Got me a movie, I want you to know

*Warning. Possibly incestuous London-Twitter-event-related post that’s probably of limited interest to regular readers who a) aren’t in London and b) don’t care about Twitter. For those, here’s an amusing cartoon of a cat to compensate for spending 4.57 seconds reading this preamble*

There’s plenty of London-based Twitter meetups (or Twit-ups, if you like): The Twestival, the Shoreditch Twit, the Dirty South Twit and probably a few others I don’t know about. Mostly, the involve chatting and drinking, meeting new friends, and generally having a good time.

Here’s an idea for a slightly different kind of Twit-up that has literally popped into my brain within the last hour. I’ve no idea how feasible it is, or if anybody would be interested, but I think it’s cool, so I’m blogging about it. Because that’s what bloggers do. We’re nothing if not self-obsessed and narcissistic.

The idea: A Twitter Film Club. Or Twitflix, as Ben suggested.

The premise: it’d be a bit like a book club. But with films. Once a month, give or take a few days or weeks here or here, films fans on Twitter meet up somewhere, probably in central London, maybe in a pub with a big screen, to watch a classic film, have a few drinks, then chat about it. And that’s about it really.

Well, maybe it could go a bit further. Maybe Twitflix could set up a blog or something where the screenings could be announced and then everybody could discuss the film, and the themes and whatnot and suggest further viewing of a similar nature.

I dunno, maybe it could ever be done on a Sunday afternoon, over a few pints, fitting in two showings of two films with similar themes and we could compare and contrast or something – films like, perhaps, The Conversation and The Lives of Others. Or American History X and This Is England. Or Heathers and Mean Girls. Or Sunset Boulevard and Barton Fink. Or Kind Hearts and Coronets and Dr. Strangelove (mainly because they’re both black comedies and have an actor playing a multiple role – other than that, it’s a little tenuous…).

Anyway, I’m just thinking (writing) off the top of my head here. I genuinely have no idea how feasible this is, or if anybody would be interested. It only popped into my mind as an idea as I was idly thinking of classic films I’d not yet watched.

Rambling idea over. Any takers?

(Remember, the first rule of film club is that you don’t talk about film club. The second rule of film club is… you do not talk about… wait I’ve got that wrong… [Pulls out piece of paper] The second rule is, no smoking.)