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22 – 28 NOVEMBER 2007 Big Brother as fiction

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Looking reality in the eyes DOCUMENTARY KOPSTOOT insert FESTIVAL SPECIAL 30 years of Antwerp post-punk and new underground

At IDFA: Wild cat dancers page 6 / Mechanical love robots page 8 Doc short list pages 6-8 / Every fest needs a shadow page 7 Virtual thief arrested page 4 / Is the yum out of Yab Yum? page 5 ART/MUSIC: 12.5 years of HTV and 25 years of Cruise Inn p. 10 / FOOD: All the world’s a pancake p. 18

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

Reality is darn odd. And documentaries seek to reflect its nature the best they can. Sometimes this means attempting to document reality as objectively as possible; other times animation seems to get the closest in capturing its wiggly essence. So what would be the best way to document what’s happening right now with Anne Frank’s chestnut tree? Unless a court injunction comes through, it will have been chopped down by now. The city has given permission to the owner who fears the costs if the diseased tree falls on the surrounding houses— in particular, the Achterhuis itself.

Not only have neighbors protested, but many from afar have written emails to the mayor to request the tree be saved. Petitions have been signed and websites have been built. International news crews have set up camp.

Meanwhile someone has bid $700 on eBay for a chestnut from the tree itself. So how do you tell the full story? Maybe just with words: ‘Our chestnut tree is in full blossom. It is covered with leaves and is even more beautiful than last year...’

On the cover THE LATE JOY HOLIDAY Photo courtesy of Ron Holiday

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AROUND TOWN Virtual world now sitting closer to real world.

Grand Theft Hotel Craze of the Habbo-thingies as cybercrime hits NL.

By Jules Marshall Last week, Amsterdam police made their first arrest of an online thief—a 17-year-old accused of stealing virtual furniture from rooms in the Habbo Hotel, a networking website popular with teenagers around the globe. The unnamed teen, along with four other 15-year-olds who have also been questioned, are alleged to have tricked users of the 3D cartoon world into allowing virtual items to be removed.

Habbo users can create their own characters, decorate their own rooms with ‘furni’ and play a number of games, paying with Habbo Credits, which they have to buy with real cash. The stolen furniture, with a total value of €4,000, was found in the Ams-

terdammers’ own online hotel rooms.

Habbo is one of the world’s largest and fastest growing virtual worlds and social networking services. It is owned by Finnish internet company Sulake which said last month it had reached 82 million registered users in 31 local communities—that’s bigger than most countries.

‘The accused lured victims into handing over their Habbo passwords by creating fake Habbo websites,’ said a spokesman for Sulake. ‘As in many other virtual worlds, scamming for other people’s personal information such as user names has been problematic for quite a while.’

The arrest was instigated by Habbo as part of their Operatie Scam en Etter-Eliminatie! after several users had reported incidents. Though it is believed to be the first case of its type in Europe, virtual crime is already big in Asia.

A gang of Japanese teenagers were arrested in 2005 for making automated characters (or ‘bots’) to live in the game Lineage II, attack real characters and steal their money and artefacts.

Police in China have been tackling cases of virtual theft for years, including instances of organised gangs engaging in online robbery. Last year, officers in Shenzhen arrested more than 40 suspects who were accused of stealing up to 700,000 yuan

(€65,000) worth of virtual items from users of one popular website; Zhu Caoyuan was murdered over the theft of a sword that only existed in the game Legend of Mir 3.

Most police stations in South Korea, the most advanced cyber-economy in the world, have online patrols to deal with the increasing virtual crime, from gaming fraud or money laundering to basic theft. There have even been reports of virtual gangs of avatars (3-D representations) demanding virtual ‘protection money’ from ‘newbies’.

If this kind of crime has so far been a concern mainly for the young and geeky, experts warn it could soon affect most of us as virtual worlds become mainstream and the internet evolves into three dimensions.

Millions of young people reared on multiplayer games such as World of Warcraft have already adapted to it and they are being joined by corporations that see online worlds evolving into real economies where profits can be made.

It is baffling to many people how virtual goods, which have no existence outside the computer code that generates them, can be worth real money. But anything has value if people will pay for it.

Facebook users pay to send ‘virtual flowers’ to their friends. Someone in the there.com recently paid $83 in an auction for a limited edition virtual Levi jacket,

for their avatar; a real-world one costs $78.

Rob van Kranenburg has recently joined the Waag as Head of Program Public Domain. He’d like to see a bit of perspective as to who the real criminals are in the Habbo hack, and other virtual shenanigans. ‘What we are teaching kids is that there is nothing for free, everything costs money. To make them pay for something that is literally nothing is a money-making scam.’ Meanwhile, Sulake made a profit of over €30 million last year.

Van Kranenburg agrees that it is indeed a shame that the materialist paradigm of ‘scripted scarcity’ is being exported into the virtual realm, which is selling short the potential of cyberspace.

‘We should be very careful before we go throwing terms like “virtual theft” around, which is legitimising a whole way of doing business that transfers a 19th century business model and ethics into the 21st century world. ‘These Amsterdam teens only performed an algorithm that the site’s owners perform millions of times a day: click— that’ll cost you a euro; click click—that’ll cost you two euros. It’s all the same vanishing trick. So who’s the hacker? And what is this teaching our kids?

‘Is it so un-cool to teach them to look behind the program, to give them agency?

They should make the whole thing “open source” and teach kids to make their own rooms and hotels—this would be something worth charging for.’

As real money brings a virtual world closer to the real world, the objects in it matter more and earning money makes virtual work real. ‘Like sex, money gets into everything,’ said William Keegan in The Observer last weekend. ‘And once it’s there, jealousy, crime and violence won’t be far off.’

All said, what does Van Kranenburg think would be a fitting punishment for the teenage hackers? Community service online? A ‘Habbo chokey’ in which their avatars could spend some time? ‘The punishment should be to work with animals and not have any access to a PC for a week,’ he reckons. ‘That’s the only way to hurt them.’

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Yab Yum klaar?

Sex industry icon may soon be out of service.

For over thirty years Yab Yum, Amsterdam’s most exclusive, most expensive and certainly most famous gentleman’s society, has been at the pinnacle of the euphemistically named ‘relaxation industry’, providing solace to all those who need it— and can afford it—after or during a lucrative day of moneymaking. But Yab Yum’s days are numbered. Last Friday, Mayor Job Cohen announced that he will not renew the club’s exploitation permit, without which the club is not allowed to remain in business. Theo Heuft, the original owner who started it all in 1976, is saddened by the pending closure of his life’s work.

‘I started Yab Yum with the intention of creating a club with a level of quality that couldn’t be found anywhere else. And I succeeded: there have been many clubs that charged the same high prices as we did, but none have had the class and style to back it up. The beautiful furnishing and overall luxurious atmosphere set my place apart from others in the industry. Yab Yum wasn’t just a whorehouse—that only came second. Actually, you could almost call it a business center; eighty to ninety per cent of our customers were from the corporate world. I daresay many lucrative deals have been made in Yab Yum that wouldn’t have been possible without us. Whichever way you look at it, sharing a hot tub with your potential associate and a few gorgeous women tends to smooth your future relationship. Of course, I passed the torch eight years ago but from what I’ve heard, the quality and level of service have remained undiminished. It’s a real shame they’re closing it down.’

Unfortunately, the mayor is not concerned so much by the quality of the personnel as he is by the quality of the management. The decision to close the exclusive brothel followed ‘severely negative advice’ from Bureau BIBOB, an organization within the ministry of justice that carries out investigations under the 2003 law by the same name.

‘The BIBOB law is an instrument to combat interweaving of the criminal world with the non-criminal world,’ says Hendrik Woolbrik, spokesman for mayor Cohen.

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deemed susceptible to this, like the sex industry, applies for an exploitation permit or a renewal thereof, the Bureau BIBOB conducts an investigation into the company’s integrity and finances. If there is a strong possibility that the permit will be used to facilitate criminal activity, the mayor can decide not to issue it.’

‘Closing down Yab Yum is part of a moral offensive that the city is taking against the sex industry,’ says Mariska Majoor, spokeswoman of the Amsterdam Prostitution Information Center (PIC) and herself a former prostitute. ‘They’ve done it to Charles Geerts [‘King of the Wallen’] who recently sold part of his property under pressure from the city, and now they’ve targeted Yab Yum. It’s a signal saying, “if we can close down a club like this, we can do it to you, too.” The moral crusaders from PvdA are trying to discourage

people from starting businesses in the sex industry because they perceive it as dirty business, where the entrepreneurs are criminals and the women are victims of human trafficking. But I think the argumentation is weak and based on rumors such as the one that the previous owner sold Yab Yum below market price and so must have been extorted by the current owner.’

‘I am not at liberty to discuss what, exactly, prompted the negative conclusion in the case of Yab Yum,’ says Woolbrik. ‘But you can rest assured that we’ve not taken the decision lightly. We are, however, not waging any kind of war against the sex industry. The BIBOB investigation is a test we apply to every company applying for a permit in order to make the sex industry more transparent, and Yab Yum has simply not passed muster.’

Yab Yum Yum Yum.

All that’s left now, barring an unlikely intervention by the city’s committee for dispute resolution, is for Yab Yum to fight the decision in court. Although the club officially refuses to comment in the media, one employee, who wishes to remain anonymous, states that ‘we are definitely going to court and I’m sure the judge will send the city’s argumentation down the drain. If not, we’ll just start a new Yab Yum someplace else.’

Whatever happens, chances are that in a month, it’s curtain call for Amsterdam’s most renowned ‘relaxation company,’ at least for the time being, and businessmen discussing million-dollar-deals will have to find another gentlemen’s society with Jacuzzi-fitted rooms to bond in.

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Top: Cat Dancer Joy at work.

Bottom: Ron, Joy and William Holden’s gift in backyard.

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Right: Cat Dancers and lovers Chuck, Joy and Ron surround Jupiter.

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here’s no way not to be dramatic about this story: bisexual boy meets girl, they get married and together they rule the world as a profesional dancing couple—‘limos, champagne, everything’. This is how the lives of Ron and Joy Holiday began. All was glitter and gold. And spandex.

When their bodies started breaking down, they started to move into animal acts—spurred on by their friend William Holden, the star of Sunset Boulevard, who first gave them a black leopard as a gift.

The act grew and they needed a third party which came in the form of a handsome, and much younger, exotic animal trainer Chuck Lizza. Joy said: ‘I saw him first.’ Later Ron would say: ‘Yes, but I had him first’.

Soon the three formed a love triangle—a three-ring love circus of sorts. But no one knew. And all was good. Until 1998. Chuck was killed by Jupiter, their prized White Bengal tiger who was like a son to all of them. A deeply depressed Joy followed five weeks later when she entered Jupiter’s cage ‘and was thrown six feet in the air.’

Director Harris Fishman spent seven years on this tale, sifting through 160 extravagant hours of 8-millimeter films and videos, and befriending the lone survivor Ron. The result is riveting and often poetic viewing. And most strange of all perhaps, it’s not exploitative. We talk to Fishman from his home in Los Angeles.

STRANGERRRRRRR THAN FICTION Cat Dancers is a deeply odd trip into the world of Ron Holiday, complete with wild cats,love triangles and—ultimately—tragedy.

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How did you discover this story?

In 1998 my younger brother, Adam, was studying at Amazing Exotics, where Ron was teaching animal husbandry. Ron became Adam’s mentor. My mother told me, ‘You got to meet this guy. I think his story would make an amazing film.’ So I owe a lot to my family for my original inspiration.

I’m assuming that Ron didn’t need much convincing?

Ron was very interested in the idea initially. People had approached him before, even before the tragedies, to turn his story into a movie, but it never worked out. I first spent a great deal of time getting to know Ron and becoming friends with him without shooting any footage, to make him feel comfortable, relaxed and able to trust me.

At first, the tragic deaths of Joy and Chuck were still very fresh (for lack of a

better word) in his mind. So while Ron is a great raconteur and likes the spotlight in many ways, he was guarded, cautious and at times sceptical. But during the seven years it took to make the film, Ron went through a catharsis that made it less painful for him to share his story. The three of them were very private, and in a sense he was putting [their lives] on display, ultimately knowing that it would open them to outside judgement—not just the way Joy and Chuck died, but his training methods and, most importantly, the love they shared.

That was very hard for Ron especially, because Joy and Chuck, as he said, were taken away from him and he felt very alone. I did not want to be a part of that ‘judgement’. As a documentarian, I think it is important to leave the story open to many interpretations. Ron knew I respected him and saw him as a whole

person—not just some character living an alternative lifestyle ripe for exploitation.

But it also took me a long time to figure out the best way to show Ron—his life then and now—and what I wanted to say. There are so many themes underlying the part of Ron’s life shown in the film: loss and death, alternative lifestyles and ‘otherisation’, man versus animal, sexuality, omnipotence and potency, male versus female, control, animals in captivity, etc. So how to show that and not be exploitive and also engage the audience in the love story and the compassion I feel for Ron was extremely important. I did not want that to get lost through the shock of the tragedies. The film is not a traditional exposé; it’s a love story gone wrong and about one man who is trying to survive the loss of his family and make sense of that, and the life he lived.

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It’s suggested that Joy committed suicide, but not really confirmed.

What’s your opinion?

That’s a hard one. I do think she had a strong desire to die at the time. Whether her going into Jupiter’s cage was premeditated in the sense that she thought Jupiter would kill her, I don’t know. I’m not sure she consciously thought or believed that Jupiter would do such a thing. That’s why they didn’t put Jupiter down after Chuck’s death. Even though they knew he was inbred, I still think they didn’t want to believe that their baby— their son, Jupiter—could commit such acts. I also found it compelling that Ron spoke about Dr Kervorkian as a hero of sorts and that is why I chose to include his reference to Kervorkian in the film— so as to provoke questions in the audience as they relate to how and why Joy may have died.

Their training method seems to suggest it’s all about love and affection between human and beast. But isn’t animal training more about being the leader of the pack, the alpha male?

Could that explain a bit why things went wrong?

Maybe on some level. I do think that Ron was the ‘alpha male’, which is interesting since he is the survivor. When I see footage of Chuck, I don’t know that he ever felt truly in control with the cats. If you compare the stills of Ron and Joy with their cats that are interspersed throughout the film, I think it’s clear they are in charge. But the news footage, for example, of Chuck with Shogun, shows him being a little timid and maybe not completely at ease. But it is hard to say, because it’s clear that some of the animals chose Chuck as their ‘leader of the pack’. Also, the animals were kept in enclosed habitats once they got big, so in a sense they were ‘captive’ and clearly being led by Ron, Joy and Chuck.

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on Holiday won’t be at the Dutch premier of Cat Dancers—’My ballet company is putting on its first show, Phantom of the Opera, and I’ve designed some amazing costumes.’ But he’ll certainly be there in spirit as he tells us on the phone from his home in Grand Island, Florida.

