Built For Speed – Playlist – Friday 9th May 2014 DALLAS CRANE – Marsanne. (Aus) BOB MOULD – Hey Mr Grey. TEMPLES – Mesmerise. SASKWATCH – Left me to die. (Aus) ARCTIC MONKEYS – Teddy Picker ARCTIC MONKEYS – Suck it and see. ARCTIC MONKEYS – The view from the afternoon. GREEN DAY – Letter bomb. MY MORNING JACKET –
Read moreThis week on Built For Speed we review two intriguing new films: historical drama Belle and the highly inventive Australian film 52 Tuesdays. There’s also plenty of fine music new and old with the latest from Bob Mould and Saskwatch. Don’t forget our regular preview of gigs and TV for the Week. Check out Built For Speed, Fri 8-10pm on 88.3
Read moreFilms with a sinister, all-powerful, self-aware computer threatening to obliterate the human race have almost become a genre unto themselves. There was the creepy HAL trying to scuttle the Jupiter mission in 2001: A Space Odyssey, Skynet triggering the apocalypse in The Terminator, Colossus threatening nuclear annihilation in Colossus: The Forbin Project and the female-voiced computer taunting Shia Labeouf in
Read moreThis week on Built For Speed we speak to Gus Macmillan from Blue Grassy Knoll about the band’s orchestral adaptation of their musical score for Buster Keaton’s The General. It’s also classic album time and this month we head back to 2003 and play some tracks from Ryan Adams’ Rock’n’roll. Once again there’s a deluge of films in our cinema
Read moreThis 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,
Read moreLike 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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