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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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|  | | Time of the Wolf
Michael Haneke's Time of the Wolf is a post-apocalypse nightmare made all the more unbearable because no-one seems aware of what caused Armageddon in the first place. The film stars Isabelle Huppert who talks to Jim White about her role.
Bust-Up on the Blockbuster
Earlier this year it was reported that the set of the big-budget blockbuster film The League of Extraordinary Gentleman had been riven with revolt. Critic David Benedict finds out who has been flying the red flag from the boom mike.
Down With Love
The new Renee Zellweger-Ewan McGregor comedy Down with Love puts a hip spin on the golden age of the classic Rock Hudson-Doris Day comedies. Peyton Reed, director of Down with Love and Lizzie Frankie, film producer and critic look at the lingering resonance of the partnership.
Thorold Dickinson
Thorold Dickinson is a name not frequently bandied about in the nation's multiplexes, but he was a leading figure in British cinema in the immediate post-war years. David Thomson discusses his legacy.
In the multi-plex
Kill Bill Vol 1
In the art house
Spellbound
On DVD and video
Once Upon a Time in the West
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