this week's host (intro)
Jul. 12th, 2011 02:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kareilaHi there! I'm kareila and I will be your host in ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
classicfilm this week.
A bit about me: like many of you, I am by no means a student of classic film; I've joined this community out of an interest in learning more as well as seeing what other people enjoy. My only claim to any sort of "expertise" is that I was roped into co-directing my university's classic film series during one semester, oh, about 15 years ago. Around the same time, I took a class on the use of music in film, and thus I am more likely to ping on soundtracks than the average viewer. (Just don't ask me about the time we watched Birth of a Nation without any content warnings.)
I enjoy both comedy and drama, but I'm generally more about the comedy. It probably goes without saying that I love the Marx Brothers and the Thin Man movies; I also love Katherine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Jimmy Stewart, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains, Humphrey Bogart, Tony Curtis, and Jack Lemmon.
I thought I would start out by watching a classic movie musical, since I haven't noticed any previous discussions about musicals, and there's no "musicals" tag in the community (yet).
I'm also in the mood to watch a movie about baseball, since the All Star Game is this week. The movie I chose is Take Me Out to the Ball Game (1949), which was directed by Busby Berkeley and stars Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, and Esther Williams. I've never seen it before, but I'll let you know what I think of it after I watch it!
kareila and I will be your host in classicfilm this week.A bit about me: like many of you, I am by no means a student of classic film; I've joined this community out of an interest in learning more as well as seeing what other people enjoy. My only claim to any sort of "expertise" is that I was roped into co-directing my university's classic film series during one semester, oh, about 15 years ago. Around the same time, I took a class on the use of music in film, and thus I am more likely to ping on soundtracks than the average viewer. (Just don't ask me about the time we watched Birth of a Nation without any content warnings.)
I enjoy both comedy and drama, but I'm generally more about the comedy. It probably goes without saying that I love the Marx Brothers and the Thin Man movies; I also love Katherine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Jimmy Stewart, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains, Humphrey Bogart, Tony Curtis, and Jack Lemmon.
I thought I would start out by watching a classic movie musical, since I haven't noticed any previous discussions about musicals, and there's no "musicals" tag in the community (yet).
I'm also in the mood to watch a movie about baseball, since the All Star Game is this week. The movie I chose is Take Me Out to the Ball Game (1949), which was directed by Busby Berkeley and stars Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, and Esther Williams. I've never seen it before, but I'll let you know what I think of it after I watch it!