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Regs on such sites:

AnkitT
http://letterboxd.com/ankitt/
http://www.icheckmovies.com/profiles/ankitt/

Anton Sugar
http://letterboxd.com/thrillho/

BaronLundi
http://www.icheckmovies.com/profiles/baronlundi/
http://letterboxd.com/baronlundi/

Big Ander
http://www.icheckmovies.com/profiles/big+ander/
http://letterboxd.com/ander/

C(harles)F(oster)K(ane)
http://www.criticker.com/profile/cfk
http://www.icheckmovies.com/profiles...s+foster+kane/
http://letterboxd.com/cfk/

Dawg
http://letterboxd.com/dawg/

Divius
http://letterboxd.com/divius/
http://www.icheckmovies.com/profiles/divius/

Dragoon En Regalia
http://letterboxd.com/dragoonenregali/

eLZhi
http://www.criticker.com/profile/d_fens
http://letterboxd.com/d_fens/
http://www.icheckmovies.com/profiles/d-fens/

Femmeworth/Miss Negativity
http://letterboxd.com/femmeworth/

HiResDes
http://www.criticker.com/profile/hiresdes

jnc
http://www.criticker.com/profile/jakncoke
http://www.icheckmovies.com/profiles/jakncoke/

Kilgore Trout
http://www.criticker.com/profile/Vonstreudal/
http://www.icheckmovies.com/profiles/kilgore_trout/

Kurisu1974
http://www.criticker.com/profile/kurisu1974/
http://www.icheckmovies.com/profiles/kurisu1974/

Lafiel
http://letterboxd.com/lafiel/

Linius
http://letterboxd.com/linius/
http://www.icheckmovies.com/profiles/linius/]

Madkiller
http://letterboxd.com/aris/

MELIORISM
Criticker - http://www.criticker.com/profile/meliorism/
MUBI - http://mubi.com/users/1017177
ICM - http://www.icheckmovies.com/profiles/meliorism/
Letterboxd - http://letterboxd.com/meliorism/

MikeMyers
http://letterboxd.com/deathscythe/

Mxgt
http://letterboxd.com/mxgt/

PhantomOfTheKnight
http://letterboxd.com/potk_ken/

Ridley327
http://letterboxd.com/ridley327/

Roosters93
http://www.criticker.com/profile/roosters93
http://www.icheckmovies.com/profiles/roosters93/
http://letterboxd.com/roosters93/

Secret Fawful
http://letterboxd.com/secretfawful/

TheKaep/Captain Yamato
http://www.icheckmovies.com/profiles/captyamato/
http://letterboxd.com/yamabro/

Thug Waffle
http://www.criticker.com/profile/Proximity/
http://letterboxd.com/thugwaffle/
http://www.icheckmovies.com/profiles/thug+waffle/

Ventilaator
http://www.criticker.com/profile/ventilaator/
iCheckMovies
Letterboxd

swoon
https://www.icheckmovies.com/profiles/swoon/
http://letterboxd.com/swoon/

Frustrated_Grunt
https://www.icheckmovies.com/profiles/frustratred+grunt/

Serpentine
http://letterboxd.com/Serpentine/

AlternativeUlster
http://letterboxd.com/altulster/

Infernostew
http://letterboxd.com/Infernostew/

KAKYBAC
http://letterboxd.com/le_rowe/

TreyoftheDead
http://letterboxd.com/MrTrey/


- Post your top 5 of JULY

- Are you new to the Movies You've Seen Recently threads? Let us know a bit about yourself:

1. What's your favorite Movie?
2. Who's your favorite director?
3. Who are your favorite actors/actresses?
4. Favorite Genre(s)?
5. What's your favorite performance in film?


- Unsure of what to watch?

ICM has a compilation of many official movie lists with lots of interesting recommendations. Or you could ask members in the thread; we don't bite. Participate!
 
Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation - The one word I kept coming back to walking out of this one was "comfort". For the entire 132 minute runtime of this film, there's a very comforting feeling that you paid money to watch a film made by a lot of people who really gave a fuck about this fifth installment of a silly franchise being good.

