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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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|  | | Jude Law and Nicole Kidman in Cold Mountain
After leaping from the screen as Dickie Greeleaf in Anthony Minghella's The Talented Mr Ripley Jude Law seemed certain to become the next British actor to make it big in Hollywood. In Cold Mountain he delivers on that promise and plays Inman who deserts the front line in the American Civil War to return to his true love Ada, played by Nicole Kidman. Jude Law talks to Jim White.
Christmas TV Films
With the growing profusion of cable, satellite and DVD machines, it will not be long before we are all devising our own individually tailored Christmas movie viewing. A glance at the Radio Times suggests that schedulers have already begun to admit defeat so we asked commissioners for the films on television if there is life yet in the old institution of the big Yuletide television movie. Also to discuss what the schedules have to offer at Christmas, Jim White is joined by writer Jenny Colgan and critic Martin Kelner.
Peter Pan
JM Barrie's classic story Peter Pan has been turned into a $100 million movie for those looking for a Christmas family film. PJ Hogan's movie is straight down the line traditional Pan. The only deviation is that Peter is played by a boy and the Darling family have suddenly discovered a new relative. Aunt Millicent is played by Lynn Redgrave, who talks to Back Row about the role created for her.
In the multi-plex
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
In the art house
Amandla!
On DVD and video
The Fred and Ginger Collection
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