The Film Club
Category: Movies, TV, Celebrities
I have begun reading David Gilmour's memoir "The Film Club". Gilmour, a CBC journalist and movie critic sets out to home school his son via his love of world cinema.
I am only two essays into this marvelous book which, at its core, is really a about father son relationships (and the tribulations of growing up and becoming self actualized). Gilmour makes the unorthodox choice of allowing his son to drop out of high school on the condition he watch three movies a week of his father's choosing. As discussions ensue between father and son after each lovingly chosen movie the bond between them deepens.
Can't wait to finish this book and resume my own movie nights with cherished friends.
http://www.cbc.ca/arts/books/gilmour.html
I love discussing everything about the movies, not just the aesthetic beauty of what is on screen but why some movies still captivate after decades of repeated viewing. I cannot
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