheyen: Elswhere Photographs taken in Western Africa, Arab nations and former Dutch colonies. De Balie (Daily), until 7 November
Video Vortex In line with the international conference of the same name that started in Belgium last month and will continue into next year, this installation examines the potential of online video distribution (YouTube, MySpace, etc), and attempts to place it in it’s relative context in the history of visual art. Nederlands Instituut voor Mediakunst (Tues-Sat 13.00-18.00), until 2 December
De Grote Etsen Etches by Paul van Dongen. Plus paintings by Bas Meerman. De Praktijk (Tues-Sat 13.00-18.00), until 10 November
Noord-Korea: onbekend maakt onbemin Photos from Frans Boom’s trip to the commie country. IISG (Mon-Fri 09.00-17.00), until 21 December
De Salon An annual presentation of works by members of the academy. Arti et Amicitiae (Tues-Sun 13.00-18.00), until 4 November
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Marjo van den Boomen: With Arms Wide Open...#2 After her succesful With Arms Wide Open…, this new exhibition delves deeper into the same disturbing subjects, commenting on a materialist society that reduces children to the latest consumer product. KochxBos Gallery (Wed-Sat 13.00-18.00), until 10 November
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The Magic Flute Performance: The Magic Flute Tell your kids to stop holding their breath, it’s finally here: Mozart’s beloved opera performed by puppets. Amsterdams Marionetten Theater, (Sun 14.00), €15, €7.50 children Event: Room to Read An international charity organized to help children in developing countries read, with several fundraising events to launch the new Dutch chapter, including a party on Sunday in ABC Treehouse and a fundraising dinner Tue night at ROC. See www.r2r-start.nl. Various locations, times and prices (Sun, Tue) Sport: Ping Pong Bar Every Tuesday night, drink beer and play table tennis. OT301 (Tue 21.00) free
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25-31 October 2007 KHL Koffiehuis Oostelijke Handelskade 44, 779 1575 KIT Tropentheater Mauritskade 63, 568 8711
Amstelkerk Amstelveld 10, 520 0060
KochxBos Gallery 1e Anjeliersdwarsstraat 3-5, 681 4567
Amsterdams Marionetten Theater Nieuwe Jonkerstraat 8
De Kring Kleine-Gartmanplantsoen 7-9, 623 6985
Annet Gelink Gallery Laurierstraat 187-189, 330 2066
Mediamatic Post CS, Oosterdokskade 5, 638 9901
De Appel Nieuwe Spiegelstraat 10, 625 5651 ARCAM Prins Hendrikkade 600, 620 4878 Arti et Amicitiae Rokin 112, 624 5134 AYAC'S Keizersgracht 166, 638 5240 Badcuyp 1e Sweelinckstraat 10, 675 9669 De Balie Kleine-Gartmanplantsoen 10, 553 5151 Bethaniënklooster Barndesteeg 6, 625 0078 Bimhuis Piet Heinkade 3, 788 2150 Bitterzoet Spuistraat 2, 521 3001 Blijburg Bert Haanstrakade 2004, 416 0330 Bourbon Street Leidsekruisstraat 6-8, 623 3440
Maloe Melo Lijnbaansgracht 163, 420 4592 Melkweg Lijnbaansgracht 234A, 531 8181 Melkweg Galerie Marnixstraat 409, 531 8181 Mulligans Amstel 100, 622 1330 Museum Ons' Lieve Heer op Solder Oudezijds Voorburgwal 40, 624 6604 Museum van Loon Keizersgracht 672, 624 5255 Muziekgebouw Piet Heinkade 1, 788 2010 Het Muziektheater Amstel 3, 625 5455 NDSM-werf TT Neveritaweg 15, 330 5480 Nederlands Architectuurinstituut Museumpark 25, Rotterdam, 010 440 1200
De Brakke Grond Nes 45, 626 6866
Nederlands Instituut voor Mediakunst Keizersgracht 264, 623 7101
Cafe Sappho Vijzelstraat 103, 423 1509
Nieuwe Kerk entrance on the Dam, 638 6909
Carré Amstel 115-125, 524 9452
OCCII Amstelveenseweg 134, 671 7778
Casa 400 James Wattstraat 75
Odeon Singel 460, 624 9711
Casablanca Muziek Zeedijk 26, 06 1220 0519
Orgelpark Orgelpark, 51 58111
Centrale Bibliotheek Oosterdokskade 143, 523 0900
OT301 Overtoom 301, 779 4913
Chiellerie Raamgracht 58, 320 9448
P60 Stadsplein 100A, Amstelveen, 023 345 3445
Club 8 Admiraal de Ruyterweg 56B, 685 1703
Pacific Parc Polonceaukade 23, 488 7778
Club La Kerkstraat 50-52
Panama Oostelijke Handelskade 4, 311 8680
Club Meander Voetboogstraat 3, 625 8430
Paradiso Weteringschans 6-8, 626 4521
Club NL Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal 169, 622 7510
Pathé De Munt Vijzelstraat 15, 0900 1458
Club of Amsterdam Sint Antoniesbreestraat 16
Patronaat Zijlsingel 2, Haarlem, 023 517 5858
CoBrA Museum Sandbergplein 1-3, Amstelveen, 547 5050
Persmuseum Zeeburgerkade 10, 692 8810
Comedy Cafe Max Euweplein 43-45, 638 3971
De Praktijk Lauriergracht 96, 422 1727
Comedy Theater Nes 110
PRIK Spuistraat 109, 06 4544 2321
Concertgebouw Concertgebouwplein 2-6, 671 8345
RAI Europaplein 22, 549 1212
Consortium Veemkade 570, 06 2611 8950 CREA Muziekzaal Turfdraagsterpad 17, 525 1400 Cruise Inn Zuiderzeeweg 29, 692 7188 DanceStreet 1e Rozendwarsstraat 10, 489 7676 De Engel van Amsterdam Zeedijk 21, 427 6381 English Reformed Church Begijnhof 48, 624 9665 Escape Rembrandtplein 11, 622 1111 Foam Keizersgracht 609, 551 6546
Oude Kerk Oudekerksplein 23, 625 8284
Posthoornkerk Haarlemmerstraat 124
Rembrandthuis Jodenbreestraat 4, 520 0400 De Rode Hoed Keizersgracht 102, 638 5606 Rouge Amstel 60, 420 9881 Rozentheater Rozengracht 117, 620 7953 Ruigoord Ruigoord 15, 497 5702 Saarein Elandsstraat 119, 623 4901 Serieuze Zaken Studioos Bilderdijkstraat 66-hs, 427 5770
Fotogram Korte Prinsengracht 33, 624 9994
Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam Rozenstraat 59, 422 0471
Frascati Nes 63, 626 6866
Stedelijk Museum CS Oosterdokskade 5, 573 2911
Galerie Binnen Keizersgracht 82, 625 9603
Stopera Waterlooplein 22, 551 8117
Galerie de Expeditie Leliegracht 47, 620 4758
Stubnitz Odinakade, NDSM-werf
Galerie Fons Welters Bloemstraat 140, 423 3046
Studio 80 Rembrandtplein 70, 521 8333
Galerie Gabriel Rolt Elandsgracht 34, 785 5146
Sugar Factory Lijnbaansgracht 238, 627 0008
Galerie Hof & Huyser Bloemgracht 135, 420 1995
Suzanne Biederberg Gallery 1e Egelantiersdwarsstraat 1, 624 5455
Galerie Knap Huidenstraat 21 Galerie Paul Andriesse Withoedenveem 8, 623 6237 Galerie Rademakers Prinsengracht 570-572, 6225496
Theater Bellevue Leidsekade 90, 530 5301 Toomler Breitnerstraat 2, 670 7400 Tropenmuseum Linnaeusstraat 2, 568 8200
Gallery WM Elandsgracht 35, 421 1113
Tropentheater, Grote Zaal Linnaeusstraat 2, 568 8500
Grolsch Music Cafe ArenA Boulevard 242, 365 2035
Under the Grand Chapiteau Next to ArenA, 621 1288
De Hallen Grote Markt 16, Haarlem, 023 511 5775
UvA: Special Collections Library Oude Turfmarkt 129, 525 2141
Hard Rock Cafe Max Euweplein 57-61, 523 7625 Hermitage Amsterdam Nieuwe Herengracht 14, 530 8751
Van Gogh Museum Paulus Potterstraat 7, 570 5200 Veemarkthal Sartegweg 1-3, Utrecht
Horse Move Project Space Oosterdokskade 5 Post CS
Visible Art Nieuwezijdsvoorburgwal 114
Hotel Arena ’s-Gravesandestraat 51, 850 2400
W139 Warmoesstraat 139, 622 9434
Huis Marseille Keizersgracht 401, 531 8989
Westergasfabriek Haarlemmerweg 8-10, 586 0710
Hup Gallery Tesselschadestraat 15, 515 8589
Winston Kingdom Warmoesstraat 129, 623 1380
IHLIA-Homodok Oosterdokskade 143, 5230 900
Yoshiko Matsumoto Gallery Weteringschans 37, 06 1437 0995
IISG Cruquiusweg 31, 668 5866
Volta Houtmankade 334-336, 628 6429
Joods Historisch Museum Jonas Daniel Meijerplein 2-4, 531 0310
Zaal 100 De Wittenstraat 100, 688 0127
De Kade Zuiddijk 9-11, Zaandam, 617 6972
’t Blijvertje Derde Oosterparkstraat 64h
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Tasty bit o’ pitta Leeman Van Woustraat 160 662 2596 Open Mon-Sat, 08.00-21.00 Cash. A few weeks ago, a good Australian friend proposed a barbie, a mammoth meat hoorah. We would get the tucker from Genco on Van Woustraat. After parking his battlewagon, we passed Leeman, a döner shop, right next door to the grocer’s shop. ‘Have you been?’ he leered, giving a Groucho Marx eyebrow waggle. ‘Not yet,’ moaned Glutton, inhaling a lungful of grilling meat smells. ‘You’re in for a treat!’ he grinned. I nodded, respecting the judgment of this wickedly good cook, and a couple of days later I leapt on the number 4 tram for a date with a döner. It was lunchtime, and an enormous queue snaked outside. Finally, I was able to get inside and oh, joy! There, revolving like sufi dancers, were four enormous rotisseries crisping golden brown meat. Round and round they went, the enticing smells wafting under my nostrils. Each one weighs 90 kilos. There was a buzzing sound as oodles of meat was shaved away with an industrial carving knife, catching the crisp morsels in a curve-lipped pan. The staff were furiously pumping out orders: lamb or chicken? With or without salad? I perched on a stool near the counter with my no-salad chicken döner, poured home-made sauces over, and munched. My kebab was packed with soft, juicy meat. It was filling and tasted
