Amsterdam Weekly: Vol 5 Issue 47, 4-10 Dec 2008 by Amsterdam Weekly

Volume 5, Issue 47

4 -10 DECEMBER 2008

‘He’s always thrashing a city or eating little humans.’

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FEATURE

PROFILE

FILM

AGENDA

The game of Palestinian survival. Now playing in a theatre near you.

Our new comic artists Lamelos have their own country of weird shit.

With Changeling, Clint goes for gold, Angelina for an Oscar.

Outsider Art, Future Shorts, One Minute More and a spot of Voodoo Dance…

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City Second

Eerste Atjehstraat - 02/11/2008 - 17.32

By Peter Cleutjens

Certain recent events in Amsterdam are being regarded as potential classic cases for psychology textbooks. In the last month, a rape and several beatings took place in public domains and no one intervened. Hypothetically, people think they would help in such a situation, though when actually confronted by such an attack they get locked into ‘bystander effect’ (the bigger the group, the less the individual feels responsible). The original textbook case for this phenomanae occured 40 years ago when Kitty Genovese was attacked and murdered outside her NYC apartment building. Thirty-eight people heard her cries and watched from behind their windows during the attack that lasted over 30 minutes. Similarly, in Rotterdam in 1993, a nine-year-old Moroccan girl fell out of a boat in a shallow lake and drowned after much struggle. Two hundred people watched and only one acted—and that was to take some video footage. While such events usually inspire much talk about forcing people to act and punishing those who don’t, maybe it is just time to make a list. Like a hufterindex, an index of names of people who exhibit anti-social behaviour, a term that is a contestant for the ‘Word of the Year Contest’. Go to woordvanhetjaar.nl and place your vote.

Features Inbox Love list . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Nature Calls Bird fodder. . . . . . . . . . 4 News Palestinian theatre . . . . . . . . . . 5 Amstergraph Youth of today . . . . . . 5 A Quick Bike Fix Pigeon . . . . . . . . . 5 Street Fashion Dandyist. . . . . . . . . . 6 Report Real life design . . . . . . . . . . . 6 The People Versus Veg . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Feature Lamelos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Main feature Bystander effect . . . . . 8 Film Review Changeling . . . . . . . . . 17

Agenda Short List 10 / Music 11 / Clubs 12 / Gay & Lesbian 13 / Stage 13 / Events 14 / Art 14 / Addresses 16 / Film 17 / Film Times 19

Plus The Mouth Pulpo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Night in the Life De Zotte . . . . . . . 20 Classiﬁeds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Lamelos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Fokke & Sukke . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

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AROUND TOWN

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A ﬁst for love Submitted by: Xiomara van E. Date: 24 November 2008 14.22 Subject: Lijst Liefde

Nature calling By Mark Wedin

1848 - Parliamentary democracy 1848 - Freedom of education 1887 - The abolishment of ‘census kiesrecht’ 1922 - Women are allowed to vote 1980 - Abortion is legalised These are all amendments to the constitution. All of them were once considered political taboos and are now legal rights. But love is still missing from this list. The word ‘love’ is not to be found in the wetboek nor in any political pamphlet. It could be fatal for our nation to continue ignoring the importance of love in times like these. This is the moment to act. While the world gets fuller and fuller and we are obliged to live closer to each other, we are, in fact, pulling away from our neighbours. Telecommunications have developed at lightning speed. Thanks to computers, cell phones and webcams, you don’t have to leave your home to do anything. You don’t need to go to the club to play tennis—you can practice in your living room with your very own virtual reality coach. Why go to the cafe to make new friends if you can make them online on Second Life? This encourages a kind of egocentricity and coldness that is also found in present-day politics. Lijst Liefde will bring this trend to a stop. Love must become the overkoepelend orgaan in society. Why do Dutch politics always look to the results instead of for once analysing the foundations? The foundation is love. Love is the motor of society. Without love there would not be a need to live peacefully with each other and as a result, there would be no need for laws. The wetboek is therefore a document of love. Now we want to take a step back to the essence. Love needs to become the way citizens are judged. That is why we set up the Love Effect Plan. Every bill should be primarily examined and approved of by this plan. The main question will be: ‘What role does love play in this suggestion/bill?’ To make things more specific, using the NoordZuidlijn construction as an example, the ensuing questions are: what kind of love did this proposal spring from? What kind of love does it represent? Will it be built and exploited with love? Can all those involved express their love through this project? (For example: love of one’s house.) This ‘plan’ will change the focus from pragmatic decision-making to decisions made with love. But what is love? Love is not only ‘I love you and you love me’. Love can also be love of your work. Love can be art. Love can be nature. Love can be money as well. Everyone has their own concept of what love is. We create a conciousness with this love at its base. People should ask themselves what love means to them and how they can apply this to their day-to-day lives. Lijst Liefde’s job is to offer them this possibility. It is important to interact with each other with more tolerance. Your concept of love may not be the same as that of the person sitting next to you. We need to accept this diversity. Yes, even embrace it. United with our love we will form a solid base for our society. Raise a glass in a toast for yourself because all of us here are the new tomorrow. 2008 will be the year that love rang in the Binnenhof in Den Haag. The year where love no longer is looked upon as a taboo, but becomes the basis of our society. Lijst Liefde thanks you. Wanna ﬁst back? We are anxiously awaiting your hatemail: inbox@amsterdamweekly.nl

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Bird fodder I was watching a neighbour throw out little pieces of bread from her window to the birds. There weren’t any birds around at the time, but I assumed, as probably did she, they’d come soon once the smell of baked wheat hit the air. After breaking off and tossing several pieces, she evidently got tired of the process, and pulled out large handfuls of sliced bread, hurling them down to the garden that is shared by the tenants in my building. It looked sort of funny, like she was throwing trash out the window. And that seemed to be the impression another neighbour got, who yelled to the bird feeder, ‘That’s our garden! You’re throwing trash in our garden! Do you think that’s normal?’ After several minutes of feminine arguing, one neighbour thought it normal, the other did not. Having learned long ago not to step in the middle of two angry women, I stayed out of the discussion. But the fact is, if you spread the right kinds of edibles on your balcony or garden, you’ll receive lovely winged visitors. Little European robins (roodborstjes) will hop around with glee if you sprinkle out havermout. Blackbirds (merels) and

starlings (spreeuwen) will sing joyously for bits of soft apple, one that’s been sitting perhaps too long in your kitchen. Bird feeders also work, of course. During these winter days, the ones with black sunﬂower seeds are particularly good for their high caloric content. And if you spot a black-headed gull (kokmeeuw), offer him bread. He’ll come up rather close, and there might be a ring around his foot. If you see numbers or letters on the ring, send them to guusvanduin@chello.nl. He’ll give you the entire known history of the bird you fed. It may have been ringed in Finland, spent last summer in Copenhagen, and this winter enjoyed whole slices of bread in my garden, under the screaming of two women. Special thanks to bird expert Guus van Duin. Got nature tips? naturecalls@amsterdamweekly.nl

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Theatre

By Marlous Veldt

PLAYING ON THE STRIP A Palestinian youth theatre company lives the absurd both there and here. Four Gaza friends, named Friend 1 to Friend 4, spend their days looking for things that aren’t there, like cola and razor blades. It’s all part of the absurdist comedy The Game by Palestinian youth company Theatre Day, where Gazans, in order to stay sane, stay busy—regardless of the end result. ‘It is such a pain in the ass to live in that country,’ says The Game writer Jackie Lubeck, a Palestine resident for 35 years. ‘I think it’s also difﬁcult for Israelis—I don’t know how they get around things—but to be Palestinian must be one of the most confusing games. Everyone’s fatigued and has at least a minor depression. Everybody’s annoyed, aggravated, frustrated, all the time. Yes, we laugh, we work. We’re not sitting there like zombies; everybody is very busy trying to do things. But that doesn’t mean it’s healthy.’ Lubeck wrote The Game in three days, inspired by a Theatre Day festival in Gaza last May. ‘We had a huge festival,’ she says, ‘with kids, parents and teachers, and we didn’t know how we were going to pull it off. There wasn’t a drop of benzene; there wasn’t a plank of wood. There were no sweets, no presents for the kids. So we bought the last bicycle; we hijacked the last few gallons of benzene from a taxi company. Living through that and hearing the bizarre conversations that go on... Later, writing the play, it just came. The characters yelling in my ear and me typing very fast.’

In Palestine, the Theatre Day groups perform for 35,000 children per year. In the Netherlands, they have a mixed audience of school kids and adults involved in political solidarity. Does Lubeck feel that the play works just as well in Dutch? ‘The sarcasm, the tone... I don’t think it gets lost in translation. I think it gets lost in political translation. Because of course we are all very sarcastic. It’s a sick joke.’ The kids, however, do seem to get it. ‘We had an audience of fifty to sixty kids. They had mobile phones on and made all kinds of noise,’ says Lubeck. ‘But in the first act they shut up and got caught up in it.’ This gave Lubeck the impression that the kids could easily relate, ‘like they are also in some game of trying to live and fit in, to figure out what it is you want and where you are going.’ Nicola Zhreineh from Beit Jalla, who plays Friend 3, says that’s what makes a comedy like The Game more painful than a tragedy. ‘To see a play about a group of young people with this huge energy; trying to survive, to be creative and make their life meaningful. That’s more painful for me than seeing them cry, “Oh, our situation. Please help us.”’ ‘I think people are slowly going crazy. And that is a very odd thing to witness,’ says Lubeck. ‘Strangely enough, right now the domestic problems are the most upfront. The political problem is almost far away. The place is closed down, but where do you feel it? You feel it at break-

A participant in the strange game of survival.

fast, you feel it at lunch, you feel it at dinner, you feel it at night. And who do you blame? Your mother, your boss, your father, your teacher. It’s going more and more to the inside.’ Getting the piece to the Netherlands was an absurdist comedy in itself. ‘For the last few weeks we had two versions of The Game touring: one in Gaza and one in the West Bank,’ says Lubeck. ‘We had twenty people packed, twenty visas made and twenty plane tickets reserved, knowing that only half of them were going to be used. We had a very patient travel agent and in the last minute we made the call. Only the group from the West Bank could get on the plane.’ The Israeli Ministry of Defence wouldn’t let the Gazan actors go. ‘They waited three days to answer [the request of the Dutch ministry of Foreign Affairs],’ explains Jan Willems, the Dutch director of the theatre company. ‘Within those three days, rocket attacks started and they refused an exit visa with the excuse of the rocket attacks. This created a huge reaction among our people in the Netherlands, because [...] the Israelis very openly said that the people of Gaza should be collectively punished for these rockets.’ Meanwhile, the Gazan team stays very busy at home. ‘They didn’t stop working,’ says Willems. ‘They have a show of The Game everyday for two hundred kids.’ In a way, putting on the play itself is also part of the game. ‘Keeping busy is a way to escape the situation that we live in,’ says Zhreineh. ‘If you’re not working, you end up going crazy.’ More info at: The Game, Thursday 4 December, 19.30, De Krakeling. www.gaza-rotterdam.nl www.theatreday.org

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‘Sokkenseks’ Amstergraph

Neighbourhood complaints % of people in the Netherlands who experience problems with groups of youngsters in their neighbourhood.

2005 - 10.3% / 2006 - 9.4% / 2007 - 10.1% / 2008 - 10% Source: Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek

Graph by Nicole Martens

A quick bike ﬁx By Pete Jordan

Pigeon Riding south on the Weesperzijde, just after the camelback speed bumps by the basisschool, I encountered a flock of pigeons on the roadway. I never pay them much attention since, somehow, at the last second, they always manage to scatter out of my path. This time, though, beneath my wheels, I felt a bump. While pedaling onward, I reluctantly glanced back. I didn’t see a corpse. Then again, afraid of what I might see, I didn’t look all that hard. Once, on the Singel, I saw a €50 bill fall from a cyclist’s pocket. I picked it up and ran after her yelling, ‘Hey, you dropped this!!’ Later, while treating my wife to lunch with the money, I guiltily wondered, Could I have run faster? Or yelled louder? Now I was left guiltily wondering, Should I have looked harder? When I got home, I meekly told my wife, ‘I think I ran over a pigeon.’ ‘What do you mean, you think you did?’ she asked. ‘Well, a pigeon was in front of my wheel... and then I felt a bump.’ ‘And where was the pigeon?’ ‘I don’t know. I kinda looked back but...’ She waved her hand dismissively. ‘You didn’t run over any pigeon.’ ‘Really? I didn’t?’ ‘Of course not,’ she said. ‘They always move out of the way.’ Immediately, I felt better. For if there’s one thing I’ve learned from married life, it’s this: she’s always right. React: bikes@amsterdamweekly.nl

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The people versus...

Street fashion

By Floris Dogterom

By Mo Veld

Illustration by Tomas Schats

The dandy devaluated

Save the planet. Eat tofu Not eating meat is a matter of civilisation. It’s uncivilised to kill an animal and eat it. This opinion makes me a moralist. Still, I’m not much of an evangelist. Although I think everybody should be a vegetarian, I hardly feel the need to convert people. I assume that everyone has access to the same information about meat as I have, and if you still decide to eat it, it’s up to you. Incidentally, I don’t particularly like animals. I hate dogs and if I’m visiting some exotic country where the opportunity arises to go see a monkey or a dolphin, count me out. Animals and people: they’re two different worlds and we should keep it that way. An odd thing that always strikes me is that the biggest animal lovers often turn out to be passionate meat lovers. That calls for a ﬂexible, albeit not very logical line of reasoning. After all, what is the difference between a dog and a pig? It seems that a dog is there to be stroked and a pig to be eaten. But then again, in Korea people have a different opinion. Google ‘dog meat Korea’ for some instructive pictures. Another form of carnivorous hypocrisy is that most meat eaters couldn’t kill an animal themselves. They don’t want to know where meat originates from. Meat is something you pick up from the refrigerated shelf in the supermarket. Back to evangelism. In the meantime, arguments against eating meat have arisen that have nothing to do with being uncivilised—at least, that’s what it looks like at ﬁrst glance. The 12 September issue of the weekly De Groene Amsterdammer had an interesting interview with Rajendra Pachari of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, who won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, together with Al Gore. Key quote: ‘Eating less meat is not only good for your health, but for the well-being of the planet as a whole. Cattle breeding produces no less than 18 per cent of the global emission of greenhouse gases, which is more than the contribution of all road transport. What’s more, the production of cattle fodder takes up enormous areas of farming land and scarce water, and cattle breeding is the main cause of deforestation.’ There you go. It turns out that not eating meat, based on these arguments, is a matter of civilisation after all. For it is very uncivilised to fuck the planet. Something to report? thepeopleversus@amsterdamweekly.nl

A couple of weeks back I was listening to BNR Business News Radio while cruising in my car back home to Amsterdam. I like to listen to the parade of purported experts and catch up on today’s events, but as these ‘talk radio’ stations feel they need to entertain us with ‘lifestyle’ topics—matters I happen to know a thing or two about—I am often rather disappointed, not to say irritated, to discover how carelessly these items have been thrown together. On this particular night I had to listen to one of my fashion journalist colleagues being questioned by BNR reporter Paul van Liempt, about the remarkable comeback of the suit. Apparently, more men are choosing to wear a proper suit to job interviews than before the ﬁnancial crash, and Van Liempt wanted to know why. My colleague—whom I don’t want to judge too harshly because she might have been sound-bitten out of context—answered with a truly riddling explanation about ‘the new dandy’, referring to the likes of former Quote star editor and PC Hooftstraat host Jort Kelder, and, worse, talking head Beau van Erven Dorens. Already more then fed up with the constant references to the economic crash in recent fashion reporting, I really cracked up at this one.

