Tweetweek: Sleepovers, time loops, and one very gay summer

First, two tweets that stunned us in their perceptiveness. Exactly right on both counts.

Long overdue rewatch of A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE and it occurs to me that the exact same narrative material that is dealt with here in 96 minutes would now cover five seasons of a ‘prestige’ streaming drama.

— Jeff Billington (@faces_of_jeff) June 30, 2022

the multiverse and time loops displaced time travel as a genre bc we no longer agree on the past or believe in the future, just infinite minuscule variations on the present

— Tony Tulathimutte (@tonytula) July 5, 2022

More curated and mostly amusing tweets for you after the jump featuring George Clooney's batsuit, Barbie sleepovers, a perplexing Dianne Wiest situation, Alien  & Predator trivia, the summer of 92 at the movies, and more ...

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Bradley & Carey as Leonard Bernstein & Felicia Montealegre

Bradley Cooper & Carey Mulligan in character for "Maestro"

Thoughts? Here's how the real couple looked...

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Happy 73rd to Shelley Duvall

We spent most of today's psychic energy reminiscing about James Caan's greatness , plotting what to see this weekend at the theater (maybe Elvis again?), and being reminded about the terrible 1994 Best Actress race when Jamie Lee Curtis was RIGHT THERE. So we almost forgot it was Shelley Duvall's birthday, one of the most singular actresses to ever grace the silver screen. So...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, SHELLEY DUVALL, WHEREVER YOU ARE.

Here at TFE, Cláudio has paid tribute to her all time best performance (3 Women) and Jason has celebrated her most famous (The Shining) but I realized I haven't really written about her. If you could read a piece on Duvall that wasn't about those two movies, which performance would you want it to be about? 

"please sir..."

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James Caan (1940-2022)

by Nathaniel R

autographed photo -- for sale here

Oscar nominated screen legend James Caan died yesterday evening at the age of 82. The news came via his official twitter account. His uncommonly masculine star persona was often deployed for menace but his charisma read 'leading man' even though that mode happened less often. His career was marked by stratospheric highs, major lows, and some degree of ambivalence; He regularly turned down roles (including several that became iconic for his peers) in both movies and on television. He's best remembered today primarily for two pieces of art, the gangster epic The Godfather (1972) and the fan/artist thriller Misery (1990). They don't paint the whole picture of that expansive career though which began in the early the early Sixties and and will stretch into next year. He completed one picture, set for 2023, a darkly comic crime/action movie starring Pierce Brosnan (with Caan playing his mob boss) based on the novel Gun Monkeys. He also did some filming for a sheriff role in a crime drama called Redemption though we don't know if he had completed his work there. 

After the jump a selection of 10 key roles to understand his career if you'd like to program your own Jimmy Caan film festival at home...

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