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EDITOR’S LETTER

OU’D BE FORGIVEN FOR DISPLAYING symptoms of whiplash after the past few months in the film world, much less the past year or several years. From distribution to production to exhibition to (let’s not forget) the films and filmmakers themselves, there’s been a series of constant shifts and changes, some good, some bad, some hard to qualify. Many of them hit us right

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