If Dandyism has anything to do with the fact that men are rediscovering the good old suit as the proper attire for business occasions, then we can be sure the economy is in serious danger! A dandy by definition aspires to an aristocratic lifestyle filled with nothing but aesthetic pleasures, a mission he performs with all the flamboyant flair he can muster, both in his immaculately groomed presentation and in his suave-saucy vocal expression and manners, but most definitely not by taking up arms in the business battlefield. Jort may display some sartorial snobbery, and Beau, well, apart from the name, no. Dandies they both are definitely not. A week or so later, at the VIP opening of the Viktor & Rolf ‘doll house’ show in Centraal Museum Utrecht, I was relieved to catch this lovely couple of true contemporary dandies. In fact I almost hugged them for reassuring me Photo by Mo Veld that I am not losing my perspective. Why are men wearing sharp suits again? Because everything is this close to being devaluated into meaningless trash, that’s why. React: inandout@amsterdamweekly.nl

Design

By Sarah Gehrke

LESSONS IN ARTS ’N’ CRAFTS Art versus design: can the latter have a legitimate claim to critically reflect on society, even if made for commercial ends? And, more controversially, can the former make that claim even if no one looks at it? This was the theme of last Thursday’s edition of Now is the Time, the lecture series about art and theory in the 21st century organised by the Stedelijk, the UvA, W139, SMBA and Metropolis M. The two speakers were Camiel van Winkel, lecturer in visual design and art theory, and Rick Poynor, writer and general expert in graphic design. Their approaches to the theme were

quite different, and so were their opinions. Van Winkel concentrated on pointing out how art, just like design, is inherently rooted in mass culture. He called this ‘the dialectics of art and mass culture’—a work of art is inconceivable without its (mass-culture) frame of reference. It’s a bit of a bugger, that whole theme, mainly because it makes people sway wildly between stating the obvious and getting lost in abstract nitpicking, neither of which is really beneﬁcial for someone listening to such discussions. High culture, low culture, mass culture, the middle classes—we were thrown from Andy Warhol on the beamer to

graphics telling us how the speciﬁcation of context leads to applied concept art. The latter being, in Van Winkel’s opinion, the only option left for the contemporary artist, mainly because the status of the artist as craftsman has been taken over by designers. With Hirst’s ‘The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living’ (yes, the one with the shark) up on the beamer, Van Winkel pointed out that many criteria for good design were met in this work of art. Add the fact that art museums are increasingly showing design works, and we may conclude that we can finally forget that annoying distinction between high and low culture. That conclusion would surely please designers and make some artists sniff, but it also ignores the question of design’s entanglement with the market. Enter Poynor, whose lecture highlighted the ideas of ‘design thinking’ and ‘critical design’. He tried to convince us that all design isn’t actually that evil after all, using examples of movements and manifestos about human-centred and responsible design. Movements that Van Winkel, in the ensuing (and, unsurprisingly, rather pointless) discussion, brushed off as marginal. ‘Design to make you think—I’m not sure how many people are interested in that,’ said Van Winkel. Aha! Art versus design—it seems we found the ___ difference after all.

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amelos, Amsterdam Weekly’s new comic artists (see p. 22), are Jeroen Funke, Aleks Deurloo and brothers Sam and Boris Peeters. As children, they were exposed to too much pop culture, which led each of them to develop their own special comic character. As a collective, they are unbeatable.

PROFILE: LAMELOS

ON CHEESE HEROES AND POOPHEADS

Lamelos Born 1997 Comics collective www.lamelos.nl See p. 22

Boris: They hit things. Sam: Kayeko hardly ever panics. Boris: He did once. He put a building on his head and sneaked off. Aleks: I’ll be drawing our main characters, the ones we normally do together: Kaasheld and Poephoofd [Cheese Hero and Poop Head]. They’re superheroes. They have blind panics, they hit things, and they go to the market. And there’s hardly any text. Boris: If you throw all our other characters together and mix them up, you end up with Kaasheld and Poephoofd. Jeroen: We came up with Kaasheld because we wanted a typically Dutch superhero. What’s more Dutch than a cheese cube with a little Dutch flag in it? Sam: Poephoofd is something Jeroen’s ex-girlfriend used to call him. We like to make fun of certain things. And we make what we like. Jeroen: That’s why we do much more than just the comics. We customise shoes, make films, perform at festivals. We’ve got our own beer and our own napkins. Boris: We’re starting a band too. Power Zeus and the White BA’s. Sam: It should have polyphonic choirs and loads of multi-instrumentalists. Jeroen: We’ll definitely be playing in Amsterdam. Boris: One day we want to get a mansion for the four of us. With a little tower. Sam: With our initials on the building in those three-dimensional blocks. Jeroen: You should be able to see the blocks from the air. Sam: Yellowed blocks. Aleks: We can yellow them by spreading yoghurt on them. Sam: No Aleks, no yoghurt. Aleks: But the blocks should have a flickering light. And there should be a doorman looking through a peephole. A really old guy. Boris: That could be one of our dads. Aleks: Jeroen’s dad has the best moustache for it. Jeroen: He’s also very tall. Boris: I think he should be the janitor/gardener and our father should be the doorman. Aleks: My father should just sit in the attic. Jeroen: Did I already say I love you guys? Boris: Me too. Sam: Me too. But in a straight way. Aleks: Like brothers. Boris: You know they’ll never stop talking. You’ll have to put an end to this interview yourself.

Pretty girls, animals, robots and monsters inhabit the land of Lamelosia.

Jeroen: We’ll be rotating the Weekly comic slot among us, all drawing our own things. Boris: Sam draws the pretty girls, Jeroen draws the animals, Aleks draws the robots and I draw the monsters. Sam: Actually, my comic doesn’t have a ﬁxed character. It’s called Braderie. It’s about people. Who get into situations. They might go to the market. Boris: But you have that one character, with the nose. He’s recurring. Jeroen: Isn’t he a junkie? Sam: No, he’s just some guy. Aleks: Like you and me. Sam: Maybe I should give him a name, to clarify things. Aleks: His name’s Frits. Frits Braderie. Boris: Frits with an S or Fritz with a Z? Sam: With an S. I suppose it’s a bad commercial move, not having a real character. Aleks: But now you have Frits. Boris: And you’re getting ahead of the rest of us anyway, with your solo projects. Sam: True. I’m also the only one with a job, teaching at the art school in Groningen where I didn’t get in as a student. Jeroen: Sam is the crowd pleaser because he draws people, whereas we tend to escape into our fantasy worlds. Sam: I just like recognisable situations. People relate to that. Jeroen: But I draw situations they can relate to, too. Just because I draw animals... people are so focused on outward appearances. Sam: Jeroen! Now you’re just being greedy. Jeroen: I just don’t like drawing people. Boris: My character is Kayeko, a monster from Japan. He’s just a normal monster. Gets into situations. Goes to the market. Sam: No, Boris. He has a real personality. He’s always thrashing a city or eating little humans. Boris: But that’s just your everyday typical monster stuff. Sam: And he can change his size. Boris: But all monsters can do that, can’t they? I try to use little text. It’s visual humour. Oh, and he’s orange. Jeroen: So instead of winding on like this for half an hour you could’ve just said, ‘I make text-less comics about an orange Japanese monster.’ Boris: Try coming up with that. I’ve been drawing him since 2000 but my love for the orange monster has never died. Jeroen: I draw Victor and Vishnu, a bear and an apebird—a genetically modified species. Though I’ve never really explained how that happened.

By Rebecca Wilson

‘If you throw all our other characters together and mix them up, you end up with Kaasheld and Poephoofd.’

Sam: You don’t have to. Jeroen: They get into, well, situations. They hire a bike, go to the forest. It’s quite mild, like a children’s comic. Like Bert and Ernie. I prefer to draw animals because they can deal with blind panic. They just run off. That’s me giving away future storylines right there. Sam: Yes, animals really know how to handle being in a blind panic. Jeroen: They bear it better. They have primary responses. Those are more fun. What do monsters do in a blind panic?

More info at: www.lamelos.nl

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F E AT U R E

I GET BY WITH LITTLE HELP FROM MY FRIENDS

As passers-by ignore a woman being raped and then a Good Samaritan gets attacked while trying to protect someone, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s time to ask what the hell is happening? Whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going on in the minds of the average person on the street? By Liz Farsaci / Illustrations by Kathrin Klingner

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ust over a month ago, a woman was raped as she was walking along the Herengracht between Vijzelstraat and Leidsestraat at 2.30 in the morning. Her attacker then forced her to go with him to Leidseplein and withdraw cash from an ATM. In her statement to the police, the 26-year-old Amsterdam woman said cyclists passed by as she was being dragged along, with one even turning back to look before moving on. Less than two weeks ago, the owner of New York Pizza on Reguliersbreestraat tried to intervene when a group attacked her neighbour. But as soon as she alerted a police officer, she was beaten up by one of the perpetrators. Upon hearing of these attacks, both taking place in central, public places, one’s immediate reaction is to wonder why didn’t anyone step in to help these women? What has become of this city of ours? When did people become so embarrassingly apathetic? Delving deeper into the topic, it becomes apparent that multiple layers of issues are playing out in situations like these. There are psychological, social and personal ones, as well as cultural norms at play—a mix of those going on in the minds of all humans, those that are present for everyone who lives in big cities and those specific to Amsterdammers. One major issue is what psychologists term the ‘bystander effect’: the more people there are watching a situation, the less they feel personally responsible and the less likely they are to intervene. Referring to the rape case, Jan-Willam van Prooijen, associate professor at the Department of Social Psychology at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, says ‘When I read about this case, it seemed like a perfect example of the bystander effect—the bystander effect in action.’ There are a couple of underlying psychological processes, or reasons, for this phenomenon, explains Van Prooijen. One is ‘diffusion of responsibility’: when others are around, people assume that they will do something— the problem arises when, as is often the case, everyone does this. Another process subconsciously going on in our heads is ‘pluralistic ignorance’. This is when people assume that, if other people are watching a situation and no one is intervening, perhaps the situation is not an emergency. So why do we look to others so often, even if it means that someone gets hurt? ‘People are a little bit like sheep,’ explains Amsterdambased psychologist Marcelino Lopez. ‘We look at others. That’s the way the mind works. You look to other people to see what’s normal. Self-preservation is part of it, but another part of it is that, as we are raised, one of the biggest things is that we want to fit in. First of all, you want approval from your mother. That’s what starts it—if you get approval, you get your food, you get your love and you get your attention. That’s really deep in the human mind. To fit in, to be normal, to be like the others and to not be cast out is one of our primary instincts.’ Of course, human beings are complex creatures, and there are other reasons for why we don’t intervene. ‘One strong phenomena is that people assume that others get what they deserve,’ says Van Prooijen. Thus, when we come across a situation, and we don’t know what is happening, we sometimes assume that the victim is getting what he or she deserves. This isn’t because we are cruelhearted creatures so much as because we want the world to be predictable and our lives controllable. We hope that if we work hard and are model citizens we’ll get what we deserve—a good life. We don’t like to contemplate the fact that people don’t always get what they deserve. In a city, there are also more acceptable reasons why people ignore each other. ‘You’re confronted with a lot of stimuli each day in a city,’ explains Amsterdam-based psychologist Joris de Boer. ‘If you have to pay attention to everything, it’s going to be a really heavy day for you. We have to somehow pick things out of everything that is happening around us and

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choose the important ones. It’s difﬁcult. ‘If you’re on a bike, there are a lot of things happening. You are constantly making selections, and if you take everything seriously, you would be a bit like Crocodile Dundee, coming from the Outback and into the city for the ﬁrst time. Being polite to everyone is impossible—you cannot work and you cannot function, so you need to neglect some things. And the sad thing is that some people neglect things when it would have been better to do something.’ But of course, Amsterdam isn’t just any city. It’s a city renowned for its tolerance, acceptance and creativity—in fact, many of us live here for that very reason. There’s a downside to the scale of life, however. ‘The bigger the city you live in, the more anonymous you are,’ says Lopez. ‘Here in Amsterdam, when I walk around, almost everybody’s a stranger. That feeling of anonymity makes you care less, because you simply don’t know people.

‘It makes me want to vomit,’ she says. ‘I’m scared and angry about the fact that it happened and nobody helped. It seems incredible.’ ‘Amsterdam attracts a lot of misﬁts, a lot of people who don’t ﬁt in with a little village, who feel a little strange— they feel much more comfortable living in Amsterdam than in a little Christian village in the south of the country. Of course, that has a huge impact upon people; people mind their own business more. In Amsterdam it’s easier to let things go by. ‘I think that people can be a little more crazier in cities because of the lack of social control,’ adds Lopez. ‘If you’re really lonely and don’t have a lot of friends, you can take your own thoughts very seriously, and there’s nobody around to correct them. For example, if I was being really negative, [my friends] would say, “Geez, you’re being negative. What’s up with you?” It corrects itself a little bit; because of your friends, your personality is more stable and more normal. A lot of incidents happen because people develop paranoia. With no one correcting them, one day they snap and they think someone is the devil.’

‘People are a little bit like sheep. We look at others. That’s the way the mind works.’ In a city with so many people, you obviously have to give others space, physically and otherwise, and you have to respect others by letting them be. This may be particularly true in Amsterdam, where we pride ourselves in letting others get on with their own business without batting an eye. But does this mean that one of the social norms here is to ignore each other? No, says Lopez. ‘I’ve heard people say that Dutch tolerance can mean indifference—it’s really difﬁcult to tell those apart,’ he says. ‘But I think people feel responsible; in a city like this, if something happens, there’s always a couple people out, or a couple people sticking their heads out the window. People are assertive here. You need to be a little assertive in a big city to get what you want, and I think

that’s good for these kinds of things.’ Agniet Helmens, who has lived for the last 17 years in the area where the rape recently occurred has always felt she could rely on her neighbours and others for help. Naturally, she was deeply shocked to hear about the attack. ‘It makes me want to vomit,’ she says. ‘I’m scared and angry about the fact that it happened and nobody helped. It seems incredible. We have contact with our neighbours and we phone if something goes wrong.’ Trying to make some kind of sense out of it all, Helmens speculates as to why no one came to the aid of the woman. ‘I think that people living in the centre would definitely help,’ she says. ‘But if I were in Piccadilly Circus for example, as someone from Amsterdam, I don’t know if I would do anything if someone was being beaten up, because I wouldn’t know the rules. So I can imagine a lot of tourists looking, but they wouldn’t know what to do.’ Despite these attacks, Helmens still believes that Amsterdam is a friendly city where people do help each other. Bente Hughes, who works at Mike’s Bike Tours on Kerkstraat, agrees, though she makes a distinction between situations when Amsterdammers are and are not willing to help. She can always borrow some sugar from her neighbours, and many locals are happy to help tourists who are lost or get a flat tyre. But with these situations, she says, ‘it’s basically being nice to other people who seem to be in easy trouble when there’s no danger involved. ‘I think that when violence comes into it, that’s when people are scared of lifting a finger. Because yeah, of course, you don’t want someone else to get hurt. But even more so, people don’t want to get hurt themselves. In that way humans are very selfish. The survival instinct counts the most for yourself.’ Does Bente feel that the attacks and the lack of help indicate that Amsterdam is a crueller place to live in now than it once was? Are people less willing to help than they once were? This may be the case, she says, if you go back about ten years. ‘That’s when you started getting those situations with people fighting on the street and someone coming in between fights to sort it out, but ending up getting beaten to death,’ she says. ‘And I think after that, perhaps you had a decline in people wanting to help each other. I think we started hearing about it because the media blew it up. And the minute the media blew it up, people saw it, and that started to make them think.’ Psychologist De Boer does not believe that Amsterdam has become crueller over the past ten years, however. He says that larger, international issues, such as fear-mongering and anti-Islamic sentiments, can affect how we interact with each other in this city. ‘There’s a lot of media attention on it, and people feel that somehow they’re threatened,’ he says. ‘Local people pick up on this and make it worse. But on the flipside, people can also be influenced by more positive, hopeful things. Like with Obama: he’s not really someone who is helping this country, but it’s in our minds [and people start to think that] the world is a safer place now.’ But while these sentiments are all in our heads, they are nonetheless quite real. ‘We are not rational people,’ says de Boer. ‘We are influenced by emotions, and when we all get positive emotions, we are primed for cooperation and hope. I think this does influence how people react on the street.’ Referring to the rape case, chief inspector Jelmer Visser, who heads up the vice squad in Amsterdam, recently told Het Parool that he was troubled by the fact that no one helped the woman. ‘This must not be tolerated,’ he said. ‘This is a young woman whose physical integrity was violated in a horrible way. I want people to feel co-responsible for the safety of everyone in our city.’ More info: www.blixum.nl/rubrieken.php?id=103& www.rutgersnissogroep.nl www.kennislink.nl/web/show?id=164249

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AGENDA

SHORT LIST

Photo by Leo van Velzen

Woyzeck, Monday, Stadsschouwburg.

