J. G. uses Letterboxd to share film reviews and lists. We horror fans are the most forgiving fans. Home Film How Letterboxd Is Trying to Get ... How do you make sure that the Letterboxd community is a safe and welcoming place for all? 1,505 films 7,161 123 Edit, Enjoy these great movies Links in notes for each movie Thanks to film cloud…, Darren Carver-Balsiger 232 films 191 102 Edit. 245 views made by Silvia. Akerman's domestic films from this period explored the crushingly numbed rhythms of interior life, but her New York movies expanded this scope to shared spaces and public existence. Watching it again now, I can't help but keep Eli in my memory the whole time - and I can't believe he's gone. Filmed images of the City are accompanied by the texts of Chantal Akerman’s loving but manipulative mother back home in Brussels. Utterly brilliant, and truly devastating. Using mostly static footage of New York City with the sound not always particularly matching the action, Akerman reads off letters from her mother. Notes 43518. “We’re living in a very dark time,” says filmmaker John Scheinfeld down the line from Los Angeles. the love and poetry of her mother's personal letters. Not the ‘guilty’ pleasures, not the ‘so-bad-it’s-good’ gems, but the already-excellent films that are also inherently rewatchable. The resulting top 100 from back then are all extremely, objectively good. Made by fans in Auckland, New Zealand. 785 films watched. In other versions of the story, we’d follow Eddie to a guns-blazing conclusion, but this is a Hart-Horowitz jam, so we’re quickly on the run with Jean and the baby, and we stay with her. Yeesh. 85 mins   Jeremiah Lambert is on a Bacon Fest, Naked Airplane has embarked on a wild ride through the works of De Niro, Hackman, Hoffman, Nicholson and Pacino. 143537156 >Not sure what letterboxd is all about? A quick Twitter survey found others churning through a performer selection as wide-ranging as Burt Lancaster, Parker Posey, Maggie Smith, Nicolas Cage, Cary Grant, Kevin Costner, Robin Williams, Adèle Haenel, Alan Arkin, Sam Rockwell and a Seth Rogen thirst project. It/its. Visit BBC News for up-to-the-minute news, breaking news, video, audio and feature stories. If you follow Todd Vaziri on Twitter (and you ought to), you’ll learn more than you ever knew you could about the art and craft of VFX. Not that I was a big fan anyway, so I don't really care. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google privacy policy and terms of service apply. Letterboxd is an online social networking service co-founded by Matthew Buchanan and Karl von Randow in 2011. Breaking News, Latest News and Current News from FOXNews.com. Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz and John Hannah in ‘The Mummy’ (1999). Akerman's unforgettable time capsule of the city is also a gorgeous meditation on urban alienation and personal and familial disconnection. tarrdigrade 1,813 films 27,556 205 Edit, If you're feeling overwhelmed, but still want to squeeze a film into your daily routine, this list is made for…, Andre de Nervaux 276 films 44,501 659 Edit, Check out the official top 100 narrative feature films by women directors list, Jack Moulton 100 films 10,194 560 Edit, A companion piece to Dave Vis' list of Letterboxd's official top 250 films of all-time, which excludes documentaries from consideration.…. dandiel1212 uses Letterboxd to share film reviews and lists. We reach the 2020 halfway point in the midst of a pandemic. News from Home 1976 ★★★★★ Watched Nov 12 , 2020 Mel’s review published on Letterboxd: Conversely, as with Asif Kapadia’s Oscar-winning Amy (2015), public footage can do more to tell the tale than insider interviews ever could. We saw many films to love, but by consensus (and a poke around your Letterboxd reactions) these are the ones we’re still thinking about. first year being away from home, living out in a different state and watching this just hit different. /lbg/ - letterboxd general Smoothhands 12/13/20(Sun)22:04:42 No. A global community of film lovers. Bio: thembo savant avg. 153. We become the daughter and, in others moments, the mother. florencepugh: message tags edits letterboxd: News From Home (1977), dir. The Kid Detective is the directing debut of Toronto filmmaker (and Letterboxd member) Evan Morgan, who first received attention for The Dirties (2013), an alternately funny and upsetting micro-budget dark comedy in found-footage style, which he produced, co-wrote and co-edited. But when it comes to TV, there’s no simple answer, a reality driven home by the fact that the best reviewed film on Letterboxd for 2020 is a TV series. It’s a very cathartic experience for me because afterwards I feel like I’ve gotten everything out.”