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	Siege - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Cahir Castle in Ireland was besieged and captured three times: in 1599 by the Earl of Essex, in 1647 by Lord Inchiquin, and in 1650 by Oliver Cromwell.
		A besieging army must be prepared to repel both sorties from the besieged area and also any attack that may try to relieve the defenders.
		The trenches connecting the various lines of the besiegers could not be built perpendicular to the walls of the fortress, as the defenders would have a clear line of fire along the whole trench.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Siege (5553 words)

	GospelMessage.com - Listings of the word BESIEGED in the King James Version (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		And they came and besieged him in Abel of Bethmaachah, and they cast up a bank against the city, and it stood in the trench: and all the people that [were] with Joab battered the wall, to throw it down.
		And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.
		For then the king of Babylon's army besieged Jerusalem: and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the prison, which [was] in the king of Judah's house.
	www.gospelmessage.com /word_besieged.htm (694 words)

	Besieged (1999)
		After her husband is arrested by her (unnamed) country's military government, Shandurai flees to Rome, where she enrolls in medical school and works as a live-in maid for an eccentric piano teacher, Mr.
		Of course, to paint a portrait of subtle longing like Besieged, a director needs a good canvas, and thankfully, Bertolucci has found the perfect leads in David Thewlis and Thandie Newton.
		Besieged's lovelorn atmosphere is enhanced by Bertolucci's intimate cinematography and the sumptuous Roman setting.
	www.reel.com /movie.asp?MID=45580&buy=open&Tab=reviews&CID=13 (551 words)

	Metroactive Movies \| Besieged
		Besieged, the new film by the 59-year-old Bertolucci, is back to basics, and maybe that's what saves it.
		Besieged has an ominous title, but actually you could call it the best summer romance of the year--something sultry and sweet you can enjoy and still keep your self-respect.
		Besieged (R; 90 min.), directed by Bernardo Bertolucci, written by Claire Peploe and Bertolucci, photographed by Fabio Cianchetti and starring Thandie Newton and David Thewlis.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/06.10.99/besieged-9923.html (1527 words)

	Movie (Metro Times Detroit) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		In the insular, even claustrophobic Besieged, Bertolucci has gone so far as to strip down to the essentials of silent cinema, relying on the expressiveness of actors’ faces and the emotional language of music to carry the film much more than dialogue.
		Besieged is a love story whose foundation is the tension between passion and restraint.
		Bertolucci, who adapted Besieged with wife Clare Peploe (Rough Magic) from a story by James Lasdun (Sunday), chooses to disregard traditional exposition, which means the narrative is driven solely by the emotional currents of the characters.
	www.metrotimes.com /editorial/review.asp?id=51240 (545 words)

	SPLICEDwire \| "Besieged" review (1999)
		Now in "Besieged" -- Bernardo Bertolucci's lavish visual ballet of awkward body language that features little dialogue and intense emotion -- Newton, in a moment of uncontrollable despondency, dribbles out of the corner of her mouth as she cries a river.
		"Besieged" is vexed by the areas Bertolucci leaves unexplored -- the husband is virtually ignored beyond his usefulness as a plot device -- and by a vague conclusion that doesn't resolve the relationship and invites too many last-minute questions about the characters motivations and devotion long after we were lead to believe we understood them.
		But Newton and Thewlis are, nonetheless, fascinating to watch as they mix beholden romance and extreme discomfort in a captivating study of the subconscious practice of non-verbal communication.
	www.splicedonline.com /99reviews/besieged.html (691 words)

	CNN - Review: 'Besieged' -- the pain of true beauty - June 21, 1999
		Although it has one of those 1960s "is it really over?" endings, "Besieged" is a welcome return to content from the man whose previous three films -- "The Sheltering Sky," "Little Buddha" and "Stealing Beauty" -- can best be described as lushly vapid.
		Bertolucci has always had a bent toward painterly art direction, and much of "Besieged" works like a thoughtfully designed exhibit: You take in individual moments as if they're another brush stroke from the artist.
		That's the question asked by "Besieged." And although the answer is somewhat truncated, the journey to the final revelation is one of the more interesting ones to be taken at the movies so far this year.
	www.cnn.com /SHOWBIZ/Movies/9906/21/review.besieged/index.html (872 words)

