Interview · Film
By Hook or by Crook
Screenwriters and lead actors Michael Angelo Covino and Kyle Marvin in conversation about their dazzling debut feature “The Climb”.
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Conversations with musicians, filmmakers, writers and artists.
Interview · Music
Soulful music and hovering birds
“Point Yello” is the name of the 14th studio album by the legendary Zurich duo Yello. “Point Yello” is the name of the 14th studio album by the legendary Zurich duo Yello. Dieter Meier and Boris Blank have stayed refreshingly curious, as t…
Interview · Film
The Mocker
With provocation and self-irony, cosmopolitan Thomas Haemmerli has packed the subject of urban development into a coherent film: “Die Gentrifizierung bin ich. Beichte ei…
Interview · Music
The Optimist
“Nat King Cole and Me” is Gregory Porter’s homage to his musical father. TheTitle met the exceptional 47-year-old singer in New York.
Interview · Film
Listening without reservation
With “Willkommen in der Schweiz”, the renowned filmmaker Sabine Gisiger takes humanitarian stock of Switzerland. A conversation.
Interview · Society
“Act quickly”
He is trying everything to stop climate change: Al Gore. TheTitle spoke to the former US Vice President.
Interview · Music
The Revolutionary
He wants nothing less than to revolutionise the role of the double bass: Miles Mosley in conversation with TheTitle.
Interview · Music
In the Sandpit
On their 13th album, “Toy”, Yello once again astonish with unspent freshness: a conversation.
Interview · Society
Democracy – in danger?
In his film “Die Demokratie ist los!”, director Thomas Isler asks whether popular votes are more important than human rights. A conversation.
Interview · Society
Honouring the father
“The Salt of the Earth” by Wim Wenders and Juliano Ribeiro Salgado is a magnificent film about a magnificent photographer. A conversation with Sebastião Salgado’s son.
Interview
“I will never make music to please people”
Even the album’s title hints at something out of the ordinary: “The Imagined Savior Is Far Easier to Paint”. The music of the young jazz trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire is…
Interview
“I Don’t Need Praise”
Melissa Leo was present twice over at the 2013 Zurich Film Festival: as a member of the jury and on the screen in “Prisoners” alongside Hugh Jackman. A conversation with…
Interview
From Kant to Cantona
He is a journalist, author, Cantona biographer, philosopher and musician: Philippe Auclair. TheTitle met the restless intellectual, who studied under Jacques Derrida, to…
Interview
“We all sip from the bowl of darkness at some point”
With “Orphans”, Tom Waits has laid bare his creative double life. Given the versatility of the gravel-voiced bard, however, realising this triple album was not always st…