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Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan Directed by Larry Charles Twentieth-Century...
...unscripted film, Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, Baron Cohen takes his interactions with real people and strings them into a plot: a mockumentary about American culture gets sidetracked by a cross-country quest to meet and "make sexy time" with Pamela Anderson. Along the way, the hidden cameras capture a Southern dinner party's dismay with Borat's bathroom habits, and the guests' reaction on the arrival of his date--a black hooker. All the marks are unaware they're being fooled, which is hard to believe, especially when a gun dealer responds...
...insight into the daily lives of marginalized residents of Kazakhstan and other former Soviet countries. Those hoping to catch a glimpse of a real live Kazakh next weekend, however, are better off seeing Ali G’s “Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan.” Although Dvortsevoy was originally scheduled to appear for the screenings of his films, he won’t make it to the United States. Brooke Holgerson, Editorial Assistant for the HFA, explains that “[Dvortsevoy] didn’t fill...
...unbilled supporting standouts: Versailles itself and a $40 million production budget chiefly represented by mountains of pastries, millions of powdered wigs, miles of elaborately embroidered silk, and of course enough painted, prancing ponies to mobilize a small republic’s national guard. That, and shoes. Many, many glorious shoes (which a discerning eye and a taste for Spanish decadence will surely recognize as the immortal Manolo Blahnik’s own handiwork). All this is to say that the film, as an aesthetic object created for pop-culture consumption, is nothing short of gorgeous. But at the same time...
While Harvard undergrads are racing from class to extracurricular to evening section, trying to cram in a half-hour of treadmill time before hunkering down in Lamont for a late-night cram session, I’m lounging on Sydney’s glorious Bondi Beach. Over the last few months, the most multitasking I’ve done has been trying to apply sunscreen while thumbing through the pages of a coursepack saturated in ocean spray...