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The Film Club

Author : David Gilmour
Publisher : Twelve
ISBN 13 : 0446537101
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (465 download)

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Download or read book The Film Club written by David Gilmour and published by Twelve. This book was released on 2008-05-06 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A warmly witty account of the three years a man spent teaching life lessons to his high school dropout son by showing him the world's best (and occasionally worst) films. At the start of this brilliantly unconventional family memoir, David Gilmour is an unemployed movie critic trying to convince his fifteen-year-old son Jesse to do his homework. When he realizes Jesse is beginning to view learning as a loathsome chore, he offers his son an unconventional deal: Jesse could drop out of school, not work, not pay rent - but he must watch three movies a week of his father's choosing. Week by week, side by side, father and son watched everything from True Romance to Rosemary's Baby to Showgirls, and films by Akira Kurosawa, Martin Scorsese, Brian DePalma, Billy Wilder, among others. The movies got them talking about Jesse's life and his own romantic dramas, with mercurial girlfriends, heart-wrenching breakups, and the kind of obsessive yearning usually seen only in movies. Through their film club, father and son discussed girls, music, work, drugs, money, love, and friendship - and their own lives changed in surprising ways.

Fictional Film Club

Author : Mark Savage
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781949127065
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (27 download)

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Download or read book Fictional Film Club written by Mark Savage and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-11 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In FICTIONAL FILM CLUB, our narrator attempts to review a series of movies that don't exist. From here, he slips into an ever more obsessive and self-obsessive unreality of made-up movie stars, false features, and perverse productions.

The Film Club

Author : David Gilmour
Publisher : Dundurn.com
ISBN 13 : 0887628133
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (876 download)

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Download or read book The Film Club written by David Gilmour and published by Dundurn.com. This book was released on 2008-02-02 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Fight Club: A Novel

Author : Chuck Palahniuk
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393066398
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Fight Club: A Novel written by Chuck Palahniuk and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2005-10-17 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first rule about fight club is you don't talk about fight club. Chuck Palahniuk showed himself to be his generation’s most visionary satirist in this, his first book. Fight Club’s estranged narrator leaves his lackluster job when he comes under the thrall of Tyler Durden, an enigmatic young man who holds secret after-hours boxing matches in the basements of bars. There, two men fight "as long as they have to." This is a gloriously original work that exposes the darkness at the core of our modern world.

After the Last Border

Author : Jessica Goudeau
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0525559140
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book After the Last Border written by Jessica Goudeau and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Simply brilliant, both in its granular storytelling and its enormous compassion" --The New York Times Book Review The story of two refugee families and their hope and resilience as they fight to survive and belong in America The welcoming and acceptance of immigrants and refugees have been central to America's identity for centuries--yet America has periodically turned its back in times of the greatest humanitarian need. After the Last Border is an intimate look at the lives of two women as they struggle for the twenty-first century American dream, having won the "golden ticket" to settle as refugees in Austin, Texas. Mu Naw, a Christian from Myanmar struggling to put down roots with her family, was accepted after decades in a refugee camp at a time when America was at its most open to displaced families; and Hasna, a Muslim from Syria, agrees to relocate as a last resort for the safety of her family--only to be cruelly separated from her children by a sudden ban on refugees from Muslim countries. Writer and activist Jessica Goudeau tracks the human impacts of America's ever-shifting refugee policy as both women narrowly escape from their home countries and begin the arduous but lifesaving process of resettling in Austin--a city that would show them the best and worst of what America has to offer. After the Last Border situates a dramatic, character-driven story within a larger history--the evolution of modern refugee resettlement in the United States, beginning with World War II and ending with current closed-door policies--revealing not just how America's changing attitudes toward refugees have influenced policies and laws, but also the profound effect on human lives.

Fight Club

Author : Thomas E. Wartenberg
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136665625
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (366 download)

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Download or read book Fight Club written by Thomas E. Wartenberg and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Released in 1999, Fight Club is David Fincher’s popular adaption of Chuck Palahniuk’s cult novel, and one of the most philosophically rich films of recent years. This is the first book to explore the varied philosophical aspects of the film. Beginning with an introduction by the editor that places the film and essays in context, each chapter explores a central theme of Fight Club from a philosophical perspective. Topics discussed include: Fight Club, Plato’s cave and Descartes’ cogito moral disintegration identity, gender and masculinity visuals and narration. Including annotated further reading at the end of each chapter, Fight Club is essential reading for anyone interested in the film, as well as those studying philosophy and film studies.

