TODAY AT AFI FESTIVAL : F<i> 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. </i> : Recommended:
<i> Compiled by Michael Wilmington</i>
Recommended:
“HAVANA”(Great Britain; Jana Bokova; Nuart; 9 p.m.) A rich, infectious portrait of a Havana which, in Czech-born filmmaker Jana Bokova’s lenses, is crumbling around its people’s heads. Though a devastating portrait of the suppression of artists and “deviants,” one long street sequence of an impromptu rhumba competition catches the indomitable nature of the Cubanos themselves. So does the superb poetry of Jose Lezama Lima, Virgilio Pinera and exiles Guillermo Cabrera Infante and Reinaldo Arenas.
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