Arts Express

Arts Express 3-31-22 Featuring Director Tarik Saleh of The Contractor

**  A Conversation With Director Tarik Saleh on his political thriller, The Contractor
** Cancel Culture Un-Cancelled: Those Russian pranksters Vladimir and Alexei, alias Vovan and Lexus are at it again. 
** Poetry Corner: "I Am Flint."

Arts Express 3-26-22 Featuring Actress Alicia Witt

** Alice: Alicia Witt in a film about slaves in the Deep South who were kept from the truth** Guantanamo Diary Revisited: Director John Goetz on his film about Guantanamo prisoner Mohamedou Slahi** Suzanne Vega with her one woman show about Carson McCullers

Arts Express 3-19-22 Featuring Actor Oliver Hudson

** Oliver Hudson Talks The Cleaning Lady: A dramatic series that places that immigrant struggle front and center. ** I've Heard The Mermaids Singing: A Conversation with Patricia Rozema** Deep Dive: Redacted Tonight former host Lee Camp

Arts Express 3-12-22 Featuring Stuttering John Melendez

**Stuttering John Melendez On The Arts Express Hot Seat
**Deep Dive: Mr. Bachmann And His Class--finally, an accurate film about teaching
**Information Terrorism Watch and The New McCarthyism

Arts Express 3-5-22 Featuring Iranian FIlmmaker Shahram Mokri

* Careless Crime: A Conversation With Iranian Filmmaker Shahram Mokri
* Professor and poet Laura Hinton presents "P is for Palomares." Reflecting on the tragedy of war
* Information Terrorism Watch: 'Not Iraq or Afghanistan."

Arts Express 2-26-22 Featuring Spinners Legend Henry Fambrough

* A Conversation With Spinners Legend Henry Fambrough
* Arts Express Playhouse: The Ethicist replies, answering readers' knotty moral dilemmas
* Information Terrorism Watch: Gaslighting the country into another war

Arts Express 2-19-22 Featuring Director Reginald Hudlin

*Director Reginald Hudlin Talks Phat Tuesdays delving into the struggles of black comics to be seen and heard. 
*Filmmaker Lisa Hurwitz on The Automat, the NY institution where a nickel brought you Shangri-La

Arts Express 2-12-22 Featuring Director Bille August

** The Pact: A Conversation With Bille August. The director phones in from Denmark about his latest release** Roasting Boris Johnson: Russell Howard Checks In** AE Playhouse: War Is A Racket

Arts Express 2-3-22 Featuring Musician Mark Stein of Vanilla Fudge

** Vanilla Fudge Musician, Mark Stein, on his creative life and the key role of underground progressive FM radio like Pacifica stations
** Amiri Baraka Jr. talks Why Is We Americans, including both the personal and political inspiration derived from his father Amiri Baraka

Arts Express 1-29-22 Featuring Actor Gil Bellows of Women of the Movement

* Gil Bellows Talks Women Of The Movement, a dramatic series about events surrounding the murder of Emmett Till
* "How to Tell Your Story in a Single Sentence"--with connections to Sidney Poitier and Bogart
* Poet Tayo Aluko takes on Tony Blair

Arts Express 1-22-22 Featuring Actress Dee Wallace Interview

** Dee Wallace, actress in hundreds of movies including E.T. and the occult feature The Nest, shares how the pandemic may change movies
** The Great Postal Heist: Director Jay Galione unravels the USPS labor battleground.
**  Radio Drama Corner: "I don't know where he came from - nor who or what he was..."

Arts Express 1-15-22 Featuring Actress Sharon Gless Interview

** The Last Picture Show, The Last Conversation: Peter Bogdanovich in a last conversation about The Last Picture Show
** Apparently There Were Complaints: Sharon Gless best known as Christine Cagney, that other half of the popular eighties television show Cagney And Lacey, checks in with her new autobiography
** Reading of "Women of the Soajo," from Border Crossings, tales of the Portuguese Communist resistance by Álvaro Cunhal, alias Manuel Tiago
** A look back celebrating the screen legends lost these past weeks.