Amsterdam Weekly: Vol 4 Issue 46, 15-21 November 2007

Volume 4, Issue 46

15 – 21 NOVEMBER 2007

‘Leg niet te zeiken!’

Now with a new anti-zeik Teflon coating!

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Complaining in a complaint capital page 6

How press free are we? page 4 How big of a raincoat do we need? page 4 Can it be an animal-print Cavalli jacket? page 5 MUSIC: The water drum beat of Manecas Costa p. 11 / FILM: Is the American gangster too much of a hero? p. 19

Short List . . . . . . . . . . . . .8 Music/Clubs . . . . . . . . . .10 Gay & Lesbian . . . . . . . .14 Stage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14 Art . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15 Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15 Dining . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17 Film . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18 Classifieds/Comics . . . .21

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Here’s a complaint: the Amsterdam Tourist and Congress Bureau just announced that 2008 will be the theme year of the ‘Amsterdam Hidden Treasures’ and they will be releasing a booklet of supposedly under-rated sights in Amsterdam. Like the Ons’ Lieve Heer op Zolder church. Or a nunnery in the Wallen. Who thinks up this stuff? And how much do they get paid to troll through all the two-bit guide books that have already listed these supposedly hidden gems. And it’s kind of ironic that the chief sponsors, The Amsterdam Diamond Group and Canal Bus, aren’t exactly the most obscure and forgotten types either. But to rise above mere whining—while perhaps going against better judgement—here’s a solution as well: such a book, to be truly inspirational, should really be listing those truly hidden and inspired treasures like the stainless steel antizeik panels installed in certain urban corners that handily deflect the effluence of wild pissers back at them. Just an idea—and hopefully one that won’t get sprayed back in our face.

On the cover OUWE ZEIKSNOR Illustration by Martyn F Overweel www.mfoverweel.com

Next week Flocking to documentaries

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How press free are we?

NL tumbles 12 spots on the Press Freedom Index.

By Larae Malooly Politician assassination, racial tension, a notorious underworld, detaining journalists and shady intelligence operatives are not themes for the next big Paul Verhoeven film. These are the headlines galvanizing Dutch news over the last few years, and one in particular has smudged the Netherlands’ otherwise pristine record for journalistic freedom.

Reporters sans frontieres, or Reporters Without Borders (RSF), produce the Press Freedom Index gauging journalistic freedom in 169 countries. The index usually places the Netherlands at the top, but for 2007 we dropped to 12th place after the detainment of De Telegraaf reporters Bart Mos and Joost de Haas in November 2006 by a judge in Den Haag. It was enough to snatch last year’s top spot with Finland and Ireland and sink us 12 spots, now sitting snuggly between Latvia and the Czech Republic.

‘Once you reach the top ranking, we are more sensitive to any attempt on press freedom that happens,’ explains Elsa

Vidal, RSF representative for Europe, from her office in Paris. ‘So when you have two journalists taken into court to reveal their sources, this is enough for a country to lose twelve ranks.’

Last November, Mos and De Haas were called to testify during the trial of a former Dutch intelligence officer accused of leaking information about notorious drugs and weapons trader Mink ‘De Denker’ Kok. After refusing to reveal their sources for an article they wrote about leaking classified material to the underworld, the reporters were ordered to spend three days in a Scheveningen prison. They were ultimately released when a court decided they did not pose a threat to national security.

‘Attempting to force journalists to reveal their sources in a criminal case where the burden of proof should fall on law enforcement officials is a serious threat to independent journalism and press freedom,’ said International Federation of Journalists General Secretary Aidan White at the time. ‘Protection of sources is an obligation for investigative journalists and the key to getting whistleblowers to come forward with information.’

Mos and De Haas did not answer a request for an interview, but their boss feels that the Press Freedom Index ranking is very well justified. ‘Actually, I was always surprised that we were always so high on the press freedom list,’ says De Telegraaf News Desk Chief Saskia Belleman. ‘Bart and Joost were next to rapists and all kinds of people they shouldn’t be behind bars with.’

The Index aims to ‘attract attention to the worst situations in the world regarding press freedom, which we view as a universal and fundamental right,’ Vidal says.

Journalists, human rights activists and correspondents worldwide rank their respective countries with a 50-point questionnaire that tests for anything compromising freedom of the press: physical attacks, threats, inaccessibility of information, unjustified legal action, censorship, government influence on media, and imprisonment.

Several of these categories also apply to The Netherlands. For example, Belleman cites the new C2000 model scanners used by police as an affront against accessibility. Previously, journalists could monitor police scanners. ‘Nowadays, it’s impossible to listen to a scanner, and police now say, “we are going to alert you ourselves when something happens we think you should know.” That’s a problem.

If we don’t know it’s happening, we can’t ask for information, and that lowers the press freedom score to me.’

Amsterdam Associated Press Chief, Arthur Max agrees: ‘I judge press freedom by the accessibility of the people I need to talk to.’ While he worked for the AP in Israel, he experienced a ‘slick PR operation’ where sources were easy to cultivate and officials were within reach but ‘I never found that here.’

While corporations and Dutch ministries have proven helpful to the AP, Max finds that the civil service maintains limited hours of operation. ‘This is not a country of crises, of huge breaking events that happen after business hours; so that in terms of regular media, I don’t think they push too hard for anything “after hours”.’

To improve that access, Amsterdam’s inner city council streamlined its public affairs department in January. ‘I am now the primary press contact, instead of them having to go to a different person for each matter,’ says official spokesperson Tom Boon. ‘My work is not from nine to five, and in great emergencies I can even be called on weekends.’

And it can always be worse. We’re not in last place for banishing private media or letting overly-critical journalists die in detention like in Eritrea. Nor did we imprison a blogger for 224 days, or send an Al Jazeera cameraman from Sudan to Guantanamo Bay like the United States did, currently in 48th place.

In the end, Mos and De Haas are not intimidated since their detainment. ‘It only made us angrier and more determined to do what we do,’ Belleman says.

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It’s hard to reach the right people sometimes.

Big wind or hot wind?

Wacky weatherman predicts stormy weather.

By Mark Wedin Check your roofing, stock up on candles and bring in the cat, a huge storm may be heading this way—depending on who you ask. Controversial British meteorologist Piers Corbyn predicts what many are calling a ‘super-storm’ to occur sometime between 24 and 28 November. The majority of established meteorologists, however, say this is nonsense, largely because of Corbyn’s radically different methods of predicting the weather, and also by the fact that his forecasts are made many months in advance. The coming storm, for example, he announced back in December.

‘It’s impossible, with or without all of our techniques and models and computers to make a forecast further than ten days ahead,’ says Cees Molenaars, head of communications for the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute. ‘This Englishman’s work is based on the activity on the sun in relation to forecasting weather storms. But there’s nothing in the whole of science that says this would work.’

The biggest critique of Corbyn’s work is that he keeps his methods a secret, rather than publishing them for the scientific community to examine. Of course, since Corbyn has set himself up commercially, there’s no reason for him to reveal his secrets. On the phone in his London office, Corbyn agrees: ‘We have peerreviewed evidence that our predictions work. The fact that I haven’t told them how is completely irrelevant. I suspect

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these people wouldn’t drink a soft drink because the formula is secret. It’s complete rubbish. Why can’t these people face the facts that there are some things they can’t do and we can? The models that [conventional meteorologists] use aren’t public either, so what the hell are they talking about?’

He’s clearly a passionate man—probably too much so for the largely dry meteorological community. If one merely follows the crowd, it’s easy to listen to Corbyn and dismiss him as a mad scientist, particularly when he explains the non-secret parts of his techniques, which involve earth/sun magnetic connections, lunar influences and a dependence on past weather patterns repeating in the future.

As crazy as it all sounds (and he does all of this without a computer), somehow, his predictions keep coming true—so much so that large companies like agrochemical giants Monsanto and Hydro Agri and film studios like Polygram rely heavily on his forecasts.

If Corbyn’s work is indeed authentic, his long-range system can greatly add to conventional meteorology, which is only reliable in short-term forecasts. ‘Their accuracy beyond a week or so is very low,’ he says. ‘Their long-range forecasts, for example, for this summer in the British Isles were utterly useless. They said we were going to have a warm summer possibly with temperatures reaching one-hundred degrees and there was no indication that it would be particularly wet. As you know, there were floods everywhere—eleven specific periods of flooding—and we predicted every single one of them in a published statement in December.’

As for Corbyn’s ‘super-storm’ next weekend with winds of 200 km/h, he says people are misquoting him and that he’s never used the term ‘super-storm’. ‘These other forecasters, mostly they’re just liars. They find something we’re saying, exaggerate it, and then say it won’t happen. The fact is, the storm we just predicted [around the British Isles] was absolutely spot on. But they won’t admit that. They’re envious bastards.’

His actual prediction was 85 per cent risk for winds over 120 km/h; 33 per cent for over 160 km/h; and 15 per cent for over 210 km/h. In total, a 133 per cent chance of windy weather. Like a lot of his work, it doesn’t really add up. Still his high success-rate means you might want to bring the cat in anyway. www.lowefo.com

Project catfight at H&M Primitive shopping for Cavalli’s new collection.

By Karina Hof ‘Mijn haaaar, schatje!’ yelped a sarcastic teenager, her head being pulled along by the tall lad who had caught some blonde tresses on a hanger draped over his arm. It held a perfect blazer for the art-school ruffian look he had going.

Last Thursday morning at 9.45, I found myself in the basement of Kalvertoren, just one of hundreds waiting for H&M to open its doors for the debut of the Roberto Cavalli animal print collection. The three fashionistas I was with were smart to suggest the backdoor approach: surpassing some of the masses was more crucial than being served champagne at street level.

The mall’s air was thick with girl. A sea of shiny blown-dry hair fell on trench-coated, purse-strapped shoulders. Women from 13 to 30-something trembled in their Uggs. Occasionally, there was the blip of a svelte male or an equivocally doe-like member of the press. And once the crowd had swelled nearly into the HEMA across the way, it was time.

Somehow, everyone knew exactly which racks to attack. Google Earth?

The store’s two escalators, programmed only to go down, gushed like wounds.

Customers clawed and pawed. Staff trotted around like basketball court refs.

I watched ground zero from afar, blending into the prissy star-patterned hoodies of the permanent collection, there with police officers, obliging mothers and photographers mounted on display cubes. Mannequins stripped and delimbed. A young girl too adrenalised to bother with a dressing room, all braces and bra under the fluorescent lighting. Leather-skinned grannies poaching extra-smalls.

Nesting a nearly €4,000-worth pile of Cavalli—€2,700 of which was actually rung up at the counter—my companions were the balks of the ball. Two had gotten hold of limited-edition gold lamé maxi-dresses. Only 800 circulated worldwide, retailing at €300 a piece with an anticipated e-market inflation of 500%.

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Zebra halter dress, check. Leopard corset, check. For the boyfriends, cobrahead cufflinks and tiger-striped boxer briefs. Females of all ages leered, some begged ‘om te ruilen?’, another murmured we were asociaal.

H&M can be seen as ready-to-wear democracy, allowing everyone—moneyed or not, sized 32 to 56—to dress in style. Like IKEA, the global chain is an exemplary model of Nordic egalitarianism exercised via mix-and-matchable design. Unlike its apple-pie equivalent, the Gap, H&M manages to put verve into mass production.

As a clotheshorse from Haarlem once explained the designer collections to me: Lagerfeld was revolutionary, McCartney—with her mauves and earth tones—was all wrong for the Dutch complexion and Victor & Rolf, well, they were national heroes, as sweet as their heart-shaped belt buckles. So what does the master of feral fabrics and acuteangled cuts bring to the Netherlands?

Cavalli has been quoted as saying: ‘I use animal prints to help women find their inner magnetism.’ But according to H&M’s customer blog, a number of shoppers left their local retailers feeling demagnetised and dejected:

Sex kittens and cougars battle it out.

‘We were here this morning in the Hague at 9 o’clock, 1 hour before the store opened. The collection was gone in 1 minute, we went home empty handed...’

‘I saved for 6 months to buy one or two pieces from his extraordinary collection... I was sooo disapointed that in just 30 minutes EVERYTHING was sold out.’

‘I HATE YOU H&M, I WAS WAITING SO LONG FOR THAT COLLECTION AND WE DIDNT EVEN GET THE HALF HERE...’

What the Cavalli collection seems to have brought to the Netherlands is a little sense of uncivilisation. No first-come, first-serve counter ticker like that of the postkantoor, and contrary to the socialised healthcare system, not everyone will get a piece of appeltaart.

Then again, a ‘disco lioness line’, as The New York Times referred to it, does not necessarily appeal to everyone. And in a country where ladies of the night pay taxes, how could streetwalker-chic be anything but already so last season?

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Putting complaints on the map Two city hall initiatives aim at streamlining information and complaint procedures for Amsterdam citizens. One employs Google Earth, the other, friendly phone operators.

‘How can I not help you?’

BY FLORIS DOGTEROM ILLUSTRATION BY MARTYN F OVERWEEL

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ltijd wat te zeiken. Amsterdammers have a reputation for being full-time whiners about any given subject: civil servants, dog shit, public transport, immigrants, you name it. Especially when they’re a bit older and speak with a thick Jordaneese accent, they should be avoided at all costs. Their backin-the-old-days-everything-was-better kind of grumbling is rather mood spoiling. But how much truth is in this observation?

‘Not much’, says Dr Christian Bröer, sociologist at the Universiteit van Amsterdam. ‘Incidentally, I know nothing about this reputation of Amsterdammers. But I do know opinions like this are based on subjective observations, which in themselves can be true. People say that Amsterdammers are whiners and pass it on, so in that sense it is real. By passing it on, the image sinks in. Whether it’s true or not is not important. It’s all about selfimage. It’s the same thing with the Dutch having this reputation for not liking other people to excel, telling you not to let it go to your head whenever you do something outstanding. But if a Dutch tennis player reaches the quarter finals of Wimbledon, the whole country is over the moon.’

Bröer was involved in a couple of research projects that dealt with annoyance and complaining. In one project, he looked into inconveniences for citizens caused by junkies in the 25 biggest cities in the Netherlands; in the other he compared aircraft noise annoyance-related complaints around the airports of Zurich in Switzerland and Schiphol. He noticed the same thing. ‘The number of complaints about drugs-related annoyance rised considerably after the police had taken measures against [the annoyance]. And in the case of Schiphol, the number of complaints increased from a few thousand to hundreds of thousands after the authorities had urged people to file complaints.

So complaining has nothing to do with the national or local character, but rather with the social organisation of attention. If you create a framework for complaints, you can be sure people will make use of it.’

To put things even more in perspective: Schiphol is a nuisance to half a million people, yet only 8,600 people actually filed complaints in 2005. Multiple complaints. In total, that small number of people filed 700,000 complaints, according to the Commissie Regionaal Overleg for Schiphol.

A bit of jargon So, facilitating complainers seems to be rather beneficial for complaint statistics.

However, the Amsterdam information line, 14 020, has only seen a slight increase of incoming calls since its kick-off in October 2006. 14 020 is the official city contact, and single phone number, for all questions from the citizens of Amsterdam and its different stadsdelen. The fact that the contact centre hasn’t been flooded by information requests and complaints might have something to do with the average Amsterdammer being internet savvy, for the page views of Amsterdam.nl have grown explosively: more than two million already in 2007—a 400 per cent increase.

The city’s website uses the same knowledge bank as the call centre, according to Joost Hoekman, staff manager for the contact centre, and his colleague Caspar Itz, project leader of communication for Antwoord [‘Answer’]. Sitting in Itz’s

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stoezicht [those guys who put yellow handcuffs on car tyres]. It’s one of the most hated services. People phone about a parking fine they received that was undeserved in their eyes. What I do is listen patiently and try to explain the situation. It very rarely happens that people start using foul language. But they don’t faze me; I stay calm. Men especially are impressed by my attitude.’

A woman calls in to ask where the nearest infant welfare centre is. The next caller is a doctor of the OLVG hospital to report a case of TB. Elburg is polite and friendly: ‘I’ll put you through. There may be a queue, but you will get to speak to someone.’ Another call. ‘Mevrouw Elburg, how can I not help you?’ says Elburg inadvertently. The lady on the other side breaks into laughter. Elburg giggles. ‘That normally never happens.’

Stopera office, Hoekman throws in a bit of jargon: ‘Antwoord is a concept for multichannel question handling. You can call, email, or even chat with us, and you will always get the same answers to the same questions.’

Itz explains how Antwoord came about: ‘Say your basement is flooded and you don’t know much about how the authorities are organised, you can start by calling the municipal sewer service. But they don’t deal with it. Then you call waterworks, you are put through three times and then it turns out they don’t deal with flooding situations either. Finally, after much ado and confusion, you figure out you’ve got to report the incident to the stadsdeel.

By that time, you will be really annoyed and feel that you have been sent from the pillar to the post. The city of Amsterdam wants to change that situation by setting up a single entry point for all its services, with the intention to provide the citizen with a better, easier and faster service.’

When you call 14 020 with an information request or a complaint, the contact centre employee will try to answer the question by means of the knowledge bank.

If they can’t find the answer, they will put you through to a specialist within the contact centre. Antwoord, which takes around 2,700 calls on a daily basis, strives for an average call time of 2.5 minutes.

Hoekman: ‘We actively coach our employees in reaching that target. But the quality of the service comes first.’ Itz adds: ‘The other day, on car-free Sunday, we took up to nine minutes to explain alternatives routes to people who got stuck with their car and phoned in for help.’

Teething troubles All of the contact centre’s personnel speak Dutch and English and have previous experience as call centre agents.

Hoekman says they are all trained in dealing with aggression, although people become angry only occasionally. ‘To give you an example, maybe somebody has forgotten to pay his taxes and he has also forgotten about the reminder for a while, but in the end he paid. However, in the meantime he has received a warrant and calls us to complain, angrily. Our agent can quickly determine that he indeed has paid. This way you take the sting out of the aggression.’

Itz stresses that what citizens may see as a complaint, the city often regards as a request. ‘Take a lamp post. A citizen might call us to complain the light shines straight into his bedroom. You can handle that as a complaint, but you can also send someone to adjust the lamp. A complaint, in legal terms, is when somebody holds the city of Amsterdam liable for something.’

Come 2008, all 34 stadsdelen and 54 municipal services will be connected with 14 020. Momentarily, the service is still in the development phase, something that recently led to some turmoil in a couple of stadsdelen, who weren’t satisfied. De Baarsjes even put some of their own service numbers back on its website. De Baarsjes’ spokesperson Hanny Korver says that Antwoord didn’t attain the service level that was agreed on. ‘But that’s due to teething troubles.’ Her colleague Ton Boon of stadsdeel Centrum agrees. ‘It was to be expected. It’s a gigantic operation to align all those services and I do find 14 020 a fine entry point for first line questions.’ Like De Baarsjes, Centrum also keeps a few designated phone numbers

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Explaining complaining The first appearance of the verb zeiken is in the Glossarium Bernense (c.

1240), an early Middle Dutch-Latin-Limburgs wordlist. Although in those days, the word was spelled seiken—which, incidentally, is a remarkably accurate representation of the present day Amsterdam pronunciation of zeiken—it still means the same as it does today: ‘to piss’. In many other Indo-European languages similar words occur: ssat’ (‘to piss’ in Russian), seihhen (also ‘to piss’, but then in Old High German), or sîk (‘slow-moving water’ in Old Norwegian). In present day Dutch, zeiken has

a few related meanings, but according to etymologist Dr Nicoline van der Sijs, one of the chief editors of the Etymologisch woordenboek van het Nederlands, it’s not known how, somewhere in the 20th century, it became another word for ‘whining’, ‘complaining’ or ‘nagging’ and united with other words to form some colourful new expressions: zeikfilm (a not a very good movie), zeikwijf (an annoying female), zeiksnor (an annoying male and/or a drooping moustache), and— developed to swiftly finish an unwanted conversation—Leg niet te zeiken!.

‘So complaining has nothing to do with the national or local character, but rather with the social organisation of attention. If you create a framework for complaints, you can be sure people will make use of it.’ for specific information requests. Itz: ‘De Baarsjes was somewhat disappointed that we couldn’t meet our target of answering eighty per cent of the first line questions correctly. But that they reinstalled their own phone numbers doesn’t harm the [Antwoord] project.’

Attitude On another floor of the big maze that makes up the Stopera, about 15 call centre agents are sitting together in little isles of four desks each. A moving message board

indicates how many people are waiting to be served, and for how long. Shehera Elburg (40) says she has been working here since 2005, when, in the pilot phase of Antwoord, she started picking up calls for the tax authorities. Before that, she worked for Tele2, in a telemarketing job. ‘I like this better,’ she says. ‘I’m not bothering anybody. Instead, I am in a position to help people.’

