Culture

Culture

A Conversation With Film Critic Alik Shpilyuk

Listing every role that Alik Shpilyuk has played as an observer of the history of the Ukrainian cinema industry would be a near impossible...

Ivan Kozlenko And The Fight to Reclaim Ukrainian Cinema

A profile of the young Odessa born film aficionado placed in charge of reforming the Oleksandr Dovzhenko National Film Archives. When I meet Ivan Kozlenko...

Odessa’s Non-Conformist Artists: The Warriors Of An Unofficial Mythology

By Yevgeniya Selezneva, participant of The Odessa Review journalism seminar and workshop Today, when speaking of art, we shouldn’t become distracted by paying too much attention...

Odessa In Anticipation Of Christmas And The New Year: In 2017 And 200 Years...

By Alexandra Pakina, participant of The Odessa Review journalism seminar and workshop The New Year is on its way. The city adorns itself with festive decorations....

The Legacy Of Kira Muratova’s “The Asthenic Syndrome”

By Masha Sotskaya, participant of The Odessa Review journalism seminar and workshop Though she is not retired after her 80th birthday, Kira Muratova is likely Ukraine’s...

A Ukrainian Journalist Responds To Barack Obama’s Great Book

By Oksana Kamienieva, participant of The Odessa Review journalism seminar and workshop The Audacity of Hope was the second book written by the American President Barack Obama...

How To Write A Book In The Ukrainian Literary Context 

By Daria Popovich, participant of The Odessa Review journalism seminar and workshop This is an excerpt from a longer work in progress on working on...

Do You Hear What I Hear: Holiday Music Traditions That Bring Communities Together

Cultural traditions, especially near-universal and well-established ones surrounding the winter holidays, offer an avalanche of stimuli for the senses — the scents and flavors...

Ukrainian Film Submission For The 2017 Academy Awards

The Ukrainian Oscar Committee, set up by Ukraine’s National Union of Cinematographers with the participation of Ukraine’s Association of Producers and the Ukrainian State...

Eugene Ostashevsky On “The Life And Opinions Of DJ Spinoza”

Eugene Ostashevsky is an American poet who was born in Leningrad into a family partially deriving from Odessa. He is now living in Berlin....