THE UNDERCOVER GLUTTON The bakers rushed through, sliding pitta-laden trays into the oven, sliding steaming hot ones out. The smell was heavenly. great—a bargain for under €2. No place for a second one. I was replete. The bakers rushed through, sliding pittaladen trays into the oven, sliding steaming hot
ones out. The smell was heavenly. The owner runs a family business—that’s his wife, sons and relatives hard at it behind the counter. He started 17 years ago as a bread and pastry baker, and
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gradually introduced Turkish specialities to his repertoire. They were a success. Being a prudent businessman, he transformed a quiet bakery into a roaring success. The (strictly halal) rotisseries are prepared and fired up every day at 7am. The chicken one is so popular that the revolving spikes are stocked three times a day. Big batches of flat-bread dough is prepared, pummelled and baked, so that at 8am the döners are ready to roll. The wall is papered with certificates verifying the quality of goods. Leeman makes the garlic and herb sauce fresh every day, and an enormous tub of spicy hot harissa, too. The telephone brays non-stop, as companies phone in requests. While I was there, a courier came to collect an order of 30 kebabs. Leeman don’t deliver: you pick up your food at the designated time to ensure that it’s hot. They don’t advertise, either: the packed throng who come to eat here every day pass on the news to their friends. Fridays are the busiest here: you have been warned. Although Leeman and staff are busy, there is still personal contact with customers and warmth. (Literally: it gets hot as Hades in here with the grills going.) As much as I adore restaurants and the ambience that goes with fine dining, it’s great to discover something cheap, successful and with mass appeal. What else can you get for this price? As food prices start to spiral into another economic galaxy, thanks to the powers that be, it’s a treat to munch a big bunch of meat and feel satisfied with a full belly and still have change from €5. Alas, my scale groans in protest as I step up onto the plate. The electronic red numbers flash an accusing angry glare at me. This is not stuff I could guzzle every day: but it sure beats patat.
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FILM Edited by Julie Phillips.This week’s films reviewed by Massimo Benvegnù (MB),Shyama Daryanani (SD), Don Druker (DD),Sarah Gehrke (SG),René Glas (RG),Andrea Gronvall (AG),Meltem Halaceli (MH), Luuk van Huët (LvH),JR Jones (JJ),Dave Kehr (DK), Steven McCarron (SM),Mike Peek (MP),Julie Phillips (JP),Gusta Reijnders (GR),Jonathan Rosenbaum (JR),Marinus de Ruiter (MdR) and Bregtje Schudel (BS).All films are screened in English with Dutch subtitles unless otherwise noted. Amsterdam Weekly recommends.
Festivals Balkan Snapshots Film Festival New work, panel discussions and live music from a region with a growing film scene. See article on p. 19. Kriterion Het Pioniersschap van Louis van Gasteren One of the Netherlands’ most important postwar film-makers turns 85 next month and gets a retrospective. Van Gasteren is known, particularly in his documentaries, for his rejection of traditional storytelling methods and his willingness to leave rough edges. Films screening include the experimental Het Huis (1962), about the building and demolition
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of a house during World War II; Stranding (1955), a thriller set on a passenger ship wrecked off the coast of Terschelling; Een nieuw dorp op nieuw land, a documentary about the planning and building of the polder town of Nagele; and Hans, het leven voor de dood (1983), a Golden Calf winning documentary about the suicide of one of Van Gasteren’s artist friends. De Balie
New this week Butterfly on a Wheel The perfect marriage is destroyed when the couple’s young daughter is kidnapped in this standard thriller, also known as Shattered. Maria Bello and Gerard Butler play the innocents, Pierce Brosnan the villain. 98 min. Pathé ArenA, Pathé De Munt
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 German 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 foreign 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. Cinecenter, The Movies, Pathé Tuschinski A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints Given all the filmed memory pieces about screaming, violent ItalianAmerican families in New York, even well-made
examples aren’t especially thrilling. First-time director Dito Montiel adapts his autobiographical book, most of it set in the mean streets of Astoria in the early 1980s. Robert Downey Jr plays Montiel, who goes home to visit his estranged father (Chazz Palminteri), occasioning flashbacks to his younger self (Shia LaBeouf), his pals and a violent feud involving graffiti and a baseball bat. With Rosario Dawson, Dianne Wiest, Channing Tatum and Eric Roberts. (JR) 98 min. Pathé Tuschinski, Studio K Halloween The movie that jump-started the slasher film phenomenon is treated to an extreme makeover by rocker-turned-schlocker Rob Zombie. While most remakes of classic horror flicks are brand-recognition-fuelled cash cows, Zombie reverently tries to re-imagine the franchise by expanding on the back story, showing the events leading up to the genesis of Michael Myers as the inscrutable bogeyman. In the second half of the film, however, he makes the mistake of replacing the potent terror and dread of the original with ultraviolence and copious bloodletting. A cornucopia of cameos guarantees fans won’t be bored, but they won’t be scared either. (LvH) 109 min. Pathé ArenA, Pathé De Munt The Invasion The third remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) may not be a patch on the original, but it does have a few things the other versions lack: a nonstop, lurching pace propelled by jump cuts and flash-forwards, Nicole Kidman as the hero (taking over the part first played by Kevin McCarthy), a Washington DC, setting and a bitter kind of satiric irony leaking around the edges that suggests maybe the body snatchers have a point. Directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel (Downfall). (JR) 99 min. Pathé ArenA, Pathé De Munt
Five-Word Movie Review
THE CODA TO CORBIJN’S CONTROL 24 Hour Party People, The Movies
Michael Clayton George Clooney is the title character, a fixer for a high-powered Manhattan law firm who’s so sick of doing the company’s dirty work he seems ready to bite off his own tongue. When one of the rainmaking attorneys (Tom Wilkinson) goes nuts, endangering the firm’s defence of an agrochemical giant against a class-action suit, Clayton is dispatched to silence him. Like The Verdict, this is a big, crowd-pleasing Hollywood redemption drama in which the lonely hero not only thwarts the corporate villains in the end but silences them with a killer riposte. The plot elements are painfully familiar, but the story is just solid enough to support the entertaining star turns: Clooney is lined and wearily handsome; Wilkinson rants like King Lear; Tilda Swinton, as a corrupt counsel, is alternately ruthless and terrified. This doesn’t begin to deserve the Oscar nominations it’s likely to get, but it’s fun nonetheless. Tony Gilroy directed his own script. (JJ) 119 min. Kriterion, The Movies, Pathé ArenA, Pathé De Munt
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Aneta Lesnikovska talks about rules, no budget and how to make a film while driving your friends crazy.
