Tyneside 75, Newcastle upon Tyne
What better way to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the cinematic medium than with a 75-hour film marathon? And what better value in the land can there be this weekend than 75p a film? The selection here has been chosen by cinemagoers, who were asked last year to vote on their favourite films of the past 75 years, so they're all movies you'd gladly watch again and again, from Annie Hall to Chasing Amy, The Princess Bride to The Great Dictator, Evil Dead II to The Third Man. The 75 hours is divided into 25 hours on each of the three screens, in case you were wondering. Being a marathon, some films still start at three in the morning. But come on! 75p!
Tyneside Cinema, Sat & Sun
Warren Beatty & Shirley MacLaine, London
Who knows what Kathlyn Corinne MacLean and Ira Owens Beaty did in the 1930s to produce not one but two of Hollywood's most successful and beautiful actors? Tinned peaches? A pact with the devil? The siblings may have taken wildly divergent paths through the movie business but between them they cover a pretty awesome range. In MacLaine's case, from Minnelli melodrama Some Came Running, to exuberant musical Sweet Charity, to Oscar glory in Terms Of Endearment (with a sideline in UFO-spotting). In younger brother Warren's, from being at the epicentre of New Hollywood in the 1970s, to Oscar glory directing Reds, to latter-day flare-ups such as Bugsy and Bulworth (with a now-tempered sideline in celebrity squeezes). Watch their charmed careers unfold with envy at these parallel retrospectives.
BFI Southbank, SE1, Fri to 30 Jun
Belfast Film Festival
Belfast is undergoing a kind of cultural renaissance, with the opening of new arts and leisure venues, and there's plenty in this festival that's locally flavoured but universally accessible. James "Man On Wire" Marsh's new drama, Shadow Dancer, for example, which features Andrea Riseborough as an IRA agent-turned-informer. The opening and closing films are also close to home: Good Vibrations dramatises the punk-friendly Belfast record store; crime comedy Whole Lotta Sole involves the local fish market. Then there's nautical horror on the Lagan, a tribute to Stephen Rea, and fun events like a Zoolander night.
Various venues, Thu to 10 Jun
Secret Cinema, London
As usual, we can't tell you that much about any of what's likely to happen at this outing of the highly secret cinema but, going by previous examples, it's going to be immersive, spectacular, surprising and more of an interactive live performance than a simple movie screening. And huge, of course. This time there's a possible clinical dystopian sci-fi angle, hinted at by the Brave New Ventures website and stationery, but then how does this picture clue fit in? Who knows? Last time we were convinced it was going to be Scarface but it turned out to be The Third Man, which was no bad thing. There'll be more clues on Twitter, Facebook and elsewhere, but don't worry if you can't figure it out; they've become a brand you can trust.
Mystery venue, Fri to 1 Jul