	Bertolucci's gorgeous letdown "Besieged': Gorgeous letdown
		TOLD WITH the distorted ambiguity and hypnotic poetry of a dream, "Besieged" is a jolt of restless sleeping.
		Every frame of "Besieged," Bertolucci's 17th film, bleeds with a gorgeousness and dire radiance that serves as a willful distraction from the hulking, wanton fetishization and eerie ignorance that Bertolucci distorts as subtle eroticism.
		"Besieged" is simply looking for love, and if there is no rapture in his script, then the sensuous confluence of Jacopo Quadri's cutting and Fabio Cianchetti's photography will have to hypnotically do.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/e/a/1999/06/11/WEEKEND7525.dtl (647 words)

	Harry Turtledove: Videssos Besieged
		What makes Videssos Besieged a triffle odd is that fact that although the novel begins with Maniakes approaching the Makuraner capital of Mashiz, he is recalled to Videssos to defend the city against a joint Makuraner/Kubrati attack.
		Although Videssos Besieged ends with a peace existing between Makuran and Videssos, it also leaves hints of future difficulties for both Abivard and Maniakes as well as their kingdoms.
		He has left literally thousands of years worth of stories to be told, ranging from the founding of Videssos, to the antipathy of Avshar, to the conquest of Makuran, to the fate of the Roman Legion or any of the periods between.
	www.sfsite.com /~silverag/besieged.htm (752 words)

	Besieged (1998): Thandie Newton, Thandie+Newton, David Thewlis, and (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Besieged is one of the most beautiful movies I've seen this year.
		Kinsky (Thewlis) pursues Shandurai (Newton), the clash of cultures and true sacrifices made in love are revealed. This new and captivating love story portrays the balance between desire and love through sacrifices and struggles.
		Besieged is a true gem of filmmaking and cinematography. On top of both of these, a superior score is included that enhances the movie tenfold. I encourage everyone to see this movie and experience the magic of true love, devotion, and sacrifice.
	www.movielocity.com /m/r.cgi?ID=159 (333 words)

	BESIEGED
		Besieged is a chamber work for Bertolucci, especially compared to the vast canvasses that were 1900 and The Last Emperor.
		Another fault in the film is that amid Besieged's mostly low key tone, occasional blasts of over-the-top melodrama erupt that seem out of place and unconvincing.
		Thandie Newton shows she can do more than the overacting in Beloved (though that was probably not her fault), and Thewlis, who has already proven himself a great thespian in films like Naked, exceeds the limitations of his role, even if we are left wishing we knew more about him.
	pages.prodigy.net /zvelf/besieged.htm (552 words)

	BESIEGED
		While Besieged bears some similarities to both of those, it marks new territory by presenting a woman as the central and most fully developed figure in the story while leaving the male lead as an object, a cipher in a puzzle of her own creation.
		Newton is a particular standout in a tricky role requiring both independence and submission, while Thewlis is fine in a role that doesn't require much of his usual verbal showmanship.
		Not surprisingly, the transfer itself is a feast for the eyes, filled with warm color schemes (red, brown, orange) and startling bursts of color (the inital flower left for Shandurai).
	www.mondo-digital.com /besieged.html (553 words)

	Besieged Apr. 18, 2006 (JST)
		“Besieged” is a defensive battle fought on the Aradjiah continent, the setting of the Treasures of Aht Urhgan expansion disc.
		The beastmen breach Al Zahbi's defenses and besiege the town.
		The Imperial defense is an important statistic relating to the defensive facilities and the deployment of mercenaries in Besieged.
	www.playonline.com /pcd/update/ff11us/200604186oQFt2/detail.html (1323 words)

