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	Holy Smoke! Starring Kate Winslet and Harvey Keitel
		Holy Smoke is based on the book, by the same title, written by Jane and Anna Campion.
		The Holy Smoke VHS cassette is sold in the U.K and in America (it was never released in Germany).
		Holy Smoke: Filmed in India and the Austrailian Outback, and directed by New Zealander Jane Campion, Holy Smoke is proving to be just as much as expected and more.
	www.discoverkate.com /movies/Holy_Smoke (424 words)

	Holy Smoke
		Holy Smoke is the kind of movie that makes a person shake their head in bewilderment.
		Even when the film begins to degenerate, their performances are still able to make Holy Smoke look better than it actually is. There are also some funny moments in the film, mostly dealing with Barron's family, and unintentionally funny moments that arise from the use of special effects.
		Kate Winslet (Titanic, Hideous Kinky) is still able to carefully pick her jobs, Harvey Keitel (Smoke, Copland) is once again naked, and it is directed by Jane Campion (The Piano, Portrait of a Lady), and co-written by Campion and her sister Anna, who wrote the novel.
	www.haro-online.com /movies/holy_smoke.html (479 words)

	Urban Legends Reference Pages: Language (Holy Smoke)
		Though the wispy beacon arising from the Sistine Chapel was both holy and smoke, this ancient mode of announcing a new Pope isn't the source of the idiom.
		The exclamation 'Holy smoke' derives from the burning of the ballots used to elect a Pope.
		In that year, Rudyard Kipling and his American agent Charles Balestier used it as an independent vehemence in "The Naulahka:" 'By the holy smoke, some one has got to urge girls to stand by the old machine.' From that point forward, 'holy smoke' began appearing in the literature of the day as a generic exclamation.
	www.snopes.com /language/phrases/holysmoke.asp (471 words)

	Review: Holy Smoke
		Her Portrait of a Lady was not well-received, and the reaction to Holy Smoke is almost guaranteed to dull whatever luster remains on her reputation.
		Holy Smoke is one of those movies that takes some potentially fascinating ideas and shipwrecks them by poor execution and even worse writing.
		Some have suggested that Campion's aim with Holy Smoke was not to offer a serious psychological study of a cult deprogramming, but to present a thinly-veiled satire.
	movie-reviews.colossus.net /movies/h/holy_smoke.html (909 words)

	AboutFilm.Com - Holy Smoke! (1999)
		Holy Smoke is an exercise best left to the most ardent of Kate Winslet worshippers, who will likely be so enraptured by their heroine, they won't realize how little sense the movie makes, or they just won't care.
		The main reason to endure Holy Smoke, though, is the gorgeous photography of India, of the Outback, and most especially, of the lushly exquisite Kate Winslet.
		Unlike her first film, Sweetie (which Holy Smoke emulates in its desperately giddy tone and colorful, hyper-real style more than the more subdued Campion films, The Piano and Portrait of a Lady), the strong-willed heroine's confusion doesn't drive the story--and neither does much else.
	www.aboutfilm.com /movies/h/holysmoke.htm (1153 words)

	The Monitor - McAllen, Texas
		Black smoke poured from the Sistine Chapelâs chimney Monday evening, signaling that the cardinals sequestered inside for the first papal conclave of the new millennium failed to elect a new pope.
		White smoke will tell the world that the churchâs 265th pontiff has been chosen to succeed John Paul, who died April 2 at the age 84.
		The cardinals, from six continents and representing 52 countries, began their secret deliberations late in the afternoon after the ceremonial closing of the massive doors of the chapel, which is decorated with frescoes by Michelangelo and wired with electronic jamming devices to thwart eavesdropping.
	www.themonitor.com /SiteProcessor.cfm?Template=/GlobalTemplates/Details.cfm&StoryID=6792&Section=Local (1233 words)

	holy smoke
		Water is represented by a seashell bowl that holds the smoldering plant, air with a feather for fanning and directing the smoke, earth and fire by the burning plant.
		The smoke from sage is said to draw out and carry away negative energy.
		I often start my meditation time by lighting a stick of incense and watching the amazing and unusual patterns that are formed by the smoke.
	www.spiritconnecxions.com /holysmoke.html (905 words)

