Arts Express

Arts Express 10-1-25 Featuring The Daily Show's Head Writer Dan Amira

* The Daily Show: A Conversation With Head Writer, Dan Amira --Who's Calling the Shots?* Newport And The Great Folk Dream: a look back to a crucial musical marker* Broe with a 2nd wave report from the streets of Paris* And Garland Nixon!

Arts Express 9-24-25 Featuring Charlie McDowell

* Charlie McDowell Talks The Summer Book, His Dad Malcolm McDowell, Dear White People - & his uncredited bully in Curb Your Enthusiasm* AE Paris Correspondent Broe on Trump's defunding of public tv & radio - the sledgehammer solution* Flags Half Mast at Guantanamo's McDonalds* & Garland Nixon!

Arts Express 9-17-25 Featuring Tim Blake Nelson

*Tim Blake Nelson Talks Bang Bang, as a down & out Detroit ex-boxer. Also, The Lowdown, & Nelson's status as a continuing master of many movie hats* More Copaganda: How The Police And The Media Manipulate Our News* Broe reports on the mass rage on the streets of Paris* & Garland Nixon!

Arts Express 9-10-25 featuring Chris Cooper

* Chris Cooper Talks The History Of Sound, the journey of two WWI era music conservationists who record and preserve rural ballads; & John Sayles' Matewan * Copaganda: How The Police And The Media Manipulate Our News, with author Alec Karakatsanis* & Garland Nixon!

Arts Express 9-3-25 Featuring Melissa Leo

* The Knife: Melissa Leo on playing a deceptively concerned sinister cop in her new film; & also, her turn as Laura Poitras in Snowden* Bro on the new Manchurian candidates* Painting Klansmen: How Philip Guston explored themes of violence, evil and complicity* & Garland Nixon!

Arts Express 8-27-25 Featuring Patricia Clarkson

* Lilly: Patricia Clarkson as real life blue collar worker Lilly Ledbetter, fighting Goodyear Tire--and prevailing!* Action Will Be Taken--a comic Labor Noir * In The Disruption: On the writings of philosopher and former bank robber, Bernard Stiegler* & Garland Nixon!

Arts Express 8-20-25 Featuring Director Oliver Assayas

* Suspended Time: Oliver Assayas talks about his existential voyage through the Covid lockdown. Also Carlos, and his Putin in Wizard Of The Kremlin
* Return to Fukushima, an irradiated world* Bro on The Summit, Who Wants Peace?* And Garland Nixon!

Arts Express 8-13-25 Featuring Michael Chernus

* Michael Chernus Talks Birthrite, Orange Is The New Black, and playing Theo Bikel in A Complete Unknown* Return to Fukushima: the false promise and real danger of nuclear power with investigative journalist Thomas Bass* And Garland Nixon!

Arts Express 8-6-25 Featuring Jim O'Heir

* Actor Jim O'Heir Talks Welcome to Pawnee: Stories of Friendship, Waffles,  Parks And Recreation, & Edgar Allan Poe's Mystery Dinner Party*  AE Paris Correspondent Dennis Broe on the EU tariff surrender, weapons, Ukraine, & blackmail*  On the 80th anniversary of the US horrific atomic bombing of Hiroshima, some reflections...* & Garland Nixon!

Arts Express 7-29-25 Featuring Thomas Jane

* Thomas Jane Talks Hung, Breaking Bad, and  Murder At Yellowstone City: the western genre as wild west police state allegory* Nautilus - a reimagining of Jules Vernes' 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea* Red Star Cafe: Denzel Washington on propaganda* & Garland Nixon!

Arts Express 7-23-25 Featuring Lou Diamond Phillips

* Lou Diamond Phillips: La Bamba, Che, Stand And Deliver - and among the miners trapped in The 33* Union: Pt 2 convo on the Amazon Labor Union film doc * Red Star Cafe: who is Vera Caspary, linking McCarthyism, film noir, and Gaza* & Garland Nixon!

Arts Express 7-16-25 Featuring James Mockoski

* Apocalypse Now, Megalopolis, Godfather III & more- A Conversation with Coppola collaborator James Mockoski* Filmmakers Brett Story and Stephen Maing talk Union: fighting for the first Amazon union in the nation* And Garland Nixon!