Actor Alan Alda spoke with Newsday film critic Rafer Guzmán about his five films he personally selected for the Alan Alda Film Festival, a streaming event  from Stony Brook’s Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science and the Stony Brook Film Festival. 


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