I'm a fan of Norman Lindsay's cheerfully shameless art, which led me to watch the 1994 movie Sirens, in which Lindsay (Sam Neill) is a character. An Anglican priest (Hugh Grant) and his wife (Tara Fitzgerald) visit Lindsay to try to persuade him to remove a blasphemous painting from an exhibition. - ThreadSky

nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social • 30 days ago

I'm a fan of Norman Lindsay's cheerfully shameless art, which led me to watch the 1994 movie Sirens, in which Lindsay (Sam Neill) is a character. An Anglican priest (Hugh Grant) and his wife (Tara Fitzgerald) visit Lindsay to try to persuade him to remove a blasphemous painting from an exhibition.

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pecunium.bsky.social•30 days ago

I love that movie.

pecunium.bsky.social•30 days ago

Because, as you say, it’s casual.

Have you seen “Where the Heart Is”

(John Boorman film, 1990: Dabney Coleman, Uma Thurman, Cristopher Plummer, Crispin Glover, Suzi Amis, Joanna Cassidy)

nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social•30 days ago

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nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social•30 days ago

I've never heard of it -- I'll keep an eye out.

pecunium.bsky.social•30 days ago

It’s a wonderful romp, and has so many deft moments.

It’s sort of a rewrite of King Lear, and very much its own thing as well.

nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social•30 days ago

Lindsay's house has a lot more nudity in it than most places, with his wife and his models and his maids and his blind odd-job man all getting naked at times.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sirens_(1994_film)

nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social•30 days ago

It's a nice little movie -- nothing earth-shattering, but I appreciated a movie trying to take sex as a topic while we're in the age of "Everyone is beautiful and no one is horny."

I'm sick of seeing Hollywood movies about hit men.

nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social•30 days ago

This is also, as I understand, a movie you won't get from Hollywood these days, because not only are Americans puritanical, but movies with any sex are locked out from huge overseas markets that Hollywood relies on.

nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social•30 days ago

Sirens wasn't Hollywood - an Australian production filmed in Lindsay's house, which is now a museum of his work.

https://www.nationaltrust.org.au/places/norman-lindsay-gallery/

nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social•30 days ago

Sirens is a fun movie to watch -- Hugh Grant acting flustered is always charming. His priest character is not at all a villain, and he is never as ridiculous as Lindsay spouting neo-Pagan Atlantean nonsense.

Also there are beautiful naked people, including Elle McPherson and Portia de Rossi.

nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social•30 days ago

The movie isn't preachy about either sublimation or desublimation.

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