Date: October 15, 2008
Time: 7 p.m.
Location: Greenspun Hall Auditorium
Details: Free and open to the public

Renowned film critic and scholar David Thomson will discuss which films of the past 100 years are worth seeing and why during a lecture at UNLV on October 15. The presentation comes one day after the release of his new book, "Have You Seen . . . ? A Personal Introduction to 1,000 Films," a fiercely opinionated compendium of one page musings on what he considers to be the masterpieces, oddities, classics and guilty pleasures of the silver screen. Copies of the book will be available for purchase at the event.

Juxtaposing the fanciful and the fabulous, the old favorites and the forgotten, this collection presents the films that Thomson offers in response to the question he gets asked most often -- "What should I see?" The book is a critical appraisal written with as much humor and passion as historical knowledge and is considered a companion volume to his popular "New Biographical Dictionary of Film," first published in 1975.

Thomson is the author of numerous books, including "In Nevada: The Land, the People, God, and Chance." He is a regular contributor to "The Guardian," "The New York Times," "Film Comment," "Movieline," "The New Republic," and "Salon." He lives in San Francisco.
The lecture is sponsored by the Hank Greenspun School of Journalism and Media Studies and the Department of Film. For more information contact 895-2028.