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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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|  | | Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson as Starsky and Hutch
Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson are about as sharp a duo as Hollywood has right now, working together on movies like Meet the Parents and The Royal Tenenbaums. Neither is content to be an actor, both have written and produced their own movies. Back Row caught up with the Hollywood double act ahead of the London premiere of Starsky and Hutch.
Takeshi Kitano
Denise Mina joins Back Row to chart the remarkable career of actor and director Takeshi Kitano. In his latest film Zatoichi, Takeshi plays the title role of a blind wanderer who makes a living by gambling and giving massages. Behind this humble façade Zatoichi is a master swordsman destined for many violent showdowns - samurai style.
Gram Parsons
Gram Parsons, the man who invented country rock, died 30 years ago from a drug overdose. Before he died, Parsons made a pact with his road manager Phil Kaufman that when one of them passed on, the other was to take the body to the Mojave Desert and burn it. Kaufman kept his word and his misadventures en route are the subject of a new comedy film Grand Theft Parsons. Jim White talks to the movie's director David Caffrey.
DVD Favourites
Scarface, a film which consistently tops polls as a boys' favourite is about to be released on DVD. By coincidence, The Fabulous Baker Boys, a picture which ticks all the right boxes for the woman film goer, has just been released. Oddly both star Michelle Pfeiffer. Back Row's Antonia Quirke returns to talk about the gender divide.
The Fabulous Baker Boysis available now on DVD and Scarfacewill be released on 29 March 2004
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 13 March 2004 at 5.30pm.
In the multi-plex
Starsky and Hutch
In the art house
The Last Emperor: Director's Cut
On DVD and video
The Italian Job
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