FROM THE BALKANS WITH DOGME FILM Balkan Snapshots Film Festival 26-27 October, Kriterion By Luuk van Huët
The Rotterdam Film Festival has a reputation for scoping out talented debutants from exotic locales, ranging from the Philippines to Uruguay. So it hardly
Nadine Seven years after he made his debut with the coming-of-age story Wilde Mossels (2000), Erik de Bruyn directs this relevant and intriguing film, starring three actresses, Halina Reijn, Sanneke Bos and Monic Hendrickx, in the role of a woman who, as she approaches 40, becomes desperate to have a child. Reijn is perfect as the young, modern career junkie, while Bos brings a very subtle sense of desperation to Nadine as she undergoes IVF. Hendrickx’s performance is probably the most impressive as a Nadine desperate enough to steal a baby. Casting three women in one role gives the film a mildly surreal undertone that complements De Bruyn’s visual style, full of out-offocus images and dreamlike sequences that are still firmly rooted in reality. In Dutch. On Thursday, Kriterion will hold an opening night party with all three actresses present. (MP) 100 min. Kriterion, Pathé Tuschinski
Still playing The 11th Hour The box office success of An Incon-
venient Truth is gratifying but hardly means that the problem of global warming is even close to being addressed, much less solved. This documentary by Leonardo DiCaprio (producer, writer, on-screen narrator) and Nadia Conners and Leila Conners Petersen (writer-directors) continues the earlier movie’s campaign, and though the filmmaking isn’t everything it might have been (the opening montage is especially clumsy), their argument is compelling, absorbing and urgent. Stephen Hawking and Mikhail Gorbachev are among the commentators, and despite the alarming facts presented, the filmmakers take pains not to foster fatalistic gloom, concentrating on some of the progressive solutions still available to us. (JR) 93 min. Kriterion, Pathé Tuschinski
Alles is liefde Alles is liefde (‘Love Is All’) doesn’t even try to hide the fact that it copied its structure directly from that other affection-obsessed ensemble piece, Love Actually. But in this case, it’s actually an improvement. Again people are lovelorn during the holiday season (with as Dutch flavour Sinterklaas instead of Christmas). Screenwriter Kim van Kooten and director Joram Lürsen (In Oranje) actually man-
seemed surprising that the film Does It Hurt? from Macedonia was nominated for a prestigious Tiger Award this year. The twist is that director Aneta Lesnikovska has lived in Amsterdam for the past 15 years. She came here to study at the Rietveld in 1992, and now works for De Balie, doing video programming for such venues as MAFIAfest and D-Nerve. Her film screens this week at the Balkan
age to make the story tight and focused, sentimental but not overly melodramatic. The film even boasts a nice ensemble cast (Carice van Houten, Anneke Blok, Thomas Acda), with the real show-stopper Michiel ‘Jiskefet’ Romeyn as a gruff substitute Sint. In Dutch. (BS) 110 min. Het Ketelhuis, The Movies, Pathé ArenA, Pathé De Munt, Pathé Tuschinski Azur & Asmar In this animated French fantasy by Michel Ocelot (Kirikou and the Sorceress), two boys, one blond, the other dark, become rivals in the quest to free a fairy princess. Showing dubbed into Dutch, alas. Filmmuseum, The Movies Bhool Bhulaiyaa Siddharth (Shiney Ahuja) and Avni (Vidya Balan), go to India and stay in a palace belonging to Siddharth’s family. The palace is believed to be haunted; when strange things start happening, Badrinarayan, Siddharth’s uncle, and his family come to join the couple. The situation only gets worse, so Siddharth calls on his friend, the eccentric psychiatrist Aditya Shrivastav (Akshay Kumar), for help. This movie raises some interesting questions about the supernatural versus the scientific world. Vidya Balan shines in her role and the song ‘Mere Dholna’, and what follows leaves a haunting image in the mind. (SD) Pathé ArenA
Control
Control The lives of artists are a rewarding source
of inspiration for filmmakers. They are idols, charming, but also almost always tragically flawed. This biopic on singer/songwriter Ian Curtis could have been a textbook case. Thankfully, 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, a father and a breadwinner. When his wife confronts him with the fact that he never broke up with his lover, he whimpers: ‘I tried, but she won’t go away!’ The film
Snapshots, a two-day series of shorts, video art, readings and live music at Kriterion, with films organised by region and with programming from Croatia, Serbia, Macedonia, Bosnia, Kosovo and Albania. The movie is scheduled for wider release later this autumn. We caught up with Lesnikovska and asked her how her film came into being. She replies: ‘I was developing another project when I had this idea for making the first Dutch/Macedonian Dogme film. I asked for and received a permission slip from Zentropa [the production company of Danish director Lars von Trier] and developed the script at the Danish North by Northwest script development project. Then I went to Macedonia.’ The Dogme95 doctrine, laid down by Von Trier, states a list of 10 rules that should be followed to make a true art film, including: ‘Filming must be done on location. Props and sets must not be brought
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. The Movies, Pathé Tuschinski
Crank If there’s a film that will consign to an unmarked grave the tired critic’s cliché about how flashy flicks feel ‘just like a video game’, it’s the hilarious and delirious Crank. Jason Statham is at his most hooliganesque as the assassin Chev Chelios, who is injected with a Chinese designer poison that will kill him unless he keeps his adrenaline levels unnaturally high. The mayhem that ensues seems to be inspired by a marathon session of Grand Theft Auto on acid, condensed into 90 minutes of pure, unadulterated, drug-saturated ultraviolent fun for the politically incorrect action junkie. (LvH) Filmhuis Griffioen Duska The absurdist plot of Jos Stelling’s latest film revolves around timid film critic Bob (Gene Bervoets), whose life takes an unexpected turn when a strange, Russian-speaking man (Sergei Makovetsky) arrives at his doorstep. Bob reluctantly lets this character, Duska, in for a drink, after which he never leaves. In a series of slapstick interactions (with hardly any dialogue at all, Duska is reminiscent of silent cinema) he maintains a ceaseless joviality while he slowly wreaks havoc in Bob’s life. Stelling leaves it to the viewer to decide whether Bob is going mad, whether or not Bob and Duska have a shared history, whether Duska is real at all. This lack of closure might raise an eyebrow or two but it doesn’t lessen the enjoyment. (RG) 108 min. Pathé Tuschinski Evening Susan Minot, with the help of Michael Cunningham (The Hours), adapts her own novel about a dying woman (Vanessa Redgrave) coming to terms with her two daughters (Natasha Richardson and Toni Collette) and memories of her youth in the ‘50s (where she’s played by Claire Danes). Despite the show-offy cast, it took me a while to warm to these people and their self-consciously idyllic settings—as well as to the slick direction of former cinematographer Lajos Koltai— but I was eventually won over. With Meryl Streep, Glenn Close, Patrick Wilson and Hugh Dancy. (JR) 116 min. The Movies, Pathé De Munt, Pathé Tuschinski
in,’ and zingers like: ‘Genre movies are not acceptable.’ Why choose a Dogme film now? Lesnikovska responds: ‘Dogme started when I was studying. People may have been making Dogme films for a long time without realising it, but the Dogme manifesto showed the way and Von Trier and [Thomas] Vinterberg were the trailblazers in getting film back to its small, unpretentious roots instead of the big-budget co-productions that are everywhere.’ With such a strict set of guidelines, wasn’t it tempting to bend the rules? Lesnikovska says not: ‘It was completely Dogme, simply because we had no money. If you follow the rules, you become aware of a certain roughness that is part of the film itself, but is usually edited out. In our film, you become aware of the manipulation inherent in film.’ The film is a mockumentary about the aspirations and anxieties of Lesnikovska’s friends, young bohemians in the Balkans. Lesnikovska explains: ‘I went to Macedonia with the story that there were some producers who wanted to fund this film, but that I needed my friends to cooperate. This story wasn’t true, but I wanted to experiment with the manipulation of people and how far I could go. I mixed reality with fiction, initiated events myself and incorporated other things that happened into the film. After filming for twenty-one days we had forty hours of footage, which we edited into ninety-four minutes. The actors were not aware of what had ended up in the final film, and not all of them knew it was a mockumentary. We included some of their reactions in the film itself; suffice to say that they were mixed.’