THURSDAY 4 DECEMBER

SATURDAY 6 DECEMBER

Art: De Outsider Kunst Dagen

Dance: Ayikodans

The artist Jean Dubuffet defined Art Brut, or ‘outsider art’, as ‘those works created from solitude and from pure and authentic creative impulses—where the worries of competition, acclaim and social promotion do not interfere.’ Sounds good. But mostly it’s associated with creations of the marginal and/or insane: for example, the French country postman who spent 33 years building his own ‘Palais Ideal’ or the autistic Russian who made endless self-portraits with guns. Meanwhile an ever increasing amount of galleries, magazines and organisations are dedicating themselves to this field. And these ‘Outsider Art Days’ in Haarlem are the first time in Europe that a full blown fair is taking place—crazy to think really. See www.dedagen.nl. (Steve Korver) Het Pand, 11.00-18.00, Haarlem, €6. Closing Sunday.

As an adjunct to its vast, super-nifty exhibition about voodoo (casting spells on Amsterdam through next May) the Tropeninstituut is hosting a front-rank dance company from Haiti that incorporates traditional voodoo ritual, melding it with contemporary African and Caribbean movement. Ayikodans—founded and shepherded by Jeanguy Saintus—draws on millionbarrel reserves of energy, invoking histories and spiritual practices from the African diaspora and winning fans and plaudits worldwide during nearly 20 years of touring. This is one sure way to warm up a long Dutch night. (Steve Schneider) KIT Tropentheater (Fri 20.30), €23.

Film: Future Shorts

MONDAY 8 DECEMBER Theatre: Woyzeck

Future Shorts, the international label and travelling festival for short film, has arrived at the ports of Amsterdam again. On board the Stubnitz they have organised a special screening with Dutch and international shorts. The evening starts with four Dutch gems: ‘Coupé’ by David Lammers, a tragi-comic story about a businessman breaking down on a train, ‘Swim’ by Sil van der Swoerd, a digitally manipulated sci-fi tale about modern conception, ‘Kogel Vogel’ by Federico Campanale, an ode to the beauty of the bullet, and the animation ‘Neurotica’ by Han Hoogerbrugge who has just received the Hendrik Chabot Prize. The night will then continue with international shorts, gently bobbing with the water where the Stubnitz is docked. See www.futureshorts.nl. (Marie-Claire Melzer) Stubnitz, 20.30, €6.

Georg Büchner’s Woyzeck ends with the title character, a low soldier, murdering his girlfriend and mother of his illegitimate child by stabbing her to death (he couldn’t afford a gun). Constant humiliation by the world around him has brought Woyzeck to this. Or was it the medical experiment he subjected himself to, in order to make some extra money? Or was it the voices in his head, possibly a result of same medical experiment, which forced him to live on a diet of peas? Rogier Philipoom’s Woyzeck is ever-fidgeting and ever-busy; only after the murder does he finally hold still. Woyzeck was left unfinished when Büchner died at age 24, and the fragments leave directors much space for interpretation. Gerardjan Rijnders’ production focuses on Woyzeck’s motives for the murder. It is the first one he’s made as new permanent director at Rotterdam’s RO Theater, and even though there’s no gun, it’s a start with a bang. (Sarah Gehrke) Stadsschouwburg, 20.30, €10-€27.50. Also on Tuesday.

FRIDAY 5 DECEMBER

TUESDAY 9 DECEMBER

Club: Genesis Clubnacht with DJ Diplo

Classical: One Minute More

Trendsetting DJ extraordinaire, Diplo is as well known for discovering and nurturing great acts like MIA, Spankrock and Bonde Do Role as he is for throwing the most fun mash-up parties. With his label Mad Decent, Diplo has brought the sounds of baile funk from the Brazilian ghettos to chicken-shit hipsters that wouldn’t set their €300 Nikes in the City of God through nurturing the scene, signing acts and new ﬁlm Favela on Blast. But us chicken-shit hipsters needn’t trouble ourselves with poor people… Let’s just dance like somebody is watching to his baile funk/hiphop/electro/you-name-it party. (Colin Delaney) Paradiso, 23.59-05.00, €15.

Pianist Guy Livingston commissioned 60 composers from 23 countries to write a 60 second piece for him. He then invited five film-makers to create films for this music, now being screened with Livingston performing live at Bethaniënklooster. You could also buy the dvd, go home, press random and enjoy a pleasing parade of ultra-shorts. Either way, the rather theatrical pieces are full of aural and visual gags with zest. Film-maker Nelleke Koop shot the pianist in the polder, Juan de Graaf does animated pianos and there’s many abstractions of everyday objects like nails, flags or apartment buildings. Best title: ‘The One-Minute Opera We’ve All Been Waiting For’. (Rebecca Wilson) Bethaniënklooster, 20.15, €15.

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MUSIC

AGENDA: MUSIC Must see: Classical

Thursday 4 December Punk: The Eastpak Antidote Tour feat. Flogging Molly With Celtic folk punks from LA, Flogging Molly, supported by The Streetdogs, Skindred and Time Again, the pride of the Emerald Isle will be strong in The Max. Expect lots of Guinness and four leaf clover tattoos. Melkweg, The Max, 19.00, sold out Rock: dEUS Belgian indie rockers continue their three nights of sold out shows at Paradiso with support by Australia’s Expatriate. Paradiso, Grote Zaal, 19.30, sold out Pop/Rock: Anouk Den Haag’s Anouk and band take to the Heineken Music Hall with support from locals Voicst. She’ll also play Wednesday 17 and Monday 22 December. Heineken Music Hall, 20.00, €39 Classical: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Accompanied by pianist Nelson Freire and conductor Kurt Masur, Amsterdam’s highly respected Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra offers up Brahms’ Piano Concerto No.1 and Dvorák’s Symphony No.9. Concertgebouw, Grote Zaal, 20.15, €20/€60 ˆ

Classical: The Tokyo Quartet Works from the likes of Beethoven, Webern and Ravel. Concertgebouw, Kleine Zaal, 20.15, €35.50 Jazz: Benjamin Herman Quartet Dapper leader of the New Cool Collective, Benjamin Herman gets saxy with his quartet, blending jazz, swing and funk while remaining cool like a Bond martini; shaken, not stirred. Bimhuis, 20.30, €16 Classical: De Doelenensemble Rotterdammers De Doelenensemble contribute to Muziekgebouw’s Thursday night series by presenting Wagemans’ ‘Kammerconcerto’, Messiaen’s ‘Visions de l’Amen’ and Carter’s ‘Triple Duo’. Muziekgebouw, 20.30, €25 World: Gandhi Bazaar Flaunting his ﬂautist and composing skills, local Ned McGowan mixes his world music inﬂuences into a big steaming musical gumbo. Or curry. Possibly a stir fry even. Point being it’s a delicious mix. Tropentheater, Kleine Zaal, 20.30, €17 World: Natacha Atlas & The Mazeeka Ensemble Drawing inspiration from Arabic and North African sounds into Western electronic music, Atlas considers herself the ‘human Gaza Strip’ due to her diverse background. The Belgium-born artist with Moroccan, Egyptian, Palestinian and English heritage has been on the world music scene since 1991. Melkweg, Oude Zaal, 20.30, €22.50 + membership Rock: Women, Unwed Sailor Atmospheric instrumentalists Unwed Sailor from Seattle are joined by Women, (all-male) lo-fi indie rockers from Calgary, Canada with tinges of Beach Boys and moments of Velvet Underground. Paradiso, Kleine Zaal, 22.15, €7 + membership

Friday 5 December Rock: dEUS See Thursday. Paradiso, Grote Zaal, 19.30, sold out Jazz: Timucin Sahin 4 Trained between Amsterdam and New York as well as, judging by his double neck guitar, the school of Led Zeppelin, Turkish-born Timucin Sahin rips a mean axe through free jazz, classical and a touch of wank. Still, fans and fellow guitarists will be so beside themselves they may need to pay for two seats. Zing! Bimhuis, 20.30, €15 Hiphop: Kool Keith & Kutmasta Kurt One of the craziest personalities in hiphop, Kool Keith was a founding member of the Ultra Magnetic MCs back in ’84 and may go by Dr Octagon, Dr Doom and sometimes Black Elvis. While he’s a serial collaborator, on this tour he is joined by longtime musical squeeze Kutmasta Kurt, the funky redneck, on turntables. Melkweg, Sugar Factory, 21.00, €17 + membership Electro rock: Yacht From the hallowed halls of DFA, home to LCD Soundsystem, come Yacht. The Portland Oregon duo make squishy electro-pop and are perfect for name-dropping to kids with bright Ray Bans. Paradiso, Kleine Zaal, 22.15, €7 + membership Electro rock: Casiokids Electro popsters from Bergen, Norway, Casiokids throw twinkling keyboards over catchy guitar riffs and then sing in Norwegian—simple yet effective. Paradiso, Kelder, 23.00, €7 + membership

Ivushka Concertgebouw, Grote Zaal, Sunday 5 December With German ensemble Ivushka, The Russian Winter is a performance brought to life through music and dance. 20.15, €36.10/€42.50

Saturday 6 December Pop: Lykke Li Making good-quality, echoing indie pop the way only Scandinavians seem capable of, Sweden’s Lykke Li follows in the footsteps of Jenny Wilson, Stina Nordenstam, Robyn and the happier moments of The Knife. Paradiso, Grote Zaal, 1.00, €14 + membership Classical: Ensemble Emily Beynon Flautist Emily Beynon performs works by Bach and Hummel puts on an afternoon show with a little help from her piano, horn, cello, viola and oboe-playing friends. Noorderkerk, 14.00, €12 Classical: Radio Filharmonisch Orkest In an afternoon show conducted by Jaap van Zweden, the Radio Filharmonisch Orkest is joined by Tasmin Little for the world premiere performance of De Raaf’s Violin Concerto and Mahler’s Ninth. Concertgebouw, Grote Zaal, 14.15, €25/€29.50 Jazz: New Cotton Club Allstars One of Amsterdam’s oldest jazz bars and their house band lays on the cool jazz. Did Chet Baker ever play there before his fateful fall? Cotton Club, 16.30-20.00, free Ska: The Dublicators As the name suggests, locals The Dublicators duplicate classics like Michael Jackson’s ‘Beat It’ and the Grease classic ‘Shape Up’, then re-shape them into dub hits. A touch of Caribbean on a Dutch winter night should get the crowd skankin’ with across-the-board classics. De Nieuwe Anita, 20.00, €7.50 Classical: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra See Thursday. Concertgebouw, Grote Zaal, 20.15, €20/€60 Classical: De Keuze van... Arnold Marinissen A multimedia performance using rhythms, film, dance and special guests, Arnold Marinissen displays why he’s one of the Netherlands’ top percussionists with his new programme titled Framed & Live. Muziekgebouw, 20.30, €25 Pop/Rock: Department of Eagles For fans of Beach House and Grizzly Bear, the dreamier moments of The Beatles and Pet Sounds, duo Department of Eagles glide on thermals of atmospheric pop with uplifting harmonies and spacious strings. Album In Ear Park did well for itself on the indier-than-thou website pitchfork.com. Vondelkerk, 20.30, €9 Pop/Rock: Deerhoof The indie blogosphere went crazy for Deerhoof a couple of years ago. Off-kilter indie pop with cutesy vocals by the human version of Hello Kitty makes for an act you’ll either love or hate. Support from Parenthetical Girls. Melkweg, Oude Zaal, 21.00, €13 + membership

Must see: The Roots. Must not see: Fiction Plane.

Soul/Hiphop: La Melodia La Melodia’s conscious hiphop is refreshingly old school amongst the heavily produced hip pop that’s all over at the moment. Think A Tribe Called Quest with Jean Grae out front. You can hear the dust on the vinyl, and that’s nice. Their album Vibing High is out now. Paradiso, Kleine Zaal, 22.15, €8 + membership

Sunday 7 December Classical: Bach Choir and Orchestra of the Netherlands Händel was at his peak when he composed his classic Messiah, much like Metallica when they composed their classic Leper Messiah. The Bach Choir and Orchestra of the Netherlands will perform the former of the two pieces. Concertgebouw, Grote Zaal, 14.15, €42.50/€47.50 Classical: Les Talens Lyriques So much Händel to handle. Mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato leads the baroque orchestra Les Talens Lyriques through the composer’s array of arias. Conductor Christophe Rousset is at the helm. Concertgebouw, Grote Zaal, 20.15, €42.50/€49.50 Classical: Amsterdamse Tramharmonie Backed by the Groot Concertkoor Amsterdam, the symphonic brass ensemble performs works by Rutter, Borodin and Kashif. Muziekgebouw, 20.30, €20 Pop/Rock: Fiction Plane Name three great singer/bass players that took their band to fame: Sir Paul McCartney (The Beatles), Kim Deal (The Pixies) and Sting (The Police). Not, however, Sting’s son and his band Fiction Plane. Paradiso, 20.30, €17.50 + membership

Monday 8 December Hiphop: The Roots Premiere live hiphop act The Roots are known for their high energy shows led by MC Black Thought and drummer extraordinaire ?uestlove. Expect plenty from this year’s Rising Down, their extensive back catalogue and loads of classic hiphop covers of their friends’ tunes—friends like Jay Z, Beyonce, Sugar Hill Gang and more. Better than Babyface. Paradiso, Grote Zaal, 20.30, sold out Experimental: DNK-Amsterdam Experimental music concert series DNK Amsterdam this week flies in Alexander Tucker from across the pond. The British multi-instrumentalist specialises in guitar, cello and mandolin, weaving acoustic with electronic to layer and build a unique soundscape. SMART Project Space, 21.30, €5

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AGENDA: MUSIC/CLUBS Must see: Hiphop/Electronica

De Jeugd van Tegenwoordig Melkweg, The Max, Sunday 7 December In English, Youth These Days are all over MTV so it’s only appropriate that the channel presents this show. Fun and cheeky, the electro/hiphop trio who rap in Dutch should get the ‘party started’ as the kids these days say. Do they still say that? 21.00, €12.50 + membership

Tuesday 9 December Reggae: 30 Years of Babylon By Bus: Tribute to Bob Marley The legendary live record by Bob Marley, Babylon By Bus, is thrown a 30th birthday party with a huge line up of Dutch hiphop and roots acts; The Opposites, Ziggi, Tribute2BobMarley, Boris, Dennis, Caprice, Typhoon and Leona. No doubt it will be a funky reggae party. Melkweg, The Max, 20.00, €15 + membership Classical: Nederlands Kamerorkest See Monday. Concertgebouw, Grote Zaal, 20.15, €16/€19 Blues: Everlast Hiphopper turned blues troubadour Everlast plays songs from new album Love, War and the Ghost of Whitey Ford and no doubt ’90s hit ‘What It’s Like’. But will he try an acoustic version of his House of Pain classic ‘Jump Around’? Let’s hope not. Melkweg, Oude Zaal, 20.30, €25 + membership Hiphop: The Roots See Monday. Paradiso, Grote Zaal, 20.30, sold out Hiphop: Dälek Fresh from an appearance at All Tomorrow’s Parties curated by Mike Patton and The Melvins in Minehead, experimental hiphop duo Dälek bring their dark noise to the apt surrounds of the MS Stubnitz. Horror-themed lyrics over cinematic eeriness and slow trip hop beats are seeing these New Jersey locals rise from the sludge of the underground, setting critics howling in the process. Stubnitz, 21.00, €8

Wednesday 10 December Heavy: Riverside Warsaw’s progressive metalists Riverside make dark, fast, twisted music. No doubt their tour with their heroes—American prog-metal stalwarts Dream Theatre—will allow them to now die happy (or sad, to keep their metal cred). Paradiso, Grote Zaal, 19.30, €20 + membership

