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  Movie Review: Kairat – Champion. Virgin #1

  We bought Kairat-Champion. Virgin #1 the other day and watched it. Off-hand it’s a decent movie that still needs a lot of work. Obviously it’s trying to be a teen movie with lots of sex jokes à la American Pie and it falls into the same traps those movies tend to. A series of funny situations but no jokes. Little attention to the plot or characters making it hard to follow what is going on, or much care. But overall, not a bad first effort with some fun moments.

  4/15/10 • (4)

• Cultural Notes

  It’s been a while since I’ve done a post on life in Kazakhstan and some of the things that appear quite odd to a foreigner. But I was reminded of one the other day when we went to the movies. First of all, seats for movies are assigned in Kazakhstan. In the US, seats to […]

  3/13/10 • (2)

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  Movie Review: Tulpan

  A review of Tulpan, a great look at life on the steppes of Kazakhstan and a light-hearted drama with bits of comedy mixed in. Incidentally, also the film from Kazakhstan that has won the most international awards!

  2/26/10 • (1)

• Cvet, Kamera, Motor!

  Or Lights, Camera, Action! Is this what they say in Russian when they film a movie? Just an interesting article I came across the other day, Nazarbayev tries to set an example by personally taking an interest in Kazakhstani films [RU]. The President plans to visit movie theaters and watch Kazakh movies in order to […]

  12/12/09 • (4)

• We Are Amused

  By Lucky21842, via Chris. As the comments on his YouTube video page say, this is done tongue-in-cheek!

  10/22/09 • (Comments Off on We Are Amused)

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  Tulpan Out on DVD

  Tulpan, the film by Sergey Dvortsevoy, about a young Kazakh man who returns to his village to find that it isn’t as easy as it looks to become a shepherd, is out on DVD. The film has been critically acclaimed and is supposed to be very funny and clever. Order DVDs here. No idea if […]

  8/06/09 • (2)

• Kazakh Video Blog

  Just catching up now with some emails people have sent me. Jason in KZ, an American living in Almaty, contacted me months ago to tell me that he has moved to video blogging. Check out his YouTube channel, Luck21842 for hot Asians and the Victory Day celebrations among other things! Here’s the latest video, taken […]

  5/14/09 • (Comments Off on Kazakh Video Blog)

• Freestyler

  A follow-up on Freestailo, the YouTube star from Kazakhstan. Many people in Kazakhstan have been trying to figure out where he got the idea from. Also, while there are some Kazakh words in there (“Analain” which means “dearest” and “Kyzdari” which means, “girls” or “women”) there is also a lot of nonsense, like “Waka Maka”. […]

  1/19/09 • (1)

• Fut-Fut-Fut-Freestailo

  How did I miss this? About one year ago, in December of 2007, during the Superstar KZ (Kazakhstan’s version of American Idol or Pop Idol) auditions a guy came on clearly from the villages with a cheap sweater and a bad haircut. He was holding a dombro and the judges perhaps expected a typical Kazakh […]

  1/15/09 • (21)

• Borat’s Repentance

  Got notified of this by a commenter on my post Borat is Good for Kazakhstan. A film maker, kzscreenwriter in Kazakhstan has made a film called Borat’s Repentance that traces what happens when the President of the Borat fan club comes to Kazakhstan to apologize and discovers that Kazakhstan is a civilized and developed country. […]

  11/16/08 • (5)

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