Elburg confirms that she doesn’t meet a lot of aggression. ‘It happens sometimes, mainly when the call is about Stad-

Pigeon-related annoyance If you go to the website of stadsdeel Geuzenveld-Slotermeer (www.geuzenveld.amsterdam.nl) and click on ‘Melding over de openbare ruimte?’ [‘Report a public space incident’], an intriguing page opens up. It’s a Google Map of the neighbourhood with a number of red balloons hanging over it. All balloons sport the letter ‘M’ and clicking on it results in a pop-up with information like: ‘Date report: 12 September 2007. Location: Leendert Valstarhof-secret. Illustration: some women in the neighbourhood regularly feed birds. This has caused enormous pigeon-related annoyance. Can somebody go talk with these people? Status: allotted to caretaker.’

Twenty-four hours a day, the citizens of Geuzenveld-Slotermeer can fill in a web form with complaints related to public space. Alternatively, they can call 14 020.

Either way, their report, after having been validated, will show up on the neighbourhood map. The system, which has been in place since the beginning of this year, serves two purposes, according to Pieter Neuvel, project leader public services, Sitting in the stadsdeelkantoor on Plein 40-45, he says: ‘For citizens, it’s efficient.

Before reporting an incident, they can check on the web if the same thing has been reported already, so they can save themselves the trouble. Moreover, they can follow what’s being done about it.’

The stadsdeel receives 400 reports every month. Littering and road maintenance are in the top three. Many people report anonymously, says Neuvel. ‘People tend to not complain openly about a car wreck in front of their house.’ The stadsdeel starts working on 80 per cent of the reported incidents within two days. Neuvel: ‘Most issues are solved, but sometimes it takes some time. A bicycle wreck first gets a sticker, warning the owner he has two weeks to remove it.’ The different neighbourhoods of Geuzenveld-Slotermeer show different complaint statistics.

Not surprisingly, the poorer neighbourhoods generate more complaints.

Neuvel doesn’t think Amsterdammers are worse whiners than other Dutch are.

‘I am from West-Friesland. People there complain just the same. Some people are never satisfied, while at the same time people who are satisfied don’t speak up.

If one person calls 14 020 and he has to wait too long, that will be the image that sinks in. But you usually won’t hear from those one-hundred people who were served in time.’

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Echo’s uit de Steppen, Thursday, Tropentheater

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FRIDAY16 NOVEMBER

World/Pop: Beirut

Rock/Dance: Klaxons

‘If it ain’t Balkan, it’s broken’ feels like a fitting motto for Amsterdam anno 2007. The Gogol Bordello circus show burst out of sweaty clubs, Balkan beats rocked the dance scene over and over, and bands from both East and West—from Bosnia’s Goran Bregovi´c to America’s DeVotchKa—arrived in town with their own take on Eastern Europe. Still, none have taken to the hearts of the Western indie rock scene quite like Beirut, the bedroom project turned indie orkestar of 21-year-old Zach Condon, originally of New Mexico. Since the mainstream release of his debut Gulag Orkestar in 2006, he’s had much written about him, often split between his keen ability to bastardise the Balkan sound and his true understanding of the music and its history.

Whichever side you fall on, more and more numbers are being charmed by his vibrant mix of ukelele, horns and driving percussion. What’s more, his recent album The Flying Club Cup’s Francophile approach breathes new life into a musical template that could so easily have dried up after one outing. (Steven McCarron) Paradiso, Grote Zaal, 19.30, €15 + membership.

The Klaxons have done pretty well this year. Their album Myths of the Near Future won the Mercury Prize and hit number two in the UK album charts. They invented a fun new music genre—‘New Rave’—and naturally, were hailed as the next big thing by NME. Of course, glow sticks and neon jumpers will not disguise the fact that the Klaxons are an indie pop band, nothing more and nothing less. But they’re one of the more interesting ones. Because—and this is way more important than glow sticks and neon jumpers—they’ve got tunes, and they’ve got a sense of humour. On stage, they don’t do much apart from standing around. Fortunately, those who got a ticket in time shall compensate this lack of action by creating a fuss in front of it. This can be accomplished by trying to sing along to siren sounds, which is major fun. And if you insist, you may also bring those glow sticks. (Sarah Gehrke) Paradiso, Grote Zaal, 19.30, sold out.

Festival: Echo’s uit de Steppen

Those who say that Amsterdam, when it comes to gay life, has been surpassed by cities like Berlin and Barcelona should think again. Or better: dance. Well at least for this weekend, as the Rapido team will paint the town red (or better: pink) with almost non-stop parties. Those who’ve been to a Rapido party before know what to expect: a sexy shirtless extravaganza with an international up-for-it crowd, the best global DJs and a hot hedonistic atmosphere. It all starts on Friday with Insatiable at Club Escape.

This is followed by an After Steam Party at Thermos Day Sauna. On Saturday glam & lust, queer, straight & bi will come together at Warehouse at Post CS’s BG, where you can indulge in champagne and oysters and dance to tunes from DJ Glaucio Duarte and Paul Heron. On Sunday, it’s the well-known Rapido at Paradiso, where sounds from NY DJ Tony Moran will lift you—and your arms—up. Those who don’t want to go to bed— or whose pills are still working—of course head to the special After Rapido Party at Exit. See www.clubrapido.com for all the details. (Willem de Blaauw) Various locations and times, €15-€33.25 per night, €80 weekend pass. Until Sunday.

This little mini fest dedicated to the culture of the Central Asian nomads began yesterday—or today, if you picked up this paper early—with a night about contemporary Tuvan shamanism and featured the otherworldly throat singing of Sainko and Gendos.

But tonight, it’s more about throat encyclopaedias who use epic songs to transmit endless history, facts and myths. Almas Almatov, who hails from Kazakhstan, is one such encyclopaedia and bellows out endless facts and myths about his people while accompanying himself on a two-stringed lute. Meanwhile, Urkash Mambetaliev, from Kyrgyzstan, can sing much of the epic Manas which is 30 times as long as Homer’s Illiad. (A film will also be screened this evening about the last man who could actually sing the whole freaking epic.) Meanwhile Jusup Aisaev is almost more a savant of instruments then stories: he practically juggles a variety of instruments while still maintaining a zippy melody line. Friday features a similarly compelling programme…

See it to believe it. (Steve Korver) Tropentheater, Grote Zaal, 20.30, €13. Until Friday.

Jazz: James Carter and De Nazaten Today’s cultural advice: if you know someone who plays the saxophone, do not take him to see James Carter. This Detroit-born 38-year-old pretty much defines the highpoint of postmodern jazz virtuosity, skittling through styles, tropes and techniques with quicksilver and humbling über-mastery. Last time in town, fronting a trio, he boggled the Bim audience all by himself. Tonight, he’s joining Holland’s De Nazaten—a polyglot ensemble specializing in the sounds of Suriname—whose eight members include three saxophonists. The rhythms will churn, the blowing is fierce, and it’ll be fascinating to see the unstoppable Carter fit himself into this context. Just remember to bring crying towels for the other reedmen on stage. (Steve Schneider) Bimhuis, 21.00, €16.

Gay: Rapido Weekender

SATURDAY17 NOVEMBER Burlesque: Tease-a-Go-Go One of those few times I ever went to a strip club was, um, years ago. I had joined two old guys for lunch who were reuniting after 40 years and had worked together as teenage errand boys at this very spot when it was still a burlesque club. Since the soup had a suspiciously swampy aftertaste and the stripper on stage was doing some lacklustre work with a pole to the sounds of Bon Jovi, I decided to focus on the conversation. One of the gentleman was complaining and the other nodding: ‘Goddammit what’s happening to the world? “Strip club” says it all and shows how low

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we’ve sunken. Back in the ol’ days when it was burlesque, it was different. It was special. The girls would… the girls would…’ He started to splutter in frustration so his friend finished for him: ‘The girls would come out in bubbles.’ They both nodded: ‘Yep, the girls would come out in bubbles.’ Anyway, while the new Burlesque night at the Comedy Theater does not yet feature a bubble act, it does have ponies. And laughs.

And grinding ’60s tunes. And knowing winks. So yep, it’s even sexy. Only the MC has people complaining, but hey, that just also adds to the total atmosphere. (Steve Korver) Comedy Theater, 22.30 (show time at 24.00), €10.

Art: Of Two Minds, Simultaneously ‘Hallucinations from a Viagra overdose’—that’s how American artist Richard Hawkins describes some of his recent paintings of bar scenes taken from the South East Asian sex industry. Aside from nauseatingly confrontational images, Hawkins also produces unaffectedly utopian series of art works. His ongoing collage project Urban Paganis imagines a society under Pagan rule, where the diversity of gender and sexuality is celebrated. The work of the 1961-born artist is challenging conceptually as well as visually. Aside from his vividly coloured paintings and collages, Hawkins creates 3D objects and sculptures like his recent series where he turned dolls’ houses into brothels. This is the first retrospective of Hawkins’ work in Europe, and features around 90 works. (Marinus de Ruiter) De Appel, Tues-Sun 11.00-18.00, €4. Until 3 February.

SUNDAY18 NOVEMBER Books: Crossing Border While this ‘literary festival that rocks’—featuring musicians reading and writers rocking and all stages in between—does not really build up into a frenzy until the weekend, it’s good to know about it now since it tends to sell out fast. Tonight and Monday present Fever, a collaboration with the Holland Dance Festival that has choreographer/dancer Nigel Charnock interpreting Shakespeare’s sonnets. On Thursday, things get a bit more varied with the likes of Akron/Family, Anja Gararek, Dan Geesin, Richard Hell, Warhol collaborator Gerard Malanga and Spinvis. Friday features A.F. TH., Wim de Bie, Hugh Cornwell (The Stranglers), Jason Molina, Okkervil River, The New Pornographers and The Scottish Night with Alaisdair Gray, Norman Blake (Teenage Fanclub), Malcolm Middleton (Arab Strap) and Mike Heron (Incredible String Band). And on Saturday, things just get crazy with Salman Rushdie, Andrew Bird, Andre Brink, Vic Chesnutt and Band, Chuck Palahniuk, Patti Smith and Saul Williams. Best advice? Go to www.crossingborder.nl for the full scoop. (Steve Korver) Various locations, times and prices, Den Haag. Until 24 November.

MONDAY19 NOVEMBER Experimental: KTL/Ultralyd Stephen O’Malley, leader of drone metal behemoth Sunn0))), and Peter Rehberg, electronic noise kingpin Pita, are KTL, a project started to provide music for a theater piece by Gisele Vienne and Dennis Cooper, but with three albums in less than two years, it’s taken on a life of its own. The billowing, droning sounds don’t extend far from the pair’s regular work, with hugely amplified string-based vibrations blown up into symphonic proportions, reveling in the hypnotic detail of hovering overtones.

Norway’s Ultralyd have radically reconfigured their music since saxophonist Kjetil Møster replaced founding member Frode Gjerstad a couple of years ago. On the superb new Conditions for a Piece of Music (Rune Grammofon) the chaotic squalling of yore is replaced by heavily composed investigations of noise versus rhythm. Møster and guitarist Anders Hana create elaborate shapes and colors that engage in careful choreography above the lean grooves and rhythmic cells of drummer Morten J Olsen and bassist Kjetil D Bransdal. (Peter Margasak) OT301, 21.30, €5.

WEDNESDAY 21NOVEMBER Contemporary Music: Calefax Pan Festival It’s a little tough imagining Arnold Schoenberg on MySpace, but this grand evening of musical discovery makes such imponderables slightly less so. For the fourth year running, the Calefax Reed Quintet—stalwart champions of new sounds and newer forms—is hosting a one-evening set-together for composers, performers and audiences who want to snuggle up. The musicians will perform what they’re currently working on, with brief interviews before each piece to delve into the what’s and the why’s. Throughout the evening, both the bar and the door to the bar will remain open, with listeners invited to come and go as they please. With nine soloists and groups on the bill—including violinist Liza Ferschtman, ‘art-rockers’ Copark and the Amstel Saxophone Quartet—this aptly-named ‘Pan Festival’ is both an introduction to some vital creation and a model for informal, accessible music-making. Highest praise: Schoenberg would have hated it. (Steve Schneider) Muziekgebouw, Grote Zaal, 20.30, €10.

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Fanfare Ciocarlia, see Saturday

MUSIC Send listing suggestions at least two weeks in advance to agenda@amsterdamweekly.nl.

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Thursday 15 November Pop/Rock: Emergenza International battle-of-thebands contest. Winston Kingdom, 19.00, €10 World: Beirut, The Twilight Sad My bloody Balkans. See Short List. Paradiso, Grote Zaal, 19.30, €15 + membership Folk: Sabrina Dinan & Albert Niland Two Irish folkies team up. They’ll each play a solo set before teaming up for some collaborative fun. Paradiso, Kleine Zaal, 20.00, €7.50 + membership Singer-songwriter: Sinéad O’Connor Her musical career may have been sidestepped in recent years, making way for weird headline grabbing stories about priesthood, sexuality, and, of course, reggae, so it really is easy to forget that this Irish chanteuse still has a voice—particularly after she officially retired. But here she is anyway, promoting recent album Theology in a rather low-key manner.

What’s more, she’s even been revisiting her biggest hits on this tour. Melkweg, The Max, 20.00, €35 + membership

Jazz: De Nazaten & James Carter A collaboration between the acclaimed American sax player and celebratory Dutch-Suriname outfit De Nazaten. See Short List. Bimhuis, 21.00, €16 Pop/Rock: edibleRed New York power rock fronted by femme fatale Collette McLafferty. Skek, 21.00, free Heavy: JesusMartyr Brutally diverse South American metal. Support from Cathode and Hysteria. Stubnitz, 21.00, €5 Pop/Rock: Subbacultcha! With the female-fronted indie pop of New Zealanders The Brunettes (signed to Sub Pop) and support from Go Back to the Zoo and Rahim (US). Studio K, 21.00, €7 Folk: Great Lake Swimmers Gentle Canadian indie folk. Since first venturing to Amsterdam a couple of years back, the melodic low-key outfit have earned a steady Dutch following, while their tunes remain as pretty, if melancholic, as ever. Paradiso, Kleine Zaal, 22.00, €6 + membership

Friday 16 November Pop/Rock: Bodog Music Battle of the Bands International music contest, with the winner getting a recording contract. Surely the first time such an innovative concept has arrived in Amsterdam. Welcome to the future, kids. 1988 is gonna be an exciting time to be in a band. Melkweg, Oude Zaal, 18.00, €10 Pop/Rock: Emergenza (See Thursday) Winston Kingdom, 19.00, €10

Classical: Nederlands Saxofoon Kwartet Presenting a new CD full of sassy sax.

Bethaniënklooster, 20.15, €15 Big band: New Cool Collective A ‘Jazz & Poetry’ big band special with guest Jules Deelder. Meervaart, 20.15, €20 Experimental: POWSaune With the electro-power of the POW Ensemble, three virtuoso trombone players morph with the seedy world of electronics, computers and MIDI controllers. STEIM, 20.30, €5 Pop/Rock: Club Rock ’n’ Roll Highschool Sets from Airbag and Hijos de Mayo. Bitterzoet, 21.00, €5

Klaxons Electro rock: Klaxons Twenty-first century rave? See Short List. Paradiso, Grote Zaal, 19.30, sold out

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Singer-songwriter Manecas Costa moved from Guinea-Bissau to Portugal to keep the gumbe beat going.

PARTYING WITHOUT ELECTRICITY MUSIC Manecas Costa at Amsterdam World Saturday 17 November, Muziekgebouw aan ’t IJ, 16.00-02.00, €28.50

By Peter Bartlema

‘I’m African and that’s how I feel,’ Manecas Costa says. It’s a grey and cold Sunday morning. Costa and his band, visiting the Low Countries for a series of concerts, have taken up residence in a hotel on the not so swanky outskirts of Amsterdam.

‘But,’ he goes on, ‘I’ve also formed a spiritual bond with Portugal. It’s where my children were born and my parents have died, and it’s my country of residence.’

He settled there almost two decades ago. When asked if he has any feelings of resentment towards a country that in the mid 1400s began to exert control over his birth region—then part of the Mali Empire—only to pull out in 1974 as one of the last, and particularly oppressive, European colonial regimes in Africa, Costa’s answer is negative: ‘I was very young at the time, so I don’t have first-hand experience.

My parents educated me on the subject.

They have never taught me to hate.’

Instead, they stimulated his musical activities by giving him a guitar. Having taught himself songs from the radio, Manecas, at the tender age of nine, started the band Africa-Livre, with his brother Nelson, to become a local star by his mid-teens.

In 1987, when he turned 20, UNICEF made him Goodwill Ambassador, in recognition of his songs expressing concern for

Guinea-Bissau’s social and political problems. He travelled around, campaigning for child healthcare, and made appearances in countries as far flung as Angola, Italy and North Korea. With his star continuing to rise, his parents urged him to go to Portugal as Guinea-Bissau lacked almost all infrastructures for a successful career in music.

It’s something Manecas says was mainly due to the ruinous effects of the civil strife his country has suffered over the years. ‘Guinea-Bissau is very poor. So, because music is not considered a priority, there are no studios. And due to lack of resources, hardly any instruments were available. Even guitar strings were difficult to get hold of.’ Besides, the country is reputed for rulers who don’t like to be criticised or made fun of by free-thinking musicians.

That certainly was the case in neighbouring Guinea where President Sékou Touré ruled even more fiercely, but with a difference. Costa: ‘Guinea-Conakry had a lot of influence on our society as Sekou Toure supported culture very strongly. Our rulers had a different attitude. They couldn’t imagine culture as a reflection of society and considered it just entertainment. So a lot of talented people never got the backing they needed.’

Since his move to Portugal, Manecas himself has been a strong supporter of the country’s African community: ‘As a producer and a session musician, I’ve formed bonds with many people. My projects convinced them of my good intentions and so I made sure that people from all Por-

‘They never taught me to hate.’

tuguese-speaking African countries got together to exchange ideas and experiences.’

Having worked with Lusophone artists like Césaria Évora, Bonga, Sara Tavares and Waldemar Bastos, Costa stresses the importance of good interaction between countries sharing a common cultural element such as language. ‘For me, it was the most important event of the year,’ he points to a collaboration in 1999 with popular singer-songwriter Luis Represas, addressing in Portuguese and Kriol, the Portuguese-based creole language of Guinea-Bissau, his native country’s hardships.

‘Because of the video people started to recognize me in the street and my song “Ermons Di Terra” got a lot of airplay on Portuguese radio.’

The heart-rending autobiographical song of the struggles of an African musician far from home also got the attention of BBC Radio 3 world music presenter Lucy Duran who sought out Costa and arranged for him to record his songs in a makeshift studio—with engineer Jerry Boys of Buena Vista fame—in a seaside nightclub in Guinea-Bissau. It resulted in Paraiso di Gumbe, only his third album to date. ‘“Gumbe” stands for joy and merrymaking’, he says of the predominantly local rhythm which has roots in Caribbean slave culture and is played on a calabash water drum, a gourd placed in a tub of water. ‘The water drum functions as a bass. It’s an instrument with a very warm sound. When it’s being played, that’s an invitation to dance. You can sit down, but you will feel the sounds through your whole body. It’s one of the beautiful things Guinea-Bissau has to offer, but unfortunately, it’s still rather unknown outside the country. However, I do believe in gumbe.

Guinea-Bissau always has had energy problems, but since the water drum doesn’t use electricity, it’s a very good instrument to get a party going. Even by candlelight.’

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World: Sara Tavares Sultry and smooth soul grooves from the Portuguese/Cape Verdean singing sensation who’s enjoyed a massive international breakthrough with her album Balancê. Meervaart, 20.15, €20 Classical: Venice Baroque Orchestra Get your Baroque on, with help from mezzo-soprano Magdalena Kozená and harpsichordist Andrea Marcon.

Concertgebouw, Grote Zaal, 20.15, €39.50/€46.50 World: Zap Mama Afro-European crossover with a hint of Asian and Australasian vibes thrown in for good measure. The source? Belgium’s own Marie Daulne. Paradiso, Grote Zaal, 20.30, €17.50 + membership

Saturday 17 November Classical: De Nederlandse Bachvereniging With the first Dutch performance of Gebel’s JohannesPassion. Concertgebouw, Grote Zaal, 14.15, €29.50/€35 World: Amsterdam World & Beyond Opening performance of this new global festival, with the first edition providing a particularly Portugese diaspora.

Today’s programme features Zuco 103, Daby Touré, Neco Novellas, Manecas Costa and GMB. See www.amsterdamworld.nl and article on p. 11.

