Arts Express: Matt Taibbi Talks Eric Garner - A Killing On Bay Street

**NY Film Festival - Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold: A Conversation with Director Griffin Dunne. And an intimate portrait of the acclaimed veteran prolific novelist and literary journalist by Dunne, who happens to be her nephew. Along with connections to Janis Joplin, Vanessa Redgrave, Leonard Bernstein, scrapbooks, and writers block in the freezer compartment.

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** "Ramsey Orta, he took that video - there's a chapter in my book where after years of being chased by police, he decides to run. And holes up in a hideout in the Bronx. And he calls me and kind of tells me the whole story of everything that happened to him - and at the end of that conversation, he hangs up and is arrested by police..."

Rolling Stones journalist Matt Taibbi phone in to Arts Express to talk about, I Can't Breathe: A Killing On Bay Street. Revisiting in his latest book, the unindicted police murder of Eric Garner on Staten Island - venturing behind the scenes to explore a greater chilling national reality of racism and injustice.



** The Russian Revolution 100 Year Anniversary: Actress extraordinaire Mary Murphy reads from the writings of American eyewitness chronicler of the revolution back then, Louise Bryant.

**Poetry Corner: Halloween mischief - courtesy of H. P. Lovecraft, ghosts, suburbia, and Earthling Cinema's Hidden Meaning In The Exorcist.

**Best Of The Net Hotspot: The Last Poets.

More information about the NY Film Festival 2017, is online at https://www.filmlinc.org/nyff2017

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