New York. Fall Preview.

The fall season's actually supposed to wait for Labor Day, but who's not ready to stow away the capes and get to it already? Good news: Venice opens on Wednesday, Telluride on Friday. And New York's looking beyond. Many of its "Fall Preview" entries are brief - but welcome.

"In the globe-trotting con-artist movie The Brothers Bloom, two lifelong grifters (Adrien Brody and Mark Ruffalo) devise double-crosses so fabulously complex that they begin to lose track of where real life ends and the bamboozle begins," writes Logan Hill; he talks with Rachel Weisz, who "steals the film right out from under the brothers' noses."

Updated through 8/30.

There's a quick profile of John Hillcoat, who's directed an adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's The Road; Hill's chat with Josh Brolin about playing George W Bush in Oliver Stone's W; a guide to the season's male duos; a few questions for Catherine Keener regarding Charlie Kaufman's Synecdoche, New York; an even quicker talk with Benicio Del Toro (Che); a glimpse at Beverly Hills Chihuahua; a chart ("Vulture's Fall Recommend-o-Matic: Movies") and a briefly annotated schedule of September, October and November releases.

"Last year gave us awards-quality glumfests like There Will Be Blood, Before the Devil Knows You're Dead and In the Valley of Elah. It also gave us a severe case of clinical depression. Will we survive 2008? Or will this year's crop of movies be even more dour than last year's?" A prognostication from Dan Kois and Lane Brown in Vulture.

Updates: More fall previewing: At Screengrab, Paul Clark, Andrew Osborne and Scott Von Doviak each pick three movies they're looking forward to and three they'll try to avoid.

David Germain writes the AP's fall preview.

The Playlist is previewing, starting with September and October.

Update, 8/26: And the Playlist previews November and December.

Updates, 8/27: Johnny Ray Huston opens the San Francisco Bay Guardian's "Fall Arts Preview 2008" package and writes up a big list of "50 ways to rep film this fall." Cheryl Eddy makes note of "10 big-screen release dates to remember - for better and worse."

Noah Forrest previews September and October for Movie City News.

In the New York Observer, Sara Vilkomerson picks seven films to look out for in September.

Screengrab's Leonard Pierce picks three to look forward to, three to avoid and one wild card.

William Speruzzi's "Fall 2008 Radar."

Update, 8/30: The Washington Post presents its "Fall Books Preview 2008."

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