. The Nest takes a slower, far more British view of ambition and its effects on family—or, as Charlie writes, “this movie is a reminder that people who call themselves entrepreneurs should instead be stay-at-home dads”. News from Home. Emptiness, and metal and stone, infused with dusty, fragile, ancient faces, shielding the flow of blood that so ceaselessly moves forward, ever so forward, so backward, so forward; and the streets continue and twist, and the blood becomes a grid, and the grid expands; and with these faces come homes, and far away from these homes comes partially obstructed news, news of emptiness, infused with dusty, fragile, novel life. Bio: thembo savant My first horror film, at five years old, was Wes Craven’s A Nightmare on Elm Street. But as Alexandre O. Philippe reveals in his Shudder documentary Leap of Faith: William Friedkin on The Exorcist, it’s in ways that are more intangible and unfathomable than we imagine. Impersonal but beautiful images of Akerman's life in New York are combined with letters from her loving but manipulative mother, read by Akerman herself. 6,248: 35: 1,165 Review by evangelpuffin Pro. Knowing nothing going in, I was pleasantly surprised to discover what this film was. Favorites: City of God (2002), Song of the Sea (2014), Hot Fuzz (2007), Magnolia (1999). It's overwhelming, the number of people in the world. Indiewire | 51m. The passenger and the people waiting for the train. It’s rare these days to get a Cocksucker Blues, though. BBC News provides trusted World and UK news as well as local and regional perspectives. More TV Tattle: President … Recs welcome! A global community of film lovers. But without the pressures of producing so-called Oscar-bait, filmmakers can play in the horror snake-pit more freely, breaking new ground within, and at the intersections of subgenre. Letterboxing is an outdoor hobby that combines elements of orienteering, art, and puzzle solving.Letterboxers hide small, weatherproof boxes in publicly accessible places (like parks) and distribute clues to finding the box in printed catalogs, on one of several web sites, or by word of mouth. Curate and group films into lists. 96.1K Followers, 918 Following. 245 views made by Silvia. Good Joker reference. The best woman-on-woman fight scenes are usually contained in narrative action (the airplane scrap between KiKi Layne and Charlize Theron in The Old Guard was one of 2020’s highlights on that front). Film data from TMDb. In this FinalBoss feature, we’ll bring you bitesize chunks of the latest news from the movie and TV worlds. We get a sense of who she is by what isn't said--the fact that her return letters never reach our ears creates an Akerman-shaped void that tells us many of her secrets. “The premise felt immediately funny but it also felt immediately sad and painful.” —Evan Morgan. wish i could make something as beautiful as this movie for my mother. One of film’s earliest preserved specimens is The Gordon Sisters Boxing (1901), a 90-second curio in which sisters Bessie and Minnie Gordon go at it with boxing gloves, in full petticoats, in front of a genteel scene of a formal garden with fountain centerpiece. This masterwork from Chantal Akerman showcases that which is close to the absolute height of what experimental, structuralist cinema can offer. See tweets, replies, photos and videos from @letterboxd Twitter profile. Popular this week; About Letterboxd; Create an account ← Letterboxd.com; Social film reviews and discovery. We recently received the following email regarding the Stephen Sommers blockbuster The Mummy: I am writing to you on behalf of the nation, if not the entire globe, who frankly deserve better than this after months of suffering with the Covid pandemic. In one performer’s oeuvre the quality will range widely, the genres too. First Chantal Ackerman film ever watched! Instead, it will be occupying the same digital space as John Cho’s panicked online hunt for his daughter in Chaganty’s debut, Searching. There are thematic similarities in both films; a case to be made that ambitious men wreak a comparable mental destruction on their families as cult leaders do on their followers, breaking them down with charm, persuasion, false promises. A unique social media company that targets any and all film lovers, Letterboxd offers its users the chance to create their own personal journey through cinema. message tags edits letterboxd: News From Home (1977), dir. And that horse-lovin’ dream wife Allison, as played by Carrie Coon, is a character to behold (and the subject of many obsessive The Nest reviews on Letterboxd). Felt a little bit lazy and not fully fleshed out like it could have been. The COVID-19 outbreak