Amsterdam Weekly: Vol 4 Issue 41, 11-17 October 2007

Volume 4, Issue 41

11-17 OCTOBER 2007 Arrested developers

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A look behind Kunststad An arty village to watch opens on the IJ page 6

Andy Warhol and Lou Reed weren’t exactly pals page 4 When traffic lights were a brave new frontier page 4 Lawson & Whatshisname make subversive ’toons page 13 PHOTOGRAPHY: Manufactured landscapes are beautifully ugly p. 10 / FILM: In control with Joy Division p. 17

Short List . . . . . . . . . . . . .8 Music/Clubs . . . . . . . . . .11 Gay & Lesbian . . . . . . . .13 Stage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13 Art . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14 Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15 Dining . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16 Film . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17 Classifieds/Comics . . . .21

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CITY SECOND BY PETER CLEUTJENS In this issue and...

As the whole Warhola-hoopla drives into town, it’s not hard to pay tribute, not only to Andy’s way with a can of soup, but also to his ability to surround himself with an inspired set of oddballs—some of them true originals, pioneers, creative geniuses and great minds; some just, well, odd. His Factory, backed by Brillo pad- and Marilyn- provided profits, proved an arty milieu to hang your freak out and also set out a blueprint for how commerce and art can meet and both can flourish, in a really rather Renaissance way. Amsterdam’s latest Factory, the Kunststad in the truly industrial shipyard of NDSM, got the subsidies and now it’s got the platform. And the requisite inspired freaks are now installed. Add water—and maybe a few beers (though maybe leave out the angel dust and dexies this time round)—and you’ve got a true breeding ground of the arts with a future. Or not. We’ll see. But let’s just hold hands for a bit and stay positive. Now, somebody get the Super 8 out and start rolling...

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AROUND TOWN Wiggin’ out with Andy and Lou Reed + Warhol still closely linked, yet never close.

By Marinus de Ruiter The Transformer storms Amsterdam: Lou Reed opens his photo exhibition in Serieuze Zaken Studioos on Wednesday and will perform live at Thursday evening’s VIP opening party for the Stedelijk’s exhibition Andy Warhol: Other Voices—Other Rooms. Even though they collaborated briefly in the mid-1960s, the collision between angry young rock musician Reed and reserved pop art maestro Warhol produced an artwork of lasting brilliance, a rock record usually called The Velvet Underground & Nico.

The legendary status of this untitled avant-garde rock masterpiece, with the stylised banana on the cover, continues to build 40 years after its original release.

Recently, it topped the Dutch rock critics’ chart in music magazine Oor, prolonging the position it gained in a similar poll 20 years before. Last December, a unique sample copy of the album, with different versions of the songs, sold for over $25,000 on eBay. The record forever associated Reed with Warhol, even though the two were never actually close, according to cultural historian Steven Watson. ‘Their connection was very important for both of them, but frankly I don’t think there was very much of a personal relationship,’ says Watson on the phone from his New York office.

In his book and documentary film project Factory Made, Watson captures the history of Warhol’s studio The Factory from the years 1963 until 1968, particularly the stories of the freaks and outcasts that flocked to the artist’s workplace in those days. ‘I’m always interested in group phenomena,’ says Watson. ‘I’m not particularly interested in the individual genius, but in the relationships and connections between people and what these connections bring out in them.’

Initially, the talented commercial draftsman Warhol worked with assistants on the radical pop art silkscreens and sculptures that made him famous. The deadpan Campbell’s soup can paintings, the Marilyn Monroe portraits and the Brillo boxes were so far off from what audiences at the time were used to, that Warhol became notorious both in the art world and outside. Soon, his freshly opened New York studio attracted a regular crowd that reflected the lifestyle of the artist and his crew.

Aside from his interest in visual art, modern advertising, fashion and film,

Warhol was gay, used amphetamines on a daily basis and was fascinated with the more extreme sides of New York’s subcultures. He liked to surround himself with people while he was working, observing their ways and feeding off their energy.

Naturally, aside from managers and collectors, The Factory became saturated with actors, models, drag queens, fetishists, speed freaks and derelicts off the street.

Amid the increasingly tense atmosphere at his studio, Warhol remained reserved. His pale complexion, caused by a rare skin disease, and his early baldness, hidden by his white wigs, had already caused tremendous insecurity about his appearance. On top of that, he was shy. ‘Warhol was friends with very few people,’ says Watson. ‘A lot of people in the Factory were not really connected to Andy, but to the space and to other people who were there.’

Through the New York grapevine, Warhol got to know the obscure music ensemble The Velvet Underground in 1965, when he was mainly interested in cinema.

His focus shifted away from visual art when he started experimenting with film, portraying everyone who hung around at the Factory in simple, minimalist fashion, impressing other American underground film-makers in the process.

Convinced by his film colleague Paul Morrissey, Warhol saw the possibilities of The Velvet Underground. The group was coupled to another Factory regular, the singing mannequin Nico and, in 1966, they recorded the album known as The Velvet Underground & Nico under the artistic guidance of Warhol. In that year, he and Morrissey had already set up live shows centered on the group, with dancers, intense light effects and films projected on the stage, creating some of the first multimedia performances.

It is the multimedia aspect that is central to the Stedelijk retrospective Other Voices, Other Rooms. Instead of presenting

There was always something between them.

a career overview, the large exhibition will give an impression of what went on in Warhol’s world and in his head, through a series of films and interactive installations based on his life. The museum consciously aims the show at younger audiences.

The remarkably vital artistic period came to an end in 1968 when Warhol was shot by Factory hanger-on Valerie Solanas, resulting in permanent physical damage.

Before that, The Velvet Underground’s singer Reed had already parted ways with Warhol. According to Reed, Warhol called him a ‘rat’ when the singer broke the news.

The two rarely saw each other after that, but Reed never hesitated to praise Warhol, even though he didn’t hold back a sneer here and there.

Reed occasionally referred to the Factory years in his later songs. His biggest hit ‘Walk on the Wild Side’, from the 1972 solo album Transformer, portrays some of the Factory characters and, after Warhol’s death in 1987, Reed and Velvet bandmate John Cale recorded an album about Warhol, Songs for Drella, which chronicles important Factory episodes.

Warhol’s influence is mainly traceable in Reed’s approach to his career. Currently, the singer, who became iconic himself, is professionally involved in poetry, songwriting, experimental music, Tai Chi and photography. His latest photo series Lou Reed’s New York is on display at Serieuze Zaken Studioos. ‘Lou Reed appreciated Warhol by his example,’ Watson concludes.

‘Warhol tried many different things. It was [Reed’s] door to openness.’

Andy Warhol—Other Voices, Other Rooms, Stedelijk CS, 12 October 2006-13 January 2008 Lou Reed’s New York, Serieuze Zaken Studioos, 16 October-15 November.

Red Yellow Green When regulated intersections caused sensations.

By Pete Jordan Next Wednesday marks the diamond jubilee of an historic moment in Amsterdam. There are no planned public celebrations, however, to commemorate 17 October 1932: the day the city installed its first traffic light. And now, 75 years later, the intersection that was home to that first signal no longer even has one.

Before 1912, the city’s numerous pushcarts, horse carriages, trams, bicycles, pedestrians and automobiles all passed haphazardly through crossroads at their own risk. Then, on 3 December 1912, the first phase of Amsterdam’s intersection regulation began. At noon on that day, Gerrit Brinkman took up a position on the Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal in front of the main post office (now the Magna Plaza). His task—as the city’s very first traffic policeman—was to ease congestion by directing traffic.

Yet the more Brinkman gesticulated at the road users, the more they gathered to stare at him. The slack-jawed crowd grew until traffic ground to a standstill.

After two frustrating and fruitless hours, Brinkman finally decided the best way to unsnarl things was to remove the biggest impediment: himself. So he fled his post and took refuge around the corner in the Molsteeg. Before long, though, traffic

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policemen had become familiar sights in the city’s intersections.

More than a decade later, in what Brinkman—again on the scene—called the ‘great event of 1925,’ the second phase of regulation was introduced. On 28 September 1925, where Weteringschans meets Nieuwe Vijzelstraat, a traffic cop stood holding a new device: the city’s first stop sign.

Again, this was cause for excitement.

The Algemeen Handelsblad reported: ‘On the Weteringschans, where the first sign is now displayed, dozens of people stand and look—at what, they’re not sure themselves. If there came to be fifteen of these signs in the city, then in fifteen places the onlookers would be more curious than ducks in a ditch, staring at the sign that always remains the same.’

Indeed, within a month, there were more stop signs around town to be gawked at, including one on Leidseplein where Kleine-Gartmanplantsoen meets Marnixstraat. This was an especially busy intersection, since, at the time, Leidsestraat was still a major thoroughfare for cars and bikes. And, seven years later, this spot was chosen to host the city’s first traffic light.

On the morning of 17 October 1932, in the presence of Mayor Willem de Vlugt and Police Chief HJ Versteeg, Amsterdam’s third phase of intersection regulation began. According to one newspaper account: ‘In the intersection Officer Cohen directed traffic while on the corner sidewalk, in front of the Hirsch building, Officers Schotting and Jansen operated a secretive green switchboard box that regulated the traffic lights by hand’—though they would be fully automated within days. Other traffic cops instructed those waiting in cars and on bikes of the meaning of the lights’ colours.

This being the theatre district, De Telegraaf treated the news like an opening night: ‘This morning was the first performance of the famous play “GreenYellow-Red” [...] In general, it can be said that the production was a success and that the lighting was most satisfactory.’

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onlookers, ‘it made me think back to my first day on the job in 1912.’

With so many traffic cops and cyclists idling about, the officers took the opportunity to check bicycles for current bicycle-tax plates. Any bike without one was confiscated. Complained one cyclist: ‘First they lure you to the binnenstad under false pretences, and then they pinch your bike!’

Some drivers, apparently thrilled by the new stoplights, were observed repeatedly driving back and forth through the intersection. These drivers were obviously unaware that, after this momentous first day, they’d never again enjoy stopping for a red light.

Initially, the yellow light lasted a full 10 seconds—too long. Yellow’s time was promptly cut in half. Ten days after the stoplight’s introduction, Claas Bakker, chief of traffic police, stated, ‘It’s just the yellow that some people still find odd.’

Otherwise, Bakker proclaimed that Amsterdammers had quickly adjusted to the new signal.

Well, maybe most Amsterdammers had. A couple of months later, a letterwriter reported to the Algemeen Handelsblad that he had recently ridden in a taxi that had blown through the Leidseplein signal. When the passenger pointed out the dangers of flaunting the lights, the cabbie replied, ‘Ach meneer, no one can make head nor tail of them.’

A year later, the Leidseplein signal proved so successful in regulating traffic that signals were installed at 12 more intersections (on Leidsestraat, Koningsplein and Spui). By 1950, the number of intersections reached 75; in 1975, 242. Of the 360 crossroads that currently have traffic lights, their original home is not among them. After Leidsestraat was closed to cars and bikes in 1971, Leidseplein became far less busy with traffic. By the end of the 1970s, far less ceremoniously than when they were installed, the square’s stoplight had been removed. Evidently, the old cabbie got his way.

Leidseplein as it was when the revolution lit up. Original drawing by Jo Spier (1932).

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DE GOUDEN KUNSTKOOI ONCE KUNSTSTAD,THE COUNTRY’S LARGEST BROEDPLAATS FOR THE ARTS, IS OFFICIALLY OPENED THIS WEEKEND AT NDSM-WERF,THE PARTICIPANTS CAN FINALLY GET ON WITH SOME SERIOUS CREATING AND INTERACTING. BUT THERE’S OTHER INTERACTIONS BREWING: FOR THE WHARF CAN BE SEEN AS AN EVEN LARGER ‘BREEDING GROUND’WHERE ART AND COMMERCE ARE SUPPOSED TO GET TOGETHER AND CUDDLE.WILL IT ALL EVOLVE INTO SOMETHING MORE THAN JUST A TORRID AFFAIR? STAY TUNED!

BY STEVE KORVER PHOTOGRAPHY BY SIMON WALD-LASOWSKI

It’s a vibrant Saturday afternoon at Kunststad—think of it as an arty village that has crash-landed in the wonderfully apocalyptic setting of a former ship warehouse—as people put the finishing touches to their studio spaces before this weekend’s grand unveiling. A set-builder is banging in a window frame to let light into his workshop. A man in orange overalls is expressing glee at his new power sander. Many are frantically painting walls. A car is being sawn to bits.

The anarchic theatre platform, PickUp Club, is busy with a sound check for a benefit they are throwing that night for an incarcerated colleague in Finland. A pleasant vibe reigns. Even as the uninsulated Skatepark, suspended above, provides a more rolling than rocking soundtrack.

And in a clearing—an evolving town square of sorts—between the two floors of 100 studios for 240 artists, designers, musicians, animators, architects and graffiti artists, two men and a woman are banging together some makeshift plant pots while five-metre-long bamboo plants lay prone, awaiting their new home. When asked what they were up to, Paul Dams, a ship’s carpenter who now shares a studio with a photographer he’ll be developing silkscreened furniture with, answers with a twinkle in his eye: ‘We’re building a jungle.

Then maybe we’ll let some monkeys loose and see what happens.’ An urge to strip down to my loincloth and volunteer for the experiment is suppressed. Wow, interaction sure happens fast here.

Indeed, Kunststad comes across as a higher primate paradise for the arts, where the interaction should prove to be spicy.

The PickUp Club, whose activities do a very efficient job of sprawling into the halls, began squatting Kloveniersburgwal 131, the ABN-AMRO building on Rembrandtsplein and the iT nightclub, but ended up here ‘because we had no where else to go.’ Their artistic director Marc Koolen now finds himself feeling sorry for his new neighbours: ‘There, they are focused and concentrated on designing tiny bits of jewellery and then they have us as neighbours. And we’re a pretty loud bunch.’ He smiles with understatement.

Maybe iPod sponsorship could solve the problem for the sound-sensitive. Hey, maybe art and commerce can work together!

Kunststad, as a whole, also has to deal with all the rest of the activities occurring around the wharf, such as the alternative ship Stubnitz, temporarily moored nearby, the lovely cafe-restaurant Noorderlicht, and the various festivals like Robodock and Over het IJ, which regularly take place here. Meanwhile, the new MTV Europe headquarters and the developers Media Wharf are on hand for commercial contrast and as potential work-givers. It should prove to be quite a party. With a lot of talk, talk, talk.

Building up a village Kunststad is really an only-in-Amsterdam construct. It grew out of the Kinetisch Noord foundation, which began in 1999 as an initiative of squatters, artists, theatremakers, skaters and architects who sought to make NDSM-werf the biggest broedplaats in the country, offering affordable studios with the interiors built by the artists themselves. It was meant to help fill the void left a decade ago when Amsterdam was marketing itself as the ‘Gateway to Europe’ and creating a milieu where such culturally happening squats as Silo and Vrieshuis Amerika were emptied and much office space was built for all those happy hordes of corporations that would, with a bit of luck, set up their European headquarters here. Sadly not enough came—but we do have an explanation why there’s so much empty expensive office space nowadays. And, these days, we are also in midst of a new branding programme, Amsterdam as ‘Creative City’, and a mission to create affordable studio spaces through the new broedplaats policy. Happily we live a city rich enough to at least try to fix its past mistakes. Albeit with a lot of rules on top.

And with money from the Broedplaats fund, the city of Amsterdam, the Ministerie van VROM (the Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment) and Stadsdeel Amsterdam-Noord (also the owners of the buildings), it all came together. A city-appointed official took over as head of Kinetisch Noord. Roel de Jong, the current managing director is quick to defend his position: ‘I don’t see it as a way for the city to keep control over the foundation. OK, I work for the gemeente and they rent me out, but I’m

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here on behalf of the foundation and not of the city. The big advantage is that I know a lot of people in the city and, from my previous jobs, know how real estate developers work and think.’

