FILM autunno

Autumn film highlights 2008
Including the London Film Festival, the Coen brothers’ ‘Burn After Reading’ and the latest Bond film ‘Quantum of Solace’
TCM Crime Scene 2008
Sept 24-28, various venues
The film strand of this criminally minded festival includes a retrospective of legendary French director Bertrand Tavernier. www.tcmonline.co.uk/crimescene

SCi-Fi London Oktoberfest
Oct 3-4, Apollo West End
Three explosive, exhaustive sci-fi allnighters form the centrepiece of this welcome mini-festival.
www.sci-fi-london.com

(52nd) London Film Festival
Oct 15-30, various venues
London's biggest and best festival of world cinema opens with the world premiere of Ron Howard's 'Frost/Nixon'.
www.lff.org.uk

Burn After Reading
Oct 19
After the all-out triumph of their recent Oscar winner, ‘No Country for Old Men’, the Coen brothers make a swift return with this star-studded screwball FBI comedy.

Quantum of Solace
Oct 31
Bond No 22 sees Daniel Craig continue with 'Casino Royale's' modernising franchise reboot as the inconsolable agent does battle with Mathieu Amalric's green-eyed new villain.
www.007.com

Hunger
Oct 31
Brit artist-turned-filmmaker Steve McQueen's impressive meditation on IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands.

W.
Nov 7
Oliver Stone dramatises the life of George W.Bush, with Josh Brolin as the bumbling president. Handily timed to coincide with the US election.

Waltz with Bashir
Nov 21
Powerful new autobiographical animation that looks back at the Israeli army's involvement in Lebanon in 1982.

Body Of Lies
Nov 21
Ridley Scott brings together Russell Crowe and Leonardo DiCaprio in this Iraq war thriller about an injured field journalist hired to track down an Al Qaeda leader.
bodyoflies.warnerbros.com

Changeling
Nov 28
Clint Eastwood's back behind the camera, directing Angeline Jolie in this unnerving period thriller.