KZBlog

An American expat living in Astana, Kazakhstan

Tag archive for ‘Movies’

  • Movie Festival

    Movie Festival

    Beginning June 27th for Astana Day, Astana will be hosting an international action film festival. Timur Bekmambetov is one of the organizers and apparently Mike Tyson, Dolph Lundgren and Milla Jovovich are coming to Astana. They’re showing a lot of interesting films. In particular, I’m looking forward to seeing Shanghai, Tyson, Sukiyaki Western Django, The […]

    6/17/10 • (Comments Off on Movie Festival)

  • Kairat Champion

    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)

  • Movie Review: Tulpan

    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)

  • <i>Tulpan</i> Out on DVD

    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)

  • Tulpan Comes to New York

    Tulpan Comes to New York

    Tulpan is supposed to be a wonderful film, very funny and clever about a young man who returns home from the Navy to try to become a “typical” Kazakh sheepherder and win the heart of a beautiful maiden. The official press release from Zeitgeist Films: “Winner of the Prix Un Certain Regard at the 2008 […]

    4/02/09 • (1)

  • 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)