Annie Kapur
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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 Kapur6 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 Kapur6 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 Kapur6 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 Kapur6 years ago in Geeks
A Filmmaker’s Review: 'I Am Not Your Negro' (2017)
When I was in university, I had just heard that the author James Baldwin was going to be featured in his own film-length documentary. I was very excited to say the least; it was 2016 and by this time I had almost completed the James Baldwin bibliography and just about to read Just Above My Head which went on to become one of my favourite Baldwin novels ever. I had read his plays and essays such as The Fire Next Time, his great novels like Go Tell it on the Mountain and his lesser known novels like Giovanni’s Room. Baldwin to me was a figurehead of hope, reconciliation and quite possibly one of my own personal heroes. I was too excited for this documentary film, I counted down the days for over a year until its release.
By Annie Kapur6 years ago in Geeks
A Filmmaker’s Review: 'Capote' (2005)
A performance of a lifetime, a film to end all biopics, Capote (2005) was the absolute height of the legendary actor, Phillip Seymour Hoffman’s career. His portrayal of Truman Capote is indelibly inked in my brain, it was one of the most accurate performances of any biopic I have ever seen. The look, the act, the famous voice—Hoffman gave a stellar performance that won him the Best Actor Academy Award in 2006. It was very, very well deserved. It was one of the greatest performances of a real-life person I had ever seen in my film-watching existence.
By Annie Kapur6 years ago in Geeks
A Filmmaker’s Review: 'Zodiac' (2007)
Zodiac (2007) is always a movie I have considered strange in the thriller genre because it is based entirely off true events. But then again some aspects and coincidences in the movie make some sections slightly unbelievable. Sometimes misleading in its approach and confusing in its outlook, Zodiac (2007) is a good film to enjoy, but not to think about too much. I believe that Zodiac (2007) is one of those films that when you watch it once, it has an effect but afterwards it tends to lose meaning a bit. Since I watched it three times, I can tell you that in my case, that is what happened.
By Annie Kapur6 years ago in Criminal
A Filmmaker's Review: 'The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford.' (2007)
The very first time I watched The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (shortened to simply "Jesse James" for the sake of the article and my own fingers on this keyboard), I remember being impressed. It was either because I was genuinely enjoying myself or because I was about 14 at the time. Both are acceptable as an excuse. A beautiful movie with an absolutely stellar cast (including the likes of Brad Pitt, Casey Affleck, Jeremy Renner, Sam Shephard and Sam Rockwell), it seems to be a bit of both excuses that contribute. Let's take a look at why I rated this film upon second watch, the way I did.
By Annie Kapur6 years ago in Criminal
A Filmmaker's Review: 'Jackie Brown' (1997)
Jackie Brown (1997) is my all-time favourite Tarantino movie and it has been for a few years now, even though others like Django Unchained and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood etc. have come out since. Nothing really matches the classic criminality and multi-layered plot of the Golden Age of Tarantino film—Jackie Brown (1997). It is a modern classic of cinema technique and possibly Tarantino's best effort to make a film based around one black woman. A woman he named an action hero.
By Annie Kapur6 years ago in Geeks
A Filmmaker's Review: 'The Last Temptation of Christ' (1988)
Welcome to the filmmaker's reviews. This is a series of articles where I watch random movies, whether I've seen them before or not and I review them for your benefit. If you would like more technical articles about filmmaking then please head to my profile to witness "The Filmmaker's Guide..." instead.
By Annie Kapur6 years ago in Geeks
