Arts Express

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.

Arts Express 1-5-22 Featuring Director Jamie Roberts Four Hours at the Capitol

** Four Hours At The Capitol: A Conversation With UK Director Jamie Roberts. 
** Broe On The Global Television Beat: AE Correspondent Dennis Broe's Deep Dive Year End Episode 2: The best and worst of what to watch online - or not.
** Plus...Radio Drama: Chekhov, Michael Redgrave...Listener Music. 

Arts Express 1-1-22 Featuring Actress Alana Haim Interview

** Actress Alana Haim talks Licorice Pizza** Critic Armond White on the AE Hot Seat discusses Spielberg, including West Side Story** Marionette Land: director Alex Monelli's new doc about an actor /puppeteer trying to make it through COVID days.
Photo: Raph_PH - HaimFoxPomona CC 2.0

Arts Express 12-25-21 Featuring Rosanna Arquette Interview

** Rosanna Arquette talks Love Is Love Is Love
** Rebel Hearts: Defiant LA nuns of the 1960s fight back in Pedro Kos's new film doc
**The Bro Binge Report: Year wrap-up, what to watch online
 

Arts Express 12-21-21 Featurng Karolyn Grimes alias Zuzu Bailey

** It's A Wonderful Life: A Conversation With Karolyn Grimes, alias Zuzu Bailey
** The Warehouse: Robots And Workers At Amazon
** Frankie Faison Talks The Killing Of Kenneth Chamberlain

Arts Express 12-14-21 Featuring Alexander Ludwig Interview

** National Champions:  Alexander Ludwig on his new film about a striking college football team
** The Unforgivable: Nina Fingscheidt directs Sandra Bullock as a convicted cop killer and pariah 
** The Furnished Room: a performance of O Henry's short story

Arts Express 12-07-21 Featuring Actress Lucy Punch Interview

** Silent Night: A Conversation With Lucy Punch.  The comic actress in a satirical doomsday Christmas Eve gathering 
** Dennis Broe reads from his latest noir novel,  A Hello To Arms
** The 94th International Pun Competition, on location in Frostbite Falls
 
 
photo credit: David Shankbone