Ridley Scott: "I find most of my inspiration from low-budget movies now"

When Sir Ridley Scott called ‘action!’ for the first time on the set of Prometheus, it brought things full circle for the legendary British director. After all, he started the Alien franchise in 1979 with the terrifying, claustrophobic original and now, 30 years later, he has returned to the series, eager to explore new ground and new ideas.

12 Summer Music Events

The must-see gigs in the upcoming summer

Backstreet Champions

Akhtem Seitablayev, a Ukrainian director of Crimean Tartar origin, born in Uzbekistan, presented his new film, “Chempiony z Pidvorittia” or “Backstreet Champions”, in the Ukrainian pavilion at the Cannes Film Festival

Arsenale 2012

On 24 May – 31 July, the Art Arsenal is hosting Arsenale-2012, the 1st Kyiv International Biennale for Contemporary Art.

Age Means Nothing

Artist and playwright Les Podereviansky talks about his personal evolution and people that never change

A Genuine Act

Austrian actor and director Karl Markovics speaks about intuitive play, honest films and life after an Oscar

The Death Match Myth

Ukraine’s State Agency for Cinema issued, with some restrictions, a distribution permit for the scandalous $10-million-budget Russian-Ukrainian film ‘The Match’ in April this year.

Songs of Grief and Solitude

The success of a fundamentally non-commercial Kharkiv-based band proves the half-forgotten truth: true art does not necessarily depend on PR – even today

Provoking Dissent

Yuri Vynnychuk talks about grasping the spirit of the time in the writing, passive intellectuals and the rule of the current government as purgatory for Ukraine

Waiting for Quality

The Ukrainian Week looks into ways to improve the organization of Ukrainian festivals

Freedom of Creation

How can Ukrainian theatre be interesting to the rest of the world?

Requiem for the Indifferent

Austrian composer works on a symphony about Holodomor

Cockroach the Star of Vilnius Book Fair

Ukrainian author’s detective story becomes a breakthrough hit at the Vilnius Book Fair

Poetry Films Go Digital

Thomas Wohlfahrt speaks about literary censorship, public poetry readings and the growth of poetry films fuelled by digital technology

The Ukrainian Coelho

Myroslav Dochynets has guessed the needs of the average reader

Les Kurbas: the Revolutionary of the Theatre

Les Kurbas’ innovative approaches went against the canon of social realism, so he was first removed from a cultural milieu and then physically destroyed

On the Other Side of Silence

Director Myroslav Slaboshpytskyi is working on “The Tribe”, a full-length film about those who can neither speak nor hear, where conversations can be seen rather than heard

Rock-n-Roll. Made in UA

Vadym Krasnookyi, Mad Heads XL band leader, talks about trends in music, concerts in small towns and the Ukrainian language as an element of national security

“I am an apostle of bloody ways”

Yevhen Malaniuk as the Ukrainian Freud

Attack of the Clones

George Lucas talks about why he is bringing Star Wars back to the big screen

Cloaked in Bearskin

“Ursus,” a Ukrainian-Georgian-German co-production, is one of the biggest and most exciting film projects of 2012

Never Swap Horses Crossing a Stream

Steven Spielberg talks about his new film

New Wave

The debut single by the Ukrainian band Champagne Morning has climbed to the top of foreign music charts

The Need For Personal Liberation

Régis Wargnier speaks about tunnel vision, exerting pressure and Ukraine at the crossroads

Ukrainian Cinema. Making It Real

The Ukrainian Week launched the Cinema Project column 18 months ago to talk about Ukrainian films at different stages of production. It is time now to check in and see how they are doing

The Painted Garden

Woodland art, a painting style introduced by Canadian artist Norval Morrisseau, a member of the Ojibwe tribe, has also taken root in Ukraine