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The Film Club: A Memoir - David Gilmour
The Film Club: A Memoir
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"I loved David Gilmour's sleek, potent little memoir, The Film Club. It's so, so wise in the ways of fathers and sons, of movies and movie-goers, of love and loss." --- Richard Russo, Pulitzer Prize winning author of Empire Falls "If all sons had dads like David Gilmour, then Oedipus would be a... show more
"I loved David Gilmour's sleek, potent little memoir, The Film Club. It's so, so wise in the ways of fathers and sons, of movies and movie-goers, of love and loss." --- Richard Russo, Pulitzer Prize winning author of Empire Falls "If all sons had dads like David Gilmour, then Oedipus would be a forgotten legend and Father's Day would be a worldwide film festival."--Sean Wilsey, author of Oh the Glory of It All"David Gilmour is a very unlikely moral guidance counselor: he's broke, more or less unemployed and has two children by two different women. Yet when it looks as though his teenage son is about to go off the rails, he reaches out to him through the only subject he knows anything about: the movies. The result is an object lesson in how fathers should talk to their sons." --Toby Young, author of How to Lose Friends & Alienate People At the start of this brilliantly unconventional family memoir, David Gilmour is an unemployed movie critic trying to convince his fifteen-year-old son Jesse to do his homework. When he realizes Jesse is beginning to view learning as a loathsome chore, he offers his son an unconventional deal: Jesse could drop out of school, not work, not pay rent - but he must watch three movies a week of his father's choosing. Week by week, side by side, father and son watched everything from True Romance to Rosemary's Baby to Showgirls, and films by Akira Kurosawa, Martin Scorsese, Brian DePalma, Billy Wilder, among others. The movies got them talking about Jesse's life and his own romantic dramas, with mercurial girlfriends, heart-wrenching breakups, and the kind of obsessive yearning usually seen only in movies. Through their film club, father and son discussed girls, music, work, drugs, money, love, and friendship - and their own lives changed in surprising ways.
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Format: paperback
ISBN: 9780446199308 (0446199303)
Publisher: Twelve
Pages no: 225
Edition language: English
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Martini
Martini rated it
2.0 The Film Club: A True Story of a Father and Son
Movie critiques and a father babbling about his teenage son suffering from his first heartache. Boring. Nuff said.
An Un-Calibrated Centrifuge
An Un-Calibrated Centrifuge rated it
2.0
This book kept me reading it, but I'm not sure why. I haven't seen too many of the movies (maybe seven total of the ones they watched). But that doesn't matter since the book is mostly about the father-son relationship. And this is why the book fails for me. I just do not care at all what happens to...
Rincey Reads
Rincey Reads rated it
1.0 The Film Club: A True Story of a Father and a Son By David Gilmour (Canadian Edition)
I really didn't like this book. I know the only reason why I got through the whole thing and didn't stop and throw the book was because I didn't have anything better to do.
varoberts
varoberts rated it
3.0 The Film Club: A True Story of a Father and a Son By David Gilmour (Canadian Edition)
sometimes the idea of a book surpasses what the book is actually able to accomplish. an interesting idea to have a father honestly discuss life with his son. too many reviews have been critical of the author's choice to allow his son to make his own decisions about sex, drinking and drugs. i unde...
auntieannie
auntieannie rated it
5.0 The Film Club: A True Story of a Father and a Son By David Gilmour (Canadian Edition)
David Gilmour's son is failing high school. Gilmour sizes up the situation and decides to let Jesse drop out if he wants to -- which he does. The catch is that he has to stay away from drugs and watches 3 movies a week which his father picks with his father.It's a risky strategy. Gilmour is unconven...
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