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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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| | | All The Real Girls starring Zooey Deschanel
Directed by 28 year old David Gordon Green All The Real Girls tells of a group of young men living in North Carolina whose life of uncomplicated buddy-dom is compromised by the return to the town of the sister of one of their member. Jim White asks David Gordon Green if he was deliberately trying to distance himself from the gross-out comedies that seem to define his generation on screen.
Charlie Chaplin
The composer Carl Davis has been spending the summer putting the finishing touches to his take of Chaplin's original score to a series of movies, which will be screened this autumn. Jim White talks to Carl Davis and David Robinson, Chaplin biographer, about what music meant to the little man.
Floating Weeds
Antonia Quirke on Yasujiro Ozu's 1959 film Floating Weeds which is widely regarded as a classic of Japanese cinema,
COMPETITION: Spirited Away
Back Row has sixteen tickets to give away for a special preview of Spirited Away, a Japanese film which won Best Animated Feature at this year's Oscars. The screening is in London on Sunday 10th August and to win tickets you just need to answer this question. Which film was the first full length animated feature to be nominated for an Oscar for Best Picture - not best animated film, but the biggie, the best picture?
Email your answers to backrow@bbc.co.uk or write to Back Row, Room 7082, Broadcasting House, Portland Place, London W1A 1AA. The deadline is August 8th and you can win up to four tickets per entry.
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