Culture

CinemAsia Film Festival kicks off with Korean blockbuster

The seventh edition of the CinemAsia Film Festival kicks off April first in De Balie. The week-long event shows around 40 feature films and inspiring documentaries with an Asian flavor. Various films have been produced by budding talent from the Netherlands, but most are sourced in China, Taiwan, Japan, Korea, India, Indonesia and the Philippines.  […]

Count yourself lucky during Museum Weekend in Amsterdam

Nothing could be a more obvious pastime while in Amsterdam than visiting museums. The city is essentially one big museum – with most of the old centre having been built by art aware merchants in the 17th century. Amsterdam offers more than fine arts museums, including numerous places to learn about history, science, fashion, architecture, […]

Chocolate tasting is an art – learn to discover 700 flavors

Chocolate lovers, indulge when you’re on a short stay in Amsterdam. You are on somewhat holy ground in this town, because the port of Amsterdam is one of the busiest cocoa ports in the world.  If you happen to visit Amsterdam during the weekend of March 29th and 30th, make your way to the Scheepvaartmuseum […]

Pink Film Festival kicks off March 13th

The Pink Film Days is the Amsterdam Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, and will offer a lot of premieres of the best of recent gay films. Both popular gay films and smaller, alternative, movies are dished out screened at the event. The films have in common that they are as diverse as the gay community […]

Apartheid & After photography exhibition shows modern South Africa

Apartheid & After, the photography exhibition in Amsterdam’s Huis Marseille, unveils the interesting issue of where photographers whose work was instrumental in fighting the apartheid regime pointed their cameras after the apartheid era came to an end in 1990.  Where did South African photographers with a solid international reputation like David Goldblatt met Paul Alberts, […]

Cinedans – Dance on Screen blends film and dance

Cinedans – Dance on Screen is a unique film festival, both in the Netherlands and further afield. This year, around 90 dance films, or dance productions on film will be shown, and the focus is on choreographies that have been made with the film camera in mind and on unique film adaptations of existing dance shows. […]

The Quay Brothers’ Universum on display at EYE Filmmuseum

When you are on your holiday in Amsterdam and love film will probably be thrilled at the EYE Filmmuseum’s http://www.eyefilm.nl/  first serious retrospective of the work of the Quay Brothers. The American twin filmmakers Stephen and Timothy Quay, renowned for their frequently ominous stop-motion and animation productions, are often described as among the most remarkable […]

Bacon tops Nieuwe Kerk’s high altar

So a Rembrandt was succeeded by a Warhol and I expected Warhol to vacate the scene for a Titian or a Raphael or any other Golden Age master. But no. A Bacon has been placed firmly on the altar in the Nieuwe Kerk on the Damrak. Holy cow! One of the painter’s more painterly paintings, […]

5 Days Off kicks off 5 March

5 Days Off is as close as you will get to a fully-fledged music festival within the boundaries of the city of Amsterdam. This indoor event lasts, as the name suggests, five days and during the entire time, visitors will be able to go nightclubs non stop, watch live performances of some of the hottest […]

B-Movie Orchestra creates audiovisual journal of old film scores

B-Movie music, played by the B-Movie Orchestra (what else?), is a great way to experience an evening out for people who love the Sixties and Seventies. The highly popular 12 strong B-Movie Orchestra directed by composer Ivar van Urk, takes its audience on an audiovisual journey of movie scenes. Those movies might not have amounted […]