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.

Highly Recommended:

“NOUVELLE VAGUE”(France-Switzerland; Director Jean-Luc Godard; Nuart, 7 p.m.). Godard’s most beautiful film since “Pierrot le Fou”: precise, allusive, mournfully graceful. A brilliant work, which demands, and repays, close attention.

“I, THE WORST OF ALL”(Argentina; Maria Luisa Benberg; Music Hall, 7 p.m.). A superb, highly stylized feminist tragedy, whose central character, nun and 17th-Century writer Juana Ines de Cruz, is trapped in a convent world, besieged by a misogynist archbishop. Leads Assumpta Serna and Dominique Sanda are beautiful, pithy, disturbing.

Recommended:

“RED DUST”(Hong Kong/Taiwan; Yim Ho; AFI Warner; 8:45 p.m.) Yim Ho’s Golden Horse-winning tale of star-crossed lovers during the Chinese revolution and its aftermath, has rich atmosphere and effulgent romanticism.

“LAST IMAGES OF THE SHIPWRECK”(Argentina/Spain; Eliseo Subiela; Music Hall, 9 p.m.) This comedy-drama collides a repressed writer with a family of crooks, beauties and outcasts. Softly cracked, languorous . . . moving to its own curious rhythms and humors.

Others:

“Klimov” (AFI Warner; 6:45 p.m.) portrays a key Glasnost figure: filmmaker and union head Elem (“Farewell”) Klimov.

“My World Has Two Doors” (Monica; 9 p.m.) sympathetically examines the past and current plight of Cambodian refugees.