CLUBS Thursday 4 December Vreemd A themeless Vreemd party! Now that’s weird for a change. Anyway—DJs Agnes, Esther Duijn, and Carlos Valdes decorate the night, while S_Loop VJs. Sugar Factory, 23.30-04.00, €10 Blue Note Trip Weekly jazz and dance fusion featuring DJ Maestro and guests. Melkweg, Oude Zaal, 23.30-late, €8

Friday 5 December Fuq le Funq The gloriously mispelled title only continues in the description of the party, which promises it to be ‘phonky’ and to provide everything that ‘funqs’. Ah well—funk moves in mysterious ways, so to all you copy editors, yu beter funk off now. Club 8, 22.00-04.00, €5 Best of Kingkong Monkey biznizz and wasted felidae with the Drunken Lion Soundsystem ft Mike Latina, plus Aiscream and Pappi Lloyd. Bitterzoet, 23.00-04.00, €7.50 Crazy Horse West Orgue Electronique Live, Ille Bitch, Thomas Martojo and Sint Proper, who are most probably going to play anything but Neil Young. Flex Bar, 23.00-05.00, €8 klinch: Rauw Get raw on pakjesavond with the Whip, Mixhell, Joost van Bellen and VJ00KAAP in The Max, and Little Sexmachine hosting the Oude Zaal, bringing on Boemklatsch, Wannabe A Star and Oslo Hilton. Melkweg, 23.00-late, €17 + membership

Rock: Slut Delightfully named German indie act. Let’s hope they put out. Paradiso, Kleine Zaal, 20.00, €7 + membership

Genesis Clubnacht DJ Diplo of M.I.A. and Santogold production fame is accompanied by the Beesmunt Soundsystem and Roger 72 & the Walk. See Short List. Paradiso, 23.59-05.00, €15

Pop/Rock: Travis After a four-year break, last year’s album The Boy With No Name was a return to form for Glaswegians Travis, but it couldn’t bring them back up to the dizzy heights of ’99’s The Man Who. Nevertheless they return to Amsterdam on the back of new album Ode to J Smith which has been receiving decent reviews. Melkweg, The Max, 20.30, €25 + membership

Hot Mix This one’s special: described as an ‘indoor Dance Valley’, this party has ‘some of the best DJs and acts from over the world’—but apparently they haven’t yet been recognised as such, otherwise the tickets would come a little more expensive. The bill includes Daarin Lennel Bolden, Brian S, DJ Lee Farmer, Baggi Baggovic, and DJ Rossa. Sugar Factory, 23.59-05.00, €12.50

Freaky right up to the Umlaut: Dälek at Stubnitz.

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A G E N D A : C L U B S / G AY & L E S B I A N / S T A G E

Saturday 6 December

Sunday 7 December

Bloemklatsch Bloemklatsch DJs: Sjammie The Money, Mike Mago and Illvester, plus Lil’ Vic, Danny de Funk and Estaw. Flex Bar, 23.00-05.00, €8

Party: Who’s Your Daddy? What do you get when Bear Necessity and Club Church team up for a party? Yep, a bear sex party for all those frollocking furry fortysomethings, who still need more fun after yesterdays party. Church, 16.00-20.00, €10/€12,50

C.U.B.E. Behold, beware: Amsterdam has a new club night. In a confusing mix of adjectives and nouns and words that can be both, it is announced as a mix between street, house, art, urban, fashion and sport (a painting of a building on a road in a city and a runner in fancy clothes?). All that’s certain is that the resident DJs Benjamin Brown, Francklin McKoy and Alex Salvador spin black house and black soul. Sugar Factory, 23.0005.00, €12

Party: Secret Garden Organised by Secret Garden, an organisation for gay, lezzie and transgender Muslims, this dance party celebrates Aid Eladha, the Muslim offer celebration, and includes Arabic music, food and acts. All welcome. Church, 21.00, €5

Tuesday 9 December

R*E*D*N*O*S*E*A*L*L*S*T*A*R*S With Steven de Peven, Aardvarck and friends. Club 8, 23.00 06.00, €6

Games night: Bingo Miss DelaVita, Kimberly Clark and/or Dolly Belleﬂeur get the numbers rolling at this fun wacky bingo night. Queen's Head, 22.00, free

Bleep Bizarre For everyone who doesn’t find the word ‘psy-trance’ deeply scary, this might be just the place to be tonight. Studio 80, 23.00-late, €12

Wednesday 10 December

Gemengd Zwemmen Melkweg’s classic diversity night. Balkan Beatz is back in the Oude Zaal; with live act Pigmeat. The Max is reliable as ever with pop, indie, rock, and dance. Melkweg, 23.59-late, €9

Sunday 7 December Second Chance Sunday Friday night, Saturday night, weekend over? Ah come on, might as well make it a hat-trick with this electro and Britpop night. Winston Kingdom, 23.00-03.00, €5

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

STAGE

Wicked Jazz Sounds Jazz you can dance to. Sugar Factory, 23.00-05.00, €9.50 Zonde! Paradiso’s naughty Sunday night party is no longer new, but it’s still fresh. This time, DJs Roger 72 & The Walk and Aiscream join a performance by Trippin’ Angels; and there’s even something interactive and democratic going on with DJs You & Your Friends - they want you to bring your iPod. Paradiso, 23.30-05.00, €7.50

Monday 8 December Cheeky Monday True skool jungle and drum & bass, featuring players from the local and international scenes. Winston Kingdom, 21.00-03.00, €7

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Thursday 4 December Party: Lezzie Chill Out The name says it all. Chat, chill, dance and/or ﬂirt. And sip sexy cocktails. Cafe Sappho, 21.00, free

Friday 5 December Party: Skin Party Oi, Oi. Special skin party, as part of the SkinterKlaas Weekend, with DJ Max. For full details about this weekend organised by the Amsterdam Skins: www.agskins.nl Web, 01.00-05.00, €12,50 Party: Prik je Pakje Those who didn’t get a present from Sinterklaas might still get lucky. Zwarte Prik & Roze Klaas will help you to ﬁnd your real surprise during the Prik je Pakje Dating Game. PRIK, 21.00, free Party: 4 Play Dance party to start the weekend, hosted by Rachel O’Neil with DJ Jerry Black, DJ MBC and DJ Max Morel (Rapido), plus hot visuals, strippers, and live shows. Exit, 23.59-05.00, €10

Saturday 6 December Party: M.U.L.T.I.S.E.X.I. Wicked electro party which is always tons of fun. Tonight’s theme is A Teenage Goth Opera, with DJs BIN, DELFOS & CLEO and Ms and Mr Cameron. Visuals by Little Black Prince Jag. Studio 80, 23.00-04.00, €9.50 Party: Bear Necessity Special Sinterklaas edition of this four ﬂoors fur-fest, with DJ Benjamin and DJ David Hernández. Odeon, 23.00-05.00, €12,50

Opening Music/Theatre: Ik val... val in mijn armen For one night NTGENT trade in their drama for a programme of songs. Wim Opbrouck and Els Dottermans delve into the world of American country music, only it isn’t all American or country, as Norah Jones, Mark Knopfler, Brahms and André Hazes all pop in for a bit. Stadsschouwburg, (Thur 20.30), €10-€27.50 Theatre: Raaf The three established actors Sanne Vogel, Tygo Gernandt and Egbert-Jan Weeber join forces in this play about people and birds and autism. With their performances, all three have earned raving reviews. And now you go and get that pun! Theater Bellevue, (Thur-Sat 20.30), €16 Dance/Performance: The Post Show Party Show To be seen in combination with Playing Ensemble Again and Again; this show opens for the former. Michael Pinchbeck and his father Tony relive the party where his parents met in 1970; the afterparty of a Sound of Music production, where his mother played a nun and his father a nazi. Pinchbeck explores the father-son relation using music and movement. In English. Gasthuis, Thur, Fri 19.30, €10 Dance: Ayikodans Top-notch dance outﬁt from Haiti. See Short List. KIT Tropentheater, (Fri 20.30), €23 Dance: Said and Done This night combines the three works of young dancers of the Nederlands Dans Theater. 2001’s Said and Done by choreographers Paul Lightfoot and Sol Léon is a performance to music by Bach; the second performance is a new work by Jirí Kylián and the third one is by Marco Goecke, who is developing a new, fresh form of dance that borders on other forms of art. He is the winner of a 2006 Nijinski Award. Stadsschouwburg, (Sat 20.30), €10-€27.50 Theatre: Woyzeck Rotterdam’s RO Theater perform Georg Büchner’s last, unﬁnished play about a soldier in a world of poverty and abuse of power. His constant exposure to being humiliated (and to dangerous medical experiments) leads to sudden insanity. See Short List. Stadsschouwburg, Mon, Tue 20.30, €10-€27.50

Ongoing Dance: Do You Have a Cigarette? And Other Ways to Approach A piece about clubbing, escapism, loneliness and hope, created by Pere Faura. Let's hope it'll contain better dancing that what can usually be seen on a 4 am danceﬂoor. Gasthuis, (Thur, Fri 21.00), €10 Theatre: Jerk In the mid-’70s, the American serial killer Dean Corll murdered more than twenty boys—with the help of teenagers David Brooks and Wayne Henley. The play is a ﬁctional reconstruction of how Brooks, in prison, uses puppets to reenact the murders as a means to take responsibility for his own part in the atrocities. In English. Frascati, (Thur 19.30), €14

Dance with electronic gender benders at M.U.L.T.I.S.E.X.I.

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AGENDA: EVENTS/ART

EVENTS

Art: Opening

Film night: Future Shorts The travelling festival of short film returns to Amsterdam. See Short List. Stubnitz, (Thur 20.30), €6 Event: Sinterklaasgala voor Volwassenen The Sint comes to town and this time, it’s strictly for grown-ups. And just who will win the Zwarte Piet Award 2008? Stadsschouwburg, (Fri 20.00), €15 + present costing at least €5 Event: Black Pete’s Surprise Bingo Some descriptions are best left unwritten. De Nieuwe Anita, (Fri 20.00), €5 Lecture: Dare2Connect: Café Mediterranée VII This edition of the lecture series focuses on contemporary theatre in Gaza and the West Bank; speakers include Jackie Lubeck and Jan Williams, founding members of Theatre Day Productions, a theatre production company for children and teenagers. In English. Jaarbeurs, Utrecht (Fri 15.00), free Book presentation: Julie Doxsee Canadian poet Doxsee launches her debut collection, Undersleep. In English. The English Bookshop, (Sun 16.00), free Debate: De Staat van de Democratie #3: Ghana Tying in with the Ghanese elections, De Balie hosts analyses, readings, a debate about the state of democracy in Africa and a live connection to Ghana. De Balie, (Sun 20.30), € Multimedia: Keying Into the Brain Mediafestival An all-day event investigating multimedia, audio, video and interaction techniques. Included in the programme are workshops, presentations, debates and so on. See www.keyingintothebrain.nl if you’re multimedia-inclined. Pakhuis de Zwijger, (Mon 09.00-20.00), €75 Film/Music: Elton John Since Elton couldn’t be arsed coming to the Netherlands during his ‘The Red Piano Tour’, fans of the 60-year-old can pay to watch him live from Paris, albeit in the more comfortable surroundings of Tuschinski. Remember though: no lighters in the air. We don’t want the place burning down. Pathé Tuschinski, (Tues 19.45), €22.50 Multidisciplinary: Beamlab Creatives get talking about their latest ideas and projects. Pakhuis de Zwijger, (Wed 20.00), free

ART Opening Alias The Melkweg gallery closes off the year with this exhibition by Fjodor C Buis: a series about the big guys in sports—and their nicknames. The fact that prominent sportsmen and -women are awarded a nickname when they’re famous enough to evoke national pride is explored in a number of portraits and with a touch of humour. Melkweg Galerie (Wed-Sun 13.00-20.00), opens Thursday, until 11 January 2009 De Outsider Kunst Dagen For four days, Haarlem becomes the hub of Outsider Art: art that has been created far outside of the regularly accepted institutional framework. De Outsider Kunst Dagen bring together ten galleries from five different European countries. See Short List. Het Pand 11.00-18.00, Haarlem, opens Thursday, closing Sunday The 30 favourite works of Teo Krijsman Dutch photographer Teo Krijgsman displays a series of his 30 favourite photographs. Featured are pictures from Rome, Venice, Florence, and more, some funny, some weird, all special. Hotel Arena, opens Thursday, until 20 January 2009 Peter Pontiac’s Gaga Satan Presenting Peter Pontiac’s comic work: called Gaga Satan, the exhibition mainly features drawings of devils that he has made through the years. The opening is combined with a party, from 20.00 until 04.00. De Duivel, opens Friday, until 30 December

GUP 3 year birthday bash SMART Project Space, opens Saturday 6 December, until 4 January 2009 The Amsterdam-based photography magazine Gup celebrate their 3-year anniversary with an exhibition that will display an overview of the photography featured in the magazine over the last three years of their existence, including work by photographers Morad Bouchakour, Daido Moriyama, Desiree Dolron, Danielle van Ark, Audrey Corregan and many others.

Roos van Lierop Artist and poet Roos van Lierop uses paper, fabric and old newspaper to make collages, inspired by humans, or humanesque forms. This exhibition presents recent paintings, drawings, collages and an installation. Beeldend Gesproken (Wed, Thurs 13.30-18.30, Sat 14.00-17.00), opens Sunday, until 20 December Sanne Gils—Bags & Acessories launch Designer Sanne Gils presents her new line of bags and accessories, as well as the launch of her new website. Gils creates leather shoes, bags, and accessories, recognisable for their remarkable colours and colour combinations. Chiellerie (Tues-Thurs 10.00-16.00, Sat, Sun 14.00-18.00), opens Sunday The Future Will Last Longer Than The Past De Appel’s new series of performances, events and readings is kicked off by the Finnish artist Otto Karvonen. De Appel (Tues-Sun 11.00-18.00), opens Sunday Zaishu Amsterdam Originating in an Australian social initiative, the Zaishu Amsterdam project brings together 15 Amsterdam artists to create or customise their own Zaishus—a table-and-seat piece of furniture— with painting, collage, stencils, tattoo designs, burning, silkscreen and tyre prints. Winkel Wilhelmina, opens Sunday

Museums Drie Meiden in Verzet—Hannie Schaft en de Zusjes Oversteegen Exhibition about Hannie Schaft—’the girl with the red hair’—and Truus and Freddie Oversteegen, the girls she collaborated with in the resistance movement, and the difﬁcult choices forced upon them in WWII. Verzetsmuseum (Tues-Fri 10.00-17.00, SatMon 11.00-17.00), closing Sunday

Just read the description of Black Pete’s Surprise Bingo in Events.

