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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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| | | Nicholas Nickleby and his school friend Smike
Jim White interviews American director Doug McGrath, who won acclaim for bringing us Gwyneth Paltrow as Emma, about his latest adaptation Nicholas Nickleby.
Bollywood
Back Row looks at Bollywood films with filmmaker Nasreen Munni Kabir, Rachel Dwyer and Irfan Ajeeb. As Bollywood culture is everywhere in Britain we ask why their films generally fail to attract a wider Western audience. If you want to see the latest from Hindi and world cinema the 聽is running in Bradford from Friday 20 -26 June.
Factual Features
Michael Moore's Bowling for Columbine was a huge box office success last year and now there's Hoover St Revival, Standing in the Shadows of Motown, Etre et Avoir and Winged Migration. Nick Broomfield has made a number of cinema-released documentaries himself, including Kurt & Courtney, and talks to Back Row about this new wave of big-screen docs.
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QUIZZES Go to our quiz page and win a DVD copy of Wim Wender's The American Friend. Out this week to buy from Anchor Bay Entertainment.
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