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 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 3 days 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 3 days 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 3 days 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 3 days 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 4 days ago in Geeks
A Filmmaker's Guide to: Gary Oldman
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 4 days ago in Geeks5 Great Books I Read in February, 2021
As you can probably tell from the way I am going about this, I am trying something different and more sustainable than last year when I would write about every twenty books I had read. This is purely because I will remember it better. When it comes to every twenty books, you actually have to work it out and stuff and honestly, my math is not great enough for me to try that often. Here, I can talk about five books that I think that you should read too and why they are so great. I'm trying to expand my reach in terms of genre and trying for myself to read more modern fiction since this is the sort of thing I want to investigate when I go into writing my PhD proposal.
Annie KapurPublished 4 days ago in Geeks
Book Review: "The Silent Patient" by Alex Michaelides
When we read thrillers, we are obviously expecting some sort of twist at the end. However, we are also expecting some facts to feel shoehorned in so that the story does not contradict itself or leaves loopholes wide open by the end. This book, however does neither of those things and yet, it is still a brilliant thriller novel. Instead, this story tells us two or three stories and as we follow each one, we have absolutely no idea how they are linked. At first, the book feels like it is jumping around but, as you get deeper and deeper into it, you realise how relevant every single little detail is and how you have completely missed the point.
Annie KapurPublished 5 days ago in Geeks
