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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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|  | | Kevin McNally in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
Chris Tookey presents Back Row this week, whilst Jim White is on holiday
Valeria Golino: Respiro
Most people know Valeria Golino for co-starring with Tom Cruise and Dustin Hoffman in the Oscar winning Rain Man. Now in her mid-30s she's getting the best reviews of her life for her leading role in a new Italian film Respiro where she plays a young mother of three who's a bit out of place among the conventional fishing folk on a small island off the south coast of Sicily. Chris Tookey asks her how she got the part.
Holiday destinations
Dramatic locations shown on films inspire many of us to pack our bags for these high profile locations. Sean Tipton of the Association of British Travel Agents tells Back Row just how much a major feature film can do for a holiday destination.
Pirates
The pirate movie is back with Pirates of the Caribbean out now and DreamWorks Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas packing them in around the country. Jenny McCartney, Jeffrey Richards and Kevin McNally, who plays Johnny Depp's loyal sidekick help Back Row understand why Pirates are so popular.
Michael Cimino
Michael Cimino is the director who won Best Picture Oscar with only his second movie, ruined a major studio with this third and seemingly vanished from the face of the earth after his seventh in 1996. This week he's re-surfaced with a new commentary on his Oscar winning The Deer Hunter, released on DVD this week. Antonia Quirke finds out whatever happened to him.
Jacques Tati
London's National Film Theatre is screening a revival of Monsieur Hulot's Holiday as part of a season celebrating Jacques Tati's work. Film critic and writer Demetrios Matheou on the enduring appeal of this great French clown.
In the multi-plex
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
In the art house
Monsieur Hulot's Holiday
On video/dvd:
The Deer Hunter
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