Annie Kapur
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Secondary English Teacher & Lecturer
🎓Literature & Writing (B.A)
🎓Film & Writing (M.A)
🎓Secondary English Education (PgDipEd) (QTS)
đź“ŤBirmingham, UK
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A Filmmaker's Review: 'Lawrence of Arabia' (1962)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962) is one of those films that everyone must watch before they die. It's a movie that even my mother has sat through in its entirety and that's saying something. The movie has become something of a landmark of cinema since the excellence of acting, directing and even music scoring on screen has been revered for over fifty years so far. The entire point of the movie, I believe, is to show us how far you can take cinematic brilliance and to give us all a look at what happens when you have the best of every component that makes a film. From the landscape shots, to the music to the characterisation - there are so many reasons to love this film that I don't believe I could fit them all into a single review. So, I have chosen three I believe are the most important. Let's first have a look at my personal history with this movie...
By Annie Kapur5 years ago in Geeks
A Filmmaker's Review: 'La Bamba' (1987)
The stunning story of the father of Chicano Rock, Ritchie Valens - this film gives us a highlight of his short life and his shoot to stardom when the song "Come On, Let's Go" gets released as a single. I'm not going to lie, I purely enjoyed this film because Ritchie Valens is one of my favourite singers of all time. This film is so enjoyable because it's fun and musical - it doesn't focus all too much on tragedy but focuses instead on giving you enough of Ritchie Valens to know how his legend was perfectly preserved by those around him. It is such an incredible film to watch.
By Annie Kapur5 years ago in Beat
A Filmmaker's Guide to Jordan Peele's 'Us' (2019)
SPOILERS AHEAD - For the purpose of this article, the ending will be revealed within (as that is what we're covering). If you have not watched the film and would not like to know the ending then, please read no further than this paragraph. Thank you.
By Annie Kapur5 years ago in Horror
A Filmmaker's Guide to the Best 100 Films of the Last Twenty Years
The end of an era is approaching, the era in which I grew so much as a filmmaker and realised how much I love this art and yet how much I hate most of the people who think they can do it (what's good Hugh Grant?). Anyways, the last twenty years has been filled with great film and as we approach the roaring 20s (more like the boring 20s), I want to see exactly which films I loved and which ones I didn't love so much. I ended up coming up with a list of 100 films and so, here we go...
By Annie Kapur5 years ago in Geeks
A Filmmaker's Review: 'Us' (2019)
An incredible movie and instant classic, Us (2019) by Jordan Peele is a brand new kind of nightmare in horror movies not seen since, well, it's never been seen at all. Peele is known for his brilliant writing skills and his Hitchcock-like suspense in horror film. A climbing horror filmmaker, Jordan Peele has established himself as a brilliant writer as well as director as he writes dialogue with such amazing finesse that you fail to recognise sometimes that it is only a movie. But, with these concepts you better hope it's only a movie. Let's have a look at the history of me and this movie though it only came out this year...
By Annie Kapur5 years ago in Horror
A Filmmaker's Guide to Animals as Psychological Symbol
Cue scary/creepy violins. This article is all about how to use animals correctly to create a concept. Now we first have to remember that not everyone knows what an animal could psychologically/implicitly stand for in terms of meaning (for example: lion = courage etc.) but most of us know it if we see the meaning being created in the film (the most obvious example being the lion from The Wizard of Oz). Animals are a great way to create meaning without having to use objects to which the camera keeps flashing back to and the audience get tired of—animals can be physically anywhere.
By Annie Kapur5 years ago in Geeks
A Filmmaker's Review: 'One Hour Photo' (2002)
This film had its ups and downs and as much as I adore Robin Williams, I feel like the main problem with this film was the way in which the story was told. The confusion stemmed from not really knowing the 'why' and thus, it becomes a bit of a challenge to follow especially in the latter half and towards the ending of the movie. Be that as it may, the film had many advantages that make it one of those films you cannot help but watch over and over again, looking for clues and seeing if there is even one little thing you missed.
By Annie Kapur5 years ago in Geeks
A Filmmaker's Review: 'There Will Be Blood' (2007)
Considered to be the greatest film of the 21st century so far and one of the greatest films of all time, There Will Be Blood really does live up to its name. Let's have a bit of a history of me and this movie then...
By Annie Kapur5 years ago in Geeks
A Filmmaker's Guide to Biopics
Biopics, we can all agree, are often modern masterpieces of cinema. They are, more than often, grand films that make appearances over and over again at the Oscars and star some of the greatest actors of a generation. There are also, bad biopics - ones that don't really measure up to the person they are trying to portray (looks at Bohemian Rhapsody in absolute disgust). There's something incredibly aching about these biopics, something that makes you say, "you had all that money and you made a film that my 12-year-old-cousin could've made on his own. Okay." There are however, three steps that you can follow in order to plan your biopic perfectly. There are also three steps you require to establish before you do anything at all and they are the simplest three steps ever. They go like this:
By Annie Kapur5 years ago in Geeks
A Filmmaker's Guide to Shakespeare's Influence
We all know how accessible Shakespeare is on screen, from films such as Kenneth Branagh's Much Ado About Nothing, Elizabeth Taylor in The Taming of the Shrew and even Mel Gibson in Hamlet. But what happens when we want to show that something is Shakespearean indirectly? Maybe this helps with how we're depicting our movie and how the audience recognise the story. Maybe this helps with the fact that the two stories are so closely linked it would be silly not to use the Shakespearean atmosphere and concepts to accentuate the plot line. Or, maybe you have these characters that are, in fact, incredibly Shakespearean in either the best, or worst, ways.
By Annie Kapur5 years ago in Geeks
A Filmmaker's Review: 'Gandhi' (1982)
Let's start with the fact that when I was a child, I had this film on VHS tape and I had actually sat and watched the entire thing before I was eight years old. I'm Indian and Indian people love watching this film over and over again, even though it stands at around three and a half hours long. I had seen it multiple times throughout my life and yet, I had never really paid very much attention to it the way I did recently. I sat and watched it, and I really watched it. I watched it like I was watching a star exploding or another rare phenomenon occur.
By Annie Kapur5 years ago in Geeks
A Filmmaker's Review: 'Malcolm X' (1992)
Let me just say this. When I finally did watch this film all the way through, I had been wanting to for many years after only seeing the first half an hour or so a few times. Visually, the film is absolutely stunning, the acting is brilliant and the way it has been filmed coincides with the time in which it took place. On that point, the thing I really like about the film is that in some aspects, certain sections are filmed like news reports from the 50s and 60s with the cameras running after the people they're filming etc. and the various tracking shots on large scale marches.
By Annie Kapur5 years ago in Geeks
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