The Film Club: A Memoir (2008) (edit title/settings)

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• Jesse: Add a description of this character.
• Rebecca Ng
• Jack Nicholson
• Maggie
• Chloe
• Tina
• Hitchcock
• James Dean
• Clint
• Paula
• Woody Allen
• Claire Brinkman
• David Cronenberg
• Spielberg

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• “He outgrew the film club and in a certain way, he outgrew me, outgrew being a child to his father.”

• “- You need to know about some _other_ books before you read him <Malcolm Lowry>, I said.--Which ones?-That's what you go to college for, I said.--But can't you read them anyway?-You can. But people don't. Some books you only read if you're forced to. That's the beauty of a formal education. It makes you read a lot of stuff you'd normally never bother with.”

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• Volcano: An Inquiry into the Life and Death of Malcolm Lowry (1976).

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• we sometimes calibrate our moral positions, what’s right, what’s wrong, depending on what we need at that particular moment.

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• I slipped Michael Mann’s Thief (1981) into the

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• “There are a couple of inviolate principles in the universe,” I said, suddenly chatty (I was delighted to be where we were). “One is that you never get anything worth getting from an asshole. Two is when a stranger comes toward you with his hand extended, he doesn’t want to be your friend.

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• “Don’t be fooled. Teenage boys need as much attention as newborns. Except they need it from their fathers.”

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• It is an example of what films can do, how they can slip past your defenses and really break your heart.

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• “Love affairs that start in blood tend to end up in blood.”

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• Mean Streets (1973), a movie that Martin Scorsese made at the very beginning of his career. It’s about growing up in New York’s violent, macho Little Italy. There’s a sequence near the beginning I’ve never forgotten. With the dramatic chords of the Rolling Stones’ “Tell Me” in the background, the camera follows Harvey Keitel in his passage through a red-lit bar. Anyone who has gone into a favorite bar on a Friday night knows that moment.

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• Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966); Plenty (1985) with Meryl Streep. Graham Greene’s The Third Man (1949).

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• New York
• Paris
• Chinatown
• Toronto
• Cuba
• Montreal

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1. David Gilmour (Author)

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• Books › Entertainment › Movies › History & Criticism
• Books › Nonfiction › Social Sciences › Sociology
• Books › Parenting & Families › Parenting › Teenagers
• Books › Parenting & Families › Family Relationships › Fatherhood
• Books › Biographies & Memoirs › Memoirs
• Books › Health, Mind & Body