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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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|  | | Hugh Grant and Martine McCutcheon in Love Actually
As Richard Curtis' new movie Love Actually reaches UK audiences Back Row reflects on the enduring strength of the feel-good movie. Unashamed schmaltz-hounds John Walsh and Jenny Colgan join Back Row to defend their favourite feel-good movies.
Ronald Harwood
Back Row talks to Ronald Harwood, who won this year's Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar for his work on Roman Polanski's The Pianist. Next week sees the release of a screen version of his play Taking Sides, a tense drama based on the life of controversial German conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler.
Roberto Rossellini
Now fifty years old Roberto Rossellini's masterpiece Journey to Italy is released on DVD this week. Film historian Professor Laura Mulvey and critic David Thomson discuss Rossellini's passionate account of marital breakdown and how behind the camera the tension really ensued.
Hammer Horror
Horror expert Kim Newman remembers the Hammer Horror films about to be re-released in a DVD boxed set and Back Row tracks down now retired actress Barbara Shelley, who reflects on her time as the Queen of Horror.
Art House Cinema
Outside the big cities it is becoming increasingly hard to see art house releases. Back Row wants to hear from you if you know of a local video store with a healthy stock of art house movies.
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In the multi-plex
The Mother
In the art house
Trilogy: One
On DVD and video
Under Milk Wood
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RELATED LINKS
This week at BBCi films: The Mother
BBC4 World Cinema Award
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