We are talking a whole new frontier here. Just as on a smaller scale, creative types usually have to find a balance between their personal work and the work that puts bread on the table, NDSM on a larger scale has to find a balance between commerce that makes money, and culture that costs money. It can be said that NDSM is Amsterdam—even the world—in microcosm.

And while the Kunststadders—can we think of a better name please?—all seem very happy to be here, jungle-builder Dams expresses an often heard sentiment: ‘Het klopt helemaal niet. There are too many things that remain unclear.’

Sounds like one could get all journalistic over here. Or, then again, one could just take a stroll around the surrounding landscapes and stare out to the water.

Lovely—especially on a beautiful day.

And to risk sounding like a travel brochure: and all this a mere 15-minute free ferry ride from Centraal Station!

Then, an SUV passes with a guy in a suit and a digital camera clicking away.

Just like in the movies. Is this a project developer out to pop a snow dome over the Kunststad and start building condos all over them?

Balancing act But the suit monkeys don’t worry De Jong, who has developed a more nuanced view, since it’s his main job to juggle all the different parties—from ex-squatters that go ‘grr grr’ to Jeep-driving developers. ‘Oh, you see them a couple of times a day, but come on, everyone is free to come around and take pictures and—who knows?—maybe some of them will actually come up with an interesting plan. Let them see what’s going on over here. Not only with the Kunststad, but also in the Oostvleugel and with the people down by the water who are similarly busy.’

With Kunststad finished—or at least, onto the next phase—De Jong sees his job throughout 2008 to ‘ensure that the broedplaats policy remains a fundamental part of the area and also to get more festivals to the wharf. With MTV opening their doors, more similar companies will be attracted here—all with their own ideas and plans. Meanwhile, the commercial developer for the area, Media Wharf, is making plans. And most of our ideas are similar: to make a space dedicated to arts, media and the creative sector. But you also have to take into account that they are a commercial developer. Developers, besides the basic creative concept, also count their money. And our job at Kinetic Noord is to make sure the balance remains right. To make money. But also to promote culture—and that costs money.’

‘With the rest of Amsterdam tightly developed, this is one of the last places where commerce doesn’t have to completely taken over. It’s a perfect location, close to the centre but isolated enough that you can organise events for up to fifty thousand people without too many people complaining about the noise. And I think it’s very important that such a place exists not only for the people that use it, but also for Amsterdam, even the Netherlands.

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tance and that’s why they want to keep this one here at least until 2027. They have invested a lot of money here, after all.’

They are also looking for a way of getting some of it back—and this pressure will only grow. And while MTV— renowned for using up-and-coming young graphics and video people for its idents and branding—will likely provide bottomup work for the creatives working in the area, they will also attract more companies which in turn will continue to elevate the real estate prices. Hence there will be more and more pressure from the commerce side in the form of offers that Stadsdeel Noord may not be able to resist.

De Jong seeks to reassure: ‘Any new owner would have to respect the existing contracts between the artists and Kinetic Noord. Of course, there’s more security if the city owns it, but if it does get sold you will just have to write down clearly that this broedplaats has to stay here. If they want to develop some parts that’s fine, but then within the profile of it staying a creative place. And if you make the right deal then it’s no problem, but you have to be really aware and look out for your own position.’

Speculating But this uncertainty does fuel much speculation on how exactly things will play out here. Can De Jong offer any more optimism that balance will truly be achieved? ‘We must create a definitive new urban plan for this area. And to keep talking, talking, talking. Open yourself to the outside. Let yourself be heard. Make sure you have a cultural programme. And keep the ‘wow what a place’ buzz going.

We need more Robodocks and Over het IJ festivals. The more you put yourself on the map, the more indispensable you become.’ So will it be an ongoing battle in the coming years? ‘Absolutely,’ answers De Jong.

Meanwhile, the speculation is not hard to tap into at Kunststad, already a breeding ground for healthy gossip. But here the tom-tom doesn’t happen around the office water-cooler or village pump but around, for example (there are a lot of colourful options here), a psychedelic shack that says ‘C’est ne pas un bittorbal’[sic]. Here you can hear the doomsday scenario where the gemeente says ‘sorry, you’ve wasted all the money and it’s time to pull the plug,’ and the Kunststad is dismantled in a week... About the wastes of money like the elevator that is built to hold 250,000 kilos, but which goes to a floor that begins buckling at 250 kilos...

What it means that talks with Joop van den Ende Productions about taking over one of the halls have stalled... How the bottom-up plan of Kunststad is already clashing with the top-down ways of the gemeente... Oh and has anyone seen my hammer?

In short: there’s enough stories here to change this paper’s name into the NDSM Weekly. So stay tuned. This could become bigger than Big Brother—we could even call it the De Gouden Kunstkooi. And maybe those guys in jeeps are not developers but casting agents. Anything’s possible.

Opening Weekend Kunststad with exhibitions, open studios, theatre, film and design, 11-14 October, free, www.ndsm.nl. An exhibition of Kunststaders’ work runs until 11 November.

THEN, AN SUV PASSES WITH A GUY IN A SUIT AND A DIGITAL CAMERA CLICKING AWAY. JUST LIKE IN THE MOVIES. IS THIS A PROJECT DEVELOPER OUT TO POP A SNOW DOME OVER THE KUNSTSTAD AND START BUILDING CONDOS ALL OVER THEM?

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unfold, they decided they need something fresh: a live album that will be recorded tonight—one additionally powered by drummer Henk Jonkers (Hallo Venray) and guitarist Leon Caren (Blues Brother Castro). (Steve Korver) Paradiso, Kleine Zaal, 20.30, €7 + membership.

Rock: Bad Brains Many times, the legendary Bad Brains have been labelled as one of the first crossover bands in the history of rock ’n’ roll. They were not. They were a punk rock band. And they were a roots reggae band. At the same time, that is. And they still are, because, after a somewhat hazy period, they recorded a new album, with ferocious hardcore songs taking turns with religious reggae tunes, just like 30-odd years ago. The ‘Kings of Kings’ and the ‘Jahs’ are flying about again. Produced by Beastie Boy Adam Yauch, it’s a surprisingly good effort from this Afro-American band from Washington DC, whose landmark albums Bad Brains and Rock for Light influenced an entire generation of musicians, including Black Flag, Red Hot Chili Peppers and Nirvana. If Dr Know, Earl Hudson and Darryl Jenifer can display the same technical skills as they always did with quick time changes, and if volatile singer HR can keep his lunacy somewhat under control, you’re in for a great treat. Amsterdam punk veterans NRA will kick off the evening. (Floris Dogterom) Paradiso, 19.30, €18.50.

Craft: Katie’s Cozy Craft Corner By now, you would have realised that crafting is no longer just for grandmothers and girl scouts, though did you ever imagine it could be a cosmopolitan evening affair, that you could hold a cocktail in one hand and your pincushion in the other? This season, San Francisco native and embroidery enchantress Katie Holder welcomes Amsterdam into her postmodern, post-Martha circle of creationism. Her pièces de résistance include gold-chained Mr T baby bibs, buckin’ bronco gay rodeo aprons and vintage dishtowels for newlyweds that read ‘his’ and ‘his’ (so she never has to wash). At the Cozy Craft Corner, however, all media and levels of irony are welcome. So, whether you’re a veteran of macramé, a cross-stitch virgin or just Bedazzle-curious, stock up your Caboodle and follow the scent of hot glue-guns to retro-chic bar De Nieuwe Anita. Awaiting you every second Thursday of the month are pristine work surfaces, home-made cupcakes and a tray of craftinis, shaken, stirred—or with scalloped edges.

(Karina Hof) De Nieuwe Anita, 20.00-23.00, free.

Rock: Scram C Baby Local band Scram C Baby have been around for 15 years, but know how to keep their catchy noise pop fresh: when a drummer leaves, start going nuts with electronica sounds. The resulting critically acclaimed The Thing That Wears My Ring CD, released on Excelsior, creeps up on you like a three-beer buzz and makes fans of Pavement and Guided by Voices groove with joy. Unfortunately, they could not support it with a tour as was initially planned this summer, so now, when the tour is about to

FRIDAY12 OCTOBER Art: China Now As the 2008 Olympics in Beijing creep ever closer, more and more eyes are turning east, as interest in the host country, in all its many aspects, reignites. Yet, despite being a country of 1.3 billion people, years of closed-door communism have meant that it is largely an unknown quantity; and, if you say ‘Chinese art’, most people will think of terracotta warriors and Ming vases. This exhibition, curated by Feng Boyi (one of the few—and first—to put together shows of Chineses avant garde art) helps fill in the gaps by bringing the work of Fang Lijun, Yue Minjun and Zhang Xiaogang, and up-andcoming names like Yin Xiuzhen, to a worldwide audience. China Now is organised around seven themes, from politics to poetry. Socialist realist imagery is still in there (such as in Jing Kewen’s ‘Together’), but is now seen through the very modern lens of irony. Much of the work is concerned with the split between tradition and modernity.

And it seems that the booming economy—the world’s fastest-growing money market, in fact—has a huge influence on the kind of art produced. Looks like Marx’s theory of dialectic materialism was right after all. (Kim Renfrew) CoBrA Museum, Until 27 January 2008.

Rock: John Peel Day(s) John Peel looked like a kindly uncle, lived on a Suffolk farm and could be heard in millions of teenagers’ bedrooms late at night. He was an enigma for a Radio 1 DJ: he actually liked music (a dig at DJ colleagues who thought 12 inches was the length of their egos) and he broke free from the domineering playlist to feature new bands, or old ones that he just happened to like. He didn’t care for mindless chat, either: he sat in a dimly-lit studio, sharing a bottle of red wine with his producer, telling anecdotes to the nation. Most BBC programmes are timed to the nth degree: start record at 26.30, record finishes, then play news jingle. Mr Peel had his own ideas. One evening, I was reading the news on his show, but the usual slick efficiency of a BBC newsreader deserted me as the track ended and he said ‘That was Smell Me, Smell My Grandfather, this is Claire Cavanagh with the news...’ The fact that he died three years ago and is still being honoured here—with the likes of Persil, The Bent Moustache and, from his native land, The Lovely Eggs and Lianne Hall—proves he was a one-off. (Claire Cavanagh) OCCII, 20.30, €5. Also 13 October.

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SATURDAY13 OCTOBER Benefit: Going Dutch Come June 2008, an orange caravan of 40 young Dutch people on and in motorbikes, cars, a 4x4 truck and a bus will leave Amsterdam, heading for the Summer Olympics in Beijing, China. On their adventurous trip, they will cross challenging countries like Iran, Turkmenistan and Kyrgyzstan. But it’s not only adventure they’re after. Before and during the trip, they will organise events that spread a message of reconciliation.

In cooperation with Right To Play, an international humanitarian organisation, Going Dutch will bring sport and play to children and youth in Central Asia and China. Why? Because they believe that it will improve the lives of these children and strengthen their communities, by translating the best practices of sport and play into opportunities to promote development, health and peace. In order to finance the trip and the charity, Going Dutch is organising a number of fund-raising activities. Kick-off will be BUSKRUIT, a night of music and lottery. Jimmy Smoke & the Blue Nuggets will pump out good ol’ disco hits, while DJ Tron and DJ Clockwork are at the spinning wheels.

More info: www.amsterdambeijing.com. (Floris Dogterom) Bitterzoet, 21.00, €10 (includes €5 lottery ticket).

Club: DJ /rupture Chuck D once described rap as ‘the black CNN’. Following this analogy, the Public Enemy frontman resembles the grey news anchor, while Jace Clayton, aka DJ /rupture is more like the ambitious young reporter, constantly scanning the globe for news from the ghettos. Although his spectacular mix albums Minesweeper Suite and Special Gunpowder are full of plundered raps, turntablist Clayton doesn’t limit himself to hiphop, but fuses it with breakcore, white noise, dancehall dubstep, African rhythms, Arabian string sounds and cheesy R&B hits. After the face-melting aural attack of one of his albums, you wouldn’t expect that the New York DJ had actually performed with soft jazz diva Norah Jones. An avid collaborator, he will release an album with Amsterdam guitar mangler Andy Moor of The Ex next year. Although he’s known to improvise on three turntables, DJ /rupture’s music actually comes out very danceable, so comfortable footwear is recommended. (Marinus de Ruiter) OT301, 22.00, €6.

SUNDAY14 OCTOBER Event: Suikerfeest Call it Eid ul-Fitr or Id-Ul-Fitr—or just abbreviate it as Eid—Suikerfeest marks the end of the Muslim month of fasting, Ramadan. It’s the party after the piety. And at Paradiso it’s being celebrated with various performing artists from Morocco and Benelux. Adil El Miloudi fuses a variety of North African styles such as Raï, Atlas and Chaabi while staying the most influenced by the music from the area Rharbaouiya in Western Morocco. Meanwhile, the Belgian-Moroccan Rachid Kasmi has a similarly diverse repertoire that also includes both Berber and Arabic hits. DJs Saif and Houda will be on hand to fill in any quiet bits. Oh and of course, there will be sweet snacks. Duh. (Steve Korver) Paradiso, 17.00-23.00, €19.50.

Rock: The Young Gods Switzerland always seems a bit too peaceful, too clean and too perfect—there must be something dirty and evil hidden somewhere. At least a band like The Young Gods prove that there are more twisted creatures lurking among the Alps, aside from the purple cow that we know from television commercials. This week, they will taunt other peaceful environments with their industrial-meets-orchestral onslaught. The French-tongued trio will skip the bigger Dutch cities in favour of rural Sneek and suburban Amstelveen on the current tour in support of their new album. Super Ready/Fragmenté continues in the vein of their earlier recordings, which always combined operatic vocals with heavy rock drums and an imposing wall of sound created by samplers. The Young Gods might not sell out big clubs right now, but if they live up to their reputation established by fans like David Bowie, Mike Patton and The Edge, they will surely please some dark music devotees. (Marinus de Ruiter) P60, 20.00, Amstelveen, €14.

Music: Battles Do you know those little info side panels they have next to each concert listing on the Melkweg website? Pragmatic as they are, those little info side panels give useful information about where the show will take place and if the presale has started yet. It also gives the spontaneous gig-goer information about the music genre the band in question represents. And, because we live in complicated times, those genre descriptions are usually a merger of two subgenres, divided by a slash. The Battles, the little info side panel tells us, make dance/house. They also make pop/rock, it continues to inform us. Then it adds that they make experimental/electronica, too. And now you kids expect me to describe to you, in this very restricted space, the music the Battles make?

Yeah right. Let me just tell you two things: they’re hot/hot/hot. And they’ll make you dance/dance/dance. And that should be enough information for today. (Sarah Gehrke) Melkweg, Oude Zaal, 20.30, €12 + membership.

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A documentary portrays a photographer documenting the planet’s artificial landscapes in all their lovely ugliness.

BETWEEN BEAUTIFUL AND UGLY FILM/PHOTOGRAPHY Manufactured Landscapes opens this Thursday at Rialto and De Uitkijk.

Industrial Landscapes on view at Gemeentemuseum Helmond, until 6 January 2008.

By Sarah Gehrke

Edward Burtynsky says that sometimes, when he’s working, people come up to him and say: ‘Why, of all the places in the world, would you want to take a picture here?’ Probably these people have never seen one of his photographs. While the locations, indeed, aren’t the obvious choice for a pretty snapshot, the results are breathtaking. Shipbreaking grounds in Bangladesh, nickel tailings in Canada, the Three Gorges Dam project on the river Yangtze... they all make for images of incredible beauty even to those who aren’t easily tricked by industrial romance.

Burtynsky is a landscape photographer. His motifs are landscapes that were made or transformed by people. Despite

all the beauty in the pictures, they are not meant to glorify what they show: when you look closer, you see the ugliness that many of them imply. The young workers who take apart the huge ships in Bangladesh have one of the most dangerous jobs in the world—and they work barefoot. What looks like a well-Photoshopped fantasy landscape with a bright red river running through it is actually an image of water full with iron residue. The gigantic dam being built in China will cause over a million people to lose their homes.

