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David Gilmour (Reading & Signing)

Tuesday Oct 09 2007 8:00 pm, Winnipeg, Grant Park Store, in Prairie Ink Restaurant
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Enter our contest to win a copy of The Film Club

The Film Club is a true and charming 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. David Gilmour received the Governor General's Award in 2005 for his novel A Perfect Night to Go to China.

You can see an interview with David Gilmour and his son discussing The Film Club here.

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 bittersweet first loves. This is a charming and poignant story about a very special time in a father and son’s relationship.


About the Author

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.


Gilmour Contest

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Valerie Sherrard writes:

For my drop-out child, I would select the movies:

1.) Dead Poets Society - for its message on unconventional learning ... in a conventional setting.

2.) Fargo - for its message on the wisdom of shortcuts on the path to success

3.) The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz - because we all need hope and determination, no matter what.


Jennifer Staerk writes:

If I were to allow my child to drop out of school, the movies that I would pick to watch are:

"Dead Poet's Society"-to have a sense of what it is like to be different and the struggles and accomplishments that can go with it.

"Top Secret"-to know that everything in life can be laughed at.

"Wild America"-to teach them to appreciate and embrace nature.


Nora Velazquez Urdiales writes:

I would let him/her watch:

"The Secret" Directed by: Drew Heriot; because it teaches resposibility about life choices and stops people from feeling like victims of "bad luck", life circumstances, etc. It also shows how to attract what each of us want.

"Freedom Writers" Directed by: Richard LaGravenese; In this movie, students learn about respect, tolerance, and that we all are humans. They learned about their subjects, but also about life beyond the walls of the school.

"Stand and Deliver" Directed by: Ramón Menéndez; because it teaches that people are capable of anything despite stereotypes.


See:

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.