Annie Kapur
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English Lecturer
đLiterature & Writing (B.A)
đFilm & Writing (M.A)
đSecondary English Education (PgDipEd) (QTS)
đBirmingham, UK
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A Filmmaker's Review: "The Mummy" (1932)
I'm going to be perfectly honest, I did not think too much of this film the first time I watched it, but after a few times, I began to appreciate it more for what it was - a film about a monster. And that's all it was. And that was fun. It worked brilliantly both for the way in which the story was told and for Boris Karloff's career-long investigation into the portrayal of monsters and villainous characters.
By Annie Kapur3 years ago in Geeks
A Filmmaker's Guide to: Ingrid Bergman
In this chapter of âthe filmmakerâs guideâ weâre 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 âfilmmakerâs guideâ - 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 youâre doing. So, strap in and prepare for the filmmakerâs guide to film studies because it is going to be one wild ride.
By Annie Kapur3 years ago in Geeks
A Filmmaker's Guide to: Peter Lorre
In this chapter of âthe filmmakerâs guideâ weâre 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 âfilmmakerâs guideâ - 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 youâre doing. So, strap in and prepare for the filmmakerâs guide to film studies because it is going to be one wild ride.
By Annie Kapur3 years ago in Geeks
A Filmmaker's Review: "Phantom of the Opera" (1943)
I wrote about the 1925 version starring Lon Chaney and you can view that here. But, this one created almost twenty years' later was loosely based on the book and this production, having more of a mix between noir and horror instead of just monstrosity like the original. I found that this film was less scary than the 1925 one and that's probably because I saw the 1925 one when I was young and I was terrified. As I said though, th 1943 version had more noir/crime content and themes. It was far more of a faster-paced story than an atmospheric horror film. And guess what? It still works.
By Annie Kapur3 years ago in Geeks
Book Review: "Selected Poems and Prose" by Edward Thomas
Edward Thomas is one of the great poets and diarists of the modern age. I had only recently read an entire book of his selected works after having read bits and pieces of poetry here and there and practically none of this wonderful prose in my life. I have honestly been awakened to a new kind of diarist, a new type of person who appreciates something that the realist and modernist tradition had almost lost thanks to its impractical revolt against romanticism. Edward Thomas not only remains in a space between the romantics of nature and the realists of the modern world, but he also supplies the reader with an almost psychological sense of style with his elongated metaphors, his cyclic realities and his massive descriptions on minute detail. Like a piece of art, each word is a stroke of the brush that applied, makes the work one thing, or another thing entirely. The work I have witnessed within these selected works by Edward Thomas are not just great, but not for a very long time have I been so overwhelmed by descriptions, language use or emotion. His prose style is the beauty of his changing times whilst his poetry retains the classical notions whilst pushing towards complex emotions and sufferings such as melancholia and insomnia. Let it just be said that Edward Thomas holds the line that keeps the romanticist in us alive.
By Annie Kapur3 years ago in Poets
A Filmmaker's Review: "Key Largo" (1948)
"Key Largo" is a brilliant film with Humphrey Bogart yet again portraying the amazing emotionally detached almost byronic hero who tries to save the hotel from being taken over from the villainous and machiavellian gangster that is portrayed by Edward G Robinson. Directed by the legendary John Huston, it creates the perfect atmosphere for the noir genre and breaks the entire genre wide open for future films in the same realm. Personally, I think that this is Edward G Robinson's greatest performances because the man, in this film, is genuinely scary. But then again, it is such a different role to say "The Woman in the Window" - so you can definitely see the range of acting talent he has.
By Annie Kapur3 years ago in Geeks
A Filmmaker's Guide to: The Natural Dramatic
In this chapter of âthe filmmakerâs guideâ weâre 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 âfilmmakerâs guideâ - 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 youâre doing. So, strap in and prepare for the filmmakerâs guide to film studies because it is going to be one wild ride.
By Annie Kapur3 years ago in Geeks
A Filmmaker's Review: "The Letter" (1940)
âThe Letterâ is one of the great Bette Davis films in which she portrays a woman with a conscience but also a woman with a serious attitude, totally subverting the norms of the day with her leading lady status and her will to do what she wanted when she wanted. A true powerful woman in real life, Bette Davis makes no excuses otherwise in âThe Letterâ as she portrays a woman gone mad with a conscience that she has killed a man. Denying it all the way out of the fact she states it was an act of self-defence, some are not fully convinced and when a letter is found under the strange suspicions of the court, the prosecution and the defence are both trying to get their hands on it for different reasons. It breaks the entire case wide open and shakes the whole thing up left, right and centre. Bette Davis is in peril, but can she prove she is innocent? Not to the court, but to herself? What does her conscience say about the self-defence situation and what really went on that one night when she took that gun and shot him? Itâs more complicated than we think.
By Annie Kapur3 years ago in Geeks
A Filmmaker's Guide to: Universe Cinema and The History of It
In this chapter of âthe filmmakerâs guideâ weâre 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 âfilmmakerâs guideâ - 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 youâre doing. So, strap in and prepare for the filmmakerâs guide to film studies because it is going to be one wild ride.
By Annie Kapur3 years ago in Geeks
- Top Story - January 2021
Celebrity WorshipTop Story - January 2021
There's something really nice about being a part of a fandom. Personally, I am a part of the Bob Dylan fan culture (the Bobcats), the Michael Jackson fan culture (the Moonwalkers), the 50s Rockabilly fan culture and various movie and literature fan cultures. It is a lovely place to make friends online with people who are interested in the same things as you. This is why I hardly ever really feel lonely because it is like I always have at least one person to talk to out of all of these. But when I'm on social media, I also engage with these cultures in a healthy manner, we simply talk about the theories of songs, or book and film recommendations - apart from that, it doesn't go much further.
By Annie Kapur3 years ago in Psyche
A Filmmaker's Guide to: My 100 Top Actors
Welcome to number 100 of our filmmaker's guide and today, we will be looking at my top one hundred actors. Yes, I'm sorry but this is a male list and sometime soon, maybe at our next milestone, I'll do my favourite actresses - but for now it's just male to keep things simple. Let's now take a look at my top one hundred favourite actors without further introduction.
By Annie Kapur3 years ago in Geeks
A Filmmaker's Review: "Now, Voyager" (1942)
This movie starring Bette Davis is one of those films which not only features the classic Bette Davis signature style of the classy girl but also features Bette Davis as the actress in a role I've probably never seen her play until now - the paranoid loner. I think that her acting was absolutely impeccable. Along with the storyline, there was a very heartwarming quality that I did not usually associate with the woman badass Bette Davis . But in this role, she presents something very different to her usual requests and therefore, I count it as one of her greatest films even though from what I have seen, not many people talk about this one in comparison to other - more popular - roles of hers.
By Annie Kapur3 years ago in Geeks