This week's new film events

Cinema Of Brazil: Music And Rhythm; Sound In Cinema – Music In Film: UK Portuguese Film Festival, London One of the themes of this year's City Of London festival is the music of the Portuguese-speaking world, which is good news for cinemagoers, as these parallel festivals deliver more genres than you can shake a hip at. On the Brazilian side, there's the birth of bossa nova in the 1960s-set Os Desafinados, Crouching Tiger-style capoeira action in Besouro, or streetwise girl groups in São Paolo drama Antônia, plus documentaries on Tropicalia figureheads Arnaldo Baptista (of Os Mutantes) and Caetano Veloso, Wilson Simonal and Vinícius de Moraes. Representing Portugal, there's fado legend Amália Rodrigues in 1943's Fado, Story Of A Singer and Manuel de Oliveira's Buñuelesque Os Canibais. Barbican Screen, EC2, Ritzy Picturehouse, SW2, Fri to 8 Jul, visit barbican.org.uk , picturehouses.co.uk Steve Rose Check The Gate: Hungarian Film Showcase, London Rather than taking the usual national festival route of cobbling together the decent and recent, this event draws on Hungary's deep heritage, bringing together films from all eras under the broad theme of exile and immigration. On the one hand that means sweeping dramas, such as István Szabó's Sunshine, but it can also take in Puskás Hungary, a timely documentary on footballing legend Ferenc Puskás (a name England fans might rather forget as his side thrashed us 7-1), not to mention postmodern civil war oddity American Torso and Beavis and Butt-head-style animation Immigrants. Hungarian Cultural Centre, WC2, Riverside Studios, W6, Tue to 28 Jun, visit checkthegate.org.uk Steve Rose Aubin Cinema, London Fed up with the same old multiplex experience when you go to see a film? The same old popcorn, the same old sticky floors, the same old narrow seats? The newly opened Aubin is the club class of cinemas: a luxury, sofa-seated theatre for 45 people; no irritating armrests if you book one of these. Excitingly, the bar harbours more than coffee and carrot cake, and each seat has a table on which to stack your beer, wine, or – if you really want to show off – bubbly. Open to all, there are plans to show World Cup matches, along with arthouse, mainstream and 3D movies (magic Bono-style specs supplied). Redchurch Street, E2, visit aubincinema.com Kathy Sweeney 2001: A Space Odyssey Live, London Forget 3D; there's no better way to enhance a cosmic widescreen sci-fi classic than with a live orchestra and voice choir blasting at you. According to legend, Spartacus composer Alex North was hired by the studio to write a score for 2001, but Stanley Kubrick never intended to use it; he already had his classical score in mind. It's inconceivable to hear Richard Strauss's Also Sprach Zarathustra without mentally cowering in awe before a black monolith, but it's Ligeti's avant garde choral works that really send shivers down the spine. The Philharmonia Orchestra and Voices should do it justice, with André de Ridder conducting. And if you miss this, special-effects pioneer Douglas Trumbull will be introducing another screening at the BFI on 18 July, the day after his own Silent Running gets an outing. Royal Festival Hall, Fri, SE1, visit southbankcentre.co.uk Steve Rose