May 31, 2008

Mamma Mia gay night and goody bags

Filed under: Film,Music,Shows by Orangemaster @ 11:33 am
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The girls have had their girls’ night out at the movies, now the gays will get with a Mammia Mia! evening to make them feel all warm and peach fuzzy inside. The week before the première of the musical film Mamma Mia!, tons of movie theatres in cities such as Amsterdam, Utrecht, Groningen, Tilburg, Delft and Haarlem will hold special ‘gay nights’ on July 9.

What’s the big hairy deal? The gays get a goody bag after the show and a free drink at the nearest gay bar.

So the question remains: what’s in a gay goody bag? Condoms is the quick and dirty answer, and the mother of all clichés. A small bottle of raspberry Absolut vodka? Beauty products? I want to know.

(Link: fok.nl)

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January 25, 2008

New francophone event portal in the Netherlands

Filed under: Art,Design,Film,Food & Drink,General,Music by Orangemaster @ 10:28 am

Francomondo is a new, English-language and occasionally Dutch-language weblog about anything francophone happening in the Netherlands. Their world is made up of francophones from around the world living in the Netherlands and Dutch people interested in francophone culture and la francophonie. It is for anyone who wants to know more about French-language events.

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The folks at 24oranges worked on this site and so that’s why we’re proudly plugging it (not shamelessly!).

UPDATE: We pulled the plug a while back, it was just too much work.

(Link: Francomondo)

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November 7, 2007

From illegal cleaning lady to photographer

Filed under: Film,Photography by Orangemaster @ 8:00 am
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Suzanne Raes has made a documentary about Hristina Tasheva, a Bulgarian woman who spent years cleaning people’s houses in Amsterdam illegally. Since Bulgaria joined the European Union in January 2007, Hristina can now live a more normal life as a photographer. But back then, she took pictures of the houses she cleaned. (This is not one of them!)

The documentary is called “The Houses of Hristina”. Her pictures provide an interesting look at the private lives of ‘average’ Amsterdam residents who live in those nice big houses on canals with high windows, wooden floors and primitive art on the walls.

The film will premiere at the International Documentary Film Festival (IDFA) 2007, held from November 22 to 2 December in Amsterdam and will be shown on TV in 2008.

(Link: wereldjournalisten.nl)

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September 14, 2007

Canon of Dutch movies as presented by the Nederlands Film Festival

Filed under: Film by Branko Collin @ 6:04 pm

flodder.jpgIt’s canon mania! This time around it’s that most prestigious of Dutch film festivals — the Dutch Film Festival — that has released its list of pivotal Dutch movies of all time (Dutch).

Odd that “Verhoeven lite” Dick Maas is listed with as many films as the maestro himself, and not even with The Lift. Not that this reporter fails to understand entirely. Photo: a screen grab from Maas’ Flodder.

 

  • De mésaventure van een Fransch heertje zonder pantalon aan het strand te Zandvoort, Willy & Albert Mullens, 1905
  • Een Carmen van het noorden, Maurits Binger & Hans Nesna, 1919
  • Regen, Joris Ivens & Mannus Franken, 1929
  • De Jantjes, Jaap Speyer, 1934
  • Houen zo!, Herman van der Horst, 1952
  • Fanfare, Bert Haanstra, 1958
  • Als twee druppels water, Fons Rademakers, 1963
  • Blind kind, Johan van der Keuken,1964
  • Ik kom wat later naar Madra, Adriaan Ditvoorst, 1965
  • Living, Frans Zwartjes, 1971
  • Turks Fruit, Paul Verhoeven, 1973
  • Flodder, Dick Maas, 1986
  • Het Zakmes, Ben Sombogaart, 1992
  • De Noorderlingen, Alex van Warmerdam, 1992
  • Het is een schone dag geweest, Jos de Putter, 1993
  • Father & Daughter, Michael Dudok de Wit, 2000

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August 31, 2007

The Dutch touch, Bollywood style

Filed under: Dutch first,Film by Orangemaster @ 3:17 pm
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For the first time in the history of Indian film-making, Hindustani-Dutch artists will play a role in an Indian film. Narsingh Balwantsingh (shown here), Fareisa Joemmanbaks and Kiran Sukul will be making their Indian film debut in Saiyaan Chitchor (Eternal Love).

