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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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|  | | Listen to Jim White reveal his own celluloid highs and lows
This week - Claudia Cardinale
Jim White talks to Claudia Cardinale, the glamorous film star who is patron of the Visconti season, currently in full swing at both the National Film Theatre and Edinburgh's Filmhouse.
Short Shots
Steven Soderbergh's new film Full Frontal was shot in 18 days, start to finish and Joel Schumacher's Phone Booth in just 12. Back Row looks at short shots with film historian John Huntley, Steven Gaydos, International MD of Variety and the writer and director David Leland.
Body Swap
Adam Smith on body swapping films.
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Back Row recommends
In the multiplex:
Antwone Fisher
In the art house:
The Leopard
On video/dvd:
Together
QUIZZES
Go to our quiz page and win DVD copies of Lukas Moodysson's Together.
Win a DVD copy of Last Resort, directed by Pawel Pawlikowsky.
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