San Francisco Chronicle film critic Mick LaSalle returns for his fourth annual Napa Valley Arts & Lectures appearance on Feb. 21 at 7 p.m. at Copia.

Sacramento Bee Film Critic Carla Meyer joins LaSalle on stage to discuss this year’s crop of Oscar contenders, their picks and pans, and their predictions.

LaSalle has reviewed films for the San Francisco Chronicle since 1985 and was appointed the newspaper’s sole film critic in 2002. He has lectured at festivals in the Hamptons, Denver, Las Vegas and Mill Valley and at New York’s Film Forum and San Francisco’s Castro Theatre. For several years he taught a film course at UC Berkeley. He is the author of “Complicated Women: Sex and Power in Pre-Code Hollywood,” a history and critical study of the actresses who worked during the pre-censorship “pre-Code” era of 1929-1934.

Meyer became the film critic at the Sacramento Bee in 2005 after writing about film for five years at the San Francisco Chronicle alongside LaSalle. Before that, she worked in the sports department at the Chronicle, where her various roles included a brief tenure as sports editor. A member of the San Francisco Film Critics Circle and judge for the Ashland Independent Film Festival, Meyer loves movies from the 1950s and 1970s. Her 10 favorite films, in alphabetical order, are “The African Queen,” “All About Eve,” “Amores Perros,” “Brokeback Mountain,” “Carrie,” “Dog Day Afternoon,” “Jaws,” “Sideways,” “Some Like It Hot” and “Tootsie.”

Tickets are $20 ($18 for Copia members). For reservations, call 259-1600, or visit the Web site at www.copia.org.