DAVID GILMOUR with JESSIE GILMOUR
Friday, May 23 at 7:30 p.m.

At a time of year when both the annual Seattle International Film Festival and Father's Day are in the air, what night more appropriate than this father-and-son visit for David Gilmour's engaging memoir, The Film Club (12). A noted novelist who worked for years for the prestigious Toronto International Film Festival, David Gilmour felt himself clueless at a point in the raising of his teenage son. Their bond became an agreement—seeing and discussing films. It changed both their lives—in surprising ways. "David Gilmour is a very unlikely moral guidance counselor: he's broke, more or less unemployed, and has two children by different women. Yet when it looks as though his teenage son is about to go off the rails, he reaches out to him through the only subject he knows anything about: the movies. The result is an object lesson in how fathers should talk to their sons." – Toby Young. "If all sons had dads like David Gilmour, then Oedipus would be a forgotten legend and Father's Day would be a worldwide film festival." – Sean Wilsey.

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