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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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|  | | Holly Hunter in Thirteen
Holly Hunter is known for picking distinctive and challenging roles, most notably her appearances in The Piano, Crash and Oh Brother Where Art Thou? The Oscar winning actress joins Back Row to talk about her latest role as the mother of an out-of-control adolescent in Catherine Hardwicke's Thirteen.
Thanksgiving
It is Thanksgiving this weekend, a subject filmmakers cannot stay away from with all its possibilities. Back Row asked Diane Roberts, Professor of English at the University of Alabama, to look back at the Thanksgiving film stock.
Mickey Rourke
Mickey Rourke first caught the public's attention in Lawrence Kasdan's 1981 film noir Body Heat. A string of hits followed, but amid rumours of a troubled personal life he seemed to disappear from our movie screens. After a decade in the wilderness he is back stealing the show in a high-octane rush of a film called Spun. Jim White met up with Mickey Rourke and asked him where he has been all this time.
Blacklisted
During the Cold War the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) stopped more than 300 men and women from pursuing their movie craft. Film writers and historians Paul Buhle and Dave Wagner join Back Row to discuss this period of Hollywood's history.
Blacklisted: The Film Lover's Guide to the Hollywood Blacklist by Paul Buhle and Dave Wagner is published by Palgrave Macmillan
Art House Cinema
We had a huge response to our discussion on the availability of art house and foreign language films to rent on DVD and video. For further details on which websites provide the best service for the art house film lover see the BFI's guide to online video rental
In the multi-plex
Master and Commander: The Far Side of The World
In the art house
Bigger Than Life
On DVD and video
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
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RELATED LINKS
This week at BBCi films: Master and Commander
BFI Guide to Online Video Rental
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