More ‘Learnings’ with that Kazakh reporter

Whether you think Sacha Baron Cohen’s faux documentary “Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan” was cruel, funny or depressing, or all three, there’s no denying its impact on the culture.

Nominated for multiple awards, the movie nabbed Baron Cohen a Golden Globe for comedy, and several critics groups also voted him best actor of 2006, likely because of his knack of remaining strictly in character, no matter what.

Baron Cohen eschewed a commentary track on the DVD (Fox, $30), but the disc includes several hysterically funny deleted scenes. He visits an animal shelter looking for a dog, tests the patience of a grocery store clerk, is stopped by the Secret Service in Washington, D.C., gets a message in his hotel room and visits a tattoo parlor.

Rounding out the extras are a documentary chronicling Baron Cohen’s personal appearances as Borat and a goofy promo for the soundtrack album.

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Also new this week

“Walkout” (HBO, $27): HBO movie about the 1968 student walkout at several East Los Angeles schools to protest academic prejudices against Mexican American students.

“The Ernest Hemingway Classics Collection” (Fox, $70): Features five uneven adaptations of Hemingway’s novels and short stories: 1950’s “Under My Skin,” 1952’s “The Snows of Kilimanjaro,” 1957’s “The Sun Also Rises” and “A Farewell to Arms” and 1962’s “Ernest Hemingway’s Adventures of a Young Man.”

“Confetti” (Fox, $28): A sweetly humorous mockumentary about three couples who enter a magazine’s “Most Original Wedding of the Year” contest. Martin Freeman stars.

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susan.king@latimes.com