WBAI-FM Upcoming Program
Arts Express

Wed, Jul 16, 2025 9:00 PM

JAMES MOCKOSKI CHECKS IN

** "I think that's emblematic of the '70s - at a time where they were frustrated, they didn't want other people telling them what art was..."

Apocalypse Now, Hearts Of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse, Megalopolis, Mishima: A Life In Four Chapters, Godfather III - A Conversation With James Mockoski: his combo film crew/collaborator on that historic Francis Ford Coppola war movie, on this 50th year anniversary of the end of the Vietnam conflict's triumphant revolutionary uprising against the US.

And Mockoski's role as well, as observer and preserver of Coppola's extraordinary body of work. While playing out in Apocalypse Now ironically on location in the Philippines - the US empire's staging ground in its assault on Vietnam back then. And with connections to George Lucas, Martin Sheen, the late Dennis Hopper and Brando - and the act of peeling a potato as art...

** "So here's the bottom line - what about the Epstein files...

Pacifica Host Garland Nixon reporting from an undisclosed location, spilling the beans on tariffs, hostile takeovers, the tax cuts game, Jackie Chan movies - and the case of Epstein and the disappeared in DC...

** "We've recently been assaulted with the Jeff Bezos 50 million dollar wedding, but let's turn back the clock. Bezos sent a rocket into space - but down on the ground, Amazon warehouse workers were fed up and ready to fight back..."

Union: A Conversation with investigative filmmakers Brett Story and Stephen Maing. And fighting for the first union representation ever in the nation, from an Amazon workplace... 

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