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…
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…
As promised, soundrack reviews of Mark Isham’s The Mechanic (MIM Records), Atli Orvarsson’s The Eagle (Silva Screen), Vangelis’ The Bounty (BSX Records), and Hans Zimmer’s Broken Arrow and Mark Mancina’s Money Train (both from La-La Land Records)…
It’s Federal Election Day in Canuckleland, so don’t forget to vote! To sweeten the deal (of course it’s all related), here are DVD reviews of Aphrodisiac! The Sexual Secret of Marijuana (1971) and Schoolgirl Report #7: “What the Heart Must Thereby…” / Schulmädchen-Report 7: Doch das Herz muß dabei sein (1974) from Impulse Pictures / Synapse Films…
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