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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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| | | Belleville Rendez-Vous
Jim White talks to Sylvain Chomet about his cartoon world of Belleville Rendez-vous,聽 an enchanting world where the people are hugely fat or rail-thin,聽the villains are black rectangle boxes and the city of Belleville, incorporating elements of New York, Montreal and Quebec City, shoots gigantic monolithic towers from a townscape of humble Old World streets.
I'll Sleep When I'm Dead
Mike Hodges talks to Jim White about his latest film, I'll Sleep When I'm Dead, which is screening at the Edinburgh International Film Festival.
Edinburgh Film Festival
As the festival draws to a close Jim White chats with Sean Connery, Shane Danielsen, the festival director and film critic and journalist Hannah McGill.
Pearl and Dean
The advertising agency Pearl and Dean is celebrating its 50th birthday this year. For film writer Adam Smith it conjures up a whole of wonder.
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