** "You would expect that the more we know about human beings and all the media - it's a big issue, people are worried, people don't feel safe..."

Bille August Talks The Kiss, Fellini, Bergman - wars on screen and endless war outside the theaters. The acclaimed Danish director of Pelle The Conqueror, Les Miserables and the political thriller Night Train To Lisbon phones in from Denmark to delve into three of his latest films about war.

And including The Kiss, a Danish language WWI historical drama - but which also probes the divided classes at war with one another as well. As an enlisted soldier escaping poverty is lured, not exactly unwillingly, into a romantic entanglement with the local baron's disabled daughter. - who himself having bought his way from his bourgeois roots, into the aristocracy.

August considers all of this and more, including his artistic journey from his youth when discovering Fellini's La Strada that first inspired him to become a filmmaker; his current project revisiting the life of the late eminent US writer Thomas Wolfe - and how and why so many war movies including his, seem to be coming out across Europe amidst the endless war all around them right now...

** "It is important to continue to have these open spaces where people can talk and say things that could you know, get you beaten up and sent to an El Savador prison - which is probably likely my fate!..."

Pacifica Host Garland Nixon on controversial subjects which shouldn't be, but are desperately needed to be talked about - 'this is where I'm going...' With connections to do-gooders, the left of the right wing war machine, the Nuremberg trials, and genocide...

** "So what can art do to win the hearts and minds of Americans - to move not only with facts, but with emotions too..."

Palestine Resistance Cinema Online. With May 15th Nakba Day this week, the Gaza War is coming home to the US - where the money for the Israeli bombs comes from. And a look at the Youtube free viewing collection for Nakba Day, the day of commemoration also known as The Palestinian Catastrophe.

Which comprised the destruction of Palestinian society and homeland in 1948, and the permanent displacement of a majority of the Palestinian people. Even as an Israeli war criminal now is celebrated making the rounds in Brooklyn...

** "Sunken ships, polluted waters, and getting off the grid..."

Bro On The Global Television Beat. Arts Express Paris Correspondent Professor Dennis Broe on the new spring streaming season - 'the good, the bad and the indifferent.'

And what it has to do with Nazis, Silicon Valley, a UFO, the Mossad, and terrorist pagers - and 'a series on how difficult it is, even if one's life depended on it, to escape the digital devices which track our every move - that is, to literally or even metaphorically log out...'