Do you see a link with Werner Herzog’s Grizzly Man and the theme of ‘you probably don’t want to fuck with nature’?

Yes. That film was an inspiration. I often reflected on the myth surrounding Icarus and how it was relevant to the lives of Ron, Joy and Chuck. Eventually, if you play with fire long enough someone is bound to get hurt.

Wild animals should be in the wild—or so goes the logic. How do you see the current function of zoos and animal acts? Did your views shift during the film-making process?

When it comes to animal acts, my brother is still working with tigers and I worry about him a lot. But it makes him feel alive and connected. I’m still trying to understand the life Ron, Joy and Chuck and my brother, Adam, have chosen in terms of working with wild animals. I have tremendous respect for what they do but it still worries me. There is no doubt that the inherent danger is fundamental to the exhilaration people experience when devoting their lives to these wild animals.

That said, the sad reality is we need people dedicated to the welfare and wellbeing of exotic animals because there will always be animals born into captivity.

What’s Ron doing now?

Ron is living in Florida and teaching ballet.

In a way, he has gone back to the beginning. One of the great things about the film is that it gives Ron a chance to travel again. When the film was at the LA Film Festival, Ron came for the screenings. It was the first time he had travelled since Joy and Chuck died. It was thrilling and I think reinvigorating for him, which made me very happy for him.

Cat Dancers, IDFA, 25 November, Munt 11, 22:00; 28 November, Munt 11, 13:30; 1 December, Munt 10, 23:00.

Anything missing from the film?

Well, it could only cover the tip of the iceberg—unless you wanted to make a two-day documentary. But the film represents less my life and more so the whole process of recovery. I had a great life and career. Money. Fame. But then I lost the two people I loved. I was getting sued by four different law firms.

One day, I was walking my three dogs down Main Street wondering where I would end up. Burger King maybe? I passed a window where some construction workers were building a dance studio and I just went in and asked if they needed a ballet teacher and that started the ball rolling again.

Where’s Ron?

So how did you end up having such a deeply strange life?

Well, I don’t consider my life strange. Certainly unique from the point of view of others, I suppose... I was raised on a farm in Maine. My mother was a violinist and my father a farmer. Music and animals: it was the best of both worlds. She inspired me to ballet and he to animals. He didn’t love the fact that I was a dancer.

What did you think of the film?

I wouldn’t change a hair. Which surprised me. When the whole process began, I had crossed the line of sanity and it took me a while to get back. Harris was so patient.

In fact, he’s the most patient man I’ve ever met. I wrote the nastiest letters. I threw him out of the house and locked the doors. It brought up all the horrors again. But the whole process healed me.

I’m actually happy now and I never thought I’d ever say that again.

So you’re putting off your plans to join the monks who live in Thailand with the wild cats when you’re 80?

Yes. I said that when I was still lost. Oh I’m still going to go but I’m not putting a timeline on it anymore.

And do your young ballet students know about your past?

Well, with the internet and all that, they sometimes ask about it. Did that really all happen? And I answer them honestly.

And how did they react?

They just go ‘wow!’ That’s it.

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IDFA SHORT LIST IDFA takes place 22 November to 2 December at Pathé Tuschinski (Reguliersbreestraat 26), Pathé de Munt (Vijzelstraat 15) and Compagnietheater (Kloveniersburgwal 50). For full programme see www.idfa.nl. Single films cost €8 (€5.50 with €20 discount pass). Purchase tickets through website, by phone 427 2778 or at box offices at Pathé Tuschinski Arthouse (entrance beside Pathé Tuschinski).

ANIMATION DOCS Is it possible to combine enlightening documentary film-making with animation, a genre widely perceived as an attack on our precious brain cells? Darn tootin’, don’t be so high-falutin’! Take Abductees, a film in which people who claim to have been kidnapped by an irate ET tell their stories through animations based on their own drawings. Or Winsor McCay’s groundbreaking 1916 The Sinking of the Lusitania, a 12-minute propaganda film about the American ship that was torpedoed by a German Uboat off the coast of Ireland. And don’t miss the animation Masterclass with Paul Fierlinger on Friday the 23rd! Thanks to the HAFF for their fine selection. (Luuk van Huët) Various times and locations

AMSTERDAM RECONSTRUCTION Ever wondered what the heck goes on inside the Rijks or Stedelijk during these extensive renovations?

The French-born photographer and film-maker Jerome Schlomoff explored the transforming cultural spaces of his new hometown. He captured the essence of these metaphorical transmuting phoenixes of the arts, juxtaposed them with the hustle and bustle that characterise the docks of Amsterdam, and put it all together with a voice-over. On top of that, he uses a self-made 35mm pinhole camera to get back to the essence of film and photography. (Luuk van Huët) 25 November,Tuschinski 5, 14:00; 28 November, Tuschinski 5, 22:30.

CHICAGO 10 During the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, dissatisfaction with the government’s actions reached the boiling point in the US. Vietnam and the assassinations of Martin Luther King, and Robert Kennedy led to the formation of several protest groups, among them the ‘Yippies’ who planned a peaceful march during the convention. Brutal police action caused the protests to escalate, and eight Yippies were prosecuted. Director Brett Morgen does not rely on interviews, but instead combines archival material and fantastic animated sequences to re-create the court sessions. They blend almost seamlessly into an exciting portrait of the late ’60s. (Mike Peek) 22 November,Munt 12,19:45; 28 November,Tuschinski 1,21:45; 29 November,Munt 11,15:00; 2 December,Munt 12,13:00.

THE HALFMOON FILES As soon as it became possible to record sounds and images, people stopped really dying. Their voices continue to haunt us long after they’re gone. In this German documentary, we hear sound recordings of Indian soldiers who were held in ‘Halfmoon Camp’, a detention centre near Berlin, during the First World War, and were used as research subjects by anthropologists and other scientists. The recordings are part of an ambitious sound archive, which The Halfmoon Files employs to investigate the obvious and less obvious links between war, politics, media and colonialism. A very complex, experimental film, only for those who want to see the boundaries of documentary being pushed to their absolute limits. Directed by Philip Scheffner. (Mike Peek) 24 November, Tuschinski 5, 13:15; 27 November, Tuschinski 5, 22:30; 2 December,Tuschinski 3,12:00.

HOLD ME TIGHT,LET ME GO ‘Who did you hurt today?’ It’s a standard question at Mulberry Bush School, a last resort for traumatised, unruly children in the UK. Unable to cope with their emotions, they act out by biting, kicking and spitting.

Gradually we get glimpses of some of the causes of their behaviour. A boy whose mother stabbed his father tries to wound a classmate with a breakfast knife. Truly heart-wrenching are the rare visits of the parents (about six to ten times a year). The children are excited—one child pees himself—while the parents are uncomfortable, disinterested or scared. Directed by Kim Longinotto (The Day I Will Never Forget).

(Bregtje Schudel) 25 November, Tuschinski 1, 13:45; 26 November, Tuschinski 1, 19:15; 28 November, Munt 12,16:00; 29 November,Munt 9,10:00.

MAZIAR BAHARI’S TOP 10 DOCS The Iranian film-maker and journalist Maziar Bahari has been making passionate, bold documentaries about politically inflammable subjects in Iran and the Middle East for over 10 years, starting with The Voyage of the St Louis in 1995. This film depicted the tragic fate of the German-Jewish passengers of a ship that was denied entry at Havana in 1939 and subsequently travelled fruitlessly from port to port, ultimately ending up back in Europe just before the start of the Holocaust. It’s is a refreshing change to the Ahmadinejad rhetoric.

This year IDFA has invited Bahari to select 10 influential films, and he has selected eight documentaries (from Ophuls to Scorsese) plus two features: the hilariously grim Kubrick classic Dr Strangelove, which Bahari considers the best antiwar film ever made, and The Green Berets, which serves as an example of what Bahari calls the John Wayne mentality that rules most American foreign policy. Another example of ideological toxicity, albeit an undeniably well-made one, is Olympia by Leni Riefenstahl, which Bahari reckons was responsible for setting up the myth of Nazi Germany.

Currently Bahari is working on a documentary on Iraq, which he visited from the beginning of the current conflict as an unembedded film-maker. Besides his top 10 and a selection of his own films (including And Along Came a Spider, a documentary about an unapologetic Iranian serial killer who murdered prostitutes), Bahari will also host a masterclass on Sunday the 25th. (Luuk van Huët) Various times and locations.

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n this year’s Shadow Festival, the documentary fest that runs parallel to the more conventional IDFA, creativity takes centre stage.

‘Originality is a very slithery, subtle insider’s idea, one that changes,’ says organiser Stefan Majakowski. ‘For the festival, we don’t stick to any kind of definition—it’s all relative. But let’s just say we chose our opening film for good reason.’

That film, But Still, a German documentary recording a picnic of Tourette Syndrome sufferers, is one of many inventive documentaries the festival promises, including a wide array of films from Romania, Estonia, Switzerland, Italy, India and Belarus. On the programme are works such as Homeless Me, a graduate film made by James Newton chronicling his relationship with a homeless Japanese man in Tokyo; The Operating Theatre, Benoit Rossel’s film trailing an apprentice surgeon at a Swiss university hospital; and How I Became a Freelance Tour Guide,

by Jan Peters, a film diary of a Frankfurt pensioner who supplements his meagre funds by telling stories to tourists. All filmmakers will be present, and with scheduled workshops and lectures, the event promises to keep film-goers’ plates full.

While last year’s festival boasted three Dutch films, none made this year’s cut, something Majakowski chalks up to being ‘just how it goes’.

Of current Dutch work, Majakowski, who is also a guest teacher at the Film Academy, comments, ‘I think in Holland, we’re missing the confrontation with life.

A lot of film-makers here don’t want to delve into the subject, preferring to stylise subjects or have big crews. But Homeless Me couldn’t be simpler—just one camera,

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THE TRUTH IS IN THE SHADOWS From a Tourette Syndrome picnic to documentaries from youth,this year’s Shadow Festival slithers around the recesses of reality.

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two people—and it takes risks.’ And of course plunging into new territory is what good documentaries are all about.

Thank god for young people Perhaps that’s why the festival also grants special attention to emerging film-makers from Russia, Romania, Germany and the US, including film-makers from New York City’s ‘The Lab’, a free after-school program for high school students interested in documenting their lives. As Majakowski puts it, ‘Thank god for young people. If you stick to old names, you get the usual.’

One such film from ‘The Lab’ is 18-year old Max Blecker’s short So it Goes, a psychological examination of his father’s struggle with bipolar disorder. In whittling 10 hours of footage down to a compelling 14 minutes, Blecker says one of his biggest challenges was toeing the line between being honest and having respect for his dad’s feelings. ‘It was difficult to tell the story as it happened and not make him look too bad. But the overall message, I think, is that regardless of what kind of cross you have to bear, what defines a per-

son is how you deal with it,’ he says.

Blecker’s Lab-mate Efraim Klein will also be featured in the programme with the film Recruit Rosenberg, which follows Klein’s and Blecker’s friend Doran MillerRosenberg after he unexpectedly decides to join the US Marine Corps. They film his final weeks at home, both to document his experience joining the armed forces and to uncover the reasons behind his drastic decision. For Klein, making the film was both ‘baffling and shocking’—baffling, he says, to watch a friend who was ‘a liberal and intellectual, enlist in the most embedded sect of the US military,’ and shocking to see recruitment officers’ treatment, which made it ‘increasingly clear they really did not care about him personally, or anyone signing up, for that matter.’

‘What we really wanted to capture in this film was the absolute real experience of a young person, atypical of the majority of American citizens who enlist, joining the military during a time of war. I think we accomplished that, but also managed to complete a film that was surprisingly unique,’ he says.

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Clockwise from top left: Recruit Rosenberg, The Operating Theatre, How I Became a Freelance Tour Guide and As it Goes.

Doc power Asked what makes a documentary unique—the driving point of the festival—Klein readily answers, ‘The idea behind documentary, to me at least, is that the real world is already interesting, inspiring and infuriating enough that a film-maker should do nothing more than present what they see, and it’s in their presentation that determines the film’s uniqueness,’ he says. ‘If they’re antagonistic, I lose interest. If what they’re presenting is a subject that has been overused, I lose interest.’

Majakowski hopes the festival will give up-and-coming talent a platform to develop and ‘break open the media landscape’, as well as make quality story-telling available to a wider public.

‘We live in an age where the public realm is so infested with everyone’s thoughts, it’s important to return to the idea of the selective podium,’ he says. ‘After hearing how TV would disappear with the internet, we’re seeing that there’s still a great need for editorial selectiveness. With the festival, we want to create a fertile environment for appreciation.’

The Shadow Festival runs until 28 November at the 2nd floor of Escape (Rembrandtplein 11). For full programme see www.shadowfestival.nl. Single films cost €5. Reserve tickets by sending email to shadowreservations@gmail.com with exact time, date and title of the film or lecture; you will then receive a reply on how and where to pick up your tickets.

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FROM JAPAN WITH LOVE Can our love for an electronic ‘being’ be as genuine as the love we feel for creatures of a biological origin?

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PETER AND BEN / THE TAILOR Among all the heavy material, at least two shorts offer us some whimsical delight. Peter and Ben tells the hilarious tale of a farmer and his sheep Ben. Ben is a pet, but when he reaches puberty, Peter feels it’s time he returns to his flock.

The titular hero in El Sastre (‘The Tailor’) is a customer’s worst nightmare. The mending goes wrong, pants disappear. But Mohamed, the owner of the small shop in Barcelona, remains unperturbed.

Mohamed loses his calm only once. His employee was sick and the cameraman took him to the hospital.

‘I needed the camera guy!’ is his huffy response. (Bregtje Schudel) Peter and Ben, 28 November,Munt 11, 20:30; 30 November, Munt 12,18:30. The Tailor, 23 November, Munt 11,17:00; 24 November,Tuschinski 5,23:00; 26 November,Munt 9,12:00; 28 November,Munt 13,13:00.

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or many decades, robots have made our lives more comfortable. They perform the toughest jobs with more precision than any human ever could. But as our dependency on them has grown, dystopian visions about future robots enslaving their creators have begun to haunt us. Now, with the robots moving from the factories into our homes, the moment of truth is nearly here. Young Danish documentarist, Phie Ambo, thinks we’ll be all right: they come in peace and offer nothing but love.

Simple robots have been among us since our children started playing with talking and moving dolls. But only recently have they been put to use as something other than mere toys. In Mechanical Love, Ambo shows a number of people who live or work with robots and how that effects their lives. One of them is Frau Koerner, an elderly lady in a German nursing home.

She has a Paro, a mechanical seal, to keep her company when the staff is busy. Paro moves and reacts to the voice and petting of its owner. While at first, she clearly recognises Paro as a machine, Koerner gradually seems to forget that it is not real.

