TODAY AT AFI FESTIVAL

F ollowing are The Times’ recommendations for today’s schedule of the American Film Institute Los Angeles International Film Festival, with commentary by the film reviewing staff. Information: (213) 466-1767. Recommended:

“VOJTECH, CALLED ORPHAN”(Czechoslovakia; Director: Zdenek Tyc; AFI Warner, 6:45 p.m.). A fascinating new Czech film, in the spirit of the old New Wave, “Vojtech” is full of poetic black-and-white wide-screen images, shot through with strange lyricism. Its subject comes at us in languorous chunks, like a dream underwater: glistening, dangerous.

KEN McMULLEN TRIBUTE: “GHOST DANCE”(Great Britain, 1983; AFI Mark Goodson, 7 p.m.). Two feminist commandos wander through a crazy-quilt, outer-fringe London refashioned into the image of a Jean-Luc Godard or Jacques Rivette film. A mixed, rich, audacious bag: the images are haunting, the dialogue and narration pretentious and affected. (McMullen will appear.) (M.W.)

KEN McMULLEN TRIBUTE: “RESISTANCE”(Great Britain; AFI Mark Goodson, 9 p.m.). The weirdest of McMullen’s films. His debut feature, with actors improvising off the texts of therapy sessions with former World War II French Resistance fighters. Almost defiantly opaque and experimental. (McMullen will appear.) (M.W.)

HOLLYWOOD SALUTES HONG KONG: “RED DUST”(Hong Kong/Taiwan; Yim Ho; Nuart, 7 p.m.). At the critics’ screening, Yim Ho’s Golden Horse-winning tale of star-crossed lovers during the Chinese revolution and its aftermath, stunned viewers with its flip-flopping chronology and wildly unpredictable structure--until the Reader’s Henry Sheehan noticed that the reels had been scrambled. “Dust” deserves another look. (M.W.)

Others: “Resident Alien” (Monica 4-Plex, 7 p.m.) is an interesting but over-cute look at Quentin Crisp in Manhattan. (M.W.); “My Cinemas” (Nuart, 9 p.m.). A Turkish prostitute’s lifelong infatuation with the movies: “Cinema Paradiso” gone wrong. (M.W.); “The Ticket Outta Here” (Monica 4-Plex, 9 p.m.). Not the ticket: a pseudo-Henry Jaglom actors’ showcase, shot with home video equipment. (M.W.)