Here’s

Jack!

Jack Nicholson

Film Fes

tival

June 30 - A

ugust 31 2011

eye presents

Vondelpark 31071 AA Amsterdam eyefilm.nl

Here’s Jack!30 June – 31 August 2011

EYE Film Institute Netherlands celebrates its last summer in the Vondelpark with a festival on Jack Nicholson, the flamboyant actor with a devilishly charming grin. Nicholson is seen as one of the greatest actors of our time, who isn’t afraid to take on unpleasant roles where extremes collide: maniacal and melancholic, sinister and hilarious. Jack Ni-cholson has won three Oscar awards, and with twelve Oscar nominations, he is the most nominated actor in the history of the Academy Awards. Nicholson is ‘like a force of nature’, cameraman Nestor Almendros said. Nicholson himself says: ‘My secret craft – it’s all autobiography’.

Here’s JackJack Nicholson was born in New York in 1937. Circumstances around his childhood were anything but easy: his mother became pregnant at 17 after an affair with a married man. Jack was raised by his grandparents, who let him believe that they were his parents, and his real mother pretended to be his sister. It was only in 1974 that Nicholson learned the truth from a journalist from Time magazine. His grandmother and mother had already died by that time.

From B-actor to Mr. HollywoodNicholson started out in the mail room of Holly-wood’s MGM studio. From there he got his first roles in low-budget horror productions by Roger Corman such as The Little Shop Of Horrors (1960), in which he played a masochistic dental patient.

The anarchistic classic Easy Rider (1969) was Nichol-son’s big breakthrough, during which the anti-au-thoritarian actor loosened up both on and off the set. Nicholson proved he was a great actor and not just a countercultural icon with Chinatown (Roman Polanski, 1974), in which he played the laconic private investi-gator J.J. Gittes, complete with a bandaged nose. His biggest role, according to many, was in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975), in which he played a psychi-atric patient who rebels against a dictatorial nurse after he’s locked up in a mental institution. Nicholson was awarded his first Oscar for this milestone in film history.

Diabolically machoAfter this, the nature of his roles changed. He shifted from playing a defiant, stubborn man to the role of frustrated, failing father and middle-aged husband. In Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece The Shining (1980) and in Terms of Endearment (1983), he rebels against the obligations of marriage. In The Witches of Eastwick (1987), he visibly enjoys himself as he makes a devil-ish argument for sexual abandon. Nicholson played the ultimate, egotistical macho devil here. He could simultaneously flaunt his masculinity and make fun of his image as a male chauvinist.

He reached the apotheosis of his diabolic roles when he played The Joker in Batman (1992). With his green face and frozen grimace, Nicholson let himself go in this role as a macabre clown: ‘You couldn’t go over the top with that part. There was no top,’ he remarked. And as a colonel in A Few Good Men (1992) he was sacrosanct. His one-liner ‘You want the truth? You can’t handle the truth!’ from that film was listed in the American Film Institute’s 100 Greatest Movie Quotes, along with his ‘Here’s Johnny!’ from The Shining. He played a subtler role in Sean Penn’s The Crossing Guard (1995).

Ironic and absurd as per usual, he was cast as a psychot-ic president in the satire Mars Attacks! (1996). Nicholson garnered much praise as an obsessive, eccentric writer in the tragicomedy As Good As It Gets (1997).

About Schmidt Alexander Payne (US 2002) English spoken, Dutch subt. 124’ color11 + 12 Aug 7 pm; 13 - 17 Aug 9.45 pm

As Good As It Gets James L. Brooks (US 1997) English spoken, Dutch subt. 139’ color15 + 17 - 20 July 7 pm; 16 July 4 pm

Batman Tim Burton (US 1989) English spoken, Dutch subt. 127’ color11 + 12 Aug 9.45 pm; 15 + 16 Aug 7 pm

Carnal KnowledgeMike Nichols (US 1971) English spoken, English subt. 98’ color1 + 2 + 3 Aug 7 pm

ChinatownRoman Polanski (US, 1974) English/Spanish spoken, Dutch subt. 130’ color14 July 9.45; 29 July + 6 Aug 7 pm; 30 July - 3 Aug 9.45 pm

The Crossing GuardSean Penn (US 1995) English spoken, Dutch and French subt. 111’ color16 July 7 pm; 19 + 20 July 9.45 pm

The DepartedMartin Scorsese (US/HK 2006) English spoken, Dutch subt. 151’ color8 + 9 July 9.45 pm; 26 July 7 pm, 20 Aug 4 pm

Drive, He Said Jack Nicholson (US 1970) English spoken, Dutch subt. 88’ color30 July 1 pm

Easy Rider Dennis Hopper (US 1969) English spoken, Dutch subt. 94’ color30 June 8.30 pm; 2 July 4 pm; 8+9 July 7 pm; 10+12+13 July 9.45 pm31 July 7 pm; 19 Aug 9.15 pm open-air screening on the terrace of EYE and cafe Vertigo

A Few Good MenRob Reiner (US 1992) English spoken, Dutch subt. 136’ color17 + 20 Aug 7 pm; 18 + 19 Aug 9.45 pm

