Actor Karen Allen (“Raiders of the Lost Ark”, “Colewell”) returns to Filmwax along with actor William Sadler (“The Green Mile”, “Die Hard 2”) to discuss a film they co-star in called “A Stage of Twilight“, the closing night film at this year’s Woods Hole Film Festival. When Barry (Sadler) is confronted with a terminal diagnosis, he is compelled to make a decision that his wife Cora (Allen) cannot support. This end-of-life struggle is heightened further when Joey, a neighbor boy who acts as a surrogate son to the childless couple, reaches a critical crossroads for his own future. Both paths ask the question: whose right is it to make life’s inevitable impossible decisions when the impact will be felt by the people we love most? “A Stage of Twilight” is currently available on streaming platforms.
Documentary filmmaker Maren Poitras discusses her new film, her first as director, “Finding the Money” which begins its theatrical at the Quad Cinema in NYC on Friday, 5/4. An underdog group of economists is on a mission to instigate a paradigm shift by flipping our understanding of the national debt — and the nature of money — upside down. “Finding the Money” follows former chief economist to the Senate Budget Committee, Stephanie Kelton, on a journey through Modern Money Theory or MMT, to unveil a deeper story about money, injecting new hope and empowering democracies around the world to tackle the biggest challenges of the 21st century: from climate change to inequality.
