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30 June – 31 August 2011 EYE Film Institute Netherlands celebrates its last summer in the Vondelpark with a festival on Jack Nicholson, the flamboyant actor with a devilishly charming grin. Nicholson is seen as one of the greatest actors of our time, who isn’t afraid to take on unpleasant roles where extremes collide: maniacal and melancholic, sinister and hilarious. Jack Nicholson has won three Oscar awards, and with twelve Oscar nominations, he is the most nominated actor in the history of the Academy Awards. Nicholson is ‘like a force of nature’, cameraman Nestor Almendros said. Nicholson himself says: ‘My secret craft – it’s all autobiography’.

Here’s Jack

Jack Nicholson was born in New York in 1937.

Circumstances around his childhood were anything but easy: his mother became pregnant at 17 after an affair with a married man. Jack was raised by his grandparents, who let him believe that they were his parents, and his real mother pretended to be his sister. It was only in 1974 that Nicholson learned the truth from a journalist from Time magazine. His grandmother and mother had already died by that time.

From B-actor to Mr. Hollywood

Nicholson started out in the mail room of Hollywood’s MGM studio. From there he got his first roles in low-budget horror productions by Roger Corman such as The Little Shop Of Horrors (1960), in which he played a masochistic dental patient.

The anarchistic classic Easy Rider (1969) was Nicholson’s big breakthrough, during which the anti-authoritarian actor loosened up both on and off the set.

Nicholson proved he was a great actor and not just a countercultural icon with Chinatown (Roman Polanski, 1974), in which he played the laconic private investigator J.J. Gittes, complete with a bandaged nose. His biggest role, according to many, was in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975), in which he played a psychiatric patient who rebels against a dictatorial nurse after he’s locked up in a mental institution. Nicholson was awarded his first Oscar for this milestone in film history.

Diabolically macho

After this, the nature of his roles changed. He shifted from playing a defiant, stubborn man to the role of frustrated, failing father and middle-aged husband.

In Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece The Shining (1980) and in Terms of Endearment (1983), he rebels against the obligations of marriage. In The Witches of Eastwick (1987), he visibly enjoys himself as he makes a devilish argument for sexual abandon. Nicholson played the ultimate, egotistical macho devil here. He could simultaneously flaunt his masculinity and make fun of his image as a male chauvinist.

He reached the apotheosis of his diabolic roles when he played The Joker in Batman (1992). With his green face and frozen grimace, Nicholson let himself go in this role as a macabre clown: ‘You couldn’t go over the top with that part. There was no top,’ he remarked.

And as a colonel in A Few Good Men (1992) he was sacrosanct. His one-liner ‘You want the truth? You can’t handle the truth!’ from that film was listed in the American Film Institute’s 100 Greatest Movie Quotes, along with his ‘Here’s Johnny!’ from The Shining.

He played a subtler role in Sean Penn’s The Crossing Guard (1995).

Ironic and absurd as per usual, he was cast as a psychotic president in the satire Mars Attacks! (1996). Nicholson garnered much praise as an obsessive, eccentric writer in the tragicomedy As Good As It Gets (1997).

Programme Jack Nicholson 30 June – 31 August 2011 About Schmidt

Alexander Payne (US 2002) English spoken, Dutch subt. 124’ color 11 + 12 Aug 7 pm; 13 - 17 Aug 9.45 pm

As Good As It Gets

James L. Brooks (US 1997) English spoken, Dutch subt. 139’ color 15 + 17 - 20 July 7 pm; 16 July 4 pm

Batman

Tim Burton (US 1989) English spoken, Dutch subt. 127’ color 11 + 12 Aug 9.45 pm; 15 + 16 Aug 7 pm

Carnal Knowledge

Mike Nichols (US 1971) English spoken, English subt. 98’ color 1 + 2 + 3 Aug 7 pm

Chinatown

Roman Polanski (US, 1974) English/ Spanish spoken, Dutch subt. 130’ color 14 July 9.45; 29 July + 6 Aug 7 pm; 30 July - 3 Aug 9.45 pm

The Crossing Guard

Sean Penn (US 1995) English spoken, Dutch and French subt. 111’ color 16 July 7 pm; 19 + 20 July 9.45 pm

The Departed

Martin Scorsese (US/HK 2006) English spoken, Dutch subt. 151’ color 8 + 9 July 9.45 pm; 26 July 7 pm, 20 Aug 4 pm

Drive, He Said

Jack Nicholson (US 1970) English spoken, Dutch subt. 88’ color 30 July 1 pm

Easy Rider

Dennis Hopper (US 1969) English spoken, Dutch subt. 94’ color 30 June 8.30 pm; 2 July 4 pm; 8+9 July 7 pm; 10+12+13 July 9.45 pm 31 July 7 pm; 19 Aug 9.15 pm open-air screening on the terrace of EYE and cafe Vertigo

