What’s on Built For Speed, Friday 25th April 2014

This week on Built For Speed we speak to Gus Macmillan from the band Blue Grassy Knoll about their orchestral score for the Buster Keaton film The General which will be screened at the Melbourne Recital Centre on July 24th.  We also take a look at the two current films featuring the talents of Ralph Fiennes, The Grand Budapest Hotel,

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WRITE NOW

Write Now -TONIGHT – I’m talking with Pauline Luke about her latest young adult novel: Knowing Joey Field and then I’ll talk with Tracy Vo about her book: Small Bamboo. Please join me, Gaytana

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Podcast of Handels Messiah

Listen again to Chris Whiting’s broadcast of Handels Messiah. Broadcast 20 April 2014 on Southern FM 88.3. This is the ABC Classics edition of Messiah. Soprano in Sarah Macliver and counter tenor Christopher Field. Click the play button for the audio or download. Play time is 85 minutes Songs of Hope website: http://songsofhope883.com

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Film review: LIKE FATHER LIKE SON, from Built For Speed

Like last year’s The Other Son, Japanese film Like Father Like Son explores the heartbreaking situation in which two sets of parents discover that that there children were switched at birth and in this case that the son they have raised for six years is not theirs. While this film is about two families it focuses on Ryota (Masaharu Fukuyama)

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Film review: IN A WORLD, from Built For Speed

How many times have we heard the deep mellifluous burr of a movie trailer voice-over artist exclaiming “This year” or “In a world”? The owner of that voice was more likely than not American vocal legend Don La Fontaine who recorded thousands of voice-overs for film trailers and TV commercials before his death in 2008.   The vacuum he left in

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