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...question viewers may have is whether Jandal is still a jihadist. "I don't think he's repentant, in the way he says 'I was wrong,' but his thinking has changed and he believes in trying to communicate rather than use guns," says Poitras. "I wanted to show how people are drawn to Abu Jandal by his psychology and charisma. At a practical level, he's telling younger people not to fight and instead get an education." (See pictures from the 2009 Cannes Film Festival...
...called in on this rush job because the previous ghost, Mike McAra, has died suddenly. Joining the ex-P.M. in a remote enclave on Martha's Vineyard, he is drawn into a controversy involving Lang's possible approval of torture on terror suspects. Soon, he thinks that McAra may have been murdered, and that he could be next. One of his sources snorts at this theory - "He can't drown two ghost writers. You're not kittens" - but later that source is also found dead. (See the 25 best horror films of all time...
...soon believes the neighbors are scheming to force him to kill himself, and the 1999 The Ninth Gate, in which a book dealer sleuths through a antique volume that might be the Devil's autobiography. Need more? Lang, who becomes the focus of a war-crimes investigation in Europe, may be condemned by his past to remain in the U.S. - even as Polanski is condemned by his to keep...
...plot of the book and the film is also weirdly similar to that of this weekend's other new film, Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island, which has a stranger visiting a rainswept island near Boston after someone's mysterious disappearance and trying to unravel a conspiracy that may threaten his life. That picture - with a gallery of unreliable characters weaving a web of lies around the baffled hero, who must discover the perpetrator by searching for clues in hidden notes - has been widely compared to Hitchcock and film noir; but it might also be Scorsese's tribute to Polanski...
...ends with another car-related death. In the two intervening hours, several mysterious autos with malevolent intent stalk our hero. His only ally is a sedan earlier driven by McAra, whose chatty GPS leads the Ghost to a major suspect: Tom Wilkinson as a Harvard professor whose path may earlier have intersected with the Langs'. (See the top 10 fiction books...