Free shipping on orders over $99
The Film Club

The Film Club

No School. No Work ... Just Three Films a Week

by David Gilmour
Paperback
Publication Date: 15/04/2010

Share This Book:

RRP  $39.99

RRP means 'Recommended Retail Price' and is the price our supplier recommends to retailers that the product be offered for sale. It does not necessarily mean the product has been offered or sold at the RRP by us or anyone else.

$36.35
or 4 easy payments of $9.09 with
afterpay
The touching, true story of what happens when a father tries to educate his chaotic teenage son through film

Jesse didn't want to go to school anymore. After much deliberation, his father offers him an unconventional deal- he can drop out, sleep all day, not work, not pay rent, but on one condition - that he watches three films a week, of his father's choosing.What follows is an unusual journey as week by week, side by side, they watch the world's best (and occasionally worst) films - from True Romance to Chunking Express, A Hard Day's Night to Rosemary's Baby, and La Dolce Vita to Giant. The films get them talking- about girls, music, heartbreak, work, drugs, money, friendship - but they also open doors to a young man's interior life at a time when a parent is normally shut out. Gradually the father's initial worries are set aside as he watches his son morph from chaotic teenager to self-assured adult - who even starts to get up before noon. As the film club moves towards its poignant and inevitable conclusion, the young man makes a decision which surprises even his father...The Film Club is a book that goes straight to the heart. Honest, unsparing, and emotive, it follows one man's attempt to chart a course for his beloved son's rocky passage into adulthood.
ISBN:
9780091937997
9780091937997
Category:
Teenagers: advice for parents
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
15-04-2010
Publisher:
Ebury Publishing
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
256
Dimensions (mm):
178x110x16mm
Weight:
0.14kg
David Gilmour

David Gilmour's books include the prize-winning biographies, Curzon and The Last Leopard: A Life of Giuseppe di Lampedusa.

He is also the author of Cities of Spain, The Hungry Generations and several works on the politics of Spain and the Middle East.

A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a former Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford, he is a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books.

This title is in stock with our Australian supplier and should arrive at our Sydney warehouse within 1 - 2 weeks of you placing an order.

Once received into our warehouse we will despatch it to you with a Shipping Notification which includes online tracking.

Please check the estimated delivery times below for your region, for after your order is despatched from our warehouse:

ACT Metro: 2 working days
NSW Metro: 2 working days
NSW Rural: 2-3 working days
NSW Remote: 2-5 working days
NT Metro: 3-6 working days
NT Remote: 4-10 working days
QLD Metro: 2-4 working days
QLD Rural: 2-5 working days
QLD Remote: 2-7 working days
SA Metro: 2-5 working days
SA Rural: 3-6 working days
SA Remote: 3-7 working days
TAS Metro: 3-6 working days
TAS Rural: 3-6 working days
VIC Metro: 2-3 working days
VIC Rural: 2-4 working days
VIC Remote: 2-5 working days
WA Metro: 3-6 working days
WA Rural: 4-8 working days
WA Remote: 4-12 working days

Reviews

Be the first to review The Film Club.