Why should one want to make these things look beautiful? Burtynsky believes that this is the best way to draw people to it. ‘Throughout art history, there’s always been that incredible way of representation to engage the viewer. Then, in postmodernism, a process of de-aesthetisation took place.’ This, to him, meant ‘losing one of the most powerful aspects the visual artist has at his disposal to intrigue the viewer.’ Furthermore, he says, he’s inter-

ested in the sense of ambiguity that might be evoked in the viewer. Looking at those pictures and enjoying them, ‘it’s almost like a forbidden pleasure,’ he says. ‘Being drawn between attraction and repulsion.’

Burtynsky wants to reach a broader audience than just the art circles. ‘To me, great art is not about having to read a piece of paper that explains what you see.

I want my art to be accessible, and to tell stories.’ ‘And then the second step is to connect yourself with it,’ adds Jennifer Baichwal.

Baichwal, a film director, has been on tour with the photographer extensively for her film Manufactured Landscapes, a much-lauded documentary about Burtynsky’s work.

According to Baichwal, it wasn’t an easy task to make the scenery look beautiful in the photos. ‘You might think that the places just looked like that,’ she says, ‘but that’s not true. Being there was often like being in hell on earth.’

Manufactured Landscapes is less a portrait of the artist than a portrait of his photographs. Slowly, the camera zooms out of Burtynsky’s photos, and while watching, the viewer never quite knows where it will end up. Sometimes, what you see turns out to be a shot of a picture hung in a gallery. At other times, the picture starts moving and becomes a film scene shot from the same angle as Burtynsky’s camera.

Baichwal says her way of making the film resembles Burtynsky’s photographs in its lack of obvious commentary. Like the

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Fairy tale or horror film?

photos allow you to witness the scenes without pressing forward an opinion, the film keeps silent most of the time, letting the viewer indulge in the images. When those images change from still to moving, the viewer becomes aware of the surroundings of the camera and the situation the photo was taken in.

It was never the plan, says Baichwal, to make a biographical film about Burtynsky. ‘I’ve seen enough films about photographers—in fact, I’ve made one myself before [2002’s The True Meaning of Pictures], so I know how easy it is to fall into clichés.’ In Manufacturing Landscapes, she adds, Burtynsky is ‘the author more than the subject.’

There is one scene in the film, set in a coal mine in China, which Burtynsky tries to get into to take pictures. Because it is a windy day, and the air is full of coal dust, the officials don’t want to let the team in.

They are scared the pictures might convey a negative image. They also wouldn’t allow Baichwal to film anything so, in the film, the scene consists of stills depicting the debate about letting the team onto the site.

Did she take those pictures secretly? ‘No,’ Baichwal says. ‘They allowed me to take those pictures. For some reason, people feel much less threatened by photo cameras than by motion picture cameras. They take them less seriously.’

Apparently, those people have never seen one of Burtynsky’s photos, either.

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Pete Philly & Perquisite, see Friday

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Jazz: Surf Cake A gripping blend of danceable grooves enticed from an instrumental quintet. Cafe Pakhuis Wilhelmina, 20.00, €7.50 World: Chaishop Weekly family friendly jam session (provided the family members are old enough to enter), tonight with Willem Helbreker (sax) and Martijn Baaijens (Indian Sarod). Rokerij 3, 20.00-22.30, free Classical: Muir String Quartet Boston ensemble performing works by Kreisler, Tower and Schubert.

Concertgebouw, Kleine Zaal, 20.15, €35

Thursday 11 October Folk: The Woodwards Raspy English language folkrock. Skek, 18.00, free with meal purchase Rock: Bad Brains Eighties rock-reggae revivalists come back to haunt the Paradiso. See Short List. Paradiso, 19.30, €18.50 Contemporary: Tatiana Koleva and Jan Hage Percussion and organist perform challenging twentieth-century duets by composers Juan Felipe Waller-Vigil (1971), Peter Adriaansz (1966), Jan Hage (1964), Jacob ter Veldhuis (1951), Hans Koolmees (1959), Sofia Gubaidulina (1931) and Christina Viola Oorebeek (1944). Orgelpark, 20.15, €12.50 Hiphop: Bone Thugs-N-Harmony After a five-year hiatus, these rapid-tongued, sweetly harmonised thugs are touring with new tunes from their recent album Strength & Loyalty which, with special guests like Mariah Carey, may not strengthen their tough image, but probably won’t hurt the record sales. (If you didn’t get tix for this sold out show, there’s another on 22 October.) Melkweg, The Max, 21.00, €29 + membership Electro rock: Inezeba The sounds of jungle, drum ’n’ bass and trip-hop, all played analogue by five stellar instrumentalists. Stubnitz, 21.00, €5 Heavy: Metaalnacht Gutteral screaming from bands Cyanide and Aestivation. Volta, 21.00, €5 Folk: Martyn Travis and Siard de jong Singer/songwriter and fiddler perform traditional Irish numbers.

Mulligans, 21.30, free Rock: Kid Goesting presents Flex Yourspace Local bands The Sugarettes, Vox von Braun and Bob Billy.

Flex Bar, 22.00-04.00, €5

Friday 12 October Experimental: The French Connexion Three intoxicating French bands that might leave you drunk sans wine: France Sauvage (guitar, drums and electronic improv), Radikal Satan (noisy tango that’s difficult to describe but highly infectious), Mr Labrador (dark songs from one man and his computer/synth). iLLUSEUM, 19.30, €8 Rock: Michael Gira Former frontman for post-industrial NYC No Wave group Swans, Michael Gira has been going solo for some time, delighting fans with his guitar and deep sexy voice. Paradiso, Kleine Zaal, 20.00, €12 + membership Hiphop: Pete Philly & Perquisite Successful Dutch duo present new numbers from recent album Mystery Repeats. Fans will be glad to know their laidback style with floating instrumentals remains. Support from La Melodia. Patronaat, Haarlem, 20.00, €13.50

John Peel Day(s) Rock: John Peel Day(s) Peel’s deathday commemorated. See Short List. OCCII, 20.30, €5 Nizamettin Ariç & Ensemble Living in asylum in Germany, activist Ariç produces piquant Kurdish ballads with strong leanings towards the Kurdish liberation movement. Tropentheater, Grote Zaal, 20.30, €20 + membership Opera: Operina Babylon Premiere of new operina written by composer/librettist Theo Loevendie, which blends elements of east and west, employs an actor to narrate the story and incorporates minimal sets and costumes. Next to a tapdancer, the music is performed by the Ensemble Ziggurat, known for their delicious mix of various eastern instruments. The story revolves around a composer, Leo, living in Babylonian times amidst the clash of various cultures. But like most operas, you can expect the music to play centre stage—here, doing so literally, as each musician encapsulates another character in the tale. Muziekgebouw, Grote Zaal, 20.30, €25 + membership Heavy: Nanowar Thrashing Italian outfit that cover tunes from Manowar, Iron Maiden, Gamma Ray and Metallica. Support from equally raucous groups Anubis and Calibern. De Kade, Zaandam, 21.00, €5 Jazz: Nik Bärtsch’s Ronin Inspired quintet (with piano, bass clarinet, bass, drums and percussion) weave long flowing textures which, often, after happily roaming around space and time, find their way into high-precision funk tunes. Bimhuis, 21.00, €16 + membership

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Bimhuis, 21.00, €14 + membership Jazz: Ready for Freddy Groovy jam session with mixed bag including Jos de Haas (percussionist, New Cool Collective), Alex Oele (bassist, Yinka) and from Zuco103 Stefan Schmid (organist) and Stefan Kruger (drummer). Badcuyp, Noordpool, 21.30, €5

Monday 15 October Bernie’s Lounge Jazz: Bernie’s Lounge CD release party for the local jumpin’ instrumental outfit. Melkweg, Oude Zaal, 22.00, €9 + membership Rock: El Rio Trio Happy Dutch rockabilly. Maloe Melo, 22.00, free Folk: Martyn Travis and Siard de jong See Thursday.

Mulligans, 22.00, free

Saturday 13 October Classical: 2e Internationaal Sweelinck Festival Celebrating the beloved Dutch organist and composer from the 16th century, tonight’s opening concert includes performances by Matteo Imbruno, Camarata Oude Kerk, Amsterdams Klarinetkwartet and the winner of the Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinckprijs, organist Leo van Doeselaar. Oude Kerk, 19.30, €15 + membership Rock: Mintzkov Vlaamse poppy rockers. Paradiso, Kleine Zaal, 20.00, €8.50 Classical: Tetzlaff Kwartet String quartet with guest cellist Gustav Rivinius performing Mozart’s Quartet in D, Berg’s Lyric Suite and Mendelssohn’s Second String Quartet in A. Concertgebouw, Kleine Zaal, 20.15, €35.50 Rock: John Peel Day(s) With electro-pop bands Zea and Trouble vs Glue (IT), guitars from Hotplate (UK) and trash-pop from Two Dogs. See Friday and Short List. OCCII, 20.30, €5 Opera: Operina Babylon See Friday. Muziekgebouw, 20.30, €25 + membership Hiphop/Electronica: C-mon & Kypski Your favourite lively duo are most likely playing bouncy ethnic tunes from latest album Where the Wild Things Are. P60, Amstelveen, 21.00, €10 + membership Jazz: Joris Teepe Quartet After swimming with the sharks in NYC (big fish including Randy Brecker, Benny Golson, John Abercrombie and Rashied Ali) bassist Joris Teepe makes a long-overdue return to his native (Neder)land to share his heavily woodshedded evocations of bebop, free jazz and ultra-hard swinging. With Don Braden on sax, David Berkman on piano and Gene Jackson on drums. Bimhuis, 21.00, €14 Hiphop: Typhoon Rapper Typhoon (whose brother is Blaxtar) busts out the kind of rhythms and rhymes that won him the De Grote Prijs van Nederland in hiphop in 2004, now with plenty of new material from his latest album. Support from Sticks & Rico. De Kade, Zaandam, 21.00, €10 + membership Folk: Simply Green Local traditional Irish band. Mulligans, 22.00, free

Sunday 14 October Classical: Musique d’Amore Bach, Buxtehude, Handel and Neruda resonate from an oboe, violin, cello and harpsichord. Bethaniënklooster, 15.00, €16.50 Jazz: Léah Kline invites…. Diva programme with jazz singer, bassist and pianist where old voices like Peggy Lee, Doris Day and Ella Fitzgerald are brought to life—without the aid of smelling salts. DanceStreet, 20.00, €12 Rock: Young Gods Dirty Swiss rawk. See Short List.

P60, Amstelveen, 20.00, €14 Classical: 2e Internationaal Sweelinck Festival Utrecht String Quartet. See Saturday. Oude Kerk, 20.15, €10 + membership Rock: The Legendary Pink Dots Not to underestimate the term ‘legendary’, the past 25+ years and 40+ albums of this Dutch/British group has only expanded their worldwide fanbase, who come to shows for the enticing mix of psychodelia, ambiant, industrial, synth-pop and generally anything else on the minds of the musicians. Stubnitz, 20.30, €10 + membership

Classical: 2e Internationaal Sweelinck Festival Performance by harpsichordist Gustav Leonhardt.

See Saturday. Oude Kerk, 20.15, €15 + membership Classical: Van Cimbaal tot Sonate Hungarian and Romanian spice from Bartók, Kurtág and Enescu, all performed by a quartet of two violins, piano and cimbalom. Concertgebouw, Kleine Zaal, 20.15, €33.50 Punk: Amsterdam Underground Collective No Redeeming Social Value (hardcore hooligans from NYC), Right Direction (noisy anarchists) and Siren (female fronted melodic punkers). Bitterzoet, 21.00, €7 Big band: Biggles Classic live sounds of the genre, here every Monday night. Casablanca Muziek, 21.00, free Experimental: DNK-Amsterdam Solo trombone craziness, followed by electro-acoustic madness from Steim. OT301, 21.30, €5 Jazz: New Cool Collective Fabulous flock of soulful jumpin’ jazz musicians. Sugar Factory, 22.00, €7.50

Tuesday 16 October Folk: Wendy McNeill Sweet and sandy voiced singer, with accordian and guitar, known for her storytelling songs. Paradiso, Kleine Zaal, 20.00, €7 Classical: 2e Internationaal Sweelinck Festival Performance by Masumi Nagasawa (harp), Franc Polman (violin) and Henk Verhoef (organ). See Saturday. Oude Kerk, 20.15, €7.50 Classical: Gerald Finley and Julius Drake Baritone and pianist bust out sweltering songs from Barber, Ives, Tchaikovsky, Mussorgsky and Rorem. Concertgebouw, Kleine Zaal, 20.15, €38.50 Classical: Han(n)s Henny Jahn(n) Organist Cees van der Poel performs Dietrich Buxtehude (16371707), Hugo Distler (1908-1942) and Wolfgang Stockmeier (1931); with a focus on Hans Henny Jahnn: his music, life and work beyond the organ.

Orgelpark, 20.15, €12.50 Cabaret: Freek de Jonge The famous cabaret artist performs his newest work De Toeschouwer, with Robert Jan Stips (organ), Cok van Vuuren (guitar), Leon Klaasse (percussion), Bart Wijtman (bass), Hella de Jonge (violin) and Emmy Verhey (violin). In Dutch. Muziekgebouw, Grote Zaal, 20.30, €30

Wednesday 17 October Pop: Ani Difranco Singer/songwriter loved by feminists and liberals everywhere. Melkweg, The Max, 20.00, €25 + membership Hiphop: Waxwell 2 Year Anniversary HipDrop outfit drops soulful, funky beats (with help from members of C-mon & Kypski, Zuco 103 and Lefties Soul Connection); followed by DJs Alviz, Taco Fett, Delay and Elmar. Bitterzoet, 20.00, €5 Opera: Reigen Opera is dead sexy! Or at least, it can be when you incorporate dead playwrite Arthur Schnitzler’s 1903 piece Reigen, which was immediately banned due to it’s highly scandalous nature and took almost 20 years before a performance was spawned (even then, the producers were publicly prosecuted for obscenity). Today, all the sweaty details are allowed and welcomed: a story in 10 acts, each one focusing on the sexual desires and encounters of two people, where one of them goes on to pursue a new sexual partner, which then becomes the following act. Tonight’s operatic version has music by Belgian composer Philippe Boesmans, direction by Harry Kupfer and performances by Het Orkest Speelt and Opera Studio Nederland. Muziekgebouw, 20.30, €25 + membership Pop/Rock: Easy Like Sunday Morning Sets from Grimoon and Kitty Solaris. Stubnitz, 21.00, €5 Experimental: Trytone Presenteert Out there improv from instrumental outfits with powerful chops: Jasper Lekkerkerk Kwartet, Trio Gibson/Kaufmann/Baggiani and Nieuw Amsterdams Collectief.

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CLUBS Thursday 11 October Menno & Mappe ’50s bluestrash and garage rock.

Pacific Parc, 22.00, free PROPAGANDA! A night to head east for the best Balkan beats, Russian disko, mestizo and folk party grooves. Melkweg, 23.00, €5

Friday 12 October Shapeshifter Popular live drum ’n’ bass stylings from New Zealand. Sugar Factory, 22.00-00.00, €15 + membership Invasion Des Barbares II A herd of DJs and styles, including: acid, dub, reggae, jungle, baile funk, idm, Baltimore, hip hop, ragga and bleeps & breaks. Stubnitz, 22.30, €10 + membership Bleep Bizarre Progressive, full on beats in the Grote Zaal; electro, techno and minimal in the Kleine Zaal.

Studio 80, 23.00, €10 Freitag Parkroom Minimal techno and house, Chicago, acid and detroit from DJs Olivier Koletzki (Berlin), Alton Miller (Detroit), Lupe and Eva Maria. Flex Bar, 23.00-05.00, €8 Paradisoul presents legends: The Jacksons DJs Manga and Supreme Cuisine with video material from the famous family. Paradiso, 24.00-05.00, €10 + membership

Saturday 13 October Honky Tonk Saloon Square dance to the cowboy music of live band The 69-ers, Wilf Plum (singing lonesome desert songs) and DJs Piet Popcorn, Charley Rhythm, Ir Vendermeulen and Waikiki Wilf.

