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	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Set in the '30s, the film is about an Australian artist (Sam Neill) whose explicitly erotic paintings on religious themes are being exhibited at a museum in Sydney prior to an international touring exhibition.
		The uninhibited sensuality of the place and people first shocks and then intrigues her and the movement of the film is around her gradual transformation from a repressed and up-tight wife of a repressed and up-tight clergyman into a committed sensualist.
		Anyway, by the end of the film Estella Campion is quite a different person than she was at the beginning, and she seems determined to try to bring her husband the priest along in the same direction in the final sequences.
	www.mith2.umd.edu /WomensStudies/FilmReviews/sirens-mcalister (495 words)

	The Sirens of Titan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Sirens of Titan ( 1959) is a science fiction novel by Kurt Vonnegut.
		Garcia passed away in 1995 before bringing the film to the screen.
		Since he had failed to bring the film into production, Vonnegut exercised his right to buy the film rights back from Garcia, and as of 2001 has a "handshake" agreement with producer / writer / director Robert B. Weide for Weide to do the film.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Sirens_of_Titan (1218 words)

	'Sirens' (R)
		His main function in the film -- which was shot on Lindsay's impressive estate in Australia's Blue Mountains -- is to represent the artist as liberator, freeing those who embrace his work from the repressive inhibitions of the church.
		At present, he is hard at work on a canvas called "The Sirens," in which his family of models strips down to play the mythic seductresses from "The Odyssey." But, although Lindsay delivers some impassioned speeches in defense of his point of view, the character is somewhat peripheral to the main action.
		The true center of the film is Estella, Tony's rather priggish young wife, who shares her husband's disdain for Lindsay's art, but who also seems to be wavering in her prudish beliefs.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/sirensrhinson_b009e1.htm (643 words)

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		This is the point in the film where the joy love brought into her life weighs more than her glaring attitude towards the mine.
		The union is not represented in the film at all, and Jimmy’s death has the only purpose to make the reason for the last howling of the sirens more heartbreaking whereas Ian dies after making his attitude clear, after trying to escape.
		Film adaptations of novels are said to leave out a lot due to the time limit of the medium, but Margaret’s Museum shows that a movie can extend a play.
	www.cariboo.bc.ca /canfilm/Essays/MargaretMuseum.htm (2420 words)

	Sirens (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sirens is a 1994 film written and directed by John Duigan and set in Australia between the two World Wars.
		The film stars Hugh Grant as an Anglican priest, asked to visit a notorious artist (Norman Lindsay, based loosely on that real Australian artist) out of the church's concern about a blasphemous painting the artist wants to exhibit.
		The artist is played by Sam Neill ; Tara Fitzgerald plays the priest's wife, who accompanies him on the visit to the artist's bucolic compound in the Blue Mountains.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sirens_(film) (163 words)

	Sirens
		They are posing as the classical sirens in a Lindsay painting, but they are also luring the visiting parson and his wife into a more sensuous and warmer attitude toward life.
		The film implies that this made her love her husband more, not less, and he seems to understand that, despite his eternally tight sphincter.
		It is the rare case of a film with copious nudity which is acceptable to mainstream audiences.
	www.scoopy.com /sirens.htm (898 words)

	Sirens
		In early art, the Sirens were represented as birds with the heads, and sometimes the breasts, of women.
		However, later in history Sirens were sometimes also depicted as beautiful women (whose bodies, not only their voices, are seductive), or even as mermaids (half woman, half fish).
		Odysseus escaped the Sirens by having all his sailors plug their ears with beeswax and tie him to the mast.
	www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/Mythology/Sirens.html (526 words)

