The 2021 Cine Gear Expo team of judges has recognized and honored select innovations for this year’s Cine Gear Expo Technical Awards.
Here’s a rundown of the winners:
Camera Technology: Optics
Winner: Atlas for The Orion Series 25mm anamorphic prime lens
Camera Technology: Accessories
Winner: Mo-Sys Engineering for the Cinematic XR Focus
Designer/Inventor: James Uren
Support Technology
Winner: Filmotechnic for the Technoscope F17 and F27
Designer/Inventor: Anatoly Kokush
Honorable Mention: Cinema Devices for the ZeeGee
Inventor: Charles Papert
Designer: Adam Teichman
Lighting Technology
Winner: Fiilex for the Q10 Color
Postproduction Technology
Winner: OWC for the Jellyfish
Other Winners
Wave Central for the CineVue
Luminys System Corp for the Luminayre
Review: Writer-Director Coralie Fargeat’s “The Substance”
In its first two hours, "The Substance" is a well-made, entertaining movie. Writer-director Coralie Fargeat treats audiences to a heavy dose of biting social commentary on ageism and sexism in Hollywood, with a spoonful of sugar- and sparkle-doused body horror.
But the film's deliciously unhinged, blood-soaked and inevitably polarizing third act is what makes it unforgettable.
What begins as a dread-inducing but still relatively palatable sci-fi flick spirals deeper into absurdism and violence, eventually erupting — quite literally — into a full-blown monster movie. Let the viewer decide who the monster is.
Fargeat — who won best screenplay at this year's Cannes Film Festival — has been vocal about her reverence for "The Fly" director David Cronenberg, and fans of the godfather of body horror will see his unmistakable influence. But "The Substance" is also wholly unique and benefits from Fargeat's perspective, which, according to the French filmmaker, has involved extensive grappling with her own relationship to her body and society's scrutiny.
"The Substance" tells the story of Elisabeth Sparkle, a famed aerobics instructor with a televised show, played by a powerfully vulnerable Demi Moore. Sparkle is fired on her 50th birthday by a ruthless executive — a perfectly cast Dennis Quaid, who nails sleazy and gross.
Feeling rejected by a town that once loved her and despairing over her bygone star power, Sparkle learns from a handsome young nurse about a black-market drug that promises to create a "younger, more beautiful, more perfect" version of its user. Though she initially tosses the phone number in the trash, she soon fishes it out in a desperate panic and places an order.
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