Ralph Steadman: For No Good Reason, London
Steadman's twisted, splattery illustrations are synonymous with countercultural satire and gonzo recklessness, via his association with Hunter S Thompson (who judged Steadman even crazier than himself) and Withnail & I. But the artist is no caricature; this new documentary reveals him to be passionate, political and often good-natured. Led by Johnny Depp, the film is full of anecdotes, cameos and footage of the master at work. Steadman discusses his career with the film's director and producer after a special screening this Friday.
Curzon Soho, W1, Fri
London Turkish Film Festival
There hasn't been a lot to celebrate in Turkey recently following the Soma mine disaster, but this is the centenary year for Turkish film, and it's still going strong. The range here is impressive – a reflection, perhaps, of the changes Turkey's economic upswing has wrought on a sometimes divided society. Nuri Bilge Ceylan, the country's foremost auteur, is in Cannes but there are others out there. Like Reha Erdem, best known for Times And Winds, whose latest, Singing Women, is set around an impending earthquake. Ceylan's regular actor and co-writer Ercan Kesal appears as a music teacher in Anatolian comedy Yozgat Blues and a grieving father in sombre thriller Mold, which won the best first feature award at Venice last year. Six of the 16 films playing here (including Dervis Zaim's Cycle) compete for the audience-determined Golden Wings award – the prize being UK distribution.
Various venues, to 1 Jun
Hellfire Video Club, Bristol
Diligently mining the cult/psychedelic/alternative/trash/weird waste bin of pop history, Bristol's Hellfire Video Club have brought everything from Turkish Star Wars to Italian gore to British pagan horror to the Cube over the past three years. The format for their monthly nights is a themed double-bill with choice music before, between and after (they've been known to give out free mix CDs), with the second film a surprise, even more out-there variation on the theme. This Friday, the tone is set by Richard C Sarafian's existential petrolhead classic Vanishing Point from 1971 – a muscle-car joyride that blazed a renegade trail a good decade before Ryan Gosling even got into a pushchair.
Cube cinema, Fri
Chantal Akerman, Glasgow
Film collective A Nos Amours has been running a retrospective at London's ICA but here's a chance for Scots to sample film-maker Akerman's unique oeuvre, via three free programmes. The Belgian director oscillates between fiction and documentary, bringing formal boldness, visual restraint and intimacy. Her first experimental short, 1968's Saute Ma Ville, plays here alongside 2006 documentary Down There, based on the view from her Tel Aviv window; Je, Tu, Il, Elle is a frank exploration of sexuality; and News From Home is a documentary exploring 70s New York.
CCA, Wed to 10 Jun
