Film review: BOYHOOD, from Built For Speed

Boyhood is a touching and lyrical film but the story about how it was made is more impressive than what we see on screen. Director Richard Linklater constructed it over 12 years and filmed it in segments between his other projects.  A synopsis of the film might bring to mind the Seven-Up series as it follows a young boy named

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What’s on “Built For Speed” Friday 5th September 2014

This week on “Built For Speed” we look at two of the more unusual films to emerge this year: Richard Linklater’s epic family drama Boyhood and the extremely confronting German film Wetlands.  It’s also classic album time and for September we go back to 1971 for David Bowie’s fourth album Hunky Dory.  There’s also plenty of new music from Australia and

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