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David Gilmour Contest

Friday, Sep 28, 2007 at 4:30pm

We have five copies of David Gilmour's new book, The Film Club

If you were to let your adolescent drop out of school on Gilmour's terms, what three movies would you watch together in the first week and why?

Send your answer to [email protected] for your chance to win an autographed copy of the book.

The contest is open to anyone with an internet connection. We'll post your answers here, and choose the five most interesting answers sometime on October 9, prior to David's reading and signing at our Grant Park location in Winnipeg.

Previously: The Gilmour Boys, a video interview with David and Jesse Gilmour about The Film Club.

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Film Club

- David Gilmour

Hardcover $27.95
Reader Reward Price: $25.16

From the 2005 winner of the Governor-General's Award for Fiction and the former national film critic for CBC television comes a delightful and absorbing book about the agonies and joys of home-schooling a beloved son. Written in the spare elegant style he is known for, The Film Club is the true story about David Gilmour's decision to let his 15-year-old son drop out of high school on the condition that the boy agrees to watch three films a week with him. The book examines how those pivotal years changed both their lives.

From French New Wave, Kurosawa, and New German cinema, to De Palma, film noir, Cronenberg and Billy Wilder, among many others from world cinema, we read about key moments in each film, as the author teaches his son about life and the vagaries of growing up through the power of the movies. Replete with page-turning descriptions of scenes and actors and directors, the narrative is framed with the tender story of his son's first bittersweet first loves.

This is a charming and poignant story about a very special time in a father and son's relationship. David Gilmour is a novelist who has earned critical praise from literary figures as diverse as William Burroughs and Northrop Frye, and from publications as different as the New York Times to People magazine. The author of six novels, he also hosted the award-winning Gilmour on the Arts. He lives in Toronto with his wife Tina Gladstone.