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• THE HOLY MOUNTAIN GETS 96% APPROVAL RATING

  31 Aug 2007

  The votes are in from the 56th Melbourne International Film Festival and The Holy Mountain came off a treat. Not only was it the first film to ever sell out an 11pm screening, it earned itself a 96 per cent audience approval rating. Fantastic news ahead of Saturday's Sydney screening at the Chauvel Cinema.
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• LIVE JODOROWSKY INTERVIEW AFTER SATURDAY'S SCREENING

  30 Aug 2007

  Just confirmed is a interview with director Alejandro Jodorowsky, to happen directly after the screening of his masterpiece The Holy Mountain at the Chauvel Cinema this Saturday.
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• THE HOLY MOUNTAIN PLAYING FOR ONE NIGHT ONLY

  28 Aug 2007

  For one night only Alejandro Jodorowsky's mind-melting spiritual journey The Holy Mountain is playing at the Chauvel Cinema on a brand new 35mm print.
  
  Considered by many to be the greatest experimental film ever made The Holy Mountain is a barrage of sacrilegious imagery. Made in Mexico in 1971 and produced by Beatles manager Allen Klein the film boasts outlandish sets and costumes as rich in detail and bizarre as the plotline.
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• ZIMBABWEAN OPPOSITION LEADER IN AUSTRALIA

  28 Aug 2007

  Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai is in Australia this week giving talks around the country on Zimbabwe’s crisis and the future of current President Robert Mugabe. He will meet with Foreign Minister Alexander Downer tomorrow.
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• ON THE RADIO

  24 Aug 2007

  If you're in Sydney tomorrow (or fancy using the internet) you can tune in to FBi to hear our marketing manager wax lyrical about all things Siren and the Jodorowsky screenings happening at the Chauvel this and next Saturday. The show is The Naked City from 10am-midday with the fansinating Jay Katz, Miss Death and Coffin Ed. A finner group of people is hard to find.
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• A DICTIONARY OF SYMBOLS - EXHIBITION

  22 Aug 2007

  Launching at the Chauvel Gallery this Saturday A Dictionary of Symbols is an insight into the world of surreal filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky and the inner workings of his bizarre mind.
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• TICKETS AVAILABLE ONLINE FOR JODOROWSKY IN SYDNEY

  21 Aug 2007

  Tickets are now available for this Saturday's screenings of El Topo and The Holy Mountain at the Chauvel Cinema through Moshtix. Click here to go directly to the event page where you can purchase tickets to the screenings and listen to a track from the soundtracks (written by Jodorowsky).
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• RELIGION HAS NO PLACE IN SCHOOLS

  21 Aug 2007

  Following a performance by a Christian American rap group at an inner-Melbourne public school last week questions were raised about the practice of letting religious groups into schools. Below is a piece written on the issue by he teacher who raised the concern.
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• JODOROWSKY COMES TO SYDNEY

  16 Aug 2007

  After receiving an incredible response at the Melbourne International Film Festival the films of Alejandro Jodorowsky are heading to Sydney.  Siren has teamed up with Australia's premiere film magazine, Filmink, and TwoThousand, Sydney's weekly guide to what's happening in Sin City, to bring you these very special film events.
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• ALEJANDRO JODOROWSKY FREE T-SHIRT OFFER

  10 Aug 2007

  Pre-order this by September 12th, and while stocks last get a free Alejandro Jodorowsky t-shirt, featuring the image from the opening scene to THE HOLY MOUNTAIN. Once you've placed your pre-order, we will email you clarfying your size and colour preference (small, med, large....black, blue, grey and brown). First in, best dressed!

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• THE AGE INTERVIEW WITH RICHARD MOORE

  10 Aug 2007

  El Topo stole the show in Jim Schembri's interview today with Richard Moore in the Age....read the first four questions only of the article here

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• SAMURAI VOLUME 1: SOLD OUT!

  09 Aug 2007

  Following on our previous announcement regarding the end of the Samurai series, we will stop selling all DVDs relating to this vintage television show at the end of this September, and the series will go out of print. Further to this, Season 1 is officially completely sold out! If you are looking for seasons 2-6 better order them now before you miss out completely. Don't say we didn't warn you. 

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• THE HOLY MOUNTAIN SELLS OUT

  08 Aug 2007

  This Friday's 11pm screening of Alejandro Jodorowsky's cult masterpiece The Holy Mountain has completely sold out. All 645 seats at the RMIT Capitol Theatre have been sold. The Holy Mountain is screening as part of the 56^th Melbourne International Film Festival. This is the first time in the history of the Festival that a late night screening has EVER sold out.
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• THE SHINING PATH - EXHIBITON PHOTOS

  08 Aug 2007

  The specially curated exhibition 'The Shining Path' is open at the Carlton Hotel & Studios. Siren Visual, ThreeThousand and Neon Parc are co-presenting the exhibition to tie-in with the screening of the films of Alejandro Jodorowsky at this year's Melbourne International Film Festival. The exhibition is open until 4-8pm each day until Friday - Upper Levels, 193 Bourke Street, CBD.
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• FROM LAST YEAR'S FILM FESTIVAL - RAMPO NOIR

  07 Aug 2007

  As the Melbourne International Film Festival enters its last week Cyclic Defrost have reviewed one of Siren's MIFF offerings from last year - Rampo Noir. Without further adue...
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• TAXIDERMIA GETS STACKED

  06 Aug 2007

  Stack, the in-house DVD magazine of JB Hi-Fi has reviewed our wonderfully grotesque cinematic beauty, Taxidermia. Enjoy:

  This outrageous Austrian-Hungarian-French co-production is essential (and unforgettable) viewing for fans of confrontational cinema and the just plain oddball. Following three generations of the same family, the loose ‘narrative' involves the life of Kalman Baltony, from his conception by a deviant soldier to fame as a competitive eating champion, and obese twilight years with his taxidermist son. Consistently grotesque and wildly original, Taxidermia mixes the b...

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• EL TOPO TONIGHT AT MIFF/REVIEWS

  03 Aug 2007

  Zero G (1-2pm Mondays on RRR) is Melbourne's premiere pop culture, science fiction, TV, film and everything show. Rob Jan did the following reviews as part of his wrap-up of this year's MIFF. The restored El Topo has its premiere Australian screening tonight at the Forum. Some tickets are still available from the MIFF box office or online here.
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• THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL? NOW AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER

  02 Aug 2007

  Pre-orders are now available for Richard Dawkins' incendiary documentary ‘The Root of All Evil?'. This controversial two-part documentary from prominent atheist and evolutionary biologist Professor Richard Dawkins is the companion piece to the best-selling book ‘The God Delusion'. ‘The Root of all Evil?' is an incendiary look at the monotheistic religions of Islam, Judaism and Christianity and an unapologetic polemic against blind faith.
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