across India in March saw many companies adopt the 'work from home' approach as a forced measure but now that the restrictions have been eased, many are sticking to the policy. To my Anglophone ears, that language swap radically changes the audio/image relationship. The eve of Tom Gerrins (Jack Lemmon) life could be worse. Favorites: City of God (2002), Song of the Sea (2014), Hot Fuzz (2007), Magnolia (1999). How was Aneesh Chaganty to know that the film that might perfectly encapsulate 2020 would be a thriller about Chloe Sherman, a housebound teenager? "Gryffindor is like the straight white man of Hogwarts." LISTEN: Gemma Gracewood and Ella Kemp chew over their festival favorites in the latest episode of The Letterboxd Show. their distance that is making both of them feel sad. A growing number of indie films over the past decade recognize that ‘coming-of-age’ is not a teen-exclusive life event—indeed, that it often takes decades to work out who we are, versus who people perceive us to be. Which of course: no, we would never do that. In a cinema. That love can be romantic or familial. 1976 2013 Tumblr-level comedy and observations. “It has kicked my ass completely,” writes Dirk of the first, Oscar-nominated World of Tomorrow instalment, “making me angry at myself for letting trivial stuff take over things I love and making me happy I have so very, very much in my life to enjoy and be grateful for.”. With the genre often shut out of major awards consideration—no matter how brilliant the performances or technical aspects—it’s been historically easy to dismiss horror as “low-rent” cinema. Bio: you're telling me other people like movies too? (We participated in a NYFF Industry Talk, along with MUBI and Rotten Tomatoes, about the future of online film conversation, moderated by Indiewire’s David Ehrlich.). J. G. uses Letterboxd to share film reviews and lists. I was recently made aware that the rating of The Mummy on your platform only stands at 3.3 stars out of five. So Letterboxd put me, Stephen Sommers fan, on the job of paying homage to the last great old-school action-adventure blockbuster, a film that straddles the end of one cinematic era and the beginning of the next one. It’s theatrical yet strangely thrilling, possibly because women’s fight films are few and far between. Directed by Chantal Akerman • 1976 • United States. Oscar-winning screenwriter Roger Avary on KonoSuba movie: “It’s the reason cinema was invented” Master Blaster Nov 23, 2019; Tweet; High praise from the co-writer of … Close to 300 users submitted a list…, Jayce Fryman 18,683 films 3,086 102 Edit, This list collects every film from the Starting List that became They Shoot Pictures Don't They's 1000 Greatest Films. 15384 … So we were chuffed to quiz Morgan about the films that have played an important role in his life. 96.1K Followers, 918 Following. Ewan and Lachlan dive deep into The Social Network. Films released in a given year or range of years can be sorted by average rating, popularity, or proportion of favourites, and each film lists what rating members have given it. the emptiness of life healed by something as simple as news from home, news from the woman who can't live without you, the woman that will always be there for you. Letterboxd is a social network for sharing your taste in film. Popular this week; About Letterboxd; Create an account ← Letterboxd.com; Social film reviews and discovery. More details at TMDb Unlike those other stories, Run looks at the negative effects of a parent’s love. One man’s greasy strangler is another girl’s walk home alone at night. The usual suspects have been rounded up (Christopher, Quentin, Ridley, Damien, David and company), but a lot has shifted in the Highest Rated Obsessively Rewatched Club for 2020. Find and follow your friends to see what they’re enjoying. The City comes more and more to the front while the words of the mother, read by Akerman herself, gradually fade away. 301 films watched. The Best Reviewed Film on Letterboxd This Year Is… a TV Series — TV Podcast. There’s 2004’s po-faced, Oscar-winning Million Dollar Baby, Priyanka Chopra’s 2014 turn as Indian boxing star Mary Kom, and last year’s Fighting with My Family, a good-time, must-see starring our girl Florence Pugh as a pro wrestler. “I’ve built a lot of my life philosophy on the messages of this film,” writes Misty, of his acclaimed It’s Such a Beautiful Day. I studied filmmaking in NYC for a year and was away from my mom (for seven years) so... this felt very relatable and brought back many memories. I have my suspicions that this rating has been falsely allocated due to people with personal axes to grind against The Mummy, most likely other directors who are simply jealous that their own artistic oeuvres will never attain the zenith of perfection, nor indeed come close to approaching the quality or the cultural influence of The Mummy. “The ending really sneaks up on you in terms of the specific feeling it elicits.”