	Movie Review - Sirens
		Sirens is an atmospheric, adult, character study taking place in Australia in the 1930's.
		A young Anglican vicar, dispatched by his clerical superior, leaves England for Australia, accompanied by his lovely wife, for the purpose of meeting with a renegade artist and attempting to dissuade him from including his most controversial painting in a scheduled public exhibition.
		This was achieved with sound affects and a fake mosquito which had had stage blood applied to it and was placed in the actor's hand.
	www.ahafilm.info /movies/moviereviews.phtml?fid=6521 (461 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Film \| \| Sirens are red, soppy weepies are blue, but butch Batman prefers a duller hue
		When the cinematographer Jack Cardiff, aged 84, talks at the new National Film Theatre Cinematography season about painting with light, you have to remember that Cardiff, who was the first Briton trained to use Technicolor, is actually two years younger than that process.
		Although Kinemacolour, the original movie colour, was a British patent, used to record the 1911 Durbar at Delhi in a sumptuous haze, Herbert Kalmus (of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, hence nicolor) invented Technicolor in 1912, patented it in 1915, and shot The Gulf Between in it in 1917.
		Hollywood colour films of the 1940s make it evident that the US was the last place on Earth not bleached out by depression and war.
	film.guardian.co.uk /Feature_Story/Guardian/0,,23980,00.html (987 words)

	DVD Review: Sirens
		"Sirens" does attempt to add in some deeper discussions of other topics such as censorship, but with a 94 minute picture, there's really not a whole lot that one can go into.
		The film works best as simply a cute, light-hearted look at sensuality being awakened, but manages to throw in a few other elements, as well.
		VIDEO: "Sirens" was one of the earlier Miramax/Buena Vista titles to be released, so, unfortunately, it's in non-anamorphic 1.85:1 widescreen.
	www.currentfilm.com /dvdreviews4/sirensdvd.html (688 words)

	Sirens Magazine - Mother, May I?
		Hollywood’s road between the rarified kink of 17-year-old Elizabeth Taylor imploring a man twice her age to “Tell Mama all” in “A Place in the Sun” and the schadenfreude of “Alfie”'s Susan Sarandon (the patron saint of the ma-toor female) dumping a boy half her age for someone even younger is paved with dubious intentions.
		In that film 10-year-old Sean enters adult Anna’s life on the eve of her second marriage, claiming to be the reincarnation of her dead first husband.
		The plot of “P.S.”, 2004’s New York-set film starring Laura Linney and Topher Grace, has been noted as remarkably similar to that of “Birth.” Linney’s character’s high school boyfriend, who died in an accident years before, seems to reappear in her life 15 years later in the form of Grace’s twinkly co-ed.
	www.sirensmag.com /index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=89&Itemid=4 (1980 words)

	Amazon.com: Sirens: DVD: Vincent Ball,Bryan Davies,Carolyn Devlin,Lynne Emanuel,Kate Fischer,Tara Fitzgerald,Mark ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Only one reviewer, who happened not to like the film, touched on what I consider to be one of the most telling elements of the story: that Tara Fitzgerald's character Estella cheats on her husband, Hugh Grant.
		As she is dying she experiences the events in the movie, a mix of Ulysses' sailors drawn to their watery graves by the beautiful sirens, a magical trip to the island of Atlantis (Australia), and religious rumblings of the moral tension between fidelity and self-expression.
		The film is funny (deliberately, I might add) because we recognize the importance of indulging our desires, at least occasionally and in a sensible manner.
	www.amazon.com /Sirens-Vincent-Ball/dp/0788815717 (2081 words)

	Sirens (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		With Sirens, he manages to turn oceans of female nudity into a slightly tongue-in-cheek decorousness that is neither unpersuasively arty nor purely soft porn.
		It attempts to be 'artsy' but it seemed to me it failed in that totally, and when a film attempts artsy and fails it ends up looking pretentious, which I thought it was (my wife disagrees and has asked me to include that in her opinion it wasn't 'pretentious' but it was 'sensitive'.....).
		This is a great film but it's even better when you know well the landscape in which it is placed.
	www.7nights.com /asterisk/store-dvd/product/0788815717/Sirens.html (724 words)