Watch cowgirl burlesque & can-can dancing by The Bombshelly’s. Drink moonshine. And, be sure to come dressed in your favourite western gear: shitkickers, big belt-buckles and 10-gallon hats, just the usual ’round these parts. De Nieuwe Anita, 20.0001.00, €6 To Beat! Or not to beat Sixties beat, garage, soul and crazy tiki tunes from DJs Lord Bacon, Doctor Love and The Happening, with live bands The Maggots (Stockholm) and The Dorktones. Cafe Pakhuis Wilhelmina, 21.00, €8 DJ /rupture A commercially successful DJ who’s also interesting (!), /rupture has spun in over 25 countries, released records on Soul Jazz and Tigerbeat6, done two John Peel Sessions, and was turntable soloist with the 80-member Barcelona Symphony Orchestra. It’s hard to say what exactly the urban dog will do tonight, but a bit of breakcore and grimy beats are a definite possibility. See Short List. OT301, 22.00, €6 Deep Electronic Acid Area 1 boasts DJs Stefan Robbers aka Terrace (live), Rudy K aka Prutt, Richard Parker and Salah; while Area 2 waxes on with Mr J Loverman, Mark Ransom and Marcelo Umana. Studio 80, 23.00, €10 Molotov & The DirtyDirtyDirty Filthy beats from DJs Victor Coral, Philip Young & Terry Toner, The Flexican, Drunken Lion Soundsystem, Kubus & Million Dollar $imon, and Vanderbilt & Moneybag$. Hotel Arena, 23.00-04.00, €15 Rush Hour vs Dekmantel Grimy music from dirty towns: Deep Detroit techno and raw Chicago house, with a little groovy ’70s-style thrown in for positive vibes. Flex Bar, 23.00-05.00, €8.50 The Gallery Club: People New club night that combines a photo exhibition with jumpin’ dance beats.

Tonight, DJ Robi 3 spins under big projections of work by Koen Hauser, Diana Scherer, Ina Marie Schmidt, Francine Claassen, Astrid Hermes and Avi Krispin. Paradiso, 23.30-5.00, €10 + membership

MARC DRIESSEN

Paradisoul presents legends, see Friday

‘I started my own ‘I had just finished G R E G L AW S O N studio in 1992 and creacting with a travelAnimation artist ated Safe Sex: The ling theatre company, Manual which garnered when someone intromany awards, includduced me to Bruno ing a special jury Bozzetto. He was the award for Innovation Italian Walt Disney, in Education at the having produced the Zagreb Animation Fessuccessful Fantasia tival, and which parody Allegro Non continues to be very Troppo. He helped me popular to this day. I’ve get employment at his added two more chapstudio in Milan. I ters to my trilogy, the remember he told me, last installment of “Animation is simwhich, Powerplay, I am ple! Anyone can do it! proud to say features But to do it well— what I believe to be the that’s very hard.” I funniest fist-fucking dismissed his advice ‘The funniest scene ever presented on then, but ultimately... fist-fucking scene the big screen.

Bruno was unquesever presented...’

‘My studio, Lawson tionably right. & Whatshisname, has ‘Despite my luck just completed a series in meeting Bruno, I

By Luuk van Huët of forty shorts for BNN. was having difficulThey are edgy eight-second gags about Denties making ends meet. So I was happy nis, Dylan and the babe, Vodka—three when a Dutch theatrical entrepreneur I twenty-somethings living together. There’s knew managed to get me some work in a hint of ménage à trois about them, and Amsterdam, creating set designs for a nice transgressive subversiveness.

Seth Gaaikema, of all people.

‘I’m writing a book on what is unique ‘This was in the Eighties and illusabout animation in terms of creative tration was big. I got picked up by the thinking, which will include interviews Dutch illustration agents Top Drawers with the alternative masters of the mediwho put me in a situation I never um. Hopefully, it will help people dreamed I’d be in. I had been told that understand how much larger and imporit’s impossible to survive as an artist, tant this medium is than it has been and here I was, suddenly a big fish in a allowed to be. small pond.

‘I want to take on the world, destroy it ‘The opportunity arose to create an and recreate it. All animators have a sort of animation film for Philips, introducing God complex, and I really want to orgiastithe amazing CD-ROM, which was cally indulge mine!’ directed by Ronald Bijlsma, who had created the first major Dutch animation www.whats.nl film. I co-directed the short.

Gemengd Zwemmen Two rooms of swimmingly diverse noise. In The Max, it’s all about Classic Reggae & Soul with a live performance from Irie Revoltes; in the Oude Zaal, there’s alternatieve dance, pop, rock and indie hits from DJs (Mad) Ed and L-Ende. Melkweg, 24.00, €8

GAY& LESBIAN Thursday 11 October Exhibition: Monument van Trots Exhibition about the Homomonument, housed in the gay and lesbian archive’s new home. See www.monumentvantrots.nl for more. IHLIA-Homodok, until Sunday 6 January

Friday 12 October Social: Thank God It’s Friday Weekend drinks with DJs, snacks and drinks from 5pm until three in the morning, when it isn’t even Friday any more. De Engel van Amsterdam, 13.00-03.00, free Club: Twisted Hyper Tunes DJ Gina spins everything from Kylie to Fedde le Grand to Axwell to Groove Armada to Pink to Crystal Waters. PRIK, 22.00-03.00, free Party: Grand re-opening party The bar formerly known as the Amstel Taveerne reopens in a new, modernised form. Amstel 54, 16.00-late, free

Saturday 13 October Club: Twisted Crispy Tunes DJ RAF brings you New Order, The Smiths, Miss Kittin, Roisin Murphy, Daft Punk and Morrissey. PRIK, 22.00-03.00, free Club: Girlesque Ecdysiasts go respectable! Ah yes, Girlesque brings burlesque back to Sugar Factory for lesbians and their cool gay male friends. With DJs Betty and Billy’s Beat Boutique and Michelle; performance from Sexy Galexy and The Bombshelly’s; Miss T VJs and Zoexenia MCs. Sugar Factory, 23.0005.00, €12.50

Sunday 14 October Club: Suikerfeest! Celebrate the end of Ramadan with this evening hosted by Rasha, Corry, Rini and Rosalinda. See Short List. Lellebel, free Music: Sing-a-long night Assembled voices of lesbians led by Irene Hemelaar. Saarein, 18.00-21.00, free

Tuesday 16 October Film: Movie Night Tonight, it’s Tom Twyker’s Perfume. PRIK, 19.00, free

Wednesday 17 October Talk: Speaking of Homosexuality. Jacob Anton Schorer Theo van der Meer talks about his biography of Schorer (1866-1957), founder of the Dutch chapter of Magnus Hirschfeld’s Scientific Humanitarian Committee, as well as how to read a (gay) biography. In Dutch. Bushuis, 17.00-19.00, free Club: Bückstück - brutale Musik Queer electro and straight pop. PRIK, 21.00-24.00, free

Romeo and Juliet, see Opening

STAGE Opening Dance: Footprints Part of the Cover Festival, where contemporary choreographers remake classic dance pieces. Tonight is Marco Gerris’ reworking of Stamping Ground by Jiri Kylian. Frascati, (Sun, Mon, Tue 20.00), €14 + membership Dance: Romeo and Juliet Het Nationale Ballet performs Rudi van Dantzig’s ballet version of the romantic tale, with Prokofiev’s classic score played by Holland Symfonia. Het Muziektheater, (Sat 20.00, Sun 14.00), €22.50-52.50

Korte Termijn Geluk Theatre: Korte Termijn Geluk Tragic comedy about two goldfish, starring Elien van der Hoek and Fransje Boelen. Theater Bellevue, (Thu, Fri, Sun, Tue, Wed 12.30), €12 Music/Theatre: Bedrog Nine enthusiastic actors with too many costumes pick apart modern love. CREA Theater, (Thur, Fri, Sat 20.30), €7 Dance: Rama Vaidyanathan Rama Vaidyanathan is one of the very best interpreters of the classical dance form bharata natyam from South India. Together with her ensemble, she presents her most recent programme, New Choreographies in Bharatanatyam.

KIT Tropentheater, (Sat 20.30), €18

Ongoing Theatre: De Vliegende Panters For more than 12 years, these three predators—Ebbinge, Vrijdag and de Bekker—of priceless cabaret have soared above the competition, conquering the airwaves with their own wildlife show and two Top 40 hits filled with crooning catcalls to boot. Now, the comedy trio transfers from the small screen to a big stage. Carré, (Thur-Sat 20.00), €15-€29 until Sunday 14 October Theatre: Honger Theatrical dinner party makes you a partner in an unexpected twist in Nanna Tieman’s life.

Frascati, (Thur, Fri, Sat 19.00), €9/€20 Performance: Reverse Music, theatre and animation are combined in this performance, but at the heart of it all is the audience. Each adventure seats eight people, so reservations are recommended. Frascati, (Thur, Fri, Sat 19.00, 20.00, 21.00, 22.00), €12 Festival: Lust en Vraatzucht A mini theatre festival featuring short works by talented young writers. Works on display include De Syndicaat Schrijversdagen: Secreet by Hekelien van den Herik; Warm by Anouk Smit; Lola by Jibbe Willems; and Lunch by Steven Berkhoff. In Dutch. Rozentheater, (Thur, Fri, Sat 20.00), €11 Comedy: easyLaughs Comedy improv in English.

Two different shows every Friday night. CREA Muziekzaal, (Fri 20.30, 22.30), €10, €5 (late night)

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11-17 October 2007 choices of religious women associated with the church. Museum Ons’ Lieve Heer op Solder (Mon-Sat 10.00-17.00, Sun 13.00-17.00), until 4 November Gert Jan Kocken: Defacing The hundredth exhibition in SMBA (since 1993) is devoted to the work of Amsterdam photographer Gert Jan Kocken. He is showing a series concerned with iconoclasm: photographs that focus attention on the fury that images have provoked in the past. Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam (Tues-Sun 11.00-17.00), until 11 November Valérie Belin The first major overview of works by acclaimed French artist Belin (1964). Over the past seventeen years she has worked on an oeuvre comprising some 20 series of still-lifes and portraits. Most of these were photographed in strong and highly contrasting black and white, but her latest work is in colour, adding new dimensions. Huis Marseille (TuesSun 11.00-18.00), until 25 November Planet Ocean Another outdoor photography exhibition hits Amsterdam. This time it’s the oceanic photography of Haarlem-born Dos Winkel. While the shots are undoubtedly beautiful, an ecological theme runs throughout the collection. Stopera (Daily), until 27 November Heringa/Van Kalsbeek: Cruel Bonsai The first ever major museum solo exhibition by artist duo Heringa/Van Kalsbeek. Their extravagant sculptures appear at once poetic and slightly morbid and are inspired principally by nature in all its capricious irregularity. Stedelijk Museum CS (Daily 10.00-18.00), until 6 January 2008

Yamandú Roos: Totomboti, see Opening

ART

For full listings,see www.amsterdamweekly.nl.

Opening

Let’s play until we break something Evoking the manner in which children might play football inside the home, this group exhibition examines how humans use their social and natural environment as a playground; with work from Ben Frost, Ron English, Mats!?, Luuk Bode, Pieter van Schelt and Plusminus Produkties. Studio Apart (Wed 10.00-18.00, Thur 10.00-21.00, Fri 10.00-18.00, Sat 12.00-17.00), opens Saturday

Andy Warhol - Affiches Posters from the pop artist.

Centrale Bibliotheek, opens Friday, until 1 December

Light Painting Light Painting Colourful, dreamy night photography

by Brazilian Renan Cepeda. Gallery WM (Thurs-Sat 14.00-18.00), opens Saturday, until 17 November Verheerlijking van de Gouden Eeuw Harking back to an early 20th-century movement to restore the look of Amsterdam’s grachtengordel to its glamorous Golden Age origins, before and after photos are presented to highlight architect AA Kok and his son IJsbrand’s key involvement in the movement. NAi Tue-Sat, 10.0017.00; Sun 11.00-17.00, Rotterdam, opens Saturday, until 17 February 2008

Museums Bestemming Amsterdam Creative futuristic visions of metropolis Amsterdam, presented by 19 artists making use of a diverse array of disciplines. Zuiderkerk (Mon 11.00-16.00, Tues-Fri 09.00-16.00, Sat 12.00-16.00), closing Wednesday

Art Nouveau In the time of Russia’s last Tsar, Nicholas II, the people of St Petersburg were particularly impressed with France’s latest art movement, buying what they could, while Russian artists created their own art nouveau. This exhibition displays some of the best French and Russian examples from the period. Hermitage Amsterdam (Daily 10.00-17.00), opens Saturday, until 5 May 2008 Ecritures pictographiques Henri Jacobs’ latest drawings from his journal. Galerie Paul Andriesse (Tues-Fri 11.00-18.00, Sat 14.00-18.00), opens Saturday, until 1 December

Laser 3.14: A Room at the Overlook Hotel The words (and more) of local street artist Laser 3.14 find themselves locked up indoors for once. Wolf & Pack (Sun, Mon 13.00-19.00, Tues, Wed, Fri, Sat 12.00-19.00, Thur 12.00-21.00), until 19 October

Old Masters, Gangs & Fashion Models Paintings and photography by Katinka Lampe, depicting children and adolescents in culturally and socially loaded attire. Additional works relating directly to Lampe’s will also be featured, including artists Charles Fréger, Ruud van der Peijl and Michelle Sank. Ronmandos (Wed-Sat 12.00-18.00), until 20 October

Anton Mauve en Vincent van Gogh: de meester en zijn leerling Focusing on the influence of the crazy painter’s early teacher Anton Mauve, who witnessed Van Gogh’s first paintings in December 1881 (they were all drawings until then). Van Gogh Museum (Mon-Thur, Sat, Sun 10.00-18.00, Fri 10.00-22.00), opens Friday, until 7 September 2008

Art Nouveau

Galleries

Hommage à Roland Topor Photos, lithographs, drawings, prints and books, by and about the surreal French artist. Maison Descartes (Mon-Thur 10.0018.00, Fri 10.00-17.00), until 19 October

Andy Warhol. Other Voices, Other Rooms With a cornucopia of films, photos, video and typical Andy icons (soup cans, Mao, Marilyn Monroe), this exhibition offers a glimpse into the mind of the artist. See article p. 5. Stedelijk Museum CS (Daily 10.00-18.00), opens Friday, until 13 January 2008

Yamandú Roos: Totomboti Photos of the five Rastafarian men who make up the Totomboti foundation in the Pikienslee village of Suriname, making functional art with wood and teaching the villagers to use natural resources in sustainable ways. Foam (Sat-Wed 10.0018.00, Thur, Fri 10.00-21.00), opens Friday, until 22 November

Aap, vis, boek. Linnaeus in Amsterdam Celebrating the 300th birthday of the renowned botanist in style, by displaying extremely rare books and other treasures of the period Linnaeus spent in Amsterdam. UvA: Special Collections Library (Mon-Fri 10.00-17.00, Sat, Sun 13.00-17.00), until 25 February 2008

Michaël Borremans: Veldwerk A respected photographer, graphic designer and also painter, now the Belgian artist is taking on the medium of film, with this solo exhibition featuring the first peak at his cinematic works. De Appel (Tues-Sun 11.00-18.00), until 4 November Melvin Moti: E.S.P The latest film by Rotterdam artist Melvin Moti combines hypnotically slow-moving images of a bursting soap bubble with the story of the dream logs kept by JW Dunne, a British military officer endowed with paranormal powers. Stedelijk Museum CS (Daily 10.00-18.00), until 4 November Verborgen Vrouwen About the life and work of around twenty pious spinsters from the 17th century, twelve contemporary artists reflect on the role and

The This & the That of a Category Error Works by Glasgow-based artists Joanne Tatham and Tom O´Sullivan make enigmatic images, sculptural objects and installations that are designed to inhabit a range of scenarios. SMART Project Space (Tues-Sat 12.0017.00), until 20 October

Paraat #3 Paraat #3 Two art initiatives team up to bring you some of the best final-year art projects in the land.