She even calls it the greatest joy in her life.

Ambo says: ‘Paro is just a physical kind of entertainment that stimulates in a way that a living pet could do as well. It’s a robot that is being used because we have made a need for it. In a lot of countries, it is considered low status to work in the nursing sector: the staff is busy and the families are not exactly rushing to go there every weekend.’

Is Paro an excuse to abandon our loved ones when they reach a certain age?

‘I do think that Koerner really loves her robot. It would be great if she had some friends come over instead of sitting with a robot on her lap, but that’s just not how her reality looks’.

Can our love for an electronic ‘being’ be as genuine as the love we feel for creatures of a biological origin? In one scene we see an aging woman whose third dog is dying. She has bought a Paro to ‘replace’ him because she doesn’t want to trouble her family with a real dog when she passes away herself. While this is in itself thoughtful, the scene feels uncanny because we

see the woman caring for her Paro intercut with images of her dying, real-life dog.

Ambo admits the provocative editing in this scene. ‘Rationally, we know that she is right, but emotionally we feel that she is doing something wrong. That clash interests me because I can not figure out exactly how I feel about it.’

Ambo doesn’t give us a clear vision of the future of human-robot interaction. ‘It has been very important for me that Mechanical Love raises more questions than answers,’ she says.

Professor Hiroshi Ishiguro is also featured in the film. This Japanese scientist developed an android that resembles him to a great degree. Over the course of the movie we see him perfect the robot’s movements before he confronts his small daughter with the machine. It’s a let-down, because she keeps saying that this is not her father and refuses to touch it. Ambo observes, ‘I think that Professor Ishiguro is so used to working with the androids that he sometimes forgets how strong an impact they have on “normal” people’. His daughter is indeed clearly impressed by her father’s mechanical twin and recognises it as a ‘presence’, but the confrontation mostly underwrites the assumption that there is still a long way to go before robots will truly resemble humans.

While Ishiguro is disappointed as a scientist, he is pleased to see that he is not yet replaceable as a father. That raises another question: what will robots do to our selfesteem once we have perfected their looks, movements and social skills? Will they replace us as parents, lovers and friends?

Will they make us insecure about being imperfect? ‘I actually think that robots can help us to understand how amazing we are as humans and inspire us to use our potential much more,’ Ambo says. ‘We are so incredibly complicated to copy. I can imagine that it will become a cool factor to stress our little irregularities and flaws and use them as qualities, because they are what make us human and unique.’

Mechanical Love, IDFA, 27 November, Munt 11, 19:30; 28 November, Tuschinski 2, 12:00; 29 November, Tuschinski 3, 12:45; 1 December, Munt 13, 16:45.

SHADOW OF THE HOLY BOOK Turkmenistan is one of the worst dictatorships in the world. In 2001, president-for-life Saparmurat Niyazov published Ruhnama, a book full of myths, rules and glorifications of Niyazov that became compulsory reading for every citizen. Despite his horrific regime, western companies are more than willing to do business with Niyazov because of his country’s natural resources. Finnish director Arto Halonen confronts these companies with their immoral behaviour. Unfortunately, he spends more time explaining his investigation than showing the horrors Niyazov inflicts on his people, making Shadow of the Holy Book too much of an ego trip for it to have any real impact. (Mike Peek) IDFA, 24 November, Tuschinski 1, 22:30; 28 November, Munt 11, 18:00; 29 November, Munt 9, 16:00; 1 December, Munt 13, 21:00.

STRANDED Some may remember the incredible story from the 1993 feature film Alive, with Ethan Hawke and Vincent Spano. In 1972, a plane carrying a group of young Uruguayan football players crashed in the Andes. For weeks they survived by eating chocolate, melted snow and human flesh. That film felt a bit cheap—cashing in on the horror stories of others—and, paradoxically, a little far-fetched. Stranded, however, shows us the real story behind the legend, without the special effects, but to much greater effect. In this harrowing documentary the survivors themselves get to talk about their ordeal and physically retrace their steps high up in the mountains. (Bregtje Schudel) 24 November, Tuschinski 1, 19:30; 27 November, Tuschinski 1, 21:30; 28 November,Tuschinski 1,11:00; 1 December,Munt 12,21:45.

WINGS OF DEFEAT When New York-born Risa Morimoto discovered that her uncle had been a kamikaze pilot for Japan in World War II, she was surprised and intrigued. He had never talked about it and didn’t seem to fit the image we have of fanatic suicide bombers after September 11th. She decided to investigate the position of kamikaze pilots and found out that most of them were innocent boys lured into the kamikaze force by false promises from the government. Morimoto interviews some survivors and uses archive material and animation to re-create the war. Recognising her own split identity, she delivers a thoughtful, provocative and well-balanced film. (Mike Peek) 24 November, Munt 10, 19:45; 29 November, Munt 11, 17:30; 1 December,Tuschinski 5.16:00.

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SICKO In order to speak more credibly on the American health care system, Michael Moore decided to drop a few pounds and look healthier himself. While he was at it, he also got rid of quite a few of his cheap editing tricks, throwing out most of his manipulative voice-overs and goofy montages and replacing them with poignant personal drama. Both the leaner look and the calmer style were excellent choices, resulting in a much tighter documentary than any he’s made previously, and probably also his best.

Moore’s intimate look at the stories of Americans who have suffered from ‘the dirty work of managed care’—as a former health insurance company employee puts it—is a real eye-opener for European audiences who’ve never really understood what this whole American health thing is about. At the same time, we Europeans might end up smiling to see the idyllic way in which the British and French systems are presented. We unfortunately know from experience that it’s not all as perfect as Moore would like his audiences to believe.

Still, Sicko is filled with extremely moving stories, which definitely benefit from the straightforward narration, and some unforgettable moments, including an unexpected visit by Michael Moore to the bust of Karl Marx in London. Who knew that a popular American film-maker could pull that off? (Massimo Benvegnu) Sicko is on general release from Thursday at Kriterion,The Movies,Pathé ArenA and Pathé de Munt.

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SHORT LIST

Chick Habit, Martin Hemmel, Saturday, Cafe Pakhuis Wilhelmina

THURSDAY 22 NOVEMBER

urday brings the El Rio Trio, Mischief!, Ronnie Nightingale & the Haydocks, Pep Torres & the Rock-A-Tones (US) and Wildfire Willie and The Ramblers (SW). (Mark Wedin) Cruise Inn, 19.30-4.00, €15 per night, €25 weekend pass. Also Saturday.

Jazz: Niño Josele Trio

Discussion: What’s Up?

Spanish guitarist Niño Josele, an accomplished flamenco virtuoso, came late to jazz, which might explain why he’s chosen to approach the music on his own terms. The work of pianist Bill Evans took a strong hold on him, and on his latest album Paz, which features tunes either by or associated with the pianist. The guitarist comes to the material neither as jazz improviser or as a fiery Gitano. Josele focuses on mood, atmosphere and melody—all strengths of Evans—while generally skipping the rigorous harmonic mastery the pianist was best known for. The ballad-heavy collection features an impressive array of guests—including Joe Lovano, Estrella Morente and Jerry Gonzalez, the trumpeter who first introduced him to jazz—but Josele’s resourceful playing should benefit from the elastic trio he brings to the Bim, which includes the explosive Cuban percussionist Horacio ‘El Negro’ Hernandez to disrupt the surfeit of placidity. (Peter Margasak) Bimhuis, 21.00, €20.

Amsterdam as ‘Creative City’ is of course a branding action. But luckily, like most clichés, it’s also true. And this monthly ‘show & talk’ attempts to make it even truer by bringing together inspired folks—everyone from fashion to graphic to industrial designers, film-makers, photographers, musicians, architects and general cultural players—to present their projects. This evening brings together the founders of creative agency Staat Amsterdam talking about why they created a mini-‘state’ in Tokyo; photographer Sander Veenemen presenting his visual protest against hunger and poverty called CitizenM; the initiators behind the Volkskrantgebouw describing their future plans; WOMEN Inc project leader Jannet Vaessen explains what’s coming up at this upcoming festival; and film-makers Femke and Ilse van Velzen describing their documentary Fighting the Silence, which has been nominated for IDFA’s Movies that Matter Award. But remember: Talk - Action = 0. (Steve Korver) Pakhuis de Zwijger, 20.30, free.

Music/Art: STRP Festival The posters should say: This year’s STRP Festival for art and technology is made possible by The Chemical Brothers. Really. The breakbeat superstars will pull the most visitors towards Eindhoven with their sold out show at the Klokgebouw, the pimped up former Philips factory building. Other important ticket shifting dance music acts like Róisín Murphy, Soulwax and Trentemøller might obscure the fact that the four-day festival was originally founded to present the more tech-heavy art of today. The megawatt-slurping STRP exhibition features interactive and robotic art from an international range of artists and scientists. Our Daily Bread, the immersive installation by American media art prodigy Ken Rinaldo, is an apocalyptic vision about the future of factory farming, where mooing cows clash with buzzing robots. Other whiz kids are responsible for the three-meter high mechanical dog, the motor karaoke, the flat screen tennis game, the pneumatic sound field, the brain car, the electronic hand of god and more fuse-blowing fun. See www.strp.nl. (Marinus de Ruiter), Various locations and times in Eindhoven, festival pass €38-€40. Until Sunday.

FRIDAY 23 NOVEMBER Rock: Cruise Inn 25th Anniversary In 1982, a rockabilly crew called ‘The Bop Cats’ were looking for a new home, a place to indulge in their love of ’50s-style rock ’n’ roll, and everything that came with it, including leather jackets, slicked-back hair and drunken good times in an old wood shed—which is literally where they ended up. The heavily side-burned group found solace in an old abandoned shed on the east side of town, fixed her up and began regularly scheduling rock gigs and DJ nights. They’ve since moved to a different location, but the original feel has never left, and this weekend boasts the 25th anniversary of their jumpin’ and jivin’ ways. Bands tonight include Carl and The Rhythm All Stars (FR), The Chessnuts, The Barnstompers and Big Sandy & the Fly Rite Boys (US). Sat-

SATURDAY 24 NOVEMBER Art: HTV De IJsberg 12.5 Year Party For 12.5 years, the free artist-made magazine The HTV was known as HTV De IJsberg (‘Het topje van de IJsberg’). The anniversary issue of the ‘bimonthly non-glossy’ will return to the iceberg once more, with articles by its founders, a ‘best of’ section and a look at the top of the Dutch contemporary art world. French scholars Alain Badiou and Jacques Rancière will represent the cream of contemporary philosophy. Beneath the tip of the iceberg, in the basement of the Post CS building, the magazine will be launched with a party and an actual art auction. Performing live on stage are art rockers The Biftecs, featuring photographer Koos Breukel and HTV editor-in-chief Tiers Bakker. Other acts tonight are Freddie Beckmans, Bas Jacobs and word and number artist PJ Roggeband. (Marinus de Ruiter) W139/Basement, 20.00, €5.

Rock: Dutch Courage Tour Expressions with the word ‘Dutch’ often have a pejorative meaning. Think ‘Dutch comfort’, ‘go Dutch’ or ‘Dutch treat’. In Dutch, ‘Dutch courage’ translates as jenevermoed, or courage derived from drinking jenever. If the bands of the Dutch Courage Tour need a few shots of Schiedammer soup to boost their performances remains unsure, but the fact is that tonight the Melkweg presents the cream of the crop of Dutch underground rock. Aux Raus combines classic punkrock with today’s techno, using only two drum machines, one guitar and one computer. In a few years time, Malkovich has become a household name in the European hardcore/rock scene. Usually their shows are being referred to as ‘intense’. Rumour has it they are heading for a shining future. The band themselves just adhere to the adage ‘There ain’t no party like a Malkoholic party!’ Malle Pietje & the Bimbos scorch the stage with raunchy punkrock. The titles of their first album (Are You Punk or Are You Drunk?) and their cult hit (‘Tienerhoer’) should give

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you an impression of what to expect. Just down a bottle of jenever and dive into the pit.

(Floris Dogterom) Melkweg, Oude Zaal, 20.30, €10 + membership.

Jazz: Yaron Herman Considering this 26-year old Israeli pianist got such a late start—turning to music once a hopeful future playing basketball was cut short by an injury when he was 16-—it’s hard not to be impressed by the vitality and authority he exhibits on his first trio recording A Time for Anything (Laborie). Herman clearly has a strong curiosity and broad appetite, pushing his trio, with the fine American rhythm section of bassist Matt Brewer and drummer Gerald Cleaver, through all sorts of stylistic turf. The influence of Keith Jarrett and Brad Mehldau looms heavily in his playing and the original ‘Monkey Paradise’ is a straight-up Monkian exercise. Elsewhere, he tackles everything from frothy adaptations of Brittney’s ‘Toxic’ and Bjork’s ‘Army of Me’ to a florid spin on Scriabin. He’s yet to fully emerge with a true personality of his own, but Herman has enough virtuosity and hunger that I don’t expect it will take him much longer to do so.

(Peter Margasak) Bimhuis, 21.00, €16.

Party: Chick Habit Bossa Boogie va yé yé! Those Bossa Boogie hipsters have been around for quite a few funky years now, schmoozing the dancefloors with their self-named ‘superfunkysoulbossafroreggaestyle’ tunes. And now it’s time for a special edition of the party: The Chick Habit night will specialise in French lady singers. The occasion: the release of the compilation Filles Fragiles by Bossa Boogie resident Guuz Hoogaerts AKA Aguuzto AKA Guuzman. Back-up on the decks comes from Martin Hemmel of the Atomic Cafe in Munich, who despite his teutonic hometown sure knows how to handle his musique francaise; and from Natasha, who runs the Amsterdam-based web radio station Oh-La-La—no further introduction needed. And no excuse accepted for not giving it all on the dans fleur tonight: Oui monsieur! Je peu boogíe! (Sarah Gehrke) Cafe Pakhuis Wilhelmina, 22.00, €5 (free before 23.00).

MONDAY 26 NOVEMBER Jazz: Sonny Rollins Five reasons to be grateful for the existence of Sonny Rollins: for traversing the entire history of post-war jazz and making contributions—always lofty, sometimes seminal— to much of it. For setting a sky-high standard on tenor saxophone that has never flagged, and that few other players have remotely approached. For continuing—for over 50 years—to pursue research into jazz and its possibilities (always going further, forever digging deeper), thereby providing the best proof I know of the depth and resilience of this wondrous vernacular music. For, at age 77, bringing his quintet to town and bearing all this history and accomplishment with grace both vast and understated. For the impossibility of limiting our reasons for gratitude for Sonny Rollins to only five. (Steve Schneider) Concertgebouw, Grote Zaal, 20.15, €67.

