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• Movie Tickets Wanted

  Go see Wanted [Особо Опасен in Russian] which opened on June 27th in the US and on June 26th in Kazakhstan. Why am I talking about this film and why did it open in Kazakhstan before it opened in the US? Because the director, Timur Bekmambetov is a native son of Kazakhstan, born in Atyrau. […]

  6/22/08 • (Comments Off on Movie Tickets Wanted)

• Mongol Nomination and Kazakh Pride

  The New York Times has a nice article up on how Kazakhstan feels about Mongol‘s nomination. There’s a little confusion here–the NYT doesn’t seem to realize that Sergei Bodrov, the director and co-writer, is Russian. Nonetheless there’s great content here about Kazkahstan’s film industry and national pride. And of course we all have our fingers […]

  2/24/08 • (Comments Off on Mongol Nomination and Kazakh Pride)

• On the lighter side

  I finally saw the Borat movie–a pirate edition was handed to me in a smoky cafe, in plain white paper, the discs enscribed “We <3 Kazakhstan” like it was samizdat in Soviet times. So no money from the Kazakhstan economy went to Mr. Cohen from me, unlike some other non-patriots who pushed Borat to number […]

  3/11/07 • (Comments Off on On the lighter side)

• Sound effects in Nomads

  Rob Nokes, the sound supervisor editor for the film Nomad, has a video up of his experiences recording sounds for the film. Interesting stuff and this guy is experienced enough. It appears he will do a larger “Making of Nomads” feature, according to the blurb on Youtube.

  10/27/06 • (Comments Off on Sound effects in Nomads)

• Borat videos

  Two Borat-related videos came to my attention. Chris Merriman has put up the BBC coverage of the London premiere of Borat’s film, with discussion of the uproar, Aliyev’s invitation, and his insistence on remaining in character. Second, the first four minutes of the Borat film, the bit set in Kazakhstan: It’s not particularly funny to […]

  10/26/06 • (Comments Off on Borat videos)

• Cars in Almaty

  Thanks to Leila’s post on neweuraisa.net, I bring you: Cars in Almaty Leila laid out some of the serious problems with transport in Kazakhstan, including traffic, saftey and cars as economic indicators. Coupled with the previous post on neweurasia about income versus rising costs, it makes for a good indication of the situation. What percent […]

  10/04/06 • (Comments Off on Cars in Almaty)

• The Truth about Nomads

  On the occasion of the release of the international trailer of Nomad: I bring you my story of The Nomads. The Book The Nomads was written by Ilyas Yesenberlin (1915 – 1983) in Kazakh. He wrote a lot of historical fiction about the history of Kazakhstan including a trilogy of books, “The Golden Horde,” about […]

  9/30/06 • (2)

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  The Night Watch triology, and links to Kazakhstan

  Or The Night Watch and Day Watch movies and books are really cool; you should buy them now My wife and I went to buy a telephone. The store we got it from was running a contest in which if you spend between 5 and 10 thousand tenge you get a free DVD, if you […]

  9/02/06 • (Comments Off on The Night Watch triology, and links to Kazakhstan)

• In which I imagine what a Kazakh might think about V for Vendetta

  One of the great things about art is that it is seen in context. I just saw V for Vendetta. I’ve read many comments on it, and I gather many are considering this movie in light of the current war and administration–incidentally I love the idiots on IMDB message boards claiming it can’t be about […]

  4/22/06 • (Comments Off on In which I imagine what a Kazakh might think about V for Vendetta)

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