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|  | | | | Listen to Jim White reveal his own celluloid highs and lows in a slideshow | | | | 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 twice 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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|  | | Jeff Goldblum
Jim White talks to Jeff Goldblum about his latest film Igby Goes Down. He plays the rich, superficially charming, but deeply unpleasant godfather to Kieran Culkin's Igby, the adolescent hero of the picture and the archetypical confused little rich boy.
Hollywood's new family
The mighty changes to the shape of the modern family since the days of It's a Wonderful Life have become of increasing interest to film makers. Tori Young and Marianne Gray look at Hollywood's new take on the structure of the family.
James Mangold
James Mangold's new film Identity opens on a dark and stormy night. Ten strangers are stranded by a rising tide of floodwater in a Nevada motel, each harbours a secret, each is running away and nobody trusts anyone. One by one they are murdered. Jim White talks to James Mangold about making cliché so blood chilling.
Competition
Listen to five angry scenes from different films and identity the name of the actor and the film in each
Listen to and name the five scenes.
Email you answers to [email protected] and do please include details of your favourite angry scenes and we'll broadcast the best.
In the multiplex:
Anger Management
In the art house:
Day of Wrath
On video/dvd:
Manhunter
QUIZZES
Go to our quiz page and win a copy of Michael Mann's Manhunter, available to buy from Momentum Pictures.
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