	Sacramento Sirens
		Sirens players ushered excited youngsters into the specially made haunted house, designed entirely by children from the community.
		Sirens 2005 MVP, "Diamond" Lill Jarrell presented on the importance of teamwork at a bi-annual corporate conference to about 100 airport managers.
		She showed a Sirens highlight film to intrigued attendees and emphasized the importance of embracing diversity and working together with teammates from different backgrounds.
	www.sacramentosirens.com /ssevents/2005/archives.htm (381 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Video: Sirens [1994] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		On the DVD: Sirens is presented in 1.85:1 widescreen, but there are no extra features.-- Andrew Mueller --This text refers to the DVD edition.
		SIRENS is a beguiling film that pokes fun at the sexual repression that may result from an overactive religious zeal.
		Sirens is about the debate of human sexuality, and the two extreme opinions: Grant's Catholic priest and the tight-laced conservatives who denounce sexuality as sinful and guilty, and Neill's bohemian artist, his family, and his live-in models, who celebrate it as healthy and wholesome.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004D2W1 (1061 words)

	Sirens (1994) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		During the course of the film he has several opportunities to explain his objections.
		While the film ultimately suggests that he is wrong, it still allows us to understand the reverend's point-of-view and perhaps even sympathize with it.
		She makes a journey, encounters inner conflict, and returns changed by her experiences for the better (or we are led to believe).
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0111201 (684 words)

	Federal Civil Defense Sirens - Big Siren Guide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The purpose of the Civil Defense Sirens is to warn the public of possible...
		A monthly test of the EAS and warning sirens is conducted at 11:45 am on the first state...
		A civil defense siren, air raid siren, or tornado siren is a...
	www.bigsirenguide.com /federal-civil-defense-sirens.html (668 words)

	Barfboro: Sirens, by Rachel Portman
		But, as it turns out, this film is representative of a far deeper theme that took me years to actually understand.
		The Titanic did sink, which means that the entire sequence of events in the film have to be during, or after her death.
		As she is dying, she experiences events that parallel the fate of Ulysses' sailors, all of whom were killed by the sirens.
	www.theblank.org /blog/2005/02/sirens-by-rachel-portman.html (624 words)

	:: rogerebert.com :: Reviews :: Sirens (xhtml)
		The central figure in "Sirens" is perhaps vaguely inspired by another legendary British bohemian, Augustus John, an artist whose models and mistresses were interchangeable, and who delighted in scandal.
		The film, set between the wars, is seen mostly through the eyes of a shy Anglican clergyman named Anthony Campion (Hugh Grant), who has been asked by his bishop to look in on Lindsay during a visit to Australia.
		But "Sirens" is the work of John Duigan, of "Flirting," and he seems to be wise and relaxed about sexual matters; he sees them with both affection and amusement, and is less interested in sex itself than in his character's shifting attitudes toward it.
	rogerebert.suntimes.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19940311/REVIEWS/403110305/1023 (758 words)

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		This film is based, in part, on historical facts surrounding Lindsay's life and works, in what can be classified as a sort of hedonistic dreamscape.
		This film is jam packed with religious imagery of slithering serpents, ripening fruit, and the Passion of Christ.
		Sirens is an artful attempt to express Lindsay's hedonistic philosophy.
	www.epinions.com /content_65516179076 (675 words)

	Stealing Beauty
		So the character we see in the film writes and speaks in a manner far less sophisticated than a 16 year old slow learner, yet she is supposed to be the 19 year old daughter of a noted author!!
		By the end of the film I was lying in a hammock in the Tuscan sunlight, talking to the rest of the characters, enjoying their comings and goings.
		Films under five are generally awful even if you like that kind of film, equivalent to about one and a half stars from the critics or less, depending on just how far below five the rating is.
	www.fakes.net /stealingbeauty.htm (1443 words)

	Artists: Mychael DannaNew Age Music
		Sirens bears the influence of both spacemusic and film music.
		With Sirens, MYCHAEL DANNA takes a giant step beyond his previous work to establish himself as one of the ranking composers of what I'd like to call cinematic spacemusic.
		Sirens fulfills the promise of contemporary studio crafting with stunning sonic imagery, solidly grounded in the traditional musical values of melody and harmony.
	valley-entertainment.com /Artists/Mychael_Danna (516 words)