Half Nelson This is not your run of the mill flick about a dedicated, idealistic young teacher who pushes a class full of prospectless youngsters to unexpected heights. Sure, the description fits teacher Dan, played by Oscarnominated Ryan Gosling, but the thing is, he turns out to be the worst possible role model. He is a secret drug addict, secret until one of his students (Shakeera Epps) finds out. Half Nelson is a harsh but heartfelt experience, with impressive acting by all involved. Gosling is especially striking as a self-destructive, misguided shell of a man who tries but ultimately fails in everything he does. Directed by Ryan Fleck. (RG) 106 min. Kriterion
Half Nelson Iklimler Bahar, a young television director, and Isa, a middle-aged teacher, are breaking up during a summer holiday in Kas on Turkey’s Aegean coast. Isa blames the age difference, but in fact the problem is his affair with another woman. In rainy Istanbul the sequence of poetic images is disrupted by a long shot of rough sex. Isa decides to follow Bahar to Agir, where she is shooting a movie. Breathtaking shots of falling snowflakes follow, but will Isa be able to win back broken-hearted Bahar? Directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan, with himself and his wife Ebru Ceylan in the starring roles, Iklimler (‘Climates’) uses the director’s familiar technique of long steady shots and natural sounds to tell a sad love story in which the weather and beautiful landscapes reflect two people’s sorrowful separation. In Turkish with Dutch subtitles. (MH) 97 min. Rialto
Little Children Five years after his superb debut fea-
ture In the Bedroom, writer/director Todd Field returns with another story set in a close-knit community whose quietness makes the characters’ unhappiness seem like thunder. Kate Winslet and Patrick Wilson, both disenchanted with their spouses, meet in a public park with their toddlers, and a series of carefully arranged play-
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dates allows them to nurse their unspoken infatuation until it finally engulfs them. Meanwhile, a bitter ex-cop lets off steam by harassing a paroled paedophile who’s come home to live with his mother. As in Field’s first film, the characters are drawn with such compassion their follies become our own and their desires seem as vast as the night sky. (JJ) 130 min. Pathé Tuschinski Manufactured Landscapes As a teenager in northern Ontario, Edward Burtynsky worked in a gold mine and an auto plant, and he brings to his panoramic still photographs a fascination with industry and the natural landscape that’s magnified in this big-screen documentary. Film-maker Jennifer Baichwal trails him on a tour of industrial sites in China and Bangladesh, and her opening sequences are breathtaking (an eight-minute tracking shot along a giant factory floor, a scene of the photographer posing yellow-clad workers on a road flanked by yellow buildings). Burtynsky is drawn to spots (and lives) that have been disfigured by commerce—like the awful ‘waste’ dump where poor villagers harvest metal from junked American computers—and the open-endedness of his images is the key to their power. Special screening; interview with Burtynsky follows. (JJ) 80 min. Het Ketelhuis, Rialto, De Uitkijk
Manufacturing Dissent Orson Welles got it right
when he titled his two documentary features It’s All True! and F for Fake. There’s no more manipulative genre in cinema than the true story. Now Rick Caine and Debbie Melnyk have gone after the lies behind their most famous colleague, Michael Moore, from his dubious origins (is he from Flint or not?) to his apparently catastrophic stint as editor of the left-wing magazine Mother Jones to his cinematic lies. Manufacturing Dissent might come as a shock for some Moore believers, while others might start to realise that documentaries are the greatest fiction of them all. (MB) Het Ketelhuis, Rialto
Manufacturing Dissent Meet the Robinsons Derived from a William Joyce book, this lively Disney animation about an orphan inventor is striking not for its originality but for its energy in juggling familiar elements. There are time-travel paradoxes from Robert A. Heinlein and Back to the Future, frogs that reference GoodFellas by way of Chuck Jones’s One Froggy Evening, a bowler hat from Magritte, and an eccentric family and topiary garden that recall Disney’s Alice in Wonderland. The cheerfully totalitarian city of the future, known as ‘Todayland’, seems like Disneyland boilerplate. But maybe one of the seven credited screenwriters dreamed up the subtitled dinosaurs. Stephen J. Anderson directed. (JR) 102 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. Cinecenter, Pathé Tuschinski, Studio K Molière This biography of French playwright JeanBaptiste Poquelin, better known under his pseudonym of Molière, gets the Shakespeare in Love treatment— bits, scenes and characters from his plays resurface in real life happenings—from director Laurent Tirard and screenwriter Grégoire Vigneron. What could have
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Special screenings 24 Hour Party People Manchester became Britain’s pop mecca in the late ’70s and early ’80s, spawning bands like the Buzzcocks, Joy Division, The Smiths and Happy Mondays. In this high-energy 2002 feature, Michael Winterbottom chronicles those years through the eyes of Tony Wilson (Steve Coogan), the Cambridge-educated TV personality who ran the late, great Factory Records. 117 min. The Movies
Help! See Short List, p. 9. Pathé Tuschinski Lady Chatterley In the opening film of next week’s
Cinepremieres festival, Pascale Ferran adapts DH Lawrence’s novel into a masterful 168-minute piece of storytelling that never ceases to be gripping in spite of its measured pace. Ferran proves that a distinction between sensual and sexual art is worth making. There are also class issues: the heroine (Marina Hands) is happily married to an invalid, impotent war veteran (Hippolyte Girardot) who signals his acceptance of someone else from the same class fathering his heir. But since it’s his gamekeeper (Jean-Louis Coulloc’h), the affair’s kept secret. Ferran’s sureness in charting every step in the couple’s discovery of each other never falters; when they eventually find the opportunity to remove their clothes before having sex, it’s a major achievement, and celebrated as such. In French with Dutch subtitles. (JR) Rialto Martin George Romero’s 1978 quasi-comic movie about a teenage vampire (John Amplas) remains his artiest effort, and in some respects his most accomplished work. The film is as much about the boredom of living in a Pittsburgh suburb as it is about anything else. It is also about the death of magic that this banal existence brings about. Despite the usual amounts of gore, this is a surprisingly tender, ambiguous and sexy film in which Romero’s penchant for social satire is for once restricted to local and modest proportions. (95 min.) Also showing: Kenneth Anger’s 1969 short Invocation of My Demon Brother. (JR) De Nieuwe Anita Neder Halloween: Horror doe je zelf! A Halloween special about Holland’s DIY horror movie culture. Including scary shorts such as The Tenants, by Silvain Hooglander (young couple move into abandoned farmhouse), frightening features like Asian Imports (a truck driver’s last ride doesn’t go as planned) and work-in-progress Carnifex, and the prize-winning fake trailer Nailed by Nikita, with the especially creepy catchline ‘Hell Hath No Fury Like a Hussy with a Nailgun’. Duck and cover! Cavia
Professione: Reporter Known in English as The
Passenger, this 1975 film is a masterpiece, one of Michelangelo Antonioni’s finest works. Jack Nicholson and Maria Schneider star as a journalist who trades one identity for another and the woman who becomes his accomplice (and ultimately the moral centre of his adopted world). Less a thriller (though the mood of mystery is pervasive) than a meditation on the problems of knowledge, action for its own sake, and the relationship of the artist to the work he
been a very light divertissement becomes a very heavy handed affair instead: Romain Duris (Arsène Lupin) tries his best to give charm and action to the lead character, but fails miserably to give him inspiration— quite essential when you portray a writer. While a general knowledge of Molière’s ouevre could be of help in the appreciation of this film, don’t feel obliged to rush to the library, as it’s not worth it. In French with Dutch subtitles. (MB) Cinema Amstelveen Once A scruffy Dublin busker (Glen Hansard, in real life the frontman of indie rock band The Frames) finds his personal groupie in a young Czech flower seller, who becomes his songwriting partner and muse. Together, they form a band and decide to record a demo tape to send to the London record executives. This tiny little film has its charms: the spontaneity of its performers, the Irish settings, and lots of great folk-rock songs that help you through its 90 minutes and its thin plot, which
brings into being. Next to this film, Blowup seems a facile, though necessary, preliminary. (DD) 116 min. De Uitkijk
