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: Angelina Jolie
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 8 hours ago in Geeks
Book Review: "The Housewarming" by S.E Lynes
"The Housewarming" is a book that centres around a housewarming party hosted by a family called the Lovegoods. A set of fairly rich and flashy people in a part of town full of average folk who like simple things. Ava has a daughter called Abi and one day, Abi goes missing. Ava is frantic and pregnant, but still searches for her daughter, not giving up in the lengths that she will go to find out what happened - even if it is detrimental to her marriage. I don't though, feel like Matt, the husband and father, cares enough about his daughter's disappearance. He seems distant from it all and out to protect other people instead of his wife. Arriving at the party, Ava finds out from her husband that there is a lie that he wants to share with her - it changes everything almost immediately. She cannot implicate anyone with her daughter's disappearance without evidence. The police may be scaling back the search but Ava is desperate to find out where her daughter is. She befriends Jennifer Lovegood - the woman of the house. But it will be Jennifer's daughter, the adorable SEN child named Jasmine, that is of the most interest to Ava.
Annie KapurPublished about 8 hours ago in GeeksCultural Appropriation
Cultural appropriation is always a touchy subject to discuss because there are things that constitute as cultural appropriation and things that do not. In definition, cultural appropriation refers to the act of using another's culture/background/religion etc. for the purposes of self-gain such as: money, fame, fortune etc. regardless of whether you actually practice/have connections to that culture (but in most part, the person doing said cultural appropriation has no attachement to the culture whatsoever). It is normally regarded as a form of discrimination as using another person's culture/heritage for your own gain without any awareness is considered to be quite a bad thing to do and shows little respect for the heritage itself.
Annie KapurPublished about 8 hours ago in The Swamp
A Filmmaker's Guide to: Tom Cruise
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 8 hours ago in Geeks
Book Review: "Playing Nice" by J.P Delaney
I stayed up a long time to read this book and honestly, I was glad I did. When it comes to thrillers, if you keep choosing similar ones, eventually you will get bored of them. But, with thrillers like these, you will not be able to find a way that they are similar to another thriller you have read before. It is a brilliant addition to the modern world of crime, mystery and thriller. The structure is again one of those very tense narratives that goes back and forth between people and, in the midst of these back and forth narratives, we get court documents. We get phone conversations, interview transcripts, we get vital pieces of the court's exhibition of evidence that eventually we have to consider ideas that, at first, would not have been entirely present.
Annie KapurPublished about 8 hours ago in Families
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 2 days 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 2 days 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 3 days ago in Geeks
