Arts Express

Arts Express 7-12-23 Featuring Actor Graham McTavish

** Graham McTavish Talks The Witcher, Men In Kilts, & Somewhere in Montana.
** A Memo From David Mamet to writers
** Peter Wise tracks down rock musician & reporter, Bob Saar
** Garland Nixon on corrupted corporate media

Arts Express 7-5-23 Featuring Director Catherine Hardwicke

** Director Catherine Hardwicke Talks Prisoner's Daughter: drugs, incarceration, and the struggles of single working mothers. 
** As Far As I Can Walk: A Conversation With Director Stefan Asimyevich
** Bro on the crime novel and corruption
** Garland Nixon breaks it down

Arts Express 6-28-23 Featuring Actor Wes Studi

* First Nation star Wes Studi talks PTSD in Mending The Line and his new series Reservation Dogs* Garland Nixon on reading the news backwards* The Palestine Laboratory: how Israel's oppressive tech is  exported to the world

Arts Express 6-21-23 Featuring Actress Barbara Sukowa

** Daliland: Talking With Barbara Sukowa, whose  portrayals include Rosa Luxemburg and Dali's muse and slave - Gala
** The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports The Technology Of Occupation 
** Peter Wise with Blues Hall Of Fame musician Pat Hazell

Arts Express 6-14-23 Featuring Director Abel Ferrara

** Director Abel Ferrara, auteur of Bad Lieutenant and King of New York on his recent film Padre Pio
** Musician Pat Hazell talks Heartland Blues Music 
** Jack & Rick catch up with the Shark Whisperer
** A Celebration Of Ken Loach's 60 Year Career In Socialist Filmmaking

Arts Express Featuring Actor Callan McAuliffe

** About Him & Her: A Conversation With Callan McAuliffe. Playing a troubled Chicago artist who falls in love virtually, before the digital age. 
** Paintings In Movies from 2001: A Space Odyssey to Portrait of A Lady On Fire
** Two May birthday music legends jam

Arts Express 6-7-23 Featuring Author Dennis Lehane

* Novelist Dennis Lehane talks Small Miracles, the writers strike, and adapting his novels to film
* Bro on "Series TV After the Deluge:" Bank failures, budgets and the new conservatism in programming
* Same Propaganda, Different Day--The Case of Red Dawn

Arts Express 5-24-23 Featuring Jon Voight

* Jon Voight talks Mercy and Coppola's Megalopolis, and his new doc about Midnight Cowboy
* Garland Nixon on Corporate Media Watch
* How Hollywood Sells Us War - Hollywood's Crucial Role In The Military Industrial Complex

Arts Express 5-17-23 Featuring Leslie Uggams

* Leslie Uggams talks Dottie & Soul in a conversation about defying race and class in her latest film
* Julian Assange's Letter to Charles
* Dennis Broe on the Hollywood Writers Strike
* Garland Nixon's Corporate Media Watch

Arts Express 5-10-23 Featuring Actress Famke Janssen

* Actress Famke Janssen Talks Knights Of The Zodiac--and how she is drawn to take-charge female film roles 
* Caitlin Johnstone with a real Mothers Day poem
* Dennis Broe converses with historian Gerald Horne about neo-colonialism
* Empire Hollywood: The Pentagon Calls the Shots

Arts Express 5-3-23 Featuring Cinematographer Roger Deakins

* Legendary Cinematographer Roger Deakins Talks Byways, Blade Runner, and his photography 
* "Red Iowa:" Peter Wise tells tales of the "Global Trotsky"
* Dirty Work-- prisons, slaughterhouses and drones operators as the hidden dirty work that is essential to capitalism
* "The New McCarthyism Censorship," with Garland Nixon

Arts Express 4-26-23 Featuring Actor Yul Vazquez

* Actor Yul Vazquez Talks White House Plumbers and Godfather Of Harlem
* The Rubber Stamp Man: Poems and Snippets from Political activist and poet, Mitchel Cohen, Part 2
* 32 Sounds: Filmmaker Sam Green on his immersive new documentary on the power of sound
* Garland Nixon commentary on those who push our buttons