Rocket Cinema Festival

Rocket Cinema brings together cult films and new live soundtracks by DJs and musicians at intriguing locations around the city. This autumn, the third edition lands in Amsterdam.

Adventure!

Rocket Cinema invites various DJs and musicians to compose new soundtracks for film classics, and to perform them live at the screenings. This year's festival theme: adventure! It's fitting, then, that the screenings take place in rather adventurous locations, too: Amsterdam Artis Zoo's Planetarium and Aquarium and the Oude Kerk.

Suitable backdrop

It all kicks off on 28 October, when the science fiction classic Fantastic Voyage is screened in the Planetarium, accompanied by tunes from Klerkx & The Secret. A day later, the underwater world of the zoo's Aquarium forms the apt backdrop for the visually astounding Baron Prásil, with a soundtrack provided by the pan-European DJ collective Quartier Mustache. Retro-science fiction masterpiece The Creature from the Black Lagoon is also on the menu, to tunes from DJ Dirk Diggler.

Grand finale

It all culminates on 31 October with the great Halloween extravaganza in the Oude Kerk. The original King Kong (1933) is screened in the spectacularly decorated church, and DJ duo Homework take care of the tunes.

Travelling show

After the Amsterdam weekend, the festival will hit the road with further stops in Groningen and Utrecht. In addition, there's a special train-related programme that will be screened at various locations, making a stop in Amsterdam's Central Station in the Grand Café 1e Klas on 19 November. The film: Robbery (pictured), Peter Yates' 1967 British crime classic about the biggest train robbery of all times; with music by Buchner & d'Arles.