	Besieged
		The very first frames of Bernardo Bertolucci's Besieged display the hand of a master filmmaker at the peak of his powers.
		The main titles run with footage of an African musician, a virtual one-man-band, singing his rhythmic and emotional song as he sits beneath a huge tree arching out over the dry, hot landscape.
		Like a painter in oil using a heavy impasto, you become acutely aware of the texture and technique of the artist, even as you are caught up in the beauty of the painting.
	www.culturevulture.net /Movies/Besieged.htm (542 words)

	Besieged
		Besieged centres on Shandurai (Thandie Newton), a young woman from an unnamed African country where her husband is being held prisoner.
		Part of Bertolucci’s uniqueness as a director is his ability to bring together elements that appear to exist on different temporal planes, as in The Sheltering Sky, where the visitors to Africa initially encounter a zone of seemingly artificial flatness: a cardboard new world.
		In Besieged, he uses a hand-held camera to denote the “spirit”-like awareness (3) that he and cinematographer Fabio Cianchetti envisioned — a sensibility which is alert and quickened by perfect music, but occasionally suspended, and as such reaching his ideal of freed energy.
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/cteq/05/36/besieged.html (752 words)

	Besieged DVD prices at Smarter.com
		In BESIEGED, Bernardo Bertolucci returns to the taut, slow-burning intimacy of LAST TANGO IN PARIS; this film is predicated on smaller victories, however.
		BESIEGED is partly about getting to know people by looking at them, and the film itself seems nearly wordless.
		Besieged was shot in 28 days in Kenya and Rome.
	www.smarter.com /besieged---pd--ch-4--pi-147326.html (435 words)

	Besieged
		Besieged is the latest film from Bernardo Bertolucci (Stealing Beauty, The Last Emperor), arguably one of the great directors of our time.
		Nevertheless, the memory of her husband still lingers in her mind, so she refuses to give in to Kinsky.
		Besieged is notable for its use of music instead of dialogue.
	www.haro-online.com /movies/besieged.html (376 words)

	Siege of Vienna - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		And of those able to fight, a third were light cavalry (sipahis), next to useless in siege warfare.
		Even so, the sight of tents as far as they could see must have struck renewed fear into the defenders of the besieged city.
		When Ottoman emissaries threatened to raze the city if it did not surrender, Salm, however, sent them away with honor but without reply.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Siege_of_Vienna (2051 words)

	Besieged @ Filmbug
		The title of Bertolucci's Besieged is a subtle reference to both main characters--Thandie Newton's Shandurai and David Thewlis' Mr.
		Her state of "besiegement" is the situation of living in Kinsky's confining environment--confining principally because of the owner's emotional isolation, and simultaneously of her husband having been arrested in her native country; she is besieged by exposure to a foreign culture, by forces previously unknown to her.
		Kinsky, a composer and pianist, is initially seen playing standard Western classical music, but as he becomes more enamored with Shandurai, the rhythms of her African music begin to influence his own compositions.
	www.filmbug.com /asin/B00001YXH7 (1249 words)

	Besieged, Bothered, Bewildered — and Busted- by Justin Raimondo
		It's not legal to out CIA agents, feed forgeries to U.S. intelligence, and employ methods that, if used by any other nation on earth, would certainly be judged as war crimes.
		If you write legal opinions tortuously rationalizing the most degraded forms of barbarism, you could be charged as an accessory to a war crime, and if you signed off on orders allowing such methods to be used, and then try to cover up the evidence, you aren't merely "besieged" — you're busted.
		That is precisely what is happening to the neoconservative mandarins of power who once cast such long shadows across the Washington landscape, and now face the equivalent of a firing squad, with shots coming from the right as well as the left.
	www.antiwar.com /justin/?articleid=2795 (2124 words)

	Franco-Prussian War
		The leaders of the French Republic then found themselves besieged and unable to communicate with their own armies in the provinces.
		Now he suggested that it might be possible to operate a balloon postal service above the heads of the Prussian troops surrounding Paris.
		To demonstrate the feasibility of this idea, Nadar launched his balloon from the besieged city on September 21, 1870.
	www.oldnewspublishing.com /balloons.htm (993 words)