Muziekgebouw, 16.00, €28.50 Pop/Rock: Bodog Music Battle of the Bands (See Friday) Melkweg, Oude Zaal, 18.00, €10 Pop/Rock: Emergenza (See Thursday) Winston Kingdom, 19.00, €10 Reggae: Alpha Blondy Regarded as the High Priest of African reggae, this star from the Ivory Coast is renowned internationally, both for his music and his humanitarian work. Support from Osagyefo (Ghana).

Melkweg, The Max, 20.00, €32.50 + membership Americana: Fred Eaglesmith Accomplished Canadian alt-country star with more than 27 years of storytelling under his belt. Paradiso, Kleine Zaal, 20.00, €15 + membership Classical: Kamerorkest Pulcinella Performing Sibelius’ Third and popular works by Tchaikovsky and Bartók. Keizersgrachtkerk, 20.15, €12

Hiphop: DuvelDuvel Returning a few months back with their surprisingly smooth new CD Puur Kultuur, the Rotterdam hiphoppers are finally venturing back into Noord-Holland. Patronaat, Haarlem, 21.00, €15

Rock: 2xLive With Japanese psychedelic rock gods Marble Sheep and the boozy punk riffage of Berlin’s Drive By Shooting. Stubnitz, 21.00

Rock: Asobi Seksu Upbeat pop meets fuzzed-up shoegaze noise in this NY band fronted by Yuki Chikudate. Paradiso, Kleine Zaal, 22.00, €6 + membership

Opera: La Bohème (See Sunday) Carré, 20.00, €15-€49 Singer-songwriter: Mary Black Irish songstress.

RAI, 20.15, €28-€34

Classical: Philips Symphony Orchestra & Choir Bringing you LCD TVs, light bulbs and now Brahms’ Schicksalslied and Mahler’s Resurrection Symphony. Concertgebouw, Grote Zaal, 14.30, €17 Opera: La Bohème Get Puccini’d by the Romanian State Opera. Carré, 16.00, €15-€49 World: Izaline Calister Afro-Caribbean grooves with a jazzy influence from the dazzling Curaçaoborn vocalist. Kleine Komedie, 20.15, €11-€15

Rock: Gravenhurst Electro acoustic folk and rock experimentalism from Nick Talbot and his Bristol band. Paradiso, Kleine Zaal, 23.15, €6 + membership

Wednesday 21 November Classical: Lunch Concert Performance by the Nederlands Kamerkoor. Concertgebouw, Grote Zaal, 12.30, free Fado: Cristina Branco The return of the Portuguese fado star, this time, in an ode to singer and writer José Afonso. Paradiso, Grote Zaal, 19.45, €20 + membership

Contemporary: Calefax Reed Quintet PAN minifestival. See Short List. Muziekgebouw, 20.30, €10

Soul: The Soul Prophets Unsurprisingly, a blistering bunch of funk and soul specialists. Maloe Melo, 22.00, €5

Sunday 18 November

Rock: moe. (See Monday) Melkweg, The Max, 22.00, €26 + membership

Contemporary: Ives Ensemble Works by Christopher Fox Straight, Laurence Crane, Geoffrey Hannan, Bruce Nauman, Aldo Clementi, Gerald Barry and Tom Johnson. Felix Meritis, 20.15, €20.50

Jazz: Robin Nolan Gypsy Jazz guitar whiz channels the ghost of Django Reinhardt. De Perron, 21.00, €10

World: Orientation Funky seven-piece Turkish-German ensemble from Berlin. Paradiso, Kleine Zaal, 23.30, €11 + membership

Folk: Hudaki A Ukranian ensemble who perform traditional songs from the Ukrainian Carpathians, telling stories of love and treason, friendship and war. Badcuyp, Zuidpool, 22.00, €8

Classical: Beaux Arts Trio The highly regarded piano trio tackle works by Mendelssohn and Beethoven. Concertgebouw, Kleine Zaal, 20.15, €36.50

Big band: Jargon Blending a grand string section with electric guitars and computers, this elastic ensemble have certainly brought a new twist to the jazz field. Fronted by violist Maurice Horsthuis. Badcuyp, Noordpool, 21.00, €14

World: Fanfare Ciocarlia A late-night world dance party, with the vibrant ensemble taking their Romanian gypsy brass-band tradition to the world, celebrating Romanian dances and exotic rhythms from Turkey, Bulgaria and Macedonia. Paradiso, Grote Zaal, 23.30, €12.50 + membership

Pop: Rufus Wainwright Lush and grandeur theatrical pop from the emotive Canadian star. His fifth album Release the Stars was released in spring and has been forming the core of his shows since, so be sure to swat up on it. Heineken Music Hall, 20.00, €35-€39 Classical: Schönberg Ensemble Works by Boulez, Andriessen, Vivier and Schönberg. Concertgebouw, Kleine Zaal, 20.15, €24.50

Hiphop: Kanye West Commercial hiphop with a rare touch of class and the backing of a 16-piece band. And what’s not to love about the way he ended 50 Cent’s music career following their outspoken chart battle earlier in the year? Support from the also-mighty Common. Heineken Music Hall, 20.00, €37.50 DuvelDuvel

appearing on TV shows and adverts. Paradiso, Grote Zaal, 19.30, €20 + membership

Opera: The Erien Premiere of the Haiku opera by Cees Hiep. With Cornish narration from Donald Rawe and accompanying paintings by David Holmes. Bethaniënklooster, 20.30, €15

Monday 19 November

Singer-songwriter: Eva Ellingworth, Jerry Spurlock ‘tBlijvertje, 21.00, free

Rock: Prof Nomad goes Tom Waits The select group of Amsterdam musos attempt to tackle the Bourbon-soaked voice of the American star. Cafe Pakhuis Wilhelmina, 22.00, €7.50

Latin/Jazz: Choramundo Launching their new CD. Muiderpoorttheater, 20.30, €9

Heavy: The Real Amsterdam Underground Punk and hate from Cross Stitched Eyes (UK), Drain the Sky (US), and Staathaat. OCCII, 21.00, €5

Pop/Rock: Café Fantasio Sets from Barbara Breedijk, Lisa Richards and Furistic. Fantasio (Nationaal Pop Instituut), 21.00, €7

Hiphop: Last Man Standing 16 MCs in a freestyle battle. OneFourOne, 21.30, €4

Singer-songwriter: Audrey Ryan, Jelle Paulusma KHL Koffiehuis, 20.30, €6

Jazz: Fred Hersch Trio Contemporary American jazz pianist, backed by bassist John Hebert and drummer Nasheet Waits. Bimhuis, 21.00, €16

Electronica: Dejligt Indie electro pop with a dash of stadium rock. Not so many Italian bands head this way, but they’re also bringing their more guitar-lovin’ peers, Flap, in support. De Nieuwe Anita, 20.30, €6

Jazz: Mona Lisa Overdrive Named after a cyberpunk novel by William Gibson, this is the new band of bassist Stefan Lievestro and guitarist Jesse van Ruller, providing a steaming mixture of various musical impressions: from jazz to bluegrass, from grunge to classical. Bimhuis, 21.00, €14

Classical: UvA-Orkest J. Pzn Sweelinck Works by Brahms and Mendelssohn. Concertgebouw, Grote Zaal, 20.15, €27.50

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Funk: Hipdrop Live session featuring members of Cmon & Kypski, Zuco 103 and Lefties Soul Connection. Afterwards, it’s the turn of DJs Broky B and Alviz. Bitterzoet, 21.00, €5 Reggae: Jam Session Volta, 21.00, free Pointer Sisters Pop: Pointer Sisters We’re so excited, and we just can’t hide it. Can you? Paradiso, Grote Zaal, 20.30, €27.50 + membership Experimental: DNK-Amsterdam With sets from KTL and Ultralyd. See Short List. OT301, 21.30, €5 Rock: moe. A staple for years on the American festival scene, where they’re revered for their three-hour performances, these shows mark their European debut. Melkweg, The Max, 22.00, €26 + membership

Tuesday 20 November Folk: José González Swedish indie folk singersongwriter who’s certainly been aided by his music

Hiphop: Redman Renowned New Jersey rapper, occasional actor and lover of the weed. As such, this trip to town is no coincidence, and neither is the hemp fashion show that’s part of the package. Melkweg, The Max, 21.00, €20 + membership World: The Cockroach with the Golden Hair The best of the Amsterdam world music underground.

Winston Kingdom, 21.00, €5 Jazz: Vincent Herring & Earth Jazz Agents A hard bop and post bop specialist, sax player Herring performs tonight with pianist Anthony Wonsey, bassist Richie Goods and Joris Dudli, in what’s sure to be an explosively energetic affair. Bimhuis, 21.00, €16 Rock: Minus the Bear Experimental and quirky indie rock from Seattle. Support from Brit duo I Was A Cubscout. Paradiso, Kleine Zaal, 22.00, €8 + membership

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20-28 November 2007 Escape Studio, 2nd floor Escape, Rembrandtplein

At the Shadow Festival documentary meets the magic of cinema. We are saying this for the eighth year. So what is the magic? Images, and sound that allow you to undergo a story. And what about the story? It makes you wonder. There are never really enough facts told, no chance for you to form an honest opinion. Was the camera really an observer or, at some point, did the filmmaker become part of the story?

Our critical selection from Europe, Asia and America, ranges from 30 seconds to two hours in length, made by both teenaged and experienced directors. A visit to the festival will reveal a particularly intimate atmosphere that encourages dialogue between public and filmmaker. In addition to the programming, afternoon lectures by individual filmmakers accent specific creative aspects of the genre.

The Shadow Festival, now in its eighth year, is an activity of the Shadow Foundation which aims to accent original documentary cinema in the Netherlands.

Scenes from a wild boar hunt: No shooting, no blood, but many playful riddles to be solved.

Tuesday 27 November 13.30

Stefan Majakowski, festival director

Films at Shadow Festival 2007 (www.shadowfestival.nl) All Filmmakers will be present for discussion after the screening. All films are subtitled in English.

30 seconds Switzerland (30 sekunden Schweiz) Chris Niemeyer, Switzerland, 42 sec.

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seconds in Switzerland added up; it's simple math!

360° Eva Jiricka, Czech Republic, 7 min.

Thursday 22 November 16:00

Tourists, a bus, and a flowerbed

collaborate to create fine choreography thanks to the watchful and sensitive eye of the artist and her camera.

Balkan champion Réka Kincses, Romania 84 min.

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alkan champion, winner of the documentary prize at the 2007 Hungarian FilmWeek, is Réka Kincses’ attempt to understand a Transylvanian Don Quixote - who just happens to be her father. The political choices Kincses' father makes and their repercussions on his family reveal the palpable tensions between the personal and the political, not to mention the deep contradictions of modern-day Romania, the newest member of the European Union. The film’s most revealing moments seem to take place around the kitchen table, as one is treated to a perfect mixture of political documentary and home movie.

three women in the Italian mountain village Sappada is above all an example of stunning black and white cinematography. Protagonist Giuliana returns to her home town, taking up work in her parents’ Bellavista Hotel.

More than an exposé of a secretive life, the film uniquely relates the uncanny claustrophobia of Alpine life. Against the sound of the dying Plodar dialect and its aging speakers, Giuliana’s perceptions reveal how a language is as much a home as the landscape and hotel are.

The Block (Das Block) Stefan Kolbe & Chris Wright, Germany, 75 min.

Sunday 25 November 21:00

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small town, somewhere in eastern Germany – Gräfenhainichen. A street in the town – Poetenweg.

Eighty-five identical one-room flats.

Four doors open to us; inside are two women and two men. Four generations. Germany is portrayed as the new European melting pot, a crossroads between East and West. The Block doesn’t observe, but creates – extreme characters, emotions, paranoia. Fellini meets the world of German Expressionism. The film’s mixing of genres, from outspoken drama to cool reflection, draws modern documentary into the realm of world cinema.

Boys (Malchiki) Valeria Gui Germanica, Russia, 36 min.

Wednesday 28 November 19:00

Bellavista Peter Schreiner, Austria 117 min.

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wo brothers of nine and eleven years old embark on a curious journey in this compact road movie. Their parents are so fed up they decide to

ship them off to a children’s hostel.

We visit the boys’ Gypsy cousins who hope to convert to Judaism as their mother stays home and tends affectionately to her pet rat. This world surely surpasses fiction. As Russia is discovering the advantages of digital video and direct cinema, we are treated to extreme intimacy within the family circle.

Brother?

Jean-Marc Superville Sovak, USA/Canada, 8 min.

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hink of what it’s like being brown. Not quite black, and definitely not white – a murky middle ground of misunderstanding where you’re not really sure where you belong. Do you ever get a sense of genetic déjà-vu?

Brother? is a candid video collage dedicated to all the “brothers from other mothers” in search of their true selves.

But I still haven’t figured out the meaning of life (Aber den Sinn des Lebens hab' ich Immer noch nicht rausgefunden) Jan Peters, Germany, 52 min.

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he Jan Peters sampler: Every year on his birthday, Peters filmed one reel of Super-8 material; later on he turned to video. In these few minutes of film he reveals something from and about himself. Maybe it’s exhibitionism, the way he chatters on enthusiastic, sometimes tired, often doubtful - until the blotches on the film indicate the end of the reel. On top of this, Peters the filmmaker blurs

the individual of the same name with his dense texts and images, creating something quite different: Jan Peters the fictional character.

But still (Doch) Erwin Michelberger & Oleg Tcherny, Germany, 79 min.

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n a forest landscape flooded with light, three men and three women meet for a picnic. All suffer from socalled tics caused by Tourette’s syndrome. They live a normal life, have families and jobs, but their illness requires a maximum of sensitivity, self-control and self-reflection. But still brings the truthfulness and hidden beauty of their automatic expressions to the surface and shows the thin boundary between "normal" and "abnormal". The film itself is a tic, a compulsion towards precision on the one hand and explosion on the other.

Cabal in Kabul (Cabale à Kaboul) Dan Alexe, Belgium, 87 min.

Wednesday 21 November 20:00

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nce upon a time there were Zabulon and Isaac, the two last remaining Jews of Afghanistan. For more than ten years they shared the courtyard of the old synagogue in Kabul, with an incomparable hatred for each other.

On the ground-floor, old Isaac scrapes out a living by selling cabalistic amulets to his Muslim neighbours.

Upstairs, enthroned on his balcony, Zabulon haggles with the same Afghans over his illegally produced wine. To make the film, the director

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had to become part of this unreal parable, laced with sarcasm and irony.

Communion (Armulaud) Jaan Toomik, Estonia, 12 min.

Sunday 25 November 19:00

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Karl Kels explains his stunning 35mm filmwork that he develops himself

Tuesday 27 November 13.30

he story of a relationship, the woman’s desperate attempts to get pregnant and the man's fear of commitment. The cyclic nature of the movie, which uses no dialogue, occasionally take us from the main narrative to the atmosphere of Toomik's earlier video installations.

The film’s painterly imagery could only have been conceived by an adventurer, an artist not adhering to known genres. The film is an ode to the power of the image.

Defense of time (Verteidigung der Zeit) Peter Nestler, Germany, 25 min.

Thursday 22 November 16:00

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Cabal in Kabul: How can the last two Jews in Afghanistan possibly ignore each other?

Wednesday 21 November 20.00 & Friday 23 November 21.00

efense of time was conceived as an introduction to the last film that Danièle Huillet (who passed away in 2006) and Jean Marie Straub wrote and directed together, Quei loro incontri. Peter Nestler, a close friend of Struab and Huillet’s, puts their work into an artistic and biographical context. Conversations with the filmmakers are complemented by photographs and extracts – among them an earlier Pavese adaptation by Straub and Huillet, Dalla nube alle resistenza.

Holidays (Kanikuli) Marina Razbezhkina, Russia, 52 min.

Saturday 24 November 16:00

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he ‘Mansi’ children at the boarding school in the small Russian town of Ivdel are waiting impatiently for the winter break. The State has modernized these people, forced the kids into city schools. Still, both the children and adults are strong and cheerful in this stunning portrait of a people able to endure the extremes of nature. After driving all night and finally reaching home, there will be endless games to be played in the snow and stories to be told under the light of the kerosene lamp. Will they really want to return to ‘civilization’?

Homeless me James Newton, United Kingdom, 27 min.

Friday 23 November 16:00 Wednesday 28 November 21:00

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ade as a graduation film, Homeless me chronicles the intriguing relationship between the director, a British citizen living in Tokyo for some years, and Akira, a homeless Japanese man living by the banks of the river in Tokyo. The film has taken up an essential documentary challenge: a real interest in otherness and the courage to contact it and interact.

How I became a freelance tour guide (Wie ich ein freier Reisebegeleider wurde) Jan Peters, Germany, 15 min.

Monday 26 November 19:00

Gala Allan Sekula, USA, 25 min.

Saturday 24 November 21:00

A look at the people who came to

Balkan Champion: Hungarian rhapsodies..... and politics in Romania.

Friday 23 November 19.00 & Monday 26 November 16.00

the opening of Walt Disney Concert Hall, designed by Frank Gehry, in 2003. Who are these people celebrating the new symphony hall, and how comfortable are they in downtown Los Angeles? With the help of precise zooms and concise editing, the film offers us a portrait of a society as it struts and poses in evening attire on the monumental stairway in front of the building. In the end, not everything turns out to be fancy in L.A.

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eters attempts to get practical training with a pensioner in Frankfurt who supplements his meagre pension with freelance tour guiding. Every day, he buys a group ticket for the subway and then takes his customers from the airport to wherever they want to go - for a small fee, of course. With a business card, overalls and some elegant after-shave to induce confidence, there is nothing standing in his way.

A both humorous and painful examination of the final days of the German welfare state.

I am a bomb (Je suis une Bombe)

Kiri Davis, USA, 7 min.

Saturday 24 November 21:00

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Knives of the Wind: Flamenco soul and passion thrives everywhere…even in Japan.

Sunday 25 November 16.00

hrough interviews with her peers and a recreation of Kenneth Clark’s 1940s ‘doll test’, 16 year old Kiri Davis points out that hair and skin colour still matter. One of several films made by participants at ‘The Lab’ in New York, where teenagers learn the craft of documentary filmmaking, this image of America is chillingly universal.

Hare Christmas Jaan Toomik, Estonia, 2 min.

Sunday 25 November 19:00

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Laxmi at the gate: Myth today in modern India

Wednesday 28 November 21.00

n the heart of the old Estonian city of Tallinn stands a huge fir tree; Christmas is in the air. Approaching faintly is the familiar sound of blissful chanting. As the sound grows louder we discover its source: a particular and unexpected choir.

Knives of the wind (Flamenco mi vida) Peter Sempel, Germany, 92 min.

Sunday 25 November 16:00

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lamenco, passion, and life in Andalusia; a big mystical tree with deep roots and many branches. A personal collage filmed over two years all over Andalusia, the film intertwines this story with fascinating sidesteps to Cairo, Istanbul, Japan and Khatak (India). ‘Puro’ and ‘Moderno’, old and young, beginners and masters. In studios and clubs, at festivals, and in the streets and fields. Extreme enthusiasm, devotion and energy, joy and pain.

The Lausitz 20x90 (Die Lausitz 20x90) Bernhard Sallmann, Germany, 34 min.

Monday 26 November 19:00

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he landscapes of the German Lausitz region were once known for the surface mining of brown coal.

How to find lyricism anywhere here?

The filmmaker accepts this challenge in this ode to filmmaker James Benning. The film shows us how essential sound can be to documentary cinema while paradoxically taking us back to the magical era of the silent cinema.

Laxmi at the gate Anal Shah, India/USA, 20 min.

Wednesday 28 November 21:00

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portrait of Ahmedabad, the filmmaker’s hometown in India, the film tells the story of a barely known local legend: in ancient times, Laxmi, the Hindu Goddess of wealth, was trapped at the city’s gates. A series of brief confrontations mixes the mythical and modern aspects of country where time and history take their own unique path. The film goes beyond just observation thanks to its original visual language.

Elodie Pong, Switzerland 6 min.

Sunday 25 November 14:00

A Girl like me

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ean Paul was born and raised in Baloum, a remote and pristine village up in the mountains of Western Cameroon. But something has gone wrong. Everyone knows his story. He is barely alive; the filmmaker decides to approach him to see and hear for himself.

A figure in a panda bear costume

performs an erotic pole dance. A moment later the dancing stops and takes us a step further. An enigmatic short from the maker of Secrets for Sale which premiered at the Shadow Festival 2003.

Jaanika Jaan Toomik, Estonia, 7 min.v

Sunday 25 November 19:00

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omewhere in a house in Estonia the camera does its best to make decay look attractive. The floating images of a once-inhabited apartment fascinate.

We hope to discover who left this curious rubbish strewn about. A young girl’s voice is soothing in its honesty as she relates her desire to help the world. Could she live here?

Jean Paul Francesco Uboldi, Italy, 8 min.

Sunday 25 November 14:00

Man up Arturo Cabanas, USA, 11 min.

