TODAY AT AFI FESTIVAL
F ollowing are The Times’ recommendations for today’s 18 schedule of the American Film Institute Los Angeles International Film Festival, with commentary by the film reviewing staff. Information: (213) 466-1767.
Recommended:
TWO BY WOLF GREMM: “KAMIKAZE 1989” & “AFTER MIDNIGHT”(West Germany, 1981-82; Music Hall, 7 & 9 p.m.). Respectively: “An uninspired view of a dangerously boring Utopia . . . boasting the vivid, grossly overweight presence of R.W. Fassbinder, in a leopard-skin suit, as a shrewd cop” and “a well-crafted and period-perfect film on the coming of age of a German girl in the Third Reich; from Irmgard Keun’s novel.”
Others:
“Lonely in America” (Monica 4-Plex, 7 p.m.), a cross-cultural comedy about Indian-Americans in New York is “weak . . . far too strained in its humor”
“Ruby and Rata” (AFI Mark Goodson, 7 p.m.) is an exceedingly minor New Zealand comedy about a free-spirited young Maori woman
“Stowaways” (AFI Mark Goodson, 9 p.m.) got a split vote: “The Hungarian ‘Midnight Express’: flashy, xenophobic, intensely dislikable” (K.T.) but “27-year-old director Sandor Soth has force and talent” (M.W.).
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