LoginThe Film Club: A Memoir
Description:
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 t
... (more)
Manufacturer: New York: Twelve/Hatchette Book Group, 2008.
Release date: 23 February 2014
ISBN-10 : 0887623492 | ISBN-13: 9780887623493
Release date: 23 February 2014
ISBN-10 : 0887623492 | ISBN-13: 9780887623493
Tags:
My tags:
Add tags