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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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|  | | Gregor Jordan's Buffalo Soldiers
Buffalo Soldiers depicts US soldiers at the end of the cold war blitzed by boredom, high on class A drugs and knee-deep in black marketerring. Jim White talks to the film's director Gregor Jordan about why the Aussie film-maker would want to direct a satire about military meltdown among US troops in Germany.
The Hulk
Ang Lee was reportedly horrified when he found out that he was obliged to meet the marketing men to discuss the serious business; merchandising. In Hollywood these days a film is often little more that a vehicle for the multi-million dollar franchises and tie-ins that help bring studios the real lolly. Back Row heads to a toy superstore to check out the groaning shelves of Hulkery.
Why are cinemas so noisy?
Back Row was bombarded with letters and emails about noise levels in cinemas. What all of you want is a cinema that doesn't play all films at top volume. Back Row talks to Ian Kerry, who runs Flicks in the Sticks a travelling cinema club in Hereford and Shropshire, a man who listened and turned the volume down.
Visit the Arts Alive website and find out about the Flicks in the Sticks.
Email [email protected]with your views on loud sound in the movies.
The Passion of Joan of Arc
Antonia Quirke on Carl Dreyer's classic 1927 masterpiece.
In the multiplex:
The Hulk
In the art house:
Whale Rider
On video/dvd:
Bruce Lee: 30th Anniversary DVD Collection
QUIZZES
Go to our quiz page and win a six set collectors edition of Bruce Lee films.
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RELATED LINKS
Web access to Denis Leary, with the BBC on July 8th. Email him your questions.
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