The Red Shoes Michael Powell and Emeric Press-
burger’s 1948 ballet film has been the cult property of dance freaks for far too long. A look beneath its lushly romantic surface reveals a dark, complex sensibility, and that surface, rendered in the sombre tones of British Technicolor, reflects a fantastically rich cinematic inventiveness. Moira Shearer is the ballerina who, following the outlines of a Hans Christian Andersen tale, trades her life for her art; Anton Walbrook, as her impresario, is perhaps the most forceful embodiment of the shaman figures—magical, outsized, sinister—who haunt Powell and Pressburger’s work. The Red Shoes remains the best known of Powell and Pressburger’s 18 features, yet it’s only the tip of the iceberg—beneath it lies the most commanding body of work in the British cinema. (DK) 134 min. Filmmuseum
Solaris Andrei Tarkovsky’s 1972 SF spectacle—enigmatic, highly idiosyncratic, beautifully composed in Cinemascope—holds up remarkably well as a soulful Soviet ‘response’ to 2001: A Space Odyssey, concentrating on the limits of man’s imagination in relation to memory and conscience. A psychologist (Donatas Banionis) is sent to a remote space station poised over the mysterious planet Solaris in order to investigate the puzzling data sent back by an earlier mission. He discovers that the planet materialises human forms based on the troubled memories of the space explorers—including the psychologist’s own wife (Natalya Bondarchuk), who has killed herself many years before but is repeatedly resurrected before his eyes. Tarkovsky’s eerie mystic parable, charged with poetry, passion and mystery, is given substance by the filmmaker’s boldly original grasp of film language. In Russian/German with English subtitles. (JR) 165 min. De Roode Bioscoop Tales from Earthsea With its sweeping vistas and tiny figures making their way through vast landscapes, Goro Miyazaki’s first anime seems more inspired by The Lord of the Rings than by the films of his father, Hayao (My Neighbour Totoro, Spirited Away). Loosely based on Ursula K Le Guin’s dark fantasy series, it starts out lively and entertaining, as the wizard Sparrowhawk and a young prince go in search of a sorcerer whose desire for eternal life has upset the balance of the world. Parts of it are lovely to look at, especially the flora. (Goro went to forestry school before he joined his father’s business.) But the film squanders its promise at the end in a big fight scene. Because of a rights conflict, Tales from Earthsea won’t be released in North America until 2009. In Japanese with Dutch subtitles. (JP) 115 min. Melkweg Cinema Tussenstand A special preview screening of this Dutch feature, which won a Golden Calf for best direction. Interview follows with director Mijke de Jong. Rialto seems borrowed from one of those early MGM ‘Let’sput-on-a-show’ musicals. But if you’re looking for more substance, Once might not be enough for you. (MB) Melkweg Cinema
Pan’s Labyrinth By mixing the narrative setting he
already visited in The Devil’s Backbone with the Grand Guignol sensibilities he’s shown in his Hollywood films, Guillermo del Toro has managed to create a perfect, poignant fairy tale of the Grimm variety. Young Ofelia must undergo a perilous quest that takes her through the depths of the underworld and pits her against her nefarious new father. Bittersweet and darkly disturbing at the same time, this movie’s guaranteed to keep your inner child up at night with delicious fright. Just refrain from accepting candy from Fascists and fauns and you’ll be fine. (LvH) 112 min. The Movies Rush Hour 3 Brett Ratner’s action-comedy franchise is
aimed at the international box office, so in this entry, mismatched cops Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker are lured to Paris by a Japanese assassin (Hiroyuki Sanada) who’s kidnapped a Chinese consul’s daughter (Zhang Jingchu). Noémie Lenoir is the eye-candy love interest, and Max von Sydow, Youki Kudoh, Yvan Attal and Roman Polanski help legitimise the silly plot. Chan shows he still has the chops during a showdown at the Eiffel Tower, but you’d think the movie’s reported budget of $140 million might have bought Tucker at least one side-splitting gag. (AG) 90 min. Pathé ArenA, Pathé De Munt
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Sconosciuta A mysterious woman (Kseniya Rappoport) from an Eastern European country moves to a quiet, provincial town in Italy. Her goal is to get a job as a nanny for a wealthy family of local jewellers, taking care of their little daughter. Only through a series of hints and flashbacks do we come to know her past and, ultimately, her plans for the future. This gritty, noir-ish thriller from Giuseppe Tornatore (Cinema Paradiso) won all the major Italian awards last year. A wonderfully gripping score by Il Maestro Ennio Morricone contributes strongly to its Hitchcock-like settings. In Italian with Dutch subtitles. (MB) 118 min. Kriterion Shoot ‘em Up Take an average action flick. Strip all excess baggage, like plot, character development and logic. Inject a dose of Looney Tunes. Cast Clive Owen as the tough as nails protagonist, Paul Giamatti as the thuggish bastard and Monica Bellucci as the lactating hooker with a heart of gold. Add one newborn baby, a hundred or so disposable bad guys and a shitload of guns and ammo. Voila, you’ve now created one of the most enjoyable guilty pleasures to grace your multiplex this season. (LvH) 85 min. Pathé ArenA, Pathé De Munt
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Stardust The small print noting ‘Based on the novel by Neil Gaiman’ should send ravenous fantasy fans flocking towards the cineplexes, but sadly, this was not the case in the States. And while Stardust is less subtle a fairy tale than Gaiman in written form, it still has a bubbly, brash and occasionally muddled charm of its own, even if some of it is drowned out by bombastic background music or generic special effects. If you’re yearning for a cheap and cheerful fantasy fix and you don’t mind your popcorn flicks on the buttery-slick and cheesy side, follow that star! Directed by Matthew Vaughn; with Claire Danes, Sienna Miller, Robert De Niro and Michelle Pfeiffer. (LvH) 130 min. Pathé ArenA, Pathé De Munt Summer Palace In this ambitious epic, students Yu Hong and Zhou Wei discover a world of intense sexual and emotional experimentation against the backdrop of the uprising at Tiananmen Square. Writer-director Lou Ye (Suzhou River) filmed Summer Palace with a nervous hand-held camera and made the first mainland film to show male and female full-frontal nudity. He didn’t screen Summer Palace for the Chinese officials; as a result, in 2006 he was banned from making movies for five years. Yet you never hear any character discuss anything remotely political, not even in Yu Hong’s diarystyle narration, and the film ends up saying very little beneath the poetic voice-overs and sexual encounters. It’s overlong, and both action and characters lack the kind of emotional core that holds your attention. In Mandarin with Dutch subtitles. (GR) 140 min. Rialto Timboektoe Dutch-language children’s film, based on the books by Carry Slee, about two kids whose parents move to France to run a campsite. Watch forsome starry cameos.Cinema Amstelveen, Het Ketelhuis, Pathé ArenA, Pathé De Munt, Pathé Tuschinski Trade Based on a New York Times Magazine article about sex slaves, Marco Kreuzpaintner’s film tells the story of a group of people who are kidnapped by Russian sex traffickers to be smuggled from Mexico to the US. With Kevin Kline. (SG) 119 min. Cinecenter, Kriterion, Pathé ArenA, Pathé Tuschinski
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FILM TIMES Thursday 25 October until Wednesday 31 October. Times are provided by cinemas and are subject to last-minute changes. Film times also at www.amsterdamweekly.nl. De Balie Kleine-Gartmanplantsoen 10, 553 5151 Het Pioniersschap van Louis van Gasteren Fri-Sun. Cavia Van Hallstraat 52-I, 681 1419 Neder Halloween: Horror doe je zelf! Sat 20.30 ShortCircuit: NFF Shorts Thur, Fri 20.30. Cinecenter Lijnbaansgracht 236, 623 6615 4 maanden, 3 weken, 2 dagen Wed 21.45 Atonement Wed 19.00, 21.45 The Diving Bell and the Butterfly daily 16.15, 19.00, Thur-Tues also 21.45, Sun also 11.00, 13.30 Die Fälscher daily 16.30, 19.15, 21.45, Sun also 11.15, 14.00 A Mighty Heart daily 16.30, Thur-Tues also 19.30, Sun also 14.00 Trade Thur-Tues 21.45, Sun also 11.00 Vier Minuten daily 16.15, 19.15, 22.00, Sun also 11.00, 13.45. Cinema Amstelveen Plein 1960 2, Amstelveen, 547 5175 Alpha Dog Thur-Sat 20.30 Hairspray Thur 15.00 Molière Sun 16.15, Tues, Wed 20.30 Timboektoe Sat, Wed 15.30, Sun 14.00 Waar is het paard van Sinterklaas? Sat, Wed 13.30, Sun 12.00. Filmhuis Griffioen Uilenstede 106, Amstelveen, 444 5100 Crank Thur, Fri, Tues 19.30. Filmmuseum Vondelpark 3, 589 1400 Alice in Cartoonland pt 1 Sun, Wed 13.45 Azur & Asmar Sat, Wed 14.00 Belle de jour Thur-Sun, Tues 21.15, Mon, Wed 17.30 Belle toujours Thur-Sat 