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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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|  | | The Four Feathers
Written by A E W Mason in 1902, The Four Feathers is an unquestioning take on British imperial values, not the most obvious subject matter for a modern Hollywood film. Jim White talks to the film's director Shekur Kapur, who insists that his new movie subverts the original message of the book, spinning it on its head to present an anti-war message.
Bruce Lee
Bruce Lee was the first man to leap 20 feet into the air on screen, simply to apply his right boot to the chin of a rival. Denise Mina assesses the great fighter's canon. To mark the 30th anniversary of his death a special eidtion box set of DVD's is released this week, enter the Back Row competition and win a set.
Goodbye Lenin
Wolfgang Becker's new movie is the wry tale of a fanatical East German Communist, who slips into a coma in the days when a wall still runs through the heart of Berlin. When she awakes, every last brick has gone. Rather than tell her, the woman's son tries to pretend nothing has changed. To mark the discovery of a German movie that makes you laugh film critic Marianne Gray casts a critical eye over the state of humour in German cinema and Wolfgang Becker describes how the film's success caught him completely off guard.
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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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