TODAY AT AFI FESTIVAL

Highly Recommended:

JURAJ JAKUBISKO TRIBUTE: “THE MILLENNIAL BEE”(Czechoslovakia/Germany/Italy; Music Hall, 8:30 p.m.). This extraordinary film, based by co-scenarist Peter Jaros on his novel, reveals, more clearly than any other, the munificent gifts of Czechoslovakia’s Jakubisko. In a style that embraces mythic fantasy, bawdy humor, poignant drama, political satire and epic violence, Jakubisko gives us 30 years in a Czech mountain village, from century’s end past World War I. Critic’s Choice with Wilmington.

Recommended:

“MORPHINE AND DOLLY MIXTURES”(Great Britain; Karl Francis; AFI Warner, 9 p.m.). Based on fact, “ Dolly Mixtures” has fine acting, sincerity and surprising power. As we watch the relationship between a drunken, morphine-addicted father and his 12-year-old daughter, the crazy flip-flops of tormented families register with deadly conviction.

Others: “The Walls” (Nuart, 9 p.m.) From a dissident writer’s memoir: An Indian prison film of surprising delicacy, but oppressive coyness. (M.W.) “The Tigerman” (Monica 4-Plex, 7 p.m.) The tragedy of an impoverished tiger-dancer, whose audience is usurped by a real tiger. Touching but simplistic. (M.W.) “A Row of Crows” (Monica 4-Plex, 9 p.m.) A by-the-numbers murder mystery: convoluted claptrap which should be called “Blood Complex.” (Peter Rainer) “Talking Broken” (AFI Warner, 7 p.m.) A sympathetic documentary on the Torres Strait Islanders’ 1988 bid for independence.