You can watch foreign films with English subtitles in Amsterdam, thanks to the Ex Pats Cinema initiative at Lab 111. Here’s a chat with the organiser, Katie Crook and a look ahead to the rest of season 3.
Filmmaker: Cathy Leung
Music: ‘Prong’ (re-mastered) by We Are OK
Lorna Tee talks to the Amsterdam Film Show about what’s new in the Cinemasia festival this year, the new venue of the Kriterion cinema, and shares some of her personal favourites from the films screening.
Titus from Kanen bij de Kachel (‘munching by the fire’ = a loose translation) tells us about the idea behind this special, spring ‘kanen’ event to bring Amsterdammers together over good food, drink and music – every Thursday in March.
Filmmaker: Cathy Leung
Music: ‘Marsh Fire’ by Jeanne Rouwendaal @ Grote Prijs van Nederland Finale, Paradiso Amsterdam
Watch this clip for a summary of all the new cinema releases in Amsterdam from 5 March 2015. There’s action, a sci-fi drama, Swedish comedy and a documentary or two.
… and this clip for our film chat about American Sniper. Includes Amsterdam cinemas screening the film.
Also, see our partners, Cinedam, for more on each film.
We asked filmmakers participating in Shortcutz Amsterdam about their entries and why this weekly competition is so important for the local filmmaking community.
Thanks to our partners, Cinedam, who helped make this report.
This week’s TV version of What’s Up Amsterdam coincided with the 100 edition of the original audio WUA podast and they celebrated with a few special guests. Congratulations to Nate & Jonathan x
Watch this clip for a summary of all the new cinema releases in Amsterdam from 11/12 February 2015. It’s not all about Fifty Shade of Grey, some other interesting options also released this week, including the very, very dark comedy The Voices.
Also, see our partners, Cinedam, for more on each film:
We aired our new short film on Amsterdam’s Streetfood Revolution on So Dam Local earlier this week. If you didn’t catch it on TV, it’s now on our Youtube channel (see below).
If you support the campaign for healthier and more diverse street food options for the city of Amsterdam, you can join the Streetfood Revolution by adding your name to the online petition, here: http://petities.nl/petitie/geef-streetfood-een-kans
The Amsterdam Film Show will be bringing you reports from Shortcutz, the Desmets exhibition at the Eye film museum and the recent PAC Festival in the weeks ahead. Plus news of a new cat film festival this summer. Yes, you heard it here first.
Watch AFS on Tuesday nights at 21:10 on Salto 1 TV. Or catch the highlights on Youtube.
The Amsterdam Film Show is back! Inherent Vice is our new film release of the week; find out what our critics thought of the ultimate ‘stoner movie’ and which Amsterdam cinemas are screening it. If you want to know more about the book, you can read a review from The Satirist, here.
Amsterdam Film Show hosts give you their favourite films of 2014, with Nate & Jonathan (What’s Up Amsterdam) focusing on action, Cathy & Karen on drama. But what did you think?
Junaid and Davor from Studio Klomp! discuss working on Bad Days, Stan Lee and their favourite superpower, live on Future Vision Amsterdam TV show.
http://futurevisionamsterdam.com/
Future Vision Amsterdam airs every Wednesday on SALTO 1 (UPC Digital channel 32) from 18:00pm – 19:00pm.