Pop/Rock: The Weakerthans ‘Melodic folk-rock’ and ‘introspective, poetic lyrics’ are phrases that are usually applied when describing The Weakerthans’ music. Those phrases are also the best way to keep me away from a gig, because they call up horrific visions of an audience of long-haired people wearing fey smiles, couples that do the spooning-while-standing-ata-concert thing, and utter boredom on stage. Nevertheless, when I let my friend drag me along to see The Weakerthans in Paradiso’s upstairs room a few years ago, nothing of that was to be found. Instead, it was one of the best shows I’d ever seen. The Weakerthans are one of those bands that are impossible to dislike. Whether it’s because of the lyrics, that are not only poetic but also very clever, because of the little punk twang that is still to be detected—a remnant of singer John K Samson’s time in Propagandhi—because of the band members’ genuine loveliness, or simply because they are just a very good band, I leave that up to you to decide. Support by House and Parish and Jim Bryson. (Sarah Gehrke) Melkweg, Oude Zaal, 20.30, €10 + membership, free for year members.

WEDNESDAY 28 NOVEMBER Roots: Orchestre Baobab One of the greatest and most legendary African bands of all time—in other words: if you regret never having seen Fela, don’t let the same thing happen with Orchestre Baobab—return to town to prove once again that they are ‘specialists in all styles’.

Formed in 1970 in Senegal, they kickstarted a musical revolution in an already swinging Dakar by mixing Cuban, South American and African rhythms. But while they were squeezed out of the business with the rise of the young mbalax punk Youssou N’Dour, they reunited in 2001 and released an album, Specialist in All Styles, produced by one of their biggest fans: Youssou N’Dour. Their latest release, Made in Dakar not only features crystalline songs but also a nice and lo-fi African club sound. So dust off those rumba shoes and book that ticket fast. (Steve Korver) Paradiso, Grote Zaal, 20.30, €22.50 + membership.

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30 years Antwerp post-punk and new underground

Expo & concert in Vlaams Cultuurhuis de Brakke Grond

30 years Antwerp post-punk and new underground 30.11.07 - 20.01.08 in Vlaams Cultuurhuis de Brakke Grond

KOPSTOOT! KOPSTOOT!

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ith the multi-media project KOPSTOOT! de Brakke Grond honours thirty years of Antwerp post-punk and new underground. The present dynamics of this vivid alternative scene are charted while simultaneously looking back on its recent history. All this on the basis of an impressive archive-installation, a opening night with concerts and a publication. For this project curator Johan Pas joined forces with artists Dennis Tyfus, Vaast Colson and Nico Dockx.

For many years now the Flemish metropolis has been a haven for avant-garde, from the roaring twenties to the provo happenings of the sixties, to the bubbly alternative scene of today. The present network of small record labels, alternative magazines, independent artists’ initiatives, multidisciplinary collectives and squatted sanctuaries had its first start in the early eighties, in the wake of punk, industrial and other subcultures that soon had a firm footing on Begian soil. < Club Moral: Force Mental. 3 maandelijks kultureel strijdschrift, nr.14, winter 1986 (cover: Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven)

Vaast Colson and Dennis Tyfus >

OPENING KOPSTOOT! in de Brakke Grond, Amsterdam THE PEOPLE BEHIND KOPSTOOT! EXPO, PUBLICATION AND CONCERT: 30.11.07 FROM 19.00HRS -ENTRANCE FREE

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n Friday evening, 30 November the exhibition is officially opened in the presence of Chiel van Zelst, nightmayor of Amsterdam, curator Johan Pas and the artists Dennis Tyfus, Vaast Colson and Nico Dockx. The compilers will be talking publicly to a number of figureheads from alternative networks. Come and be surprised while enjoying a drink and a bite. All those present will receive the publication specially prepared for this exhibition by Johan Pas and Dennis Tyfus.

KOPSTOOT! IN CONCERT – WITH CLUB MORAL AND OTHERS Is there a better way to open KOPSTOOT! than with a tightly packed concert night?

More than twenty years ago, the Antwerp collective Club Moral experimented with cross-overs between the visual arts, performance and noise/industrial performances. Dennis Tyfus, Nico Dockx and Vaast Colson allow you to see and hear what is going on in Antwerp at the moment in the way of performance, alternative music and their cross-overs. It includes the legendary industrial combo Club Moral of artists Anne-Mie van Kerckhoven and Danny Devos, the grim guitar force of White Circle Crime Club, Building transmissions, Spacecactus, Cassis cornuta, Orphan fairytale, Maskesmachine and Dirk Veulemans. The concert starts at 20.30hrs.

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Johan Pas (1963) is a Doctor in the Art Sciences and teaches at the Hogeschool Antwerpen. He is an exhibition maker and an author. He is fond of archives and is a fervent collector of ruins and publications on and by post-1968 artists. His recent research is directed at Belgian avant-garde art in the seventies and eighties.

Vaast Colson (1977) addresses in his performances and installations the origin of the image, the methodology of the visual language and the role of art and the artist. With playful acumen he pricks through his artistic predecessors’ constructions thus producing new roles and identities of his own.

Nico Dockx (1974) cherishes a fundamental interest in archives and structural processes such as data, memories, information, distribution and management.

The result of close collaboration with other artists, his performances, installations, publications and videos explore the relation between perception and memory.

Dennis Tyfus (1979) is the man behind Ultra Eczema that produces vinyl records, posters and booklets, and organises happenings, performances, radio programmes and other underground events. His productions range from drawings on all kinds of carriers, and CDs with noise produced by children or radio-phonic and telephonic experiments to T-shirts and fanzines. WWW.DENNISTYFUS.TK OPENING TIMES:

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30 years Antwerp post-punk and new underground 30.11.07 - 20.01.08 in Vlaams Cultuurhuis de Brakke Grond < Ruimte Morguen, Club Moral, Parbleu: Dossier Antwerpen, Antwerpen, 1993 (cover: Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven) Dennis Tyfus, Drawings and Sounds Kids Can Easily Recognize (met audio-cd), Ultra Eczema 10, Antwerpen, 2005 >

< Harry Heirmans & Chris Straetling, Factor 44 (1996-2006) Les Jours Fixes (Chronologie); Antwerpen, 2006 (cover gereviseerd door Harry Heirmans)

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t has become obvious to many people that among, and side by side with, the familiar field of galleries and museums in Antwerp a network is forming of artists, musicians and performers for whom exchange, collaboration and interdisciplinarity are highly meaningful concepts. ‘Alternative’ places such as Factor 44, Radio Centraal and Scheldapen form, almost literally, temporary intersections in this sliding landscape which is for the rest inhabited by oneman organisations and temporary collectives. Minor record labels, artists’ initiatives and multidisciplinary collectives operate apparently in the periphery of the official artistic landscape but this is no impediment to temporary connections with the more ‘official’ or mainstream institutions. Kopstoot! (Butt of the head) is going to chart that present-day dynamic in the Antwerp scene and connect it to its recent past in the eighties and nineties.

The internal links will be the international contacts, the self-organisation by artists and the junctions between visual art, performance and music. The art-historic canon has it that after the more ‘collectivistic’ art of the seventies, the eighties heralded the decade of the post-modern individualist, whereas the nineties were again in the sign of a more ‘social’ artistic calling. This is only partly right. In the eighties, too, there was, apart from the advent of museums of modern art and the success of galleries, a great activity of groups, artists’ spaces and collectives.

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he activities and publications of a post-punk collective such as Club Moral prove this. In recent years there seems to be, in fact, an ever easier cross-fertilisation between the visual arts, music, performance and artists’ publications as well as between artists among themselves. On closer inspection they turn out, however, to go back to the core of the historical avant-garde. Kopstoot! consists of a ‘floating archive’ with documents and publications, and a concert night (De Brakke Grond, Amsterdam), a publication and a book club(De Bewaerschole, Haamstede). The shape of the project was the result of close collaboration between an art historian (the undersigned) and the artists Dennis Tyfus, Vaast Colson and Nico Dockx.

Apart from the fact that the latter three are deeply interested in the interplay between the visual arts and music, and often operate in usually temporary cooperatives, each of them also cherishes a lively interest in the recent past of art.

That makes this project into a hybrid affair: it is neither a work of art, nor theory of art, but contains traces of both.

Our working method may be likened to that of an archaeologist who marks off a restricted area, easily surveyed, and subsequently proceeds to scratch off layer after layer, simply registering the visual trace without interpreting them. Reconstructions, after all, per definition take place after the event.

‘A Kindergarten teacher had scared my mother by getting her to believe that I couldn’t draw and that such a thing was not normal.

Since then I have never stopped drawing.’

Dennis Tyfus, interviewed by Hans Theys for the magazine Nieuwzuid and the book De schouw van Gaudi

coming soon: FESTIVAL SOMETHING RAW - dance/performance/visual arts 5 UNTIL 09 FEBRUARY 2008 De Brakke Grond and [FRASCATI] organise the sixth edition of the international dance festival Something Raw. Be prepared for a many-layered mixture of short choreographies, performances, installations, films, debates, workshops and music. With a fine selection of visual arts and installations on top, compiled in collaboration with art organisations De Appel and W139.

VICTORIAN CIRCUS - new media 9 UNTIL 12 APRIL 2008 De Brakke Grond highlights the most striking developments in the world of new media. In the daytime you will be enjoying an ample menu of installations and media art, debates, workshops and expert meetings. In the evening you can relish all kinds of lectures, presentations, performances, DJ- and VJacts, projections, concerts and performances.

Johan Pas Curator Kopstoot!, October 2007

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VLAAMS CULTUURHUIS DE BRAKKE GROND brings you the most distinctive art from Flanders. From visual arts, literature, dance, theatre and music to performance, film and new media. Innovation, cross-fertilisation, interdisciplinarity and artistic daring occupy centre-stage. Besides from being a safe haven and partner for artists from Flanders, the Netherlands and the whole world, De Brakke Grond is also a place for reflection, debate and discussion.

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Amsterdam Weekly massively hyped during 2007 and now Amsterdam gets to decide whether it wants its dancefloor fillers performed with the bombast of stadium rock. Paradiso, Grote Zaal, 23.30, €16 + membership

Sunday 25 November Classical: Egmont Kwartet Amsterdam Works by Mozart, Schumann and Piston. Bethaniënklooster, 15.00, €16.50 Classical: Toets des Tijds Piano Concert Series Fortepiano performance by Chie Hirai. Werkgebouw Het Veem, 15.00, €10 Contemporary: Gerda Geertens Contemporary electronica and VJing. De Cameleon, 16.30, €10

Dutch Courage Tour, Aux Raus, see Saturday

Bach and Jose de Nebra, with soprano Maria Bayo.

Muziekgebouw, 20.30, €22.50

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

For full listings see www.amsterdamweekly.nl.

Thursday 22 November Classical: KCOV Amsterdam A touch of German magnificence with this programme based around Brahms’ sacred choral work Ein deutsches Requiem; conducted by Frank Hameleers. Concertgebouw, Grote Zaal, 20.15, €27.50

Experimental: AUXXX A new channel for unconventional artists, tonight featuring Kain the Poet & Baby Kain Band and Ausweis (DE). OCCII, 21.00, €5 Rock: Cool Schmool! Diverse femme guitar sets from Patterns (DE—token boys tonight), Hooker (UK), Marie Celeste and Pony Pack. OCCII, 21.00, €5 Jazz: David Murray Black Saint Quartet The Californian sax player gets back to his pure American jazz roots with the great piano talent Lafayette Gilchrist, bassist Ray Drummond and drummer Andrew Cyrille.

Bimhuis, 21.00, €20 Singer-songwriter: Fink Part of the Ninja Tune clan, Fink is folky at heart, but blending in electronics makes him a much more trippy affair than the standard acoustic patterns. Bitterzoet, 22.00, €8 Rock: Yeah Baby Rockabilly. Maloe Melo, 22.00, €5 Pop: Benny Sings Funky and soulful ’70s-style pop from the playful Amsterdammer. Paradiso, Kleine Zaal, 22.30, €12 + membership Jazz: Reboot Your Soul Mixed with sassy soul, funk, hiphop and R&B, and driven by Rotterdam trumpeter Rob van de Wouw. Badcuyp, Noordpool, 23.00, €8

Saturday 24 November Contemporary: New Venture Trio Originals by pianist Jean van Vugt, presenting new CD Her First Waltz. Concertgebouw, Kleine Zaal, 14.15, €25 Heavy: !Core! Featuring four crushing hardcore bands.

Zaal 100, 20.00, €5 Róisín Murphy Electronica: Róisín Murphy Theatrical pop-worthy dance tunes from the former frontwoman of Moloko.

Paradiso, Grote Zaal, 20.30, sold out

Singer-songwriter: Molly Johnson Canadian pop diva turned vocal jazz star. Paradiso, Kleine Zaal, 20.00, €16 + membership Pop/Rock: Stofpop Six new bands get a chance to shine. Sugar Factory, 20.00, €5

Hiphop: NDSM Underseas presents North Beat An Amsterdam hiphop special including guest rappers from Noord and an open mic DJ and MC freestyle session. Stubnitz, 21.00, €5

Classical: Cecilia Bartoli A voice to end all voices? A ticket to empty all wallets? This evening, the world renowned Italian mezzo-soprano is backed by Orchestra La Scintilla for a ‘romantic revolution’. Concertgebouw, Grote Zaal, 20.15, €135

Flamenco: Nederlandse Flamenco Biënnale Intermezzo Trio Niño Josele, featuring Horacio ‘El Negro’ Hernández come to Amsterdam for a jazzy flamenco tribute to Bill Evans. See Short List. Bimhuis, 21.00, €20

Rock: Dutch Courage Tour A little bit of noise and a little bit of angst. See Short List. Melkweg, Oude Zaal, 20.30, €10 + membership

Pop/Rock: Yeasayer Polyrhythmic pop ambience.

Paradiso, Kleine Zaal, 22.15, €7 + membership

Friday 23 November Pop/Rock: Subbacultcha! With Check 1-2 and Tiny Vipers (US). De Nieuwe Anita, 20.00, €6 World: Alicia Svigals A keen American fiddler and co-founder of The Klezmatics, Svigals performs tonight with cymbalist Pete Rushefsky. Concertgebouw, Kleine Zaal, 20.15, €28.50 Opera: Carmina Burana Performed by the singers of the Minsk Bolshoi Theater. Meervaart, 20.15, €35 Rock: Two Gallants Indie rockin’ duo from San Francisco, with ripping live shows. Support from indie country blues band Blitzen Trapper. Melkweg, Oude Zaal, 20.15, €11 + membership Classical: Combattimento Consort Amsterdam Vocal outing, with works by Händel, Telemann, Hasse,

Classical: Nederlands Kamerorkest Performing Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape with music by Hungarian composer Gyula Csapó. Muziekgebouw, 20.30, €32 Pop/Rock: Finale Amsterdamse Popprijs Local battleof-the-bands where the winner receives €500. Finalists include: Roodkapje & Het Blauwe Gevaar, Alura, John Carrie & Moor Green, Dog Called Phenix, Clemm and T.IF.T. Melkweg, The Max, 21.00, €10

Serj Tankian Heavy: Serj Tankian Melkweg promotes this show as ‘the voice of System Of A Down’. Perhaps it’s more appropriate to say ‘the one from System of a Down who can actually sing… when he wants to’. Going solo temporarily, he gets musically selfish, though is as outspoken and chaotic as SOAD fans would want.