Peter Doig

Author : Peter Doig
Publisher : Walther Konig Verlag
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Peter Doig written by Peter Doig and published by Walther Konig Verlag. This book was released on 2005 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Doig, whose smart, dark figurative painting saw him nominated for the Turner Prize in 1994, lives and works in Trinidad. He and the artist Che Lovelace run a small private cinema there, StudioFilmClub. This series of posters for movies they've shown includes paintings that refer to key scenes, quote original movie posters, and weave in broader associations with the films' content.

Films and Friends

Author : Maryanne Vandervelde
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312320799
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (27 download)

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Download or read book Films and Friends written by Maryanne Vandervelde and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2004-01-17 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about how to get a film club started, choose films and keep discussions going. Maryanne Vandervelde offers advice on how to deal with problems that might arise, including unforeseen pitfalls, uncooperative discussants, and scheduling conflicts.

The Thursday Murder Club

Author : Richard Osman
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1984880985
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (848 download)

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Download or read book The Thursday Murder Club written by Richard Osman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-08-03 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times bestseller | Soon to be a major motion picture “Witty, endearing and greatly entertaining.” —Wall Street Journal “Don’t trust anyone, including the four septuagenarian sleuths in Osman’s own laugh-out-loud whodunit.” —Parade Four septuagenarians with a few tricks up their sleeves A female cop with her first big case A brutal murder Welcome to... THE THURSDAY MURDER CLUB In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet weekly in the Jigsaw Room to discuss unsolved crimes; together they call themselves the Thursday Murder Club. When a local developer is found dead with a mysterious photograph left next to the body, the Thursday Murder Club suddenly find themselves in the middle of their first live case. As the bodies begin to pile up, can our unorthodox but brilliant gang catch the killer, before it's too late?

A Good Year

Author : Peter Mayle
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1400042682
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Good Year written by Peter Mayle and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2004-06-01 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A delightful, best-selling tale about the business and pleasure of wine, adapted into a Ridley Scott movie starring Russell Crowe and Marion Cotillard. Max Skinner has recently lost his job at a London financial firm and just as recently learned that he has inherited his late uncle’s vineyard in Provence. On arrival he finds the climate delicious, the food even better, and two of the locals ravishing. Unfortunately, the wine produced on his new property is swill. Why then are so many people interested in it? Enter a beguiling Californian who knows more about wine than Max does—and may have a better claim to the estate. Fizzy with intrigue, bursting with local color and savor, A Good Year is Peter Mayle, beloved author of A Year in Provence, at his most entertaining.

The Negro Motorist Green Book

Author : Victor H. Green
Publisher : Colchis Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Negro Motorist Green Book written by Victor H. Green and published by Colchis Books. This book was released on with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Negro Motorist Green Book was a groundbreaking guide that provided African American travelers with crucial information on safe places to stay, eat, and visit during the era of segregation in the United States. This essential resource, originally published from 1936 to 1966, offered a lifeline to black motorists navigating a deeply divided nation, helping them avoid the dangers and indignities of racism on the road. More than just a travel guide, The Negro Motorist Green Book stands as a powerful symbol of resilience and resistance in the face of oppression, offering a poignant glimpse into the challenges and triumphs of the African American experience in the 20th century.

The Meryl Streep Movie Club

Author : Mia March
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1471112799
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (711 download)

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Download or read book The Meryl Streep Movie Club written by Mia March and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-07-03 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to The Three Captains. A charming bijou guesthouse on the Maine coast which is a haven of calm for guests and owners alike. When Lolly summons home her nieces, Isabel and June - one recovering from a broken heart, the other struggling to bring up her young son singlehandedly - they assume she's going to sell The 3 Cs, the place they called home after they lost their parents in a car accident. But the truth is much more heartbreaking than that. Along with Lolly's daughter Kat - also at a crossroads in her life - the women spend their first summer together in years and home truths and long-buried secrets begin to emerge. Then movie buff Lolly invites her three offspring to attend her legendary movie nights and what at first seems like a few hours of distraction from their tumultuous lives becomes so much more. What they discover shakes them to the core, brings them together after years of discord, and provides them with the inspiration that they need to truly connect with each other and find happiness.

Buena Vista Social Club

Author : Wim Wenders
Publisher : Te Neues Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9783823854449
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (544 download)

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Download or read book Buena Vista Social Club written by Wim Wenders and published by Te Neues Publishing Company. This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following up on the successful CD and movie that brought renewed fame to this Latin band is this book of photographs, film stills, and text featuring the performing artists and scenes of Havana. The material is compiled by Cooder and the directors of the documentary film of the same name. 150 color and duotone plates. Coincides with a Spring 2000 band tour.

