Annie Kapur
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Hippie Clothes and Fast Fashion
I have seen many fashion trends come and go in my time. I was born on the cusp of the dungaree trend and remember wearing flashy and glittery scrunchies in my hair as a child. I grew up in the era of skinny jeans, emos and the post-punk phase that was the āsceneā culture. And yes, I had the hair to go with it. But I have never really looked at a trend with so much disdain as I have looked at the fast-fashion hippie trend because I feel that though it looks pretty good - it is a tad bit ironic, isnāt it? Letās see why.
By Annie Kapur5 years ago in Styled
A Filmmaker's Guide to: Humphrey Bogart
In this chapter of āthe filmmakerās guideā weāre 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 āfilmmakerās guideā - 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 youāre doing. So, strap in and prepare for the filmmakerās guide to film studies because it is going to be one wild ride.
By Annie Kapur5 years ago in Geeks
A Filmmaker's Review: "The Wolf Man" (1941)
There are certain films which just scream 'classic monster horror' - these films include: "American Werewolf in London" by John Landis, Christopher Lee's "Dracula" and even Michael Jackson's "Thriller". Another film that does this is the legendary 1941 film "The Wolf Man" and I cannot tell you how great and fun I find this film. As someone who is interested in myths and legends of monsters, there are certain things about this movie which make for a deep and involved viewing experience whilst also being fun to watch in all ways.
By Annie Kapur5 years ago in Geeks
The Life of My Father
A poor family, we grew up in the land of the Great Depression. Hit hard, we were forced out of our already-broken home and that was where it happened. My father, he began to cough up blood one morning. My mother was nowhere to be found and I, a girl no older than twelve, was roaming around the shack looking out for wild birds with a younger brother sitting on the grass, picking leaves with a stick. I could hear my father coughing and the sound of the blood coming out of him. Though, it was probable that at the age I was, I was not sure that anything was horribly wrong. Death was fairly common to see, hear and witness - and even though I had become more or less normalised to it. I never thought my father would die. But he did. Later that day, sometime in the early afternoon to the sound of my mother crying out the Lordās name in her sombre, melancholia before it all fell silent and still. Even the wind itself seemed to stop moving the leaves upon the grass. My brother dropped his stick and we both stepped back inside, my fatherās lifeless body laying slain by tuberculosis upon the counter top. My mother, heartbroken.
By Annie Kapur5 years ago in Horror
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 Kapur5 years ago in Geeks
A Filmmaker's Guide to: Ingrid Bergman
In this chapter of āthe filmmakerās guideā weāre 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 āfilmmakerās guideā - 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 youāre doing. So, strap in and prepare for the filmmakerās guide to film studies because it is going to be one wild ride.
By Annie Kapur5 years ago in Geeks
A Filmmaker's Guide to: Peter Lorre
In this chapter of āthe filmmakerās guideā weāre 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 āfilmmakerās guideā - 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 youāre doing. So, strap in and prepare for the filmmakerās guide to film studies because it is going to be one wild ride.
By Annie Kapur5 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 Kapur5 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 Kapur5 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 Kapur5 years ago in Geeks
A Filmmaker's Guide to: The Natural Dramatic
In this chapter of āthe filmmakerās guideā weāre 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 āfilmmakerās guideā - 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 youāre doing. So, strap in and prepare for the filmmakerās guide to film studies because it is going to be one wild ride.
By Annie Kapur5 years ago in Geeks
A Filmmaker's Review: "The Letter" (1940)
āThe Letterā 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 āThe Letterā 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? Itās more complicated than we think.
By Annie Kapur5 years ago in Geeks