Melkweg, The Max, 20.00, sold out Classical: London Symphony Orchestra Led by Russian conductor Valery Gergiev, it’s time to get tragic with Mahler’s Sixth. Concertgebouw, Grote Zaal, 20.15, €106.50 Pop/Rock: Super Furry Animals Welsh musical superheroes who’ve gone from pop to psychedelia, electronica to quadrophonic soundsystems and, fortunately for pop purists, they’ve looped back around to delicious slices of melodic guitar grandeur. Melkweg, Oude Zaal, 20.30, €15 + membership Contemporary: Alice in Space An improvised space opera for two voices, musicians and universe, adapted from the cult classic Dimension of Miracles by Robert Sheckley from 1968. With lyrics and vocals from Ineke van Doorn, narration by Ingmar Heytze/Vincent Wijlhuizen and music from Marc van Vugt’s Big Bizar Habit. Bimhuis, 21.00, €14 Rock: Cougar Instrumental post-rock band from Wisconsin. Paradiso, Kleine Zaal, 21.00, €6 Experimental: Lawrence English, Bronnt Industries Kapital Electro-acoustic soundscapes and explorations. Stubnitz, 21.00

Monday 26 November Heavy: Qui, Future of the Left LA noise punks Qui feature vocals from former frontman of The Jesus Lizard, David Yow. Cardiff band Future of the Left includes two former noise-mongers from Mclusky. Paradiso, Kleine Zaal, 20.00, €7.50 + membership Roots: Ryan Adams If anyone can release too many songs for their own good, Adams can. Course, there are still gems there if you dare to sift. RAI, 20.00, €30€36 Heavy: Sonata Arctica Finnish progressive power metal. Support from Epica. Melkweg, The Max, 20.00, €22.50 + membership

Jazz: Yaron Herman Hot young Israeli pianist melding jazz with contemporary pop. See Short List. Bimhuis, 21.00, €16

Soul: The Four Tops, The Temptations Two legendary Motown bands collide in Zuidoost. Heineken Music Hall, 20.00, €39-€46

Pop: Federico Aubele Worldly sounds coming together with folk, reggae, electronics and funk. Tonight, however, it’s served as an acoustic duo. Bitterzoet, 21.30, €7.50

Jazz: Sonny Rollins A proper jazz legend. See Short List. Concertgebouw, Grote Zaal, 20.15, €67

Hiphop: Nederhop Night With De Rus and Scylla.

OT301, 22.00, €5 Rock: Amsterdam BeatClub ’60s night, with The Spinshots and The 1-2-5. Maloe Melo, 23.00, €7 Electronica: Justice Cheesy pop or the saviours of the electronica scene? This French duo have been

Contemporary: Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Quartet Primarily modern works performed on recorder, with quick visits to the 14th and 18th centuries. Muziekgebouw, 20.30, €20 Pop/Rock: The Weakerthans Melodic Canadian indie rockers. See Short List. Melkweg, Oude Zaal, 20.30, €10 + membership

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Jazz: Gutbucket Free-range jazz punk from NY with sax man Ken Thomson, guitarist Ty Citerman, bassist Eric Rockwin and drummer Adam Gold. Support from Brown vs Brown. Stubnitz, 21.00 Experimental: DNK-Amsterdam Two parallel listening environments promising four hours of sustained acoustic and synthesised sonorities. OT301, 21.30, €4 Latin/Jazz: Rumbatá Led by percussionist Jaime Rodríguez, Rumbatá plays a lot more than just salsa—though it’s a fun enough start to your Monday night. Sugar Factory, 22.00, €8.50

Tuesday 27 November Singer-songwriter: Hanne Hukkelberg Sassy Norwegian who layers her folky acoustic pop with jazz swing.

Paradiso, Grote Zaal, 20.00, €10 + membership World: Choir, Ballet & Orchestra of the Russian Army of St Petersburg Traditional Russian folk songs and dance, performed by 100 artists. Concertgebouw, Grote Zaal, 20.15, €36.50/€44.50

Electronation, Abe Duque, see Friday

Pop: Hooverphonic Ten years ago, Hooverphonic were being touted as Belgium’s answer to Portishead.

They’ve expanded their repertoire since, with most recent effort The President of the LSD Golf Club exploring ’60s pop psychedelia. Melkweg, The Max, 20.30, €15 + membership

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Singer-songwriter: Justin Nozuka Soulful acoustic pop from Toronto. Support from Londoners Ben’s Brother. Melkweg, Oude Zaal, 20.30, €10 + membership

Wednesday 28 November Classical: Lunch Concert Preview of the RCO with Daniele Gatti. Concertgebouw, Grote Zaal, 12.30, free Reggae: Gentleman & The Far East Band German reggae star. Heineken Music Hall, 19.30, €35

Thursday 22 November Vreemd Acid, minimal, electro, techno. DJs Lupe, Zender and Wesdex. Sugar Factory, 23.00-05.00, €8 Riot! One room of electro, pop, house and bailefunk.

The other dishes out hiphop and R&B with no regrets.

Studio 80, 23.00-late, €7.50, free before 00.00

Friday 23 November Beatbox Diverse music and acts with this party celebrating its first birthday. Panama, 22.00-04.00, €10 Freitag That Friday feeling gets a quickfire boost in tonight’s Circus Company special. Flex Bar, 22.0005.00, €10 Awakenings Everyone’s fave techno fest which always delivers the most drug arrests. Westergasfabriek, 22.00-07.00, €35/€65 IDFA Dance Nights Eclecticism meets hiphop, funk and soul—docu style! Studio 80, 22.00-late Parasoul Dancing under the umbrella of soul and Motown with DJs Filemon, Din and special guests.

Club 8, 22.00-late, €9 Club KRANG! Deep, funky, tripped-out dance music with Moritz von Pein (Germany) and more. Akhnaton, 23.00-05.00, €10 klinch: Electronation Progressive dance night with the Amsterdam electro kings taking centre stage tonight. Special guest is Abe Duque (NY), blending techno, electro and house. Melkweg, Oude Zaal, 23.00-late, €15 + membership

Bishop Allen Pop/Rock: Bishop Allen Brooklyn indie rock. Paradiso, Kleine Zaal, 20.00, €7.50 + membership Classical: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Schumann’s Manfred Overture; Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto in E; and Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No.5. Conducted by Daniele Gatti. Concertgebouw, Grote Zaal, 20.15, €47.50 World: Orchestre Baobab Senegalese Afro-Cuban superstars. See Short List. Paradiso, Grote Zaal, 20.30, €22.50 + membership Rock: The National Critically acclaimed—and deservedly so—songs from this Brooklyn outfit don’t jump out at you as much as they creep up behind you when you’re crying on the stairs and put their arms around you before teaching you how to tie the noose. Support from delightfully downbeat Canadian singer-songwriter Hayden.

Melkweg, The Max, 20.30, €11 + membership Experimental: Clayton Thomas & Guests An Australian bassist based in Berlin whose use of extended techniques and extreme physicality bring a new voice to the double bass. Also with Clare Cooper & Marco Cicilliani and Bingo Atlas (Cor Fuhler, Colin Mclean and Andy Moor). OT301, 21.00, €5 Hiphop: Def P en co Powerful Nederhop from the Osdorp Posse rapper. Melkweg, Oude Zaal, 21.00, €12 + membership Rock: Volcom Party Skate, surf ’n’ snow lovers unite, with sets from Year Long Disaster (US), Birds of Avalon (US) and Zeus. Bitterzoet, 21.00, free Blues: Boney Fields Blues Band Chicago blues. Maloe Melo, 22.00, €5

DeReiger & SP A hiphop, funk and soul mix. Bitterzoet, 23.59-04.00, €7.50 Paradisoul With Real El Canario, The Flexican, Off The Wall, RiskSoundSystem and Lex Empress. Paradiso, 23.59-05.00, €12.50

Saturday 24 November Bossa Boogie With some cheeky French soul, funk, beats ’n’ boogie. Cafe Pakhuis Wilhelmina, 22.0003.00, €5 Au10tique Deep house and soul with Rutger Docter and Edo Salgado. De Kring, 22.00-04.00, €8 Sorria Clubbing with Brazilian flair. Westerliefde, 22.00-04.00, €12.50 Sub United With Josz le Bon, Ms Syche, Chamelian and VJ Hummer. Flex Bar, 22.00-05.00, €8 Awakenings (See Friday) Westergasfabriek, 22.0007.00, €35/€65 IDFA Dance Nights Eclecticism and pop with the David Gilmour Girls, Kid Reve and more. Studio 80, 22.00-late Static Wired electo with Digitaline (France), Rejected and Thomas Martojo. 11, 22.30-04.00, €15 Papaya A warm blend of beats, grooves, house, hiphop and soul. Bitterzoet, 23.00-04.00, €7.50 We All Love ’80s and ’90s Well, some people do, so it’s handy when they congregate in one place. Panama, 23.00-04.00, €12.50 Gloss.. Hotel Edition! With Ricky Rivaro, Gregor Salto, Rishi Romero, Lucien Foort and Issie Star. The Powerzone, 23.00-05.00, €15

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22-28 November 2007 The Arc of Goa The foundations are always progressive trance and psy-trance, but spread across three rooms, there’s also a special Balkan/klezmer party and a worldly live jam. Stubnitz, 23.00-08.30, €22.99 Rex...Electronation That branch of Electronation that’s all bite, with sets from Ata, Meat and Arter. Sugar Factory, 23.59-05.00, €10

Sunday 25 November Vanity on the Floor Mirrors at the ready. Panama, 21.00-02.00, €5 Represent Simple concept: 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

Monday 26 November IDFA Dance Nights Balkan bash with live music and DJ Tommi. Studio 80, 22.00-late

STAGE Opening Dance: Telling Time Double programme featuring Paul Gazzola’s Two (performed in Melkweg Theater at 20.00) and Andcompany&Co’s Time Republik (performed at the Gasthuis at 22.00). Various locations, (Thur, Fri 20.00), €8 Music/Theatre: The Sadists Rock ’n’ roll theatre. Studio K, (Thur, Fri 21.00), €11.50 Music/Dance: Decoyed This co-production between Dansity, Grand Theatre Groningen and the Nederlands Vocaal Laboratorium takes its inspiration from the mythological tale of the Sirens, with the concept and choreography devised by Pieter de Ruiter and Eva Villanueva. Theater Bellevue, (Thur-Sat 20.30), €16

Tuesday 27 November

Bert Trotjohann, see Opening

Voidd Sessions Electro and techhouse to celebrate their first birthday. Winston Kingdom, 21.00, €6

Wednesday 28 November Rub-A-Dub Inna Winston Reggae and dub special hosted by the Covenant Soundsystem with Neville Valentine. Winston Kingdom, 21.00-03.00, €5

Eddie Danst

For full listings see www.amsterdamweekly.nl.

Theatre: Eddie Danst A glam rock perspective of the darker side of life from Theatre group Ponies. Theater Bellevue, (Thur-Sat 20.30), €13

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Dance: Double Exposure New York dancers collide with talented locals. Choreographies by Jana Hicks (US), Marijke Eliasberg and others. De Engelenbak, (Fri, Sat 20.30, Sun 14.30), €11

Saturday 24 November

Performance: Impro Songfestival Jazz, pop and cabaret. Who can think on their feet and sing with the beat? Betty Asfalt Complex, (Sat, Sun 20.30), €12.50

Sex club: (Z)onderbroek A sexy new, twice-monthly underwear party for men with a strict (un)dress code of briefs, boxers, jockstraps, swimming costume, or shorty sports pants. See www.gala-amsterdam.nl.

Club La, 16.00-20.00, €8 Party: Aphrodite Amsterdam Big lesbian party at Aan het IJ, this time with a jungle theme. No Tarzan though—just Jane, Jane and more Janes. DJs include Bo Monde (Prik, COC), plus glamorous and queer entertainment. Paviljoen Aan't IJ, 22.00, €19,50/€23,50 Club: UNK Monthly electro beats, straight-friendly, gay night. Attracts a youngish, up-for-it, mixed crowed.

Club 8, 22.00, €8

Sunday 25 November Contest: Pink Trivia Quiz What was Kylies first ever hit? What was Freddie Mercury’s real name? What are the names of Maxima’s and Willem-Alexander’s kids? Win booze with your knowlegde of such important questions about gay icons. PRIK, 20.00, free

Monday 26 November Sex club: After Weekend Sex Party Monday nights don’t have to be boring. Just head to this no-attitude sex party for men in all shapes and sizes. Cheap booze and plenty of action. Dress-code: underwear Same Place, 20.00, €3/€5

Tuesday 27 November Film: Movie Night at PRIK Screening of the beautiful, feel-good homromcom ‘Beautiful Thing’. Set in working-class London, youngsters Jamie and Ste come of age and come out. PRIK, 19.00, free

Wednesday 28 November Like it or Not Diva Mayday spins her favourite dancey tunes, accompanied by free snacks. De Engel van Amsterdam, 21.00, free Club: F*cking Pop Queers Queers love pop, and this is where they get their fill. Expect Madonna and electro, urban and indie, new and classic to battle it out on the floor they call dance. Studio 80, 23.00-05.00, free before 00.00, €5 after

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Dance: Simple Things Exploring the simple power of relationships in this Hans van Manen choreography.

The programme also features world premieres of works

by Lukas Timuklak and Gustavo Ramirez Sansano.

Stadsschouwburg, (Sat 20.15), €12-€25

Performance: De Brakke Zondag with Job Cohen The burgermeester does Broadway. Or possibly just talks about his fave theatre scenes, while others do all the hard work of bringing them to life. Here’s hoping he’s picked up a few tips from Mayor Quimby and invited some Amsterdam mafia fiends to the theatre. In Dutch. De Brakke Grond, (Sun 16.00), €8.50 Theatre: Liaisons Dangereuses Het Nationale Toneel take you back to decadent 18th-century Paris in this adaptation of Pierre Choderlos de Laclos’ famous novel. Johan Doesburg directs, Ariane Schluter and Gijs Scholten van Aschat lead the cast. In Dutch. Stadsschouwburg, (Sun, Mon 20.15), €12-€23 Performance: Show Me Your Second Face An original concept where music meets fashion. Besides her music, there are two items drawing attention on the stage: Tomoko Mukaiyama’s piano and her dress.

