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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. 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. ms_cegenation | Jul 1, 2009 |   sexual content, not sure if it would work for the teen book club, but an interesting read, could work for nonfiction bookclub (  )lindsayburns | Jun 29, 2009 | The years from adolescence to adulthood can very challenging as one navigates the road from dependency to independence. Writer and film critic David Gilmour connects with his son at this critical time through a venue he knows well - the movies. Over three years David and his son watch a movie together a couple of times a week. The book is a tender memoir of a parent letting go, and a personal guide to seminal films of the 20th century. treelf | Jun 28, 2009 | 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. (  )mthelibrarian | Jun 7, 2009 | When David Gilmour, a Canadian writer and film critic, begins to see that his son hates school and learning with it, he decides to take an unconventional approach to parenting. He makes a deal. His son can drop out of school, doesn't have to work, and can come and go as he pleases, as long as he agrees to watch three films a week with his father. I am always fascinated by alternative approaches to teaching. The public school system's cookie cutter approach to education is bound to fail for some kids, which means that otherwise intelligent and good kids get lost along the way. Gilmour's son falls into that category, and although he writes about him in a rose colored glasses kind of way at the beginning of the book, he presents an interesting journey in which father and son use movies as a form a communication, relating to one another, and as a form of intellectual pursuit. Multiple life challenges come up for both father and son, including the loss of a job and the loss of love (as well as Gilmour's doubts as to whether he is doing right by his son), but movies offer a way of connection and catharsis throughout. Overall an entertaining book. (  )blythe025 | Jun 2, 2009 | 0.031 seconds to build listing
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 044619929X, Hardcover)"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. (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:09 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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