Saturday 24 November 21:00

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arents want nothing but the best for their children, sometimes at surprising costs. Man up looks at the difficult relationship between a young wrestling champion and his father, a former Special Forces army ranger.

The film balances the sensibilities of father and son, seemingly without judging.

Maria Victor Asliuk, Belarus, 17 min.

Saturday 24 November 16:00

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n 1974 tractor driver Maria Zharko from Belarus won the All-Union talent competition "Come on, Girls", one of the first prestigious television shows in the Soviet Union. At one point all the Soviet Union knew her. Maria deals with her current life. Soft-spoken and without sentimentality, Asliuk’s composed images allow us to make our own comparisons of the old and new.

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The Mirroring cure Charlotte Ginsborg, United Kingdom, 28 min.

Wednesday 28 November 21:00

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racing the life of a construction site, a company secretary decides to dissect the lives of those employed around her. The prime fascination is with an architect who suffers from vertigo aggravated by the large scale of the site and the bizarre cure he develops to cope with his affliction.

As it details the complexity of personal identities formed through being at work, the film presents in a short time a full palette of characters. Is this a new genre: ‘architectural drama’?

Moszny Róbert Lakatos, Hungary, 40 min.

Sunday 25 November 19:00

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hen construction of the Lakeside housing estate in Cluj (Romania) began in the 1980s, most of the private homes were demolished, the inhabitants evicted. But József Moszny did not move. Instead, he continued to raise his cattle amidst the concrete roads, apartments and city traffic.

Filming the story of this quiet revolution, Moszny becomes a metaphor for the tension between old and new in Eastern Europe.

Wednesday 28 November 19:00

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hen Doran Miller-Rosenberg unexpectedly decided to join the US Marine Corps, his close friends Max Blecker and Efraim Klein filmed his final weeks at home. Made at ‘The Lab’ in New York, Recruit Rosenberg documents his experience joining the armed forces and tries to uncover the reasons behind his drastic decision.

Remote Intimacy Sylvia Schedelbauer, Germany, 15 min.

Friday 23 November 19.00 Monday 26 November 19:00

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montage of metaphorically charged archival footage forms an associative stream of consciousness that revolves around the connection between collective and individual, war and peace, family and autobiography.

The film continues Schedelbauer’s engagement with the repercussions of World War II, the basis for her film previous Memories (Shadow Festival 2004).

Scenes from a wild boar hunt (Scènes de chasse au sangliers) Claudio Pazienza, Belgium/France, 46 min.

Tuesday 27 November 19:00

Nadia, nobody (Nadia, nadie) Nuria Gómez Garrido, Germany, 11 min.

Monday 26 November 21:00

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fter discovering that her husband married a second woman, Nadia decided to start a new life alone, nonetheless staying close to God. To her, her five daughters are better than fifty Arabic men. A woman’s strength and perseverance are abundant in this cinematic jewel.

The Operating theatre (Le théâtre des opérations) Benoît Rossel, France/Switzerland, 86 min.

Tuesday 27 November 16:00

The operating block at a universi-

ty hospital is a strange and foreign world in which we are transient guests. Chronicles of death and human ingenuity, ambition and pettiness, generosity, fear and black humour are written here. The Operating Theatre stages the vital substance of life. Seemingly about the daily training of a young surgeon, the real subject of the film is its author, the young filmmaker Rossel who wants to conquer his fear of hospitals.

The Projection has begun (La proiezione e cominciata) Oleg Tcherny, Belarus/ France 7 min.

Tuesday 27 November 19:00

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ancho Panza enters a movie theatre in a provincial city, looking for Don Quixote. He finds him sitting off to the side, staring at the screen. The Projection has begun is an adaptation of Giorgio Agamben’s essay “The six most beautiful minutes in the history of cinema”, itself a description and analysis of a fragment from Orson Welles’ unfinished film Don Quichote. A portrait in 24 daguerreotypes per second.

Recruit Rosenberg Max Blecker & Efraim Klein, USA, 22 min.

Saturday 24 November 21:00

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wild boar hunt, a taxidermist’s skill and a copy of Etienne-Jules Marey’s chronophotographic gun are the ingredients for an intimate voyage. The real hunt turns out to be one to unravel the mystery behind all sorts of visual imagery (often recalling the paintings of Magritte). Instead of an explanatory essay, the film is an incantation that comes to terms with the death of the filmmaker’s father.

A Short film for Laos Allen Sekula, USA, 45 min.

ties of leisure and labour unfolding along the banks and promenade, Songhua depicts the intimate and complex relationship between city residents and their ‘mother river’.

Beautifully composed tableaus demonstrate the importance of framing over observing.

Speech memory Caroline Key, USA, 23 min.

Thursday 22 November 16:00

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posthumous portrait of the director's grandfather Key Jin Yun, a deaf-mute Korean born during the Japanese occupation of his country, learning only written Japanese and Japanese sign language. Speech memory examines the impact of immigration and cultural assimilation through the details of Key Jin Yun’s life, revealing the shifting complexities of language, national identity, and memory.

airplanes systematically bombed the ‘Plain of Jars’ in northwestern Laos, an area filled with ritualistic ceramic jars. A testimony and a tribute to a brutal series of events, the film tries to confront and reflect upon a war that has not entered our collective memory. Sekula demonstrates his unmistakeable ability to weave wry commentary with his capturing of the otherwise unnoticed human aspects of daily life.

So it goes

Tal Hakim, Israel, 58 min.

Thursday 22 November 19:00

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n the midst of the bloody war between Israel and the Palestinians, Tali Fahima , a young Israeli woman from the town of Kiryat Gat, develops a complex relationship with one of the most wanted Palestinians in the West Bank: Zakaria Zbeidi. Fahima declares she will serve as a human shield for Zbeidi against IDF forces and is arrested by the Israeli Secret Service. Hakim’s film follows Fahima’s legal struggle to prove her innocence and the media frenzy surrounding her trial. Although we never see the filmmaker, the film’s personal touch is present keeping the documentary from pretending to be any kind of ultimate truth on this heated issue.

Tales from the Arctic Circle Roz Mortimer, England, 4 x 3 min.

This young filmmaker’s psycho-

logical examination of his bi-polar father, made at ‘The Lab’, is a project both brave and original. Blecker attempts to gather all the perspectives and experiences within the family, while constantly being aware of his double role as filmmaker and family member.

Songhua J.P. Sniadecki, China/USA, 28 min.

Friday 23 November 16:00

The Songhua River runs through

Harbin in north-eastern China and serves as the city's main water source.

By attending to the everyday activi-

If I am a bomb, what am I doing dancing here?

Sunday 24 November 14.00

Brother?: discover the humorous side of the identity issue.

Thursday 22 November 21.00 & Tuesday 27 November 19.00

Thursday 22 November 21:00 Friday 23 November 16:00 Wednesday 28 November 19:00 These four shorts follow a week at the Toonik Tyme festival in Iqaluit, the Inuit capital. The locals compete in tests of skill: igloo building, ice sculpture, snowmobile racing and a round of golf on a fairway carved from the sea ice. But behind these enchanting images are stories of homelessness, melting ice, colonialism and isolation.

Max Blecker, USA, 14 min.

Saturday 24 November 21:00

Thursday 22 November 19:00

The State of Israel vs. Tali Fahima

Sunday 25 November 14:00

Between 1964 and 1969 American

The State of Israel vs. Tali Fahima: how just wanting to meet a certain Palestinian turns you into public enemy Number One.

World star

Moszny mixes cows with Hungarians on their mobile phones.

Natascha von Kopp, Germany, 52 min.

Sunday 25 November 19.00

Friday 23 November 19.00 Monday 26 November 21:00

Miroslav Tichy lives a hermit life

in a small town in Moravia. Suddenly, in his old age, he has to face fame as his paintings are sold for up to 12.000 euros. This saga reveals the machinations of the international art world once it has found a marketable victim, while Tichy could not care less about celebrity. Young cineaste Von Kopp has created a portrait in keeping with the atmosphere of Tichy’s photographs and his wry worldview. A magical approach to a man once known as an anti-Communist hero.

Ticket Information: Film Lecture

Prices € 5,€ 4,-

Reduction € 4,€ 3,-

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Time Schedule Shadow Festival 2007 Tue 20 November

Wed 21 November

13.30 16.00

Thu 22 November Lecture by Janine Prins (The Netherlands) - 90 min 360° - 7 min Speech memory - 23 min Defense of time - 25 min The State of Israël v.s. Tali Fahima 58 min

19.00 20.00 But Still - 79 min 21.00

Fri 23 November Lecture by Kevin Everson (USA) - 90 min 30 Seconds Switzerland - 42 sec Tales of the Arctic Circle - 3 min Songhua - 28 min Homeless me - 27 min Remote intimacy - 15 min World star - 52 min

Sat 24 November Lecture by Erwin Michelberger (Germany) - 90 min Maria - 16 min Holidays - 52 min

But Still - 79 min

Cabal in Kabul - 87 min Tales of the Arctic Circle - 3 min Balkan champion - 84 min Brother? - 8 min But I still haven’t figured out the meaning of life - 52 min DJ Aardvarck and Malorix (live)

0.00 afterparty Sun 25 November 13.30 14.00 Jean Paul - 8 min I am a bomb - 6 min A short film for Laos - 45 min 16.00 Knives of the wind - 92 min 19.00 Hare Christmas - 2 min Jaanika - 7 min Communion - 12 min Moszny - 40 min 21.00 The Block - 75 min

Wannabe a star / Elle bandita (live)

Mon 26 November Tue 27 November Lecture by Roy Villevoye (The Netherlands) Lecture by Karl Kels (Germany) - 90 min - 90 min

Wed 28 November Lecture by Frank Scheffer (The Netherlands) - 90 min

Balkan champion - 84 min Remote intimacy - 15 min How I became a freelance tour guide 15 min The Lausitz 20 x 90 - 34 min Nadia, nobody - 11 min World star - 52 min

The Operating Theatre - 86 min Brother? - 8 min The Projection has begun - 7 min Scenes from a wild boar hunt - 46 min

But Still - 79 min Tales of the Arctic Circle - 3 min Boys - 36 min Recruit Rosenberg - 22 min

Bellavista - 117 min

Homeless me - 27 min The mirroring cure - 28 min Laxmi at the gate - 20 min Arthur Wevers / kiki (Closing Night)

0.00 afterparty DJ Ruud van der Peijl & DJ June

Gala - 25 min Man up - 11 min So it goes - 14 min Recruit Rosenberg - 22 min A girl like me - 7 min DJ zZz, Aux Raus & Intergalactic Cowboys

DON’T MISS THE FESTIVAL AFTERPARTIES AT 0.00! ALL FILMS AND LECTURES WILL BE AT ESCAPE STUDIO REMBRANDTPLEIN.

Lectures by Filmmakers at Shadow Festival 2007 All lectures are in English and start at 13.30, lasting approx. 1hr45 min

Janine Prins: Expedition Europe The Netherlands

Thursday 22 November 13:30

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anine Prins (b. 1958) grew up in The Hague. Influenced by her family’s roots in the former Dutch East Indies and inspired by television programs about other cultures, her documentary films and photography focus on cultural variety. Apart from independent film productions she has also co-produced and directed television programs for a variety of broadcasters. Her lecture will deal with her project (with film critic Hans Beerekamp) Expedition Europe, a series of streaming documentary video vignettes about the phenomenon 'Europe', presented within a weblog environment. A journey through nineteen countries over a period of seven months, reporting from an old campervan about this, that, and everything else along the road that you never get to see in newspapers, cinema or television.

Kevin Everson: independent filmmaking in America USA

Friday 23 November 13:30

Kevin Everson (b. 1965) has made

three feature films and almost fifty shorts. His work responds to daily materials, conditions, tasks and gestures of people of African descent, repositioned through a variety of

mediums: photography, film, sculpture, paintings. His films consist of the relentlessness of every day life, as well as its beauty, and have a naturalistic texture. His most recent films have treated the performances of peoples of African descent in old film footage as if they were theater, creating an archive of these performances either by reenacting the films or just using the footage. His forthcoming film The golden age of fish is an experimental feature film that interweaves various fragmentary narratives concerning Cleveland, Ohio's landscape, from its prehistoric past to late twentieth century visual representation.

A meeting with Erwin Michelberger Germany

Saturday 24 November 13:30

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rwin Michelberger (b. 1950) has been making films since 1980, among others Kopffeuer and Traumstreuner.

From 1999 he has regularly worked with Oleg Tcherny, a fellow graduate of the Kunstacademie Düsseldorf.

Together they have made five films, including Blumen lieben Oben and Doch (opening film of the Shadow festival 2007). His rich experience in the field of drama and documentary has led Michelberger to extraordinary experiments that result in the mixing of genres. Every film seems to have its own visual language and universe of sounds. Using fragments from various films, the director will elucidate his

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approach to genres and the meaning it has with regard to the subjects he deals with in his films.

A meeting with Roy Villevoye The Netherlands

Monday 26 November 13:30

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oy Villevoye (b. 1960) works in the plastic arts and as a photographer.

From 1979 until 1984 he studied at the 'Rijksacademie van Beeldende Kunsten' in Amsterdam. Wanting to leave the safe environment of his own culture, he decided in 1990 to start traveling; his journeys brought him to India, Indonesia and Western New Guinea. Many people regard his films, a number of which were made with Jan Dietvorst, simply as documentaries, although this is precisely what Villevoye is trying to avoid. As part of the lecture, Villevoye will present and discuss his two most recent films, including a new version of his very first film, Owner of the Voyage.

Karl Kels: The use of 35mm film in independent cinema Germany

Tuesday 27 November 13:30

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arl Kels (b. 1960) has been an independent filmmaker since the beginning of the 1980s. Educated at the Academy of Arts in Frankfurt, Kels soon chose a solitary path in developing his unique methods of filmmaking: he directs, produces,

shoots, edits, and even develops all his films by himself. The result is film material of an exceptional quality, in color as well as in black and white.

Kels films the 'unstaged' world. He goes to a place, sets up his camera, observes, and, in so doing, anticipates some action or movement. Rhythm and movement are the keys to Kels' editing, in which independent frames interact in precise choreographies.

Frank Scheffer: Sound, music, structure and image in cinema The Netherlands

Wednesday 28 November 13:30

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rank Scheffer (b. 1956) is recognized internationally as a master of sound and image. After studying at the Academy for Industrial Design (Eindhoven), the “Vrije Academie” Art College (Den Haag), an the Dutch Film Academy (Amsterdam), he founded the Allegri Film Company which specializes in documentaries on music and art. Scheffer’s films on music constitute an overview of the great composers and musicians of the 20th and 21st century: from Stravinsky (The final chorale) to John Cage (Stoperas 1/2); from Mahler (Conducting Mahler) to Frank Zappa (Frank Zappa: The present day compuser refuses to die). Inspired by aspects of modern music, Scheffer has demonstrated a rare ability to implement musical concepts within the structure of a film.

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D-EDGE goes Sugar Factory, see Saturday

CLUBS

Twisted Sisters Santina Socialite and DJ Anna want you to party till you puke. Expect a decadent night filled with sleazy rock ’n’ roll, indie rock, punk, electro and cocktails. Jet Lounge, 22.00-03.00, free

Thursday 15 November

Club Amsterdam Featuring Brian S & MC Nickie Nicole, Steven Quarré (Hed Kandi), Terry Toner, pianist Michiel Borstlap, Peter Kan, E-Jay and Fountain. Hotel Arena, 22.00-04.00, €18

Remote Area Label Night Featuring Melon, Sascha Dive and 2000 and One. Flex Bar, 22.00-05.00, €7

Club Rascal Indie disco love-in. Club 8, 22.00-04.00, €5

Poptrash Three decades’ worth of rock, electro and hiphop with The Punchout DJs and a DJ/MC set from raunchy American rapper Princess Superstar. Melkweg, The Max, 23.00-05.00, €5

Live at the BBQ Hiphop, disco and soul party. Bitterzoet, 22.00-04.00, €7.50

Vreemd Dutch DJs lose their minds this week. With Shiva, Joachim and Olaf Boswijk. Sugar Factory, 23.00-05.00, €8

Friday 16 November Rednose Distrikt Benefit Audio grand jam with special guests like Herrie Gekkenhuis, Lamme Tonnie, O.Boogie Two Things, Shoe, Parra, Zender, PIPS:lab, Tom Trago and Kid Sublime. Bitterzoet, 22.00, €7.50 Betty en Billie’s Beat Boutique ’60s, soul, rock ’n’ roll, nostalgia and keiharde hits. Club 8, 22.00 04.00, €6 Freitag That Friday feeling, with Dan Ghenacia (Freak n’Chic), Marc Antona (Freak n’Chic) and Arter. Flex Bar, 22.00-05.00, €10 Moon Harbour With Leif & Tom Ellis (Wales), Matthias Tanzmann (Leipzig), Daniel Stefanik (Leipzig) and Victor Bakhuis. 11, 22.30-04.00, €12 Houseplay An In Bed With Space special with Jack de Marseille (FR), Sin Plomo and El Sandro. Panama, 23.00-04.00, €15

Fightclubclub And the first rule... Nah, let’s not go there. With D.I.M., the Fanklub DJs and Vance. Flex Bar, 22.00-05.00, €9 European Dinner Ladies’ Tour An a la carte menu filled with fresh funk, soul, breaks and virtuoso turntablism from London’s Jeremy Norris, Quintrix and Jus-This. Cafe Pakhuis Wilhelmina, 22.00-late, €6 Teleskope Extending your perceptions of electronica with Trickski (Berlin), Olaf Boswijk and Edo Salgado.

11, 22.30-04.00, €12 D-EDGE goes Sugar Factory An electrifying mix of electro-punk, house, tech-house and minimal, inspired by the highly-regarded Sao Paolo club DEDGE. Special guest is one of Brazil’s premium DJs and producers, ATÚM. Sugar Factory, 23.00-05.00, €15 Passion vs Exprezz Electro, minimal, techno and house, all served passionately. Odeon, 23.00-05.00, €10 Gemengd Zwemmen Two rooms of swimmingly diverse noise. In The Max, it’s worldly grooves from ¿Que Pasa? with DJ Eduardo; in the Oude Zaal, there’s alternative dance, pop, rock and indie hits.

Melkweg, 23.59-late, €8

De Revolutie Hiphop, funk and house. Odeon, 23.00-05.00, €14

Sunday 18 November

Etnisch Hysterisch Addressing the newest trends of the global music scene. The ever trendy Balkan beats are represented, but there should be a little bit of something for everything. Plus live performances are jumbled around in the bag too, this time with Trio Tincho. Sugar Factory, 23.00-05.00, €10

Represent The concept is simple: four turntables, two DJs, some lightning fast fingers and a few hours of fresh hiphop and R&B. Club Meander, 22.00-02.00, €5

Hindi Nation With Xqlusive, Eagle Musicans, Prako, Lady D, Pagal, Immenzo, Iri, Wahab, Yaz4fun and Swing. The Powerzone, 23.00-05.00, €10

WickedJazzSounds Jazz, hiphop, broken beats, nujazz, funk and Afro sounds, as classic vinyl collides with live musicians. Sugar Factory, 23.00-05.00, €9.50

Makro vs eRRorKREW Electro innovations on the water. Stubnitz, 23.00-late, €12.50 Minimaal Feestmaal With Kabale und Liebe, Lupe, Eva Maria & Martine B2B, and more. Studio 80, 23.00-late, €5 OT301’s 8th Birthday Party With a CD presentation from OffOnOff (featuring Terrie Ex), rock ’n’ roll noise from Ed (Israel) and the eternal eclecticism of DJ Marcelle. OT301, 23.59-05.00, €5 klinch: Traffic Progressive dance night with the Barcelona techno star Paco Osuna leading the pack. Also with Bart Skils and Lauhaus. Melkweg, Oude Zaal, 23.59-late, €13 + membership

Beatschool Hiphop, breaks and drum & bass with DJ Wildsmith and friends. Winston Kingdom, 22.0003.00, €5

Monday 19 November Beatsclassics Like WickedJazzSounds but aimed at dance music, dancefloor classics have new life breathed into them by a wily bunch of live musos performing on top of them. Sugar Factory, 21.40-01.00, €7.50 Cheeky Monday True skool jungle and drum & bass, featuring players from the local and international scenes. Winston Kingdom, 22.00-03.00, €6

Tuesday 20 November Saturday 17 November IChiOne Contemporary breakbeats and good vibes, with Pressure, Kidkut / Thinking, Big Eye, John Doe, Code, El Fog, Atki2 and Indi Kaur. Studio K, 21.00, €10

Grass-A-Matazz 2007 Reggae and dancehall from Aceyalone, the American rapper, who’s just released his new album Lightning Strikes. Special guest is DJ/producer Bionik, plus a hosts of locals. Sugar Factory, 22.00-05.00, €25

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GAY& LESBIAN Thursday 15 November Battle of the Beers Holland versus Germany. Could it be any more fierce? Getto, 19.00, free

Friday 16 November

15-21 November 2007 Rhodes, Jasper Redd and Dan Gabriel. Plus there’s Dutch host Roel Verburg. In English. Melkweg, The Max, (Tues 16.00), €24 + membership Festival: Project Perform Over the next three days, the group Perform will be presenting performance art

by Jetske de Boer, Sachi Miyachi, Elke Veltman and Lina Issa, in cooperation with Aitana Cordero. Intimate, imposing and sometimes tense, their visual performances are the climax of experiments and concepts devised during a period in October. On Saturday, you’ll also find the Statue ‘Lieverdje’ at Het Spui. De Brakke Grond, (Tues, Wed 19.00), €8.50 Festival: RISK: Beeldend Theaterdagen Festival celebrating visual theatre, offering recent works from the field of Dutch and Flemish puppet and object theatre.

