‘Built For Speed’, Playlist, Friday 17th February 2017

Built for Speed – 17th February 2017 THE ROLLING STONES – Blue and lonesome. FRONT END LOADER – Pulse. (Aus) H-BLOCK 101 – Kokakolonization. (Aus) STARKY – City Prison Doors. (Aus) PIXIES- Hey. RYAN ADAMS – To be young. BLONDIE – Union City Blues. AVI BUFFALO – Remember the last time. MIKAL CRONIN – I’m done running from you. CALEXICO

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What’s on ‘Built For Speed’, Friday 3rd March 2017

This Friday ‘Built For Speed’ speaks to Philippe Platel, Artistic Director of one of Melbourne’s finest annual cultural events the Alliance Francaise French Film Festival which runs from 8th to 30th March.  We’ll also take a look at the long-awaited sequel to ‘Trainspotting’, the oddly-named ‘T2: Trainspotting’ and Martin Scorsese’s religious epic ‘Silence’.  There’s plenty of fine music with indie

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Film review: HIDDEN FIGURES, from ‘Built For Speed’

Intertwining a civil rights story with the early 1960’s space race, Hidden Figures might at first glance seem like a hybrid of The Help and Apollo 13 and while it’s at times formulaic and set within a sunny 1960s milieu worthy of Ron Howard, it contains an important and uplifting story. Based on actual events, Hidden Figures traces the careers of

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Film review: TONI ERDMANN, from ‘Built For Speed’

German writer/ director Maren Ade’s long and very quirky tragi-comedy Toni Erdmann carefully negotiates the line between pathos and farce for one of the more unusual but affecting films so far this year. The title character (Peter Simonischek) is a hulking dishevelled man in his 60’s whose life appears to revolve around playing weird Andy Kaufman-style practical jokes on people.

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‘Built For speed’ Playlist, Friday 10th February 2017

Built for Speed – 10th February 2017 X- Devil doll. THE NATION BLUE – We lost everything. (Aus) THE PEEP TEMPEL – Rayguns. (Aus) THE POWDER MONKEYS – I stand bare. (Aus) THE DARKNESS – Friday Night. MADNESS – One Step Beyond. GUNS’N’ROSES – I Used to Love Her. BETTY SEVEERT – Story in a nutshell. THE CONCRETES – You

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