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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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|  | | Finding Nemo, the latest film from the makers of Toy Story
Young Adam
Tilda Swinton tells Jim White why she was drawn to the flinty but vulnerable Ella in David MacKenzie's adaptation of Alexander Trocchi's Young Adam.
Raising Victor Vargas
Peter Sollet's film Raising Victor Vargas is the simple tale of first love in the Latino community of the Lower East Side of New York. His cast is almost entirely made up of newcomers, young and not so young. Jim White asks Peter Sollet about how he went about finding his prodigiously gifted cast.
Bright Young Things
Adam Smith on Stephen Fry's Bright Young Things.
Finding Nemo
Finding Nemo is an underwater adventure comedy which tells of two fish who become separated in the Great Barrier Reef when junior is snatched by collectors and placed in a fish tank in a dentist's office. Jim White talks to writer/director Andrew Stanton and co-director Lee Unkrich.
In the multi-plex
Young Adam
In the art house
Raising Victor Vargas
On video/dvd:
Charlie Chaplin The Chaplin Collection
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