The Cinematic Journal

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In #FreeGuy, Ryan Reynolds plays a video game character who doesn’t realise that his world isn’t real. The film uses CGI, but did you know that much of the film also relies on practical effects? Like in their big action sequence after Guy puts on his glasses for the 1st time.

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Sabrina Doyle's 'Lorelei' tells the story of a high school couple who reunites over a decade after parting ways. She said the film is the result of her desire to 'make a film about working-class people that shows their resilience, their inner lives, and their hidden dreams.'

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Happy birthday Mark Snow! The legendary composer is behind the music for hit shows 'Blue Bloods', 'Smallville', 'One Tree Hill', 'Kojak' and 'The Twilight Zone'. He is also responsible for one of the most popular and recognisable TV show theme tunes of all time, 'The X-Files'.

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We wish @jeanmicheljarre a happy birthday! The electronic pioneer will release his groundbreaking NYE show 'Welcome To The Other Side' in September, which combined the magnificent visuals in virtual reality of the majestic Notre Dame cathedral with real live performance.

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Jane Campion's 'The Power of the Dog' excavates the emotional torment experienced at a Montana cattle ranch in the 1920s. #Didyouknow that the drama is adapted from the 1967 book by Thomas Savage? The film was recently selected to screen at this year's Venice Film Festival.

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Happy birthday Alexandre Desplat! His work has garnered huge critical successes and has earned him several accolades. About his latest work in 'The French Dispatch', the composer called the film and his score 'very Dadaist,' a reference to the 20th-century artistic movement.

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Basil Poledouris was born on this day in 1945. Best known for his powerful music for action-adventure films of the 80s and 90s, did you know that his six-minute piece for opening the Centennial Olympic Games in Atlanta drew on his study of ancient mythology and Greek philosophy?

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The ongoing conflict between traditional values and the pursuit of individual goals lies at the heart of Yin Ruoxin's drama 'Sister'. 'Female filmmakers, like all filmmakers, care for the whole world and do their best to tell the stories that touch their hearts,' she said.

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In David Lowery's #TheGreenKnight, Dev Patel plays a medieval hero on a mysterious quest. #Didyouknow that the 14th-century epic poem 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight' by an anonymous author serves as the basis for the film?

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We wish @TanDunMusic a happy birthday! The Chinese #composer is famous for his film music for 'Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon' and 'Hero'. Did you know he is the first Eastern composer to be the dean of a Western conservatory at Bard? #TanDun

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Happy birthday @JohnDebney! With over 215 credits to his name, this legendary artist has composed some of the greatest scores of the last three decades, including 'Hocus Pocus' and 'The Passion of the Christ'. He is currently working on the upcoming 'Home Alone' reboot.

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Juho Kuosmanen's 'Compartment No. 6' tells the story of a Finnish student sharing her sleeping car with an uncouth Russian miner on a train trip. On what attracted him to turn Rosa Liksom's novel into a film, he said, 'the scenery, the train, Russia and the human connection.'

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Happy birthday, @Chrismusic01! The English composer of concert works and music for films and television, when asked what advice he can give to young composers starting out, said, 'never lose sight of the dream that made you want to be involved in music in the first place!'

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In #TheFrenchDispatch Bill Murray plays the editor of a fictitious American magazine in a French town, whose staff assembles to prepare their final issue. #Didyouknow Wes Anderson structured the movie evoking his experience reading his beloved The New Yorker from cover to cover?

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#MamoruHosoda's 'Belle' tells the story of a teenage girl who joins the vast virtual world of U, where she assumes the identity of a pop star. A film the Japanese animator describes as 'the one I've been waiting to make.' The film premiered out of competition at Cannes.

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Antoine Duhamel was born on this day in 1925. Associated with the New Wave, he began his career in film with Jean-Daniel Pollet's 'Mediterranean'. According to director Bertrand Tavernier, #didyouknow he would get irritated when his music was cut off by dialogue or sound effects?

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#DriveMyCar tells the story of a stage actor and director who is assigned a mostly silent young woman chauffeur, an encounter with more significance than he at first expects. #Didyouknow the three-hour film is an adaptation of #HarukiMurakami's 40-page short story? #Cannes2021

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Shot in a remote corner of Costa Rica, 'Clara Sola' is a film about the sexual awakening of a sheltered 40-year-old woman. About the film, director Nathalie Álvarez Mesén said, 'we have definitely raised the volume when it comes to addressing the patriarchal side of religion.'

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Happy birthday @AIMenken! He's among Disney's most prolific composers. This year marks the 25th anniversary of the release of 'The Hunchback of Notre Dame'. In a recent interview, the composer revealed that Michael Jackson initially pitched three songs and Disney turned him away.

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.@ZolaMovie is inspired by A'Ziah "Zola" King's 2015 viral 148-tweet thread. It tells the story of Zola, an exotic dancer who befriends Stefani, who takes her on a road trip that quickly goes awry. #Didyouknow that she is credited with inspiring Twitter to create Twitter threads?