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"textContent": "Bleak Week, a film festival celebrating \"cinema of despair,\" started as a contrarian response to cries for feel-good movies after the pandemic. Programmers at the American Cinematheque, a nonprofit arts group that curates for several historic theaters in Los Angeles, heard the cries for comedies and thought: What if we...",
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