17.30, Mon, Wed also 21.15 Black Narcissus daily 21.45, Thur-Sat, Mon, Wed also 17.15 César et Rosalie Sun 16.30 Hamaca Paraguaya daily 19.30 The Red Shoes daily 19.15 Het Schimmenrijk Sun 16.00. Het Ketelhuis Haarlemmerweg 8-10, 684 0090 Alles is liefde daily 17.30, 22.00, Fri-Wed also 19.45 De Avonturen van het Molletje Sat, Sun, Wed 13.00 Bert Haanstra: Panta Rhei & Een pak slaag Fri 19.00 Bert Haanstra: Rembrandt & Bij de beesten af Thur 19.00 Duska daily 21.30 Goud daily 19.30, 21.30, Sat, Sun, Wed also 15.45 Das Leben der Anderen Sat-Wed 19.00 Manufactured Landscapes daily 17.45 Manufacturing Dissent Thur, Fri, Mon, Tues 16.15 Timboektoe Thur, Fri, Mon, Tues 16.15 Sat, Sun, Wed 14.30, 16.45 Waar is het paard van Sinterklaas? Thur, Fri, Mon 16.00, Sat, Sun, Wed 13.15, 15.00 Willie en het wilde konijn Sat, Sun, Wed 13.00, 14.30. KIT Tropentheater, Kleine Zaal Linnaeusstraat 2, 568 8500 The Cave of the Yellow Dog Tues, Wed 20.30. Kriterion Roetersstraat 170, 623 1708 The 11th Hour Sat, Sun, Wed 15.00, Sun also 13.00 Balkan Snapshots Film Festival Fri 17.00, Sat 16.00 Goud Thur, Sun-Wed 17.30, Sun also 13.30, Sat 15.30 Half Nelson Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 19.45 Das Leben der Anderen Wed 17.00 Meet the Robinsons Sat, Wed 15.30 Michael Clayton daily 19.30, 21.45, Thur-Tues also 17.00 Nadine Thur, Sat-Mon, Wed 22.15, Thur also 19.30, Sun-Wed also 20.00 Plop en de pinguin Sat, Sun, Wed 15.15, Sun also 13.15 La Sconosciuta daily 17.15 Sneak Preview Tues 22.15 Trade Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 22.00. Melkweg Cinema Lijnbaansgracht 234A, 624 1777 Death Proof Mon, Tues 21.30 Once Sun 19.00, Wed 21.30 Tales from Earthsea Thur, Fri, Mon-Wed 19.00, Sun 15.00. The Movies Haarlemmerdijk 159-165, 638 6016 24 Hour Party People Fri, Sat 0.30 Alles is liefde daily 17.00, 19.15, 21.45, Sun also 12.30 Azur & Asmar Sat, Sun, Wed 15.00 Control daily 19.30, 22.00, Fri, Sat also 0.15 The Diving Bell and the Butterfly daily 22.15, Sat, Sun, Wed also 15.15 Evening daily 17.15, Sat, Sun, Wed also 14.45, Sun also 12.15 Die Fälscher daily 17.30, 19.45, Sun also 12.45 Meet the Robinsons (NL) Sat, Sun, Wed 14.30 Michael Clayton daily 16.45, 19.15, 21.45, Fri, Sat also 0.15, Sun also 12.00 Pan's Labyrinth Fri, Sat 0.00. De Nieuwe Anita Frederik Hendrikstraat 111, 06 4150 3512, Martin Mon 20.30. Pathé ArenA ArenA Boulevard 600, 0900 1458 Alles is liefde daily 12.05, 13.15, 15.00, 16.00, 17.45, 18.45, 20.30, 21.30, Sat, Sun also 10.45 Bhool Bhulaiyaa Fri 18.50, Sat, Sun 15.50, Mon, Tues 13.10 The Bourne Ultimatum daily 18.30, 21.00 Butterfly on a Wheel daily 16.40, 19.05, Mon, Tues also 12.15, 14.30 Death Sentence daily 17.30, 19.50, 22.05, Thur, Mon, Tues also 13.00, 15.10 Halloween daily 21.55, Thur, Sat-Wed also 19.20, Fri, Wed also 16.35, Mon, Tues also 16.45 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (IMAX) Thur, Fri 11.20, Sat, Sun 11.15, Wed 14.10 The Heartbreak Kid daily 16.05, 21.45, Mon, Tues also 13.20
Amsterdam Weekly The Invasion daily 17.20, 19.40, 22.00, Thur, Mon, Tues also 12.35, 14.55 The Kingdom daily 14.00, 16.30, 19.10, 21.40, Thur-Sun also 11.40 Knocked Up daily 18.50 Meet the Robinsons (NL) Thur-Sun, Wed 13.40, Thur, Fri also 11.30, Sat, Sun also 11.10 Michael Clayton daily 12.50, 15.30, 18.05, 20.50, Sat, Sun also 10.20 Plop en de pinguin Thur-Sun, Wed 12.55, Thur, Fri, Wed also 14.50, Sat, Sun also 11.05 The Queen Tues 13.30 Ratatouille (NL) Fri-Sun, Wed 12.45, 15.10, Sat, Sun also 10.25 Rush Hour 3 daily 12.30, 14.40, 16.50, 19.00, 21.10, Sat, Sun also 10.30 Shoot 'em Up Thur-Mon, Wed 20.10, 22.15 De Simpsons Film Fri-Sun, Wed 12.00, Sat, Sun also 9.55 Sneak Preview Tues 21.30 Stardust daily 14.45, 17.50, 20.40, Thur, Mon, Tues also 12.00 Surf's Updaily 16.20, Thur-Mon, Wed also 12.10, 14.15, Sat, Sun also 10.15 Timboektoe daily 12.20, 15.05, 17.40, Sat, Sun also 10.00 Trade daily 21.20 Transformers (IMAX) daily 17.15, 20.20, Thur-Tues also 14.10 Waar is het paard van Sinterklaas? Thur-Sun, Wed 12.15, 14.30, Fri-Sun also 13.10, 15.15, Sat, Sun also 10.05, 11.00. Pathé De Munt Vijzelstraat 15, 0900 1458 Alles is liefde Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 15.00, 18.00, 21.00, Thur, Fri, MonWed also 12.10, Sun also 10.15, Sat 10.45, 13.45, 16.45, 20.00, 23.15 The Bourne Ultimatum daily 17.45, 20.30, Thur, Fri, Mon, Tues also 14.45, Sat also 23.20, Mon, Tues also 12.15 Butterfly on a Wheel Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 16.15, 21.20, Thur, Mon, Tues also 14.00, Sat 16.50, 21.50 Death Sentence Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 17.00, 19.30, Thur, Fri, Sun, Mon, Wed also 22.00, Mon, Tues also 12.20, 14.30, Sat 18.30, 21.00, 23.30 Evening Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 18.40, Sat 19.10 Hairspray Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 17.15, Mon, Tues also 12.10, 14.40, Sat 18.00 Halloween Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 17.15, Sat 22.15 The Heartbreak Kid Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 12.30, 15.15, 18.15, 21.15, Sat 13.15, 16.00, 19.00, 22.00 The Invasion daily 14.15, 19.15, Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed also 12.00, 16.45, 21.40, Sat also 11.30, 16.30, 21.45 The Kingdom Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 12.45, 15.30, 18.30, Thur, Fri, Sun, Mon, Wed also 21.30, Tues also 21.50, Sat 12.10, 14.45, 17.30, 20.15, 23.00 Knocked Up Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 20.15, Thur, Fri, Sun-Tues also 16.30, Thur, Fri, Mon, Tues also 13.45, Wed also 17.10, Sat 15.00, 18.15, 21.30 Meet the Robinsons (NL) Sat 10.15, 12.30, Sun 11.20, 13.50, Wed 12.20, 14.40 Michael Clayton daily 13.00, Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed also 15.45, 18.45, 21.45, Sat also 10.15, 16.15, 19.30, 22.30, Sun also 10.20 Plop en de pinguin Thur, Fri, Sun, Wed 13.15, 15.20, Sun also 11.10, Sat 11.20, 13.20 Ratatouille (NL) Fri, Sun, Wed 13.40, Sun also 10.50, Sat 11.50, 14.25 Rogue Assassin Sat 23.10 Rush Hour 3 Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 12.50, 15.10, 17.30, 19.45, 22.10, Sat 11.00, 13.30, 15.45, 18.45, 21.15, 23.35 Shoot 'em Up Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 20.00, 22.15, Sat 15.30, 20.45, 22.45 Sneak Preview Tues 21.30 Stardust Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 12.05, 14.50, 17.50, 20.45, Sat 11.15, 14.30, 17.15, 20.20 Surf's Up Thur, Fri, Sun, Wed 12.20, 14.30, Sun also 10.15, Sat 11.45, 14.00, 16.10 Timboektoe Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 13.30, 16.00, 19.00, Sun also 11.00, Sat 11.40, 14.20, 17.00, 19.45 Waar is het paard van Sinterklaas? Thur, Fri, Wed 12.15, Sat, Sun 10.40, Sat also 12.45, 15.15, Sun also 12.55, 15.05. Pathé Tuschinski Reguliersbreestraat 34, 0900 1458 The 11th Hour Thur 12.15, Fri, Sun-Wed 12.45 Alles is liefde Thur-Tues 12.30, Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 21.30, Thur, Fri, Sun-Tues also 15.30, 18.30, Sat also 15.45, 18.45, 21.40, Wed also 12.00, 15.00, 18.00 Control daily 18.10, Thur-Tues also 21.00, Thur also 14.40, FriWed also 15.10, Wed also 21.20 Duska Fri, Sun, Mon, Tues 18.45, Sat 16.15 Evening daily 19.00, Fri, Mon also 13.30 Die Fälscher daily 17.00, 19.30, 22.00, Thur, Fri, Tues also 12.10, 14.30, Mon also 12.40, 14.45 A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints daily 16.30, 21.45 Help! Wed 21.00 Little Children Thur, Tues 13.30 A Mighty Heart Thur, Fri, Mon 12.45, Fri, Sun-Tues 21.15, Mon also 15.15, Tues also 13.00, 15.45, Wed 18.45 Nadine Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 19.15, Thur, Fri, Mon, Tues also 13.45, Sat 19.10 Een ochtend van zes weken Sun 10.30 Ratatouille (NL) Sat, Sun, Wed 13.30 Surf's Up Sat, Sun, Wed 12.00, 14.15 Timboektoe Thur, Fri, Sun, Wed 15.15, Sat, Sun, Wed 12.45 Trade Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 16.15, 21.40, Sat 21.30 Waar is het paard van Sinterklaas? Sat, Sun, Wed 12.15, 14.30. Rialto Ceintuurbaan 338, 676 8700 4 maanden, 3 weken, 2 dagen Sat 19.30 Iklimler daily 19.45, 21.45, Fri-Sun, Wed also 15.00 Lady Chatterley Wed 19.30 Das Leben der Anderen Thur, Fri, Mon, Tues 17.30, 21.30, Sat, Sun 13.00, Sat also 22.15, Sun also 21.30 Manufactured Landscapes daily 19.15, 21.00, Fri-Sun, Wed also 16.30, Sat, Sun also 13.30, Sun also 11.30 Manufacturing Dissent Thur, Fri, Sun-Tues 20.00, Fri also 15.30, Fri, Sat also 23.00 Miss Potter Sun 11.00, Wed 15.30 Summer Palace Fri-Sun, Wed 17.00, Sat, Sun also 12.15 Tussenstand Sun 16.00 Wie heiratet man einen König? Sat 16.00. De Roode Bioscoop Haarlemmerplein 7H, 625 7500, Solaris Sun 20.30. Studio K Timorplein 62, 692 0422, Adam's Apples daily 17.15, 19.30 The Bourne Ultimatum daily 21.30 A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints daily 22.00, Thur-Sun also 19.45 A Mighty Heart daily 17.30, Mon-Wed also 19.45. De Uitkijk Prinsengracht 452, 623 7460 Goud daily 17.00, Thur-Mon also 21.15, Wed also 21.45 Manufactured Landscapes Thur-Mon 19.30 Professione: Reporter Tues 20.00 Ratatouille (NL) Sat, Sun, Wed 14.30, Sat, Sun also 12.00.