No one gives a more of a fuck about giving you your bang for a buck than Tom Cruise. This nigga is older than every James Bond cept Roger Moore, but he's hanging on the side of these planes, he's holding his breath for upwards of six minutes, he's riding that damn motorcycle at crazy speeds for us. Eventually he's gonna be too old to do this shit anymore, but until then I appreciate the effort.

Not quite Ghost Protocol level, cuz you can't really match Dubai and I don't think McQuire has the same eye for staging and composition that Bird does, but a lot of the same strengths are here, like Robert Elswit's cinematography and Simon Pegg being in so much of it. Just a high degree of competence and professionalism from everybody involved, that's all I ask from this kind of breezy blockbuster entertainment.
 

big ander

Member
top five new watches of July:
1) The Saddest Music in the World
2) Wooden Crosses
3) Gimme the Loot
4) Pee-wee's Big Adventure
5) Something, Anything
 

Toothless

Member
Top five of July:

1. Liar Liar
2. Mr. Holmes
3. Pixels
4. Ant-Man
5. Minions

These were the only non-rewatches ._.
 

Blader

Member
Is that gif from Paris, Texas?

Top 10 11 new watches of July (no particular order):

Grand Illusion
A Man Escaped
Jules and Jim
Le Samourai
Inside Out
Slow West
Ant-Man
Wet Hot American Summer
Brief Encounter
Red Army
Mission impossible: Rogue Nation
 

big ander

Member
Top five of July:

1. Liar Liar
2. Mr. Holmes
3. Pixels
4. Ant-Man
5. Minions

These were the only non-rewatches ._.

Liar Liar is a childhood favorite. caught most of it on cable a couple years ago and was happy to find it's still pretty funny. it's light as can be, but Carrey is great, supporting cast comes thru between Elwes' wet blanket trying so hard to be a fun guy, Tilly being loud, Tierney putting a lot behind some standard scorned wife lines.

it also ends with a blooper reel, the height of comedy. all movies should have blooper reels.
 
Top 5 of July:

1) Rope(Rewatch)
2) Some Like it Hot
3) Annie Hall
4) The Tale of The Princess Kaguya(Rewatch)
5) Hobo with a Shotgun
 

AnkitT

Member
Top 5 from july(all non-english stuff):
1. Bandit Queen
2. Arvind Desai Ki Ajeeb Dastaan(The Strange Fate of Arvind Desai)
3. The Postman's White Nights
4. Masaan(Fly Away Solo)
5. Bombay Velvet
 

Currygan

at last, for christ's sake
top 5 new movies in July


Blue is the Warmest Colour

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12 years a slave
Mesrine 1/2
Biutiful
several layers of arse





even more arse





old hairy moustached nuns licking each others arses


Elizabeth 1
 

Borgnine

MBA in pussy licensing and rights management
I think I can actually do a top 5 of July.

1. The Narrow Margin
2. Pale Flower
3. When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
4. What We Do In The Shadows
5. Splendor in the Grass
 
I don't think I even saw 5 movies in July. What We Do in the Shadows was the best one though

I saw Kingsman, that was fun. I hate the meta "this ain't THAT kinda movie, bruv!" stuff, because, look, i fuckin get it okay. The ending with
Eggsy just becoming another Colin Firth/Young Caine wasn't exactly what i expected, because the whole movie up to that point was saying that the old ways of aristocratic rich dudes was going out of date, but i guess nah
. Good action though
 

Mossybrew

Member
It was someone in the last thread that recently said The Tree of Life and I wanted to thank them for reminding me to watch this, rented it off Amazon. It's more of an audiovisual poem than a "movie" but it just about hypnotized me for 2 1/2 hours.
 
The Babadook - I thought it was pretty well-made and well-acted, but I'm still torn on my thoughts pertaining to the movie as a whole.
 

Trey

Member
The Counselor is an ugly film. Not the cinematography - there are plenty of gorgeous shots (though the piss colored filter got aggravating after a while). It's ugly in its execution every place else. The pacing is abrupt and the storytelling is full of air. The film tries to be fifteen different movies at once, stopping and starting with hardly rhyme or reason.

The incongruity would be enough for me to toss The Counselor into the bushes, but the dialogue opens another avenue with which to deride. Seriously, who fucking talks like this? You always have to take a little bit of salt with movie dialogue because it's being acted. but every effort to make the words come across as organic is appreciated. With that said, I wasn't ready for a walking angsty teenage poetry slam for a character, and not a single other actor was capable of salvaging this hot mess.