Throughout the performance the latter will transform into a huge installation involving the piano. The music is a voyage into the past 400 years, touching on works by Sweelinck, Bach, Korndorf and Kerkhof but reworked with electronics. Muziekgebouw, (Wed 20.30), €20

Ongoing 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, (Daily), various prices Festival: Project Perform The group Perform are 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 a series of experiments and conceptual exploration. De Brakke Grond, (Thur 19.00), €8.50 Comedy: Comedy Explosion This week featuring American stand-up Tom Rhodes and Australian Steve Hughes. In English. Comedy Theater, (Thur-Sat 20.30), €12.50 Comedy: Stand-Up Comedy Show Featuring varying performers and MCs. In English and Dutch. Comedy Cafe, (Thur-Sat 21.00, Fri, Sat also 23.30), €10/€15 Dance: Open Stage DanceStreet, (Sat 20.00), €5 Music/Theatre: Boys in the Band A unique musical evening from the Orkater group. Theater Bellevue, (Mon 20.30), €16

Opening Bert Grotjohann Glass artworks. Jan van der Togt Museum (Thur-Sun 13.00-17.00), Amstelveen, opens Thursday, until 9 December Desert Generation A touring exhibition featuring Palestinian and Israeli artists from around the world, Desert Generation includes hundreds of drawings, paintings and photos created in response to 40 years of Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

Alongside the artworks, the gallery is also running a busy programme of talks, workshops and film screenings. See www.desert-generation.nl for schedule.

Meneer de Wit (Wed-Sun 14.00-18.00), opens Thursday, until 2 December Nico Lootsma Part of RISK: Beeldend Theaterdagen, this is an installation of five towers, each about two metres high, containing found objects, lights and sound. Ostadetheater (Daily), opens Thursday, closing Sunday Roelof Frankot Diverse paintings by the late Dutch artist. Jan van der Togt Museum (Thur-Sun 13.0017.00), Amstelveen, opens Thursday, until 9 December Surrealism A surrealistic art exposition by Ai Safari from Bali. In his detailed compositions he adds handmade materials into his paint. Under black light, this gives the illusion of 3D dimentions. Stone Valley Amsterdam, opens Thursday, until 19 December This Woman’s Work Diverse works by Baukje Rienks, Fenneke Voorsluis, Masha Osipova and Eva Kroes.

Galerie 408 (Daily 11.00-18.00), opens Thursday, closing Sunday Bogotá—The Proud Revival of a City The explosive growth of cities worldwide is receiving enormous media attention, with alarming views and images of the social, economic and spatial consequences of this growth. Against this background, this exhibition focuses on the dramatic regeneration of Bogotá. Some 20 years ago, the Columbian capital was in the same seemingly hopeless state as the cities that are currently undergoing rapid growth. In that relatively short space of time, Bogotá has triumphantly managed to deal with the problems caused by such growth.

ARCAM (Tues-Sat 13.00-17.00), opens Saturday, until 26 January 2008 Johannes Schwartz: Paintbox Johannes Schwartz takes photographs but does not restrict himself to the so-called ‘mores’ of photography. His ‘Paintbox’ exhibition introduces two new works. The first is a wall installation comprising an exact painted replica of his ‘Rembrandt’, a photograph he made of a wall in the Rijksmuseum, which was where the Old Master’s ‘Night Watch’ had hung until major rebuilding. The other new work is a series of large-scale photographs of an art storage space in a Ministerial building, entitled ‘Art Archive’. CoBrA Museum (Tues-Sun 11.00-17.00), opens Saturday, until 13 January 2008 Mounir Fatmi: In Search of Paradise Installations and photography from the acclaimed Moroccan artist.

Galerie Ferdinand van Dieten-d’Eendt (Thur-Sat 11.0018.00, first Sun of month 14.00-18.00), opens Saturday, until 12 January 2008

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Museums 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, closing Sunday 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), closing Tuesday Inside-Out: Photos from Amsterdam Collections and Archives The city of Amsterdam contains within its perimeters a treasure of high quality photography.

Much of this wealth can be found in collections and archives, such as the Stedelijk Museum, Rijksmuseum, Stadsarchief and Maria Austria Instituut, and for this exhibition, Foam has compiled an exhibition showing work from the vaults of all four institutions.

Foam (Sat-Wed 10.00-18.00, Thur, Fri 10.00-21.00), until 5 December Doride/Ultramarine Underwater photo expeditions from Maura Biava and Elspeth Diederix. Foam (SatWed 10.00-18.00, Thur, Fri 10.00-21.00), until 9 December 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 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), until 6 January 2008 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), 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 Barcelona 1900 Celebrating the astonishing transformation of this vibrant city between 1880 and 1909. In this period Barcelona underwent an impressive architectural development and flourished socially and artistically, reflected in paintings, drawings, sculptures and designs by the likes of Picasso, Isidre Nonell, Santiago Rusiñol, Alexandre de Riquer, Ramon Casas and Gaudí. Van Gogh Museum (Mon-Thur, Sat, Sun 10.0018.00, Fri 10.00-22.00), until 20 January 2008 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 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), until 3 February 2008 Richard Hawkins: Of Two Minds, Simultaneously Presenting the first comprehensive retrospective in Europe by the American artist Richard Hawkins. The exhibition follows his almost inimitable development: starting with his collages from the 1990s; intriguing because they show how a powerful artwork can originate from very few visual means, right up to his recent dolls’ houses transformed into brothels. De Appel (Tues-Sun 11.00-18.00), until 3 February 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

Johannes Schwartz: Paintbox, see Opening

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

Galleries LFTFLD Art Show Young artists let loose by LFTFLD Magazine. Chiellerie (Tues-Sun 14.00-18.00) Eva Räder Paintings by the German artist. Galerie Gabriel Rolt (Wed-Sat 12.00-18.00), closing Saturday 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), closing Saturday 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), closing Saturday Ritual Tendancies Diverse works by Lorenza Boisi, Iris Zugovic and Barbara Rink. Horse Move Project Space (Fri-Sun 14.00-20.00), closing Sunday Target Art in the display boxes of the former ABN AMRO building, featuring a body of work by Klaas Weert and Rae Witvoet. Rembrandtplein (Daily), until 30 November Schietschijf Public art window displays featuring ready mades by Klaas Weert. Vijzelstraat (Daily), until 30 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 Alicia Framis Portraits by the Spanish photographer. Annet Gelink Gallery (Tues-Fri 11.00 -18.00, Sat 13.00-18.00), until 8 December Franz Baumgartner New dreamy landscapes by the German artist. Galerie Hof & Huyser (Tues-Sat 13.00-18.00), until 8 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 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), until 10 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 Oud-West in 2008. SMART Project Space (Tues-Sat 12.00-17.00), until 15 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 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), until 22 December Lisa Oppenheim Solo exhibition featuring two photographic and cinematic projects: By Faith and Industry and Killed Negatives, After Walker Evans.

Galerie Juliette Jongma (Wed-Sat 13.00-18.00, first Sun of month 14.00-17.00), until 29 December Offline #6 Selections from the exhibitors of ArtOlive Jong Talent ‘07. ArtOlive (Mon-Fri 11.00-17.00, Sun 12.00-17.00), until 30 December Jehsong Baak: Là ou ailleurs Stark black-andwhite photos from the talented South Korean artist, now living and working in Paris. Hup Gallery (Tues, Thur, Fri 10.00-17.00), until 31 December

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EVENTS Dining: Thanksgiving Day Perfect for Americans stranded away from their families, or those who just love to eat and don’t mind an excuse to be ‘thankful’, this pot luck dinner has become something of an annual tradition. All that’s asked is you bring your own starter or dessert to share, and also reserve a place in advance so they know how much food to make. ABC Treehouse, (Thur 18.00), €20 Art/Talk: Curator’s Talk ‘Public Preparation’ by Rael Artel and Airi Triisberg at agentur. In English. Voormalig Volkskrantgebouw, (Thur 19.30), free Opening: Looking for Meneer de Wit De Baarsjes new breeding palace officially opens its doors this weekend. Look out for an overflow of art, dance, live music, workshops and other festivities taking place each day. Meneer de Wit, (Thur-Sun), free Event: Emigration Expo Sick of this shitty country and its shitty weather? Find yourself staying home every night, cursing at your copy of Amsterdam Weekly and its shitty sarcastic listings, wishing there was something better to do with your life? Cheerio, then. Don’t let the door hit your ass on the way out. RAI, (Fri 12.0017.00, Sat, Sun 10.00-17.00), €9.50 Event: What’s Up? Monthly arena for Amsterdam creatives to present their new work and ideas. Pakhuis de Zwijger, (Fri 20.30), free Event: BRASA Fair Multicultural lifestyle fair with all you need to know and experience about South America and the Caribbean. The four key themes are culture, lifestyle, business and fun. See www.brasa.fm. RAI, (Fri, Sat 12.00-23.00, Sun 12.0020.00), €12.50/€30 DVD presentation: Dream Amsterdam Did you bare your ass for Spencer Tunick this summer? Maybe you’ll want to have the experience on DVD then. It’s something to show the grandkids. Paradiso, Kleine Zaal, (Sat 13.00), sold out Walk: Museum Tours & City Walks This month’s theme is ‘Sailing to the East: With the VOC to faraway lands’. A guided tour of the museum precedes at 12.30. In English. Amsterdams Historisch Museum,

(Sat 14.00), €15 excl museum entry: reserve at info@amsterdamcitywalks.com Market: Otherground Market Looking for cheap Crimbo presents for those colleagues you hate yet have to pretend you like? Or maybe you want something unique and special for the one you love. Maybe this market will save the day with its stalls buried in clothing, records, CDs, books, toys, arts & crafts, food and drink. To book a table email othergroundmarket@gmail.com. OT301, (Sun 13.00-17.30), free

17 KIT Tropentheater Mauritskade 63, 568 8711

ADDRESSES 11 Oosterdokskade 3-5, 625 5999 ABC Treehouse Voetboogstraat 11, 423 0967 Akhnaton Nieuwezijds Kolk 25, 624 3396 Amsterdams Historisch Museum Kalverstraat 92, 523 1822

De Kring Kleine-Gartmanplantsoen 7-9, 623 6985 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

Annet Gelink Gallery Laurierstraat 187-189, 330 2066

Melkweg Lijnbaansgracht 234A, 531 8181

De Appel Nieuwe Spiegelstraat 10, 625 5651

Meneer de Wit Postjesweg 2, 616 3680

Festival: Hafla Anissa A festival curated by women for women. All three Paradiso halls will be open, staging dance, music, theatre, fashion shows, poetry, comedy, henna art and a selection of workshops. Paradiso, (Sun 13.00-19.00), €17.50

ARCAM Prins Hendrikkade 600, 620 4878

Motive Gallery Elandsgracht 10, 330 3668

Film: Future Shorts The cutting-edge of short films, hosted by MeccaPANZA Netherlands. OT301, (Sun 20.30), €5

Desert Generation Art/Talk: Desert Generation Connected to the IsraelPalestine art exhibition at Meneer de Wit, artists Sliman Mansour and David Tartakover introduce their own works and discuss their reasons for curating the collection. In English. Lloyd Hotel, (Mon 21.00), free Film/Music: Charlie Charlie Documentary and music collide in this live performance inspired by that famous airship, the Hindenburg. Music ensembles include Calefax and The Hague String Variations, plus three vocal soloists. Theater Bellevue, (Tues 20.30), €18.50 Film: Video Shorts An evening of short films presented by David Djindjikhachvili and Alard Zoeteman.

OT301, (Tues 20.30), €4 Party: Hello Again Celebrating the good crew of Stubnitz—past and present—with DJS, live sets, films, jams, food and drink. Stubnitz, 19.00

ArtOlive Polonceaukade 17, 675 8504

Museum van Loon Keizersgracht 672, 624 5255

AYAC'S Keizersgracht 166, 638 5240

Muziekgebouw Piet Heinkade 1, 788 2010

Badcuyp 1e Sweelinckstraat 10, 675 9669

Het Muziektheater Amstel 3, 625 5455

Bethaniënklooster Barndesteeg 6, 625 0078

Nederlands Architectuurinstituut Museumpark 25, Rotterdam, 010 440 1200

Betty Asfalt Complex Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal 282, 626 4695 BG Post CS, Oosterdokskade 5, 626 2256

Nederlands Instituut voor Mediakunst Keizersgracht 264, 623 7101

Bimhuis Piet Heinkade 3, 788 2150

De Nieuwe Anita Frederik Hendrikstraat 111, 06 4150 3512

Bitterzoet Spuistraat 2, 521 3001

OCCII Amstelveenseweg 134, 671 7778

De Brakke Grond Nes 45, 626 6866

Ostadetheater Van Ostadestraat 233 D, 679 5096

Cafe Pakhuis Wilhelmina Veemkade 576, 419 3368

OT301 Overtoom 301, 779 4913

De Cameleon 3e Kostverlorenkade 35, 489 4656

Pakhuis de Zwijger Piet Heinkade 179-181, 788 4444

Centrale Bibliotheek Oosterdokskade 143, 523 0900

Panama Oostelijke Handelskade 4, 311 8680

Chiellerie Raamgracht 58, 320 9448

Paradiso Weteringschans 6-8, 626 4521

Club 8 Admiraal de Ruyterweg 56B, 685 1703

Pathé De Munt Vijzelstraat 15, 0900 1458

Club La Kerkstraat 50-52

Paviljoen Aan't IJ Stavangerweg 560

Club Meander Voetboogstraat 3, 625 8430

Persmuseum Zeeburgerkade 10, 692 8810

CoBrA Museum Sandbergplein 1-3, Amstelveen, 547 5050

The Powerzone Spaklerweg, 681 8866

Comedy Cafe Max Euweplein 43-45, 638 3971

PRIK Spuistraat 109, 06 4544 2321

Comedy Theater Nes 110

RAI Europaplein 22, 549 1212

Concertgebouw Concertgebouwplein 2-6, 671 8345

Rembrandthuis Jodenbreestraat 4, 520 0400

Consortium Veemkade 570, 06 2611 8950

Same Place Nassaukade 120, 475 1981

CREA Muziekzaal Turfdraagsterpad 17, 525 1400 DanceStreet 1e Rozendwarsstraat 10, 489 7676

