Film review: AMOUR, from Built For Speed

Michael Hanneke’s Amour is a grim Bergmanesque story of two elderly people confronting mortality, human frailty and agonising moral choices. Emmanuel Riva and Jean Louis Trintignant play Anna and Georges an older Parisienne couple seemingly enjoying a life of financially secure retirement. When Anna begins to exhibit odd behaviour it becomes apparent she has had a stroke.  As her condition

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Film review: ANNA KARENINA, from Built For Speed

Anna Karenina is the latest production for Working Title the company who are best known for very British romantic comedies like Love Actually and Bridget Jones Diary. While more serious in tone than any of those films, this take on Leo Tolstoy’s romantic epic set in imperial Russia is still a quirky one. What first strikes us about this version

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What’s on Built For Speed, Friday 22nd February 2013

The Academy Awards screen this Sunday and Built For Speed will give their predictions for winners in all the major categories.  We’ll also take a look at some new cinema releases including the violent adaptation of 70’s Brit cop show The Sweeney and the astonishing documentary West of Memphis. There’s also plenty of new music with Abbe May, The Bronx

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Film review: THE SWEENEY, from Built For Speed

Adapting a popular TV show to the big screen is always a tricky business. How do you make that transition to a different medium and still maintain the show’s magic?  Do you just reproduce the show in a bigger more spectacular form, do you opt for the Brady Bunch style affectionate pastiche or do you try to reinvent it like

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Film review: WEST OF MEMPHIS, from Built For Speed

West of Memphis is a powerful and sometimes infuriating documentary that describes the events surrounding the plight of the so-called West Memphis Three. On May 6th 1993 the bound bodies of three eight year old boys: Christopher Byers, Michael Moore and Steven Branch were pulled from a creek in the town of West Memphis, Arkansas.  Local teenagers Damien Echols, Jason

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Built For Speed, Playlist, Friday 8th February 2013

BUILT FOR SPEED, PLAYLIST, 8th FEBRUARY 2013 1.       TINY MIGRANTS – A Public Execution. (Aus) 2.       CUSTOM KINGS – Sunday. (Aus) 3.       LITTLE BIRDY – Run run run. (Aus) 4.       TWO GALLANTS – Song of songs. 5.       THE STRAIGHT ARROWS – Lies. (Aus) 6.       GARY CLARK JR – Bright lights. 7.       TY SEGALL AND WHITE FENCE – Scissor people. 8.      

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