Lebanese film Where Do We Go Now is tipped for Oscar glory Coriolanus Shakespeare with shooters – that’s what Ralph Fiennes’ directorial debut promises. The Bard’s challenging play has been rejigged as a study of modern warfare, complete with rolling news and military hardware. Fiennes plays the titular war general with the same psychotic ease he displayed as Nazi SS officer Amon Göth in Schindler’s List. Odeon West End 2. Sun Oct 16; 7.30pm Vue Screen 7. Mon Oct 17; 12.30pm
Into The Abyss: A Tale Of Death, A Tale Of Life You can always rely on Werner Herzog to deliver brilliant, intellectually challenging cinema. His latest documentary leads him to death row as he delves into a triple homicide committed in rural Texas in 2001. Anti-death-penalty himself, Herzgog speaks to friends and family of victims, as well as the two perpetrators, one of whom is about to be executed. Vue Screen 7. Sun Oct 23; 6pm Vue Screen 7. Mon Oct 24; 12.30pm
Documentaries
How To Re-establish A Vodka Empire A deeply personal film documenting director Daniel Edelstyn’s quest to unearth his roots in the Ukraine and relaunch his family’s vodka empire after discovering his grandmother’s journals in the attic of his family home. NFT2. Tue Oct 20; 9pm The Studio. Fri Oct 21; 7pm
Sarah Palin – You Betcha! Nick Broomfield always brings a sort of childlike curiosity to his documentaries, which is why they sometimes come off as comedies. Unsurprisingly, he’s had a field day with Republican nutcase, erm, we mean one-time vice-presidential hopeful, Sarah Palin, as he rummages around in her past. Instructive on how the US dodged a bullet. Vue Screen 5. Fri Oct 14; 5.45pm Vue Screen 5. Sun Oct 16; 12.15pm
Tea Party queen Sarah Palin is the subject of a new Nick Broomfield documentary
To be avoided? W.E. Poor Madonna. When it comes to film, everything she touches turns to shit. As if the subject matter of Wallis Simpson’s love affair with King Edward VIII hasn’t already been done to death, consider some of the reviews so far, one of which called it “a primped and simpering folly, preening and fatally mishandled“. Oh dear. Empire Leicester Sq. Sun Oct 23; 7.30pm Vue Screen 5. Mon Oct 24; 12.15pm
55th BFI London Film Festival at various cinemas across London from Oct 12-27. www.bfi.org.uk/lff. Standard tickets £10.50
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Restless As the first feature film from director Gus Van Sant since his Academy Award-winning Milk in 2008, you would hope Restless might be up there with his best work. Sadly, it doesn’t sound promising. It’s the story of a terminally ill teenage girl (Mia Wasikowksa) who falls for a boy (Henry Hopper) who attends funerals for fun. Along the way they spend some quality time with Hiroshi, the ghost of a WWII Kamikaze fighter pilot. It sounds as drippy as hell. Vue Screen 6. Sun Oct 16, 12.45pm. Vue Screen 7. Mon Oct 17, 3.15pm