Annie Kapur
Film and Writing (M.A)
British Born Punjabi Girl.
Focus in Film: Adaptation from Literature, Horror Filmmaking Styles and Auter Cinema
Author of: "The Filmmaker's Guide" series
Twitter: @AnnieApprox
IG: @AnnieApproximately
A Filmmaker's Guide to: Michael Douglas
In this chapter of ‘the filmmaker’s guide’ we’re actually going to be learning about literature and film together. I understand that many of you are sitting in university during difficult times and finding it increasingly hard to study and I understand that many of you who are not at university or not planning on it are possibly stuck of what to do, need a break or even need to catch up on learning film before you get to the next level. This guide will be brief but will also contain: new vocabulary, concepts and theories, films to watch and we will be exploring something taboo until now in the ‘filmmaker’s guide’ - academia (abyss opens). Each article will explore a different concept of film, philosophy, literature or bibliography/filmography etc. in order to give you something new to learn each time we see each other. You can use some of the words amongst family and friends to sound clever or you can get back to me (email in bio) and tell me how you’re doing. So, strap in and prepare for the filmmaker’s guide to film studies because it is going to be one wild ride.
Annie KapurPublished about 6 hours ago in Geeks
Book Review: "The Wake" by Vikki Patis
Thrillers are some of my favourite books to sit there and read for hours on end. They contain engrossing stories with many twists and turns, mixed up identities and strange happenings that would cause the nature of families and friendships within the novels to collapse. I love reading about these secrets that people keep from each other that only come out when they are forced out, found out or happen in a mysterious way to be pulled out during a tense moment. I have to say, this book contains all the logic and tension of the thriller that you love but then, there is a lot more to it than that. There is so much more to the book than that. It is written brilliantly and in a style that is consistent with multiple perspectives. It is an incredible work.
Annie KapurPublished about 6 hours ago in Geeks
A Filmmaker's Review: "Behind Her Eyes" (Netflix, 2021)
I'm not going to lie, the concept and a lot of the writing was pretty good to be perfectly honest. Unfortunately though, the acting was not - except for the woman who portrays Louise - she was alright. The series seems to be more about big plot twists and making the viewer feel shocked rather than explaining what is actually going on here. The fact that we get a very important plot point not until about episode four or five in the series and yet, this is expected to be a massive part of the ending. The problem here is that it has been pretty much shoe-horned in. Yes, it explains the 'twist' ending, but it also feels like it is there just to give a reason for it too. There really is a certain amount of the acting, especially in the latter episodes alongside the strangeness of the plot, that is laughable. Let us take a look at this.
Annie KapurPublished a day ago in Geeks
A Filmmaker's Review: "White House Farm" (ITV, 2020)
I think that a lot of people in England who are interested in true crime like myself would have either heard of, remembered or read about/researched the case of the murderer, Jeremy Bamber. Bamber walked into his parents house with a shotgun, killed his adoptive mother and father, killed his sister and killed her two sons who were less than ten years' old. Why? for the inheritance. Honestly, when I saw it was on Netflix I was quite surprised that they chose to make a series out of it because of the way in which the police completely botched the investigation - this was about to make the British Police System look like utter crap. But, in this day and age, I think it is time for them to accept their faults in this investigation and how it was carried out.
Annie KapurPublished a day ago in Criminal
A Filmmaker's Guide to: Jack Nicholson
In this chapter of ‘the filmmaker’s guide’ we’re actually going to be learning about literature and film together. I understand that many of you are sitting in university during difficult times and finding it increasingly hard to study and I understand that many of you who are not at university or not planning on it are possibly stuck of what to do, need a break or even need to catch up on learning film before you get to the next level. This guide will be brief but will also contain: new vocabulary, concepts and theories, films to watch and we will be exploring something taboo until now in the ‘filmmaker’s guide’ - academia (abyss opens). Each article will explore a different concept of film, philosophy, literature or bibliography/filmography etc. in order to give you something new to learn each time we see each other. You can use some of the words amongst family and friends to sound clever or you can get back to me (email in bio) and tell me how you’re doing. So, strap in and prepare for the filmmaker’s guide to film studies because it is going to be one wild ride.
Annie KapurPublished a day ago in Geeks5 Tips for a Better Reading Experience
I love to read. If you're reading this, I guess you do too. When we are reading, we all want to have the best experience possible. Whether you are reading for pleasure, studying, research or even you're reading instructions on how to make a sweet potato pie. You want to get the most out of your experience as possible. Today, we are going to have a look at how to get a better experience from reading for pleasure, with each type of reading getting its own separate article on tips and advice on bettering your reading.
Annie KapurPublished a day ago in Geeks
Book Review: "The Other Wife" by Claire McGowan
I was sitting on my bed from about 9pm until about 1am reading this book. I didn't look up from my book, I didn't stop at any time and I had let my tea go cold because I didn't want to take my eyes from the page. I was so involved with the book that I had just lost the real world for those few hours only to be unwillingly thrown back into it when the book finished. It is a brilliantly written book that employs the multiple narrator perspective and the information we learn, we learn and piece together along the way. It is all like a massive jigsaw puzzle and reminds me a lot of one of my other favourite books which I won't tell you because it will give the storyline away but it's by Graham Greene.
Annie KapurPublished a day ago in Humans
Book Review: "The Decay of the Angel" by Yukio Mishima
Yukio Mishima is one of the world's most well-known Japanese authors. He has written great novels such as: "Confessions of a Mask", "The Sound of the Waves" and my personal favourite, "The Sailor who fell from Grace with the Sea". I have liked to focus on the relationships between adults and minors in Yukio Mishima's books - especially the relationships between a father-figure and their son or adopted son/step-son etc. In books like "Confessions of a Mask" it is revealed to us what the mask is hiding and why. This could be a reflection of the father-son relationship in which being the way the mask was would have been seen as bad and anti-traditionalist. Again in "The Sailor who fell from Grace with the Sea" there is a strange relationship between the father figure and his son. His son has friends and this often strengthens the secrecy the minor would keep from his father figure. This novel too, "The Decay of the Angel", investigates this father-son relationship a lot more and in vivid depth as the two of them come to terms with their own losses in the past in hopes of forming a new relationship between each other as a family.
Annie KapurPublished 2 days ago in Geeks