	TheatreBooks: Films: Criticism, Theory & History
		Feminist Film Studies provides an introduction to feminist film theory as a discourse that grew in cultural significance since the 1970s to the present.
		In this scholarly book Andrew Britton proposes a feminist reading of her films, arguing that her persona raises problems about class, female sexuality, and women's oppression that strain to the limits the conventions of a cinema ultimately committed to the reassertion of bourgeois gender roles.
		This book is a comprehensive survey of the left's approach to films and television from the period after the second world war until the beginnings of the growth of independent cinema in the late 1960s.
	www.theatrebooks.com /film/women_femgender_crithist.html (2081 words)

	MMI Review: Sirens (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		"Sirens" is certainly the most low-key sexual fantasy film that you're likely to see this year.
		John Duigen's fictional film takes a look at a 1930's weekend in the life of the Lindsay family and three of their models.
		"Sirens", seen from Estella's perspective, reveals how she is seduced into having a rollicking good time and, surprise, no one gets punished, goes mad, or brandishes a weapon.
	www.shoestring.org /mmi_revs/sirens.html (413 words)

	Cult Sirens: Bai Ling
		We're now welcoming a Siren that once sacrificed a part of her body to play a role to its fullest.
		She received permission to promote the film at the Moscow Film Festival as long as she wouldn't talk about recent political turmoil, mainly the Tiananmen Square protests (of which she had been a participant).
		Her American film debut was for The Crow, as memorable bad girl Myca, a character wearing fetish wear and intrigued by human eyeballs.
	www.cultsirens.com /ling/ling.htm (1142 words)

	Sound the Sirens Magazine \| Cinema \| Fahrenheit 9/11
		The film opened at number one at the box office and earned $23.9 million in its first weekend, making it the highest grossing opening weekend in documentary history.
		Although the point of this film is to sway voters in the upcoming presidential election, the meaning and overall value of the film surpass its political aspirations.
		The core of the film, the essence and purpose, shows one family whose son was recently killed fighting in
	www.soundthesirens.com /articles/index.php?id=11,118,0,0,1,0 (979 words)

	eBay - DVD: Sirens (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		He and his wife (Tara Fitzgerald) visit the artist's home only to be smitten by three ravishing models posing, ironically, as the mythological sirens who lured men to their doom.
		SIRENS was shown at the 1994 Sundance Film Festival.
		SIRENS marks the film debut of model Elle Macpherson and actress Portia de Rossi (from the ALLY MCBEAL television series).
	product.ebay.com /Sirens_W0QQfvcsZ1166QQsoprZ3233116 (306 words)

	virtualitalia.com - feature - italian movie goddesses
		Like their counterparts, the Italian sirens had beauty and raw sex appeal to spare, but it was their strength as much as their beauty that set them apart even when they played damsels in distress, they did not need rescuing.
		The film is notable for another reason: It introduced Anna Magnani to global movie audiences and sparked an era in which the great Italian sirens would rule the screen.
		Most of Gina's noteworthy films were made for Italian audiences; it was her beauty rather than her acting that caught the rest of the world's attention.
	www.virtualitalia.com /articles/fl_sirens.shtml (2154 words)

	Rebel Without A Cause (1955)
		The reactionary film is considered Hollywood's best 50's film of rebellious and restless youth (and sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll) that spawned many other lesser teen exploitation films in its wake.
		Both the beginning and ending of the film occur at nighttime (late night and early morning hours respectively) and are marked by the sound of approaching and departing police car sirens.
		Behind the credits, the film opens in Los Angeles with one of the three teenagers, the major character, lone troublemaker Jim Stark (James Dean) seen tipsy-drunk in the darkness, lying contentedly (in a fetal position) on a sidewalk curb with a beatific smile on his face.
	www.filmsite.org /rebel.html (2427 words)

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