This week's new film events

Scorsese isn't the first person you picture paddling in a Cornish estuary, but Port Eliot Festival has persuaded him to curate a season of evening double bills. His selection is defiantly old school – 1974's Murder On The Orient Express is the most recent. There are sumptuous epics such as The Leopard and The Red Shoes, and classic noirs Human Desire and The Narrow Margin. For more up-to-date fare (and more shelter), the parallel Paradiso Piccolo indoor event has newer documentaries and features including Project Nim, Velvet Goldmine and author Kevin Sampson introducing his rock'n'roll saga Powder.

Port Eliot, Thu to 24 Jul

I Start Counting.

From The Railway Children to Walkabout, Logan's Run to An American Werewolf In London, Jenny Agutter has long occupied a special place in the hearts (and fantasies) of a certain demographic. Those foragers of the freakish over at Flipside have unearthed another Agutter treat for the faithful: 1969's I Start Counting, in which Agutter plays a schoolgirl attracted to her stepbrother, who might be a sex killer. Beyond the risque themes and retro interiors, it's a decent social snapshot of Britain, and Agutter herself is on hand afterwards to discuss it, and her rich and varied career.

BFI Southbank, SE1, Wed

Top Gun. Photograph: Allstar

The roving outdoor cinema movement gathers pace over the south in the coming months. The Nomad is setting up in parks, lidos and other public spaces around London most evenings of the summer, with some fine films (Inception at the Houses of Parliament – nice), but its range also takes in some great south-east locations, starting this week with The King's Speech at Walmer Castle. Also on the packed itinerary are other Kent castles, the first Pirates Of The Caribbean at Dorset's Lulworth Castle, Ghost in Canterbury's ruined St Augustine's Abbey, and Sense And Sensibility at Reigate's Gatton Park. There's more theming going down in Cornwall, meanwhile, starting this Friday with Top Gun at Newquay Airport, and continuing with Robin Hood, Prince Of Thieves at Pendennis Castle and Point Break on Godrevy Beach.

Various venues, from Wed

Bistro.

There's no shame in shorts, as evidenced by the familiar names in this year's event: you'll see Malcolm Tucker (AKA Peter Capaldi) in a pig nose (in Bistro), John Hurt falling in love with Phyllida Law (Love At First Sight), Dexter Fletcher, Ridley Scott productions – and that's before we even get into short documentaries, international films, music promos, animation (don't miss Mikey Please's Bafta-winning The Eagleman Stag) and so on. The categorised programmes are screening all over Soho, but being at the heart of London's movie world, Rushes also offers advice from and access to cutting-edge media companies, well-established film-makers, and others just starting out. There are also screenings of music promos by Gorillaz and the xx. Eleven days could be too short.

Various venues, Thu to 30 Jul

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