Locarno Meets

Locarno Film Festival

Welcome to Locarno Meets, an original Locarno Film Festival podcast brought to you by UBS. Established legends of cinema and exciting new talent chat about art, life, movies, and everything in between. Locarno Meets has featured memorable discussions with veritable legends of cinema like Shah Rukh Khan, Jane Campion, Alfonso Cuarón, Ken Loach, Harmony Korine, Irène Jacob, and many more.

  1. Director & Cinematographer Fabrice Aragno on Shooting “Le Lac” on Lake Geneva, Godard’s Influence & Every Film as Documentary

    -5 DIAS

    Director & Cinematographer Fabrice Aragno on Shooting “Le Lac” on Lake Geneva, Godard’s Influence & Every Film as Documentary

    The Swiss director, cinematographer, and close collaborator on some of Jean-Luc Godard’s final works Fabrice Aragno made his debut as a feature filmmaker at Locarno78 with the hypnotic “Le Lac”, a near-wordless experimental romantic drama that takes place during a sailing competition on Lake Geneva. Aragno joined us on Locarno Meets to discuss his work to capture the spirit of the lake itself, why every film is a documentary of its own making, what it meant to see “La Notte” as a young man, and the profound personal influence of working so long and so closely with JLG.

    25 min
  2. Colm Meaney on Irish Talent, “Star Trek” & Why Digital Cameras Suck

    3/02

    Colm Meaney on Irish Talent, “Star Trek” & Why Digital Cameras Suck

    Colm Meaney is the definitive Irish character actor of his generation, having starred in classics like “The Commitments”, “The Damned United”, and “Layer Cake” over a near 50-year career. Meanwhile, his roles in Hollywood blockbusters like “Die Hard 2”, “Con Air”, and “The Last of the Mohicans”, as well as on TV in “Star Trek: The Next Generation” and “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine”, have cemented his place as one of those character actors we’re always happy to see appear in a movie. Meaney joined us to discuss his new movie – Duwayne Dunham’s “The Legend of the Happy Worker” – and to tell us quite why digital cameras suck.

    26 min
  3. “I said David, I’m more of a Disney guy”: Duwayne Dunham on Lynch & ‘Legend of the Happy Worker’

    27/01

    “I said David, I’m more of a Disney guy”: Duwayne Dunham on Lynch & ‘Legend of the Happy Worker’

    From ‘Star Wars’ and ‘Blue Velvet’ to Disney Channel originals, nobody has had a career like Duwayne Dunham’s. In the latest episode of Locarno Meets, the singular editor and director reflects on cutting some of the most iconic films of our time, explores longstanding collaborations with George Lucas and David Lynch – from ‘Twin Peaks’ to ‘Wild at Heart’ – and dives into his “Western capitalist fairy tale,” the new feature ‘Legend of the Happy Worker’, which premiered out of competition at Locarno78 and marks the final film to feature Lynch’s name as executive producer.

    40 min
  4. Maysoon Zayid Says Stand-Ups Are the Last Bastions of Free Speech

    20/01

    Maysoon Zayid Says Stand-Ups Are the Last Bastions of Free Speech

    A comedian from New York who knows what’s wrong with the movie industry, Maysoon Zayid spent Locarno78 haranguing cinema executives about the kind of work being produced, and she joined us on Locarno Meets to do the same. “The idea that diversity only applies to diverse audiences is a supremacist mindset” says the Palestinian-American comic, a disability rights advocate uncompromising in her critiques of how and why movies get made. In Locarno last year to speak at StepIn during Locarno Pro, Zayid’s many insights were a powerful and much-needed provocation on the first day of our industry activities.

    40 min
  5. Anatomy of a Thriller: Lucy Liu & Eric Lin Talk Their Award-Winning Film “Rosemead”

    13/01

    Anatomy of a Thriller: Lucy Liu & Eric Lin Talk Their Award-Winning Film “Rosemead”

    We start the new year off with another episode of our movie podcast Locarno Meets, this time in conversation with the iconic star LucyLiu and Eric Lin, director of her celebrated film “Rosemead”. Winner of the Prix du Public UBS – the audience award – at Locarno78, “Rosemead” tells the heart-wrenching, real-life story of a woman, played by Liu, who discovers her teenage son is obsessed with violent fantasies and plans to act on them. Only her drastic intervention can stop him from destroying everything they’ve built as a family and bringing harm to others. We sat down with Lucy Liu and her director Eric Lin to discuss this extraordinary film and dig into the specifics of Liu’s remarkable performance.

    17 min
  6. “Bugonia” Producer Ed Guiney Talks Indie Movies, Yorgos Lanthimos & the Smarthouse

    23/12/2025

    “Bugonia” Producer Ed Guiney Talks Indie Movies, Yorgos Lanthimos & the Smarthouse

    Ed Guiney is an Irish producer known for his collaborations with filmmakers like Yorgos Lanthimos and Joana Hogg. We invited him to join us on Locarno Meets to give his insights on the state of indie filmmaking in Europe, his artistic partnership with Yorgos Lanthimos, Letterboxd’s influence on arthouse attendance, and his definition of the role of producer.

    23 min
  7. “I Like It When a Director Has a Vision”: Willem Dafoe Talks Acting Process, David Lynch, and ‘The Birthday Party’

    16/12/2025

    “I Like It When a Director Has a Vision”: Willem Dafoe Talks Acting Process, David Lynch, and ‘The Birthday Party’

    Over the course of a more than 45-year career, Willem Dafoe has played everything, from the Green Goblin in “Spider-Man” to Jesus Christ in Martin Scorsese’s “The Last Temptation of Christ”. But crucially, he has never rested on his laurels, and continues to collaborate on ever more bold and daring projects with a new generation of emerging filmmakers. In Locarno to present Miguel Ángel Jiménez’s caustic “The Birthday Party” on the Piazza Grande, we sat down with Dafoe on Locarno Meets to talk about how you should find your own role when on set, working with David Lynch on “Wild at Heart”, juggling the demands of Hollywood and the arthouse, and getting fired from the set of “Heaven’s Gate” for laughing at a dirty joke.

    40 min
  8. From Sundance to the Piazza Grande: Bill Condon Talks J-Lo Indie Musical “Kiss of the Spider Woman”

    09/12/2025

    From Sundance to the Piazza Grande: Bill Condon Talks J-Lo Indie Musical “Kiss of the Spider Woman”

    Our guest this week on Locarno Meets is Bill Condon, the man behind some of the biggest movie musicals of the modern age, from “Chicago” to “Dreamgirls” to “Beauty and the Beast”. He joined us to talk timeliness, down and dirty prison dramas, working with Jennifer Lopez’s tight schedule, and how it all combined in his latest film “Kiss of the Spider Woman”, which was the closing film of Locarno78.

    26 min
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Sobre

Welcome to Locarno Meets, an original Locarno Film Festival podcast brought to you by UBS. Established legends of cinema and exciting new talent chat about art, life, movies, and everything in between. Locarno Meets has featured memorable discussions with veritable legends of cinema like Shah Rukh Khan, Jane Campion, Alfonso Cuarón, Ken Loach, Harmony Korine, Irène Jacob, and many more.

Informação

  • Canal
    Locarno Film Festival
  • Autoria
    Locarno Film Festival
  • Anos em atividade
    2023 - 2026
  • Episódios
    53
  • Classificação
    Explícito
  • Copyright
    © Locarno Film Festival
  • Site do programa
    Locarno Meets

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