. Favorites: News from Home (1976), Frances Ha (2012), Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962), Persona (1966). Malin Åkerman and Alec Baldwin in ‘Chick Fight’. Weird; Studio Ghibli ; Jobs; KonoSuba. “Despite valuing tension quite highly, Julia Hart still has the wherewithal to let it sit in its more tender and thoughtful moments,” writes Paul. The City comes more and more to the front while the words of the mother, read by Akerman herself, gradually fade away. Chaplin, non-european, non-american, laughed at Triumph des Willens inconnu 07/11/19 (Thu) 03:03:38 No. It’s also an empathetic portrayal of new-motherhood in all its exhausting confusion, where getting a baby clean, fed and sleeping is as much a priority as finding the next safe house. “Certainly, the virus has contributed to that, but even before the virus there was a lot of darkness sweeping across our countries, politically and socially. A language disrupted by the American infrastructure. To this day, the film, which broke new ground for its grounded, rigorously methodical interrogation of demonic possession and faith-in-crisis, continues to terrify and haunt our imagination. There is, quite frankly, no other explanation. Follow friends for recommendations. So I guess she's not quitting comedy, then? I really wanted to make something that was positive and uplifting and inspiring and nostalgic and fun.”. I was flustered, and ever since then I'd only referred to said film as nothing but a bad rip-off of this. buddyg2 uses Letterboxd to share film reviews and lists. However, it speaks of the deeply rooted desire to explore the world and leave home, but that your roots will always be connected to where you are from, which I feel as though everyone can relate to on some level, as we desire to leave our comfort zone yet are always held back no matter how hard we try. Shadow of a … Documentaries must be feature-length (60+ minutes), with a theatrical and/or festival release in its entirety. Chantal Akerman. TV. Starring Kiera Allen, who uses a wheelchair, in her first big-screen role as Chloe, and Sarah Paulson as her over-protective mother, Run is a tense affair that bursts out of the gate and doesn’t really stop until it’s done. i’m only randomly reviewing this rn because i have the urge to hug my mom and i then thought about this film; i’m going to explode in my sleep. dandiel1212 uses Letterboxd to share film reviews and lists. Letterboxd is the best way to track the films you watch and want to watch. Favorites: The Wolf of Wall Street (2013), Toy Story (1995), Avengers: Endgame (2019), Reservoir Dogs (1992). But as affecting as her work is—and News from Home, soundtracked to Akerman reading her the alternately doting, melancholy and passive-aggressive letters sent to her by her mom, is acutely painful at times—it is more accurate to say that the director best understood the applications of structuralism not merely to cinema formalism but to the patterns of quotidian life. “I love boxing,” says Åkerman. 24K likes. A shot from ‘Transformers’ (2007), lit and composited by Todd. The latest film from a documentarian who has covered musicians such as John Coltrane, John Lennon and Harry Nilsson, Herb Alpert Is… touches on almost every corner of the trumpeter’s life, including his unlikely 1979 instrumental disco chart-topper ‘Rise’ (later sampled by Notorious BIG), and his days as an independent music mogul, partnering with Jerry Moss in A&M Records. The Kid Detective takes that premise and steals off into the night with it, blending noir with indie slacker in an offbeat, genre-flipping tale of a washed-up, thirty-something private eye who was once a star solver of local mysteries. I grew up to become an avid horror fan, smug in the knowledge that it’s the best movie genre, because it is the most flexible genre. [captured NYC with such mystical, melancholic audiovisual poetry; touched me deeply with the words of her mothers letters, obstructed by the noises of the city, while the imagery transported me to the place in which Chantel left her family to create --, and it fully transports you because the city is…. /lbg/ - letterboxd general Smoothhands 12/13/20(Sun)22:04:42 No. Chantal Akerman. I look forward to this grievous error being remedied. News from the Czech Republic, news from the world. For many film lovers, 2020 has been a year of catching up: on franchises, on directors’ filmographies, on historical gaps and top 100s. It/its. News From