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VPRO honours Reinbert de Leeuw

by Thea Derks
8 May 201330 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, MUSIC

On 8 September next, pianist, composer and conductor Reinbert de Leeuw hopes to turn 75 and this will be celebrated with a range of events. These include a three-day festival dedicated to him in The Hague and Amsterdam at the end of September, and he will be the central composer in the NTR Saturday Matinee next season. In addition, a CD box set of his recordings will be released, and later this year I hope to publish my recently completed biography on Reinbert de Leeuw. Together with producer Aad van Nieuwkerk, I made ...

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Moniek Toebosch no longer beams

by Thea Derks
26 November 20127 February 2020
4 min read
MUSIC, APPRECIATE & DONATE!

Amsterdam, 26-11-2012 - Last Saturday died Moniek Toebosch (1948-2012), the sparkling multi-artist who startled our country from the 1970s onwards with contrary performances. Some of you may remember her scandalous performance in the 1983 Holland Festival. Toebosch presented the programme 'Attacks of Extremes' live for VPRO television from Theater Carré. After half the Broadcasting Orchestra had quit in protest,...

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Wry-poetic Alzheimer's doc First Cousin Once Removed best of IDFA

by Leo Bankersen
23 November 20128 July 2016
3 min read
ACTUAL, FILM

Two opposites had emerged. Would the VPRO IDFA Award for best feature-length documentary go to a personally coloured auteur's film, or to a thoughtful account of a major issue? To Alan Berliner's remarkable portrait of Alzheimer's-affected poet Edwin Honig, or to Dror Moreh's fascinating insight into the Israeli secret service?

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Awards for experimental docu and absurdist fiction

by Leo Bankersen
3 July 201229 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, FILM

EYE is pulling out all the stops. This year, the final exam papers of the students of the Netherlands Film and Television Academy will get an ideal presentation in the largest auditorium of this new film centre. What is also new is that yesterday, immediately following the screening for press and relations, awards were handed out for best commercial (The End, Soon), best documentary (A Twist in...

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Opening Holland Festival on twitter and facebook: tenue de wtf, ns-#fail, sublime dance theatre and mozzarella sticks #hf12

by Wijbrand Schaap
2 June 201229 March 2022
4 min read
For members only, Holland Festival, SPECIALS

[View the story "Opening Holland Festival 2012" on Storify]Opening Holland Festival 2012On 1 June, the Holland Festival opened at Theater Carré. We were there, saw Platel's C(h)oeurs and tasted the atmosphere. Although it almost went wrong. Here's what to make of it on social mediaStorified by Cultureel Persbureau - Sat, Jun 02 2012 08:37:18The Dodo goes...

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Theodor Holman seeks new frontiers

by one of our members
16 March 20128 July 2016
3 min read
ACTUAL

At the request of Amsterdam debate centre De Balie, Parool and Groene Amsterdammer columnist Theodor Holman wrote a play about a conversation between Anders Breivik and Geert Wilders. In an interview with Joost Niemöller of the opinion blog 'De Dagelijkse Standaard', the presenter and writer explained that he admires Breivik's analysis of the situation in Europe, which he also believes...

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IDFA awards Planet of Snail

by Leo Bankersen
26 November 20118 July 2016
2 min read
ACTUAL, FILM

IDFA's jury neatly balanced poetry and politics by awarding among the feature-length documentaries the moving Planet of Snail (South Korea), alongside the Palestinian village-set 5 Broken Cameras, a Palestinian/Israeli/French/Dutch co-production. Planet of Snail by Seung-Jun Yi received the main award, the VPRO IDFA Award for best feature-length documentary. The fireworks of...

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Netherlands Film Festival - Tuschinski Award for If I didn't have you

by Leo Bankersen
23 September 201129 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, FILM

The Tuschinski Award for best graduation film of the Film Academy was awarded this afternoon at the Dutch Film Festival to Anne-Marieke Graafmans for her documentary If I didn't have you. What is special about the presentation of this award for up-and-coming talent is that the commercial cinema business and independent film criticism are here together for a while. The Tuschinski Award will be presented and with 5000 euro...

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IDFA 2010 - State of the Stars double winner

by Leo Bankersen
26 November 201029 March 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, FILM

Leonard Retel Helmrich's Stand of the Stars is a two-time winner of the Amsterdam documentary festival IDFA. At the awards ceremony at the Tuschinski theatre, it was announced that this dynamic and poetic portrait of a poor Indonesian family not only won the VPRO IDFA Award for best feature-length documentary, but was also chosen (by another jury) as the best of the...

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Netherlands Film Festival - nominations for Farewell and Bukowski

by Leo Bankersen
28 September 201030 March 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, FILM

Farewell One of the most fascinating Dutch films to hit cinemas last year was Ditteke Mensink's Farewell. A romance in an airship flying around the world, and then constructed entirely from real archival footage. This miraculous and wonderful tour de force now has a chance of winning a Golden Calf for best feature-length documentary. These and other nominations for Golden Calf...

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