	Holy Smoke
		“Holy Smoke” brings Campion back to the familiar territory of her first film “Sweetie”.
		There are two excellent scenes in “Holy Smoke” which accurately sums up the art of Jane Campion’s filmmaking.
		Campion uses her devices not only to tell a story but fascinate the audience in a curious and quirky manner as well.
	www3.sympatico.ca /gilbert.seah/reviews/holysmoke.html (589 words)

	Holy Smoke - Tonino Benacquista
		Holy Smoke is likeable enough, and Polsinelli an agreeable narrator, never quite sure what he's in for (except for that disagreeable section where he keeps the readers in the dark), but Benacquista doesn't get either the tone or pacing down right.
		In the end, Holy Smoke is an agreeable little thriller, but doesn't quite live up to the potential of the story.
		The central idea -- what happens at the vineyard that makes it so desirable -- is inspired and nicely pulled off, but it takes Benacquista quite a while to get to it, and there are a few too many distractions surrounding it, packed into very little space.
	www.complete-review.com /reviews/trcrime/benacqt.htm (922 words)

	Frontpage - Holy Smoke Culture Shop
		Holy Smoke is a sanctuary and rally point for members of the cannabis using community and has been designated by the Church of the Universe as the Holy Smoke Mission of God.
		Three partners and dedicated activists Dustin Cantwell, Paul DeFelice, and Alan Middlemiss opened Holy Smoke October 15, 1996 intending for it to be more of a political action than a retail venture.
		The Holy Smoke Culture Shop is more than a small retail store in Nelson, British Columbia, Canada.
	www.holysmoke.ca (81 words)

	Holy Smoke
		Holy Smoke is the story of an Australian girl Ruth (Kate Winslet) that travels to India on vacation and winds up staying after joining a cult.
		As many people are dissatisfied with the impersonal and technological world, more and more turn to pseudo religious groups for solace.
		Her friend and traveling companion returns to Australia to tell Ruth’s parents the bad news.
	www.hometheaterinfo.com /holy.htm (687 words)

	"Holy Smoke"
		Holy Smoke recently received an email from one of the Academy's many departed "Master Teachers." This was published in full within The Echo (a weekly newspaper in the Byron, Australia).
		Holy Smoke often closes on a humorous note--perhaps to lift the somber tone of its contents a bit.
		The typical Academy member is drawn into this milieu for a period, before such dissonance as the abusive behavior of the teachers and world hating takes a toll--often resulting in the member leaving the group.
	www.rickross.com /reference/eacademy/eacademy6.html (1674 words)

	Holy Smoke
		Holy Smoke's been a great movie to ruminate on.
		Holy Smoke is the cusp we stand on.
		Notice in Holy Smoke, the dogs barking when the men ring around and enclose Ruth: a trap.
	www.jungcircle.com /muse/holysmoke.html (3523 words)

	www.reviewingtheevidence.com HOLY SMOKE, by Tonino Benacquista
		HOLY SMOKE careers around covering food, wine, religion, miracles and some old Italian history.
		There's the divine Bianca, who proves that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach, and also the mysterious blind man who has a taste for the ropey wine and turns out to be an unlikely sidekick for Tonio.
		It's black humour at its finest, and a caper novel which whisks you along in its slipstream.
	www.reviewingtheevidence.com /review.html?id=5020 (273 words)

	Questions & Answers: Holy smoke
		It seems more likely that holy smoke was invented anew as a mock-religious exclamation and mild oath on the model of the older holy Moses (from the 1850s), and holy terror and Holy Joe (both from the 1880s).
		What is certain is that it has nothing to do with the puffs of smoke that appear during the election of a new Pope.
		There are several such references in the Bible, including the Book of Revelation: “And the smoke of the incense, which came with the prayers of the saints, ascended up before God out of the angel’s hand”.
	www.worldwidewords.org /qa/qa-hol1.htm (347 words)

	We are Different at the HolySmoke Resort!
		The Vulcan Mining Group, of which Holy Smoke is part of, originally occupied 102 acres of gold, silver and copper deposits and was founded by the colorful Col. James A. (Big Hat) Clark.
		Clark was so intrigued with the naming of Keystone's notorious "Holy Terror" mine, that he named his property "The Holy Smoke." Ore was located in this area in Pre-Cambrian Schist and Quartzite and two shafts were sunk at the 85 and 106 foot levels.
		He left the Holy Smoke and went to Arizona and became a well-known author of Western Semi-fiction.
	www.blackhills.com /holysmoke (372 words)