Diorama’s van Suriname The Rijksmuseum has acquired ﬁve dioramas by the Surinamese artist Gerrit Schouten (1779-1839). These works show painted scenes from daily life in 19th century Suriname. Rijksmuseum (Daily 09.00-18.00), closing Monday Erik van der Weijde: Siedlung Siedlung, German for ‘settlement’, features 220 black-and-white photos of detached houses. In Nazi Germany in the 1930s, the National Socialist Party set up a huge construction programme to provide these Seidlung houses for workers who agreed to become party members. Foam (Sat-Wed 10.00-18.00, Thur, Fri 10.00-21.00), closing Wednesday Bollywoodaffiches Classic Bollywood film posters. Filmmuseum (Daily), until 14 December Damien Hirst: For the Love of God It’s Indiana Jones and the diamond-encrusted skull. Or something. With this Amsterdam premiere of Hirst’s latest attentiongrabber, it’s a good time to ponder whether, like Indy, Hirst’s past his best. Still, this is as cutting edge as the Rijksmuseum gets. To accompany the exhibition, he’s also chosen a personal selection from the museum’s collection of 17th-century art. Rijksmuseum (Daily 09.00-18.00), until 15 December Palestine 1948 On 14 May 2008 it will be exactly 60 years ago that the State of Israel was founded. This long-term presentation shows how this event affected the lives of individual Palestinians. Tropenmuseum (Daily 10.00-17.00), until 4 January 2009 Renzo Martens: Episode 3 Tied in with the opening of IDFA, Episode 3 is the name of a ﬁlm and exhibition that touches upon the construction of a documentary and the film-maker’s role. Set in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the objectivity of documentaries

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are explored by Martens, which is also the subject of this accompanying exhibition. Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam (Tues-Sun 11.00 -17.00), until 4 January 2009 Stefan Zweig, weerbaar tegen fanatisme An international travelling exhibition designed by Austrian artists to help you discover the literary skills and philosophies of Austrian writer Stefan Zweig, who committed suicide with his wife in 1942, despairing at the future of war-torn Europe. OBA (Daily 10.0022.00), until 5 January 2009 New Leipzig School A younger generation of painters at Leipzig has created their own artistic vocabulary with tremendous craftsmanship which at the moment is driving the world crazy—in a good way. This is the first Dutch exhibition of the new movement, with particular focus on major trend-setters Neo Rauch and Matthias Weischer. CoBrA Museum (Tues-Sun 11.0017.00), until 11 January 2009 De wereld van Christiaan Andriessen A chance to view a hundred pages from the sketch diaries of Dutch artist Andriessen, originating from 1805 to 1808. Stadsarchief Amsterdam (Tues-Sat 10.00-17.00, Sun 11.00-17.00), until 11 January 2009 Speaking Out Loud A multimedia exhibition dealing with the act of speaking, reading and writing. Includes diverse works by Tim Etchells (UK) and Vlatka Horvat (CRO), Mukul Patel (UK) and Manu Luksch (AT), Christoph Keller (DE), Jaromil (IT) and Jodi (NL), and many more. Montevideo/Time Based Arts (Tues-Sat 13.00-18.00), until 17 January 2009 Caspar David Friedrich and the German Romantic Landscape For the first time ever, all the works by Caspar David Friedrich from the Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg will be loaned for a special exhibition focusing on this renowned German artist. His paintings and drawings are surrounded by works by contemporaries, predecessors and followers. Hermitage Amsterdam (Daily 10.00-17.00), until 18 January 2009 125 Favourites The Rembrandt Association celebrates its 125th anniversary with a five-part exhibition: key purchases from its history; returned Dutch artworks; old (non-Dutch) masters; comparatively modern works (Chagall, Matisse and De Kooning); and acquisitions from the last ten years. Van Gogh Museum (Mon-Thur, Sat, Sun 10.00-18.00, Fri 10.0022.00), until 18 January 2009 Helen Levitt: In the Street A retrospective of work by the renowned American street photographer Helen Levitt, famed for portraying the dynamics of New York street life from 1930 onwards, paying special attention to the innocent and adventurous world of children at play. Foam (Sat-Wed 10.00-18.00, Thur, Fri 10.0021.00), until 18 January 2009 Kees Scherer: Photographic Explorations A selection of vintage prints from Scherer’s extensive oeuvre. As a photojournalist, in the ’50s and ’60s he published numerous reports of his global travels in Dutch newspapers and magazines, belonging to a generation of photographers that opened up photographic reporting to the wider public. Foam (Sat-Wed 10.0018.00, Thur, Fri 10.00-21.00), until 18 January 2009 Viviane Sassen: Flamboya This collection of photos by Sassen explores the memories of her youth in Africa, and poses questions on the constraints of the photographic medium and the regular Western stereotypes about Africa. It features both old and new work, including the images for which Sassen won the 2007 Prix de Rome. Foam (Sat-Wed 10.00-18.00, Thur, Fri 10.00-21.00), until 18 January 2009 Building India An exhibition presenting the architecture and urbanism of contemporary India, as seen through the eyes of five young Indian architects. ARCAM (Tues-Sat 13.00 -17.00), until 24 January 2009 CoBrA 60: Scribblers Daubers Cheaters Sixty years ago the experimental CoBrA artists were described as ‘Scribblers, Daubers, Cheaters’. Nowadays, CoBrA is the most important post-war art movement in the Netherlands. This exhibition pays tribute to the rebellious spirit of this international group of artists in a scintillating tribute, with over 70 superb works from the 1940s and 1950s. CoBrA Museum (Tues-Sun 11.0017.00), until 25 January 2009 Herman Brood Museum Jan van der Togt, Erven Brood and Brood’s former manager Koos van Dijk have worked together to compile an exhibition of the rocker/artist’s most important works, including some never before seen pieces. It features paintings, drawings, graphics and special items, such as the originals from the children’s book Biggetje Bennie, items of

AGENDA: ART clothing, musical instruments and the cactus given to Brood by Bono. Jan van der Togt Museum (Wed-Sun 13.00-17.00), Amstelveen, until 25 January 2009 Jacob Backer: Rembrandt’s Opposite The Amsterdam artist Jacob Adriaensz. Backer (1608/9-1651) was one of the most successful painters of the Golden Age. Four hundred years after his birth he is now being honoured with a major retrospective of his finest works. The exhibition makes clear why this virtuoso painter was so highly regarded by his contemporaries: his vivid use of colour and accurate touch gave his paintings an unprecedented allure. Rembrandthuis (Mon-Sat 10.00 -17.00, Sun 11.00 17.00), until 22 February 2009 It’s All Glamour and Glitter Exploring the evolution of the evening bag—from Fendi clutches to Leiber’s sparkly cupcakes. You’ll also be able to marvel at bags by designers such as Cartier, Valentino, Gucci, Lacroix and more. Tassenmuseum Hendrikje (Daily 10.0017.00), until 1 March 2009 Water in Photography Marnix Goossens has been granted the distinguished documentary assignment Document Nederland, portraying the tendency of the Dutch to seek new relationships with ever-rising water, as well as climate change and rising sea levels. As a counterpoint and supplement, a small retrospective of water-related photography from the past has been compiled from the Rijksmuseum’s rich photo collections, offering photographs by Balthasar Burkhard, Naoya Hatakeyama, Roni Horn, Asako Narahashi and Syoin Kajii. Huis Marseille (Tues-Sun 11.00-18.00), until 1 March 2009 Protest! Campaign Posters from 1965 ‘A woman’s right to choose’, ‘Say no to nuclear weapons’, ‘No home, no throne’ and more classic posters paint a picture of prominent societal issues over the past 40 years. Who was protesting and how? And what were the protests about? Verzetsmuseum (Tues-Fri 10.0017.00, Sat-Mon 11.00-17.00), until 29 March 2009 Vodou A grand exhibition about voodoo on Haiti, featuring more than 250 spectacular objects from one of the most important collections in the country: the Lehmann collection. The exhibition aims to show how these objects and their accompanying rituals are a part of the daily life. Tropenmuseum (Daily 10.0017.00), until 10 May 2009 Stedelijk in de Stad—The Construction Cabin on Tour The Stedelijk’s artistic version of a construction cabin is touring the city from the Oosterdokseiland to the Museumplein, passing via Noord, Centrum, IJburg, Slotervaart, Zuid-Oost, Oost, Westerpark and De Baarsjes. See www.stedelijkindestad.nl. Various locations (various times), until 1 December 2009

Galleries Moderne Mexicaanse Meesters Work by four Mexican artists: Emilio Sánchez Díaz, Alejandra Nettel, Anna Kurtycz and Veronica Elizondo. Galerie Wies Willemsen (Fri-Sun 10.00-18.00) Marjolein Rothman: Our Land Based on ofﬁcial Royal portraits and anthropological photography from the Dutch colonies, Our Land makes visible what escapes the eye: the ambiguous meaning of a history which still haunts the present. Motive Gallery (Wed-Sat 13.00-18.00), closing Saturday The Mona Lisa Project Showcasing 100 takes on the Mona Lisa by Florentijn Bruning, created with materials such as spray paint and lacquer. GO Gallery (Wed-Sat 12.00 -18.00, Sun 13.00 -17.00), closing Saturday Europa Neurotisch ‘What do artists think of Europe?’ is the question asked throughout this exhibition. Following an open call, works created in response were collated and can be seen presenting opinions from across the continent. Petersburg Project Space (ThurSat 15.00-18.00), closing Saturday Dreamscape An exhibition where the works of 50 top artists in the fields of surrealism, imaginative and magical realism have been brought together. Spanning 15 different nations, their art can be compared to the work of artists such as Bosch and Dali. Loods 6 (Mon-Fri 13.00 -18.00, Sat, Sun 11.00 20.00), closing Sunday Puking Roses for.../Romance Stills from a dramatic video performance by Marieke Coppens. De Kijkkasten (daily), until 12 December Nina Rave: Wasteland New paintings, inspired by the terrain around her and the development of the Westermoskee. Meneer de Wit (Thur 14.00-21.00, Fri, Sat, Wed 14.00-18.00), until 13 December

Bono gave Brood a cactus. Now in Amstelveen. Look but don’t touch.

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AGENDA: ART/ADDRESSES

La Fiesta De Los Muertos Works by Mexican artists Emilio Sánchez Diaz, Alejandra Nettel, Anna Kurtycz and Verónica Elizondo. Galerie Wies Willemsen (Fri-Sun 10.00-18.00), until 14 December Steampunk Time Machine: Futuristic Impressions of the Past Works by renowned and upcoming artists who have taken the world of art, technique and retro-futurism as inspiration. Expect nostalgic reinterpretations of Victorian romance novels, Imperialist adventures and Voyages Extraordinaires. artKitchen (Wed-Sat 13.00-18.00), until 14 December Ies Schute An installation of mixed techniques. Consisting of walls of paper, built up from small creations, the separate drawings, texts and photographs work to form a uniform view. Ververs Gallery (Thur, Fri 13.00-17.30, Sat 14.00-17.30), until 19 December Nicky Hoberman: Girls Series Big-headed, largeeyed gals populate the paintings of this English artist in her ﬁrst solo show in the Netherlands. Galerie Hof & Huyser (Wed-Sat 13.00-18.00), until 19 December Nisja Architectural paintings by a young Polish artist. Radar Gallery (Fri-Sun 13.00 -17.00), until 20 December

Koud Resident artists of De Service Garage, including the likes of Arik Visser, Benjamin Roth, Erik de Bree, Charlott Markus, Daan Hofstede and Frank Ammerlaan, help to celebrate the ﬁrst anniversary of the space. De Service Garage (Wed-Sun 13.0018.00), until 21 December Bart van Leeuwen Marking 40 years of distinctive and atmospheric fashion photography by the Dutch artist (b.1950). Blow Up Gallery (Thur, Fri 14.0018.00, Sat 13.00-18.00), until 27 December Decembergeluk 2 Group exhibition. Galerie Ei (Fri, Sat 12.00-18.00), until 27 December This Side of the Globe Travel photography from the Middle East and Asia by Kurt van Aert. Mezrab (ThurSun 15.00-20.30, Fri, Sat 15.00-22.30), until 31 December Kalki, Tokarski and Hildebrandt The ﬁrst exhibition in the Netherlands of the work of three acclaimed German artists: Michael Kalki, Wawrzyniec Tokarski and Gregor Hildebrandt. Grimm Fine Art (Tues-Sat 12.00-18.00), until 3 January 2009 Up Close & Personal Twenty artists present new works. Walls Gallery (Wed-Sat 12.00-17.00), until 9 January 2009

Helgi Thorsson: Garry and Berry Go Ga-Ga Icelandic artist Thorsson presents life-sized gnomes (he calls them ‘elvur’), monsters and ﬁgurines from a forgotten pop world. Fantastical music, video, drawings and paintings are also on show. Galerie van Gelder (Tues-Sat 13.00-17.30), until 20 December

Nathalie Lété: Wonderland An installation featuring carpets, illustrations, ceramics and textiles with twoor three-dimensional elements, all encompassing a fantasy world of birds, ﬂowers, insects and folklore. Soledad Senlle Gallery (Mon-Sat 11.00-17.00), until 10 January 2009

Stephan J Englisch This German artist specialises in night photography, with this pleasing series focussing on Amsterdam at night. Galerie Bart (Thur, Fri 11.00 -18.00, Sat 12.00 -17.00), until 20 December

The Touch of Dick Evers Action and body painting. Aromatique (Fri-Sun 12.30 -17.30), until 16 January 2009

Mitsy Groenendijk: Time Is On My Side ‘Monkey see, monkey do’ sculptures. Witzenhausen Gallery (Thur-Sat 12.00-18.00), until 20 December Myra de Vries: Changing Landscapes In this new series of paintings, De Vries combines landscapes and figurative elements from her immediate surroundings with grim fairytale-like fantasy realms. AYACS (Fri, Sat 13.00-17.30), until 20 December

Theo de Feyter: Beelden uit Syrië Paintings. Galerie de Rietlanden Exposities (Wed-Sun 13.0017.00), until 18 January 2009 No Reference Last year, Christophe Coppens was the first winner of the H+F Fashion Award. The Belgian designer received a €20,000 cash prize to realise a special project. This project encompasses an accessories collection, a forthcoming book and this exhibition. Platform 21 (Thur-Sun 12.00-18.00), until 18 January 2009

ADDRESSES De Appel Nieuwe Spiegelstraat 10, 625 5651 ARCAM Prins Hendrikkade 600, 620 4878 Aromatique Nieuwe Spiegelstraat 11b, 624 0044 artKitchen Joris van den Berghweg 101, 622 3422 AYACS Keizersgracht 166, 622 8579 De Balie Kleine-Gartmanplantsoen 10, 553 5151 Beeldend Gesproken Borgerstraat 102, 612 1847 Bimhuis Piet Heinkade 3, 788 2150 Bitterzoet Spuistraat 2, 521 3001 Blow Up Gallery Hazenstraat 67, 665 3435 De Brakke Grond Nes 45, 626 6866 Cafe Sappho Vijzelstraat 103, 423 1509 Canvas International Art Fokkerlaan 46, Amstelveen, 428 6040 Chiellerie Raamgracht 58, 320 9448 Church Kerkstraat 50-52 Club 8 Admiraal de Ruyterweg 56B, 685 1703 CoBrA Museum Sandbergplein 1-3, Amstelveen, 547 5050 Concertgebouw Concertgebouwplein 2-6, 671 8345 Consortium Veemkade 570, 06 2611 8950 Cotton Club Nieuwmarkt 5, 626 6192 CREA Muziekzaal Turfdraagsterpad 17, 525 1400 De Duivel Reguliersdwarstr 87, 626 6184 The English Bookshop Lauriergracht 71, 626 4230 Exit Reguliersdwarsstraat 42, 625 8788 Filmmuseum Vondelpark 3, 589 1400 Flex Bar Pazzanistraat 1, 486 2123 Foam Keizersgracht 609, 551 6546 Fotogram Korte Prinsengracht 33, 624 9994 Frascati Nes 63, 626 6866 Galerie Bart Bloemgracht 2, 320 6208 Galerie de Rietlanden Exposities Rietlandpark 193, 419 4705 Galerie Ei Admiraal de Ruijterweg 154, 616 3961 Galerie Hof & Huyser Bloemgracht 135, 420 1995 Galerie Paul Andriesse Withoedenveem 8, 623 6237 Galerie van Gelder Planciusstraat 9A, 627 7419 Galerie Wies Willemsen Ruysdaelkade 25, 470 1073 Gashouder Klönneweg Gasthuis Marius van Bouwdijk Bastiaansestraat 54, 683 8494 Getto Warmoesstraat 51 GO Gallery Prinsengracht 64, 422 9580 Grimm Fine Art Hazenstraat 24, 422 7227 Heineken Music Hall ArenA Boulevard 590, 0900 300 1250 Hermitage Amsterdam Nieuwe Herengracht 14, 530 8751 Hotel Arena ’s-Gravesandestraat 51, 850 2400 Huis Marseille Keizersgracht 401, 531 8989 Jaarbeurs Jaarbeursplein 6, Utrecht, 030 295 5911 Jan van der Togt Museum Dorpsstraat 50, Amstelveen, 641 5754 De Kijkkasten Sint Nicolaasstraat

