Visiting Author: Quentin Falk

As a part of the University of North Georgia’s Visiting Authors program, British film critic, Quentin Falk, will be giving a talk and film screening. On Tuesday, April 9, Falk will be presenting “From True Lives to True Crime: Cinema, Celebrity & the Courtroom” in Shott Auditorium at 7:30 PM. On Wednesday, April 10, Falk will be hosting a screening and talk of the film The Fallen Idol, which is an adaptation of Graham Greene’s “The Basement Room.” The screening will be held at 7:00 PM in the Library of Technology David L. Potter Special Collections Room, 382. The screening will be followed by a Q&A.

Quentin Falk is a film critic and biographer and is considered one of Britain’s leading authorities on film and television. Previously, he was editor of the British Academy of Film and Television Art’s magazine Academy, and has written critical film reviews for the Daily and Mail and Sunday Mirror. His authorized biographies include Anthony Hopkins Biography: The Biography (Virgin Books) and Albert Finney: In Character (Robson Books Ltd). His book Travels in Greeneland (Reynolds and Hearn Ltd) provides a broad examination of the many Graham Greene novels. His book Mr. Hitchcock (Life & Times) (Haus Publishing) offers a mixture of film criticism and biography as he analyzes how Hitchcock’s life and personality influenced his films. He is a co-author of the Strangest Series (Robson Books Ltd) with his son Ben Falk, Cinema’s Strangest Moments and Television’s Strangest Moments. His most recent book, which is the topic of is talk, The Musical Milkman Murder (John Blake Publishing Ltd), is a true crime thriller that investigates a murder that Falk discovered had occurred in his South Bucks cottage in 1920, after World War I.