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Sunday, October 30, 2005

Europe drops it again

(C) Arjan Dasselaar

'It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending.'
(Thomas Paine)

American directors pick up the torch as Theo van Gogh had to let go of it. Unsurprisingly, their Dutch counterparts have chickened out.

(Luck willing I'll get permission to be at the Van Gogh memorial ceremony on Wednesday in the Linnaeusstraat, practicing using a PD-150. If anything comes out of it, I'll post a WMV version here.)

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Oh, that's excellent news! I imagine the article in Dutch says filmmakers there are not going to make a film?

PJ (ip:70.37.85.38) 30 October 2005 - 5:56 uur


Actually, it's about cowardice in the Netherlands in general, not so much about directors specifically:

'Submission hasn't been shown since November 2 2004 since Van Gogh's production office fears for the security of its employees; or because, amongst others, Labour Party (PvdA) MEP's feared that displaying it would help 'right-wingers'. In Amsterdam the Labour Party-chairman of the city district where Van Gogh lived and was murdered, objected against a memorial, though he did want to organize a debate where the subject of "Van Gogh having gone too far" should have been discussed.'

Then came the NYT article, in which there's not even a mention of Dutch directors doing something similar (and I haven't heard of anything either). This made me conclude their Dutch counterparts have chickened out, though I would like nothing better than being proven wrong.

Arjan Dasselaar (ip:83.160.148.167) 30 October 2005 - 7:59 uur


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