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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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|  | | Sir Ben Kingsley in House of Sand and Fog
Jim White talks to Sir Ben Kingsley. After his Oscar-winning performance as Gandhi the man of peace, Sir Ben went on to play probably one of the most angry, violent men ever seen on film in Sexy Beast. He is now up for the Best Actor Oscar again for a mesmerising turn in House of Sand and Fog.
Win a copy of Andre Dubus III's novel on which House of Sand and Fog is based. Click here and email Back Row with the name of the actress who plays Ben Kinsley's onscreen wife in the film.
Screenwriting
Is life as a screenwriter all rewrite, rewrite and rewrite with little thanks? Back Row finds out with the screenwriter of LA Confidential and Mystic River Brian Helgeland, the novelist Deborah Moggach, who is working on a new adaptation of Pride and Prejudice and young New York-based writer Justin Haythe who is writing an original screenplay for Sam Mendes.
Justin Haythe's first novel The Honeymoon is published on 20 February 2004, ISBN: 0330419889
Gasp-Inducing Moments
Back Row has been asking you to nominate the moments on film which had you wincing, cringing and reeling. We report on a fine selection of letters and emails, which revealed you as a bunch with a long memory for a scare.
Finding Nemo
Brace yourself for Nemo mania all over again from Friday 27 February when Finding Nemo is released on DVD and VHS. The tale of the little clownfish snatched from his home in the Great Barrier Reef to end up in a dentist's aquarium. Back Row talks to Tess Petho from Down Under Dive in Queensland, Australia about how true to life Finding Nemo really is.
Win Finding Nemo DVDs on the Back Row website next week.
Please note that audio for this edition of Back Row will not be available on this website until after the programme's transmission on Radio 4 on Saturday 21 February 2004 at 5.30pm.
In the multi-plex
School of Rock
In the art house
Pieces of April
On DVD and video
Frida
Is there a Film that changed your Life?
Have you ever dressed like Audrey Hepburn or fallen in love with someone just because they reminded you of a star? We want to hear from people who have been influenced by the silver screen, even if only in a small way. Click here and email us with your memories.
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