Until 2 December. See www.ostadetheater.nl.

Ostadetheater, (Wed), various prices

Club: Women’s night Busy, popular night for lesbians and their friends. Drinking and dancing guaranteed.

Cafe Sappho, 22.00, free

Ongoing

Club: Reflexxx Happy power house from those Rapido blokes. Escape, 23.00-05.00, €15

Comedy: Stand-Up Comedy Show Featuring varying performers and MCs. In English and Dutch. Comedy Cafe, (Thur-Sat 21.00, Fri, Sat also 23.30), €10/€15

Saturday 17 November Club: Spellbound Queer underground dance party with live tunes, DJs, performances and the obligatory VJs. With The Vapour Trails, KornreinigeR and XMachine performing live, and Trashling, Martijn and Kaseta on the decks in the main room, and Toon, Dort Art and Raf in the chill-out room. AlexEtJeremy take care of the visuals. OCCII, 23.00-05.00, €7

Sunday 18 November Club: Rapido One of Amsterdam’s biggest gay dance events. See Short List. Paradiso, Grote Zaal, 17.00-late, sold out Furball Cafe Meet-and-greet for hairy Marys and those in pursuit of the hirsuit. PRIK, 19.00-01.00, free

Wednesday 21 November Club: F*cking Pop Queers Queers love pop, and this is where they get their fill. Expect Madonna and electro, urban and indie, new and classic to batle it out on the floor they call dance. ArtLaunch Cafe in the smaller room. Studio 80, 23.00-05.00, free before 00.00, €5 after

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Performance: Breakin’ Walls The seventh edition of this all-round performance festival that’s made for youngsters by youngsters. Spread across the halls of Frascati, De Brakke Grond, de Engelenbak, Comedy Theater and Paradiso, over the next few days you can find a vibrant collection of national and international dance performances, live music, theatre, stand-up comedy, spoken word, art installations and club nights. See www.breakinwalls.nl. In Dutch. Various locations, (Thur-Sat), various prices Theatre: HRMNNH! (Kung Fu Hossel) Made in da Shade’s bizarre interactive kung-fu theatrical epic, inspired by the themes, aesthetics and spirituality of all those famous low-budget flicks from the Far East. In Dutch. Westergasfabriek, (Thur-Sun, Tues, Wed 20.30), €15 Theatre: Ik ben weg Ger Thijs’s fourth play for Het Toneel Speelt tells the story of two closely knit artist friends and the one woman they love. With Mark Rietman and Peter Blok. In Dutch. Meervaart, (Fri 20.15), €23 Comedy: easyLaughs Comedy improv in English.

Two knee-slapping shows every Friday night. CREA Muziekzaal, (Fri 20.30, 22.30), €8, €5 (late night) Performance: De Schillenhut Fresh talents get a chance to shine. Club Meander, (Fri 23.00), €5 Comedy: Now&Lauw: Urban Improv Comedy Weekly ha-ha with Wilko Terwijn and Nabil Aoulad Ayad. In Dutch. Comedy Theater, (Fri 23.30), €10 + membership

Opening

4 Go Tease-à-GoGo

Dance: 4 Go Dansgroep Krisztina de Châtel teams up with young choreographers Alida Dors, Bryan Druiventak, Giulia Mureddu, Sacha Steenks and Tina Valentan for a streetwise bout of contemporary dance. Theater Bellevue, (Thur-Sat 20.30, Sun 15.00), €16

Performance: Tease-à-GoGo Amsterdam’s newest Burlesque entertainment night. See Short List. Comedy Theater, (Sat 22.30), €10/€12.50

Comedy: Allah Made Me Funny Islam-centric—but funny to all—stand-up from three American comedians: Preacher Moss, Azhar Uzman and Mo Amir. In English. Meervaart, (Sun 20.15), €20

Comedy: Quiet Night In Back with the unusual mix of themed video compilations, a couple of the best episodes from the last series and a live sketch. De Nieuwe Anita, (Sun 20.00), €4

Music/Dance: Amsterdam World Special With the world renowned fado of Mariza, alongside special guest, dancer and choreographer Patrick De Bana.

Muziekgebouw, (Sun 20.30), €50

Performance: Langzaam Los Jazz, blues and pop, all with a dash of cabaret. Performed by Beatrice van der Poel, with Maarten van Roozendaal and the Zapp String Quartet. Theater Bellevue, (Thur-Sat 20.30), €18

Music/Dance: Manuela Carrasco Majestic flamenco. Concertgebouw, Grote Zaal, (Mon 20.15), €36.50

Theatre: Alptraum An absurd comedic whodunnit from Toneelgroep Oostpool. In Dutch. Theater Bellevue, (Mon, Tues 20.30), €16

Comedy: The 420 Comics Show A spliff-friendly comedy extravaganza that’s ideal if you’re getting off work early, or didn’t bother going at all. A quartet of American comics lead the funnies: Doug Benson, Tom

Music/Dance: Dance Double Bill With Malgorzata Haduch, Michael Schumacher and Makiko Ito. OT301, (Wed 21.00), €5

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For full listings see www.amsterdamweekly.nl.

Opening

Lecture: Talks on Warhol Digging deeper into the life of Warhol, with perspectives from Eva Meyer-Hermann, Theodor Holman, Stephan Sanders and Karel Wasch. In Dutch. 11, (Thur 20.00), €7.50

Be like Rudi Fuchs: Make Your Own Expo Four beer tables, excerpts from the private art books and catalogues of Ritsaert ten Cate, and a photocopier encourage the public to get interactive with art and create their own exhibition. Lloyd Hotel (Daily), opens Friday, until 10 December

Festival: Black Magic Woman Festival The final day of soul food, music, literature, debates, performances and sisterhood. Theme for this year has been ‘Daughters & Fathers’. For full programme see www.blackmagicwomanfestival.nl. Various locations, (Thur), various prices

Doride/Ultramarine Underwater photo expeditions from Maura Biava and Elspeth Diederix. Foam (SatWed 10.00-18.00, Thur, Fri 10.00-21.00), opens Friday, until 9 December

Event: Dag van Respect Yes, a day for us all to sit back and contemplate respect. One of the key Amsterdam events today are debates in De Balie for school children. But it’s not just about the kids. When you’re trying to get on the tram or bus tonight, there’s no need for the elbows and angst; there’s room for everyone. Cut someone off in the cycle path? Perhaps if you wave an apology, they won’t follow you home and slash your tyres. Various locations, (Thur), free

Josef Strau Enchanting installations using language and light from the enigmatic German artist. In his innovative environments, lights, text and sound recordings are linked with the likes of ribbons, threads and Tipp-Ex. Stedelijk Museum CS (Daily 10.00-18.00), opens Friday, until 6 January 2008

Book presentation: Rebecca Walker The acclaimed American feminist and author talks about and signs copies of her book Baby Love: Choosing Motherhood After a Lifetime of Ambivalence. In English. ABC Treehouse, (Fri 20.00), free

LFTFLD Art Show Young artists let loose by LFTFLD Magazine. Chiellerie (Tues-Sun 14.00-18.00), opens Friday, closing Thursday Alberto De Michele: Adriano An installation focused on an Italian bank robber, who for a period of time was hiding in Amsterdam. De Appel (Tues-Sun 11.0018.00), opens Saturday, until 3 February 2008 David Veldhoen: Space COPY/PASTE Spacious collages and drawings. Suzanne Biederberg Gallery (Wed-Sat 14.00-18.00), opens Saturday, until 15 December Lydia Lambrechts: Embrace the Distance Paintings from the upcoming Dutch artist, typically showing still and sober landscapes and figures. AYAC’S (Fri, Sat 13.00-17.30), opens Saturday, until 22 December Richard Hawkins: Of Two Minds, Simultaneously Presenting the first comprehensive retrospective in Europe by the American artist Richard Hawkins. See Short List. De Appel (Tues-Sun 11.00-18.00), opens Saturday, until 3 February 2008

Josef Strau, see Opening

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 Ryan McGinley: Celebrating Life An exhibition of work by the young American photographer Ryan McGinley, who’s been hailed as one of today’s most promising international photographers. With Celebrating Life he photographed a group of friends on a road trip across America, in homage to American predecessors such as Robert Frank and Richard Avedon. Foam (Sat-Wed 10.00-18.00, Thur, Fri 10.00-21.00), until 6 January 2008 The Spider Anansi: A Web of Tales and Images Fourteen artists from the Netherlands and Ghana have created works for this exhibition inspired by the stories about the spider Anansi. These will be displayed in combination with videos of storytellers recorded in both countries. Tropenmuseum (Daily 10.00-17.00), until 13 January 2008

We Are Pleased by Empty Numerical Circumstances We Are Pleased by Empty Numerical Circumstances An exhibition of drawings by Stereodactylus.

Galerie Knap (Tues-Sun 12.00-18.00), opens Saturday Rosa Barba: Center of Fringes A new film installation

by Barba, recorded at the Mojave Desert in the US. In this desolate resort you can find lots of ruins of different projects, illustrating the technocratic, militaristic and (lost) utopian aspects of the American society.

Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam (Tues-Sun 11.00-17.00), opens Sunday, until 6 January 2008

Museums Yamandú Roos: Totomboti Photos of the five Rastafarian men who make up the Totomboti foundation in the Pikienslee village of Suriname, making functional art with wood and teaching the villagers to use natural resources in sustainable ways. Foam (Sat-Wed 10.0018.00, Thur, Fri 10.00-21.00), until 22 November Scenes and Traces A lengthy exhibition focussing on three parts of the Stedelijk Museum collection: design, video, and photography. Stedelijk Museum CS (Daily 10.00-18.00), until 25 November The Present Order Group show exploring themes of sci-fi, pop and pop culture. De Hallen (Tues-Sat 11.0017.00, Sun 12.00-17.00), Haarlem, until 25 November

The Birds of America It’s officially the most expensive book in the world, and since you probably don’t have a copy of John James Audubon’s masterwork to flick through at home, Teylers Museum is showing off the engravings and prints of their copy—new pages displayed every day. Teylers Museum (Tues-Sat 10.00-17.00, Sun 12.00-17.00), Haarlem, until 20 January 2008 Moderne meesterwerken uit Moskou Paintings and drawings made by Russian-Jews living under the rule of Stalin, displayed for the first time in the Netherlands.

Joods Historisch Museum (Daily 11.00-17.00), until 10 February 2008 Aap, vis, boek. Linnaeus in Amsterdam Celebrating the 300th birthday of the renowned botanist in style, by displaying extremely rare books and other treasures of the period Linnaeus spent in Amsterdam. UvA: Special Collections Library (Mon-Fri 10.00-17.00, Sat, Sun 13.0017.00), until 25 February 2008 Bisj Poles—Sculptures From the Rainforest An exhibition of 58 bisj poles from New Guinea. These meters-high wooden sculptures are used during centuries-old ancestor-worship rituals of the Asman from New Guinea. These rituals, still performed today, are brought to life in a thrilling combination of light, sound and film. Tropenmuseum (Daily 10.00-17.00), until 13 April 2008 Art Nouveau In the time of Russia’s last Tsar, Nicholas, the people of St Petersburg were particularly impressed with France’s latest art movement, buying what they could, while Russian artists created their own art nouveau. This exhibition displays some of the best of French and Russian art nouveau from the period. Hermitage Amsterdam (Daily 10.00-17.00), until 5 May 2008

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

Discussion: Groot Multiculturalisme Debat ‘It don’t matter if you’re black or white,’ claimed Michael Jackson, but perhaps Stephan Sanders and Désanne van Brederode will have something deeper to bring to the table. In Dutch. Felix Meritis, (Fri 20.30), free

Galleries Hidenori Mitsue: It’s There, It’s All There Paintings by the Dutch-based Japanese artist. Yoshiko Matsumoto Gallery (Wed-Sat 13.30-18.30), closing Saturday Eva Räder Paintings by the German artist. Galerie Gabriel Rolt (Wed-Sat 12.00 -18.00), until 24 November Anthea Hamilton: Cut-Outs The British artist creates a temporary environment of found and shaped objects, including paint cans, candles, shoes, bamboo, perspex and string. Galerie Fons Welters (Tues-Sat 13.00-18.00), until 24 November Who Put Grandma Under the Stairs? Diverse works

by Karina Bisch, Nicolas Chardon, Gyan Panchal, Clément Rodzielski and Vier5. Ellen de Bruijne Projects/Dolores (Tues-Fri 11.00-18.00), until 24 November Ritual Tendancies Diverse works by Lorenza Boisi, Iris Zugovic and Barbara Rink. Horse Move Project Space (Fri-Sun 14.00-20.00), until 25 November Ecritures pictographiques Henri Jacobs’ latest drawings from his journal. Galerie Paul Andriesse (Tues-Fri 11.00-18.00, Sat 14.00-18.00), until 1 December Viviane Sassen: Ultra Violet: Sketchbook A show curated around and about the working process of Dutch photographer and Prix de Rome winner Sassen. Motive Gallery (Wed-Sat 13.00-18.00), until 1 December Jon Eiselin: Figures and Figuration Featuring a selection of oil paintings from the period 2004 to 2007. The Gear (Thur, Fri 15.00-19.00, Sat, Sun, until 8 December Kiosk7: OudWestKiosk A project by Gavin Wade with Simon & Tom Bloor, wherein they took a kiosk design from Dudley Zoo by the Russian architect Berthold Lubetkin, and began exporting it to new locations, providing innovative functions each time. Amsterdam’s winning kiosk proposal will be number seven, and is due to be realised in the public space of OudWest in 2008. SMART Project Space (Tues-Sat 12.00-17.00), until 15 December Noord-Korea: onbekend maakt onbemin Photos from Frans Boom’s trip to the commie country. IISG (Mon-Fri 09.00-17.00), until 21 December Ixone Sadaba: The Expulsion From Paradise Sadaba is a young artist from Bilbao in the North of Spain who primarily makes performances and video installations, often attracting attention because they can be seen as signals of aggression and powerlessness.

Witzenhausen Gallery 2 (Thur-Sat 12.00-18.00), until 22 December

Sint in Amsterdam Sint in Amsterdam A public notice for big kids—or old grumps evading the horses, Piets and sweets, not to mention, crowds: Sinterklaas is arriving in Amsterdam today. Festivities begin at 11.00 as the boat departs on the Amstel, heading to the Scheepvaartmuseum for 12.00. Afterwards, simply follow the trail of trampled pepernoten. The city’s Sinterklaas celebrations get in full swing now, so don’t say you weren’t warned. Various locations, (Sun 11.00), free Market: Winter Fair So, apparently it’s time to stock up on gifts. While our own gift guide, due in a couple of weeks, is a nifty place to start, if you’re looking to get crafty or pick up some attractive second hand objects, this little fair may get you in the right frame of mind. And who’d say no to glühwein and tasty treats at this time of year? International School of Amsterdam, Amstelveen (Sun 11.00-16.00), Party: Pop Sunday This gathering’s all about food, music and wine, wine, wine. If you love your Cava, it’ll be flowing like water all day and night (at €3 a glass, of course). Music is supplied by Eddy de Clercq, Maestro, Jimmy Jazz, MacGee and Swift. See www.cavaclub.com. Westergasterras, (Sun 15.0021.00), free Art Fair: pAn Amsterdam The Netherlands’ national art and antiques fair. There’s quite a lot of stuffiness surrounding pAn, but in the vast spaces of RAI, there

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Panna Knock Out Sport: Panna Knock Out Mini-football contest for the bold and the brazen. Westergasfabriek, (Sun 11.00-17.00) Literature: Honderd jaar Astrid Lindgren Celebrating the world renowned Swedish children’s book author, who so many have a place for in their formerly young hearts. In Dutch. De Balie, (Mon 20.00), €9 Discussion: Broeinest An opportunity for the Rebel Clowns to pass on some subversive knowledge. If you like what you hear, you can sign up for a Rebel Clown training camp in December and help cause the capitalist world to falter with your big red nose.

Plantage Doklaan 8-12, (Mon 20.00), free Lecture: Dana Thomas In ‘Deluxe: How Luxury Lost its Lustre’, the cultural and fashion writer for Newsweek in Paris talks about globalisation, capitalisation, class and culture, exploring the whole of today’s high-end shopping experience. In English.

Felix Meritis, (Tues 20.00), €15 Festival: Cannabis Cup Celebrating all things in Amsterdam that can be hashed. This is the 20th edition of this hugely popular festival, and a whole host of special events and performances are being lined up to mark it. Along the way, you’ll even find big names like Redman and Eek-a-Mouse in town. And has anyone ever considered why a certain Sint would bother to leave his cosy home in Spain and head to Amsterdam in the middle of November? See www.cannabiscup.com. Until 22 November. Various locations, (Tues, Wed), various prices

ADDRESSES 11 Oosterdokskade 3-5, 625 5999 ABC Treehouse Voetboogstraat 11, 423 0967 Annet Gelink Gallery Laurierstraat 187-189, 330 2066 De Appel Nieuwe Spiegelstraat 10, 625 5651 ARCAM Prins Hendrikkade 600, 620 4878 ArtOlive Polonceaukade 17, 675 8504 AYAC'S Keizersgracht 166, 638 5240 Badcuyp 1e Sweelinckstraat 10, 675 9669 De Balie Kleine-Gartmanplantsoen 10, 553 5151 Bethaniënklooster Barndesteeg 6, 625 0078 Bimhuis Piet Heinkade 3, 788 2150 Bitterzoet Spuistraat 2, 521 3001 De Brakke Grond Nes 45, 626 6866 Cafe Pakhuis Wilhelmina Veemkade 576, 419 3368 Cafe Sappho Vijzelstraat 103, 423 1509 Carré Amstel 115-125, 524 9452 Centrale Bibliotheek Oosterdokskade 143, 523 0900 Chiellerie Raamgracht 58, 320 9448 Club 8 Admiraal de Ruyterweg 56B, 685 1703 Club La Kerkstraat 50-52 Club Meander Voetboogstraat 3, 625 8430 CoBrA Museum Sandbergplein 1-3, Amstelveen, 547 5050 Comedy Cafe Max Euweplein 43-45, 638 3971 Comedy Theater Nes 110 Concertgebouw Concertgebouwplein 2-6, 671 8345 Consortium Veemkade 570, 06 2611 8950 CREA Muziekzaal Turfdraagsterpad 17, 525 1400 DanceStreet 1e Rozendwarsstraat 10, 489 7676 De Engel van Amsterdam Zeedijk 21, 427 6381 Ellen de Bruijne Projects/Dolores Rozengracht 207A, 530 4994 Escape Rembrandtplein 11, 622 1111 Fantasio (Nationaal Pop Instituut) Prins Hendrikkade 142, 428 4288 Felix Meritis Keizersgracht 324, 626 2321 Flex Bar Pazzanistraat 1, 486 2123 Foam Keizersgracht 609, 551 6546 Galerie Binnen Keizersgracht 82, 625 9603 Galerie de Expeditie Leliegracht 47, 620 4758 Galerie Fons Welters Bloemstraat 140, 423 3046 Galerie Gabriel Rolt Elandsgracht 34, 785 5146 Galerie Hof & Huyser Bloemgracht 135, 420 1995

