Tag: Grande Hotel Beira Mozambique

Images of Colonial Foolishness

May 6, 2011 | By | Add a Comment
Images of Colonial Foolishness

Editor’s Blog on Building Big in rustic areas during the colonial boom, with plenty of image and film links for Beira’s once majestic Grande Hotel, plus links to Bokor Hill Palace, a similar effort in European ego set in Cambodia…

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Hot Docs: Part I

May 6, 2011 | By | Add a Comment
Hot Docs: Part I

Reviews of three films from Toronto’s Hot Docs film festival: Lotte Stoops’ debut, Grande Hotel (2010), Robert-Jan Lacombe’s short documentary Goodbye Mandima (2010), and Stefan Kolbe and Chris Wright’s doc Das Block / The Block…

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