Best of the year: Movies, books, TV shows, music and more
2015 IS FITTING THE END. It would not be an exaggeration to say that the year turned out to be saturated, including culturally. To dot the “and” and make sure that nothing important had passed by, we asked experts in various fields to tell about the brightest books, films, albums and other cultural events.
Lisa Birger on iconic novels
The book has this unique feeling, when you can literally reach out to a hero who lived a century before you in some very different time and space
Stanislav Zelvensky about the horror of the year
A young American who has a crisis on all fronts, runs to Italy, drinks, gets a job at a farm and falls in love with a prominent brunette
Mikhail Idov about the TV shows of the year
In this year, paradoxically, only the series, which I cannot even call a good conscience with a clear conscience, claims to be “great” in the vintage sense.
Olga Karput about photobook year
Schoolchildren with knocked down knees, gray high-rise buildings, Soviet mosaic - all this became close and clear not only in Russia but also abroad
Oleg Sobolev about the album of classical music of the year
Sibelius in his best years of composer maneuvered between a deep alcoholic depression and an inexplicable enthusiastic delirium from traveling in the nature of Finland
Anton Dolin about the performances of the year and not only
The ballet of the year - finally looked at the "Lost Illusions" of Desyatnikov-Ratmansky at the Bolshoi. This is the music of the year. It is still not recorded, it is a shame and a shame for all of us.
Andrei Podshibyakin about the video game of the year
At the periphery of the view, a huge green super mutant kills a gangster in a leather sadomazo harness. All is well. Life is a success
Vasily Shevchenko about the comic of the year
The reader is immersed in the wild information noise of modern society with endless news, messages, sensations and advertising, a cult of beauty and success.
Daniel Trabun about pop album of the year
This album is simultaneously nostalgic and futuristic, ironic and infantile, prudently commercial and completely non-universal.
Asya Kazantseva about the popular science book of the year
A comprehensive text that simultaneously describes how GMOs are created, how they are tested for safety, breaks apart the myths disseminated by opponents of technology.
Katya Fedorova on the fashion site of the year
The site does not just report on the actual length of the skirt today, but analyzes the trends that drive the industry with a global turnover of more than 1 trillion dollars
Kirill Ivanov on the electronic album of the year
Very witty - in every sense - plate. The record of an intelligent man, ironic over everything at once. And very scary. Tense, you never know what will happen next
Alice Taezhnaya about the melodrama of the year
Emory Cohen plays the first guy in my memory, for whom I want to go to the ends of the world, because he is sweet, witty, kind heart and generally a little Labrador