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HOUSECLEANING Responsible, reliable, very good references (Dutch and Spanish). TIRED OF BEING STUCK? Maria: 06 1626 1992 and 06 Heighten your quality of life. Improve your relationships, 1499 4970. with the help of native BABYSITTER AVAILABLE English-speaking therapist. Honest,patientgirlavailableto My 20 yrs of professional expebabysit in the evenings/nights rience and understanding on Fri, Sat & Sun. €6/hr, refer- can help you better cope with encesareavailable!Mycontact feelings and sort through details are fruzsina21@ stressful thoughts. Call Sagar yahoo.com or 06 5554 7829! on 06 4626 5412. Hope to hear from you soon! PSYCHOTHERAPY/CBT BUSINESS ADVICEAre you The Cove offers Englishthinking about starting your speaking Cognitive Behaviour own business? Do you have a Therapy (CBT) in central company but administration A’dam. CBT is an increasingly
THE SOUL-SEMINAR This interactive seminar will be packed with information about the soul and how to connect with and express your soul in your life. Thur 15 Nov 20.0022.00. More info www.thesoul.eu or info@ thsoul.eu. ACUPUNCTURE Certified Americanacupuncturisttreats bothmenandwomenforawide range of ailments at two locationsinA’dam.Coverageoffered bymanyhealthinsurancecompanies.Call0627399789,email info@acupunctuurnoordholland.nl or visit www.acupunctuurnoordholland.nl. BACP COUNSELLORMoved to A’dam and brought your shadows with you? BACP qualified Psychological Counsellor offers short or long-term therapy. I am very experienced and trained in Integrative Psychotherapy to MSc level. I am strongly motivated by compassion, kindness, respect and curiosity. Brian: 06 1964 7404. GESTALT ART GROUPS for people who long to communicateandmakecontact,livetheir lifeinacreativewayandstepout of the victim role by writing, singing, playing and drawing. ThureveningorSat.www.tinevanwijk.nl or dewalvis@xs4all.nl or t/f 683 5874.
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UPHOLSTERERForre-upholstering of all kinds of furniture, modern and antique, boat and caravan cushions recovered or made to measure, also curtains made to measure, all styles catered for, wide selection of fabrics to choose from in all price classes. Contact Sophie Filangi 06 4154 7557/www.alabonnechaise.nl.
MEN TO MEN MASSAGE! We offer 4-hands massage, 2 masseurs (Latin and Dutch male) for gay/bi males of all ages. Also couples or beginners welcome. Just try and experience this, you certainly enjoy it. Appointment/more information? Email to gaymassages@gmail.com or RENO-BOUW-RAJCZYK phone 06 2332 2767. HOUSE RENOVATIONS Do HI GIRLS!Your body is a work you need cost-effective and of art, touching you is like com- high-quality full house renopleting a masterpiece, love vation? Professional, experiradiates from my palms as you enced and with excellent refmelt through my table and erences. Online links to past touch the center of the earth. projects. Call now and ask for No fee, no fooling, just my appointment: 06 4451 7410 or hands dancing for you. Send 331 6550, www.reno-bouw.nl, your picture and your reason karol-rajczyk@hotmail.com. for wanting a massage to COMPUTERS ww32012@yahoo.com. PC HOUSE DOCTOR SpeIL CIELO TREATMENTS Craniosacral treatments, cialised in virus/spyware Dorn/Breuss massage and removal, h/w, s/w repair, data workshop for beginners at recovery, wireless, cable/ADSL the Mirror Centre. Treat- installation and computer ments can be reimbursed by lessons from friendly and expehealth insurances. For more rienced Microsoft professional info call 06 3004 9738 or check for reasonable price. Contact Mario 06 1644 8230. www.ilcielo.org.
HOME IMPROVEMENT PAINTINGVarnishing, staining, natural finishes. Quality work, reasonable prices. Phone 06 2941 4567.
NEED HELP WITH YOUR MAC? MAC-lover helps you with basic setups, minor troubleshooting, install, networking, basic MAC lessons, setting up programs, MS Word, QuarkXpress, etc. Help with purchasing the right MAC. Contact Sagar at 779 1926.
PAINTING Professional painting and plastering, 25 years experience. For free estimates call 06 2324 5957. TECH PC & MAC repairs, CUTTING EDGE 30 years network configurations, experience. All aspects of updates, backups, recovery, painting from straight house audio and video systems calpainting to all decorative and ibrated and advice given. faux wall finishes, work on Viruses and malware/spywalls, floors, furniture, boats, ware dealt with severely at house boats, wall murals and the cheapest prices. Call The designs. For free estimates Original Computer Doctor on 06 1752 7468. call 330 2634.
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COURSES SCARF/ FELT MAKING Now you can create your own scarf just by using wool, water, soap & our hands! The next workshop is on Tues 30 Oct from 09.30-15.00. Call me for other dates! Cost is €55 incl all materials. Contact Phylene on Phylenelemans@hotmail.com or 06 4804 6595. YOGA + CRECHE Great opportunity for Englishspeaking Mums! Enjoy a yoga class knowing that your child is being well-supervised in a nearby creche by experienced child-carer. Highly qualified and experienced Hatha Yoga teacher. Tues morning 9.30 in A’dam centre. Call 679 8753 or 06 2214 3030 for more info.
every Mon 17.00-18.30 & 19.0020.30 at Praktijk Hart & Ziel, Borgerstraat 224, A’dam. For more details visit www.YogAmsterdam.nl or call Reena at 06 4390 2470 to register. SHAPE-YOUR-BOOTYCAMP ACCESS Fitness offers you an 8-wk course to get in great shape. Work closely with Program Leader from www.ariavitale.nl. Join now and get TWO MONTHS FREE MEMBERSHIP in ClubMarnix. Please phone 423 3217 or check http://access-nl.org. More courses coming to help expats enjoy their stay here.
