Tag: film
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Writer’s Block Happenings: Weeks 47 & 48
Read more: Writer’s Block Happenings: Weeks 47 & 48It’s time for another edition of Writer’s Block Happenings! Let’s see what’s happing in Amsterdam in the upcoming weeks: London Jazz Festival Bimhuis, 19 November 8.30 pm During Bimhuis’s 40 Years of City Links programme, the London Jazz Festival has been invited to do an exchange. Make sure to be here for the best London…
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Philosophical Reveries and Tantalizing Guitars: A Review of 20,000 Days on Earth (Forsyth and Pollard, 2014)
Read more: Philosophical Reveries and Tantalizing Guitars: A Review of 20,000 Days on Earth (Forsyth and Pollard, 2014)While 20,000 Days on Earth starts off like any regular music documentary, the film, which gives us a peek into the daily life of Australian multi-talent Nick Cave, soon starts to blur the line between fiction and reality. In directors Forsyth and Pollard’s first feature-length film, Cave, who is mostly known as a musician but…
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In Preparation of IDFA: Reviewing a Six Year Relationship
Read more: In Preparation of IDFA: Reviewing a Six Year RelationshipThere has never been a festival that I have established such a love-hate relationship with as much as I have with IDFA (International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam). When I was younger I had to review a cultural activity for a school assignment and my teacher was handing out these flyers for DOC U, a program…
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LAB111 & De Filmhallen
Read more: LAB111 & De FilmhallenGreat news for cinephiles: a couple of weeks ago, film theatres De Filmhallen and LAB111 opened their doors! Writer’s Block editor Isabel visited the cinemas and reported on the airy former tram storage and the eerie former pathological institute now both turned into a film fanatic’s paradise. Located in a former tram storage in the…
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WB Happenings – Week 40/41
Read more: WB Happenings – Week 40/41Let’s face it: there simply are days that you find yourself with a desire to go out and do something awesome, but you’ve just got no idea where to go. Boy, have we got just the fix for you! Here, you’ll find a WB-approved selection of events happening in Amsterdam right now, or in the…
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