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...Brattle’s Ingmar Bergman festival continues with the story of a 19th century conjurer-hypnotist, played by Bergman repertory player and Exorcist priest Max Von Sydow, traveling throughout shadowy Sweden along with his troupe of repertory performers. After falling into the hands of a grand inquisitor, a doctor decides it his professional responsibility to expose Sydow as a charlatan and the two sides clash in a brilliantly evocative philosophical duel between art and science, rationality and irrationality, believer and non believer. It all climaxes in a beautifully destructive sequence that reduces the once proud doctor to his bare...
...gunshots, yells, and moans of pain become something the viewer has to sit through in order to hear Et’s hilarious school play on American history (which includes such roles as “famous black person,” the inventor of peanuts) or the misanthropic priest Father McGillicutty (Benet Magnuson ’06) explain why God allows war (to prevent overpopulation from causing traffic jams). The show has its moments of humor and pathos, but the sustained tone is a discordant one that, while it does bring the feeling of being in a war zone...
...hard to see the divinity behind the water temples that dot the rice terraces of Bali. It's there in the white-clad high priest presiding in the temple at the summit of a dormant volcano. It's there in the 23 priests serving along with him, selected for their jobs when they were still children by a bevy of virgin priestesses. It's there in the rituals the priests perform to protect the island's water, which in turn is needed to nurture the island's rice...
...Protocol, Kummer is the “lighter, but by no means lesser” equivalent of the heavies’ Master of Protocol, responsible for ensuring the team’s compliance with the ancient, yet arbitrary constitution of Newell Boathouse. In boathouse religion, he is the high priest; in boathouse justice, he is judge, jury and executioner; in the boathouse’s royal court, he is the honored jester...
...China invaded Tibet in 1950, it promised to bring modernity to the isolated feudal kingdom. Instead, it brought a reign of religious and cultural repression that drove the Tibetan government into exile, including its supreme religious and political leader. Discovered as the 14th incarnation of Tibetan Buddhism's high priest at age 2 and enthroned at 4, the Dalai Lama escaped to India in 1959 and has never returned. After 45 years of trying to preserve a nation without a land, the Dalai Lama is grappling with the future of Tibet in a startlingly pragmatic way?one that risks alienating...