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KIT Tropentheater Mauritskade 63, 568 8711 Loods 6 KNSM Laan 143, 418 2020 Melkweg Lijnbaansgracht 234A, 531 8181 Melkweg Galerie Marnixstraat 409, 531 8181 Meneer de Wit Postjesweg 2, 616 3680 Mezrab 2de Laurierdwarsstraat 50 Montevideo/Time Based Arts Keizersgracht 264, 623 7101 Motive Gallery Elandsgracht 10, 330 3668 Muziekgebouw Piet Heinkade 1, 788 2010 De Nieuwe Anita Frederik Hendrikstraat 111, 06 4150 3512 Noorderkerk Noordermarkt 44, 626 6436 OBA Oosterdokskade 143, 0900-2425468 Odeon Singel 460, 624 9711 Orgelpark Orgelpark, 51 58111 Pakhuis de Zwijger Piet Heinkade 179-181, 788 4444 Het Pand Frankestraat 31 t/m 39, Haarlem Paradiso Weteringschans 6-8, 626 4521 Parool Theater Sint Pieterpoortsteeg 33 Pathé Tuschinski Reguliersbreestraat 34, 0900 1458 Petersburg Project Space Frans de Wollantstraat 84 Platform 21 Prinses Irenestraat 19, 344 9449 PRIK Spuistraat 109, 06 4544 2321 Queen's Head Zeedijk 20, 420 2475 Radar Gallery Eerste Rozendwarsstraat 17-H, 06 2416 3300 Rembrandthuis Jodenbreestraat 4, 520 0400 Rijksmuseum Jan Luykenstraat 1, 674 7000 De Service Garage Stephensonstraat 16 SMART Project Space Arie Biemondstraat 105-113, 427 5953 Soledad Senlle Gallery Sloterkade 171, 615 1395 Souterrain Messinastraat 38 Stadsarchief Amsterdam Vijzelstraat 32 Stadsschouwburg Leidseplein 26, 624 2311 Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam Rozenstraat 59, 422 0471 Stubnitz Odinakade, NDSM-werf Studio 80 Rembrandtplein 17, 521 8333 Sugar Factory Lijnbaansgracht 238, 627 0008 Tassenmuseum Hendrikje Herengracht 573, 524 6452 Theater Bellevue Leidsekade 90, 530 5301 Tropenmuseum Linnaeusstraat 2, 568 8200 Van Gogh Museum Paulus Potterstraat 7, 570 5200 Ververs Gallery Hazenstraat 54 Verzetsmuseum Plantage Kerklaan 61, 620 2535 Vondelkerk Vondelstraat 120 Walls Gallery Prinsengracht 737 Web Sint Jacobsstraat 6 Wetering Galerie Lijnbaansgracht 288, 623 6189 Winkel Wilhelmina Veemkade 574 Winston Kingdom Warmoesstraat 129, 623 1380 Witzenhausen Gallery Hazenstraat 60, 644 9898 Zuiderkerk Zuiderkerkhof 72, 552 7987

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AGENDA: FILM

Film review

By Massimo Benvegnù

Changeling Opens Thursday at The Movies, Pathé ArenA, Pathé De Munt, Pathé Tuschinski

A MOTHER AND SON TALE AND MUCH MORE Clint Eastwood’s latest elevates a torrid storyline into another minor masterpiece. Christine Collins (Angelina Jolie) is a young woman living alone with her nineyear-old son, in Los Angeles in the late 1920s. She works shifts at Paciﬁc Tele-

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New this week Changeling Another sobering period drama from Clint Eastwood. See review above. 141 min. The Movies, Pathé ArenA, Pathé De Munt, Pathé Tuschinski Eat For This Is My Body Michelange Quay’s live action feature debut is an absorbing, dreamlike descent into the deep heart of Haiti. Storylines follow three members of a local family, three women at different stages in their lives. But what is more important here is the startling imagery used by Quay to render Haiti’s mystical atmosphere. In French with English subtitles. 105 min. SMART Cinema Jagdhunde This bittersweet comedy from Ann-Kristen Reyels set in the remote northern German region of Uckermark focuses on the tribulations of Lars (Constantin von Jascheroff), a 16-year-old living with his father. En route to spend the Christmas holidays with his mother in Berlin, he misses his train while trying to defend mute girl Marie (Luise Berndt) from the local bullies. They become friends, but then on Christmas eve, Lars’ mother shows up with a new boyfriend in tow... Shown at the Berlinale in 2007. In German with Dutch subtitles. 86 min. Filmmuseum Pride and Glory Like so many movies about police, this chest-thumping cop opera seems less concerned with their actual lives than with how we want to feel about them: for law-and-order conservatives, there’s the usual huffing about the thin blue line, topped off by the obligatory funeral with bagpipes; for bleeding-heart liberals, there’s a righteous cop (Edward Norton) making a lonely and principled stand against corruption in the department. Director Gavin O’Connor (Miracle) intended this as an homage to his father, a New York City police detective, but the finished product, amped up by macho screenwriter Joe Carnahan (Narc, Smokin’ Aces), is the sort of brutal, lumbering and cliched thriller that only widens the divide between police and those they protect. (JJ) 125 min. Kriterion, Pathé ArenA, Pathé De Munt

phone and Telegraph, where she supervises phone operators. One day when she returns home, her son is missing. She starts searching for him in the neighbourShotgun Stories Jeff Nichols’s feature debut is a brooding, laconic drama that concerns three unnamed brothers whose drunkard father abandoned them and their embittered mother years ago. After subsequently sobering up, he discovers religion and starts a second family that the trio awkwardly meets for the ﬁrst time at his funeral. There’s also an undercurrent of biblical revenge that lends the narrative a sense of violent menace and an almost continuous tension. At the centre of the film is a keenly understated performance by Michael Shannon as the eldest of the cast-off sons. (JK) 92 min. SMART Cinema Twilight If I were a vampire, I’d want to be like the ones in Twilight—they never get stakes hammered into them, they all look like models, they can hang out in the daytime (in fact sunlight makes their skin glisten like diamonds), and they make up the coolest clique in school. This adaptation of the best-selling novel by Stephenie Meyer never rises above the level of a teen soaper. Kristen Stewart is the heroine, who moves to a small logging town in Washington State and falls for pouty classmate Robert Pattinson. The director is Catherine Hardwicke, who debuted with Thirteen and has been sliding ever since. (JJ) 121 min. Pathé ArenA, Pathé De Munt

Still playing Der Baader-Meinhof Komplex Uli Edel vividly

portrays the development of the most radical and aggressive left-wing movement in post-war West Germany: the Red Army Faction (RAF). Unfortunately, Baader (Moritz Bleibtreu), Meinhof (Martina Gedeck) and Ensslin (Johanna Wokalek) are just too likeable to be taken very seriously as bloodthirsty terrorists. Although the ﬁlm paints a realistic picture of what it was like to be young and anti-establishment in the ’70s—music and all—it fails to answer questions that arise naturally. What was the ideology of the RAF? Why is it that violence seems to become an end in itself? And why, after the arrest of the initial leaders, is the second generation even more aggressive than the first? Still, the devastation caused by desperation within and the decline of the RAF is all there, in explicit and sweeping action scenes. In German with Dutch subtitles. (KE) 150 min. Cinecenter, Kriterion, The Movies, Pathé De Munt

Bienvenue Chez les Ch’tis A smash box ofﬁce hit in France, this effervescent comedy is about prejudices and the differences between the north and south of

Burn After Reading is totally worth nine euros.

hood, before calling the police. They’re unfriendly at first, but later they finally listen to her. The LA Police Department is desperate to boost their public image, as they’re being bashed by the weekly broadcasts of Rev Gustav Briegleb (John Malkovich), who uses them to denounce the high corruption of the City. So when, five months after the Collins boy has been missing, a child by the same name is found in the Midwest, they round up the fanfare, the press and Mrs Collins at the train station, for a triumphant reunion of Mother and Son. The only problem: the boy is not the right one... What sounds like the main storyline, and every mother’s nightmare, is actually just the premise of a much bigger canvas in Clint Eastwood’s latest film, Changeling. And if such premises might sound extreme to say the least, it’s even more shocking to find out that they’re actually based on real events (carefully crafted into a script by J Michael Straczynski). Yes, there was a Mrs Collins, and yes, the corrupted LA Police handed her the wrong child. But what is more surprising here, once again, is Eastwood’s handling of such material. We have seen all these elements so many times before, the desperate mother taken to the mental asylum by the bad cops who try to cover up their mess, a preacher that tries to bring her story to the audience and, ultimately, France. To help his depressed wife, post office manager Philippe Abrams (Kad Merad) tries to cheat his way into a transfer to the Côte d’Azur, but when he’s discovered, he’s relegated to the dreaded Nord-Pas-de-Calais region with its freezing cold weather and inhabitants who speak the ‘Ch’timi’ dialect. But lo and behold, Abrams actually likes the North, and befriends locals, especially postman Antoine (Dany Boon, who also co-wrote and directed the film). Bienvenue Chez les Ch’tis loses parts of its fun for non-francophone audiences, but there’s still enough left to enjoy this gentle and hilarious story. In French and Ch’timi with Dutch subtitles. (GR) 106 min. Studio K Blindness A mysterious disease spreads through the population of the Earth, causing blindness in an alarming rate. While the government hastily quarantines the affected in makeshift camps, one woman (Julianne Moore) retains her vision and sticks by her husband and a group of victims. The worst aspects of humanity surface while the circumstances worsen in the camps in what could have been an inspired mix of art house and post-apocalyptic horror, but besides an engaging second act and the fabulous Mrs. Moore, the film lacks an engaging narrative structure due to its slavish devotion to the award-winning book it’s based on. (LvH) 90 min. Pathé ArenA, Pathé De Munt Boy A Adapted from a novel by Jonathan Trigell, this wrenching drama fictionalises the notorious 1993 murder of toddler James Bulger by a couple of tenyear-old truants in Merseyside, England, and the public outcry over the killers’ release in 2001. A rehabilitated murderer (Andrew Garfield), trembling with hope, is given a new identity and quietly paroled, but his heartfelt desire to start over is immediately threatened by the British tabloids, whose screaming headlines demand to know where the monster is hid-

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the brutal discovery of what actually happened to the missing child. It is the kind of stuff that, in the wrong hands, can cause a misfire at any second. Yet under Eastwood’s direction it all works, sometimes even too well. There are moments where we feel the actual physical pain of Christine, and even if Angelina Jolie is probably one of the most visible stars on the planet today, she’s able here to conceal her offscreen persona, to finally show the actress in her (and she’s a damn fine actress, if they’d only let her be one). Much like Million Dollar Baby and Mystic River, Eastwood here shaped another extremely complex narrative on a very disturbing subject. It is definitely not a film for the squeamish, but those willing to be exposed to such a gutwrenching tale will be rewarded with one of the year’s finest films. Of course there’s Oscar talk going on already, a blessing and a curse that is forced upon every adult drama released in December, but what should be more important for film buffs worldwide is the fact that Eastwood, now 78, continues to churn out film after film, with at least two more directing gigs planned for release in 2009, Gran Torino and The Human Factor, the latter based on John Carlin’s book on Nelson Mandela. We can only wish him, to quote another travelled master, that ‘may his voice always be heard’, in Hollywood and elsewhere. ___ ing. The movie is taut with suspense but culminates in wise resignation as the hero comes to understand he’s running from a part of himself. JJ) 100 min. The Movies, Pathé Tuschinski Bride Flight To escape personal drama and the suffocating environment of post-WWII Netherlands, three young families decide to emigrate to New Zealand. The husbands leave first to look for work and accomodation, and their brides meet on a fateful 1953 trip from London to Christchurch. Directed by Ben Sombogaart from a script by Marieke van der Pol, with Karina Smulders, Anna Drijver and Elise Schaap as the three young women, and a special appearance by Rutger Hauer. 130 min. The Movies, Pathé De Munt, Pathé Tuschinski, Studio K Brideshead Revisited Many viewers will immediately associate Evelyn Waugh’s 1945 novel Brideshead Revisited with its 1981 TV adaptation starring the unforgettable Jeremy Irons. Now director Julian Jarrold brings a compressed version to the screen: in mid’20s Oxford, young middle-class Charles Ryder (Matthew Goode) befriends upper-class flamboyant Sebastian Flyte (Ben Whishaw), who invites Charles to his magnificent home. There atheistic Charles meets Sebastian’s sister Julia (Hayley Atwell) and their Catholic mother (Emma Thompson). Bedazzled by their opulent world--and estate--he gets caught up in a web of faith, love, passion and guilt, which will mark him for life. Performances are fine and everything looks lush and sumptuous, but despite its grand themes the film remains oddly unaffecting. (GR) 130 min. Cinema Amstelveen

Burn After Reading The latest offering of the Coen brothers is many things at once: it’s a spy ﬁlm spoof, a comedy of errors, a great metaphor for the

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cult status in the past for its blunt depiction of sex and violence, and the consequent censorship cuts it received abroad. Plot couldn’t be more Tarantin-esque: a mute woman (Christina Lindberg) seeks revenge to her kidnappers who forced her to become a prostitute. Alternatively known as Thriller: A Cruel Picture, They Call Her One Eye and Hooker’s Revenge. In Swedish with English subtitles. (MB) 104 min. De Nieuwe Anita

Special screenings Brand upon the Brain! In Guy Maddin’s latest piece of deranged heterosexual camp, a housepainter named Guy Maddin comes home after 30 years to fulfill his dying mother’s request that he repaint the lighthouse where she used to run a sinister orphanage and all the kids had mysterious holes in their heads. Additional intrigues involve a teenage sleuth who poses as her own brother. Narrated by Isabella Rossellini and enhanced by Jason Staczek’s superb score, this is characteristically intense and, unlike most of Maddin’s silent-movie models, frenetically edited. (JR) 95 min. OT301 Carmen Meets Borat Director Mercedes Stalenhof follows the life of 17-year-old Carmen, who lives in Glod, a gypsy village in Romania, and dreams of escaping to a better life in Spain. But one day, an American film crew, led by a dubious British comedian sporting a mustache, arrives in her village and exploits its inhabitants in any possible way. After Borat gets worldwide success, villagers decide to sue Hollywood and the town falls into chaos. But what is left of Carmen’s dreams of a better life away from Glod? There’s so much in this documentary and not everything works, but still, most parts are irresistible. (MB) 85 min. Het Ketelhuis, Kriterion Concert For Bangladesh The Concert for Bangladesh was the first benefit concert of its kind in that it brought together an extraordinary assemblage of major artists collaborating for a common humanitarian cause—setting the precedent that music could be used to serve a higher cause. On 1 August 1971, George Harrison, Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton and others not only raised money and awareness to the cause of Bangladesh, they also wrote a piece of Rock’s history. 103 min. Filmmuseum Gandhi Richard Attenborough’s epic biography revives the British style of the Sixties with its balanced compositions, tasteful landscape photography, impeccable art direction, and dry, theatrical acting. Yet Attenborough’s work lacks even the undercurrent of personality that David Lean brought to his films: the film has no flavor but that of the standard Hollywood hagiography. Luckily, Ben Kingsley is charismatic enough in the title role to command some warmth and interest, and the film is paced so quickly - rushing through 55 years of hastily exposited history - that it’s never really boring. (DK) 188 min. Filmmuseum Happiness I’ll concede that Todd Solondz’s absorbing 134-minute epic of sexual disgruntlement in the New Jersey suburbs is worth seeing, and not only for shock value. But I don’t think it deserves all the high marks it’s been getting for compassion and understanding, especially given its campy use of elevator music whenever the misery of its large cast of characters gets too close for comfort. Everyone who likes this movie calls it ‘disturbing’, but what disturbs me most is the self-loathing laughter it provokes, similar to what one often hears at Woody Allen and Michael Moore comedies. (JR) 134 min. Melkweg Cinema