Marxist Film Theory and Fight Club

Author : Anna Kornbluh
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501347314
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Marxist Film Theory and Fight Club written by Anna Kornbluh and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2019-05-02 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anna Kornbluh provides an overview of Marxist approaches to film, with particular attention to three central concepts in Marxist theory in general that have special bearing on film: “the mode of production,” “ideology,” and “mediation.” In explaining how these concepts operate and how they have been used and misused in film studies, the volume employs a case study to exemplify the practice of Marxist film theory. Fight Club is an exceptionally useful text with which to explore these three concepts because it so vividly and pedagogically engages with economic relations, ideological distortion, and opportunities for transformation. At the same time, it is a very typical film in terms of the conditions of its production, its marketing, and its popularity. Adapted from a novel by Chuck Palahniuk, the film is a contemporary classic that has lent itself to significant re-interpretation with every shift in the political economic landscape since its debut. Marxist Film Theory and Fight Club models a detailed cinematic interpretation that students can practice with other films, and furnishes a set of ideas about cinema and society that can be carried into other kinds of study, giving students tools for analyzing culture broadly defined.

Since I Laid My Burden Down

Author : Brontez Purnell
Publisher : The Feminist Press at CUNY
ISBN 13 : 155861432X
Total Pages : 81 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (586 download)

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Download or read book Since I Laid My Burden Down written by Brontez Purnell and published by The Feminist Press at CUNY. This book was released on 2017-05-22 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An uninhibited portrait of growing up gay in 1980s Alabama: exploring art and sex with “more layered insight than the page count should allow” (Hanif Abdurraqib, MTV News). DeShawn lives a high, creative, and promiscuous life in San Francisco. But when he’s called back to his cramped Alabama hometown for his uncle’s funeral, he’s hit by flashbacks of handsome, doomed neighbors and sweltering Sunday services. Amidst prickly reminders of his childhood, DeShawn ponders family, church, and the men in his life, prompting the question: Who deserves love? A modern American classic, Since I Laid My Burden Down is a raw and searing look into the intersections of memory, Blackness, and queerness. “Performance artist Purnell beautifully captures a personality through introspection and memory in this slim novel . . . a compelling portrait of a particular disaffected kind of gay youth caught between religion, culture, and desire.” —Publishers Weekly “It’s a true novel, chaptered, and bound, that not only holds its own as queer literature, with its unapologetically misanthropic narrative, but also expands upon it.” —San Francisco Chronicle “An antidote to the rigamarole of gay lit.” —Mask Magazine “Slim yet potently realized, with a lot to ponder.” —The Bay Area Reporter “Since I Laid My Burden Down has a fearless (sometimes reckless) humor as Brontez Purnell interrogates what it means to be black, male, queer; a son, an uncle, a lover; Southern, punk, and human. An emotional tightrope walk of a book and an important American story rarely, if ever, told.” —Michelle Tea, author of Castle on the River Vistula

The Doris Day Vintage Film Club

Author : Fiona Harper
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 1474029310
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book The Doris Day Vintage Film Club written by Fiona Harper and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2015-04-23 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The amazing new romantic comedy from the #1 bestselling author of The Little Shop of Hopes and Dreams ’Sweet and romantic, a story guaranteed to have you smiling’ - Milly Johnson

The Forced Redundancy Film Club

Author : Brian Finnegan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781444742923
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (429 download)

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Download or read book The Forced Redundancy Film Club written by Brian Finnegan and published by . This book was released on 2012-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A warm, touching, funny, sexy, romantic, thoroughly enjoyable, brilliantly-plotted page-turner ... a ray of sunshine' Hot Press Five colleagues. One dreadful day. And the biggest shock of her life for high-flying career girl Katherine Casey, who'd believed she was safe from the job losses coming to Qwertec Solutions. The mood is sombre as she and devastated ex-colleagues gather in the pub. But a few drinks later, with the discovery of a shared passion for the silver screen, things begin to look up. And the Forced Redundancy Film Club is born. Over a year, Katherine, along with office oddball Alice, stressed out mother-of-three Lisa, professional sorrow-drowner Martin and cheating-heart Jamie meet up each month to watch their favourite classic films. As they journey through Casablanca, Breakfast at Tiffany's, The Wizard of Oz, Brokeback Mountain and many others, each faces their own personal challenges: from negative-equity hell to heartache, loneliness, toddler-strife -- and the wrath of a certain bunny boiler. And each finds comfort in the one place where they're guaranteed a happy ending. But will the dreams they dare to dream every really come true? Only time will tell...