Schedules are firming up for the most glamorous film festival of the year's last quarter: grand old Venice. David Cronenberg's A Dangerous Method, a study of Freud and Jung; Roman Polanksi's Carnage, an adaptation of Yasmina Reza's play God of Carnage; and Andrea Arnold's take on Wuthering Heightswill all unspool at Venice.

George Clooney’s

The Ides of March

, a sideways take on the career of shouty presidential hopeful Howard Dean, will open the festival on August 31st, but, at Reel News Towers, the most enticing entry is Tomas Alfredson’s version of John le Carré’s great espionage novel

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.

There are three of them and Alleline, you know.