A Few Good Men

Rob Reiner (US 1992) English spoken, Dutch subt. 136’ color 17 + 20 Aug 7 pm; 18 + 19 Aug 9.45 pm

Five Easy Pieces

Bob Rafelson (US 1970) English spoken, Dutch subt. 98’ color 30 June 8.30 pm; 18 + 19 Aug 7 pm; 20 - 24 Aug 9.45 pm

Goin’ South

Jack Nicholson (US 1978) English spoken, Dutch subt. 105’ color 27 July 7 pm; 6 Aug 4 pm 30 July 3 pm incl. lecture in Dutch (30’)

Hoffa

Danny DeVito (US 1992) English spoken, Dutch subt. 140’ color 5 + 6 July 7 pm; 29 July 9.45 pm

Ironweed

Prizzi’s Honor

The King of Marvin Gardens

Professione: Reporter

Hector Babenco (US 1987) English spoken, Dutch subt. 141’ color 21 - 23 Aug 7 pm

Bob Rafelson (US 1972) English spoken, English subt. 103’ color 7 - 10 Aug 7 pm

The Last Detail

Hal Ashby (US 1973) English spoken, Dutch subt. 104’ color 5 Aug 9.45 pm; 13 + 14 Aug 7 pm

Mars Attacks!

Tim Burton (US 1996) English spoken, Dutch subt. 104’ color 24 + 27 Aug 7 pm; 25 + 26 Aug 9.45 pm

The Missouri Breaks

Arthur Penn (US 1976) English spoken, Dutch and French subt. 126’ color 12 July 8 pm

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

Milos Forman (US 1975) English spoken, Dutch subt. 133’ color 23-29 June 5 and 7.30 pm; for July and August check www.eyefilm.nl

The Pledge

Sean Penn (US 2001) English spoken, Dutch subt. 124’ color 10 + 13 July 7 pm; 17 + 18 July 9.45 pm

The Postman Always Rings Twice

Bob Rafelson (US 1981) English spoken Dutch subt. 120’ color 26 June 10.30 am in Tuschinski 22 + 23 July 7 pm; 24 - 27 July 9.45 pm

John Huston (US 1985) English spoken Dutch subt. 127’ color 4 + 5 Aug 7 pm; 7 - 10 Aug 9.45 pm Michelangelo Antonioni (IT/SP/FR, 1975) English spoken Dutch subt. 119’ color 1 + 2 July 7 pm; 3 - 6 July 9.45 pm

Reds

Warren Beatty (US 1981) English spoken Dutch / French subt. 194’ color 23 July + 13 Aug 1 pm

The Shining

Stanley Kubrick (US/GB, 1980) English spoken 1+2+15+16+22+23 July+4 Aug 9.45 pm +25+26 Aug 7 pm (American version, English subt. 146 min.)

27 - 31 Aug 9.45 pm; (European version, Dutch subt. 119 min.)

The Shooting

Monte Hellman (US 1966) English spoken Dutch / Finnish subt. 82’ color 3 + 4 jul 7 pm

Terms of Endearment

James L. Brooks (US 1983) English spoken Dutch / French subt. 132’ color 9 July 4 pm; 24 + 25 July 7 pm

The Two Jakes

Jack Nicholson (US 1990) English spoken Dutch subt. 137’ color 30 July 7 pm (inc. lecture); 6 Aug 9.45 pm

The Witches of Eastwick George Miller (US 1987) English spoken Dutch subt. 118’ color 28 - 31 Aug 7 pm

DIGITALLY RE-MASTERED

WINNER OF FIVE ACADEMY AWARDS

DIRECTED BY MILOS FORMAN

BEST PICTURE BEST ACTOR BEST ACTRESS BEST DIRECTOR BEST SCREENPLAY

Fantasy Films presents: A MILOS FORMAN FILM JACK NICHOLSON in ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEST Starring LOUISE FLETCHER and WILLIAM REDFIELD Screenplay LAWRENCE HAUBEN and BO GOLDMAN Based on the novel by KEN KESEY Director of Photography HASKELL WEXLER Music JACK NITZSCHE Produced by SAUL ZAENTZ and MICHAEL DOUGLAS directed by MILOS FORMAN

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Programme may be subject to change.

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New Location 2012

EYE moves to a new location in Overhoeks, Amsterdam’s new urban district named after the prominent Overhoeks Tower on the northern bank of the IJ, behind Amsterdam Central Station. EYE’s new building will feature four modern film auditoriums with a total of 600 seats, an exhibition space, a film lab, a shop and a café.

In the summer, the sunny terrace will offer a great view over the water. Opening is expected in spring 2012.