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THE fraternal directing duo of Josh and Benny Safdie make urban odysseys that flow with the quicksilver currents of New York City. You can feel the gum-stained pavement under your feet. You can smell the Q train.


The Safdies were already an electric new energy in cinema but in the ironically titled caper “Good Time Cheap Pistons Jerseys ,” they have quickened their already kinetic pace. This movie, wild and erratic, is downright blistering.


Many of their gritty, abrasive tales emanate directly from the street; that’s where they found the homeless, heroin-addicted protagonist (Arielle Holmes) of their last film, the verite “Heaven Knows What.” The same could not be said for the star of “Good Time”: Robert Pattinson. The “Twilight” actor Jon Leuer Jersey , captivated by a still from “Heaven Knows What,” contacted the Safdies and out came “Good Time.”


It goes without saying that this is a long way off from “Twilight.” Yet Pattinson has quietly assembled an impressive filmography with the likes of David Cronenberg and James Gray, in whose “The Lost City of Z” made such a distinct impression this year.


In “Good Time,” he plays Connie, one of two brothers from Queens. The other, Nick (played by co-director Benny Safdie) Ish Smith Jersey , is mentally challenged. With no parents apparently on the scene, Connie is Nick’s keeper, and a highly questionable one at that.


Connie believes in his brother — too much, you could say. Moments after fleeing the doctor, he’s ordering Nick to put on a cheap, rubbery black face and leading him into a bank robbery at a teller window. Not since “Dog Day Afternoon” has a more unprepared pair tried their hand at an ill-considered heist. They emerge with US$60 Langston Galloway Jersey ,000 in cash but soon after their livery cab driver picks them up, a dye pack explodes and the brothers spill out of the car in a cloud of red smoke.


From here, it’s a nonstop freefall.


Along the way, Taliah Webster, as a black teen exploited by Connie, and the “Heaven Knows What” actor Buddy Duress Henry Ellenson Jersey , give terrific performances.


“Good Time” flies by in a rush of neon colors and the throbbing electro score of Oneohtrix Point Never.


The cinematography of Sean Price Williams is exceptionally agile. In the style of Robert Altman’s “McCabe & Mrs Miller,” Williams fuses grainy realism with frozen moments held in a lengthy zoom. And in close-up, we see Pattinson more clearly than ever before. His performance — sensitive and controlled amid the chaos — is easily the best of his career. But the Safdies, one suspects, are just getting started.


RAMALLAH, Aug. 14 (Xinhua) -- The Palestinians are encouraged by the new peace initiative launched by China to push forward the Israeli-Palestinian peace process Stanley Johnson Jersey , a senior Palestinian official told Xinhua in a recent interview.


Nabil Shaath, foreign affairs adviser to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, praised China for having been "always an ally to the Palestinians by supporting their independence and self--determination."


During his meeting with Abbas in July, Chinese President Xi Jinping made a new four-point proposal to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which affirms China's support for a two-state solution to the Palestine issue, and for the establishment of an independent Luke Kennard Jersey , fully sovereign Palestinian state based on the 1967 borders with East Jerusalem as its capital.


"I think it is very encouraging for us that China will support a just peace process in the Middle East," Shaath said.


On the July visit to China by Abbas, Shaath said the result was "very positive."


Xi's proposal calls for restarting the Israeli-Palestinian peace talks stalled since 2014 as soon as possible and a halt to Israeli settlement expansion.


Notably, it advocates promoting peace between Israel and Palestinians through advancing economic development in the Palestinian territories.


Under the proposal, China offers to host a symposium on peace between Palestine and Israel later this year, and launch a tripartite China-Palestine-Israel dialogue mechanism on coordinating the implementation of major assistance programs in Palestine in line with China's Belt and Road Initiative.


China pledged to take concrete measures to support Palestine's economic development Rick Mahorn Jersey , such as encouraging Chinese companies to build industrial parks and solar power plants.


"China is really playing a new role, but that role is not really difficult to understand, as it represents the increased importance of China's role in the global affairs with the growth of the Chinese economy into one of the top two in the world," said Shaath, a former Palestinian chief negotiator and cabinet minister.


Shaath said that as the world is becoming multi-polar, the United States is no longer a monopoly in mediating the Israeli-Palestinian peace.


He also mentioned the initiative launched by France to break the stalemate in the Israeli-Palestinian peace talks Grant Long Jersey , which included the hosting of an international conference in Paris in January that China also took part.


"After Abbas came back from China, he was encouraged. His trip was really very successful and there was a discussion of China's entry into the political process leading us to peace through negotiations," said Shaath.


"The four--point proposal by China is totally acceptable to us," he said, calling it the "Chinese Peace Initiative."


"Abbas was very much encouraged by China's support to his determination to establish an independent state and to stop the colonial settlement by Israel in the West Bank and Jerusalem,"