This shit was bonkers, man.

edit: and I get that the movie is supposed to be some hyper surreal trip so of course the dialogue is goofy, but if the shit don't land it don't land. I did laugh when Fassbender was on the phone for twenty minutes with some dude going on about existentialism and the meaning of life, then just says he has other phone calls to make and hangs up, lol.
 
Best films watched in July:

- La vie d'Adèle - Chapitre 1&2 (Blue is the warmest colour)
- Mon oncle Benjamin (The Adventures of Uncle Benjamin)
- Blow Out
- Infernal Affairs
- La Poison (1951)
- La folie des grandeurs (Delusions of Grandeur)
 

MikeMyers

Member
Love is Colder than Death (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1969)

Alright, so now I got to see Fassbinder's last film after yesterdays mix-up. Still of the same opinion as Gods of the Plague here. It's a decent early-on film, and shows the promise he has. Really captures a lot of emotion. Will probably skip to The Merchant of Four Seasons for my next viewing since apparently that is what put him on the map.
 

Apt101

Member
The Sisterhood of Night. Pretty good. Entertaining enough. Really solid pacing. I think I would have dug it a lot more if I was a teenager in today's world, as it was focused more on the teenaged characters while the adult situations seemed like they were written by an eighteen year old.
 

karasu

Member
Top Five of July!

1. Melancholia
2. The Tree of Life
3. Shame
4. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
5. Enemy
 

Timbuktu

Member
I saw Amy the other night.

The one thing that kept running through my mind while watching Amy is how much her life runs parallel to Kurt Cobain. Both came from broken homes and turned to both music and drugs as their form of escape. Both poured their hearts in to their creativity. Sadly both ventured too far down the rabbit hole of escapism and were consumed by it.

Amy is a fantastic film, a shame not more on gaf get to watch it (yet). It is more devastating than Senna. I am surprised by how much home video they managed to get to piece together such a coherent, but not forced narrative. The amount we got to see her in her private life was used well to make us feel uncomfortable, but there were chuckles around the theatre

I liked her music but would have called myself a fan, i never thought about how much her lyrics says about her, as if she asked for help and all everyone heard was her great singing voice. I wouldn't be right to blame everyone around her, it is heartbreaking to see that her old manager and long time friends being unable to help her. The gigs and tour towards the end did feel like an unending circle of hell, i'm not sure how i would feel if i saw her at one of those events, forced to sing Back to Black again and again when she didn't want to. There are those with no real talent whatsoever that can feed off celebrity, but seeing someone with talent being destroyed by it... Just a real sense of shame.

Probably my top movie for July.
 
I can only remember watching two films in July:
- The Tale of Princess Kaguya
- Wise Blood

And I can't seperate them by rank, absolutely loved both of em. Gonna try and make a dent in my huge backlog this month.
 
Amy is a fantastic film, a shame not more on gaf get to watch it (yet). It is more devastating than Senna. I am surprised by how much home video they managed to get to piece together such a coherent, but not forced narrative. The amount we got to see her in her private life was used well to make us feel uncomfortable, but there were chuckles around the theatre

I liked her music but would have called myself a fan, i never thought about how much her lyrics says about her, as if she asked for help and all everyone heard was her great singing voice. I wouldn't be right to blame everyone around her, it is heartbreaking to see that her old manager and long time friends being unable to help her. The gigs and tour towards the end did feel like an unending circle of hell, i'm not sure how i would feel if i saw her at one of those events, forced to sing Back to Black again and again when she didn't want to. There are those with no real talent whatsoever that can feed off celebrity, but seeing someone with talent being destroyed by it... Just a real sense of shame.

Probably my top movie for July.

Yeah, Amy was great. It would be right blaming her jackass parents, especially her dad (her mom was just dumb or ignorant I guess), and her new manager. Their behavior and level of greed was disgusting.
 