	The filmmakers can't help themselves Holy Smoke, directed by Jane Campion, written by Jane and Anna Campion
		Holy Smoke takes up themes addressed in director Jane Campion's four previous feature films: principally, the relationship between the sexes and the problems faced by women who are considered—by themselves and/or Campion—to be at odds with or standing apart from society.
		It's simply nonsense to suggest that Holy Smoke conveys “a compelling symmetry between her two main protagonists,” as the production notes elsewhere assert.
		Aside from the rather unpleasant self-aggrandizing going on here (we certainly needed to know that Jane Campion sees herself as an “explorer” and is attracted to other “explorers”!), this description of the film's internal logic is so desperately off the mark as to make one groan.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2000/mar2000/holy-m18.shtml (1743 words)

	The New Yorker: The Critics: Books
		In its original meaning, a crusade was a Christian holy war, and in that sense it was a contradiction in terms.
		Actually, that had happened more than four hundred years earlier, and in the ensuing period Christians were generally treated far better in the holy city than non-Christians were in Europe.
		In 1095, he went on a tour of France, and one afternoon in Clermont he gave a sermon calling on Christians to journey to the East and reclaim the Holy Land.
	www.newyorker.com /critics/books?041213crbo_books (4737 words)

	Amazon.com: Holy Smoke : A Novel: Books: Anna Campion,Jane Campion
		Holy Smoke is a confusing effort by the Campion sisters.
		HOLY SMOKE is worth reading for the erotic scenes alone.
		Ruth is a strong female character, especially in the erotic scenes in which she initiates sex and sees to her own pleasure (on page 173, for example).
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0786885637?v=glance (1669 words)

	CESNUR - Deprogramming Kate Winslet: A Review of "Holy Smoke", by Anna and Jane Campion - by Massimo Introvigne
		When "Holy Smoke" premiered as a movie at the Venice Film Festival in summer 1999, the Italian press praised it as a "balanced" approach to the brainwashing/deprogramming controversy.
		The Campion sisters now offer to us a book version (Holy Smoke: A Novel, New York: Hyperion, 1999), whose success will probably be chain-connected to the movie's.
		The novel is of considerable interest, however, for understanding the Campions' approach to deprogramming.
	www.cesnur.org /testi/holysmoke.htm (932 words)

	filmcritic.com Movie Review: Holy Smoke
		Holy Smoke is the entrancing story of two zealots on a collision course with fate.
		Outside of this one shortcoming, Holy Smoke is a masterpiece.
		Buy Holy Smoke -- the Soundtrack from Amazon.com
	www.filmcritic.com /misc/emporium.nsf/84dbbfa4d710144986256c290016f76e/8730b4327ec078fd88256864001e0c14?OpenDocument (479 words)

	ThothWeb - Sacred Smoke
		The essence of smoke is mystical and evocative and is a fundamental human symbol that crosses all boundaries.
		And the smoke of the incense, with the prayers of the saints, rose before God from the hand of the angel.
		In Christian religions the smoke from the incense, with its sweet-smelling perfumes is seen as the symbol of the prayers, rising up to God in his heaven.
	www.thothweb.com /article-1036--0-0.html (2208 words)

	Holy Smoke (1999): Kate Winslet, Harvey Keitel, Julie Hamilton, Tim Robertson - PopMatters Film Review
		Instead, Holy Smoke shows that Ruth's upbringing has been fairly liberal, not to say lax, and that her sudden betrayal by her family — especially her confused and good-hearted Mum (Julie Hamilton) — is more than a little startling for the girl.
		Holy Smoke repeatedly rushes through enigmatic images and complex concepts.
		The movie sets up this drama with a brief series of scenes in which Ruth (Kate Winslet), a young Australian woman, travels in India, meets a guru, and becomes enlightened (literally, she seems to glow with a yellowish light when the guru touches her forehead during an introductory gathering).
	www.popmatters.com /film/reviews/h/holy-smoke.shtml (1509 words)

