Reflexion: Enchantment, Self-Identity and Film with Cathy Lomax: Vertigo

Cathy Lomax is coming to Worthing Theatres and Museum on Thursday 12 November for a double bill that pairs a gallery talk with a screening of Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo. The talk starts at 6:30pm at the Worthing Museum & Art Gallery and runs for an hour; the screening follows at 8:00pm at the Connaught Studio cinema. Both are part of REFLEXION: enchantment, self-identity and film, Lomax's exhibition currently showing at the museum.

In the talk, Lomax looks at the relationship between film star and spectator, and how Hitchcock depicts an obsessive relationship in Vertigo. James Stewart stars as a former San Francisco police detective hired to trail a hauntingly beautiful woman. It's often called one of the great movies about movies, and the claim goes that it reveals new facets each time you see it.

Both the talk and the screening sit within Hollywood Reframed, the museum's season that looks at vintage Hollywood from a modern perspective. It's not just these two: the season brings together screenings, talks, workshops and a new stage production by the theatre company Rhum + Clay.

If you're planning to do both, the talk is from £10 and the screening from £5.50, each with a £0.75 transaction fee. Vertigo is a PG, and the BBFC notes mild threat and references to suicide. The talk is at the museum, the film is at the Connaught Studio.