Five Easy PiecesBob Rafelson (US 1970) English spoken, Dutch subt. 98’ color30 June 8.30 pm; 18 + 19 Aug 7 pm; 20 - 24 Aug 9.45 pm

Goin’ SouthJack Nicholson (US 1978) English spoken, Dutch subt. 105’ color27 July 7 pm; 6 Aug 4 pm 30 July 3 pm incl. lecture in Dutch (30’)

Hoffa Danny DeVito (US 1992) English spoken, Dutch subt. 140’ color5 + 6 July 7 pm; 29 July 9.45 pm

Programme Jack Nicholson30 June – 31 August 2011

Ironweed Hector Babenco (US 1987) English spoken, Dutch subt. 141’ color21 - 23 Aug 7 pm

The King of Marvin GardensBob Rafelson (US 1972) English spoken, English subt. 103’ color7 - 10 Aug 7 pm

The Last DetailHal Ashby (US 1973) English spoken, Dutch subt. 104’ color5 Aug 9.45 pm; 13 + 14 Aug 7 pm

Mars Attacks! Tim Burton (US 1996) English spoken, Dutch subt. 104’ color24 + 27 Aug 7 pm; 25 + 26 Aug 9.45 pm

The Missouri BreaksArthur Penn (US 1976) English spoken, Dutch and French subt. 126’ color12 July 8 pm

One Flew Over theCuckoo’s NestMilos Forman (US 1975) English spoken, Dutch subt. 133’ color23-29 June 5 and 7.30 pm; for July and August check www.eyefilm.nl

The PledgeSean Penn (US 2001)English spoken, Dutch subt. 124’ color10 + 13 July 7 pm; 17 + 18 July 9.45 pm

The Postman Always Rings TwiceBob Rafelson (US 1981)English spoken Dutch subt. 120’ color26 June 10.30 am in Tuschinski22 + 23 July 7 pm; 24 - 27 July 9.45 pm

Prizzi’s Honor John Huston (US 1985) English spoken Dutch subt. 127’ color4 + 5 Aug 7 pm; 7 - 10 Aug 9.45 pm

Professione: Reporter Michelangelo Antonioni (IT/SP/FR, 1975) English spoken Dutch subt. 119’ color1 + 2 July 7 pm; 3 - 6 July 9.45 pm

Reds Warren Beatty (US 1981) English spoken Dutch / French subt. 194’ color 23 July + 13 Aug 1 pm

The ShiningStanley Kubrick (US/GB, 1980) English spoken1+2+15+16+22+23 July+4 Aug 9.45 pm +25+26 Aug 7 pm (American version, English subt. 146 min.)27 - 31 Aug 9.45 pm; (European version, Dutch subt. 119 min.)

The Shooting Monte Hellman (US 1966) English spoken Dutch / Finnish subt. 82’ color3 + 4 jul 7 pm

Terms of EndearmentJames L. Brooks (US 1983) English spo-ken Dutch / French subt. 132’ color9 July 4 pm; 24 + 25 July 7 pm

The Two Jakes Jack Nicholson (US 1990) English spoken Dutch subt. 137’ color30 July 7 pm (inc. lecture); 6 Aug 9.45 pm

The Witches of Eastwick George Miller (US 1987) English spoken Dutch subt. 118’ color28 - 31 Aug 7 pm

WINNER OF FIVEACADEMY AWARDSBEST PICTURE BEST ACTOR

BEST ACTRESS BEST DIRECTORBEST SCREENPLAY

DIRECTED BYMILOS FORMAN

Fantasy Films presents:A MILOS FORMAN FILM JACK NICHOLSON in ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEST

Starring LOUISE FLETCHER and WILLIAM REDFIELD Screenplay LAWRENCE HAUBEN and BO GOLDMANBased on the novel by KEN KESEY Director of Photography HASKELL WEXLER Music JACK NITZSCHE

Produced by SAUL ZAENTZ and MICHAEL DOUGLAS directed by MILOS FORMAN

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Here’s

Jack!

Jack Nicholson

Film Fes

tival

June 30 - A

ugust 31 2011

eye presents

Vondelpark 31071 AA Amsterdam eyefilm.nl

EYE Film Institute NetherlandsVondelpark 3, AmsterdamTickets and reservations T +31(020) 5891400

Opening hoursMonday to Friday 9 am – 10.15 pm. Saturday and Sunday from one hour before the first show to 10.15 pm.

TicketsFrom €8 / €6,70 / €4,50

More information?Programme may be subject to change.Check our website www.eyefilm.nl or get our free monthly programme at EYE, Vondelpark or at the AUB Ticketshop, Leidseplein terrace site

New Location 2012EYE moves to a new location in Overhoeks, Amsterdam’s new urban district named after the prominent Overhoeks Tower on the northern bank of the IJ, behind Amsterdam Central Station. EYE’s new building will feature four modern film auditoriums with a total of 600 seats, an exhibition space, a film lab, a shop and a café. In the summer, the sunny terrace will offer a great view over the water. Opening is expected in spring 2012.