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...movies he stars in--Clint Eastwood's Mystic River and Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's 21 Grams--are, respectively, the opening-and closing-night events at the current New York Film Festival. "I've been lucky lately," he says. "Whatever anybody thinks of the films, these are strong directors. You know what your purpose...
...John Paul II has also been unusual among pontiffs in his embrace of a mystic spirituality centered on the cult of the Virgin Mary. He has been known to prostrate himself for hours at a time before statues of the Virgin, and believes she interceded to save him from an assassin's bullet fired on the anniversary of the appearance of Mary in apparition at Fatima. Once recovered from his wound, he made a pilgrimage to Fatima to give thanks, and the assassin's bullet is now welded into the crown of the statue of the Virgin at Fatima...
...luminous works of his career. Paul Klee, Fulfillment in the Late Work, at Basel's Beyeler Foundation (through Nov. 9, then moving to Hanover) documents those last four years. This superb exhibit sums up the artist's lifelong research into line, color and form, and displays his often mystic face-off with fear, death and the unknown. Even the exhibit's 121 paintings and drawings - assembled from museums and private collections in Europe and the U.S. - represent only a minuscule portion of Klee's prodigious output in his final years. His meticulous studio register records 148 works...
...adapting the Gospels, to a fictional series with all-gibberish dialogue. His latest project, "Louis Riel," (Drawn and Quarterly; 24 pp; $2.95) the tenth and final issue of which has just arrived, was yet another radical shift in subject. Although choosing to do a biography of a 19th century mystic and rabble rouser known primarily in Canada is another test of his audience's loyalty, those who have remained with Chester Brown can see that it fits perfectly into his oeuvre. "Louis Riel" contains all of Chester Brown's favorite themes in a superb example of historical storytelling...
...Taliban's core supporters - a point underscored by the fact that Mullah Omar and most of the movement's senior leadership have never been captured. Unlike the sophisticated Arab operatives of al-Qaeda for whom Afghanistan was simply another stopover in a globalized jihad, the one-eyed peasant mystic mullah is still believed to be at large somewhere on home turf. (The Pashtun heartland spans the Afghanistan-Pakistan border.) And the fact that he hasn't been found suggests a measure of support among the local population...