This week's film events previews

Animated Exeter, Exeter US artist Rose Bond is famous for installations that blur the line between architecture, public art and cinema, making her the perfect choice to drape Exeter Castle with mind-blowing animation. Bond's artistic swipe at injustice, Broadsided, provides the perfect backdrop for this amazing Arts Council-funded festival. which includes 140 animated films, plus workshops, exhibitions and a careers fair for budding animators. There's a talk from the legendary Bill Plympton; screenings from the infamous Spike and Mike; and a chance to see the winners of the Student Film Awards, meaning you can discover the animation world's future stars. Various venues, to 20 Feb Andrea Hubert Curzon Midnight Movies Presents..., London Home cinema systems are all well and good, but a movie's true home will always be the big screen, seen in like-minded company. Screenings of the classics, such as the films of Kurosawa, Lean, and Kubrick are regularly held at specialist cinemas. But what of more populist and less acclaimed directors, like Michael Winner, for instance, who never put sex and violence into his movies unless it was absolutely unnecessary? Well, Hot Fuzz helmer Edgar Wright, taking time off from his new, hotly tipped Scott Pilgrim movie, is going in to bat for him with this midnight club screening of Death Wish 3, in which Charles Bronson's lethal architect totes a mail-order rocket launcher in London (doubling for NY) to the strains of a Jimmy Page score. Low in sense but high in camp value, it's a classic (of sorts) from the sorely missed Cannon Group. Curzon Soho, W1, Fri Phelim O'Neill Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité, London To celebrate its centenary, the Institute Français in London is offering an exciting film festival based on the infamous tripartite motto Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité, with a selection of films that are truly stunning examples of world cinema. The first prong, Liberté, pays tribute to the 20th anniversary of Nelson Mandela's liberation with a series of films about world leaders struggling for freedom. Egalité and Fraternité, meanwhile, are well represented by fest favourites such as crusading democracy doc Burma VJ, and The Kite, a gem of a film about the idea of freedom as seen via an arranged marriage across the Lebanon-Israel border. Ciné Lumière, to 25 Feb Andrea Hubert Glagow Film Festival, Glasgow Crime is rife in Glasgow – onscreen, at any rate, with this year's festival giving gala screenings to Werner Herzog's The Bad Lieutenant; Jean-Pierre Jeunet's arms-dealer comedy Micmacs; and the runaway Swedish hit The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. More law-abiding fare is to be found in Takashi Miike's lurid Yatterman, a giddy anime adaptation, and Big Fan, another off-kilter sports-based movie from The Wrestler writer Robert D Siegel, while a comedy legend is documented in American: The Bill Hicks Story. Featuring strands that cover US indies, fashion, plus Japanese and world cinema, there's a strong horror lineup too, with Cube director Vincenzo Natali's icky genetics tale Splice; the ski-lift chills of Frozen; and a rare screening of Lucio Fulci's classic giallo A Lizard In A Woman's Skin. Various venues, Thu to 28 Feb Phelim O'Neill