Galerie Knap Huidenstraat 21 Galerie Paul Andriesse Withoedenveem 8, 623 6237 Galerie Rademakers Prinsengracht 570-572, 6225496 Gallery WM Elandsgracht 35, 421 1113 The Gear Nieuwe Teertuinen 23 Getto Warmoesstraat 51 De Hallen Grote Markt 16, Haarlem, 023 511 5775 Heineken Music Hall ArenA Boulevard 590, 0900 300 1250 Hermitage Amsterdam Nieuwe Herengracht 14, 530 8751 Horse Move Project Space Oosterdokskade 5 Post CS Hotel Arena ’s-Gravesandestraat 51, 850 2400 Huis Marseille Keizersgracht 401, 531 8989 Hup Gallery Tesselschadestraat 15, 515 8589 IHLIA-Homodok Oosterdokskade 143, 5230 900 IISG Cruquiusweg 31, 668 5866 International School of Amsterdam Sportlaan 45, Amstelveen Jet Lounge Westermarkt 25 Joods Historisch Museum Jonas Daniel Meijerplein 2-4, 531 0310 Keizersgrachtkerk Keizersgracht 566 KHL Koffiehuis Oostelijke Handelskade 44, 779 1575 KIT Tropentheater Mauritskade 63, 568 8711 Kleine Komedie Amstel 56-58, 624 0534 Lloyd Hotel Oostelijke Handelskade 34, 419 1840 Maison Descartes Vijzelgracht 2A, 531 9500 Maloe Melo Lijnbaansgracht 163, 420 4592 Mediamatic Post CS, Oosterdokskade 5, 638 9901 Meervaart Meer en Vaart 300, 410 7777 Melkweg Lijnbaansgracht 234A, 531 8181 Motive Gallery Elandsgracht 10, 330 3668 Muiderpoorttheater 2e van Swindenstraat 26, 692 5421 Museum van Loon Keizersgracht 672, 624 5255 Muziekgebouw Piet Heinkade 1, 788 2010 Nederlands Architectuurinstituut Museumpark 25, Rotterdam, 010 440 1200 Nederlands Instituut voor Mediakunst Keizersgracht 264, 623 7101 De Nieuwe Anita Frederik Hendrikstraat 111, 06 4150 3512 OCCII Amstelveenseweg 134, 671 7778 Odeon Singel 460, 624 9711 OneFourOne Overtoom 141, 670 3313 Ostadetheater Van Ostadestraat 233 D, 679 5096 OT301 Overtoom 301, 779 4913

15-21 November 2007 Panama Oostelijke Handelskade 4, 311 8680 Paradiso Weteringschans 6-8, 626 4521 Pathé De Munt Vijzelstraat 15, 0900 1458 Patronaat Zijlsingel 2, Haarlem, 023 517 5858 Het Perron Egelantiersstraat 130, 330 7035 Persmuseum Zeeburgerkade 10, 692 8810 Plantage Doklaan 8-12 Plantage Doklaan The Powerzone Spaklerweg, 681 8866 PRIK Spuistraat 109, 06 4544 2321 RAI Europaplein 22, 549 1212 Rembrandthuis Jodenbreestraat 4, 520 0400 Serieuze Zaken Studioos Bilderdijkstraat 66-hs, 427 5770 Skek Zeedijk 4-8, 427 0551 SMART Project Space Arie Biemondstraat 107-113, 427 5953 Stadsschouwburg Leidseplein 26, 624 2311 Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam Rozenstraat 59, 422 0471 Stedelijk Museum CS Oosterdokskade 5, 573 2911 STEIM Utrechtsedwarsstraat 134, 622 8690 Stopera Waterlooplein 22, 551 8117 Stubnitz Odinakade, NDSM-werf Studio 80 Rembrandtplein 70, 521 8333 Studio K Timorplein 62, 692 0422 Sugar Factory Lijnbaansgracht 238, 627 0008 Suzanne Biederberg Gallery 1e Egelantiersdwarsstraat 1, 624 5455 Teylers Museum Spaarne 16, Haarlem, 023 516 0960 Theater Bellevue Leidsekade 90, 530 5301 Toomler Breitnerstraat 2, 670 7400 Torch Gallery Lauriergracht 94, 626 0284 Tropenmuseum Linnaeusstraat 2, 568 8200 Under the Grand Chapiteau Next to ArenA, 621 1288 UvA: Special Collections Library Oude Turfmarkt 129, 525 2141 Van Gogh Museum Paulus Potterstraat 7, 570 5200 Volta Houtmankade 334-336, 628 6429 W139/Basement Oosterdokskade 5, 06 2427 6657 Westergasfabriek Haarlemmerweg 8-10, 586 0710 Westergasterras Klönneplein 3, 475 1412 Winston Kingdom Warmoesstraat 129, 623 1380 Witzenhausen Gallery 2 Elandsstraat 145, 644 9898 Yoshiko Matsumoto Gallery Weteringschans 37, 06 1437 0995 ‘t Blijvertje Derde Oosterparkstraat 64h

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A touch of the poetic Festina Lente Looiersgracht 406, 638 1412 Open Mon 14.00-01.00, Tue-Thu, Sun 10.3001.00. Fri-Sat 10.30-03.00 Cash, PIN Greetings from your Glutton. I am reporting from Festina Lente, a great eetcafe where the Italian kitchen is pervading the autumn menu and tugging a grand feeling in a diner’s heart strings.

The diners obviously come here to unwind, and to enjoy the special intimate atmosphere created by the staff who are friendly and kind in giving personal touches to any special requests.

The tiny kitchen downstairs pumps out delicious creations. Four chefs taking their turns to feed the clamouring masses their special sandwiches, each named after a poet.

I indulged in a ‘Multituli’ (€4.90) which was composed of a soy-marinated wild salmon with wasabi mayo and sesame seeds. This delightful creation was a pleasure to gawk at. One of the two slices of dark whole wheat bread was covered with the salmon and toasted sesame seeds and, with the aid of a soy sauce glaze, formed the trunk of a palm tree complete with some curly lettuce for the fronds. The other slice was covered with shaved cucumber, rolling and curling to form waves. It was poetic, tasted wonderfully Japanese and its playfulness made me extremely happy.

Festina Lente also serve goodies known as ‘lentini’s’ which are larger than tapas but far smaller than a regular meal. If you’re a poor little stick of a thing and possess but a small appetite, then two will suffice, but if you sit down nightly to consume an ox then you will likely need a few

THE UNDERCOVER GLUTTON Each spoonful made me want to stand up and declaim poetry to the room. But instead, I suppressed moans and sobs, when I finally scraped my bowl clean. more.

I tried a light and creamy tuna pate (€4).

Three rounds of them, with shredded lettuce, homemade mayo and tomato slices on each, and

served with Turkish bread slices. While I would have preferred hot toast, it was lovely stuff indeed. But I also regretted not ordering a dry sherry to go with it.

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Do not miss the special Zuppe Festina Lente (€4.20). The colour of which is a glorious, rich deep red. The soup is composed of concentrated roasted red peppers and oven-roasted vine tomatoes, slowly cooked down to form a thick delicious base. Herb oil was drizzled on top. What a pleasant eyeful it was. Each spoonful made me want to stand up and dramatically declaim poetry to the room. But instead, I suppressed wracking moans and sobs, when I finally scraped my bowl clean.

Then I did something I bitterly regretted. I pretentiously stooped to my gastronomic snobbery. The ornate rococo mirror which listed the daily specials announced pasta in a truffle cream sauce. My innards screamed a dire warning not to ignore my instinct.

But, like a fat Icarus, I ventured too close to the sun. My snozzle pointed upwards at 45 degrees. Truffles, how posh!

Perhaps it was too subtle for my pedestrian palate: it was bland, tasteless and boring.

I didn’t learn my lesson in Italy when I once had expensive homemade pasta with truffle oil, and some tasteless fresh porcini mushrooms. I sat wondering what the fuss was all about. But it’s likely not the fault of the cooks—I probably killed my taste buds from always slopping tomato ketchup on fried eggs.

I consoled myself with another lentini: ovenroasted potatoes with rosemary, thyme and homemade garlic mayo (€4). I was calmed.

Festina Lente features literary evenings of Dutch poetry with the honourable Simon Vinkenoog adding weight and calibre with his presence. New comers try out or compete, depending what the program is.

The place is geared for comfort, with a sitting room, a lounge atmosphere in a cosy environment. It’s easy to feel the magnetic attraction to this literary cafe.

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Five-Word Movie Review

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

by Lisa Alspector (LA),Massimo Benvegnù (MB), Shyama Daryanani (SD),Sarah Gehrke (SG),René Glas (RG),Andrea Gronvall (AG),Meltem Halaceli (MH),John Hartnett (JH),Luuk van Huët (LvH),JR Jones (JJ),Dave Kehr (DK),Marie-Claire Melzer (MM),Mike Peek (MP),Julie Phillips (JP),Gusta Reijnders (GR),Jonathan Rosenbaum (JR),Marinus de Ruiter (MdR),Hank Sartin (HS),Ronnie Scheib (RS) and Bregtje Schudel (BS). All films are screened in English with Dutch subtitles unless otherwise noted.

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Festivals Deaf in the Picture A festival of films made by and for the deaf. The ‘New Deaf Cinema’ programme features unconventional, experimental works; also on view are films that look more conventional, but replace a soundtrack with sign language. A ‘Young Deaf Cinema’ series features films made earlier this year with Dutch teenagers.

Documentaries will also be screened, as will hearing films with deaf characters, such as Babel. Het Ketelhuis Deutscher Herbst programme Thirty years ago, West Germany was shaken by a series of attacks by the leftist terrorist group Rote Armee Fraktion (RAF). They culminated in the autumn of 1977—the Deutscher Herbst —German Autumn—with the kidnapping and killing of industrialist Hanns-Martin Schleyer, the hijacking of a Lufthansa airliner and the suicides of imprisoned RAF leaders. This weekend of films looks at the RAF and the complex tensions around the group.Volker Schlöndorff and Margarethe von Trotta’s Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum (1975) shows how the tabloid press can destroy lives by false allegations; Andres Veiel’s Black Box BRD (2001) juxtaposes the biographies of a RAF terrorist and a victim; Leo de Boer’s De Rode Jaren (2005) is a documentary about Dutch RAF sympathisers; and Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s Die Dritte Generation (1979) is a pitch black comedy about terrorism as lifestyle sport.

All films are subtitled in English. De Balie

Special screenings Casino Simultaneously quite watchable and passionless, Martin Scorsese’s three-hour dissection of power in Las Vegas, set principally in the ’70s, sometimes comes across like an anthology of his previous collaborations with Robert De Niro. By far, the most interesting star performance is by Sharon Stone as a classy hooker destroyed by her marriage to De Niro. (JR) 178 min.

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Fallen

Angels Writer-director Wong Kar-wai makes his idiosyncratic characters—an ambivalent hit man, his hyperactive lover, a silent shop clerk— fully and instantly believable. Their encounters seem accidental but have a poetic logic that reverberates in some lovely jukebox pop. You can watch this 1995 movie’s surreal, energizing plots and subplots unfurl and fold into one another indefinitely. In Cantonese with English subtitles. (LA) 92 min. De Nieuwe Anita

Inland Empire Like an unending zooming shot of a fractal, textured with fire and blood, or a Droste effect in the mirror hall of an insane asylum, the digitally shot Inland Empire both rises above and sinks below standard filmic and narrative conventions. It offers a hallucinatory carnival ride through the murky subconscious of David Lynch, which may prove to be a little too dark, incomprehensible or disturbing for the uninitiated or those with a short attention span. Those who persevere are rewarded with a new masterpiece of modern art, an uncompromising experimental film and plenty to talk about afterwards. (LvH) 172 min. Melkweg Cinema Miller’s Crossing The Coen brothers’ lush 1990 gangster melodrama is set in an unnamed eastern US city in 1929. It stars Gabriel Byrne as an Irish gangster, Albert Finney as an Irish city boss, Marcia Gay Harden as a Jewish moll and John Turturro as her brother, who is set to be rubbed out. 115 min. The Movies The Misfits John Huston’s 1961 Western was the last film for both Clark Gable and Marilyn Monroe, and nearly the last for costar Montgomery Clift. Arthur Miller wrote the screenplay about three orphans of the Old West, rounding up wild horses to sell for dog food.

124 min. Kriterion The Power of Nightmares Produced for the BBC in 2004, Adam Curtis’s three-hour polemical essay

about the conceptually nonsensical but mythically potent ‘war on terror’ is the most informative and stimulating film treatment of the subject to date. Curtis begins with the collapse of liberal idealism, charts the parallel development of radical Islam and American neoconservatism, and argues that Osama bin Laden encourages the lies and hype of Bush and Blair. The symmetries are too neat to be entirely persuasive, and as Curtis approaches the present, his arguments are more open to dispute (like his assertion that Al Qaeda doesn’t really exist). Yet the film is witty, intelligent, and brilliant in its use of archival elements, ranging from Egyptian TV commercials to images from The Thief of Bagdad and music from Citizen Kane. (JR) De Roode Bioscoop La Vie de Jésus At the centre of Bruno Dumont’s extraordinary first feature (1997) is Freddy, a semiautistic epileptic who lives with his mother in impoverished northern France. Freddy and his friends ride around on motorbikes, go to the beach or watch a friend’s brother die of AIDS in the hospital, though Freddy also has mindless, almost brutal sex with his girlfriend Marie at every opportunity. Yet Freddy is capable of great tenderness. He and Marie have an amazing ability to stand around silently for hours; their stillness is part of the incredible sense of corporeality Dumont is able to evoke. Double feature with a sneak preview. In French with English subtitles. (RS) OT301 What’s Eating Gilbert Grape Even if you have a taste, as I do, for movies about dysfunctional families, you may be a little put off by the Grapes in this 1993 film: no father, 500-pound mother, mentally disabled son (especially good work by Leonardo DiCaprio) and two daughters, as well as Johnny Depp to more or less hold things together. This is directed by Lasse Hallström, and his feeling for the look and mood of a godforsaken midwestern town is often as acute as Sven Nykvist’s cinematography. Juliette Lewis plays the out-of-town girl Depp takes a shine to once he starts getting tired of the married woman (Mary Steenburgen) he’s involved with, and while the picture is too absentminded to explain what it is that makes Lewis move in and out of town, she and Depp make a swell couple. Chosen and introduced by Hanneke Groenteman. 118 min. Rialto

THREE HOURS AND QUITE SCARY Inland Empire Melkweg Cinema

Péter Forgács programme Forgács is known for his compilation films, including the Private Hungary series, in which he uses amateur footage to track the effects of history on individual lives. Exodus over the Donau (1998) uses 8mm film images of two trips by water: a group of Slovakian jews leave home, hopefully for Palestine, and a group of Volga Germans emigrate from Russia to the ‘Heimat’. Free Fall (1999) follows the fate of Hungarian-Jewish businessman Gyorgy Peto and his family, using home movies made in the shadow of the Holocaust. In English. Filmmuseum Rated X A four-night festival of ‘alternative erotic films’, Thurs-Sun. Opening film Viva (written, directed and starring Anna Biller, 2007) is a celebration of 1970s sexploitation, including psychedelic music, go-go dancers and hippie orgies. Also showing are the recent art-porn compilation film Destricted; a series of Richard Kern films on the New York 1980s downtown scene; new queer erotica; and such classics as Pruimenbloesem (1982), the first Dutch porn feature. OT301

New this week American Gangster Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe face off as bad guy and supercop; Ridley Scott directs. See review on p.19. Pathé ArenA, Pathé De Munt, Pathé Tuschinski Falkenberg Farewell Four Swedish boys enjoy one last summer being boys together, talking, taking mushrooms and causing trouble, in this coming-of-age film by first-time director Jesper Ganslandt. In Swedish/Danish with Dutch subtitles. Het Ketelhuis, Kriterion

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In Ridley Scott’s latest, he asks us what’s better, a womanising cop or a murderous, heroin-dealing family man?

DRUGS AND MURDER TO THE PEOPLE FILM American Gangster Opens Thursday at Pathé ArenA, Pathé de Munt & Pathé Tuschinski.

By René Glas

To put two of Hollywood’s acting juggernauts, Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe, in a classic gangster movie facing

I Served the King of England Forty years have passed since Czech director Jiri Menzel made Closely Watched Trains, yet the basic formula for this 2006 feature (based, like the other film, on a novel by Bohumil Hrabal) seems nearly identical: a virginal young man, an assortment of hotties, plenty of slapstick and the Third Reich. The story covers many years in the life of a devoted hotel waiter (Ivan Barnev); the deft physical comedy is a pleasure, though the leering chauvinism becomes more embarrassing as the movie progresses. In Czech with Dutch subtitles. (JJ) 115 min. Cinecenter, Studio K See You in Vegas Documentary about Dutch illusionist Hans Klok, who has a show in Las Vegas with Pamela Anderson as his assistant. Directed by Antoinette Beumer (Famke Janssen’s big sister) and Maaik Krijgsman. In Dutch. 80 min. Het Ketelhuis, De Uitkijk

Still playing 30 Days of Night Horror + comics + vampires, but

also Sam Evil Dead Raimi + David Hard Candy Slade: 30 Days of Night couples Y2K’s hottest movie themes to the hottest producer/director duo in suspense. And it must be said, Slade’s cult comic film delivers on the promise. This harsh tale of an Alaskan village community plagued by vampires during a 30-day period of darkness instantly ranks among horror classics, despite its lengthy running time and its overt genre clichés.

Graphic scenes of beheadings and half-devoured human bodies didn’t stop the film from topping the US box office in its first week. Essential shock treatment.

With Josh Hartnett, Ben Foster, Melissa George. (MdR) 115 min. Pathé ArenA, Pathé De Munt 4 maanden, 3 weken en 2 dagen Romanian cinema seems to have found a niche for sober, socially committed dramas. After The Death of Mr Lazarescu (the failing health care system) and 12:08 East of Bucharest (the revolution of 1989), Cristian Mungiu’s 4 months, 3 weeks and 2 days focuses on the ban on abortion under Ceaucescu. Student Otilia agrees to help her roommate Gabita with the preparations for an illegal termination of her pregnancy. But to see 4, 3, 2 only as an anti-abortion film would be to miss the point. Their act is merely the tool with which the two

each other as bad guy and supercop is a film-maker’s wet dream. Ridley Scott got the job and American Gangster is the result. Its luscious ’70s style cinematography—think French Connection meets blaxploitation—is enough to warrant a whole series of Oscar nominations in the technical departments. But Washington and Crowe are the ones who steal the show as the two über-men facing each oth-

women’s friendship is tested and proven. The film won this year’s Palme d’Or in Cannes. In Romanian with Dutch subtitles. (BS) Cinecenter, Rialto

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford Brad Pitt is the type-o-guy who always wins the sympathy of the audience. Perhaps that’s why director Andrew Dominik chose him for the part of Jesse James: Pitt delivers his performance with exactly the right mix of magnetic charm and lingering malice. And Casey Affleck is convincing as Robert Ford, James’s admirer who joins his gang and eventually kills him. The dreamy visuals with golden lighting help to re-create the myth of James, who was a popular figure in his time despite his habit of robbing trains and killing people.

The story, however, is interestingly out of sync with the visuals, often contradicting the myth by showing James’s nasty, violent side. Dominik does a brilliant job of dissecting the myth around the famous outlaw while at the same time reviving it. Look out for Nick Cave, who did the music and has a small part as, well, himself, had he been born a century ago, in the Wild West.

(MM) 160 min. Kriterion, Pathé Tuschinski

Atonement Based on the novel by Ian McEwan, adapted by Christopher Hampton and directed by Joe Wright (Pride and Prejudice), Atonement tells the story of a single tragic lie with horrendous consequences. This genre-melding film opens in 1935, when 13-year-old fledgling writer Briony Tallis accuses her older sister’s boyfriend of a crime he didn’t commit. Five years later, at the start of the Second World War, the young man is released from prison on the condition he join the army. In 1999, Briony as a dying novelist still feels she has to atone for bearing false witness. Although the screening time is 122 minutes, with its multi-layered story, intricately woven plot and unexpected twists, Atonement is the rare work that feels too short rather than too long.

Sure to please the Go-Between and English Patient crowd and starring Keira Knightley, James McAvoy and Vanessa Redgrave, Atonement is one beautiful film. (GR) Cinecenter, The Movies, Pathé ArenA, Pathé De Munt, Pathé Tuschinski Ben X Unlike Rain Man or Mozart and the Whale, this Flemish film doesn’t depict autism from the out-

er amidst waves of murder and corruption.

Based on real life events, American Gangster follows the manoeuvres of Harlem drugs kingpin Frank Lucas (Washington) and anti-drugs detective Richie Roberts (Crowe), who is trying to nail him for his crimes. It’s not a clear-cut situation of good versus evil, however. While Roberts may be the only cop not on any Mafia payroll, his workaholism and tireless womanising are wrecking his marriage.

Lucas, in contrast, is portrayed as a devoted family man and hero of the people.

While this might make both characters more human, it isn’t necessarily the most exciting basis for a clash of personalities, and by the end of the film the lack of a moral high ground becomes a bit problematic.

Since the audience is stuck sympathising with a bad guy, Scott turns the corrupt police department into the main antagonist.

The biggest bastard among them is detective Trupo (a heavily moustached Josh

side, as a spectacle to be viewed, but convincingly enters the mind of a boy suffering from the disorder.

