Weekend Highlights for L.A. International Film Festival
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The American Film Institute Los Angeles International Film Festival continues at the Cineplex Odeon Century Plaza Cinemas this weekend. Highlights from today’s and Sunday’s program follow.
TODAY
‘A Rustling of Leaves: Inside the Philippine Revolution’
Canada, 1988, 110 minutes 2:15 p.m. Canadian Nettie Wild’s documentary on the ongoing hostilities in the Philippines--with Marxist guerrillas battling both the government and “free-lance” head-chopping vigilante squads--is full of amazing footage, and all the characters are fascinating. But Wild’s narration has a “preaching to the converted” tone and it lacks a deep historical grounding.
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