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Loading... The Film Club: A Memoirby David Gilmour
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. What do you do when your 16-year old wants to drop out of high school? Gilmour made the tough decision to pull him out and educate him the way he knew how: through movies. This courageous, sincere tale describes a parent's agony watching his son grow up, make mistakes, get hurt. It shows striking the balance between interfering, listening and letting go. There are tender moments, passionate accounts of films bonding father and son and tales of fear and love. The sore points are the numerous chapters dedicated to Jesse's girl friends which I found rather annoying and belly aching. I would have been more interested in finding out about how his jobs and the movies matured him. Overall, a very well-written account which will have you running to your local video store. an airport buy (extreme rarity for me). A pretty basic story (as I tell others about it, I can tell they don't see why I'm excited), but well done. I'm also intrigued by the 12 Books (publisher) thing; will have to check them out. sexual content, not sure if it would work for the teen book club, but an interesting read, could work for nonfiction bookclub The filmography at the back of the book does not include movie dates; I wound up writing them in myself along with page number references. no reviews | add a review
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On behalf of film lovers, I commend his premise to teach through film. Though when thinking of parents who may uncritically admire Gilmour, I shutter. On behalf of those who take education seriously, I'm offended. Home schooling is hard, noble work. I applaud Gilmour for his willingness to look outside the box of contemporary education which is killing our youth, but rather than fight for his son, he sits back and hopes that conversation without leadership or inspiration will stop the malaise that is slowly draining his teen's soul.
Sadly, there is little to admire contained in its pages. (