Pulitzer prize-winning film critic Joe Morgenstern will present an evening of conversation about the movie industry, at the Martha’s Vineyard Hebrew Center on Thursday, August 12.

Mr. Morgenstern has entitled his talk Quo Vadis — Not the Movie, the Movies, and he promises “an extended and informal conversation with the audience (their questions and my answers, plus some hopefully relevant stories and selected snippets of gossip”) about the state of the movies and where they seem to be going.”

Mr. Morgenstern writes reviews and a column about movies and the movie industry for The Wall Street Journal, which he joined in 1995. He was a foreign correspondent for The New York Times before he became a theater and movie critic for the New York Herald Tribune in 1959. He moved to Newsweek as movie critic in 1965 and later was a columnist for the Los Angeles Herald Examiner. Cofounder of the National Society of Film Critics, he has written television scripts, including The Boy in the Plastic Bubble and episodes of Law & Order.

Thursday’s program begins at 7:30 p.m. Admission is $15.