Works also displayed in De Veemvloer. Horse Move Project Space (Wed-Sat 13.00-18.00, Sun 14.00-17.00), until 28 October Marieken Verheyen: Elswhere Photographs taken in Western Africa, Arab nations and former Dutch colonies. De Balie (Daily), until 7 November Marjo van den Boomen: With Arms Wide Open...#2 After her succesful With Arms Wide Open…, this new exhibition delves deeper into the same disturbing subjects, commenting on a materialist society that reduces children to the latest consumer product. KochxBos Gallery (Wed-Sat 13.00-18.00), until 10 November Anneke Wilbrink: Local Ground Paintings of panoramic abstract constructions from the Koninklijke Prijs voor Vrije Schilderkunst 2006 winner. AYAC’S (Fri, Sat 13.00-17.30), until 10 November 25 jaar BINNEN Celebrating 25 years of design in the gallery, previously exhibited artists offer up recent design works. Galerie Binnen (Wed-Sat 12.00-18.00), until 17 November

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ADDRESSES

Open Ateliers: Openingsmanifestatie Kunststad Group exhibition from the 200 residents of the new Kunstad, celebrating the offical opening of the artistic community. See article, p. 6. NDSM-werf, (Thur, Fri 20.00; Sat, Sun 12.00), free Film/Discussion: Mensensmokkel, een lucratieve handel Documentary Mother’s Crossing followed by a debate about the profits of human smuggling and illegal immigration. In Dutch. De Balie, (Thur 19.15 (film), 20.30 (debate)), €6 Craft Fair: Katie’s Cozy Craft Corner Reap what you sew. See Short List. De Nieuwe Anita, (Thur 20.0023.00), free Performance: Ramana Magic Known as the David Copperfield of India, this magician may not make entire aeroplanes disappear, but he’s great with sleight-of-hand and up-close magic. Bring your kids!

Pacific Parc, (Fri 18.00), free Party: Action Party Climax for the Month of Resistance. Gather here and party down if you think that celebrations for Christopher Columbus should be more a day of reckoning over the many indigenous peoples that suffer from colonisation. Koningsplein, (Fri 16.00), free Film/Music: Burton World Tour Movie Party Good times around the premiere of the latest Burton Snowboards movie, with DJs Hush and Baro Baro; live acts The Looks and So Called Celeste (sporting a new CD); and special appearances from professional Burton riders, who will most likely stand around and look cool.

11 Oosterdokskade 3-5, 625 5999

Museum van Loon Keizersgracht 672, 624 5255

Amstel 54 Amstel 54, 623 4254 Annet Gelink Gallery Laurierstraat 187-189, 330 2066

Museum voor Communicatie Zeestraat 82, Den Haag, 070 330 75 89

De Appel Nieuwe Spiegelstraat 10, 625 5651

Muziekgebouw Piet Heinkade 1, 788 2010

ARCAM Prins Hendrikkade 600, 620 4878

Het Muziektheater Amstel 3, 625 5455

Artspace Witzenhausen Hazenstraat 60, 644 9898

NAi Museumpark 25, Rotterdam, 010 4401200

AYAC'S Keizersgracht 166, 638 5240

NDSM-werf TT Neveritaweg 15, 330 5480

Badcuyp 1e Sweelinckstraat 10, 675 9669

De Nieuwe Anita Frederik Hendrikstraat 111, 06 4150 3512

De Balie Kleine-Gartmanplantsoen 10, 553 5151

Nieuwe Kerk entrance on the Dam, 638 6909

Bethaniënklooster Barndesteeg 6, 625 0078

OCCII Amstelveenseweg 134, 671 7778

Bimhuis Piet Heinkade 3, 788 2150

Orgelpark Orgelpark, 51 58111

Bitterzoet Spuistraat 2, 521 3001

OT301 Overtoom 301, 779 4913

De Brakke Grond Nes 45, 626 6866

Oude Kerk Oudekerksplein 23, 625 8284

Bushuis Kloveniersburgwal 48

P60 Stadsplein 100A, Amstelveen, 023 345 3445

Cafe Pakhuis Wilhelmina Veemkade 576, 419 3368

Pacific Parc Polonceaukade 23, 488 7778

Cafe van Wegen Lange Koestraat 15, Utrecht

Pakhuis de Zwijger Piet Heinkade 179-181, 788 4444

Carré Amstel 115-125, 524 9452

Panama Oostelijke Handelskade 4, 311 8680

Casablanca Muziek Zeedijk 26, 06 1220 0519

Paradiso Weteringschans 6-8, 626 4521

Centrale Bibliotheek Oosterdokskade 143, 523 0900

Pathé De Munt Vijzelstraat 15, 0900 1458

CoBrA Museum Sandbergplein 1-3, Amstelveen, 547 5050

Patronaat Zijlsingel 2, Haarlem, 023 517 5858

Concertgebouw Concertgebouwplein 2-6, 671 8345

Posthoornkerk Haarlemmerstraat 124

Consortium Veemkade 570, 06 2611 8950

De Praktijk Lauriergracht 96, 422 1727

Film repeats at 22.00. Bitterzoet, (Fri 20.30), €5, €7.50 after 23.00

CREA Muziekzaal Turfdraagsterpad 17, 525 1400

PRIK Spuistraat 109, 06 4544 2321

CREA Theater Turfdraagsterpad 17, 525 1400

Rembrandthuis Jodenbreestraat 4, 520 0400

Performance: I Love Amsterdam This latest Urban Myth expressive experiment sees artists from diverse disciplines performing and detailing their passion for this glorious city. Just the first of many talk shows and performance nights, expect a busy season of love in all shapes and sizes. In Dutch. Stadsschouwburg, (Sat 20.15), €10

DanceStreet 1e Rozendwarsstraat 10, 489 7676

Rokerij 3 Elandsgracht 53

De Engel van Amsterdam Zeedijk 21, 427 6381

Ronmandos Prinsengracht 282, 320 7036

Ellen de Bruijne Projects/Dolores Rozengracht 207A, 530 4994

Rozentheater Rozengracht 117, 620 7953

Flex Bar Pazzanistraat 1, 486 2123

Skek Zeedijk 4-8, 427 0551

Foam Keizersgracht 609, 551 6546

SMART Project Space Arie Biemondstraat 107-113, 427 5953

Ramana Magic, see Friday

EVENTS

Museum Ons' Lieve Heer op Solder Oudezijds Voorburgwal 40, 624 6604

Benefit: Going Dutch Benefit party to bring sport to kids in central and South Asia. See Short List.

Bitterzoet, (Sat 21.00), €10 (includes €5 lottery ticket) Workshop: De Hollandse Zondagen The original team behind the Loesje posters gives a workshop on how to properly make your own message and spread the word. Also 15.00. In Dutch. Museum voor Communicatie, Den Haag (Sun 13.30), museum entry fee Film night: Docs at the Docks Fourth night in a series of provoking documentary screenings, tonight’s selections and guests focus on money and economy. See www.docsatthedocks.nl.

NDSM-werf, (Tue 20.15), €7.50 Event: What’s Up? Hodgepodge of presentations from the best of the city’s latest creative bursts: Hans Eijkelboom talks about his new photo book; Chris Keulemans (former director of De Balie), Harry van den Berg (chair, Stichting Cultuur aan het IJ) and documentarian Remy Vlek talk about new happenings on the Shellterrein; Juhu van ‘t Zelfde and Annelies Termeer describe the glories of the next Museumnacht; and Hay Schoolmeesters talks about the many goings-on at the former Volkskrant building. Pakhuis de Zwijger, (Wed 20.30), free

Fotogram Korte Prinsengracht 33, 624 9994 Frascati Nes 63, 626 6866

Saarein Elandsstraat 119, 623 4901

Galerie Binnen Keizersgracht 82, 625 9603

Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam Rozenstraat 59, 422 0471

Galerie Gabriel Rolt Elandsgracht 34, 785 5146

Stedelijk Museum CS Oosterdokskade 5, 573 2911

Galerie Knap Huidenstraat 21

Stopera Waterlooplein 22, 551 8117

Galerie Paul Andriesse Withoedenveem 8, 623 6237

Stubnitz Odinakade, NDSM-werf

Gallery WM Elandsgracht 35, 421 1113

Studio 80 Rembrandtplein 70, 521 8333

De Hallen Grote Markt 16, Haarlem, 023 511 5775

Studio Apart Prinsengracht 715, 422 2748

Hermitage Amsterdam Nieuwe Herengracht 14, 530 8751

Studio White Space MJ Kosterstraat 18

Horse Move Project Space Oosterdokskade 5 Post CS

Sugar Factory Lijnbaansgracht 238, 627 0008

Hotel Arena ’s-Gravesandestraat 51, 850 2400

Suzanne Biederberg Gallery 1e Egelantiersdwarsstraat 1, 624 5455

Huis Marseille Keizersgracht 401, 531 8989 Hup Gallery Tesselschadestraat 15, 515 8589 IHLIA-Homodok Oosterdokskade 143, 5230 900 iLLUSEUM Witte de Withstraat 120, 770 5581 De Kade Zuiddijk 9-11, Zaandam, 617 6972

Theater Bellevue Leidsekade 90, 530 5301 Tropenmuseum Linnaeusstraat 2, 568 8200 Tropentheater, Grote Zaal Linnaeusstraat 2, 568 8500 Under the Grand Chapiteau Next to ArenA, 621 1288

KIT Tropentheater Mauritskade 63, 568 8711

UvA: Special Collections Library Oude Turfmarkt 129, 525 2141

KochxBos Gallery 1e Anjeliersdwarsstraat 3-5, 681 4567

Van Gogh Museum Paulus Potterstraat 7, 570 5200

Lellebel Utrechtsestraat 4, 427 5139

Volta Houtmankade 334-336, 628 6429

Maison Descartes Vijzelgracht 2A, 531 9500

Wolf & Pack 232 Spuistraat, 427 0786

Maloe Melo Lijnbaansgracht 163, 420 4592 Mediamatic Post CS, Oosterdokskade 5, 638 9901

Yoshiko Matsumoto Gallery Weteringschans 37, 06 1437 0995

Melkweg Lijnbaansgracht 234A, 531 8181

Zaal 100 De Wittenstraat 100, 688 0127

Melkweg Galerie Marnixstraat 409, 531 8181

Zuiderkerk Zuiderkerkhof 72, 552 7987

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Steal that chef!

De Smoeshaan, Leidsekade 90, 625 0368 Open Mon-Sat 17.30-21.00 Cash, PIN I am seriously considering waiting outside De Smoeshaan to kidnap the chef. A dark moonless night. A trusty steed. A burlap bag to hook over cheffy’s struggling form. You see, whoever prepares the grub here knows exactly what s/he is doing.

De Smoeshaan is not my usual stamping ground. Late one afternoon, my feet had taken another byway for a change. Then, there I was, sitting at a large table, my neck craned round to read the chalked-up specials. An elderly gent puffed away on a reeking cigar while reading a newspaper. The other customers radiated respectable theatricality, enjoying their drinks and happily chatting away. We waited patiently until the kitchen opened. But I wasn’t starving.

For once, I wanted something small, light, tasty.

Soup and a starter, maybe... Langoustine soup with spring onions and crème fraiche (€5.50). Yes: autumn has started and, although the day was bright, the chill wind rustled up a desire to slurp tasty, warming stew.

The soup was served in a large, flat plate. A darkish orange lake, the cream swirled around to bring out the colour. Alongside was a basket of hot, crusty bread.

My inner glutton pulled a face at the shallowness of the plate. Not much there. But sense reminded me that this was a starter: the intrinsic message informed the eater that a main would follow.

THE UNDERCOVER GLUTTON Hazelnut fragments gave texture to the filling, which was cradled in an excellent shortcrust pastry base; cinnamon ice cream added sweetness. Very Dutch.

The first sip entranced me; I meditated on the rich deep, flavours of the bisque. I rolled my tongue around, feeling pleasure ripple through.

Lacking decent table manners, I ripped the

bread to pieces before dunking them in and sopping up the soup. This was a dish to be savoured, each spoonful a delight. Alas, Dear Reader, it came to an end. Now, what was next? Ah yes:

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multi-cheese ravioli with grilled veggies and salad (€7.50).

It was a beautiful composition. I could see that the chef was particular about presentation: five or so creamy white-sauced ravioli lay on a bed of rocket, with grilled red and yellow pepper pieces and asparagus spears. Shredded red onion and chopped herbs were sprinkled over, to pull the flavours together. It was a beautifully arranged thing. Gorgonzola and ricotta oozed out when my knife cut in, and sauced the vegetables.

My fork conveyed different bits and pieces to be contemplated. I was totally oblivious to the world. My joy was boundless. Happily to say, the portion was enough. I didn’t need a huge plate to satisfy my needs. Yet my inner glutton grumbled ‘What’s for pud?’

Home-made chocolate and hazelnut tart with cinnamon ice cream (€6) was garnished with whipped cream and a sugar-sprinkled mint leaf. The tart was dark, luscious and rich, but not sweet at all: I was surprised. The suspended nut fragments gave a crunchy texture to the filling, which was cradled in an excellent shortcrust pastry base. The ice cream added sweetness. This was very Dutch—and delicious.

The chef knew exactly which gastronomic buttons to press. I sat back, replete, with an excellent coffee to balance my dessert. What a great meal.

As I digested, I looked around to see my fellow diners. The restaurant was filling up.

Well-dressed people with expensive shoes sat, chatting away, unwinding after work. The conversational buzz would suddenly drop to an expectant hush, as chef’s delights came to the table. No matter who or what you are, the civilised mask briefly drops, revealing the primeval creature beneath, as you inhale the first smells that stimulate the appetite. The chef here does that expertly. Enjoy.

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17 Confusion in his eyes that says it all...

In his feature debut, photographer Anton Corbijn casts a critical eye on Joy Division’s talented, troubled singer.

IAN CURTIS: A LIFE WRITTEN IN BLOOD FILM Control Opens Thursday at Pathé Tuschinski

By Bregtje Schudel

The lives of artists can be a rewarding source of inspiration for film-makers, whose world seems filled with Byronic heroes: flawed, yet also idolised and charming. This biopic of Ian Curtis, the promising singer/songwriter with Joy

Division who committed suicide when he was 23, could have been turned into a textbook case. But photographer and video director Anton Corbijn isn’t afraid to be critical. In his film—based largely on the memoirs of Curtis’s wife, Deborah—Ian isn’t a tragic hero but a hapless wimp.

When we first see him as a teenager, Ian (Sam Riley) seems innocent enough.

He experiments a bit with eyeliner and prescription drugs, but straightens out

when he meets his future wife (played here by Samantha Morton). He has other aspirations, though: he wants to succeed as a singer and joins Warsaw (later renamed Joy Division). Just when he tastes fame, things start to go awry. Their financial troubles worsen as their family expands; he is diagnosed with epilepsy and falls in love with a Belgian fan, Annik (Alexandra Maria Lara).

Working in black and white, Corbijn gives us an unrelenting depiction of life in the depressing town of Macclesfield.

Although the film is beautifully photographed, the stark contrasts and grey hues serve mainly to underline the desolation of the neighbourhood and of Ian himself.

No wonder he is reluctant to return to his dreary small house, to be confronted with a baby, an expectant wife and financial worries. It’s not that backstage life is that fabulous, it’s just that home is worse.

The band is an escape, a place where he won’t be confronted with his own incom-

petence as a husband, father and breadwinner.