The film in which major Bhojpuri artists Manoj Tiwari and Nagma will be starring is scheduled to start shooting in September 2007 in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar (North India) and the mega filmcity complex in Mumbai. It should be released in December 2007. Eternal Love will be in the Bhojpuri language, spoken by both the Hindustani in the Netherlands and in Suriname.

(Link: wereldjournalisten.nl)

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July 18, 2007

Label for fake images in Dutch magazines

Filed under: Dutch first,Film,General by Orangemaster @ 12:06 pm
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After the eye-opening success of Sunny Bergman’s documentary ‘Beperkt Houdbaar’ (‘Limited Preservation’) about the unrealistic beauty ideal of women in the media, seven Dutch magazines will each publish one issue in September in which every picture will be labelled as being ‘Photoshopped’ or not. The magazines Viva, Playboy, Yes, Top Santé, Psychologie Magazine, Marie-Claire and Opzij are taking on Bergman’s challenge. One of Bergman’s key points was that ‘Photoshopped’ images contribute to this unrealistic ideal.

For those unfamiliar with Dutch magazines, please note that a notorious girlie magazine (Playboy) as well as a feminist magazine (Opzij) are part of the seven. In Bergman’s documentary, Playboy was pointed out as perpetrating an unrealistic image of women’s labia majora, which has resulted in an increase in plastic surgery to have one’s ‘lips’ match these ‘Photoshopped’ images. In the documentary, Bergman herself visits an American plastic surgeon who tells her she “needs the works”.

(Link: rtl)

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June 25, 2007

Dutch films arrive 34 years later

Filed under: Film,Weird by Orangemaster @ 2:15 pm
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After 34 years, educational films about the Netherlands arrived at the Holland museum in the town of Holland, Michigan. The first box contained the English language educational films “Jan: Boy of the Netherlands”, “Rotterdam Europort: gateway to Europe” and “The Netherlands: blueprint of an urban society”. The second box contained the Dutch films “Zeilen en Holland: terra fertilis”. According to the manager of the local post office, someone found the boxes and finally decided to post them.

The boxes were sent to Michigan in 1973 by the University of Wisconsin and the University of Texas. Both universities had borrowed the films from the Netherlands Information Service (now the Holland museum), which existed from 1936 to 1974 in the town of Holland, founded by Dutch immigrants.

(Link: Bisnis)

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May 7, 2007

Steve Buscemi in town for film premiere

Filed under: Film by Orangemaster @ 12:00 pm
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Actor and director Steve Buscemi is in Amsterdam for the premiere of Interview, the American remake of the film by the late Theo van Gogh. Van Gogh dreamed that his films would one day be the subject of American remakes and now, a little over two and half years after his death, his dream has come true. In the Van Gogh film, Pierre Bokma and Katja Schuurman played the main characters, while in the American version, Sienna Miller and Buscemi himself do.

(Link: AT5)

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April 15, 2007

Girlcotting

Filed under: Film by Orangemaster @ 10:51 am
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April 26 is the release date of the film Honeyz, the story of two teenage girls who get locked in De Bijenkorf, a major Dutch department store. The good news is, it’s the first ever Dutch film to be released simultaneously in theatres, on the Internet, DVD and mobile phone. The bad news is, some theatres have decided to boycott it for this very same reason.

According to the film’s producer, this it the first time a film has been boycotted for this reason in The Netherlands. Theatres are used to making their profit by being the first to show a film, but since they will have to compete with a simultaneous multimedia release, they are afraid of missing out on profits. But wait, if they boycott, they’ll miss out as well. Odd. Let’s wait and see if this knee-jerk reaction is justified.

(Link)

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