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Val Kilmer, the enigmatic actor, revered as much for his relentless authenticity as he was for his bevy of charismatic onscreen performances — playing everyone from the Caped Crusader to Jim Morrison — died at the age of 65.

Kevin Jarre — the original director of “Tombstone” who was replaced by George P. Cosmatos after a month of filming — told Entertainment Weekly, “There’s a dark side to Val that I don’t feel comfortable talking about.”

A May 1996 Entertainment Weekly cover story, titled “Why Val Kilmer is the man Hollywood loves to hate,” chronicled the chaos.

In tandem with the 2021 documentary “Val,” which sifts through hundreds of hours of self-recorded tapes shot throughout Kilmer’s life, his website and the works he sold through it are the best possible look at his artistic sensibility.

In the final edition of his email newsletter — another fabulously Val Kilmer-ian feature of his website — Kilmer stressed the importance of admiring those new perspectives whenever we might stumble onto them.