	Besieged - WorldNetDaily: Israeli marchers besieged (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Besieged, like so many other films by its director, Bernardo Bertolucci, His style makes it remarkable that Besieged has as much of a story as it has.
		Absolutely Movies: Besieged (1998) Obviously, as a fable, little in Besieged comes off as even remotely believable, which would be fine if it weren't so
		Besieged (also known as L'Assedio), his latest offering, is the story of a love For Besieged, Bertolucci has turned to Italian composer Alessio Vlad,
	www.findoutwebsite.com /?q=besieged (458 words)

	Cranky Critic® Movie Reviews: Besieged (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Though way past my film school days, director Bernardo Bertolucci is one of those "names" of the indie/arthouse type of film that, more often than not, break through into the commercial arena.
		For those that frequent the arthouse circuit, Besieged is a flick that is a must see for any film maker wannabe.
		Were Cranky able to set his own price for Besieged, he would have paid.
	www.crankycritic.com /archive99/besieged.html (517 words)

	Besieged
		Besieged (also known as L'Assedio), his latest offering, is the story of a love triangle between an English composer and pianist (David Thewlis), his fl African housekeeper (Thandie Newton), and her unseen political prisoner husband.
		For Besieged, Bertolucci has turned to Italian composer Alessio Vlad, whose two most famous outings to date were for Franco Zeffirelli's films Jane Eyre and Tea With Mussolini.
		I would certainly like to hear more of Alessio Vlad's music in the future, but unfortunately Besieged is certainly not an album which does his work justice.
	www.moviemusicuk.us /beseigcd.htm (713 words)

	Besieged
		In Besieged!, Wizards don't have the spell casting monopoly, only powerful warriors (Generals and Captains, defined later on) can do so.
		Generals, Captains and the Mage are referred to as "Leaders." The players have to share their lands among their Leaders as follows: two lands per Captain, three lands per General/Mage.
		Cards as Gaea's Liege or Demonic Hordes are too powerful to be played in Besieged, since the number of lands is constant and are few in number.
	www.angelfire.com /games4/magicvariants/Besieged.htm (936 words)

	Review of Internet Besieged
		Although the title conjures up visions of tabloid-style hype, Internet Besieged is actually a serious, wide-ranging, and informative collection of original essays and previously published articles relating to Internet security issues.
		One chapter, a taxonomy of key escrow systems, is co-authored by Dennis Branstad; the other chapter, entitled "Encryption Policy and Market Trends", looks at the economic impact of US encryption-related export controls and the international spread of cryptographic technology.
		In my opinion the book is a good choice for classroom use or for the general reader who wants to learn the technical details of the major Internet security and policy challenges of the day.
	www.techsoc.com /inetbsgd.htm (523 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Fortress Besieged: Books: Qian Zhongshu,Jonathan Spence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Fortress Besieged is a classic of world literature, a masterpiece of parodic fiction that plays with Western literary traditions, philosophy and middle class Chinese society in the Republican era.
		The title is taken from an old French proverb, "Marriage is like a fortress besieged: those who are outside want to get in, and those who are inside want to get out".
		Set on the eve of the ferocious Sino-Japanese War, Fortress Besieged recounts the exuberant misadventures of the hapless hero Fang Hung-chien.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Fortress-Besieged-Qian-Zhongshu/dp/0713998350 (246 words)

	Besieged Reviews
		BESIEGED (director: Bernardo Bertolucci; screenwriters: Bertolucci/Clare Peploe/story by James Lasdun; cinematographer: Fabio Cianchetti; cast: Thandie Newton (Shandurai), David Thewlis (Jason Kinsky), Claudio Santamaria (Agostino), 1998) more
		Upon viewing Bernardo Bertolucci’s last film, Stealing Beauty, I figured him for a dirty old man. The tight crotch shot on Liv Tyler as the opening credits rolled and, later, Tyler on all fours licking a mirror at the request of Jeremy Irons were both...
		It is a romance, albeit a highly tentative one, and it's based on a mystery, although one that's transparently obvious.
	www.killermovies.com /b/besieged/reviews (350 words)

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