Most of the time, Ian acts, not as an adult, but as a big child pretending to be all grown up. When confronted with his infidelity with Annik, he behaves like a child caught with his hand in the biscuit tin: he stands with hunched shoulders, staring only at his feet. He never really takes responsibility for his actions. When Debbie accuses him of never breaking up with Annik, he whimpers: ‘I tried, but she won’t go away!’

Ironically, the only time when he is actually sympathetic is when he’s working. Not at his job as a singer—where his erratic dance moves eerily echo his epileptic fits—but at his day job at an employment agency. The scene where he tries to help a boy with Down’s syndrome find suitable work (‘What do you like? I like food!’) is really endearing. With the applicants he shows an empathy he never deploys with his wife or his friends. Just like Debbie, we never get a clear view of Ian and his ulterior motives. Perhaps he himself doesn’t even know what he really wants.

That’s not to say the movie is only depressing. It finds humour in its realism, like when one of the band members suffers from flatulence just before their first big gig. And of course there’s the scene where Factory Records owner Tony Wilson signs Joy Division’s contract in his own blood. ‘You missed a letter,’ one member helpfully points out. Based on fact or not—the story was brought into the world by the late Wilson himself—it’s a nice anecdote and an intriguing metaphor. As far as Ian is concerned, this contract might as well have been written blood. His own.

Five-Word Movie Review

FILM Edited by Julie Phillips.This week’s films reviewed

by Massimo Benvegnù (MB),Don Druker (DD), Sarah Gehrke,Sven Gerrets,René Glas (RG),Andrea Gronvall (AG),Meltem Halaceli (MH),Luuk van Huët (LvH),JR Jones (JJ),Dave Kehr (DK),Marie-Claire Melzer (MM),Mike Peek (MP),Julie Phillips (JP), Bart Plantenga (BP),Gusta Reijnders (GR), Jonathan Rosenbaum (JR),Marinus de Ruiter (MdR),Bregtje Schudel (BS),Ted Shen (TS) and Linawati Sidarto (LS). All films are screened in English with Dutch subtitles unless otherwise noted.

Amsterdam Weekly recommends.

Festivals Cinekid The annual children’s festival, scheduled to coincide with the herfstvakantie. See www.cinekid.nl for more. Oct. 14-21. Het Ketelhuis, The Movies I’m Russian, I’m Special Five recent films and a series of debates about the relationship between politics and the Russian people, in anticipation of the country’s upcoming election. The films include We Love Putin, about Russians’ feelings for their current president; Verbanning (‘Exile’), a personal history of Stalin and Siberia; and Reaction, which chronicles the 2005 trial of oil baron Mikhail Khodorkovski: ‘Everything’s fine as long as you’re not in the way.’ Kriterion

New this week Alles is liefde ‘Love Is All’ doesn’t even try to hide the fact that it copied its structure directly from that other affection-obsessed ensemble piece, Love Actually.

PROMOTES MORALISTIC RIGHTWING AGENDA Knocked Up Pathé Arena, Pathé De Munt

Black Narcissus

But in this case, it’s actually an improvement. Again, people are lovelorn during the holiday season (with, as Dutch flavour, Sinterklaas instead of Christmas).

Screenwriter Kim van Kooten and director Joram Lürsen (In Oranje) actually manage to make the story tight and focused, sentimental but not overly melodramatic. The film even boasts a nice ensemble cast (Carice van Houten, Anneke Blok, Thomas Acda), with the real show-stopper Michiel ‘Jiskefet’ Romeyn as a gruff substitute Sint. In Dutch. (BS) 110 min. Pathé ArenA, Pathé De Munt, Pathé Tuschinski Black Narcissus A 1947 film about damaged faith and rising sexual hysteria set among a group of nuns in India who are working to convert a sultan’s palace into a convent. Films on this subject are generally solemn and naive, but director Michael Powell and writer Emeric Pressburger bring wit and intelligence to it—the title, for example, refers not to some campy romantic theme but to a cheap men’s cologne worn by the local princeling. The film’s lush, mountainous India, full of sensual challenges and metaphorical chasms, was created entirely in the studio, with the help of matte artist Peter Ellenshaw. Powell’s equally extravagant visual style transforms it into a landscape of the

mind—grand and terrible in its thorough abstraction.

With Deborah Kerr. (DK) 100 min. Filmmuseum Control Photographer Anton Corbijn’s black-and-white biopic of Joy Division singer Ian Curtis. See review above. Pathé Tuschinski The Kingdom An American review summarised The Kingdom as ‘CSI: Riyadh’ turning into a Black Hawk Down-style action pic. There is truth in that: Peter Berg’s film does indeed feature FBI agents searching for those responsible for a crime—in this case a huge terrorist attack on an expat community in Saudi Arabia—and the search does conclude in a thrilling shootout in narrow alleyways. Though such description does not do justice to some of the critical political comment which underpins it all, Berg does not seem able to stretch his point all the way to the end. This is especially unfortunate because the opening scene featuring the terrorist attack is so harrowing. After that, everything else is anticlimax. With Jamie Foxx, Jennifer Garner & Chris Cooper. (RG) 110 min. Pathé ArenA, Pathé De Munt

Manufactured Landscapes As a teenager in northern Ontario, Edward Burtynsky worked in a gold mine and an auto plant, and he brings to his panoramic still

photographs a fascination with industry and the natural landscape that’s magnified in this big-screen documentary. Film-maker Jennifer Baichwal trails him on a tour of industrial sites in China and Bangladesh, and her opening sequences are breathtaking (an eight-minute tracking shot along a giant factory floor, a scene of the photographer posing yellow-clad workers on a road flanked by yellow buildings). Burtynsky is drawn to spots (and lives) that have been disfigured by commerce—like the awful ‘waste’ dump where poor villagers harvest metal from junked American computers—and the open-endedness of his images is the key to their power. Special screening; interview with Burtynsky follows. See article on p. 10. (JJ) 80 min. Rialto, De Uitkijk Meet the Robinsons Derived from a William Joyce book, this lively Disney animation about an orphan inventor is striking not for its originality but for its energy in juggling familiar elements. There are time-travel paradoxes from Robert A Heinlein and Back to the Future, frogs that reference GoodFellas by way of Chuck Jones’s One Froggy Evening, a bowler hat from Magritte, and an eccentric family and topiary garden that recall Disney’s Alice in Wonderland. The cheerfully totalitarian city of the future, known as ‘Todayland’, seems like Disneyland boilerplate. But maybe one of the seven credited screenwriters dreamed up the sub-

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titled dinosaurs. Stephen J Anderson directed. (JR) 102 min. Kriterion, Pathé ArenA, Pathé De Munt

drug-saturated ultraviolent fun for the politically incorrect action junkie. (LvH) Pathé De Munt

Shoot ’em Up Take an average action flick. Strip all excess baggage, like plot, character development and logic. Inject a dose of Looney Tunes. Cast Clive Owen as the tough-as-nails protagonist, Paul Giamatti as the thuggish bastard and Monica Bellucci as the lactating hooker with a heart of gold. Add one newborn baby, a hundred or so disposable bad guys and a shitload of guns and ammo. Voila, you’ve now created one of the most enjoyable guilty pleasures to grace your multiplex this season. (LvH) 85 min. Pathé ArenA, Pathé De Munt

Death Proof It’s unclear whether the Quentin Tarantino/Robert Rodriguez exploitation-flick double bill Grindhouse will ever reach our cinemas in its original form, but luckily this extended version of Tarantino’s half stands on its own. Kurt Russell plays Stuntman Mike, a shady has-been who stalks and attacks two groups of women with his death-proofed stunt car.

Unfortunately for him, his second group of intended victims are professional, kick-ass stunt driver gals.

While two thirds of the film are pure chick-flick, Tarantino excels in the carnage and chases even more than the dialogue. The cinematography and soundtrack are both exemplary. (LvH) 127 min. Melkweg Cinema

Still playing Adam’s Apples Directed by Anders Thomas Jensen, who might be the hottest thing from Denmark since certain cartoons, this black comedy stars Mads Mikkelsen, ‘the Danish Johnny Depp’, as Ivan, an insanely optimistic preacher with severe problems who rehabilitates ex-cons in his rural church. Adam (Ulrich Thomsen), a recently released neo-Nazi, arrives to test his fate repeatedly, leading to a clash of conflicting ideologies.

Whether the film is moralistic or nihilistic is anyone’s guess, but it didn’t garner a Silver Scream Award at the AFFF for nothing, and the very Scandinavian undercurrent of dark humour keeps the film enjoyable and fresh during most of the running time. In Danish with Dutch and French subtitles. (LvH) 94 min. Studio K Azur & Asmar In this animated French fantasy by Michel Ocelot (Kirikou and the Sorceress), two boys, one blond, the other dark, become rivals in the quest to free a fairy princess. Showing dubbed into Dutch, alas. Filmmuseum Becoming Jane Jane Austen, whose main topics seemed to be love and marriage, never married herself. Why? An interesting question, one which director Julian Jarrold took as the starting point for an Austen biopic mixing fact with fantasy. The film’s visual style is unspectacular, not to say dull. A moment of contemplation: scene in a garden. Smouldering passion hindered by 18th century politeness: flushing cheeks and clumsy gestures. This has been done before and far more convincingly; the witty Austen deserves a more original approach. Yet the film has its entertaining moments, and you can give Jarrold credit for having the courage to turn Saint Jane into a human being. (MM) 120 min. Cinema Amstelveen The Bourne Ultimatum The third and probably best entry in Paul Greengrass’s Bourne series sees the return of Matt Damon as Jason Bourne, who’s hiding from his former principals at the CIA. A meeting with reporter Simon Ross makes him realise they’re still looking for him and activates memories from his dark past: Bourne must stay alive long enough to find out who he really is.

In effect, this is an excuse for a really long, intercontinental chase sequence, as the film criss-crosses the world at an incredible pace. The definite highlight is a long pursuit on foot over the roofs of Algiers, ending in a really, really tough fight scene. It’s all a bit over the top, and The Bourne Ultimatum doesn’t have the same realistic feel that the first two movies had. You get amazing action in return though, with a little surprise at the end to top things off. With Joan Allen, Julia Stiles, David Strathairn and Albert Finney. (MP) 111 min. Pathé ArenA, Pathé De Munt, Pathé Tuschinski

The Brave One The Brave One It is a well-established rule that when a film starts with scenes of a ridiculously happy couple, catastrophe will befall them. This is the case with radio presenter Erica Bane (Jodie Foster): after a brutal assault in Central Park, her fiancée dies and Erica is severely wounded. Once she’s patched up, she starts roaming the streets at night as a wrathful vigilante. At first director Neil Jordan cleverly avoids the pitfalls of this kind of revenge movie. There’s no such thing as righteous violence; it’s an addiction to which Erica slowly succumbs. It’s a shame Jordan decides to change sides at the end. (BS) 122 min. Pathé ArenA, Pathé De Munt

Crank If there’s a film that will consign to an unmarked grave the tired critic’s cliché about how flashy flicks feel ‘just like a video game’, it’s the hilarious and delirious Crank. Jason Statham is at his most hooliganesque as the assassin Chev Chelios, who is injected with a Chinese designer poison that will kill him unless he keeps his adrenaline levels unnaturally high. The mayhem that ensues seems to be inspired by a marathon session of Grand Theft Auto on acid, condensed into 90 minutes of pure, unadulterated,

Death Proof The Diving Bell and the Butterfly The latest from painter-turned-director Julian Schnabel (Basquiat) is a poetic, moving filmed version of the memoir by Elle France editor Jean-Dominique Bauby, who at age 43 suffered a stroke that paralysed his entire body except his left eyelid. With Mathieu Amalric and Emmanuelle Seigner. In French/English with Dutch subtitles. 112 min. Cinecenter, Pathé Tuschinski Duska The absurdist plot of Jos Stelling’s latest film revolves around timid film critic Bob (Gene Bervoets), whose life takes an unexpected turn when a strange, Russian-speaking man (Sergei Makovetsky) arrives at his doorstep. Bob reluctantly lets this character, Duska, in for a drink, after which he never leaves. In a series of slapstick interactions (with hardly any dialogue at all, Duska is reminiscent of silent cinema) he maintains a ceaseless joviality while he slowly wreaks havoc in Bob’s life. Stelling leaves it to the viewer to decide whether Bob is going mad, whether or not Bob and Duska have a shared history, whether Duska is real at all. This lack of closure might raise an eyebrow or two but it doesn’t lessen the enjoyment. (RG) 108 min.

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Goud Those who have lost faith in professional sports after outrageous football transfers and Tour de France doping scandals should immediately watch Goud. This documentary about the Dutch women’s field hockey team captures the players’ hard work and struggles in their road to victory at the 2006 World Championships. Director Niek Koppen successfully manages to insinuate himself into the lives of coach and players, while keeping himself out of the frame.

The title gives away the ending, but through its close look at the pain and joy of the team, Goud evokes sympathy and remains thrilling right to the finish.

(MdR) 106 min. Kriterion, De Uitkijk Half Nelson This is not your run of the mill flick about a dedicated, idealistic young teacher who pushes a class full of prospectless youngsters to unexpected heights. Sure, the description fits teacher Dan, played

by Oscar-nominated Ryan Gosling, but the thing is, he turns out to be the worst possible role model. He is a secret drug addict, secret until one of his students (Shakeera Epps) finds out. Half Nelson is a harsh but heartfelt experience, with impressive acting by all involved. Gosling is especially striking as a selfdestructive, misguided shell of a man who tries but ultimately fails in everything he does. Directed by Ryan Fleck. (RG) 106 min. Kriterion Iklimler Bahar, a young television director, and Isa, a middle-aged teacher, are breaking up during a summer holiday in Kas, on Turkey’s Aegean coast. Isa blames the age difference, but in fact the problem is his affair with another woman. In rainy Istanbul the sequence of poetic images is disrupted by a long shot of rough sex. Isa decides to follow Bahar to Agri, where she is shooting a movie. Breathtaking shots of falling snowflakes follow, but will Isa be able to win back broken-hearted Bahar? Directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan, with himself and his wife Ebru Ceylan in the starring roles, Iklimler (‘Climates’) uses the director’s familiar technique of long steady shots and natural sounds to tell a sad love story in which the weather and beautiful landscapes reflect two people’s sorrowful separation.

In Turkish with Dutch subtitles. (MH) 97 min. Rialto

Knocked Up The premise is simple: a constantly stoned loser (Seth Rogen) and a successful young career woman (Katherine Heigl) get drunk and sleep together, with an accidental pregnancy as a result. The way writer-director Judd Apatow blends a geeky coming-of-age flick for guys with a heartfelt romantic comedy is outstandingly smart but above all hilarious.

Normally you should trust your own judgement, but in this case it is best to just follow the hype. Let’s add to the hyperbole: could this year’s sleeper hit be one of

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the defining comedies of this decade? I wouldn’t mind.

(RG) 129 min. Pathé ArenA, Pathé De Munt Das Leben der Anderen This Oscar winner by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck mostly deserves all the praise and admiration it has received. A study in the dehumanising effects of state surveillance, it focuses on two men living in East Germany in 1984: a playwright (Sebastian Koch) who attracts the interest of the state and a Stasi officer (Ulrich Mühe) whose loyalty to the socialist cause is starting to erode. Predictable and slightly distant, but also disturbing and effective. In German with Dutch subtitles. (LvH) 137 min. Rialto La Marea In this debut feature by Argentinean filmmaker Diego Martinez Vignatti (director of photography for Batalla en el cielo), a young woman’s life is brutally transformed after she loses her husband and son in a car accident of which she is the sole survivor. We’re taken through her raw grieving process as she withdraws to a small hut on a deserted beach and struggles to imagine a way forward. In Spanish with Dutch subtitles.

