Films seen so far this year: 181
Films seen in the last week: Bad Teacher, Got to Run, Incendies, Larry Crowne, Life in a Day, Bridesmaids (again), Beginners, The Beaver

FILM OF THE WEEK: Point Blank

A Good Face For Radio or How Twitter Changed My Life
If you are somehow not following me on Twitter (@FilmFan1971 – all views my own, etc) or missed the announcement on the official ViewLondon Twitter feed, then you might not know that yesterday I went on the radio (BBC Radio Scotland's Movie Cafe) for the very first time to talk about Christian Marclay's The Clock and the 13 hours I spent watching it (which regular readers may remember that I blogged about
and archived the Clock-based tweets). Despite telling myself that there was nothing to be nervous about and that it was just like podcasting really, I was still a bit nervous as I sat in the radio studio waiting for the link-up, but it turned out to be a lot of fun and I really enjoyed it. (It wasn't like podcasting, though, as it turned out, because I wasn't able to see the two other people on the show, which meant that I was oddly aware of having to rely on my ears, but it all worked out in the end anyway).

If you missed the show, you can catch it here (I'm on from more or less the start). Afterwards, I got to thinking how being invited onto the radio show was yet another example of Things That Would Never Have Happened Without Twitter. For example, earlier in the year, I was asked to contribute to a book on London Film locations (pre-order your copy now, etc) and I have also just become the Social Network Marketing Co-ordinator for bratwurst emporium Herman ze German (Their wurst is ze best!), purely because I tweet about them so much. It's also fair to say that an entire community of friendly film-based Twitterers has sprung up over the last couple of years, which has changed things in all sorts of ways and has lead to me meeting all sorts of new and interesting people, both film-based and non-film-based. So, yes. Twitter. Big fan. Hurrah for Twitter. And so on.

Trailerwatch: The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1
I have watched the trailer for Breaking Dawn – Part 1 (the first half of the fourth and final part of The Twilight Saga, but really, if you need me to explain that, which rock have you been hiding under for the last four years and is there room under there for me?) three times now and it just keeps getting funnier every time I watch it.

First off, I love the montage of different reactions to people receiving the invite to Bella and Edward's wedding: Dad - thoughtful; Mom -happy; Volturi (hang on, who invited the Volturi?) - mischievous; Jacob - RAGE, expressed through medium of shirtless running in rain, followed by wolf transformation, naturally. I see Jacob hasn't ditched those TERRIBLE trousers yet, either. There's a shot of the wedding guests at the 0m57s mark, but I couldn't spot the Volturi – maybe they're planning a spectacular “STOP THIS WEDDING!” style entrance, like in EastEnders?
Or maybe they're happy about it? It's hard to tell with the Volturi.

Anyway, after a brief shot of Bella's face at the wedding (full view of dress withheld, obviously), we go straight into ze honeymoon and a couple of hilarious looking sex scenes (Edward breaking a headboard WITH HIS BARE HANDS mid-coitus; a shag in a picturesque-looking plunge pool by a waterfall), then there are a couple of fights (I can't tell who's throwing who at 1m27s, but I think that's Edward punching Jacob into a bookcase at 1m35s) before the hilarity really kicks in at 1m40s, with an obviously pregnant Bella exclaiming “That's impossible.”

Now, I haven't read the books, but obviously it's not that impossible, because they have quite clearly been DOING IT, what with all the plunge-pool and headboard shenanigans we glimpsed earlier. So I'm assuming it's some sort of rapidly-accelerated pregnancy rather than Bella not knowing where babies come from. Okay, so I'm being facetious – I do know the plot, really (thanks, Wikipedia!) and I have to say, I'm really looking forward to seeing how they pull off that “imprinting” scene with a straight face. Or will we have to wait for Part 2 for that? Anyway, Part 1 opens on 18th November, so only five more months to go, Twilight fans!