Lynch: One During the course of two years, which

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like weird dreams after a heavy dinner—there will always be a way out, if only a sweaty awakening. (MB) 84 min. SMART Cinema Monterey Pop The Monterey International Pop Festival in June 1967 is usually cited as the first public flowering of the Summer of Love, but musically it was more important for demarcating the studio pop that preceded it from the live rock that would follow. Chart-topping acts like The Byrds, whose set was embarrassing, and The Beach Boys, who copped out at the last minute, were immediately eclipsed by artists who could deliver the goods in concert, fiery vocalists like Otis Redding and Janis Joplin and powerhouse bands like The Who and the Jimi Hendrix Experience. Released two years later, DA Pennebaker’s 88-minute sampler from the three-day festival intersperses scenes of the beatific festivalgoers, who now seem as archaic as tintype portraits, with the explosive performances mentioned above and many others. (JJ) 88 min. Filmmuseum Once Were Warriors Gritty, powerful first feature by Lee Tamahori, adapted by Maori playwright Riwia Brown from a popular novel by Alan Duff. The film focuses on a contemporary Maori family living in urban New Zealand and steeped in violence—the family includes an abusive but passionate father, a volatile but devoted wife, and, among the children, one gang member, one son at reform school, and an intellectually ambitious teenage daughter. Reportedly the original novel is stream of consciousness switching between family members, and Brown was brought in to tell the story mainly from the viewpoint of the wife. At once upsetting and highly involving, it packs an undeniable punch. (JR) 99 min. Kriterion

approximately coincide with the making of Inland Empire, David Lynch agreed to be filmed in his everyday life as an artist, painter, sound engineer, ambassador for trascendental meditation and yes, director of strange, obscure, experimental films. The end result is this documentary simply titled Lynch, of which the title is pretty much the only thing that’s obvious about it. But, as with films directed by, not just starring, David Lynch, the best way to appreciate them is to just let them take you to strange places,

One Night in One City This multiple award-winning Czech dark animation feature brings to life a surreal universe reminding of the best work of visionary stop-motion pioneers such as Jan Svankmajer and the brothers Quay. Combining poetic fantasies and humour, sorrow and nostalgia, Jon Balej’s mini-stories are about loneliness, secret dreams, friendship, and ﬁnding one’s place in this world. 76 min. SMART Cinema

paranoia brought about by the war on terror and a clever deconstruction of narrative film-making itself. But it’s the stellar cast including Brad Pitt, George Clooney and Frances McDormand, who all get to behave like knuckleheaded dumbasses, pompous nerds and slick sleazeballs, that will probably draw the bulk of the crowd, and rightfully so. If you don’t mind being subjected to a little cinematic horseplay by those rascally Coens, you’re in for a treat. (LvH) 96 min. Cinecenter, The Movies, Pathé ArenA, Pathé De Munt, Pathé Tuschinski, Studio K Cargo 200 How the hell Aleksei Balabanov manages to get away with such a bleak, damning portrait of contemporary Russia while giving Putin the finger without receiving a polonium enema is a mystery to me. His Putin-esque depraved, impotent police officer has to investigate the murder he committed and the kidnapping of a girl he shackled to a filthy radiator, while her fiancé returns in a body bag from Afghanistan as the titular Cargo 200. It might be a potent, well-made metaphor for the last spasms of the Communist regime, but it’s a thoroughly dark

and depressing ﬁlm to say the least. In Russian with Dutch subtitles. (LvH) 89 min. Filmmuseum

Pather Panchali In 1955, the year Satyajit Ray’s beautiful ﬁrst feature won the Grand Prix at Cannes, no less

Cloud 9 This German entry at the latest Cannes Film Festival presents the classic love triangle we’ve seen so often in other ﬁlms, only this time we get to see old folks get down and dirty. Dressmaker Inge (Ursula Werner) has been married with Werner (Horst Rehberg) for more than 30 years. However, she falls for Karl (Horst Westphal), a 76-year-old customer. It’s a very touching and realistic portrayal of love and sex, that can apparently take you to ‘Cloud Nine’, no matter the age. It can also make a good double-header companion with recent documentary release Young@Heart. In German with Dutch subtitles. 98 min. De Uitkijk Entre Les Murs François Marin (François Bégaudeau) is a French teacher in a Parisian high school. At the beginning we see him as he approaches both old and new colleagues as the school year starts, but from that moment on, we’ll only see him inside the classroom, facing the everyday problems of being a teacher in a multicultural environment. This year’s Palme d’Or win-

a humanist than Francois Truffaut walked out of a screening, declaring, ‘I don’t want to see a ﬁlm about Indian peasants’. Time and critical opinion have been much kinder to this family melodrama—derived, like its successors in the Apu trilogy, from a 30s novel by Bibhutibhusan Banerjee—than to Truffaut’s remark. Yet there’s no question that Ray’s contemplative treatment of a poor Brahman family in a Bengali village, made on a small budget and accompanied by the mesmerizing music of Ravi Shankar, is a triumph of mood and character rather than an exercise in brisk Western storytelling. In Bengasi with Dutch subtitles. (JR) 115 min. Filmmuseum Ravi Shankar: Between Two Worlds Ravi Shankar is probably better known for his long friendship with late Beatle George Harrison, but there’s so much more he accomplished as a musician and ambassador of Indian music worldwide. This documentary by Mark Kidel sets the record straight, starting from Shankar’s childhood as the son of a travelling diplomat who ﬁrst got on-stage at the tender age of 9, to the current activities of the Ravi Shankar Foundation. 89 min. Filmmuseum

Stranded This documentary looks at one of the

most astonishing survival tales of all time. On 13 October 1972, a rugby team from Montevideo, Uruguay, boarded a plane for a match in Chile, which crashed on the way. Sixteen of the 45 passengers resurfaced, after surviving for 72 days on a remote Andean glacier. Thirty-five years later, the survivors returned to the crash site to recount their harrowing story. Previously documented in the 1973 worldwide bestseller Alive (and the 1993 movie of the same name), this shocking true story receives the definitive cinematic treatment, crafted with riveting detail by documentary film-maker Gonzalo Arijon, and featuring a masterful combination of on-location interviews, archival footage and reenactments. In Spanish with Dutch subtitles. 130 min. Filmhuis Griffioen Thriller—en grym film Now famous for being the direct visual inspiration for one of the main characters in Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill series (and much more), this 1974 Swedish film by Bo Arne Vibenius reached

ner from Laurent Cantet is a clever adaptation of the autobiographical book by François Bégaudeau, who basically plays himself in the movie, thus giving it a documentary touch. In French with Dutch subtitles. 128 min. Cinecenter, The Movies, Rialto The Mourning Forest This 2007 Japanese film directed by Naomi Kawase won the Grand Prix of Jury at the Cannes Film Festival last year. A nurse (Machiko Ono), grieving for the death of her young son, grows close to an elderly man (Shigeki Uda), one of her patients who suffers from dementia, and who takes her on a mystical quest into the forest in the mountainous region west of Nara. In Japanese with Dutch subtitles. 97 min. Filmmuseum Het Nieuwe Rijksmuseum Is it right to make fun of the on-going restoration problems of the Rijksmuseum? This humorous documentary by Oeke Hoogendijk, which has just been screened at IDFA, takes us behind the close gates of the construction site, and introduces us to an extremely interesting gallery of characters who now grace the corridors of

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Tsotsi Having successfully courted a host of film festivals and walked away with a clutch of awards, Gavin Hood’s Tsotsi, based on a 1960 novel by Athol Fugard, secured the 2006 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, ensuring a prosperous worldwide roll-out. Gritty and violent, this brutal drama set in a South African township follows 19-year-old Tsotsi (Presley Chweneyagae), a cold and vicious gang leader whose life is redirected after a carjacking leaves him in possession of a baby. While the plot arc that sees Tsotsi attempt to care for the child, face his demons and seek redemption is almost too emotionally predictable, the product is far closer to the harshness of City of God than junk like Get Rich or Die Tryin’, fulfilling a powerful vision. In Zulu/Xhosa/Afrikaans with Dutch subtitles. (SM) 94 min. KIT Tropentheater, Kleine Zaal Vicky Cristina Barcelona Vicky (Rebecca Hall) and Cristina (Scarlett Johansson) fall for an aggressive Latin lover (Javier Bardem) in Barcelona. The new Woody Allen gets an advanced screening at Cinecenter. But how is it? Well, it’s worse than Match Point, but better than Cassandra’s Dream. Chaster than Mighty Aphrodite but sexier than Small Time Crooks. Lighter than Crimes and Misdemeanours but heavier than The Curse of the Jade Scorpion. Longer than Sweet and Lowdown and shorter than Hollywood Ending. It’s no Annie Hall or Manhattan, yet it’s pretty much Woody Allen. Anything Else? (MB) 96 min. Cinecenter Welcome To The Dollhouse An intriguing and arresting dark comedy from American independent writer-director Todd Solondz, who focuses on an 11year-old misfit in New Jersey but refuses to sentimentalize her. It’s worth pondering whether Solondz goes out of his way to pile on her miseries, but this isn’t as obvious a skewering of what it means to be American, adolescent, and unloved as it may first appear; it’s also about the interactions of a twisted world we all live in. Winner of the grand jury prize at the Sundance film festival in 1995; with Heather Matarazzo, Victoria Davis, Christina Brucato, and Brendan Sexton Jr. (JR) 88 min. Melkweg Cinema White Lies Black Sheep Urgent and immediate as a punk anthem and built as a rockumentary starring New York City’s legendary underground club scene, this is one of those films where soundtrack and location are as important as the story itself. Directed by James Spooner, author of the award-winning documentary Afro-Punk, White Lies Black Sheep continues Spooner’s exploration of the role played by race on the NY indie scene, telling the story of a young AfricanAmerican man who discovers that the underground music world he’s immersed in isn’t as colorblind as he had believed. 84 min. SMART Cinema Wild Combination—A portrait of Arthur Russell An absorbing portrait of seminal avant-garde composer, singer-songwriter, cellist, and disco producer Arthur Russell. Before his death from AIDS in 1992, Russell created music that spanned between pop and art. In this documentary, director Matt Wolf incorporates rare archival footage and commentary from Arthur’s family, friends, and closest collaborators—including Philip Glass and Allen Ginsberg. 70 min. SMART Cinema

the Rijksmuseum, including architects, concierges, politicians and demonstrators. 110 min. Het Ketelhuis El Olvido New documentary by director Heddy Honigmann (The Underground Orchestra, Forever) focuses on old waiters and bartenders working in Peru, telling stories from their lives and their country. We all know bartenders know a lot of jokes, but they are also masters in the art of surviving with style, dignity and poetry in a world which is out of control. Honigmann makes them talk about the gigantic inﬂation in Peru, the fall of the middle class, the corruption, the violence of Shining Path and that of the local Army. You’ll deﬁnitely feel like having a cocktail afterwards. In Spanish with Dutch subtitles. 92 min. Rialto, De Uitkijk

Oorlogswinter Michiel is a fourteen-year-old boy

in a small town in The Netherlands in 1945. The Germans are still occupying the country. He has an uncle in the Resistance, Ben (Yorick van Wageningen) whom he considers his hero. Meanwhile, he looks down on his father (Raymond Thiry), the mayor of the town, who chooses not to take sides. Michiel is con-

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FILM TIMES Thursday 4 December until Wednesday 10 December. Times are provided by cinemas and are subject to last-minute changes. Cinecenter Lijnbaansgracht 236, 623 6615 Der Baader-Meinhof Komplex Thur, Sun-Wed 16.00, 19.45, Fri, Sat 15.15, 18.30, 21.45, Sun also 12.30 Burn After Reading daily 16.00, 19.15, 21.45, Sun also 11.00, 13.30 Cherry Blossoms daily 15.45, 18.45, 21.45, Sun also 11.15 Entre Les Murs daily 21.45, Thur-Mon 15.45, 18.45, Sun also 11.15 Vicky Cristina Barcelona Tues, Wed 19.30. Cinema Amstelveen Plein 1960 2, Amstelveen, 547 5175 Brideshead Revisited Thur, Sat 20.30, Sun 15.30 Il Dolce e l'Amaro Tues, Wed 20.30 Het kleine spookje Laban Sun 11.30 Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (NL) Sat, Sun, Wed 13.30 Radeloos Sat, Wed 15.30, Sun 15.45. Filmhuis Grifﬁoen Uilenstede 106, Amstelveen, 444 5100 Sneak Preview Tues 19.30 Stranded Fri, Sun 19.30 Super Size Me Thur 19.30. Filmmuseum Vondelpark 3, 589 1400 Alice in Wonderland Mon 19.00 Asterix en de knallende ketel Sun, Wed 14.00 Cargo 200 Thur-Sat 17.00, 21.30, Sun-Wed 21.30 Charly Tues 19.00 Concert For Bangladesh Sat 19.00 De Avonturen van het Molletje Sun, Wed 13.45 Gandhi Fri 19.00, Sun 16.00 Hunger Fri 22.30, Sat, Sun 21.45, Mon-Wed 17.00 Jagdhunde daily 19.30, Thur, Tues, Wed also 21.45, Fri, Sat also 17.30 Monterey Pop Thur, Wed 19.00 The Mourning Forest Thur, Mon-Wed 17.30 Pather Panchali Sun 15.30 Ravi Shankar: Between Two Worlds Sun 19.00. Het Ketelhuis Haarlemmerweg 8-10, 684 0090 De Boer Die Zou Emigreren daily 19.45 Carmen Meets Borat daily 17.45, 21.45 Il y a longtemps que je t'aime daily 21.45, Sat, Sun, Wed also 14.30, Sun also 11.30 Het kleine spookje Laban Sat, Sun, Wed 13.45 Het Nieuwe Rijksmuseum Sat, Sun, Wed 15.15, Sun also 11.15 Oorlogswinter Daily 17.00, 19.15, 21.30, Sat, Sun, Wed also 14.45 Ver van familie Sun 11.00 Vox Populi daily 19.30, Thur-Sun, Tues, Wed 16.45. KIT Tropentheater, Kleine Zaal Linnaeusstraat 2, 568 8500 Tsotsi Tues 20.30. Kriterion Roetersstraat 170, 623 1708 Anubis en het pad der 7 zonden Sat, Sun, Wed 15.15, Sun also 13.15 Der Baader-Meinhof Komplex Thur-Sun, Tues, Wed 21.15, Fri, Sat also 0.00 Carmen Meets Borat daily 17.45, Thur-Mon, Wed 19.45

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Police Academy Is More Fun Pride and Glory Kriterion, Pathé ArenA and Pathé De Munt

sidered too young to join the Resistance, but then one day he gets a chance to help a wounded RAF-pilot (Jamie Campbell Bower). By redefining heroism, the new Martin Koolhoven film fits in a tradition of Dutch war films questioning strict boundaries between ‘good’and ‘bad’, which started with the 1977 classic film Soldaat van Oranje. (MM) 103 min. Het Ketelhuis, Pathé ArenA, Pathé De Munt, Pathé Tuschinski

AGENDA: FILM The Darjeeling Limited daily 22.15 Fietsmug & Dansmug Sat, Sun, Wed 15.00 Into the Wild daily 17.15, Sun also 14.15 Once Were Warriors Mon 22.00 Pride and Glory daily 19.30, Thur-Mon, Wed 22.00 Sneak Preview Tues 22.15 Vox Populi daily 20.00 W daily 17.00 Wall-E (NL) Sat, Wed 14.45, Sun 12.15. Melkweg Cinema Lijnbaansgracht 234A, 624 1777 Control Mon 19.00 Happiness Fri, Sat 19.00 Kuifje en het Haaienmeer Sun 15.00 Lucky Luke in Daisy Town Wed 15.00 Welcome To The Dollhouse Thur 19.00. The Movies Haarlemmerdijk 159-165, 638 6016 Anubis en het pad der 7 zonden Der Baader-Meinhof Komplex Boy A Bride Flight Burn After Reading Changeling Entre Les Murs Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa Waltz With Bashir . De Nieuwe Anita Frederik Hendrikstraat 111, 06 4150 3512, Thriller - en grym ﬁlm Mon 20.30. OT301 Overtoom 301, 779 4913 Brand upon the Brain! Tues 20.30. Pathé ArenA ArenA Boulevard 600, 0900 1458 A.R.O.G. daily 13.10, 16.00, 18.45, 21.30. Sat also 10.30, 0.10 Anubis en het pad der 7 zonden Fri-Sun, Wed 15.10, Sat, Sun, Wed also 13.00, Sat, Sun also 10.50, Wed also 17.20 Blindness Thur, Sun, Mon, Wed 20.15 Body Of Lies daily 18.50, 21.40, Thur, Mon, Tues also 12.40, 16.10, Sat also 0.20 Burn After Reading Thur-Tues 12.20, 14.50, Sat, Sun also 10.05 Changeling daily 12.00, 15.00, 18.00, 21.00, Sat also 0.10 The Day the Earth Stood Still Wed 20.45 Dostana daily 17.10, Sat 22.45 High School Musical 3: Senior Year (NL) Wed 13.15, 15.30 High School Musical: Senior Year (OV) Tues 19.15, Wed 12.00, 14.30, 17.00, 19.30, 22.00 The Kite Runner Tues 13.30 Kurtlar Vadisi daily 22.10, Thur-Tues also 17.20, 19.45, Fri, Mon also 12.20, Mon 14.40, Sat 0.30 Madagascar (NL) Fri-Sun, Wed 12.00, 12.30, 14.10, 14.40, 16.20, 16.45, Sat, Sun also 10.00, 10.25 Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa daily 17.50, 20.00, 22.15, ThurTues also 13.20, 15.30, Sat, Sun also 11.10, Wed 12.40, 14.55, Sat also 0.15 Oorlogswinter daily 12.50, 15.20, Thur-Mon, Wed also 18.10, 20.30, Sat, Sun also 10.30, Tues also 21.30, Sat also 22.50 The Ottoman Republic Thur-Tues 13.30, 15.50, 18.25, 20.50,