83 min. Studio K

A Mighty Heart Mariane Pearl’s 2003 memoir

about the terrorist kidnapping and murder of her husband, Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, is ideal material for a suspense film, and this docudrama manages to be gripping even though the outcome is no mystery. Closely adapted by John Orloff, the movie functions as a police procedural, with the journalist’s pregnant wife (Angelina Jolie) and a team of US and Pakistani officials struggling to navigate the Islamic underground of Karachi as they search for Pearl. But Orloff also captures the book’s human drama, as Mariane tries to remain hopeful in a steadily darkening situation, and its international sweep, as the rescuers are frustrated by tensions between Pakistan, India and the West. Director Michael Winterbottom is known for his war-zone dramas (Welcome to Sarajevo, In This World), and his crisp documentary style enhances the emotionally charged story. (JJ) 108 min. Cinecenter, Pathé ArenA, Pathé De Munt, Pathé Tuschinski Once A scruffy Dublin busker (Glen Hansard, in real life the frontman of indie rock band The Frames) finds his personal groupie in a young Czech flower seller, who becomes his songwriting partner and muse.

Together, they form a band and decide to record a demo tape to send to the London record executives.

This tiny little film has its charms: the spontaneity of its performers, the Irish settings, and lots of great folkrock songs that help you through its 90 minutes and its thin plot, which seems borrowed from one of those early MGM ‘Let’s-put-on-a-show’ musicals. But if you’re looking for more substance, Once might not be enough for you. (MB) Cinecenter

Opera Jawa A two-hour feast of dance, drama, music, shapes and colours by Indonesia’s most important living film-maker, Garin Nugroho. The story in this ‘gamelan musical’ is based on a fragment from the Hindu epic Ramayana, in which Sinta, the wife of King Ramaya, is abducted by the demon Rahwana. Translated to present-day Indonesia, it becomes a tragic love triangle between village potters Siti (Artika Sari Devi) and Setyo (Martinus Miroto), with the local bully Ludiro (acclaimed dancer Eko Supriyanto) trying to lure Siti from her marital bed. Central Java’s rural beauty is intensified by a use of cloth and colour that would make Christo whistle, while the music was written especially for the film by composer Rahayu Supanggih, who has worked with Robert Wilson and Sergio Leone.

The result is a spectacle showcasing the best of Java’s music, dance and art. In Indonesian/Javanese with Dutch subtitles. (LS) 120 min. Rialto Ratatouille In Pixar’s newest effort, Remy the rat

finds himself in the restaurant of his late hero, TV cook Auguste Gusteau, whose motto, ‘Anyone can cook’, inspired Remy’s dream of becoming the greatest chef in Paris. Saved from a horrible death by the gawky garbage boy Linguini, he starts working with him to achieve his goal. But Skinner, the evil new chef in Gusteau’s restaurant, is not that easily beaten. Oldschool Disney slapstick with a heart, Ratatouille is all about fun. Chases are numerous and feature incredible camerawork while putting kitchen utensils to

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maximum use. The animation is equally stunning, containing deeply saturated colors and realistic movement from both animals and humans. With a jazzy soundtrack and lots of great details, this feels like cinematic spielerei, a seemingly effortless home run into animation history. (MP) Filmhuis Griffioen, Pathé ArenA, Pathé De Munt, Pathé Tuschinski Rush Hour 3 Brett Ratner’s action-comedy franchise is aimed at the international box office, so in this entry, mismatched cops Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker are lured to Paris by a Japanese assassin (Hiroyuki Sanada) who’s kidnapped a Chinese consul’s daughter (Zhang Jingchu). Noémie Lenoir is the eye-candy love interest, and Max von Sydow, Youki Kudoh, Yvan Attal and Roman Polanski help legitimise the silly plot. Chan shows he still has the chops during a showdown at the Eiffel Tower, but you’d think the movie’s reported budget of $140 million might have bought Tucker at least one side-splitting gag.

(AG) 90 min. Pathé ArenA, Pathé De Munt

Stardust The small print noting ‘Based on the novel

by Neil Gaiman’ should send ravenous fantasy fans flocking towards the cineplexes, but sadly, this was not

the case in the States. And while Stardust is less subtle a fairy tale than Gaiman in written form, it still has a bubbly, brash and occasionally muddled charm of its own, even if some of it is drowned out by bombastic background music or generic special effects. If you’re yearning for a cheap and cheerful fantasy fix and you don’t mind your popcorn flicks on the buttery-slick and cheesy side, follow that star! Directed by Matthew Vaughn; with Claire Danes, Sienna Miller, Robert De Niro and Michelle Pfeiffer. (LvH) 130 min. Pathé ArenA, Pathé De Munt Summer Palace In this ambitious epic, students Yu Hong and Zhou Wei discover a world of intense sexual and emotional experimentation against the backdrop of the uprising at Tiananmen Square. Writer-director Lou Ye (Suzhou River) filmed Summer Palace with a nervous hand-held camera and made the first mainland film to show male and female full-frontal nudity.

He didn’t screen Summer Palace for the Chinese officials; as a result, in 2006 he was banned from making movies for five years. Yet you never hear any character discuss anything remotely political, not even in Yu

Special screenings Les Amants Disappointed by both her provincial husband and her Parisian lover, a chic young woman (Jeanne Moreau) discovers the real thing with a sensitive student (Jean-Marc Bory). Louis Malle’s 1958 film is quite conventional apart from its celebrated sex scenes, which were enough to promote it to international success. In French with Dutch subtitles. (DK) 89 min. Rialto Avida Benoît Delépine & Gustave de Kervern, the makers of the wheelchair road movie Aaltra, are back with this surrealistic film about two ketamine addicts and a deaf-mute who kidnap a rich woman’s lapdog.

The woman ends up enlisting the two men to help her fulfil her last wish. In English/Spanish/French with Dutch subtitles. 83 min. De Balie Billy Jack This neo-fascist little morality play from 1971 has charmed a lot of critics and made a fortune for its director/producer, Tom Laughlin, but its strained, wretched argument—that violence is the ticket for all misunderstood flower children and shiftless Vietnam vets—conjures up memories of Triumph of the Will. Subtitle it ‘Horst Wessel Out West’ and try to forget about it. (DD) De Nieuwe Anita The Cat Returns In the wake of Hayao Miyazaki’s masterpiece Spirited Away came this low-key 2002 title from Studio Ghibli, directed by Miyazaki pupil Hiroyuki Morita. A teenage girl saves the life of the Prince of Cats, who carries her off to his kingdom to be his bride.

It’s up to a feline private eye and his rotund sidekick to save the girl and the day. Crisp animation and loveable characters make for a short but pleasing flick for little ones and loony cat lovers. In Japanese with Dutch subtitles. (LvH) 75 min. Melkweg Cinema The End of the Economy A ‘Docs at the Docks’ special about money and the current state of the economy, with speakers including Han de Jong, ABN-AMRO’s head economist. The evening starts out with a part of the animation film Money as Debt, which explains how modern economic systems are based on incurring debts, and thereby eventually create an unsustainable situation. Furthermore,there’s a screening of the VPRO documentary De dag dat de dollar valt. Though it premiered in 2005, its focus is more up-to-date than ever as the film examines the current shaky economic situation and sketches possible scenarios in case the dollar does, indeed, fall. (Sarah Gehrke) NDSM-werf

Garden State Zach Braff is best known for his por-

trayal of JD, the nerdy doctor-to-be in the sitcom Scrubs. With Garden State (2004), his debut as a writer-director (he also stars), he produced an instant classic. This visually overpowering film about people in their late 20s tells the story of Large, a drug addict who returns to his hometown after his mother dies.

There he finds old friends, new friends, love and, eventually, himself. (Sven Gerrets) 102 min. Cavia

Indigènes French/Algerian director Rachid Bouchareb set his new film in 1943, when the cheerful young North Africans Saïd, Yassir, Messaoud and Abdelkader enlist in the French army to fight for their country.

Instead, they find themselves caught between the horrors of the battlefield and the prejudice of their fellow soldiers. The four leads, as a group, won last year’s Best Actor award at Cannes; after the film came out in France, President Chirac promised the surviving colonial veterans (who never received full benefits) compensation. In French/Arabic with Dutch subtitles.

128 min. Pathé De Munt

Je t’aime moi non plus Serge Gainsbourg’s ex-

plored the nihilistic world of obsessive love and set the stage for Gainsbourg’s 1976 directorial debut. In this classic of eroto-romantic transgression, Johnny (Jane Birkin), an androgynous truck-stop waitress, falls in love with Krassky (Warhol cult-actor Joe Dallesandro), a brooding, gay garbage-van driver who teaches her the delights of anal sex. This arouses the jealousy of Krassky’s best friend, Padovan (Hughes Quester), who embodies Gainsbourg’s own self-doubts and suicidal tendencies. The succulent soundtrack, featuring instrumental versions of ‘Je t’aime’, helps make it an atmospheric film that belongs in the mad-love category, alongside Last Tango in Paris, The Night Porter, Betty Blue and Turks fruit. In French with English subtitles. (BP) 90 min. OT301 The Mark of Cain Small British TV movie about the mistreatment of prisoners by British troops in Basra.

Filled with solid performances by a cast of relative unknowns, it focuses mainly on the pyschological traumas young soldiers incur when placed under dangerous pressure from peers and superiors and told to do their duty. The story follows a private as he is transformed from an object of derision and humiliation into a beast capable of joining in the worst of his fellow soldiers’ acts. Winner of Amnesty International’s Movies That Matter award in Rotterdam, The Mark of Cain remains a small-screen film—but one definitely worth seeing. Directed by Marc Munden.

(MB) 90 min. Kriterion

Spirited Away Chihiro, a bratty 10-year-old, is mov-

ing to a new home with her parents, and when they stop at a country inn, the girl is whisked away to a hot-springs bathhouse (modelled after Japanese and Mediterranean castles) where spirits of all shapes, sizes and temperaments come for rest and recreation. What follows is a series of surreal adventures involving a spidery furnace stoker, the greedy proprietress of the bathhouse, her spoiled giant of a baby, a No masked ghost and a kind young man who can change into a dragon.

The hand-drawn animation from Miyazaki’s studio is a feast for the eye. In Japanese with Dutch subtitles. (TS) 125 min. Melkweg Cinema

Hong’s diary-style narration, and the film ends up saying very little beneath the poetic voice-overs and sexual encounters. It’s overlong, and both action and characters lack the kind of emotional core that holds your attention. In Mandarin with Dutch subtitles. (GR) 140 min. Rialto Talk to Me Don Cheadle stars as Ralph ‘Petey’ Greene, who followed a prison term for armed robbery in the early ‘60s with a long career as a media personality and social activist in Washington, DC. After playing such upright guys in Hotel Rwanda and Reign Over Me (unreleased here), Cheadle must have reached naturally for the part of the raunchy, rebellious Greene, but he would have been better cast as Dewey Hughes, the AM radio programmer who gave Greene his first shot (well played instead by Chiwetel Ejiofor). The early scenes of Greene misbehaving on the air are pretty funny, thanks mainly to Martin Sheen as the apoplectic station manager. But I was bummed out by the movie’s trite cartoon of the black power era—especially coming from Kasi Lemmons, who made her directing debut with the hauntingly ambiguous Eve’s Bayou. (JJ) 118 min. Pathé ArenA, Studio K Timboektoe Dutch-language children’s film, based on the books by Carry Slee, about two kids whose parents move to France to run a campsite. Watch for the Weekly’s own Steve Korver in a bit part as a CNN reporter.

Cinema Amstelveen, Pathé ArenA, Pathé De Munt, Pathé Tuschinski Transe A devastating film about trafficking in women by Portuguese film-maker Teresa Villaverde. Sonia, a young Russian, is forced into prostitution in Western Europe in a theme that recalls Lucas Moodysson’s Lilja 4-ever. But in style Villaverde is closer to David Lynch, and at times the film’s tone approaches pure horror. In Portuguese with English subtitles. 126 min. Filmmuseum Vier Minuten German prison drama with Monica Bleibtreu starring as a stiff piano teacher who struggles with her past. Hannah Herzsprung plays her pupil, a rebellious inmate and former piano wunderkind, who in between outbursts of violence slowly finds her way back to music. Directed by Chris Kraus. In German with Dutch subtitles. 112 min. Cinecenter, Rialto You Kill Me John Dahl’s previous neonoirs have been too cynical for me, but this crime comedy has such a goofy script (by Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely) and such an eccentric cast that it kept me curious about what would happen next. An alcoholic Polish-American hit man in Buffalo (Ben Kingsley) gets sent to San Francisco by his uncle and boss (Philip Baker Hall) to dry out. Thanks to Alcoholics Anonymous and the funeral home where he gets a job, he winds up with a strange assortment of company, including a gay man (Luke Wilson), a real-estate broker (Bill Pullman), and a well-to-do lover (Téa Leoni). Even if you can’t accept all the movie’s curveballs, you might still be amused. (JR) 92 min. Pathé De Munt Zidane: un portrait du XXième siècle Over a year before the headbutt incident of last year’s World Cup, video artists Douglas Gordon and Philippe Parreno made this experimental documentary on French football legend Zinédine Zidane. They chose a game between Real Madrid and Villareal and set up 17 cameras to follow their hero. Then they spliced the footage together and set it to the dreamy music of Mogwai, using only intertitles to suggest what might be going on in Zizou’s head. The result hints at strange parallels between a sporting match and a work of fiction. 90 min.

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Zodiac David Fincher has come a long way in the five years since his last skilful but empty exercise in style, Panic Room. In Zodiac, about four men obsessed with their search for the infamous Zodiac Killer, Fincher finally emerges as a real storyteller. He meticulously follows the book by cartoonist Robert Graysmith without ever allowing it to get boring or lose tension. Fincher has matured, but Robert Downey Jr can claim the most amazing comeback. After some very rocky years battling drug addiction and poor film choices, Downey, as the ever-intoxicated reporter Paul Avery, now dazzles us with a cynical, funny and genuinely moving performance. (BS) 158 min. Studio K

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1408 Thur-Mon, Wed 22.00 Alles is liefde daily 11.40, 14.10, 16.30, 19.00, 21.30, Thur, Fri also 13.00, 17.50, 20.20, Thur also 15.20, Sat-Wed also 20.00 Bhool Bhulaiyaa Fri-Wed 17.20, 20.40 The Bourne Ultimatum daily 18.50, 21.20, Thur, Fri also 12.50, 15.20, 17.50, 20.20, Thur also 13.50, 16.20 The Brave One daily 18.25, 21.25, Thur also 12.00, 15.30, Fri also 13.20 Hairspray daily 18.20 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (IMAX) Sat-Wed 12.00 The Heartbreak Kid Wed 13.35, 16.05, 18.35, 21.15 The Kingdom daily 11.50, 14.20, 16.40, 19.10, 21.40 Knocked Up daily 15.10, 18.00, 21.00, Thur, Fri also 12.20 Meet the Robinsons Fri-Wed 16.00, Sat-Wed also 11.20, 13.40 A Mighty Heart Thur-Sun, Wed 20.00, Thur, Wed also 17.40, Thur also 11.55, 14.20, Mon 12.30, Tues 16.20, 18.40, 21.05 Plop en de pinguin Fri-Wed 14.00, 16.10, Sat-Wed also 10.00, 11.55 Ratatouille daily 12.30, 14.55, Thur also 17.20, 19.40, 21.55 Ratatouille (NL) Sat-Wed 11.00, 13.20, 15.50 Rush Hour 3 Thur-Tues 13.10, 15.20, 17.30, 19.40, 21.50, Thur, Fri also 18.30, 21.00, Thur also 12.00, 14.00, 16.15, Sat-Wed also 11.10, 18.15, 20.15, 22.15

Filmhuis Griffioen Uilenstede 106, Amstelveen, 444 5100 Ratatouille Thur, Fri, Tues 19.30.

Filmmuseum Vondelpark 3, 589 1400 Azur & Asmar Sat-Mon, Wed 14.00 Una Ballata Bianca Sun 17.45 Belle de jour Thur-Sun, Tues 19.30, Thur-Sat, Mon, Wed 17.30, Mon, Wed also 19.30 Belle toujours Thur-Sat 19.30, Sun-Wed 21.30 Black Narcissus Thur-Mon, Wed 19.45, 21.45, Tues 19.30, 22.00 César et Rosalie Sun 15.30 Transe Thur-Mon, Wed 17.15 Willie en het wilde konijn Sat-Mon, Wed 13.45.

