Father-Son Film Club

Studio 360

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 how it went.

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