SpaceHorror

Member
Top 5 for July:

1. Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
2. Odd Man Out
3. Night Train to Munich
4. Hell is for Heroes
5. Force Majeure

Most valuable re-watch: The Wild Bunch


Criss Cross - 5/5 - Grade A film noir from Robert Siodmak that permeates with a sense of hopelessness. Burt Lancaster repeats often in his narration that his fate was just in the cards, but he walks his own path, chasing down an old lover played by Yvonne De Carlo, who is now married to a gangster (Dan Duryea). Double cross after double cross gets the characters mixed up, barreling toward their own destruction.

There are some great moments of tension in the film, one of my favorites involves something as innocent as the slamming of a refrigerator door. Lancaster and De Carlo descend the stairs to find themselves caught by the gangster, putting Lancaster in a corner he'll never get out of. The final scene is prototypical noir in the best sense. As Lancaster and De Carlo await their fate, the camera focuses on a dark door, we all know who is going to walk through it, but Siodmak builds the dread and tension up to a maximum. We hope it's the cops, but like Lancaster and De Carlo we know it's not going to be. It's the perfect tragic ending to the doomed love story at the center of the film.

The black and white photography is bright in the sunny LA day, but at night it's seedy and obscured by smoke. Siodmak's framing has a touch of subtlety, but it's telling, often giving us insight into what a character is thinking. He uses deep focus photography to great effect.

It's a hell of a noir and already one of my favorites of the genre. Also, I enjoyed the short early Tony Curtis cameo. To think he and Lancaster would team up to star in another pinnacle of the genre 8 years later with Sweet Smell of Success.
 

Screaming Meat

Unconfirmed Member
I'm new in here. Not sure why I haven't popped in before. Here goes:

1. What's your favourite Movie?

Any of the 5 big Leone Westerns could fill the spot, but 'For A Few Dollars More' has Gian Maria Volente chewing scenery like a legend, so I pick that one for now.

2. Who's your favourite director?

I don't have one particular one. If pushed, I'd say it's generally a toss up between Kubrick, Leone, Lynch, Kurosawa or Miike.

3. Who are your favorite actors/actresses?

Again, so many. I'll watch literally anything with Christopher Walken in it, no matter how small the screen time or how bad the film. That man is endlessly fascinating.

4. Favorite Genre(s)?

Westerns, Sci-Fi/Time-Travel and Crime/Film Noir. I particularly enjoy anything that's offers a good, deep mindfuck.

5. What's your favorite performance in film?

Again, not one in particular. I was really taken aback by James McAvoy in 'Filth' recently, but all-time favourites is tough. Two that really grabbed me would be Paddy Considine in 'Dead Man's Shoes' and Philip Seymour Hoffman in 'Synecdoche, New York'.

Top 5 in July

1) Frank
2) Filth
3) Ex Machina
4) Calvary
5) Inherent Vice

Hopefully watching Whiplash soon.

Top 5 for July:

1. Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia

I absolutely love that film. The tender and earthy relationship in the first half really makes the film for me. Great choice.

Also, I particularly enjoy the fact that the womaniser Alfredo Garcia seems to dress like Austin Powers. :D
 

Ridley327

Member
It's been a busy week, so I haven't had much time for writing stuff down. Time for ULTRA LIGHTING REVIEWS!

Samurai Rebellion: Really quite great. It's not quite on the same level as Harakiri, but I did like how it tackled similar themes from a different perspective and through the guise of a more straightforward tragedy. Really great understated performance from Toshiro Mifune, too.

High and Low: Kurosawa week begins with another really quite great film. A kidnapping drama that eventually evolves into a rather hardcore procedural, the film is more than capable of handling the detailed investigation and still retaining a lot of tension, especially in the extended climax that takes literal twists and turns. Kurosawa's camerawork and editing decisions are possibly at their peak here, and all of the actors are on point, with a special commendation for Kenjiro Ishiyama as a crusty detective that provides some of the biggest and most needed laughs in the film.

Drunken Angel: The big mainstream breakthrough film for both Kurosawa and Mifune, and it's not hard to see why. The interplay between Mifune's brash but dangerously ill gangster and Takashi Shimura's well intended but easily inflammable doctor is splendid, as both men butt heads against one another but need each other without having to state as such. They wisely keep both men stern on through the ending, which gives it a nice edge that doesn't invoke too much sentimentality. The setting is well-rendered, and I quite liked the way music is integrated in the film. There are a couple of contrivances to put everything in the right place, but nothing fatal by any stretch.