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Sita Sings the Blues Nina Paley’s animated ﬁlm

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Waltz With Bashir The opening film of the Holland Animation Film Festival in Utrecht, Waltz With Bashir follows in the steps of Persepolis with its use of animation to deal with adult, political and contemporary themes—in this case the 1982 Lebanon war. Director Ari Folman attempts to share his personal experience of the war by interviewing friends and witnesses, whom he turns into animated figures, thus creating a visual hybrid of documentary and fiction. In Hebrew and German with Dutch subtitles. 90 min. The Movies, Rialto

Quantum of Solace The second instalment of the rebooted Bond franchise is chock-full of action, stunts and wanton destruction of elaborately designed luxurious sets. The ubiquitous product placement is somewhat negated by said wholesale destruction of it, and while the narrative is nothing to write home about, it moves the ﬁlm along quite nicely. The selling point of the ﬁlm is Daniel Craig in his

Edited by Massimo Benvegnù. This week's ﬁlms reviewed by Jennifer Lyon Bell (JLB), Massimo Benvegnù (MB), Angela Dress (AD), Kate Eaton (KE), Andrea Gronvall (AG), Luuk van Huët (LvH), JR Jones (JJ), Joshua Katzman (JK), Dave Kehr (DK), Steven McCarron (SM), Mike Peek (MP), Gusta Reijnders (GR), Jonathan Rosenbaum (JR) and Bregtje Schudel (BS). All ﬁlms are screened in English with Dutch subtitles unless otherwise noted.

Sita’s still singing the Blues. You should go hear her.

Sat, Sun also 11.00, Wed 19.45, Sat also 23.10 Pride and Glory daily 18.30, 21.20, Thur, Mon, Tues also 12.30, 15.45, Sat also 0.00 Quantum of Solace daily 11.50, 14.20, 16.50, 18.15, 19.20, 21.50, Thur-Tues also 20.40, Thur, Mon-Wed also 12.45, MonWed also 15.10, Fri, Sat also 20.15, Sun also 10.40, 13.10, 15.40, Thur also 12.15, 14.50, Sat also 23.10, 0.15 Sinterklaas en het Geheim van het Grote Boek Thur-Sat 15.30, Fri, Sat also 12,45, Sat also 10.15 Sneak Preview Tues 21.00 Twilight daily 13.00, 15.40, 18.20, 21.10, Sat, Sun also 10.20, Sat also 23.45 The Women daily 12.10, 14.40, 17.00, 19.30, 22.00, Sat also 00.20. Pathé De Munt Vijzelstraat 15, 0900 1458 Der Baader-Meinhof Komplex Thur, Fri, Sun-Tues 18.40, Sat 18.15 Blindness Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 18.20, Sat 20.15 Body Of Lies Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 18.30, 21.30, Thur, Mon, Tues also 12.40, 15.30, Sat 19.40, 22.45 Bride Flight Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 15.20, 21.20, Thur, Mon, Tues also 12.20, Sat 15.45, 23.10 Burn After Reading Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 16.40, Thur, Fri, SunTues also 19.15, 21.40, Wed also 19.10, Sat also 15.20, 18.00, 20.45, 23.30 Changeling Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 14.20, 17.45, 21.20, Sat 14.30, 17.50, 21.00 The Day the Earth Stood Still Wed 20.45 High School Musical 3: Senior Year (NL) Wed 12.00, 14.20, 16.45, 19.15, 21.50 High School Musical: Senior Year (OV) Wed 13.15, 15.50 How To Lose Friends and Alienate People Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 13.50, Sat, 10.15, 12.40, Sun 11.10 Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 14.50, 17.15, 18.10, 19.45, 20.30, 22.15, Thur, Fri, Mon-Wed also 12.20, Thur, Mon, Tues also 12.45, 15.15, Sun also 10.20, 12.40, Sat 10.15, 12.30, 15.00, 17.30, 18.45, 19.50, 21.15, 22.10, 23.40 Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (NL) Fri, Sat, Sun, Wed 12.45, 15.15, 16.15, Fri, Sun, Wed also 13.45, Sat, Sun also 10.30, 11.30, Sat also 13.50 My Best Friend's Girl Thur, Fri, Sun-Tues 13.15, Sat 10.20, 13.00, Sun 10.40 Nights in Rodanthe daily 12.00 Oorlogswinter Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 12.00, 14.30, 17.00, 19.30, 22.00, Sat 12.15, 14.45, 17.15, 19.45, 22.15 Pride and Glory Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 12.10, 15.00, Thur, Fri, SunTues also 18.00, 21.00, Wed also 17.50, 21.30, Sat also 11.00, 14.00, 17.00, 20.00, 23.00 Quantum of Solace Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 12.15, 14.45, 17.30. 18.30, 20.15, Thur, Fri, Sun, Mon, Wed also 21.15, Thur, Fri, Sun, Tues also 21.50, Thur, Mon, Tues also 13.00, 15.45, Sat 11.10, 13.45, 16.30, 17.45, 19.15, 20.30, 21.30, 22.00, 23.15 Radeloos Fri, Sun, Wed 12.20, Sat 10.15, 12.50 Rocknrolla Thur, Fri, Sun-Tues 16.00, Sat also 15.30 Sinterklaas en het Geheim van het Grote Boek Fri, Sun 12.40, 15.30, Sat 11.20, 14.15, 16.50, Sun also 10.15 Sneak Preview Tues 21.30 Twilight daily 13.30, Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed also 21.45, Thur, Fri, Sun, Tues, Wed also 16.15, 19.00, Sat, Sun also 10.45, Sat also 16.45, 19.30, 22.30, Mon also 16.10, 18.45

The Women Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 13.00, 15.40, 18.15, 20.45, Sat 10.40, 13.15, 16.00, 19.00, 21.45, Sun also 10.20. Pathé Tuschinski Reguliersbreestraat 34, 0900 1458 Boy A daily 18.15, Sat, Sun, Wed also 12.00 Bride Flight daily 16.15, Thur-Sun, Tues, Wed also 19.30, Thur, Fri, Mon, Tues also 12.30 Burn After Reading Thur-Sun, Tues, Wed 22.15 Changeling daily 20.30, Thur-Sun, Tues, Wed also 13.45, 17.00, Mon also 12.15, 15.30 Cherry Blossoms daily 15.15, 20.45, Thur, Fri, Mon, Tues also 12.00 Elisabeth: The Golden Age Thur, Tues 13.30 Elton John LIVE Tues 19.45 Madagascar (NL) Sat, Sun, Wed 13.15, 16.00 Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa Thur-Sun, Tues, Wed 18.45, 21.15, Thur, Fri, Tues also 13.15, 16.00, Mon 13.15, 16.00, 18.15 Mamma Mia! The Movie Sat, Sun, Wed 12.30 Oorlogswinter daily 12.00, 15.15, 18.15, 20.45 Quantum of Solace Thur 16.15, 19.00, 21.45, Fri, Sat, Mon, Wed 13.00, 15.45, Fri, Sat also 18.30, 21.00, Sun 12.45, 21.00, Tues 16.30. Rialto Ceintuurbaan 338, 676 8700 Cherry Blossoms daily 18.40, 21.15, Sat, Sun, Wed also 15.45, Sat, Sun also 12.45 Entre Les Murs daily 19.00, 21.30, Sat, Sun, Wed also 16.15, Sat, Sun also 13.45, Sun also 11.15 Harry, un ami qui vous veut du bien Sun 11.00, Wed 19.35 El Olvido Thur-Tues 19.45, Fri, Sat, Sun, Wed also 15.30 Le Silence de Lorna daily 17.30 Waltz With Bashir daily 21.45 Young@Heart Sat, Sun 13.15. SMART Cinema Eerste Constantijn Huijgensstraat 20, 427 5951 Eat For This Is My Body Thur 22.15, Fri, Sun, Mon, Tues 22.00 Lynch: One Fri 22.15 One Night in One City Planet B-Boy Sat 20.15, Sun 20.00, Tues 22.15 Shotgun Stories Thur, Sun , Tues 20.15, Fri, Mon, Wed 20.00, Sat 22.15 Sita Sings the Blues Thur, Sat, Tues 20.00, Sun 22.15, Wed 22.00 White Lies Black Sheep Wild Combination - A portrait of Arthur Russell Thur, Sat 22.00, Fri 20.15. Studio K Timorplein 62, 692 0422, Anubis en het pad der 7 zonden Sat, Sun, Wed 15.00 Arjuna: De Documentaire Thur 22.00 Bienvenue Chez les Ch’tis daily 17.15, Mon-Wed also 22.15 Bride Flight daily 17.00, Thur, Tues, Wed also 19.45 Burn After Reading daily 20.00, 22.00 Wall-E (NL) Sat, Sun, Wed 15.00. De Uitkijk Prinsengracht 452, 623 7460 Anubis en het pad der 7 zonden Sat 15.15, Sun 13.15 Cloud 9 daily 17.00 Il y a longtemps que je t'aime Fri-Wed 19.00 El Olvido daily 21.15 Wall-E (NL) Sun, Wed 15.15.

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FOOD & DRINK The Mouth

By Nanci Tangeman

The hills have eyes Restaurant Pulpo Willemsparkweg 87, 676 0700 Mon-Sat 17.30-00.00 Cash, PIN, credit cards

I used to be a cocky linguist. Years ago, on my first visit to Portugal, I confidently translated museum placards and menus using my eight years of beginner’s Spanish. I figured, how different could the two languages be? It wasn’t until Partner-in-all-thingsuntranslatable and I stepped into a cafe in the hills near Sintra that I learned my linguistic lesson. That’s when I met my first polvo. Not a pollo, or chicken, as I expected when I ordered, but an eight-legged, bulging-headed, glaring octopus sprawled on a plate, waiting for my tentative knife and fork. It wouldn’t have been so bad—my little friend was extremely tasty-—except that the entire population of the village seemed to be in the cafe to witness my mistaken translation. Pollo. Polvo. What a difference one letter (not to mention centuries of cultural evolution) can make. Change two more letters and your linguistic detour takes you right inside the door of tonight’s restaurant. Pulpo is the Spanish word for octopus and at Restaurant Pulpo it is always on offer. This evening my little friend is nestled in a starter of linguini, mussels and stewed fennel (€9). He is sliced, peppered and, ironically, tastes like chicken—the gentlest, most delicate chicken on earth.

Pulpo’s menu offers three courses— starter, main and dessert—for a set price (€29), but you can also order a la carte. My linguistic skills may be poor, but my math skills are strong. As we devour the soft, sesame-pocked bread and hummus, I notice that if we order the set menu, we end up with a free dessert. I choose the red snapper with lemon potato mash, green asparagus and sauce antiboise with capers, onions and tomato (€20 a la carte). Partner starts with paper-thin slices of Carpaccio, covered with herbed oil and shavings of Grana Padano (€9). He then screws up my math epiphany by ordering fillet steak with roasted potatoes, mushrooms and truffle gravy, the lone dish with a supplemental charge (€3). We round out with Amsterdam’s only rucola-free salad (€4). Pulpo’s menu has a definite North African bent: grilled tuna with chickpeas; chicken skewers with pumpkin; lamb curry with cardamom yogurt and herbed polenta served with a colourful mash of green peas and mint. But Pulpo’s decor is more ‘lighting showroom circa 1972’. Chrome fixtures line the walls; decoration is minimal. No curious villagers stare at us as we decipher the tastes: a touch of cinnamon in the couscous, orange blossom essence in the coconut panacotta and a flavour mystery that takes some time to solve in the pineapple and mango dice with pistachio ice cream (no spoilers here!). The flats of Amsterdam may be far from the hills of Portugal, but every time we visit Restaurant Pulpo, I think about that first scowling cephalopod and the eyes of the village upon us. As for Partner-in-all-things-memorable, he just comes along to remind me of the linguistic arrogance that first landed it on my plate. ___

This evening my little friend is nestled in a starter of linguini, mussels and stewed fennel.

A night in the life...

By Sarah Gehrke

Dinner etiquette De Zotte Raamstraat 29 Open Mon-Thur, Sun 16.00-01.00, Fri, Sat 16.00-03.00 Cash, PIN ‘So he turns to the waiter, and says “I’ll have the same.”’ Utter horror in the speaker’s eyes. Sympathetic looks from his male companion. ‘So then,’ he continues, ‘I actually pretended I changed my mind last-minute, and called after the waiter, and changed my order.’ ‘I don’t get it.’ The girl at the table shakes her head. ‘If you’re having dinner with another man, you can’t order the same thing? Why? Is it un-manly or something?’ Both guys at the table get quite wound up now, the first one almost shouting: ‘I know, that’s the problem! Many people don’t get it! That’s why I always insist on ordering last! But sometimes it doesn’t work, they take ages to decide or something, and then there you are.’ A last weary shake of the head, and then the guy gets up for another round of beer. Yes, a night in Zotte means many beers. Many Belgian beers—the antidote to Dutch beers. They’re dark, served in curvy glasses, and are very strong—both in flavour and alcohol content. So in order to be able to han-

Beer price: €2.25 for a vaasje (Amstel). Emergency food: Thick brown bread with herb butter or pâté. Special interior feature: It’s all brown and charmingly messy. And they have the strangest chandelier that has ever been seen, with what looks like neon tubes attached. Predominant shoe type: Boots of different sorts. Typically ordered drink: Duh! Belgian beers. Smoking situation: A few tables outside. Tune of the night: Violent Femmes, ‘Blister in the Sun’. Mingling factor: Medium. State of toilets near closing time: The signs say Vrouwkes and Mannekes, respectively. Apart from that, it’s all normal.

dle many Belgian beers, it’s best if you’ve had a hearty dinner before, which is also very possible here. After eating you can lavishly sink into conversation about, well, anything. It doesn’t really matter what you’re talking about here—the Belgian beers will elevate all chitchat to a heartfelt debate, growing more passionate with every sip. And though Zotte is relatively spacious, it’s still dark and cosy, ﬁlled with all those signs and pictures on the walls that no Belgian beer bar can apparently do without—all of which adds to that living room feel, stimulating one’s debating skills even further. A few hours and many Belgian beers later, I still haven’t got over the discussion overheard at the beginning of the night, and I decide to get a second opinion. ‘What?’ says the guy I’m with, when I ask if he also thinks that men can’t order the same dish if they’re out for dinner alone. ‘Why? Is it unmanly or something?’ I say that, yes, I believe that was the reason. ‘That’s bullshit,’ he says, getting quite wound up now, ‘and I’ll tell you why. Imagine four guys going out for dinner together. Three of them order steak. One of them orders chicken. Now who’s unmanly there?’ He’s got a point. A point which, of course, he wishes to extend into a long discussion. Ah well, okay then. Let’s just get in another round of Belgian beers ﬁrst. ___

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