THE SPEAKER A dynamic workshop created to empower you with your natural speaker. Speak in public with more confidence.Date30Nov19.30-22.00. More info www.thespeaker.eu IYENGAR YOGA CLASSES or info@thespeaker.eu. with certified Iyengar yoga AUTUMN WORKSHOPS teacher Cristina Libanori. Drawing and painting workTues 19.30-21.00 at Train- shops by professional artist, ing Centrum, Europaplein various techniques, all styles. 127 near RAI. Tram 4 (stop Contact joneiselin@hetDintelstraat). €10/class; with net.nl/www.joneiselin.com. 10-card yoga strippenkaart €9/class. Individual thera- UPHOLSTERY WORKSHOP peutic classes arranged by in Westerpark! Recover and/or appt at €20/hr. cristina@the- repair your own furniture with wheel-of-yoga.com/773 5307. theprofessionaladviceofSophie Filangi. Every Tues and Thur SINGING LESSONSOn Prin- 19.00-22.00(byapptonly).Includsengracht, beautiful atmo- inguseoftools,excludingmatesphere. Classical voice train- rials. €30 per session. Call for ing, breathing techniques, information on 06 4154 7557. vocalization, scales, etc. For beg & professionals. From clas- YOGAYOGA AMSTERDAM sic to jazz pop or rock, and all offers a full range of daily styles of singing. Good prices classes, including Sun work+ free intro lesson. For more shops. In addition, there is info call Michael on 320 2095 pregnancy yoga, postnatal or mail ajara77@yahoo.com. yoga and yoga for kids. Yogayoga is situated in a quiet stuYOGAWITHINDIANTEACH- dio, close to the Jordaan. A ER Discover how simple second studio is available ancientyogapracticescanhelp especially for private classyou live a healthy & happy life. es. Visit www.yogayoga.nl or FREEtrialclass!Classesoffered call 688 3418.
DANCE IMPROVISATION Workshop for professional dancers and actors with Malgorzata Haduch & UNFINISHED COMPANY. Space is the starting point for this work. Subscribe now and the date for 2 days workshop in Nov will be suitably chosen for all! More info: www.unfinishedcompany.org. Studio Solebay, Livornostr 22. Price: €50. SHIATSUCOURSELearnhow to give a simple but efficient treatment. Introduction to the basic principles of shiatsu. 10 Wednesdays, 9.30-11.45. Starts 7 Nov. Monika Forster is a shiatsu practitioner and teaches at the Zen Shiatsu Opleidingwww.zenshiatsu.nl. Info: monikaforster@dds.nl. Tel 693 7808.
LANGUAGES DUTCH LESSONS A'DAM Improve conversation/professional purpose/studies/NT2. Also online. Min indiv rate €15/hr. Adults & children MonSat, 10.00-21.00. Also intensive courses. Min. intensive: 15 hrs=€215,55. www.excellentdutch.nl. New: Super-intensive summer course. Info: excellentdutch@hotmail.com, 06 3612 2870. IK SPREEK NEDERLANDS Native duolingual English/ Dutch linguist, editor and language instructor offers private conversational Dutch - intermediate to fully advanced levels. Please call Justine for availability and rates. TOT ZIENS! Justine: 06 1616 5875. DUTCH FOR EXPATS C&C Language Support. Dutch Lessons in a relaxed atmosphere, tailored to your needs, all levels, flexible schedule, 1on-1. Concentration on prac-
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tical use and conversation. and 8 wks courses. Price: €8/hr. For details, visit www.lasu.nl. Visit www.joostweethet.nl. STREETWISE ENGLISH Email: info@joostweethet.nl. Pure conversational English, Tel: 420 8146. practise your English speaking skills touring A’dam cafes, shops and more. Discount for groups (max 6). info@streetwiseenglish.com. FRENCH LESSONS Young native French master graduate teaches children French language while playing. We will talk, play and sing. Possible at home after school as an after-school activity. I also offer private French lessons for adults at all levels. A bientôt! laine.vanessa@gmail.com or 06 3418 6417. SPANISH LESSONS With a native speaker (more than 5 years of experience). Different fun topics: travelling, Latin America, literature, music, art, culture, etc. Plus wine or tea/coffeeincosyenvironment. All levels, help with grammar, reading if needed. Individual €20/hr, groups (2-3) €15/hr. Natalia 06 4299 9648. INTENSIVE DUTCH at JOOST WEET HET!Classes 4timesperweekduring4hours. Good teachers, fun classes and energetic athmosphere. Small groups,personalapproachwith emphasisonconversation.2,3,4
while toning the muscles of your shoulders, neck arms and back. All while burning calories. BVA starts a new ladies team. Thur 21.30-23.00 at Van Hogendorpstraat 921. Info: ladies@bvamsterdam.nl.
LEARNING DUTCH?You can Do It! New evening courses starting 22 Oct at JOOST WEET HET! Classes 2 times 2 hours per week. Fun Classes, Good Grammar, Emphasis on Conversation and inexpensive. Price: about €8 per hour. Visit http://www.joostweethet.nl or email info@joostweethet.nl or call 420 8146.
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DUTCH COURSES New eveningcoursesstartinginNov, centre of A’dam. €200-250 for I’m 24 y.o. and I’ve been mak20hrs.Visitwww.mercuurtaal.nl ing music with my MAC for 4 or call 693 4250. years. You can listen to my old album at workhouse-proMUSIC ject.imeem.com. For more PIANOLES Studio Groen- information, contact me! burgwal (American/Dutch business) in the center of GUITAR LESSONS Looking A’dam has a few after-school for a guitar teacher? Now it’s openings for children, and your chance to have lessons evening and daytime open- and to know all about playing ings for adults. All levels wel- the guitar. For beginners and come, 10 yr + experience advanced players. First lesson with expats and families. Call is free! All you need to do is call now! 624 0602 or mail to 06 1456 4950 or email rdt_ eitan@hotmail.com. Ethan. l.willems@scarlet.nl. VIBES JAZZY BEATSAre you playing in a jazz band? Would you like to add to your song’s atmospheric sounds, charming tones or elegant effects?
MOBILE STUDIO Always wanted to be recorded like a professional? Need a good demo to send to a label? We have the experience and the
equipment to do this for you. Our mobile studio comes to you where and when you want it. Just send an email to flashbeaglerecordings@gmail.com.
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gestions.Iamaprofessionaluser of Maya8.5. Would also like to work together with other people on big animation projects and create a stable group of 3Dartists.nicolap@email.com.
lem with food? Maybe we can help. Visit the Open Day of Overeaters Anonymous on 3 Nov. For more info call 06 4874 9590 or see www.anonieme-overeters.nl.
HARD WORKER in need of job. Can be anything from painting (creative or practical) to demoliton, etc. Please call Sid on 06 5212 5131.
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ARTATATELIER408Roosvan Lierop+SimonettevanderKuip invite you to join their coloured nudesandparticipateinahomeless glove workshop at HerenTOLLENS gracht 408, opening Sat 27 Oct CORNELIE 16.00,lastinguntil18Nov,Thur- Gevraagd foto door Cornelie Sat from 13.00-17.00. Tollens. De stier Paul Blanca en werk Toto Frima. 06 4623 LOOKING FOR 6158/artkick@gmail .com. 3DGRAPHICARTISTis lookGROUPS & CLUBS ing for other 3D graphic animationartistsinA’daminorder OVEREATERS ANONYto exchange tips, advice & sug- MOUS Do you have a prob-
LADIES BASKETBALLUse all your main leg muscles such as quadriceps, hamstrings, calves, groin and buttocks
style. Contact Anna to discus the possibilities: 06 1811 5098 or anna@annagreaves.com. FACE PAINTERAdd a little extra fun to your kid’s party with a face painter! Whether it’s pirates, witches & wizards, clowns, tigers, butterflies or anything else! I can come to your children’s party & bring it to life with a dash of color. Contact Anna for more info on anna@annagreaves.com or 06 1811 5098.
EXERCISE IN KINDNESS 25 y.o. Carpathian male with shyness and a cleaning job is looking for voluntary work or just helping others as an exercise in kindness. Thank you. A'DAM FLICKR GROUP Paul: 06 2234 3294. Share your photos of AmsPERSONALS terdam with other Weekly WEI-WU-WEINothing more readers. Join Amsterdam than the feeling of presence Weekly’s new Flickr Group! in silence and in peaceful- Go to flickr.com, search for ness. The intimacy of anoth- Amsterdam Weekly under Groups, and start loading your er. Paul: 06 2234 3294. favourite images.
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PUPPET SHOW The best entertainment you can get for birthdays and other children's events. Complete pirate theme parties also available with treasure hunt, stories, dancing and lots of pirate toys for everyone. MURAL PAINTERMake your Contact Gus aka Captain Sam, children’s room extra special the Pirate. Email captainwith a unique mural. I can samspirateparty@yahoo.com. paint children’s dreams on BASS HEADZ at Dansen bij their walls, decorate a play- Jansen, Handboogstraat 11 room with imagination or fill on Sun 28 Oct from 22.00-04.00. a nursery with stimulation for UK Dubstep and drum ‘n bass. baby’s mind. Any theme, any Also T-shirt give-aways! DEMONSTRATION! Come to the demonstration against ‘Verbod op Paddo’s’ on 27 Oct on Dam Square from 13.00 till 15.00! Let your voice be heard! More info@reddepaddo.nl.