Reviews of AFI Festival Movies : <i> Following are reviews for the American Film Institute Film Festival. All screenings are at the Cineplex Odeon Century Plaza Cinemas unless otherwise indicated. : </i> : TODAY

‘Forbidden Dreams’

Czechoslovakia, 1987, 90 minutes , 5:45 p.m . Frenetically moving cameras, filtered and tilted, follow an irrepressibly loud, gauche Jewish vacuum salesman through a hectic rise; then a dizzy swerve into war and betrayal. The mixture of tones fails, though director Karel Kachyna has vitality and bounce. With “The Case of Herman the Stoker” (Poland, 23 minutes): Once stoker to Goering and Hitler, Herman discusses her job. Restrained, simple, blood-chilling.