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Editor’s Note

irst, another clarification for those who might have missed the nuance, or are not as inside baseball as I am: in the last issue the “open letter” from “Lisandro Alonso” to a certain French film festival director was obviously a ChatGPT joke—and as far as I am concerned, a pretty good one. This was solely my invention and I promise I will never do it again,

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