CLEARLAKE – Second Sunday Cinema is offering a double feature on the financial crisis for May 9: “The Warning” and Michael Moore’s “Capitalism: A Love Story.”

Please note that to allow us all to get home at a decent hour, “The Warning” will be screened at 5 p.m., one hour earlier than usual. Following a 15-minute break, “Capitalism” will begin at 6:15 p.m.

“The Warning” is a just-released, hard-hitting Frontline documentary showing how Brooksley Born, a brilliant woman who was the head of the Commodities Futures Trading Commission in the 1990s, became worried that lack of regulation and fraud in the derivatives’ market was so rife that it could bring down the US and the global economies.

Doing her job, she warned Alan Greenspan, head of the SEC. He told her that fraud was acceptable, and she was fired.

This 58-minute film is gripping, fast-moving and enraging. It is also the perfect explanatory lead-in to Michael Moore’s film.

“Capitalism: A Love Story” brings the resultant near-collapse of our economy home. We are given a moving and intimate view of what happens when big business and government “regulators” put greed and profit before human life (or anything else).

Warren Buffet, the world’s richest person is quoted as saying in 2007, “It’s class warfare. My class is winning, but they shouldn’t be.” Is it OK with you that the richest 1 percent now own 95 percent of the world’s wealth?

You are welcome to stay for the first film only, for both films, or for the second film only. When the films are over, you will have a much better understanding of how capitalism has become the twisted property of the highest power brokers, and is no longer the inspiration of millions of small business people. The films are free, as always.

Our venue remains the same: the Clearlake United Methodist Church at 14521 Pearl Ave., near Mullen in Clearlake. The time has changed. “The Warning” will begin at 5 p.m. – an hour earlier. “Capitalism” starts at 6:15 p.m.

For more information call 707-279-2957.