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First children's book ambassador @jacques_vriens on the breach for reading pleasure: 'Frighteningly few Dutch children enjoy reading'

by one of our members
3 June 201330 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

Since two months, the successful children's book author Jacques Vriens can call himself the first Children's Book Ambassador of the Netherlands. For much longer, he has been doing all he can to increase children's reading pleasure. International research shows that only ten percent of Dutch children really enjoy reading. That is shockingly little.'

His theatre production Hoe verzint-ie het toch allemaal? recently added a new scene. Vriens hangs his special children's...

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Hassnae Bouazza's Thousand Shades of Arabia on #wu13

by Wijbrand Schaap
19 January 201330 March 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, SPECIALS, Writers Unlimited

John de Mol is doing good business in the Arab world. He acts rather dismissively about this, according to Hassnae Bouazza. According to her, the television producer talks publicly mainly about the many restrictions on his formats because of Islam and the sentimentalism of TV in the Middle East in general. That De Mol's success number The Voice of Arabia during the final in

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Dutch opening Film Festival Rotterdam 2013, which this year also embraces television

by Leo Bankersen
13 December 201230 March 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, FILM

Fifteen years after Peter Delpeut's Felice, Felice, the International Film Festival Rotterdam gets another Dutch opening. The 42nd edition of this leading event will kick off on 23 January with the world premiere of The Resurrection of a Bastard by Guido van Driel, festival director Rutger Wolfson announced this afternoon.

The resurrection of an asshole

Van Driel based this doo...

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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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Disquiet TV takes classical music out of a straitjacket

by Henri Drost
8 November 20128 July 2016
1 min read
ACTUAL, MUSIC, OPERA

Classical music on television always has something boring about it. Often a short introduction by a neat gentleman or lady, followed by the concert itself. Close-ups of the conductor and soloist, a longshot of the entire orchestra and applause afterwards. As if the medium is trying to emulate concert hall etiquette as scrupulously as possible. Even the webstreams that more and more large orchestras are increasingly turning to barely deviate from this formula.

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NFF 2012 - All student awards go to the Film Academy

by Leo Bankersen
2 October 201229 March 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, FILM

The Film Academy can be satisfied. The two juries that handed out the three student awards at the Netherlands Film Festival on Monday night had also looked at graduation work from other Dutch academies with a film section. But in the end, all the lucky ones were students of the Netherlands Film and Television Academy, as the Amsterdam programme is called in full. Katja Römer Schuurman in The Club of Ugly Children (photo......

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NFF 2012 - Robert Oey impresses again with Negotiated

by Leo Bankersen
1 October 201229 March 2022
3 min read
For members only, FILM

Every night at the Netherlands Film Festival there is an important premiere, and on Sunday it was Robert Oey's new documentary, about messengers and survivors. Killed shows a side of our military mission in Afghanistan that has received little coverage. 25 Dutch soldiers died there. The film is in a way a tribute to them, but...

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Order of the Day renews theatre

by Wijbrand Schaap
5 September 201229 March 2022
4 min read
For members only, MEDIA, TELEVISION, THEATER

I did it just like that. Proclaimed a show as the most important theatre innovation for 20 years. That's daring. Even though I made the term a bit more vague in a subsequent tweet, because, yes, there has been quite a lot of innovation in recent years, left and right in theatres. So let's stick to 'the last few years'. And then...

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Theatre on demand offers British quality

by Wijbrand Schaap
21 August 201230 March 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

Lots of bobbing on boards. That's what drama on television is mostly. And actors with weird reverberations in intimate scenes. That too. It is easy to shoot at attempts to bring successful performances to the TV or cinema screen. They almost always make viewers feel that their medium is shooting back 80 years in development. This is also why every attempt by the Dutch Public Broadcasting Service to make our fairly highly regarded stage art attractive to a wider audience via TV fails....

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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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How a Martian looks at opera

by Henri Drost
11 June 201229 March 2022
5 min read
For members only, MUSIC, OPERA, SPECIALS

Or: the familiar becomes utterly alien here. Or: embracing meaninglessness as the first principle. One hundred years after his birth, John Cage takes centre stage in HF weekend.
Ever since Reinbert de Leeuw played it in the fastest talk show on Dutch television, John Cage's 4'33" has been a well-known composition in our country. For exactly four minutes and thirty-three seconds, the musician does not play a single note and the audience hears nothing but the ambient sounds.

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Cinekid Awards 2010 - Everyone loves Foeksia

by Leo Bankersen
30 October 20108 July 2016
2 min read
ACTUAL, FILM

Johan Nijenhuis' Foeksia de miniheks has become the big audience favourite of Cinekid, the festival for film, television and new media for young people. Friday evening, it was announced at the awards ceremony that Foeksia had won both the general audience award (Z@pp Cinekid Lion) and the audience award for best Dutch children's film. Foeksia the Mini-Witch, based on the book of the same name by Paul van Z...

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Oerol arrives. Competition for Holland Festival on scarce arts pages in Festivalland #hf10

by one of our members
15 June 201030 March 2022
6 min read
For members only, Holland Festival, SPECIALS

The Marathon Effect is well known: put spectators together in a theatre for half a day or more, preferably on uncomfortable seats, and hand them over to a couple of actors with a play. Success seems assured, and the ancient Greeks already knew that. So that there would be no discord surrounding the monster project I Demoni, the Dostoevsky adaptation of Peter...

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