SMART Project Space Arie Biemondstraat 107-113, 427 5953

De Engel van Amsterdam Zeedijk 21, 427 6381

Stadsschouwburg Leidseplein 26, 624 2311

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

Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam Rozenstraat 59, 422 0471

De Engelenbak Nes 71, 626 3644

Stedelijk Museum CS Oosterdokskade 5, 573 2911

Exit Reguliersdwarsstraat 42, 625 8788

Stone Valley Amsterdam Hoogte Kadijk

Flex Bar Pazzanistraat 1, 486 2123

Stopera Waterlooplein 22, 551 8117

Foam Keizersgracht 609, 551 6546

Stubnitz Odinakade, NDSM-werf

Galerie 408 Herengracht 408

Studio 80 Rembrandtplein 70, 521 8333

Galerie de Expeditie Leliegracht 47, 620 4758

Studio K Timorplein 62, 692 0422

Ferdinand van Dieten-d'Eendt Spuistraat 270, 626 5777

Sugar Factory Lijnbaansgracht 238, 627 0008

Galerie Fons Welters Bloemstraat 140, 423 3046

Suzanne Biederberg Gallery 1e Egelantiersdwarsstraat 1, 624 5455

Galerie Gabriel Rolt Elandsgracht 34, 785 5146 Galerie Hof & Huyser Bloemgracht 135, 420 1995

Teylers Museum Spaarne 16, Haarlem, 023 516 0960

Galerie Juliette Jongma Gerard Douplein 23, 463 6904

Theater Bellevue Leidsekade 90, 530 5301

Galerie Paul Andriesse Withoedenveem 8, 623 6237

Toomler Breitnerstraat 2, 670 7400

Galerie Rademakers Prinsengracht 570-572, 6225496

Torch Gallery Lauriergracht 94, 626 0284

The Gear Nieuwe Teertuinen 23

Tropenmuseum Linnaeusstraat 2, 568 8200

De Hallen Grote Markt 16, Haarlem, 023 511 5775

Under the Grand Chapiteau Next to ArenA, 621 1288

Heineken Music Hall ArenA Boulevard 590, 0900 300 1250

UvA: Special Collections Library Oude Turfmarkt 129, 525 2141

Hermitage Amsterdam Nieuwe Herengracht 14, 530 8751

Van Gogh Museum Paulus Potterstraat 7, 570 5200

Horse Move Project Space Oosterdokskade 5 Post CS Huis Marseille Keizersgracht 401, 531 8989 Hup Gallery Tesselschadestraat 15, 515 8589 IISG Cruquiusweg 31, 668 5866 Jan van der Togt Museum Dorpsstraat 50, Amstelveen, 641 5754 Joods Historisch Museum Jonas Daniel Meijerplein 2-4, 531 0310

Voormalig Volkskrantgebouw Wibautstraat 150 Werkgebouw Het Veem Van Diemenstraat 410 Westergasfabriek Haarlemmerweg 8-10, 586 0710 Westerliefd Klönneplein 4-6 Winston Kingdom Warmoesstraat 129, 623 1380 Witzenhausen Gallery 2 Elandsstraat 145, 644 9898 Zaal 100 De Wittenstraat 100, 688 0127

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The pancake experience Sera’s Pancake House Rozengracht 45, 320 0662 Open daily 08.30-22.30 Cash, PIN, major credit cards One chill morning your Glutton was bumbling down Rozengracht and happened upon Sera’s Pancake House. My grandma introduced me to a life-long love of freshly made pancakes—all golden and lacy—so I was quick to get lost in the warm intoxicating smell emanating from the front door. Suddenly I was a child again living in a world that shone with sprinkled sugar, cinnamon and squeezed lemon.

So naturally, there came the growling need to stuff my face with a bear-sized comfort pancake covered with apple and crispy bacon that I could relish, munch and chew. And it also struck me that perhaps I could accompany such a meal with a cup of steaming hot chocolate, sinfully topped with whipped cream to perk up my flagging energy levels. These thoughts stirred me to action: I entered.

Petite Sera stood behind an old-fashioned wooden counter making breakfast for two young Americans. She brought them coffee and me a menu. Her welcome was warm and her eyes kind.

There are three different breakfasts (€9.90 each) to choose from: Dutch, English and American. The omelettes (starting at €7.95) are a whole separate section with a selection of different savoury fillings. There are also salads—but who goes to a pancake bar to eat salad?

The menu has both traditional sweet and savoury pancakes—24 of each ranging from €6.95 to €7.95 depending on the combination,

THE UNDERCOVER GLUTTON The smell of baking pancakes filled the air as newcomers hunched over the menus. Some took photos, others tenderly held hands. whether it is cheese and bacon, stem ginger and cheese, or berries and cream. And if you must, you can even mix and match the flavours to design your own special version.

But Sera also has her World Pancakes (€12) as a house specialty, which she developed by testing them on her friends and employees. The specials are named after 18 countries and since

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Sera works particularly hard during tourist season—300 to 400 customers a day (that’s a lot of flipping pancakes, mate)—the reasoning is that visitors might see something of home on the list and choose accordingly. Good marketing strategy.

The Norwegian, for example, consists of smoked salmon chunks, sour cream, cream cheese, lemon and salad. The Greek has lamb gyros, tzatziki, feta and olives. The Canadian consists of crispy bacon, ham, onions, mushrooms, cheese, parsley and curry sauce (the immigrant influences perhaps—like sambal has become to Holland?). The Masai pancake has a vegetable medley with cheese. But I decided to go for the most decadently wicked: the sweet Brazilian pancake.

This arrived in all its sticky glory as a large plate filled with the ’koek, three scoops of walnut cream, surrounded by a lake of mocha and caramel sauce, and fortified with crushed almonds, amaretto liqueur and whipped cream.

The hot and cold went well together—my pleasure was great.

More customers entered after staring through the window. The smell of baking pancakes filled the air as newcomers hunched over the menus. Some took photos, others tenderly held hands. But the moment the pancakes arrived, the attention was naturally refocused to the plate at hand.

Imagine Disney’s Fantasia having Mickey Mouse hexing the enchanted broomstick to bake pancakes instead of drawing buckets of water from a well—he would be able to franchise ‘Mick-cakes’ all around the world.

We all have our favourite places to go when the urge does surge but Sera seems to sprinkle that extra bit of welcome into her product. And she even has a liquor licence in case you want to add yet more good cheer to your meal.

So should you pass by, do give her a try.

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19 Five-Word Movie Review

FILM Edited by Julie Phillips. This week’s films reviewed by Massimo Benvegnù (MB),Shyama Daryanani (SD),René Glas (RG),Andrea Gronvall (AG),Meltem Halaceli (MH),Luuk van Huët (LvH),JR Jones (JJ),Anne Jongeling (AJ),Dave Kehr (DK),Marie-Claire Melzer (MM),Mike Peek (MP),Julie Phillips (JP),Gusta Reijnders (GR), Jonathan Rosenbaum (JR),Marinus de Ruiter (MdR) and Bregtje Schudel (BS). All films are screened in English with Dutch subtitles unless otherwise noted. Amsterdam Weekly recommends.

New this week Beowulf Using motion-capture technology and state of the art CGI to bring the oldest English tale around to intense 3D life has a nice ironic touch to it, but this rambling film by Robert Zemeckis is more of a theme park ride than an actual movie. Take away the 3D gimmick and this animated picture feels flat, sophomoric and silly, even if it consistently looks fantabulous and Angelina Jolie is shiny and sort of naked. Scriptwriters Roger Avary and Neil Gaiman have done their best fleshing out the source material, but their work is sullied by a smattering of juvenile dick jokes. (LvH) 114 min. Pathé ArenA, Pathé De Munt

California Dreamin’ Loosely based on real events—in 1999, a NATO train on its way to Kosovo got stranded in a Romanian town—this film by Cristian Nemescu transforms a reality bite into a parable of modern Romania. The film is overlong and still a little rough around the edges (Nemescu died in a car crash before the final cut), but by the end most things have smoothed out. Nemescu finds humanity in all the characters and tackles a lot of social issues, all without getting heavy-handed. You understand why the film won Un Certain Regard in Cannes: not for sentimental reasons, but because this really is a diamond in the rough. See full review on www.amsterdamweekly.nl. In Romanian/English with Dutch subtitles. (BS) 155 min. Filmmuseum, Kriterion Fados After Carlos Saura made his series of Flamenco films, the Portuguese invited him to do a similar job on their national musical form, the fado. Featuring a lineup of great musicians, including Chico Buarque and Caetano Veloso—who aren’t exactly fado singers, but who’s counting? In Portuguese with Dutch subtitles.

90 min. Rialto

Sicko Michael Moore versus the US health care

industry. See review, p. 9. Kriterion, The Movies, Pathé ArenA, Pathé De Munt

TOO MANY JUVENILE DICK JOKES Beowolf Pathé Arena, Pathé De Munt

California Dreamin’

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 halfdevoured 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 Ceau&#351;escu. 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 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 Adam’s Apples Directed by Anders Thomas Jensen, who might be the hottest thing from Denmark since certain cartoons, this black comedy stars Mads Mikkelsen, ‘the Danish Johnny Depp’, as Ivan, an insanely optimistic preacher with severe problems who rehabilitates ex-cons in his rural church. Adam (Ulrich Thomsen), a recently released neo-Nazi, arrives to test his fate repeatedly, leading to a clash of conflicting ideologies. Whether the film is moralistic or nihilistic is anyone’s guess, but it didn’t garner a Silver Scream Award at the AFFF for nothing, and the very Scandinavian undercurrent of dark humour keeps the film enjoyable and fresh during most of the running

time. In Danish with Dutch and French subtitles. (LvH) 94 min. Studio K American Gangster Two of Hollywood’s acting juggernauts, Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe, star as bad guy and supercop; Ridley Scott was the lucky guy who got the directing job. The film follows the maneuvers of Harlem drug kingpin Frank Lucas (Washington) and narc Richie Roberts (Crowe), who is trying to nail him for his crimes. It’s hard at times to tell good guy from bad: Roberts’s workaholism and womanising are wrecking his marriage, while heroin dealer Lucas is portrayed as a devoted family man and hero of the people. The result is an ethically dubious but cinematographically impressive look at New York in the corrupt 1970s. With Ruby Dee (as Frank’s mom) and Chiwetel Ejiofor. (RG) 157 min. Pathé ArenA, Pathé De Munt

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Cow-

ard 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 De Munt

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-yearold 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

Special screenings Beatfilm A one-day festival of films from and about the 1960s, especially in the Netherlands. Provo, Kralingen, music, demonstrations, jazz, poetry, nostalgic kids’ TV programming, and Paul Verhoeven’s first film, the prostitution comedy Wat zien ik? Het Ketelhuis

A Dry White Season First-rate agitprop about

the ruthlessness of South African apartheid, adapted from André Brink’s novel and directed by Euzhan Palcy. Like Cry Freedom and A World Apart, this 1989 film concentrates on white rebels in South Africa, but it goes substantially further in its depiction of black oppression, and of violence in particular, which makes it the most powerful of the three. Donald Sutherland stars as a liberal but blinkered schoolteacher who becomes radicalised after a series of brutal events involving his gardener. The relentless plot is effectively set up and expertly pursued, and Hugh Masekela makes some striking contributions to Dave Grusin’s musical score. With Susan Sarandon, Jürgen Prochnow, Zakes Mokae and Marlon Brando in a juicy cameo. (JR) 106 min.

KIT Tropentheater, Kleine Zaal The Godfather Francis Ford Coppola’s classic ‘family film’ (1972). With Marlon Brando, James Caan, Robert Duvall, Sterling Hayden and Diane Keaton.

175 min. The Movies Happy Together A star vehicle, not only because its leads were two of the hottest stars in Hong Kong cinema (Tony Leung and the late Leslie Cheung) and a Taiwanese pop star (Chang Chen), but also because writer-director Wong Kar-wai is something

of a star himself. His aggressive mannerist style forms the core of this 1997 story of doomed love between two gay immigrants in Argentina. Structurally and dramatically this is all over the place, but stylistically it’s gripping, and thematically it suggests an oblique response to the end of Hong Kong’s colonial rule. In Cantonese/Mandarin/Spanish with Dutch subtitles.

(JR) 97 min. De Nieuwe Anita The Hours This 2002 film, based on Michael Cunningham’s novel (which is in turn based on Mrs Dalloway), gives us three interwoven stories about women: Virginia Woolf in the 1920s, an anonymous Los Angeles housewife in the ’50s and a literary editor in contemporary Manhattan. Nicole Kidman, as Woolf, manages something closer to impersonation than performance (for which she won an Oscar), and Julianne Moore gets beyond mannerism only when she reappears in the present. Only Meryl Streep, in a less demanding part, comes out clearly ahead. Directed by Stephen Daldry from a script by David Hare. (JR) Rialto

Infernal Affairs Ming (Andy Lau), member of a tri-

ad, joins the Hong Kong police force as a mole. Yan (Tony Leung) is his counterpart, a cop who’s gone undercover and infiltrated Ming’s gang. Each feels increasingly trapped in his masquerade, and each also realises there’s a spy in the midst of his organisation. A cat-and-mouse game begins: who will be the first to catch the other? This 2002 film is cleverly scripted, with surprisingly little violence; the focus is on the two competing moles. Scorsese’s Departed is the Hollywood remake. In Cantonese with Dutch subtitles. (AJ) 116 min. The Movies

Lost Highway It’s questionable how much Barry Gifford has benefited the work of David Lynch—either in furnishing the source material for Wild at Heart or in collaborating on this even more noir-heavy script— but this 1996 feature was Lynch’s most audacious break from conventional narrative since Eraserhead.

The enigmatic plot concerns a jazz musician (Bill Pullman) who inexplicably changes into a much younger garage mechanic (Balthazar Getty) after possibly killing his wife (Patricia Arquette). The wife seems to have been reincarnated as a gangster’s girlfriend (Arquette again), who pursues the mechanic. (JR) 134 min. Melkweg Cinema Marilena from P7 This bittersweet coming-of-age film by the late Cristian Nemescu (California Dreamin’) is also an affectionate portrait of the rundown suburbs of Bucharest, where 13-year-old Andrej steals a trolley bus to impress the prostitute Marilena. In Romanian with English subtitles. 45 min. Filmmuseum Network Peter Finch, in his last performance, effectively plays a network news commentator who blows his top and his mind on the air and quickly becomes a self-styled messiah. William Holden plays the wizened TV executive who has the Truth, which pushy, nihilistic program director Faye Dunaway wants. This 1976 film was written by Paddy Chayefsky and directed by Sidney Lumet. (JR) 121 min. De Roode Bioscoop 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. Filmmuseum

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 GoBetween 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

Ben X

Ben X Unlike Rain Man or Mozart and the Whale, this Flemish film doesn’t depict autism from the outside, 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 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, Studio K The Diving Bell and the Butterfly The latest from painter-turned-director Julian Schnabel (Basquiat) is a poetic, moving filmed version of the memoir by Elle France editor Jean-Dominique Bauby, who at age 43 suffered a stroke that paralysed his entire body except his left eyelid. With Mathieu Amalric and Emmanuelle Seigner. In French/English with Dutch subtitles. 112 min. Studio K Does It Hurt? The first Balkan Dogme film, made according to the rules laid down by Lars von Trier: must be shot on location using a hand-held camera; plot “must not contain superficial action (murders, weapons etc.).” Dutch-Macedonian director Anita Lesnikovska went to Macedonia claiming she needed her friends to act in a film. Then she filmed the results to produce a mockumentary about the hopes and disappointments of young people in former Yugoslavia.

