David Gilmour

David Gilmour appears in the following:

Father-Son Film Club

Friday, June 11, 2010

When film critic David Gilmour's son Jesse was flunking out of school, he let him drop out - on the condition that Jesse would watch movies with him. In his memoir, The Film Club, David describes the curriculum he devised. Father and son tell Kurt ...

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Home Movies

Thursday, November 27, 2008

When novelist and film critic David Gilmour saw his son, Jesse Gilmour, begin to struggle in the classroom, he implemented an unusual strategy: he let his son drop out of school if Jesse would watch three movies a week with him. He talks about how he home-schooled his son—and strengthened ...

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Home Movies

Friday, June 13, 2008

When novelist and film critic David Gilmour saw his son, Jesse Gilmour, begin to struggle in the classroom, he implemented an unusual strategy: he let his son drop out of school if Jesse would watch three movies a week with him. He talks about their story in his new memoir, ...

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Father-Son Film Club

Friday, April 25, 2008

When film critic David Gilmour's son Jesse Gilmour was flunking out of school, he let him drop out -- on the condition that Jesse would watch movies with him. In his memoir, The Film Club, David describes the curriculum he devised. Father ...

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