The film’s teenage protagonist, Ben, doesn’t have an extraordinary memory or a freakish talent; he just wants to be average. As a film, Ben X isn’t average at all. Infused with amateur video footage and computer game action sequences (shot in the role-playing game Archlord, it dazzlingly reflects Ben’s inner world.

(MdR) 93 min. Kriterion, Pathé Tuschinski

Control The lives of artists are a rewarding source

of inspiration for filmmakers. They are idols, charming, but also almost always tragically flawed. This biopic on singer/songwriter Ian Curtis could have been a textbook case. Thankfully, photographer and video director Anton Corbijn dares to be critical: Ian isn’t a tragic hero, but a bit of a wimp who uses his band as an escape from his own incompetence as a husband, a father and a breadwinner. When his wife confronts him with the fact that he never broke up with his lover, he whimpers: ‘I tried, but she won’t go away!’ The film is beautifully shot in black-and-white, though the stark contrasts and grey hues serve mainly to underline the desolation of the Manchester suburbs, and of Ian himself.(BS) 119 min. The Movies, Pathé Tuschinski

Die Fälscher Before you say ‘Life Is Beautiful’, take

a look at this gritty Holocaust comedy/drama (bizarrely enough, a genre with many entries), which just won best film at the Ghent Film Festival. The amazing Austrian character actor Karl Markovics shines as Salomon Sorowitsch, the leader of a pack of Jewish counterfeiters who get ‘hired’ by the Nazis to run a concentration camp devoted to printing foreign currency. The Germans’ plan is to destroy the world economy; the con men’s is merely to find a way to survive (and maybe get rich, too). Austrian writer/director Stefan Ruzowitzky nails the perfect tone in adapting the book by Adolf Burger, based on real-life events, and gets away with a gem. In German with Dutch subtitles. (MB) 98 min. Pathé Tuschinski, Studio K

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 indus-

Brolin), and both Lucas and Roberts have to contend with his evil ways.

It’s a historical fact that Roberts’ eventual arrest of Lucas led to the conviction of two-thirds of the New York Police Department’s anti-drugs units. Still, turning Lucas into a kind of Robin Hood character makes the eventual face-off between Washington and Crowe (the actors only meet on-screen 15 minutes before the credits roll) not all that engrossing. Antlers lock, but no sparks fly.

Even worse, by making Lucas into some kind of a hero after his arrest, American Gangster glosses over the horrendous activities Lucas was involved in during his crime spree. The film shows him smuggling vast quantities of heroin into the country in the coffins of fallen American soldiers shipped back from Vietnam, then distributing it among ‘his people’, contributing without remorse to thousands of heavy addictions.

He extorts, murders, takes what he wants—and still you do not leave American Gangster with a feeling that he was all that bad. Pimps and gangstas may be in vogue at the moment, but as far as I know, this isn’t a rap video.

Ethical issues aside, American Gangster still stands as an impressive look at the crime and corruption-ridden New York of yesteryear. You could squabble about some minor issues like its length or some of the supporting cast (Armand Assante playing a parody of himself, Cuba Gooding Jr playing, well, Cuba Gooding Jr). But in the end, Scott proves himself able once more to deliver cinema which almost feels instantly classic. With, in this case, an emphasis on almost.

try and the natural landscape that’s magnified in this big-screen documentary. Film-maker Jennifer Baichwal trails him on a tour of industrial sites in China and Bangladesh, and her opening sequences are breathtaking (an eight-minute tracking shot along a giant factory floor, a scene of the photographer posing yellow-clad workers on a road flanked by yellow buildings). Burtynsky is drawn to spots (and lives) that have been disfigured by commerce—like the awful ‘waste’ dump where poor villagers harvest metal from junked American computers—and the open-endedness of his images is the key to their power. Special screening; interview with Burtynsky follows. (JJ) 80 min. Rialto, De Uitkijk Nadine Seven years after he made his debut with the coming-of-age story Wilde Mossels (2000), Erik de Bruyn directs this relevant and intriguing film, starring three actresses, Halina Reijn, Sanneke Bos and Monic Hendrickx, in the role of a woman who, as she approaches 40, becomes desperate to have a child.

Reijn is perfect as the young, modern career junkie, while Bos brings a very subtle sense of desperation to Nadine as she undergoes IVF. Hendrickx’s performance is probably the most impressive as a Nadine desperate enough to steal a baby. Casting three women in one role gives the film a mildly surreal undertone that complements De Bruyn’s visual style, full of outof-focus images and dreamlike sequences that are still firmly rooted in reality. In Dutch. (MP) 100 min.

Kriterion, Pathé Tuschinski

Tussenstand Roos (Elsie de Brauw) and Martin (Marcel Musters) are facing a tough challenge. Their son Isaac (Stijn Koomen) has stopped communicating and Roos feels parental intervention is in order.

But that means they have to listen to each other, something these two exes have never done. Director Mijke de Jong skillfully paints two different worlds: the hectic surroundings of the parents, who are constantly distracted by themselves and external stimuli; and the calm realm of Isaac, who retains the serenity of a Buddha, even while trespassing. It’s an impressive movie with confident camerawork and excellent acting. Winner of Golden Calves for Best Directing, Best Actress and Best Sound Design. In Dutch. (BS) 80 min. Cinecenter, Rialto

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FILM TIMES Thursday 15 November until Wednesday 21 November. Times are provided by cinemas and are subject to last-minute changes.Film times also at www.amsterdamweekly.nl.

De Balie Kleine-Gartmanplantsoen 10, 553 5151 Black Box BRD Fri 21.30 Deutscher Herbst programme Fri, Sat Die Dritte Generation Sat 19.30 De Rode Jaren Sat 21.30 Die Verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum Fri 19.30.

Cavia Van Hallstraat 52-I, 681 1419 Rumble Fish Thur, Fri 20.30.

Cinecenter Lijnbaansgracht 236, 623 6615 4 maanden, 3 weken en 2 dagen daily 16.15, 19.15, 21.45, Sun also 11.00, 13.30 Atonement daily 16.00, 19.00, 21.45, Sun also 11.15 I Served the King of England daily 16.15, 19.00, 21.45, Sun 11.15 Tussenstand daily 16.30, 19.30, 22.00, Sun also 11.15, 14.00.

Cinema Amstelveen Plein 1960 2, Amstelveen, 547 5175 Meet the Robinsons (NL) Sat, Wed 15.30, Sun 14.00 Mighty Heart,A Sun 16.15, Tues, Wed 20.30 Rescue Dawn Thur-Sat 20.30, Thur also 15.00 Waar is het paard van Sinterklaas? Sat, Wed 13.30, Sun 12.00.

Filmhuis Griffioen Uilenstede 106, Amstelveen, 444 5100 Als twee druppels water Fri 19.30 Crónica de una fuga Thur, Tues 19.30.

Filmmuseum Vondelpark 3, 589 1400 Les anges du péché Thur 21.30, Tues-Wed 19.30 Argent, L Sat-Mon 19.30 Azur & Asmar Sun, Wed 14.00 Belle de jour Thur-Sat 17.30, Tues 21.50 Belle toujours Mon-Wed 17.30 Black Narcissus Fri-Mon 21.30 California Dreamin' Sun 16.00, Wed 21.15 César et Rosalie Sun 16.30 Jardins en automne daily 21.45, Fri, Sat, Mon, Wed also 17.00 Kidz in da Hood Sun, Wed 13.45 Mouchette Thur, Fri19.30 Péter Forgács programme Thur-Wed. Het Ketelhuis Haarlemmerweg 8-10, 684 0090 Alles is liefde Sun-Wed 19.45, Sun-Tues also 22.00, Mon-Wed also 17.30 De Avonturen van het Molletje Wed 13.00 Deaf in the Picture Thur-Sun Falkenberg Farewell Sun, Mon, Tues 19.30, 21.30, Wed 22.00 Goud Mon-Wed 17.00, Wed also 14.45 Kidz in da Hood Wed 14.30 Das Leben der Anderen Mon-Wed 16.45 See You in Vegas Sun-Wed 19.15, 21.15 La Tourneuse de pages Wed 20.00 Waar is het paard van Sinterklaas? Mon, Tues 16.00, Wed 13.15, 15.00 Willie en het wilde konijn Wed 13.30.

KIT Tropentheater, Kleine Zaal Linnaeusstraat 2, 568 8500 Story of Xiao Yan Sun 14.00.

Kriterion Roetersstraat 170, 623 1708 13 (Tzameti) Wed 17.00 The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford daily 18.00, Thur-Mon, Wed also 21.15 Ben X daily 19.15, Fri, Sat also 0.00 Falkenberg Farewell Thur-Sun, Tues, Wed 21.45, Thur-Sat also 19.45 Goud Sat, Sun, Wed 15.15 Meet the Robinsons (NL) Sat, Sun, Wed 15.00 Michael Clayton daily 21.30 Milarepa daily 17.45, Sun-Wed also 19.45 The Misfits Mon 22.00 Nadine Thur-Tues 17.00 Sneak Preview Tues 22.15 Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (NL) Sat, Sun, Wed 15.30.

Melkweg Cinema Lijnbaansgracht 234A, 624 1777 20 to Life Tues 19.00 Inland Empire Mon 19.00 Mulholland Drive Thur, Fri 19.00 Once Sun 19.00 Planet Terror Sat 19.00, 21.00 Tales from Earthsea Sun 15.00 Thundering Mantis Wed 19.00.

The Movies Haarlemmerdijk 159-165, 638 6016 Alles is liefde daily 17.15, 19.15, 21.45, Sat, Sun, Wed also 14.45, Sun also 12.30 Atonement daily 16.45, 19.30, 22.00, Sat, Sun, Wed also 14.15, Sun als 11.45 Casino Fri, Sat 0.20 Control daily 17.15, 19.45, 22.15, Fri, Sat also 0.30, Sun also 12.00 Michael Clayton daily 16.30, 19.00, 21.30, Fri, Sat also 23.45, Sat, Sun, Wed also 14.00, Sun also 11.30 Miller's Crossing Fri, Sat 0.00 Ratatouille (NL) Sat, Sun, Wed 14.30.

De Nieuwe Anita Frederik Hendrikstraat 111, 06 4150 3512, Fallen Angels Mon 20.30.

OT301 Overtoom 301, 779 4913 Rated X Thur-Sun La Vie de Jésus Tues 20.30.

Pathé ArenA ArenA Boulevard 600, 0900 1458 30 Days of Night daily 18.50, 21.20, Thur, Fri, Mon also 16.10, Thur, Mon also 13.10, Tues also 16.25 Alles is liefde daily 12.20, 13.15, 15.00, 16.00, 17.40, 18.45, 20.20, Thur-Mon, Wed also 21.30, Sat, Sun also 10.30 American Gangster daily 13.30, Thur, Sat-Wed also 17.00, 20.30, Fri also 17.45, 21.30, Sat also 0.00

15-21 November 2007 Atonement daily 21.00 Babel Tues 13.30 Beowulf (IMAX 3D) Sat-Wed 13.15, 16.00, 18.45, 21.30, Sat also 0.15, Sun also 10.45 Beyaz Melek daily 16.20, 18.35 The Bourne Ultimatum Thur, Fri 13.05, 15.30, Thur also 18.00, 20.50 Death Sentence daily 22.00 Halloween Sat 21.35, 0.05 The Heartbreak Kid daily 15.40, 18.20, Thur, Fri, Mon, Tues also 13.00 The Kingdom daily 18.10, 20.40, Sat also 23.45 Lions for Lambs daily 15.10, 17.20, 19.40, Thur, Mon, Tues also 12.40 Meet the Robinsons (NL) Sat, Sun 10.05 Michael Clayton daily 21.15 Om Shanti Om Thur, Sat-Wed 12.50, 16.30, 20.10, Sat also 23.45, Fri 12.00, 15.50, 20.45 Plop en de pinguin Fri, Wed 12.15, 14.40, Sat, Sun 12.55, 14.50, Sat also 11.00, Sun also 10.45 Ratatouille (NL) Sat, Sun, Wed 13.00, Sat, Sun also 10.40 Resident Evil: Extinction daily 12.30, 14.50, Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed also 21.50, Thur, Sat-Wed also 17.10, Thur, Sun-Wed also 19.30, Fri also 17.05, 19.15, Sat also 19.50, 22.20, 0.40 Rogue Assassin daily 20.55 Rush Hour 3 daily 16.40, 19.10, Thur, Mon, Tues also 11.55, 14.00 Sneak Preview Tues 21.30 Stardust Thur, Fri, Mon, Tues 15.20, Thur, Mon, Tues also 12.35 Superbad Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 13.40, 16.20, 19.00, 21.40, Sat 12.20, 15.00, 17.40, 20.20, 23.00 Surf's Up Fri-Sun, Wed 12.10, 14.10, Sat, Sun also 10.10, 16.15, Wed also 16.10 Timboektoe Fri, Wed 12.00, Sat, Sun 10.00, 12.30 Waar is het paard van Sinterklaas? daily 12.00, Thur, Fri, Sun also 14.05, Fri also 13.05, Sat-Wed also 14.30, Sat-Tues also 10.00, Sat, Sun also 12.35, Sat also 10.35, Sun also 16.05.

Pathé De Munt Vijzelstraat 15, 0900 1458 30 Days of Night Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 18.45, 21.40, Thur, Fri, Mon, Tues also 13.00, Thur, Sun-Wed also 15.45, Sat 18.15, 20.45, 23.20 Alles is liefde daily 12.00, Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed also 12.45, 14.45, 15.30, 17.40, 18.30, Thur, Fri, Sun, Mon, Wed also 20.30, 21.30, Sat also 10.45, 13.45, 15.00, 16.45, 18.00, 19.45, 21.00, 22.45, Tues also 21.20 American Gangster Thur, Fri, Mon-Wed 12.30, 16.15, 20.00, Sat 11.15, 14.45, 18.30, 22.15, Sun, Mon 17.30, 21.00, Sun also 10.30, 14.00 Atonement Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 12.10, 15.00, 18.00, Thur, Fri, Sun, Tues, Wed also 21.00, Mon also 20.50, Sat 10.15, 13.00, 15.45, 18.45, 21.30 The Bourne Ultimatum Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 21.50, Sat 21.45 Death Sentence Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 21.55, Sat 23.00 Hairspray Thur, Fri, Mon, Tues 12.10, 14.40, Sun 17.15, Wed 17.05 The Heartbreak Kid daily 20.15, Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed also 17.30, Thur, Fri, Mon, Tues also 14.15, Sat also 17.15, 23.00 The Kingdom Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 21.10, Sat 20.15, 23.10 Knocked Up Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 18.50, Sat 20.00 Lions for Lambs Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 13.40, 15.50, 18.20, 20.45, Sun also 11.30, Sat 10.25, 12.45, 15.15, 17.30, 20.00, 22.30 Live! Thur, Fri, Tues 17.15, Sat 18.20 Michael Clayton Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 12.15, 18.15, 21.15, Thur, Fri, Sun, Tues, Wed also 15.15, Mon also 14.50, Sat 10.30, 13.30, 16.15, 19.15, 22.00 Ratatouille (NL) Fri, Wed 14.00, Sat 11.40, 14.20, 16.50, Sun 11.10, 13.50, 16.20 Resident Evil: Extinction Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 12.20, 14.30, 17.00, 19.30, 22.00, Sun also 10.15, Sat 11.30, 14.00, 16.30, 18.50, 21.15, 23.40 Rogue Assassin Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 19.15, Thur, Fri, Mon-Wed also 16.40, Thur, Mon, Tues also 14.00, Sat 19.30 Rush Hour 3 Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 19.45, Sat 20.50 Sneak Preview Tues 21.30 Stardust Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 12.30, 15.20, 18.10, Sat 11.10, 14.15, 17.15 Superbad Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 13.15, 16.00, 19.00, 21.45, Sun also 10.20, Sat 11.45, 14.30, 17.45, 20.30, 23.15 Surf's Up Sat, Sun, Wed 15.10, Sat also 10.20, 12.20, Sun also 10.45, 12.55, Wed also 13.10 Timboektoe Sat, Sun 10.15, Sat also 12.40, 15.30, Sun also 12.35, 14.55, Wed 12.10, 14.40 Waar is het paard van Sinterklaas? Fri 15.45, Sat 11.00, 13.15, 16.00, Sun 11.15, 13.30, Wed 13.00.

Pathé Tuschinski Reguliersbreestraat 34, 0900 1458 Alles is liefde daily 12.10, 15.00, 18.00, Thur, Fri, Mon-Wed also 21.00, Sat, Sun also 21.15 American Gangster Thur, Fri, Mon-Wed 13.15, 17.00, 20.45, Sat, Sun 13.30, 17.15, 21.00 The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford Thur-Sun, Tues, Wed 16.30, 20.00, Fri 13.00, Mon 15.25 Atonement daily 15.30, 21.30, Thur-Sun, Tues, Wed also 18.30, Thur, Sat-Wed also 12.30, Fri also 12.45 Ben X Thur-Sat 19.30, Sun-Wed 12.15, Sun, Mon, Wed also 14.30 Control Thur-Sun, Tues, Wed 21.40, Thur, Fri, Tues, Wed also 16.15, Mon 15.15 Die Fälscher Thur-Sun, Tues, Wed 21.40, Fri-Sun also 19.10, Mon 12.50 The Illusionist Thur, Tues 13.30 Lions for Lambs Thur-Sun, Tues, Wed 16.45, 22.00, Thur-Sat also 14.00, Sun, Tues, Wed also 19.30 Makkers staakt uw wild geraas Sun 10.30 Nadine Thur, Tues, Wed 19.10, Sat, Sun 16.20 Waar is het paard van Sinterklaas? Sat, Sun, Wed 12.00, 14.15.

Rialto Ceintuurbaan 338, 676 8700 4 maanden, 3 weken en 2 dagen daily 19.45, 22.00, Thur, Mon-Wed also 17.30, Sat, Sun also 13.15, 16.15 Does It Hurt? Fri, Sat 23.00 The Hours Sun 11.00, Wed 15.15 Iklimler daily 19.30, Fri-Sun, Wed also 14.45 Das Leben der Anderen Fri-Sun, Wed 16.45, Sat, Sun also 12.15 Manufactured Landscapes daily 21.45 Tussenstand daily 19.15, 21.15, Sat, Sun also 13.30, Sun, Wed also 15.45, Sun also 11.15 What's Eating Gilbert Grape Sat 16.00.

De Roode Bioscoop Haarlemmerplein 7H, 625 7500, The Power of Nightmares Sun. Studio K Timorplein 62, 692 0422, Adam's Apples daily 22.15 The Diving Bell and the Butterfly daily 19.15 Die Fälscher Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 21.30, Sat 16.45 Guide to Recognizing Your Saints,A Thur, Fri, Mon-Wed 16.45 I Served the King of England daily 17.00, 19.45.

De Uitkijk Prinsengracht 452, 623 7460 Manufactured Landscapes Thur-Mon, Wed 17.30 My Little Chickadee Tues 20.00 Ratatouille (NL) Sat, Sun, Wed 15.15, Sun also 13.00 See You in Vegas Thur-Mon, Wed 19.30, 21.15, Tues 17.30.

Amsterdam Weekly

15-21 November 2007

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JOBS CASTING CALLCasting Call for real couples/lovers (not actors). Anton Robin, journalist from Moscow, is coming to A’dam to photograph for his upcoming book ‘Love in Making’. It is about people making love, not pornography, but rather portraits. Casting is open to ALL lovers. Email shanti@erostrance.com.

of foreign experts. Are you a French or Swedish native speaker please call Virginia on 520 5360 or send an email to Virginia@guidion.co.uk for more information.

RESPONSABLE DES OPERATIONS: Miseen?uvredeprojetpournotreréseautechnique d’intervenants en assistance informatique. Suivi des méthodes et processus qualité et leursindicateurs.Recrutement des intervenants qui se joindrontauréseautechnique,suivi qualité, gestion de problèmes entre clients et intervenants.

Mise en place de programmes deformation,gestiondel’équipe internede3à6personnes.Merci d'envoyer votre CV à Virginia@guidion.co.ukouapeller Virginia au 520 5360.