Stray Dog: This one isn't quite as clean as its immediate predecessor, with a confusing narration track in the opening that doesn't feel needed (and goes completely away thereafter) and something of a more languid pacing that doesn't feel too pressed for time, but Kurosawa manages to stage some very memorable scenes that do a good job of illustrating the quick thinking of the protagonists, as well as demonstrating Kurosawa's incredible talent for framing, especially as it hurtles towards the conclusion.

Rashomon: Could I possibly add anything on this film that hasn't already been said? It's a miracle of editing and plotting, and it's hard to shake even now, with its frustrating-by-design story that refuses to let go of you, along with dealing with far more murky thematic content than you might think, which gives the ending a little bit more of an uncertainty to it than it may seem otherwise apparent.

The Hidden Fortress: Kurosawa goes widescreen! This is definitely not meant to be a serious dramatic work, but Kurosawa could hang with the best of entertainers with the great adventure vibe on display in the film, and it's also really damn funny throughout. Some terrific action sequences, a really fun main ensemble cast, and a strong sense of pacing help cover up any relatively minor flaws that the story has with introducing the supporting cast. I'm not surprised that George Lucas used the film as the backbone of the first Star Wars film, although Princess Leia is no Princess Yuki.

Sanshiro Sugata: Because, hey, you might as well see the debut. Sadly, I didn't know about its unfortunate release history with 17 minutes of the film possibly being lost forever, so while I can appreciate the already apparent talent that Kurosawa had behind the camera, it made it really tough to invest much in the film when it's so disjointed and hard to follow, especially with it introducing characters and plot elements in the inter-title cards that barely register otherwise. An obviously important film, but one that simply can't work even half as well these days, even considering that it's entirely against its will.

That means I can now post the July round-up stuff!

Top 5 for July (no particular order)
-Pale Flower
-Harakiri
-The Sword of Doom
-High and Low
-Rashomon

Most valuable rewatch: Destroy All Monsters

The "Well, It's Not As Bad As All Monsters Attack" Award of Demerit: Godzilla vs. Gigan
 

SpaceHorror

Member
Is that gif from Paris, Texas?

Pretty sure it is. I really need to finish it some day. It seems every time I start watching it I get interrupted by something. Friends, work, hell, you name it. What I've seen is fantastic. The photography. Man oh man.
 

hal9001

Banned
Three Color Trilogy: Blue
A film that's sunk it's claws into me and hasn't let go since I've watched it. One of the best uses of sound to enhance the film experience. The music was amazing the way it cut through to what she was feeling. While I don't agree and very much dislike the main characters actions, the philosophical premise of emotional liberty is an interesting one. Can we really start again afresh once everything we thought we had is gone? The cinematography and the blue palette was striking. Oh and the ending is a stunning crescendo. Obviously influenced Donnie Darko and Magnolia.

Waltz With Bashir
The analogy of the war photographer who detached himself from his subjects until his camera broke and was forced to confront the horrors with own eyes is aptly used here for an almighty emotional impact at the end. The use of animation to accomplish this until that ending is very clever. The visuals are stunning and really display the horrors in ways that make it very striking.

Crimes & Misdemeanours
One of Woody Allens very best. Martin Landau gives a masterclass performance here of a man bearing tremendous guilt. The dinner table scene of his childhood flashback is one of my fave scenes in it.
 

jtb

Banned
The End of the Tour. I don't know. I just don't know. There are things that I hate about this movie, wrapped snugly inside a movie that I really enjoyed.

They were smart to not make this a biopic, instead framing it, in a sense, as a eulogy—the David Foster Wallace hagiography genre is pretty tired at this point. Yeah, yeah, the film isn't "about" David Foster Wallace—up until the point where it clearly is. The stuff with Lipsky and Wallace struggling with the very basic anxieties of everyday life is excellent—a kind of low stakes two man play. But the eulogy still feels detached and reluctant—Lipsky didn't know Wallace and that distance is obvious and keeps Segel's DFW nice and flat. He's got all the mannerisms down, he's got the voice down, he's saying his lines, for the most part, word for word—but there's just nothing here, and that's so obviously deliberate. It's cowardly. It's boring.

