Edirin is a film fanatic. (Though she loves books, television and music too.)
As a little girl she raided her family’s film collection and knew more about Cary Grant than most four year olds.
She took Film Studies for two years at university, alongside English and Modern History. In this brief, shining period she learned: to love screwball comedy; what a best boy is; and how to drop mise-en-scène and MacGuffin into a sentence. A little later, she attended the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism and proceeded to take every arts and culture, criticism and style class in sight—with some photography and neighbourhood beat reporting thrown in for good measure.
Turner Classic Movies is her haven and natural habitat. Good luck dislodging her from the sofa during any of their marathons.
She believes classic films matter. While she will happily go to see the latest blockbusters, she also turns up for screenings of films made before her parents were born.
Her favourite films are: Singin’ in the Rain, The Godfather, The Shawshank Redemption, The Band Wagon and The Adventures of Robin Hood. And, in no particular order, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, The Usual Suspects, Casablanca, Some Like It Hot, Back to the Future and Beetlejuice. Asking her for a top ten favourites list might result in months of deep contemplation.
After putting up with years of earnest, unprompted lectures on everything from Chaplin silents to MGM musicals, her family and friends kindly suggested she set up a blog and share her ramblings with the rest of the world. This is the result.
(Since one blog wasn’t enough, she also writes about contemporary films at The Movie Maven.)