Tag: Grande Hotel Beira Mozambique

Images of Colonial Foolishness

Images of Colonial Foolishness

May 6, 2011 | By

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

Hot Docs: Part I

May 6, 2011 | By

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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Film: Grande Hotel (2010) + Goodbye Mandima (2010)

Film: Grande Hotel (2010) + Goodbye Mandima (2010)

May 5, 2011 | By

Film: Excellent DVD Transfer: n/a / DVD Extras: n/a Label: n/a/ Region: n/a / Released: n/a Genre: Documentary Synopsis: Documentary on the 2600 squatters than now live within the disintegrating skeleton of a once-elegant hotel in Mozambique. Special Features: n/a     Review: As director Lottle Stoops described to the audience at Toronto’s 2011 Hot Docs […]

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