Arts Express

*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!

* 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!

* 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!

* 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!

* 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!

* 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!

* 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!

* 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!

* 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!

* 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! 

* Talking With Maggie Q: Ballard--a disturbing look at the LAPD where 'the way things were may not exist anymore...'* Shifty: The Land Of Make Believe. Thought in the age of AI, a 5 part BBC series* Red Star Cafe with Trump turning up on July 4th in Iowa* & Garland Nixon!

* Tough-as-nails Winter Bones actress Dale Dickey Talks Feminist Fatale political crime thriller The G, Breaking Bad, and Kissyfoot* The NYC Dem Primary Victory Of Zohran Mamdani: two views* Reframing the 4th of July, politics & poetry* & Garland Nixon!