Annie Kapur
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20 Books of 2020 (Pt. 21)
Welcome to part 21 of our journey and can I say another big thank you to everyone who has continued to support these articles especially during this difficult time. Today, I want to talk shortly about literary snobbery and how it harms everyone in the bookworm community. I'm not just talking about what you read, but I'm talking about how you read it. I would say that literary snobbery happens mostly in the middle aged female category and they perpetuate it for a reason I cannot understand.
By Annie Kapur6 years ago in Geeks
A Filmmaker's Guide to 70 Things You Should Know About Citizen Kane (1941)
Citizen Kane (1941) is possibly one of the most well-known and critically beloved films in cinema history. Have you even studied film if you weren't made to watch this movie a billion times over? Anyways, the accounts of making this film were amazing in a recent book I read called "One Man Band" about Orson Welles. I personally think there are better films out there but I can see why this one is so very well respected. Most of it is due to that opening segment. It is absolutely brilliant. The death of Charles Kane at the beginning and then the start of the story coming back on itself isn't really a structure that is used until much later in cinematic history.
By Annie Kapur6 years ago in Geeks
A Filmmaker's Guide to the Best Performances: Sir Daniel Day-Lewis
Daniel Day-Lewis was named by TIME Magazine as the "World's Greatest Actor" and by many accounts of different sources he has been named as the greatest actor to ever live. With his intense method acting style, Daniel Day-Lewis may not have done a lot of movies, but he's never done a bad one (if we exclude Nine. I'm joking, he was just the only good performance in the film). However, the toll it took on his health was pretty extreme and with his final bow in "Phantom Thread" (2016), Daniel Day-Lewis went to his final Oscars Show as a nominee for Best Actor and then he retired, vanishing pretty much without a trace.
By Annie Kapur6 years ago in Geeks
A Filmmaker's Review: "The Seventh Veil" (1945)
A film without much remorse, this psychological thriller classic is about a trapped pianist who is forced to become one of the greats as her mental state slowly gets compromised. She seeks out more meaning to her life, but is shunned by her overlord and protector - a man who believes that he is above her in every way and that she owes him her life. This man is called Nicholas, but he is troubled in his own degree, eventually he cracks under the pressure of being stood up to and something wild happens. It is a sudden turn of events that changes every single character in the film and their walks of life.
By Annie Kapur6 years ago in Geeks
20 Books of 2020 (Pt. 20)
Now that we’ve reached part 20, I want to say another big thank you to all of you who have joined me on this journey through my reading during 2020. So far we have been through my 24th birthday reading, through the journey of my obsession with the British Library Crime Classics books and finally, through a global pandemic nicknamed “the plague”. Hopefully, we will recover from that latter one soon and so will your own countries. For part 20, I wanted to discuss something very close to my heart when it comes to books and that is what I appreciate in a good novel.
By Annie Kapur6 years ago in Geeks
50 Great Books of the 20th Century
There are so many great books written with great intentions and some written without any intention whatsoever that just happen to be great. I have compiled a list of 50 books that I think are some of the key texts of the 20th century. However, this is simply an opinion so you may or may not find your own favourites on here and neither is this all of them. I have my reasons for choosing and leaving certain books out. They are in no particular order...
By Annie Kapur6 years ago in Geeks
A Filmmaker's Guide to the Best Performances: Al Pacino
As of 2020, Al Pacino, one of the greatest actors of all time, turns 80 years' old. Here's a fun fact: he's my older brother's favourite actor ever. He has been in a wide range of films, TV shows and theatre productions and he also won an Academy Award for his role in Scent of a Woman. Pacino has become the symbol of the Italian-American bad boy in Hollywood, and yet he has actually played a multitude of different roles - possibly known for his symbolistic image from his role as Michael in Coppola's Godfather Trilogy.
By Annie Kapur6 years ago in Geeks
20 Books of 2020 (Pt.19)
As you know I'm reading more than usual and so, I have to write these faster now. At the moment I'm actually pursuing other hobbies I have as well and that is the purpose of this section, I want to share my other hobbies with you. The first one I want to share is baking.
By Annie Kapur6 years ago in Geeks
A Filmmaker's Guide to the Best Performances: Jack Nicholson
Without a shadow of a doubt, Jack Nicholson is one of the greatest cinema actors of all time. He has shown a great amount of range, versatility and an incredible talent for portraying the most difficult of characters with smoothness and accuracy. He has done everything from the Joker in Burton's Batman (1989) to Jack in Kubrick's "The Shining" (1980) - lending his talent also to such films as "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", "Easy Rider" and many, many more.
By Annie Kapur6 years ago in Geeks
10 Underrated Modern Classic Novels
Modern Classic is a term that is always very difficult to define. Penguin Publishing tried to define it with their own "Modern Classic" series, which to this day is expanding. Other people state that a Modern Classic is any classic novel written in the modern era - which would be after the reign of Queen Victoria ended in 1901. However, the actual meaning of "Modern Classic" is a bit shady and some even believe that it means a classic novel of the modern era that critiques how life has changed for us all born within its confines of time. Be that as it may, I find that definition far too wordy and also, it doesn't include nearly half of the novels published by the Penguin Modern Classics series because not all times within the 20th and 21st Century can apply to everyone. For example - I was born in the 90s and different time confines will apply to me than someone born in the last year or so. Their time confines may go on longer than my own and therefore, theirs won't apply to me either.
By Annie Kapur6 years ago in Geeks
20 Books of 2020 (Pt.18)
You all probably know by now that I'm reading more purely because of this pandemic and being able to stay inside and not go to work. However, I do love reading at least one book a day, just to keep myself sane. People keep themselves sane in many different ways: some bake, some write, some study new things, some exercise, some relax in the garden, some sleep but we all do something - there is no such thing as doing nothing. Even when you feel you are doing nothing, you are doing something. Even at 'nothingness' you are recharging and re-evaluating yourself.
By Annie Kapur6 years ago in Geeks
20 Books of 2020 (Pt.17)
I think you know by now that because of this lockdown, I've been doing far more reading than normal. This means that unfortunately, I'm reading books faster than I can write my articles. But, fortunately enough for me, I've got more time to write the articles - but less time to write them because I'm reading so quickly. I guess I had the same amount of time as before therefore. That's depressing.
By Annie Kapur6 years ago in Geeks