Home (1977), dir. Tags #news from home #fyeahmovies #filmedit #fuckyeahwomenfilmdirectors #1977 #70s #chantal akerman #edit:dw #dw #edit:sc #cap #favefilms #m. noahle reblogged this from 7vyy. Letterboxd, Auckland, New Zealand. To understand better why Letterboxd members set out on quests to watch specific actors’ entire filmographies, we invited Tim Rod to describe her dangerous and seductive journey through John Malkovich’s screen history. But knowing where to place it and how to edit all the footage into something that tells a story, however opaque, is a lot harder. Letterboxd, Auckland, New Zealand. This one's for you, my friend, I hope you're resting in peace. Name Watched Lists Likes; leonid 591 followers, following 1,377. I found such abundance in the simplicity. We know this because, a few years back, the Letterboxd team asked one very simple question: what’s the highest-rated film of all time, when the criteria is that you must have seen it five or more times? 155. Heidio liked Sarah️’s 120 lesbian films to watch before saying all lesbian cinema is the same list on 2020-12-15. Kudos to the teams at the Toronto, New York and BFI London Film Festivals for pulling excellent hybrid festivals together in extremely weird, not-at-all-ideal circumstances. Savina Petkova named it: “The best film you can see in 2019, simply put. I’m Valerie, and I’m a genre-fluid horror lover. Now, instead of getting the text of the letters via subtitles integrated into the frame, I'm hearing them amid the cacophony of the film's street scenes. Eventually, we’ll also use this space to take a look at what’s hot at the box office and let you know what’s coming to cinemas the following weekend. Adam Brody (Ready or Not) stars as Abe Applebaum, the detective in question, who seizes a chance to step back into the small-town limelight when a young woman (Sophie Nélisse) asks him to help find her boyfriend’s murderer. But I’m beginning to suspect that Chantal Akerman won’t captivate me like the average cinephile. Ella Kemp dives into Letterboxd’s 100 highest-rated, obsessively rewatched films of 2020 to find out why we love them—and to give Hollywood a heads-up on what we want to rewatch again and again. Directed by Chantal Akerman • 1976 • United States. A consummate storyteller off and on screen, the director is known for recounting wild tales of his storied life and career as the charismatic wunderkind who ascended to New Hollywood’s elite with 1971’s Oscar-showered cop procedural The French Connection. the noise of new york. Sarah Paulson as Diane Sherman, with Kiera Allen as daughter Chloe, in ‘Run’. Letterboxd is the best way to track the films you watch and want to watch. It's too easy and reductive to say of Akerman that she, in comparison to her male contemporaries, found the heart beating within structuralism. It can be a bumpy journey. 143537156 >Not sure what letterboxd is all about? Kind of makes 'Nanette' feel just that bit more meaningless. Letterboxd User Score: 3 Chantal Akerman, the Belgian filmmaker, lives in New York. Hell, we practically sprint towards shitty production values and hyperbolic acting. Favorited 3 times, disliked 0 times, added to 3 watchlists. Chantal Akerman, the Belgian filmmaker, lives in New York. Widowed since three years he has two daughters, two sons, seven grandchildren. Especially it helps with the whole legend about how the wind in Texas drives women insane, the image of the ghost horse in the Injun legend…, update: this film will always remind me about one of … Japan; China; Korea; North Korea; Taiwan; USA; Internet; Featured. Chantal Akerman. I’m Your Woman is a compelling, unsettling twist on the genre. Letterboxd - Keep a diary of the films you watch, and share your opinion about them with friends. Only in the ocean and its distant image one can find peace. Attempting to replicate the extreme fatigue of the real thing, our festival team (Ella Kemp, Aaron Yap, Kambole Campbell, Jack Moulton and Gemma Gracewood and—helping us bridge the geo-locked divide—Canadian TIFF regular Jonathan White) disregarded international date lines and dove right in. 2,597: 3: 10,685 There’s something optimistically anti-feel-good in Hertzfeldt’s works; a bleak view of the future, and a frank appreciation of death’s inevitability, that makes viewers urgently want to fix the way they’re living right now. Report if this is not a startup. Name Watched Lists Likes; leonid 591 followers, following 1,377. new york's inhuman gigantism isolating chantal. We barely meet the gangster himself in this taut, 1970s-set crime thriller from director Julia Hart and her co-writer and producer husband Jordan Horowitz. Name Watched Lists Likes; desdemoor 499 followers, following 