The Best of the Rest
Jealous magicians, a new Bond, one crazy Kazakh, and more.

Andy Warhol
Ric Burns’s four-hour doc is still shorter than Warhol’s first film, Sleep.
• September 1.

Man Push Cart
Ramin Bahrani’s stylish, assured debut about a midtown street-cart vendor.
• September 8.

Everyone's Hero
A Yankees-obsessed boy chases Babe Ruth’s magical talking bat.
• September 15.

The Last Kiss
Emo, onscreen: Zach Braff has another early midlife crisis.
• September 15.

All the King's Men
Sean Penn plays the firebrand southern populist of Robert Penn Warren’s classic novel.
• September 22.

Jesus Camp
A powerful doc about an Evangelical kids’ camp.
• September 22.

(Photo: Courtesy of Etienne George/Warner Independent Pictures)

The Science of Sleep
Gael García Bernal stars in Michel Gondry’s wonderfully weird semi-autobiographical film about his days as a daydreaming, narcoleptic nobody in Paris.
• September 22.

The Last King of Scotland
Forest Whitaker plays the brutal Ugandan dictator Idi Amin.
• September 27.

A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints
Dito Montiel adapts his memoir about growing up in Queens.
• September 29.

49 Up
A landmark film, squared: The seventh installment of Michael Apted’s every-seven-years documentary series.
• October 6.

Little Children
Jennifer Connelly, Kate Winslet, and Patrick Wilson star in Tom Perrotta’s novel of suburban discord, adapted by suburban-discord specialist Todd Field (In the Bedroom).
• October 6.

The Host
The New York Film Festival screens Bong Joon-ho’s South Korean box-office smash about a monster spawned on an American military base.
• October 7.

The Inland Empire
Also at the NYFF, David Lynch makes his digital-video premiere with Laura Dern, a rabbit-headed family, and other beautiful creatures.
• October 8.

Running With Scissors
Annette Bening plays Augusten Burroughs’s nutso mother in the adaptation of his memoir. Alec Baldwin plays his less-crazy father.
• October 11.

Driving Lessons
Redheaded Rupert Grint steps out of Harry Potter’s shadow in this Harold and Maude–ish romp about a shy teen and a grande dame.
• October 13.

Man of the Year
In Barry Levinson’s satire, Robin Williams plays a talk-show host who is elected president but is not Bill O’Reilly.
• October 13.

Flags of Our Fathers
Clint Eastwood directs the first of two Iwo Jima films. This one follows the Yanks; the Japanese spin is due next year.
• October 20.

Killshot
Thomas Jane and Diane Lane get stalked by Mickey Rourke in another thriller premised on the failings of the witness-protection program.
• October 20.

The Prestige
Hugh Jackman and Christian Bale play feuding magicians; Christopher Nolan (Batman Begins) directs.
• October 20.

(Photo: Courtesy of Murray Close/Paramount Classics)

Babel
Globalization never looked so hot: Gael García Bernal, Cate Blanchett, and Brad Pitt star in Alejandro González Iñárritu’s crossed-wires parable connecting Mexico, Tunisia, Japan, and Morocco.
• October 27.

Catch a Fire
Syriana in South Africa: Big oil gets it in Phillip Noyce’s drama about a victimized employee (Derek Luke) and a gun-toting investigator (Tim Robbins).
• October 27.

(Photo: Courtesy of Teresa Isasi/Picturehouse)

Borat
Sacha Baron Cohen’s Kazakh reporter goes all Bernard-Henri Lévy across the U.S.
• November 3.

Flushed Away
A bathroom-humor cartoon from the Wallace & Gromit animators.
• November 3.

(Photo: Courtesy of Emilio Pereda & Paola Ardizzoni/El Deseo/Sony Pictures Classics)

Volver
Penélope Cruz reunites with Pedro Almodóvar.
• November 3.

Iraq in Fragments
A beautifully shot Iraq documentary by James Longley that subtly predicts civil war.
• November 8.

(Photo: Courtesy of Rico Torres/Twentieth Century Fox)

A Good Year
Russell Crowe plays a stressed-out money manager who escapes to sunny Provence, where there are no concierges to provoke his phone-hurling anger. Ridley Scott directs.
• November 10.

Stranger Than Fiction
In Marc Forster’s mind-bender, Will Ferrell plays an IRS auditor who hears voices.
• November 10.

Bobby
Emilio Estevez depicts Bobby Kennedy’s assassination, starring Anthony Hopkins.
• November 17.

Candy
Abbie Cornish and Heath Ledger get hooked on heroin and each other.
• November 17.

Casino Royale
Craig, Daniel Craig.
• November 17.

Come Early Morning
Ashley Judd scores in a drama about a messed-up southern woman.
• November 17.

Fast Food Nation
Richard Linklater directs a fictional adaptation of Eric Schlosser’s screed.
• November 17.

For Your Consideration
Christopher Guest spoofs the award season.
• November 17.

The Hoax
Richard Gere plays a con artist who sells a bogus biography of Howard Hughes.
• November 17.

The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes
Animation mavericks the brothers Quay compose a perverse fairy tale.
• November 17.

Tenacious D in the Pick of Destiny
Jack Black rocks.
• November 17.

The Fountain
Indie icon Darren Aronofsky returns with his philosophical science-fiction meditation on death. Hugh Jackman and Rachel Weisz star.
• November 22.

Bug
An adaptation of the Tracy Letts play about a kooky war vet (Harry Connick Jr.), co-starring Ashley Judd.
• December 1.

The Good German
Steven Soderbergh directs George Clooney, Cate Blanchett, Beau Bridges, and Tobey Maguire in a post-WWII Berlin murder mystery.
• December 8.