Shoot 'em Up daily 18.10, 20.10, 22.10, Thur, Fri also 12.00, Thur also 14.00, 16.10 De Simpsons Film Sat-Wed 10.30, 12.40 Sneak Preview Tues 21.40 Stardust daily 12.15, 15.20, 18.10, 21.10 Surf's Up Fri-Wed 12.50, 14.50, 16.50, Sat-Wed also 10.50 Talk to Me Thur 20.15, Fri, Sat, Tues, Wed also 19.45, Sun 20.30, Mon 20.00 Timboektoe daily 12.10, 14.30, 17.00, Thur-Mon, Wed also 19.30, Tues also 19.20 Transformers (IMAX) Sat-Wed 15.30, 20.30 Waar is het paard van Sinterklaas? Fri-Wed 16.15, Fri also 12.00, 14.00, 15.50, Sat-Wed also 10.05, 11.30, 12.05, 13.30, 14.05, 15.40, 17.50.

Pathé De Munt Vijzelstraat 15, 0900 1458 1408 Thur-Tues 20.15 Alles is liefde daily 13.30, 16.25, 19.00, Thur-Mon, Wed also 21.45, Sat-Wed also 10.55, Tues also 21.30 The Bourne Ultimatum daily 15.50, 18.30, 21.10, Thur also 13.10, Thur also 13.10 The Brave One daily 18.15, 21.20, Thur also 12.25, 15.25 Crank daily 21.55 Evening Sun 10.30 Georgia Rule Thur, Fri 12.05, Sat-Tues also 12.00 Hairspray daily 17.45, Thur-Mon, Wed also 20.30, Thur also 13.50 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix daily 18.50 The Heartbreak Kid Sat 10.30, Wed 12.00, 14.50, 17.35, 20.15 Indigènes Sun 10.30 The Kingdom daily 13.00, 15.45, 18.25, 21.00, Mon-Wed Knocked Up daily 17.55, 20.50, Thur also 12.00, 14.50 Meet the Robinsons Fri-Wed 12.50, 15.20, Sat, Mon-Wed 10.20 A Mighty Heart daily 14.20, 16.55, 19.30, Sat-Wed also 11.25 Mr Brooks Thur-Tues 14.40, 17.35 No Reservations daily 20.40 Plop en de pinguin Fri-Wed 11.40, 13.40 Ratatouille daily 16.05 Ratatouille (NL) daily 13.20, Sat-Wed also 10.45 Rush Hour 3 daily 12.45, 15.15, 17.30, 19.45, 22.00, Sat-Wed also 10.30 Shoot 'em Up daily 12.15, 15.00, 17.10, 19.20, 21.35, Sat-Wed also 10.10 De Simpsons Film Fri, Sun, Wed 12.50, 14.55, Sun also 10.45, Sat 11.40, 14.00, 16.15 The Simpsons Movie Fri, Sun-Wed 12.40, Fri, Sun-Tues also 14.50, Sun also 10.40, Sat 12.15, 14.20, 16.45 Sneak Preview Tues 21.45 Stardust daily 18.35, Thur-Mon, Wed also 21.30, Thur also 12.35, 15.35, Fri-Wed also 14.50, Fri also 12.00, Sat-Wed also 11.55, Tues also 21.15 Surf's Up Fri-Wed 13.50, 16.05, Fri also 11.45, Sat-Wed also 11.35 Timboektoe daily 15.30, 18.05, Thur-Sat, Mon-Wed also 12.55,

11-17 October 2007 Sat, Mon-Wed also 10.25, Sun also 13.00 Waar is het paard van Sinterklaas? Fri-Wed 14.00, 16.15, Fri also 11.50, Sat-Wed also 11.45 You Kill Me daily 22.10 Zwartboek Sun 10.30.

Pathé Tuschinski Reguliersbreestraat 34, 0900 1458 Alles is liefde daily 18.15, 21.00, Thur, Fri also 13.10, 15.40, SatWed also 12.45, 15.30 The Bourne Ultimatum daily 19.00, 21.40, Thur also 13.40, 16.15, Fri-Wed also 16.20 Control daily 18.45, 21.30, Fri-Wed also 13.00 The Diving Bell and the Butterfly daily 18.00, Thur also 15.00, Fri-Wed also 15.20 Duska daily 21.50, Thur, Fri also 14.00 A Mighty Heart daily 18.30, 21.15, Thur also 12.30, 15.15 Ratatouille daily 16.00 Ratatouille (NL) Fri-Wed 12.30 La Sconosciuta daily 20.45, Thur also 12.15 Surf's Up Fri-Wed 12.00, 14.10 Timboektoe daily 16.30, 19.15, Sat-Wed also 13.45 Waar is het paard van Sinterklaas? Fri-Wed 15.15, Fri also 12.45, Sat-Wed also 12.40 ’N Beetje Verliefd Tues 13.30.

Rialto Ceintuurbaan 338, 676 8700 Les Amants Sun 11.00 Color Me Bad Fri 23.00 Iklimler daily 19.45, 21.45, Fri-Sun, Wed also 15.00 Das Leben der Anderen daily 17.30, Sat, Sun also 13.00 Manufactured Landscapes daily 20.00, 22.00, Fri-Sun also 15.30 Opera Jawa Thur, Sat-Wed 21.15, Fri 20.45, Fri-Sun, Wed also 16.15 Pijn Fri 23.00 Summer Palace Fri-Sun, Wed 17.00, Sat, Sun also 12.15 Things Last Fri 23.00 Vier Minuten Thur, Sat-Wed 19.00, Sat, Sun also 14.00, Fri 18.30.

Studio K Timorplein 62, 692 0422, Adam's Apples Thur-Sun 20.00 La Marea Thur-Sun 18.15, Mon-Wed 20.00 Talk to Me daily 18.45 Zidane: un portrait du XXième siècle daily 22.00 Zodiac daily 21.15.

De Uitkijk Prinsengracht 452, 623 7460 Gardens in Autumn Tues 20.00 Goud daily 17.30, Thur-Mon, Wed also 21.30 Manufactured Landscapes Thur-Mon, Wed 19.30 Waar is het paard van Sinterklaas? Fri 14.45, Sat-Wed 12.30, 14.45.

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TANTRA MASSAGE Would you like to feel energized with renewed passion and creativity? Relaxed and revitalised? Deepening connection with your body, sexuality and spirituality? Yes. Eros Trance, private sessions in A’dam created to meet indiCOMPUTERS vidual needs, men/women.

Info: www.erostrance.com. TECH PC and MAC repairs, Shanti: 06 4277 3290. network configurations, IL CIELO TREATMENTS updates, backups, recovery, Craniosacral treatments, audio and video systems calDorn/Breuss massage and ibrated and advice given. workshop for beginners at Viruses and malware/spythe Mirror Centre. Treat- ware dealt with severely at ments can be reimbursed by the cheapest prices. Call The health insurances. For more Original Computer Doctor info call 06 3004 9738 or check on 06 1752 7468. www.ilcielo.org.

PC HOUSE DOCTOR SpeTHERAPEUTIC MASSAGE cialised in virus/spyware Therapeutic massage offered removal, h/w, s/w repair, data by registered physiothera- recovery, wireless, cable/ADSL pist for stress relief, relax- installation and computer ation, pain relief, sports lessons from friendly and expeinjuries. Registered with BIG rienced Microsoft professional register. For further infor- for reasonable price. Contact mation call 06 4650 8718 or Mario 06 1644 8230. email physioX@live.nl.

NEED HELP WITH YOUR MAC? MAC-lover helps you HOME IMPROVEMENT with basic setups, minor troubleshooting, install, netPAINTER-DECORATOR Fully qualified painter, high- working, basic MAC lessons,

setting up programs, MS Word, QuarkXpress, etc. Help with purchasing the right MAC. Contact Sagar at 779 1926.

www.zerzura.info or tel 681 0072. This timeless woman’s dance increases fitness and flexibility and helps create a positive body image, regardCOURSES less of age or shape. Email UPHOLSTERY WORKSHOP angela@zerzura.info. in Westerpark! Recover and/or COMMUNICATION SKILLS repair your own furniture with Improve your communication the professional advice of skills, be empowered with the Sophie Filangi. Every Tues speaker you are! 2 workshop and Thur 19.00-22.00 (by appt dates 19 or 30 Oct, 19.30-22.00 only). Including use of tools, more info www.thespeaker.eu. excluding materials. €30 per session. Call for information STRESS MANAGEMENT/ meditation, team building, on 06 4154 7557. negotiation, giving presenHEALING / MEDITATION tations and other “soft skills” This course teaches the heal- training courses given by ingartofSatNamRasayan,gen- English native speakers for tle healing art that works on a companies. Also consultandeep level. It is old, simple, cy & communication audits effective. You will learn to med- to help identify problem areas itate a tool which benefits and skills gaps. The English entire physical, mental & emo- Network, 320 5901, info@tentional being. For info call Har training.com.

Kirat on 06 1146 4372. Also for THE NEXT LEVEL ProfesKundalini yoga classes. sional guitarist offers guitar IYENGAR YOGA CLASSES lessons for ALL levels (jazz, with certified Iyengar yoga Brasilian, funky, folk, pop ), teacher Cristina Libanori. group coaching, workshops, Tues 19.30-21.00 at Training improvisation, composing, Centrum, Europaplein 127 accompany in different music near RAI. Tram 4 (stop Din- styles, music harmony, ear telstraat). €10/class; with 10- training and solfege. Tel 06 card yoga strippenkaart 2956 4595. €9/class. Individual theraGUITAR LESSONS Guitar peutic classes arranged by lessons from a well-experiappt at €20/hr. cristina@theenced teacher (conservatowheel-of-yoga.com/773 5307. rium graduate). Lessons for SINGING LESSONSOn Prin- beginners and advanced stusengracht, beautiful atmo- dents. Learn to play pop, rock, sphere. Classical voice train- blues, funk, r&b, metal, jazz, ing, breathing techniques, Latin, punk and much more. vocalization, scales, etc. For Call 06 2458 9662. beg & professionals. From AUTUMN WORKSHOPS classic to jazz pop or rock, and Drawing and painting workall styles of singing. Good prices shops by professional artist, + free intro lesson. For more various techniques, all styles. info call Michael on 320 2095 Contact joneiselin@hetor mail ajara77@yahoo.com. net.nl/www.joneiselin.com.

CARDIO STRIPTEASE,gogo AGAMA YOGAbased in Thaidancing, belly dancing, pole land, now in A’dam De Pijp, dancing, cheerleading and starts 8-wk beginners yoga more in our new dance studio course on Sat 14 Oct (11.00in center of A’dam. www.sexyin13.15 hrs). 1e van der Helststructors.com. Phone 06 1211 straat 70/1, (inbetween 4828 and ask for Sara.

Sarphatipark and Albert Cuyp BELLY DANCE COURSE market). Open classes on Starts Thur 25 Oct at 19.00. Tues and Thurs 10.00-12.00 Studio in A’dam west. Visit hrs. www.agamayoga.nl, 06

4912 6884 (Lilian).

WHAT NO LEADERS?Some weeks ago I placed an ad looking for coaches and trainers to join me in creating a leadership program. No response.

Come on leaders in A’dam, let’s INTENSIVE DUTCHCOURS- move into action! www.leadES at Joost Weet Het! Small ershipnow.eu. groups, fun classes and inex- GLOBAL PRIMARYHey! You pensive! Excellent and fast American? Join the fun with learning method. Energetic like-minded Americans at and accessible teachers. Class- Democrats Abroad. With es 4x4 hrs/wk, 3/4 wks cours- monthly DemsFun Drinks, es. Start 1 Oct, 29 Oct and 26 discussions, issue groups, and Nov. Visit http://www.joost- other activities. You don’t even weethet.nl or email info@joost- have to be a Dem to join! Go weethet.nl or call 420 8146. to www.democratsabroad.nl LEARNING DUTCH? You for more info.

YOGAYOGA AMSTERDAM offers a full range of daily classes, including Sun workshops.

In addition, there is pregnancy yoga, postnatal yoga and yoga for kids. Yogayoga is situated in a quiet studio, close to the Jordaan. A second studio is can Do It! New evening coursavailable especially for pries starting 22 Oct at Joost vate classes. Visit www.yogayoWeet Het! Fun Classes, Good ga.nl or call 688 3418.

Grammar, Emphasis on Conversation and Inexpensive.

LANGUAGES Prepare NT2 here. Price: €250 DUTCH LESSONS A'DAM for an 8-wk course, 2x2 hrs/wk.

Improve conversation/pro- Visit http://www.joostweetfessional purpose/studies/NT2. het.nl or email info@joostAlso online. Min indiv rate weethet.nl or call 420 8146. €15/hr. Adults & children MonSat, 10.00-21.00. Also intenMUSICIANS sive courses. Min. intensive: 15 WANT TO SING? The maghrs=€215,55. www.excellentdutch.nl. New: Super-inten- nificent Nicolaaskerk (opp. sive summer course. Info: A’dam CS) has a rich singing excellentdutch@hotmail.com, tradition-fromGregorianchant to Rennaissance polyphony to 06 3612 2870. more modern works. Check LEARNSPANISH!Doyouwant out www.gregoriaanskoor.nl to learn or improve your Span- and www. musiekindenicolaas ish with professional native? for more details and opportuSpeaking, grammar, etc. What nities for YOUR voice type. youwant!Private€20andgroup PERSONALS €15 each. (2-3). Email to spanishamsterdam@gmail.com Y DONT GET LOST in A’dam. habla español!

Looking for someone friendDUTCH FOR BEGINNERS Enjoy learning Dutch! Professional teacher will start group lessons on the 24 Oct in A’dam west. Price: €285 for 10 lessons of 2 hrs. Books are included! Groups will be small so sign up soon! Contact: ToTaal NT2 Karen 06 4789 8793 or karen_munk@yahoo.co.uk.

ly to introduce you to the city of A’dam and the areas around: coffeshops, museums, arts, nightlife. Many places to go in this beautiful country. Speak English, Spanish, Portugues. Make contact. I’d like to show you around. Marks: 06 2334 9502.

A'DAM BRUCE FANS! Any Bruce Springsteen fans out there, who are travelling back to A’dam (or nearby), from the Mannheim show on 2 Dec! Let me know if you’re willing to pick up an extra passenger on the way. maxgnu@libero.it.

PLAYAUSSIERULESTheFlyingDutchmenistheDutchAustralianRulesFootballteam.We are going to Hamburg in Sept for the EU Cup and there are still places available on the team. No previous experience is necessary. So go to www. devliegendehollanders.nl or email Jase on jasonvdven@ devliegendehollanders.nl.

LADIES BASKETBALLUse all your main leg muscles such as quadriceps, hamstrings, calves, groin and buttocks while toning the muscles of your shoulders, neck arms and back. All while burning calories. BVA starts a new ladies team. Thur 21.30-23.00 at Van Hogendorpstraat 921.

Info: ladies@bvamsterdam.nl.

GANJATOURTakeajourneyof the best coffeeshops & smokefriendly bars. Join our experienced local guides going places you can’t find or wouldn’t know ANNOUNCEMENTS existed.EnjointAmsterdamtoits IMPROVE YOUR DUTCH! Conversation, study groups, THIS SATURDAY: Get rid of fullist,notworryingwhichwayto private classes, intensive yourstagefright,standonstage go! Call us today on 06 4817 5081 courses, city language walks, NT2. Starting every week at Link Taal Studio. Info: 06 4133 9323 or linktaalstudio@gmail.com.

LEARN NOW! Castilian (Spanish), Italian, Dutch, English & more, with native teachers. From Oct ‘07 to June ‘08 in A’dam. Stichting Unlimited Europe Amsterdam offers courses and conversation, groups of up to 6 people. More

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