If this film wants to work the way it claims it wants to and hide behind Lipsky's incredibly limited perspective, then Eisenberg's Lipsky needs to be a lot more than just a blank audience surrogate. And he just isn't.

Bonus points for the song that plays over the last scene of the film.
 

Toothless

Member
Liar Liar is a childhood favorite. caught most of it on cable a couple years ago and was happy to find it's still pretty funny. it's light as can be, but Carrey is great, supporting cast comes thru between Elwes' wet blanket trying so hard to be a fun guy, Tilly being loud, Tierney putting a lot behind some standard scorned wife lines.

it also ends with a blooper reel, the height of comedy. all movies should have blooper reels.

Man, that blooper reel was hysterical. Kurtz calling Carrey "Overactor!" made me laugh for like a full minute. The rest of the film was fantastic too. Probably the only movie last month I thought was legitimately great.
 
Justice League: Gods and Monsters

I like it. The world building is great and the action is superb. The story takes a while to set up, the payoff isn't really great, and the ending isn't quite satisfying (I think need to sleep on it to be sure), but it's good enough to keep the film entertaining. I'll be looking forward to The Killing Joke.
 
Rough month for me. Didn't even make the wall of shame either... I need to step up my game. Didn't have too much time this month for watching but here's my top 5 seen...

1. Hard Boiled
2. A Simple Plan
3. Why Don't You Play In Hell?
4. May
5. Alice
 
I was hoping he didn't only see two movies he liked last month. I thought minions was awful but I thought Ant-Man was pretty solid, better than your standard marvel movie.

Didn't see Minions but Ant-man was ok. I'd agree it's one of the better marvel movies, but I'm not too keen on them in the first place.
 

maxcriden

Member
Didn't see Minions but Ant-man was ok. I'd agree it's one of the better marvel movies, but I'm not too keen on them in the first place.

Right there with ya. I thought the first Iron Man and Cap movies were very enjoyable as examples of modern and throwback blockbusters, respectively. I actually liked IM3 quite a bit, too. Interesting take on superhero PTSD. The rest of the movies ranged from okay to boring to awful for me. I find the ones the fans seem to like best, namely TWS and GOTG, fell the flattest for me.
 
Right there with ya. I thought the first Iron Man and Cap movies were very enjoyable as examples of modern and throwback blockbusters, respectively. I actually liked IM3 quite a bit, too. Interesting take on superhero PTSD. The rest of the movies ranged from okay to boring to awful for me. I find the ones the fans seem to like best, namely TWS and GOTG, fell the flattest for me.

Haha guess we don't agree here since I hated Iron Man 3, which was a big dissapoinment since I'm a fan of Shane Black. TWS was actually quite good for the first half I thought, but then it pissed it all away and became a cookie cutter, safe marvel movie in the second half. GOTG might be my favorite Marvel movie I guess, even though it had a boring ass antagonist. I liked RDJ in Iron Man, but didn't like much else, and I liked the concept of the first Captain America but it felt kinda dull and odly paced. I think Chris Evans is my favorite Marvel lead though.
 

jtb

Banned
Pixels is one of those movies where it became obvious that even if it wasn't terrible, critics had to one up each other with the hyperbolic snark for the attention.
 
Pixels is one of those movies where it became obvious that even if it wasn't terrible, critics had to one up each other with the hyperbolic snark for the attention.

Pixels is one of those movies where I have to wonder why the fuck anybody cares that it's bad? Who the hell didn't expect it to be bad? It's like going to a Michael Bay movie and marveling that there might be a few things wrong with it.
 
Pixels is one of those movies where it became obvious that even if it wasn't terrible, critics had to one up each other with the hyperbolic snark for the attention.

Sandler effect. He's viewed as quality poison.

Pixels is one of those movies where I have to wonder why the fuck anybody cares that it's bad? Who the hell didn't expect it to be bad? It's like going to a Michael Bay movie and marveling that there might be a few things wrong with it.

Yep.
 
Pixels is one of those movies where I have to wonder why the fuck anybody cares that it's bad? Who the hell didn't expect it to be bad? It's like going to a Michael Bay movie and marveling that there might be a few things wrong with it.

Pretty much.

There are some critic circles that seem like they can't just wait to rip into a new Sandler movie.
 
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