RALEIGH — Godfrey Cheshire’s career in film began, in a sense, in a seat at the Rialto Theatre. As a boy growing up in Raleigh, Cheshire saw John Ford’s “The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance” at the historic Five Points theater. The program will include two onstage conversations, an audience question-and-answer session and a signing of his new collection, “Cheshire on Film: Life and Writings.” As executive editor, film critic and music journalist for Spectator Magazine in the late 1970s and 1980s, he introduced readers to independent and international films that were often difficult to find outside major cities. After leaving North Carolina, Cheshire became the lead film critic for New York Press and served as chairman of the New York Film Critics Circle.