BAR STAFF WANTEDWonderbar in downtown A’dam is looking for new bar staff, English and/or Dutch speaking. Certificate Sociale Hygiene required. Would you like to work in a relaxed & groovy cafe? Please contact Hiske at 06 4532 0270 or leave your message at h.plantinga10@chello.nl. Hope to hear JAVA JAVA JAVA! Great from you soon! opportunities await skilled DIRECTEURCENTRED’AP- J2EE developers experienced PELS Responsable de la mise with EJB, Servlets, JSP, JMS en?uvredeprojets,leurgestion or Web Services and with a une fois en production, et le solid understanding of Hibermgmt des équipes de produc- nate, Spring, HiveMind, tion. Supervision des proces- Maven or JUnit. Send CV to sus d’escalade. Suivi des méth- simon@thewhitedoor.com. odes et processus qualité par indicateurs. En charge du pro- UNDUTCHABLES A'DAMis cessusderecrutementdescon- looking for Customer Service seillers. Merci d'envoyer votre Relations Mgr French; SecCV à Virginia@guidion.co.uk retary, Office asst ENG & NL ouapellerVirginiaau5205360. speaking; Personal Asst ENG & NL speaking; Jr & Sr AccounCAFE MAX (NL)Café MAX tants; Credit controllers; is op zoek naar personeel, f/t Junior & senior product manen p/t (overdag). Heb je ervar- ager marketing ENG & NL ing in de keuken of bedien- speaking. Send CV to Amsing, kom langs in MAX om terdam@undutchables.nl or een sollicitatie form in te check www.undutchables.nl. vullen, Max Euweplein 12.

CASH ADMINISTRATORfor (Bij schaakbord) European headquarters in ENGLISH-SPEAKING JOB Utrecht. Fluency in Turkish or We have all the English-speak- Italian and English. Financial ing and other foreign-lan- background. Good knowledge guage jobs from all major of Excel. Pro-active attitude. employment agencies and Strong coordination and comemployers in NL on one web- municationsskills.Contactsersite. www.xpatjobs.com. rana@adamasrecruitment.co CALL STUDENTS NEEDED m or call on 010 205 2712.

Guidion is a fast growing company and to support our expansion we are in search of call students. You will be involved in the recruitment

TELECONSEILLER Priseen charge de tous les contacts clients, téléphone, e-mail ou messagerie instantanée pour l’assistance commerciale et

SAV. Résolution de problèmes pour nos clients, vous devez êtreautonomeetprendrezplus de responsabilités si vous en démontrezlepotentielparvotre travail. Merci d'envoyer votre CV à Virginia@guidion.co.uk ouapellerVirginiaau5205360.

ACCOUNTS PAYABLETurkish: for European headquarters in Utrecht. Fluency in Turkish and English. Some experience in accounting.

Good knowledge of Excel.

Energetic and service-oriented personality. Strong communication skills. Contact serrana@adamasrecruitment.com or call 010 205 2712.

ADMIN PROJECT Are you looking for a temporary admin project from 2 Nov to 3 Dec in an international office in A’dam? The ideal candidate will have a proven admin background and be professional and reliable with an excellent level of English. Please send your CV to jill@secretariesbyadams.com.

ENG-SPEAKING EXEC PA'S Please send me your CVs! I have a number of high-level administration roles in a range of global corporates. Email jill@secretariesbyadams.com.

UNDUTCHABLESRECRUIT AgencyAmstelveenarelooking for Travel consultants (exp in Galileo); Sales support/client acct mgmt speaking French; Project Implementation mgr; AcctspeakingGerman;Oracle specialists;Corporatefinancelegal persons. Please mail amstelveen@undutchables.nl.

See www.undutchables.nl.

CAFE MAX (ENG)is looking for experienced bar and kitchen staff. F/t & p/t. Interested? Drop by to fill in application form at MAX, Max Euweplein 12 (near chessboard).

VERY HIGH COMMISSION Looking for top managers!

Leaders and entrepreneurs.

Agents for high commission.

Easy €5000/€10000/mth. More info: jcfantastic@gmail.com.

SWEDISH OPERATIONS MANAGER Guidion is the European leader in home IT assistance and we are looking for a Swedish speaker to act as our operations manag-

er for Sweden. Do you have commercial and operational skills? And are you a driven team player? Contact Virginia at 520 5360 or send an email to Virginia@guidion.co.uk.

FR OPERATIONS MGRGuidion is the European leader in home IT assistance and we are looking for a French speaker to act as our operations manager for France. Do you have commercial and operational skills? And are you a driven team player? Contact Virginia at 520 5360 or send an email to Virginia@guidion.co.uk.

THE EXPAT COMPANY We are at this moment looking for a very strong Customer Service Coordinator who is fluent in Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and French with fluent English. This function is in Almere. Interested?

Please send an email to p.kendall@expatcompany.nl.

THE EXPAT COMPANYAre you a very confident individual with experience in administration? Do you speak Dutch, English, German, French and Spanish? Are you willing to work in Almere?

Then please send your CV with a brief cover letter (in Dutch) to p.kendall@expatcompany.nl.

HULPKOKPeruaans restaurant vraagt hulp in keuken.

Ervaring dringend gewenst.

Spaans is voertaal. Leuke werkomgeving, met breed takenpakket. Loon conform Horeca-CAO. Reacties aan Lili Torres, 06 5371 8057, lili@casaperu.nl.

HULP IN BEDIENINGPeruaans restaurant vraagt hulp in bediening. Ervaring gewenst. Net voorkomen en goede omgangsvormen zijn vereist. Wij bieden een leuke werkomgeving in uniek restaurant. Loon conform Horeca-CAO. Reacties aan Lili Torres, 06 5371 8057, lili@casaperu.nl.

XMAS TREE COWGIRLS? Seeking Christmas tree cowgirls/boys. San Francisco expat looking for a few beautiful people to help me sell ecological trees during Dec in A’dam. You must be super-

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incl + 1 month deposit. borhoodofA’dam,forlongperiod, with rent agreement (huur afrah2@gmail.com.

APT AVAILABLE2-bdrm apt contract)only.Affordableprice on Leidsplein available till is €500/mth excl. Feel free to 30 Nov for €350/wk. Fully fur- contact us: 06 2668 7572 or THE EXPAT COMPANYFor nished, with internet and lelamose@gmail.com. (Lela) one of our international suitable for expats waiting HOUSING WANTEDA workclients we are looking for a for their accomodation to ing couple, living in A’dam for native Danish speaker with materialize. Interested? Send the last 5 years, looking for a commercial skills and expe- mail to webpage@live.nl with 2-3 room apt for short or long stay. We are reliable, clean, rience. This is for a compa- info about yourself. and quiet. We can pay up to ny located in the area of LUXURY FOR LESS Want €900. noa.roei@gmail.com.

Hoofddorp. Are you interalternative to squeezing yourested? Please send your CV selfintosmallaptoutsideofcity FROM 1 DEC - 28 APR Hi with a brief letter including center? Share huge, newly ren- there. Friendly, working and your salary indication to ovated apt with 3 bdrms + big responsible couple needs apt p.kendall@expatcompany.nl. roof terrace, 2 min from Leid- to stay in the next few months, THE EXPAT COMPANYFor sepleinwithme!Separatebath- until our new house is fully rean international client locat- rooms.Fullyfurnishedincldish- done and ready to move in! So ed in the area of Almere, we washer, washing machine, dry- please contact us on 06 4512 are looking for a native/flu- er. €1150/mth from 1 Jan. nlin- 2272 (Deyan & Nadia). So, from 1 Dec until end of April. ent speaker for French, Span- dertz@mac.com.

Can pay up to €650/mth. Thnx! ish and Italian plus English.

DREAM HOUSEBOAT The Customer Service experience real A’dam dream. Living the ROOM WANTED 1 MTHLon(internal and external) will life on a charming original don girl wants a place to relax be a must. Send your CV includboat in the romantic historic from 15 Nov for 1 month maybe ing your salary indication to center, overlooking Prin- 2, whilst I renovate my apt. p.kendall@expatcompany.nl. seneiland. Great for couple. Near the centre pls, TV a must, 1 double cabin, large living clean, central. Can pay €500+.

HOUSING FOR RENT area, kitchen and bathroom. I am an easy-going nester APT A'DAM CENTRE Now From now till April. who’s either out having fun or available, fully furnished stu- €1100/mth + deposit. mis- at work. I will be in for the antiques roadshow on Sun! dio apt. 24m2, with kitch- tersacha@hotmail.com.

Tara: 06 1191 1859. enette, shower, bathroom and internet. Nieuwezijds SMALL BUT COSY and clean room for rent 10 min from the OTHER SPACES Voorburgwal, near Dam Square. Rent is €750 month- center. Double bed, internet PHOTO STUDIO For amaconnection,privateshowerand ly all incl. Info: 644 0818. teur and professional phoWC.Nocookingfacilities(except HOUSE TO RENT 6-9 MTHS coffeeandtea).€35/night.Email tographers. Can also be used as meeting or gathering Comfortable house, temporari- smarasi@novacollege.nl. space. 100m2, €150/day. Posly sub-rent. Corner house, garden, good views of water. Nieuw LUXURY 4-RM APT 80m2, sible to rent photo equipSloten.Niceopenliving,2bdrms, A’dam centre nearby Artis, 2- ment. High ceilings, good, bdrm & 2 bathrms, 1 jacuzzi natural light and located on bathroom.Freeparking,closeto & steam cabine, fully equipped WG Plein, adjacent to Overtramandshops.ClosetoSchiphol kitchen, balcony, own parking toom. For appointment and &businessdistrict.Rentingfrom space in garage. €1500/mth, more info contact D. Ingel: Dec,negotiableconditions.Email 2-mth deposit. For more info 06 2883 4224.

83kiwi@planet.nl. contact Simone on 06 2806 OFFICE SPACE SpiegelkAPT A'DAM CENTRE Now 4403 or chand018@planet.nl. wartier/Weteringbuurt. available, fully furnished stuAPT IN CANAL HOUSE17th Shared office in characterdioapt.34m2,withkitchenette, century canal house (80m2). istic building in the centre shower,bathroomandinternet.

Quiet neighbourhood, 5 min of A’dam. Ground floor and/or NieuwezijdsVoorburgwal,near fromCS.Sunny:3windowsgive basement unit(s) available.

DamSquare.Rentis€1000/mth splendid view of canal. Large Mezzanine occupied by all incl. Info: 644 0818. living, 1 spacious bedroom, ful- graphic designer. Kitchen,

outgoing, super-cool, and super-dependable (and speak a bit of Dutch). Get on that horse and let’s hustle some pine. waward@yahoo.com.

100'S OF APTS available in A’dam immediately. From €450/mth. See www.xpatrentals.com/offers.

APT TO LET 1-bdrm, 2-rm apt in De Pijp for 6-12 mths.

Fully furnished, 3rd floor, overlooking square. From 1 Dec or Jan. Good for couple. €950/mth. Huisbewaarder.

Solid citizens only. Contact 662 0912. Phone at 11.00 & ask for Balthazar.

ROOM 4 RENT CENTRAL Female looking 4 female to rent 2-bdrm, 2-floor apt. 5 sec (!) from tram station & 1 min from CS! Apt is fully furnished with washer/dryer, dishwasher, oven, microwave, internet, cable, computer w/ TV in your room. Rent €675

lyequippedkitchen,bathroom.

Available from 6 Dec. Rent €1350 excl. Call 06 1134 0389 or email Elly.Wempe@Inholland.nl.

HOUSING WANTED INEEDAROOM!Spanishwomanworkingf/tislookingforaroom from Jan ‘08. I prefer long period.IamcalmandIdon’tsmoke.

Please phone 06 4370 6219.

Contact michelle@viviendoenelparaiso.com.

SERVICES SUPERCLEANNeedacleaning lady? Accurate and experienced ladywillcleanyourhomeoroffice.

Please contact me via email, maayan.bengal@gmail.com or mobile, 06 1656 2497.

STUNNING WEBSITES Experienced web designer builds professional, unique sites for very reasonable prices.

Online links to past projects available. Jordan: jordangcz@yahoo.com, 06 3034 1238.

TRANSLATIONS Do you need English-Spanish translator? Contact 06 4384 5642.

HAIRDRESSER English mobile hairdresser in A’dam.

Have your hair done in the comfort of your own home.

Haircuts starting from €15 (kids) €17,50 (adults). Please call for appt on 773 6095.

GIFT BASKETS The holidays are just around the corner and quickly approaching! Let Basket Case-gift baskets for any occasion. Make your gift-giving memorable and convenient! We are local to A’dam and can deliver 1 working day from order confirmation! Please send an email for our menu: basketcase.nl@gmail.com.

GET ORGANISED 2 DAY! Professional organiser: home, business, home office & more.

Rooms, wardrobes, files, drawers and anything that needs sorting. Un-cluttering your life will clear your mind! simplify2day@gmail.com.

PHOTOGRAPHER Professional digital photography for events, head shots, PR, architectural, real estate, portraiture, web and more!

For rates, samples and bookings: 06 2510 6271.

PUPPET SHOW The best storage space, WC to share. entertainment for any chilMore info on 06 2471 1401. dren’s party. Theme parties, OFFICE SPACE We’re look- pirate party or princess paring for a fourth person inter- ty, treasure hunt, story telling, ested in sharing our office juggling, games and toys for space located in oud west, near everyone. Contact Captain Overtoom. Available from 1 Sam, The Pirate: captainNov. Rent around €150. Please samspirateparty@yahoo.com. contact us at born@xs4all.nl. BABYSITTER AVAILABLE OFFICE SPACEA nice office Honest, patient girl, with space (70 m2) to rent on Prin- many years of experience is sengracht. For details please available to babysit in the contact Marcin at 531 7316. evenings/nights on Fridays, Saturdays & Sundays! €7/hr.

FOR SALE Please call on 06 5554 7829 LIQUIDATION SALE Great or fruzsina21@yahoo.com. styles, colours and lengths in Hope to hear from you soon!

NEED A ROOM I´m a Spanish dancer who just moved to A’dam. I’m looking for a room from Dec to Apr. I´m very friendly and clean. If you are interested, you can call me ladieswigs.Extrawideandlarge on 06 3491 7844. ladiesshoes.Justafewleftnow APT IN A’DAM Young family of our ladies handbags. Suitwith2y.o.childlookingforasmall able as a present or to wear at apt in quiet and safe neigh- Christmas and the New Year.

CLEANING SERVICES Are you looking for a flexible cleaning company to clean your office or practice, etc? We speak both Dutch and English.

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15-21 November 2007 Contact us at DetroitServices@live.nl or 06 4211 9900.

HEALTH & WELLNESS

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NOT AN ABORIGINAL? Do you live and work in your natural habitat? Do you know where you belong and your life’s purpose? Don’t risk your well-being. Be smart: focus on your heart and give your coach a call: 06 4998 8986 or 400 4778.

Email marianne@soul-atwork.com. Soul at Work, A’dam.

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UNHAPPY AT WORK?Feeling stuck in your career? Isn’t it time to discover what you really want in life? Lost purpose, passion or goal? Do yourself a favour and give your coach a call: 06 4998 8986 or 400 4778. Email marianne@soul-at-work.com.

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23 Celebesstraat 1, in A’dam oost. skinny, silenced, 25 y.o. boy INK DRAWINGSBritish artist looking for a non-beautiful, creates black ink drawings non-sexual, non-social pres(of various subjects-the city, ence... to look at trains passnudes, etc). If interested check ing... SMS Paul: 06 2234 3294.

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Sophie Filangi 06 4154 SINGING LESSONSOn Prin7557/www.alabonnechaise.nl. sengracht, beautiful atmoRENO-BOUW-RAJCZYKDo sphere. Classical voice trainyou need cost-effective and ing, breathing techniques, high-quality full house reno- vocalization, scales, etc. For vation? Professional, experi- beg & professionals. From classic to jazz pop or rock, and enced and with excellent refall styles of singing. Good prices erences. Online links to past + free intro lesson. For more projects. Call now and ask for info call Michael on 320 2095 appointment: 06 4451 7410 or or mail ajara77@yahoo.com.

331 6550, www.reno-bouw.nl, karol-rajczyk@hotmail.com. DRAWING AND PAINTING workshops by professional NEED A CONTRACTOR ? artist, various techniques, all Klussenbedrijf ‘De Klus-Bus’ styles. Contact joneiselin@hetfor all your plumbing, painting net.nl/www.joneiselin.com. & carpentry, electricity, bathroom installations & renova- UPHOLSTERY WORKSHOP tions,kitchen&toilet,tiling,lay- in Westerpark! Recover and/or ingfloors,roofwork,plastering, repair your own furniture with garden, general construction, theprofessionaladviceofSophie technical advice & everything Filangi. Every Tues and Thur else! 06 1899 1782/www.klus- 19.00-22.00(byapptonly).Includinguseoftools,excludingmatebus.net/info@klusbus.net. rials. €30 per session. Call for information on 06 4154 7557.

COMPUTERS 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 available especially for private classes. Visit www.yogayoNEED HELP WITH YOUR ga.nl or call 688 3418.

MAC-lover helps you with basic setups, minor trou- SHIATSUCOURSELearnhow bleshooting, install, net- to give a simple but efficient working, basic MAC lessons, treatment. Introduction to the setting up programs, MS Word, basic principles of shiatsu. 10 QuarkXpress, etc. Help with Wed, 9.30-11.45. Starts 7 Nov. purchasing the right MAC. MonikaForsterisashiatsupracContact Sagar at 779 1926. titioner and teaches at the Zen ShiatsuOpleiding.Visitwww.zenCOURSES shiatsu.nl.Infomonikaforster@ dds.nl. Tel 693 7808.

IL CIELOoffers craniosacral workshops, massage cours- LEARN OH CARDSCome to PC HOUSE DOCTOR Specialised in virus/spyware removal, h/w, s/w repair, data recovery,wireless,cable/ADSL installation and computer lessons from friendly and experienced Microsoft professional for reasonable price. Contact Mario 06 1644 8230.

this experiential workshop and learn how to use OH Cards in training, schools, coaching or therapy. Held in English on 20 Jan ‘08. Contact us today, as places are limited. info@creativetherapy.nl.

LANGUAGES DUTCH LESSONS A'DAM Improve conversation/professionalpurpose/studies/NT2.Also online. Min indiv rate €15/hr.

Adults&childrenMon-Sat,10.0021.00. Also intensive courses.

Min.intensive:15hrs=€215,55. www.excellentdutch.nl. New: Super-intensivesummercourse.

Info: excellentdutch@hotmail.com, 06 3612 2870.

per 45 min tutorials. €0.20 per translatedword.thomaslundy@ yahoo.com.

MUSIC DRUMSET LESSONS!Take lessons in playing drums! Do you want to advance your drumming or just start off playing drums? Get lessons from a conservatory alumni and current session drummer in A’dam! 06 4281 4507, srdjanovic@hotmail.com.

PIANO LESSONS!New piano class opened in KAAT GITAREN Music School in Zaandam, only 10 minutes by train from A’dam CS. You can have classical, jazz, pop piano courses, led by a Conservatory-trained pianist, either combo lessons and theory classes.

If you might be interested, even for a trial call 06 2525 6811.

SPANISH OR SWEDISHDo you want to learn Spanish or Swedish, or do you want to practice speaking it? Native speaker with experience. Private lessons given in informal environment. Contact me at MUSICIANS WANTED For musicians who are looking for mpdelamaza@gmail.com. an open-mic spot in A’dam.

LEARN SPANISH! with a Brunch and evening sessions native teacher (from Spain) looking to be filled every Sun! with years of experience! Are you interested in playing Grammar, vocabulary, culture, for a friendly Sun crowd, and improve pronunciation, etc. meetingnewpeopleandfellow Everything! €20/hr and group musicians, then please get in of 2-3, €15 each. Email span- touch @ bluenosesunday@ ish.amsterdam@yahoo.es. gmail.com.

INTENSIVE DUTCH AT DRUM & IMPROV LESSONS JOOST WEET HET Classes Heythere,mynameisAndreas.

4timesperweekduring4hours. I’m drumming since fifteen Good teachers, fun classes and years and I graduated from the energetic athmosphere. Small Conservatory in A’dam. If you groups,personalapproachwith are interested in taking drum emphasis on conversation. and improvisation lessons 2,3,4 and 8-wk courses. Price: please contact 06 1262 2742 or €8/hr. Visit www.joostweet- andreasdrum@yahoo.com. het.nl. Email info@joostweePIANO lessons for children. thet.nl. Tel 420 8146.

A funny way to teach, an easy DUTCH COURSES New way to learn! Speaking evening courses starting in French, Spanish and English.

Nov in centre of A’dam. €200- Nina: 06 3430 9654. €250 for 20 hrs. Visit www.mercuurtaal.nl or call 693 4250.

THE ARTS TUTOR/TRANSLATORExperienced translator (NL, FR, SP, GM, IT, PORT to ENG/FR), certified teacher/tutor (ENG/FR native speaker + beginner NL/SP)&publishedwriteravailable in A’dam. Quality guaranteed, references available. €20

POÉTICA BÁSICA. De Kattenbakcollectief presents Poética Básica: drawings and pictures by Eva NavarroMartínez. Opening Fri 9 Nov, 17.00-24.00. From 10 Nov until 2 Dec: Fri-Sun 14.00-18.00.

Location: Kattenbakoost,

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