Zurich Film Festival

Today's podcast presents a „ZFF Masters" with non other than the legendary Arnold Schwarzenegger who was at the Zurich Film Festival in 2015 to receive the prestigious Golden Icon Award. His infamous phrase „I'll be back" in the 1984's cult film The Terminator is known worldwide. However, Schwarzenegger is not only known as an actor but has also made a lasting impression as a professional bodybuil...

Today's podcast presents a „ZFF Masters" with Austrian film director and screenwriter Michael Haneke, an icon of Austrian cinema having made widely recognized films such as Funny Games, The White Ribbon and Amour. During this interview, he lets us in on the secrets of his infamous sequence shots and reveals his opinion on mainstream cinema and the recent increase in production values and costs in...

Today's podcast presents a „ZFF Masters" with Czech filmmaker Milos Forman, who sadly passed away at the beginning of 2018. In the following interview, Forman shares hilarious little on-set anecdotes from improvised scenes in One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest and teaching a horse to walk through a paper wall for several months in the 1984's film Amadeus.

Today's podcast presents a „ZFF Masters" with Woody Harrelson who was a guest at the festival in 2016 to personally present his film LBJ. He talks about the incredibly bumpy beginning of his career in New York, from the struggles of finding an agent, to giving up and finally landing his first acting job. Harrelson shares several hilarious anecdotes and he will surely entertain you just as he did t...

Today's podcast presents a „ZFF Masters" with Hans Zimmer, one of the most famous and successful film composers in the world, having been nominated for an Academy Award an incredible 11 times. In 2014, a selection of his works was performed at the International Film Music Concert when he visited Zurich to receive the festival's prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award. During this interview, Zimmer...

Today's podcast presents a „ZFF Masters" with Danish director Susanne Bier, who gained world wide success with films such as After the Wedding in 2006 and 2010's In A Better World. She visited the Zurich Film Festival in 2014 to preside over the International Feature Film Jury. During her „ZFF Masters" she talks about her approach to filmmaking and the hurdles she had to overcome in a male-dominat...

Today's podcast presents a „ZFF Masters" with Todd Haynes, who proves himself to be a true cinephile with an unconditional passion for film history. He talks about the 1967' film The Graduate and what a huge impact the film and its main protagonist Benjamin had on him and his work. It is such a joy to listen to Haynes, who has been a pioneering filmmaker in the New Queer cinema movement, and what...

Today's podcast presents a „ZFF Masters" with the one and only Sylvester Stallone. He was at the festival in 2008 to receive the prestigious Golden Icon Award. Mostly known as an action hero in films such as The Expendables, Rambo and the Rocky series, in this "ZFF Masters" Stallone gives a very inspiring insight into his incredible work as a screenwriter and director and tells us why it is so imp...

Today's podcast presents a "ZFF Masters" with Daniel Radcliffe. He was a guest at the Zurich Film Festival in 2016 to personally present his two films Swiss Army Man and Imperium. Radcliffe is without a doubt the most charming person you will ever encounter. In the most humorous and cordial way, he talks about the difficulties of playing a dead person in Swiss Army Man and also reveals the huge re...