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For @Downtime, the no-longer-on-Twitter @gemko goes long on THE BIG CLOCK and NO WAY OUT, how different adaptations reflect the mores of separate Hollywood eras, and why "modern sensibilities" can't be easily pinned down. It's very good! Check it out!

Apparently there's some fancy-schmancy new Bob Dylan biopic in the works. Well, over at @Downtime, we have @FCardamenis who considers I'M NOT THERE and how Todd Haynes explores the Dylan mythos by subverting any unified theory of genius. Check it out!

Over at @Downtime, we have @SorayaSpaghetti writing about SECRETARY, coming-of-age narratives, how it's the flip side to THE PIANO TEACHER, and more. Check it out!

For @Downtime, @oddbarnacles considers the low-key pleasures of TWO LOVERS, Joaquin Phoenix's vulnerable performance, and how it marked a turning point in James Gray's career. Check it out!

Over at @Downtime, we have @Glenn__Kenny recommending Fritz Lang's excellent, sleazy noir SCARLET STREET and its bevy of "unlikable" characters. Check it out!

Thrilled to publish @vrizov on David Fincher’s THE KILLER and his continued practice of digitally molding the real world into his image, to the point where you could probably classify his work as live-action/animation hybrid. For @Downtime. Check it out!

Thank you to @fauxbeatpoet and @Downtime for letting me go long on why Under The Skin is amongst the greatest films of all time

Over at @Downtime, we have @intothecrevasse on Michael Tolkin's THE RAPTURE and the best way to make a "God picture." Check it out!

@Downtime Final TIFF dispatch for @Downtime now that the fest has concluded! On DUMB MONEY (totally solid, mildly fascinating as a period piece) and THE PIGEON TUNNEL (fine le Carré primer), both films about con artists and Davids taking on Goliaths. Check it out!

COMING SOON: In Downtime's second TIFF dispatch, our humble correspondent reviews a Palme d'Or-winning legal thriller and a tearjerking family drama. ✍️ @fauxbeatpoet https://t.co/2IpiCLr3HW

First TIFF dispatch for @Downtime from yours truly. On THE HOLDOVERS (good, a crowdpleaser, occasionally mawkish) and HIT MAN (good, a crowdpleaser, occasionally stupid), both self-conscious stabs at populist success.

While @AADowd will sadly not be at TIFF this year, you can read his great piece on SORCERER—the best film by the late, great William Friedkin—and how it, and a certain other space flick, spelled the end of New Hollywood, for @Downtime. Check it out!

For @Downtime I wrote about UNRELATED, one of my fav movies, including how Joanna Hogg relates interior spaces to existential plight. ty to my editor @fauxbeatpoet

Over at @Downtime, we have @oddbarnacles on Joanna Hogg's debut feature UNRELATED, how it broke the mold of the "middle-aged woman on vacation" subgenre, and how it laid the foundation for the rest of Hogg's career. Great work. Check it out!

for those who don’t have summer Fridays or can’t make it to the beach, bask instead in the refreshing destination lunacy of Wings Hauser. I wrote about THE WIND for @Downtime https://t.co/xxDhigqPda

Over at @Downtime, we have @pureunevile on Max Ophüls’ noir melodrama THE RECKLESS MOMENT, an excellent “woman’s picture” that takes the post-war suburban dream to task. Check it out!

STREAMING RECOMMENDATION: The Reckless Moment stars Joan Bennett as a lonely heroine whose suburban American dream curdles into a nightmare. 📝 @pureunevile https://t.co/lCkODYglQK

Over at @Downtime, we have a fascinating remembrance of REMEMBER THE TITANS that contextualizes the film in the Bruckheimer pantheon and the historical record via the great, barely-on-Twitter-anymore @brendanowicz. Please check it out!

Over at @Downtime, we have the great @AADowd writing about Lee Chang-dong's BURNING and how it captures the destructive social/political/cultural spirit of the last decade. Please check it out!