580. Tags #news from home #fyeahmovies #filmedit #fuckyeahwomenfilmdirectors #1977 #70s #edit:dw #dw #edit:sc #favefilms #chantal akerman #m. … It’s a completely practical query: Where can serious fans of TV go to converse with other … Letterboxd is the best way to track the films you watch and want to watch. Since his first animated outings in the 1990s, filmmaker Don Hertzfeldt has had a way of staring deeply into humanity’s soul via a humble stick figure, and his skill at blending existential questions with situational humor breeds intense reactions. Clement’s … Letterboxd is the best way to track the films you watch and want to watch. any ratings [below] five stars) and allow The Mummy’s rating to stand, as it should, at five stars, or perhaps to replace the rating altogether with a simple banner which reads “the greatest film of all time, objectively speaking”. And even that's also a melancholic conclusion. Popular this week; About Letterboxd; Create an account ← Letterboxd.com; Social film reviews and discovery. Favorites: Close-Up (1990), Yi Yi (2000), News from Home (1976), Paris Is Burning (1990). Utterly brilliant, and truly devastating. Akerman’s unforgettable time capsule of the city is also a gorgeous meditation on urban alienation and personal and familial disconnection. Rate, review and tag films as you add them. What can we say—you have great taste. “Sometimes you can be watching a romantic comedy but what you’re really craving is a film noir.” —Alexandre O. Philippe. Directed by Chantal Akerman. In any language, though, News from Home is still a dead-on representation of what it's like to be separated from family. some artists are way too powerful. The enormous diversity in quality and concept across a century of horror films has resulted in an equally diverse, and accepting, audience. Heidio followed Viviane Carle on 2020-12-15. Herb Alpert Is… is infectiously jaunty, thanks enormously to Alpert’s sexy, cosmopolitan 1960s hits like ‘The Lonely Bull’, ‘Spanish Flea’ and ‘A Taste of Honey’ (you’ve probably heard them, even if you don’t recognize their names). The mission of /lbg/ is to promote the intelligent discussion of film as art by providing members with opportunities for intellectual discussion, by recognizing patrician taste through examinations and by calling out embryos as they arise. Indeed, the 58th NYFF was one of Film at Lincoln Center’s most-attended festivals, with 70,000+ attendees in all 50 states and beyond. I drifted away into New York City with her. message tags edits letterboxd: News From Home (1977), dir. Other hand: this is why I can't wait for my kids to leave home and explore the world, as long as they report back to me on what they find there. About; News; Pro; Apps; Year in Review; Gift Guide; Podcast; … Carrie Coon as Allison O’Hara in ‘The Nest’. Apple TV+ is developing a WeCrashed TV series based on the podcast of the same name, and Jared Leto is in talks to star. I'd be interested to see if many other of her films are this overtly Framptonesque … 9,190 views ... News From Home (1976) ADVERTISEMENT. 61. Chantal Akerman, the Belgian filmmaker, lives in New York. No matter what tools they use, all crew members are artists collaborating to bring a vision to the screen, he tells Jack Moulton in this edition of How I Letterboxd. Life and Nothing More... (1992) ADVERTISEMENT. 3. Åkerman plays Anna, a 40-something financial and emotional disaster whose bestie introduces her to the club once she hits rock bottom. avg. Report this film, thank god i watched this at home where i get to say morning to my mom tomorrow because if i wasn't i don't know how i'd be able to handle myself right now. AKTUaliTY uses Letterboxd to share film reviews and lists. “I wanted to dip my toe in the dark side for one second and talk about if you can love someone too much,” says Chaganty. This Is Us directors Glenn Ficarra and John Requa are set to helm the series, which tells the true story of WeWork, a commercial real estate company once valued at $47 billion dollars until it all came crashing down due to mismanagement and a general lack of vision. (Seeing it in a theater this time, I jumped when the long cruise down 10th Avenue gave way to a roaring subway.) It was launched as a social app focused on sharing opinions about, and love of, film, and is maintained by a small team in Auckland, New Zealand.The site is meant for sharing its members' tastes in films. Hannah Gadsby could be the most mind-numbing, hateful person I've ever had the … Metropolis Kino Database tracks the film ratings of members of the Metropolis community. Marsha Stephanie Blake and Rachel Brosnahan in ‘I’m Your Woman’. 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