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|  | | | | | | | | Jim White attended Manchester Grammar School and read English at the University of Bristol, though maintains most of his education came on the terraces at Old Trafford.
A founding member of staff at the Independent in 1986, he moved across to the Guardian ten years later, where his contributions have won the sports columnist of the year. A regular on Saturday Review and Front Row, he can also be frequently heard on Radio 5, where he was awarded a Sony Gold award for a documentary about the demise of Wembley Stadium.
Cinema has been a lifelong passion since his dad took him to see Lawrence of Arabia when he was a child and he returned tice a day every day for the next week to see the film over and again. After a youth largely spent oscillating between the football pitch and the local flea pit (his first date was at, bizarrely, 101 Dalmatians: it was all that was on) these days his favourite movies depend on his mood. The Godfather Part Two if in need of an epic, High Society for an uplift of the soul, This Is Spinal Tap when jokes are required. Though his children have shown him that there is not a lot wrong with Toy Story.
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|  | | Michael Caine and Dylan Moran
Jim White talks to Michael Caine about The Actors, a heist comedy in which he plays an ageing classically trained leading man, who styles himself mentor to an aspirant young spear-carrier called Tom, played by the comedian Dylan Moran.
Carry On
Once derided as scraping the U-bend of humour, the Carry On films are now deemed worthy of scholarly scrutiny. Their champions reckon they have little equal in helping to chart the developments in British social and cultural history. Back Row looks at the phenomenon.
Denzel Washington
Denzel Washington makes his first venture as a director in Antwone Fisher, a thoughtful telling of a true story about a US sailor whose volatile temper lands him on the brink of a dishonourable discharge. Writer and academic Stephanie Smith talks to Jim White about Denzel Washington's career.
Confessions.
Email Back Row and confess to films you've never seen, we'll broadcast the best confessions. Email Back Row here.
Back Row recommends
In the multiplex:
I Capture the Castle
In the art-house:
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
On video/dvd:
Together
QUIZZES.
Win DVD copies of Lukas Moodysson's Together.
Win a DVD copy of Last Resort, directed by Pawel Pawlikowsky.
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RELATED LINKS
Front Row
Saturday Review
Mark Kemode's film reviews on Five Live
BBCi's Film website
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