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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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Jim Sheridan
Jim Sheridan talks to Jim White about his latest release In America. Having achieved success with My Left Foot and In the Name of the Father Sheridan has now made a semi-autobiographical account of his family's emigration from Dublin to New York in the early 1980s.
Subverting Film Noir
The London Film Festival opened this week with Jane Campion's psychological thriller In the Cut. The film stars an almost unrecognisable Meg Ryan as a school teacher drawn to the seedy side of Manhattan life. Academic Linda Ruth Williams talks to Back Row about how women film-makers are subverting film noir.
What is Charisma?
George Clooney returns to the big screen this week in Intolerable Cruelty. Antonia Quirke joins Back Row to define charisma and explain why it's hard to take your eyes off Clooney.
Seabiscuit
Gary Ross, who co-wrote Big starring Tom Hanks, talks to Back Row about his new film Seabiscuit, a tale about a misfit racehorse that became an unlikely symbol of triumph in Depression-era America.
In the multi-plex
Intolerable Cruelty
In the art house
Waiting for Happiness
On DVD and video
Under Milk Wood
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This week at BBCi films:
Intolerable Cruelty
London Film Festival
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