Arts Express

Arts Express 4-16-22 Featuring Veteran Actor Jim Broadbent

** Actor Jim Broadbent talks his new films, The Duke and Charlotte.
** Ballad of an American: the autobiography of leftist "Joe Hill" composer Earl Robinson
** Dennis Broe reporting from Paris on Macron and Le Pen, as the two compete to be President. 

Arts Express 4-9-22 Featuring Director/Actor David Hayman

* Director/Actor David Hayman Talks Sid And Nancy, Bull
* Bro On The Global Television Beat: Series Mania
* Meat the Future: A new doc on the world's first cell-based meatball, and why anyone would want to eat it.

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