In Macedonian with Dutch subtitles. Rialto

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. Studio K The Heartbreak Kid This Farrelly Brothers remake of the 1972 film bears very little resemblance to Neil Simon’s original premise, and plays more like a sequel to There’s Something About Mary. Forty-yearold single guy Eddie (Ben Stiller) is just desperate to find someone. The occasion arrives when he meets

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22-28 November 2007 Lila (Malin Akerman), the apparently perfect blonde answer to his prayers. It’s only during their honeymoon in Mexico, after a rushed wedding to prevent her moving to Rotterdam (!), that Eddie finds out Lila might not be his cup of tea, and instead falls for wholesome Miranda (Michelle Monaghan). In the process, almost all the wit of screenwriter Simon and director Elaine May is scrapped, replaced by the toilet humour for which the Farrellys are famous. (MB) Pathé ArenA, Pathé De Munt 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 The Kingdom An American review summarised The Kingdom as ‘CSI: Riyadh’ turning into a Black Hawk Down-style action pic. There is truth in that: Peter Berg’s film does indeed feature FBI agents searching for those responsible for a crime—in this case a huge terrorist attack on an expat community in Saudi-Arabia—and the search does conclude in a thrilling shootout in narrow alleyways. Though such description does not do justice to some of the critical political comment which underpins it all, Berg does not seem able to stretch his point all the way to the end. This is especially unfortunate because the opening scene featuring the terrorist attack is so harrowing. After that, everything else is anticlimax. With Jamie Foxx, Jennifer Garner & Chris Cooper. (RG) 110 min. Pathé ArenA Michael Clayton George Clooney is the title character, a fixer for a high-powered Manhattan law firm who’s so sick of doing the company’s dirty work he seems ready to bite off his own tongue. When one of the rainmaking attorneys (Tom Wilkinson) goes nuts, endangering the firm’s defence of an agrochemical giant against a class-action suit, Clayton is dispatched to silence him. Like The Verdict, this is a big, crowd-

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pleasing Hollywood redemption drama in which the lonely hero not only thwarts the corporate villains in the end but silences them with a killer riposte. The plot elements are painfully familiar, but the story is just solid enough to support the entertaining star turns: Clooney is lined and wearily handsome; Wilkinson rants like King Lear; Tilda Swinton, as a corrupt counsel, is alternately ruthless and terrified. This doesn’t begin to deserve the Oscar nominations it’s likely to get, but it’s fun nonetheless. Tony Gilroy directed his own script. (JJ) 119 min. Kriterion, The Movies, Pathé ArenA, Pathé De Munt

Michael Clayton Om Shanti Om Om Prakash Makhija (Shah Rukh Khan) is a B-movie actor who dreams of becoming a superstar and is madly in love with A-list diva Shantipriya. Chance brings them together, murder tears them apart. Om is immediately reincarnated as Om Kapoor. Thirty years later, memories from his past life come back to haunt him. How will he resolve what has been done to him and Shanti? Sillier than Main Hoon Na and partly based on Karz, Om Shanti Om is quite entertaining and filled with many jokes about the Bollywood film industry. Fans will love the appearances by many Bollywood veterans. In Hindi with Dutch subtitles. (SD) Pathé ArenA See You in Vegas Documentary about Dutch illusionist Hans Klok, who has a show in Los 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 Superbad Three high school losers (dweeby Michael Cera, chubby Jonah Hill and myopic Christopher Mintz-Plasse) try to score beer and get laid at a coolkids party, a mission treated with the approximate importance of D-day in this comedy produced by Judd Apatow (Knocked Up) and co-scripted by Apatow regu-

daily 21.15 Ben X Thur-Tues 17.00 California Dreamin' daily 19.00 Falkenberg Farewell daily 19.15 Goud Sat, Sun, Wed 14.30 Michael Clayton Thur-Sun, Tues, Wed 22.00 Milarepa daily 16.45, Sat, Sun, Wed also 15.00, Sun also 13.15 Red River Mon 22.00 Sicko daily 17.15, 19.45, Thur-Mon, Wed also 22.15 Sneak Preview Tues 22.15 Timboektoe Sat, Sun, Wed 14.45, Sun also 12.45.

Thursday 22 November until Wednesday 28 November. Times are provided by cinemas and are subject to last-minute changes. Film times also at www.amsterdamweekly.nl.

Melkweg Cinema Lijnbaansgracht 234A, 624 1777 The Conspiracy of Thieves Wed 19.00 Inland Empire Mon, Tues 19.00 Lost Highway Thur, Fri 19.00 Once Sun 19.00 Planet Terror Sat 19.00, 21.00 Tales from Earthsea Sun 15.00.

Cavia Van Hallstraat 52-I, 681 1419 Groundhog Day Thur, Fri 20.30.

The Movies Haarlemmerdijk 159-165, 638 6016 Alles is liefde daily 17.00, 19.30, 21.45, Sat, Sun, Wed 14.45, Sun also 12.30 Atonement daily 16.45, 19.15, 22.00, Sat, Sun, Wed also 14.15, Sun als 11.45 Control daily 16.30, 19.00, Fri, Sat also 0.30, Sun also 11.30 Eastern Promises Fri, Sat 0.20 The Godfather Fri, Sat 23.45 Infernal Affairs Fri, Sat 0.00 Michael Clayton daily 21.30, Sat, Sun, Wed 14.00 Ratatouille (NL) Sat, Sun, Wed 15.00 Sicko daily 17.15, 19.45, 22.15, Sun also 12.30.

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 Eastern Promises Wed 21.45 I Served the King of England daily 16.15, 19.00, Thur-Tues also 21.45, Sun also 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 Thur 15.00, Sun 16.15 Vier Minuten Thur-Sat 20.30 Waar is het paard van Sinterklaas? Sat, Wed 13.30, Sun 12.00 Wolfsbergen Tues, Wed 20.30.

Filmmuseum Vondelpark 3, 589 1400 De Avonturen van het Molletje Sun, Wed 13.45 Black Narcissus Mon, Tues 17.30 California Dreamin' daily 17.00, 21.15 César et Rosalie Sat 17.30 Jardins en automne daily 21.45, Thur, Fri, Wed also 17.30 Kidz in da Hood Sun, Wed 14.00 Marilena from P7 daily 20.00, Sun also 15.30 Péter Forgács programme Thur-Wed Het Schimmenrijk Sun 16.00.

Het Ketelhuis Westergasfabriek, Haarlemmerweg 8-10, 684 0090 Alles is liefde Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 19.00, 21.15 De Avonturen van het Molletje Sun, Wed 13.15 Beatfilm Sat 14.00-05.00 Falkenberg Farewell Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 19.45, 21.45 Goud Fri, Sun-Wed 17.00, Sun, Wed also 14.45 Kidz in da Hood Sun, Wed 14.45 Das Leben der Anderen Thur, Fri, Mon-Wed 16.45 Nadine Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 21.30 See You in Vegas Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 19.30 Waar is het paard van Sinterklaas? Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 16.15, Sun, Wed also 12.45, 14.30 Willie en het wilde konijn Sun, Wed 13.30.

KIT Tropentheater, Kleine Zaal Linnaeusstraat 2, 568 8500 Dry White Season,A Wed 20.30.

Kriterion Roetersstraat 170, 623 1708 13 (Tzameti) Wed 17.00 The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

De Nieuwe Anita Frederik Hendrikstraat 111, 06 4150 3512, Happy Together Mon 20.30.

OT301 Overtoom 301, 779 4913 Future Shorts Sun 20.30 Video Shorts Tues 20.30.

Pathé ArenA ArenA Boulevard 600, 0900 1458 30 Days of Night daily 21.45, Thur, Fri, Mon, Tues also 16.40, Thur, Fri, Mon also 14.00 Alles is liefde daily 12.10, 13.00, 14.50, 15.45, 18.30, 21.20, Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed also 17.45, Thur, Fri, Sun, Mon, Wed also 20.40, Sat also 17.30, 20.15, 23.00 American Gangster daily 21.00, Thur-Sat, Mon, Tues also 12.30, 16.00, Sun also 13.20, 16.45, 20.00 Atonement daily 20.00 Beowulf daily 12.20, 15.15, 17.50, 20.45, Sat also 23.30 Beowulf (IMAX 3D) daily 13.15, 16.00, 18.45, 21.30, Sat also 0.20 Beyaz Melek Thur, Fri, Mon-Wed 16.20, 19.20, Sat, Sun also 17.30, 20.00 Death Sentence Thur, Fri, Mon-Wed 21.55, Sat 22.45 Eastern Promises Sun 10.00 The Heartbreak Kid daily 14.30, 17.10, Thur, Fri, Mon, Tues also 11.50 The Kingdom Thur, Fri, Mon-Wed 16.10, 18.40, 21.10, Thur, Mon, Tues also 13.40, Sat, Sun 16.45, 19.20, 21.45 Lions for Lambs daily 22.00 Michael Clayton daily 19.10 Om Shanti Om daily 12.50, 16.30, 20.10, Sat 23.40 Plop en de pinguin Fri, Wed 12.30, 14.25, Sat, Sun 10.00, 11.50, 13.40 Ratatouille (NL) Sat, Sun 11.30, Wed 11.55 Resident Evil: Extinction daily 17.20, 19.30, 21.50, Thur, Fri, Mon, Tues also 12.40, 15.05 Rush Hour 3 daily 14.40, 16.50 De Scheepsjongens van Bontekoe daily 15.00, 18.00, Thur-Sat, Mon-Wed also 12.00, Sun also 12.15

lar Seth Rogen. Apatow has always stressed the importance of open auditions to turn up genuinely odd kids from the American hinterlands; he found Rogen in one such audition for his cult series Freaks and Geeks, which this project often recalls, and Rogen in turn recruited Mintz-Plasse from an open call. The movie loses credibility with the arrival of Rogen and Bill Hader as two uniformed patrolmen who are drunker and crazier than any high schooler could ever get, but the variety of complications thrown at the three pubescent heroes raises this a cut above most raunchy comedies. Greg Mottola directed. (JJ) 114 min. Pathé ArenA, Pathé De Munt

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 Vier Minuten German prison drama with Monica Bleibtreu starring as a stiff piano teacher who struggles with her past. Hannah Herzsprung plays her pupil, a rebellious inmate and former piano wunderkind, who in between outbursts of violence slowly finds her way back to music. Directed by Chris Kraus. In German with Dutch subtitles. 112 min. Cinema Amstelveen

Wolfsbergen With her third feature, a kaleidoscopic

portrait of a family that first falls apart and then tries to reconnect, Dutch director Nanouk Leopold shows us that her previous film, the visually arresting Guernsey, wasn’t a fluke. Where most Dutch movies are heavy with cumbersome dialogue and low on visual finesse, Leopold dares to be different. She lets the images speak for themselves. Not everyone will ‘warm’ to Leopold’s detached and rigid visual style and distant protagonists, but for the rest, Wolfsbergen will prove to be a rare cinematic treat. (BS) 93 min. Cinema Amstelveen

Sicko daily 16.20, 19.15, Thur, Mon, Tues also 13.50 Sneak Preview Tues 21.30 Snow Cake Tues 13.30 Superbad daily 12.05, 19.00, 21.40, Sat also 0.10 Surf's Up Fri 11.55, Sat, Sun, Wed 13.10, 15.10, 17.10, Sat, Sun also 11.00 Timboektoe Sat, Sun, Wed 12.30, 14.55, Sat, Sun also 10.00 Waar is het paard van Sinterklaas? Thur, Fri, Mon-Wed 12.15, 14.15, Fri, Wed also 12.00, 14.10, Sat, Sun 10.20, 11.05, 12.30, 13.10, 14.40, 15.20.

Pathé De Munt Vijzelstraat 15, 0900 1458 30 Days of Night Thur, Fri, Sun, Mon, Wed 21.15, Sat 21.30 Alles is liefde Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 12.45, 15.30, 18.15, Thur, Fri, Sun, Mon, Wed also 21.00, Tues also 11.15, 14.45, 18.30, 22.15, Sat 10.20, 13.00, 15.45, 18.45, 21.45 American Gangster Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 13.45, 17.10, 20.30, Sun also 10.20, Sat 11.15, 14.45, 18.30, 22.15 The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 14.10, Sat 10.45, 14.15 Atonement daily 16.15, 19.00, Thur, Mon, Tues also 13.30 Beowulf Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 13.15, 16.00, 18.50, 21.30, Sat 12.00, 14.30, 17.15, 20.00, 22.45 The Heartbreak Kid Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 18.00, Sat 19.15 Lions for Lambs Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 21.45, Sat 22.00 Michael Clayton Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 20.45, Thur, Fri, Mon, Tues also 12.30, 15.20, Sat 22.30 Ratatouille (NL) Fri, Sun, Wed 13.30, Sun also 11.00, Sat 10.15, 13.15 Resident Evil: Extinction Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 12.00, 17.30, 19.45, 22.00, Sat 18.00, 20.30, 23.00 De Scheepsjongens van Bontekoe Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 15.45, Thur, Fri, Mon-Wed also 12.40, Sun also 10.15, 13.00, Sat 12.30, 15.30 Sicko Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 18.40, Sat 18.50 Sneak Preview Tues 21.30 Superbad Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 19.15, 21.50, Thur, Fri, Mon, Tues also 14.00, Thur, Sun-Wed also 16.40, Sat 18.15, 21.00 Surf's Up Sat 10.30, 12.45, 15.00, 17.00, Sun, Wed 15.15, Sun also 10.45, 12.50, Wed also 13.00 Waar is het paard van Sinterklaas? Fri 16.40, Sat 11.00, 13.30, 16.00, Sun, Wed 12.15, 14.30, Sun also 10.15.

Rialto Ceintuurbaan 338, 676 8700 4 maanden, 3 weken en 2 dagen daily 19.45, 22.00, Sat, Sun also 13.30, 15.45 Does It Hurt? Fri, Sat 23.00 Fados daily 19.00, 21.00, Fri-Sun, Wed also 15.00, Sat, Sun also 13.00, Sun also 11.15 The Hours Sun 11.00, Wed 15.30 Iklimler daily 17.00 Das Leben der Anderen Thur, Sat-Wed 17.15, Sat, Sun also 12.30 Manufactured Landscapes daily 18.00 Tussenstand daily 20.00, 21.45, Fri-Sun, Wed also 15.30.

De Roode Bioscoop Haarlemmerplein 7H, 625 7500, Network Sun. Studio K Timorplein 62, 692 0422, Adam's Apples Thur-Sat 22.00 Control daily 21.30 The Diving Bell and the Butterfly daily 19.00 Die Fälscher Sun-Wed 22.00 I Served the King of England daily 19.30, Thur-Sun also 17.00.

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

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