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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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|  | | Anne Reid and Daniel Craig in The Mother
A new film by the director of Notting Hill tells of a widowed grandmother who rediscovers life by embarking on a passionate affair with a man half her age. The film's director Roger Michell and critic Wendy Ide tell Back Row how The Mother has helped make mum a very different word in the movie lexicon.
Under Milk Wood
As a special edition DVD of Under Milk Wood is released to mark the 50th anniversary of the death of Dylan Thomas director Andrew Sinclair joins Back Row to share his memories of working with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor.
Lucas Belvaux's Trilogie
Lucas Belvaux's bold filmic experiment Trilogie consists of three full-length feature films shot back-to-back, in three different genres. French film critic Serge Kaganski joins Back Row to discuss the impact the films have had in France.
James Mason
Sue Harper joins Back Row to discuss the great British actor James Mason. A season of his films is taking place at the National Film Theatre to mark the centenary of his birth.
In the multi-plex
The Matrix Revolutions
In the art house
All Quiet on the Western Front
On DVD and video
Under Milk Wood
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This week at BBCi films: The Matrix Revolutions
National Film Theatre: James Mason
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