	Holy Smoke
		Holy Smoke is a darkly comic iconoclastic tale told by an author of great verve and humour.
		Holy Smoke is set in the Italian working class suburbs of Paris and in Southern Italy.
		It is also an attempt to unearth Benacquista's Italian roots: the small claustrophobic villages of rural Italy, the fathers' war experiences fighting for Mussolini in Albania, and the generous sprinkling of gastronomic titbits.
	www.atomicbooks.com /products/-/10425.html (414 words)

	Welcome to the Holy Smoke Resort! Where we do things different!
		The Holy Smoke is actually the name of an old mining claim upon which the restaurant sits.
		The Holy Smoke Restaurant is a great place to stop by when visiting Mt. Rushmore, and you're in the mood for a good steak or a bit of dessert."
		The Holy Smoke only opened its doors in April 1994, it has a lot of history.
	www.blackhills.com /holysmoke/restau.html (140 words)

	Holy Smoke Reviews
		HOLY SMOKE (director/writer: Jane Campion; screenwriter: Anna Campion; cinematographer: Dion Beebe; editor: Veronika Jenet; cast: Kate Winslet (Ruth Barron), Harvey Keitel (P.J. Waters), Paul Goddard (Tim Barron), Pam Grier (Carol), Julie Hamilton...
		Susan Granger's review of "HOLY SMOKE" (Miramax Films) With last year's Hideous Kinky and now Holy Smoke, Kate Winslet seems determined to reach beyond her classic Titanic heroine.
		Up until a couple of days ago, the latest film from idiosyncratic New Zealand-born director Jane Campion bore the more exclamatory moniker _Holy_Smoke!_--an interjection that will serve as many people's immediate reaction to the picture.
	www.killermovies.com /h/holysmoke/reviews (251 words)

	Mama JunkYard’s » Blog Archive » Holy Smoke
		guys do smoke in church compounds, but i guess what they meant was a church is a public place.
		there was this one priest I knew - he used to dash off for a smoke in the middle of mass,during readings or when people were busy in song or during offerings.
		cant imagine catching pints and not being able to smoke.
	beginsathome.com /journal/?p=234 (646 words)

	Holy Smoke
		Her new film, Holy Smoke, is poised between farce and sexual melodrama: Strindberg's "Miss Julie" with pratfalls.
		It's a compendium of all of Campion's worst impulses as a filmmaker: dubious music (tourists ecstatically dancing to, of all things, Neil Diamond's "Holly Holy"), turgid pace, pointless slow motion shots so "artful" in their beauty that they stop the film dead in its tracks.
		Worse yet, her fanatical attention to surface detail (you can all but smell Hunter's unwashed hair in The Piano) gets lost when it matters most: when Hunter sits at her piano, we hear the tinkly new age air pudding of Michael Nyman rather than something a nineteenth century pianist might conceivably play.
	www.culturevulture.net /Movies/HolySmoke.html (631 words)

	Holy Smoke
		The scent of the incense affects our senses in that it is a "sweetness that overcomes our earthly body." So the next time you are in service, remember the meaning of the "holy smoke" and be alert to other ways our service includes all the senses of the body, both spiritual and earthly.
		Well, I talked to Father John of St. George in Houston, Texas, and this is what I got out of it. The smoke represents our prayers that ascend towards Heaven. It is a way for "us" to view that ascension.
		It’s perfect in that it is able to be viewed, the aroma of it is calming, and it’s a way of sending a sweetness to God.
	www.antiochian.org /1277 (262 words)

	Peter Murphy : Holy Smoke - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect
		Taken on its own merits, though, Smoke is quite a strong release, avoiding any cloning of Deep or "Cuts You Up" in favor of a different approach meant to bring out the band's live power more directly.
		Hopes for another surprise American success from Peter Murphy with Deep's follow-up went unfulfilled, as success proved not to be the case; released in the initial craze of the grunge/alternative mega-crossover, Smoke's elegant ballads and angular, arty rockers simply didn't fit in.
		Producer Mike Thorne gets some great performances out of them and Murphy both, giving the album a crisp, solid punch throughout, even during its quieter moments.
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/store/artist/album/0,,135806,00.html (259 words)

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