Just finished the much feted memoir The Film Club by David Gilmour. It's good, though not quite the SHAZAM! kind of book that it seemed some were claiming.
Story is that Gilmour pulls, no pardon, allows his son to drop out of school at age 16 on the conditions that he doesn't get involved in drugs and watches three movies a week with him.
Gilmour describes the three-ish years that the club continues for: what movies are watched and why, and what is going on in his son's life and his own.
It's well written, and interesting in that neither Gilmour or son have the kind of life that I've had. It's always curious to hear of how others are shuffling along this mortal coil.
Perhaps you need a sampling of the movies that were watched at The [Gilmour] Film Club. They include American Graffiti, Annie Hall, The Bicycle Thief, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Bullitt, Chungking Express, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Dirty Harry, Duel, The Exorcist, The 400 Blows, The Friends of Eddie Coyle, The Godfather, Get Shorty, High Noon, A Hard Day's Night, Ishtar, The Last Detail, The Late Show, Mean Streets, Murmur of the Heart, On the Waterfront, Psycho, The Shining, Showgirls, To Have and Have Not, True Romance, and Volcano: An Inquiry into the Life and Death of Malcolm Lowery, among many others.
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