Friday 5 October at 7.00 p.m.

In his latest book The Big Screen David Thomson, perhaps the greatest living authority on the history of cinema, describes not only how film has developed in the hundred or so years of its existence, but also how it has transformed society, fundamentally altering our sense of what is real and what is spectacle. David will be illustrating his ideas with close reference to a scene from Hitchcock’s Psycho, excerpts from which will be shown during the evening. Nicholas Lezard wrote in the Guardian ‘What Thomson does not know or feel about films is not worth knowing or feeling’.