Arts Express

* 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

** 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

** 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

** 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

* 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

* 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

* 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

* 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

* 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

* 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

** Comedian W. Kamau Bell Talks Growing Up Mixed: Taking up race as no laughing matter ** Red Iowa: Artists Peter Wise and Cecile Houel talk art & politics ** Jack & Rick with Bob & Ray homage episode #2 ** Garland Nixon on US Empire, Crime Scenes Edition

** Chaos Of Color: A Conversation With Uriah Heep guitarist, Mick Box. ** Caitlin Johnstone on NPR and its wild biases, greasing the wheels of the US empire. ** Garland Nixon on "Why I oppose imperialism." ** The Statue of David --Controversy, Now And Then

* CNN analyst Elie Honig Talks Untouchable: How Powerful People Get Away With It * Garland Nixon dissects how propaganda works * Broe on Dispatches: The Invaders - Alien beings from a dying empire  * Shy: The Alarmingly Outspoken Memoirs Of Mary Rodgers

** Filmmaker, writer John Sayles talks Jamie MacGillivray, his new novel  ** Joel Thurm visits the Hollywood casting couch ** Activist/poet Mitchel Cohen presents "The Rubber Stamp Man" Pt. 1 ** Peter Wise celebrates musician/poet Gil Scott-Heron 

** John Shipton Talks Ithaka: His struggle to free his son Julian Assange from captivity ** Art Express Artist-In-Residence Peter Wise on the necessity of artists to fight the Deep State in their work. HIs work can be seen here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/192835167@N04 ** Coriolanus, Shakespeare's most class-conscious play

** John Ridley Talks Shirley: The African-American filmmaker discusses his new graphic novel and his biopic, Shirley, about Shirley Chisolm, the first black Congresswoman and first black woman to run for President ** Arts Express Crime Scenes Edition: US Gangsterism and how it plays out around the world: Lionel and Garland Nixon

* Mia Wasikowska talks Blueback, playing a child of environmentalists who struggles against corporations destroying ocean life * Poet Connie Norgren reads recent poems * Bro on Diana Dors vs. Marilyn Monroe * An International Women's Day arts celebration

* Screen legend Charlotte Rampling talks Juniper, playing WWII correspondent Martha Gelhorn * Dennis Broe reads from his latest noir thriller, The Precinct With The Golden Arm. * A tribute to comedians Bob & Ray.

** Mamie Van Doren, the 1950's screen star on her latest memoir, China And Me ** Garland Nixon on Sy Hersh's Nordstream 2 pipeline revelations ** The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports The Tech Of Occupation  ** Peter Wise: From the Military to Marx

** Annabeth Gish Talks Little Dixie and playing women in settings dominated by men while holding her own ** The French director Gaspar Noe discusses the re-release of Irreversible as the Straight Cut. ** Screening Room: "Why Beauty Is Killing Cinema"

** William Shatner Talks "Beam Me Up!" On Tour and the acting legend's lifelong Captain Kirk identity crisis.  ** Garland Nixon and Lionel on the psychology of balloons! ** The Quiet Epidemic: the new film doc on the mysteries of chronic Lyme disease

* "My Father Muhammad Ali": A Conversation With Muhammad Ali Jr. about his confounding documentary * Propaganda, the possibility of nuclear war, and the price of eggs...Garland Nixon breaks it down * The Screening Room: "The Con Artist in Films"

** David Arquette on playing a shady oil exec in On Sacred Ground ** Garland Nixon talks whistleblowing and leaving FOX news ** Unpacking the theater of 3 card monte

** A Conversation With Sheila McCarthy, who talks of I Heard The Mermaids Singing  and her latest film, Women Talking. ** Bro on "The Business of Streaming" ** Screening Room: The Darkest Philosopher In History: Arthur Schopenhauer

** Joe Berlinger Talks Madoff: The Monster Of Wall Street and The System ** Garland Nixon on "What I Learned in 2022" ** Angola Do You Hear Us: Voices From A Plantation Prison, with playwright Liza Jessie Peterson and director Cinque Northern