THIS WEEKEND AT AFI FESTIVAL

F ollowing are The Times’ recommendations for this weekend’s schedule of the American Film Institute Los Angeles International Film Festival, with commentary by the film reviewing staff. Information: (213) 466-1767.

SUNDAY

Highly recommended:

KEN MCMULLEN TRIBUTE: “PARTITION”(Great Britain, 1987; AFI Warner, 8:45 p.m.). A great, mad subject: After liberation from the British Empire, India’s lunatic asylums must be partitioned with the rest of the country, dispossessing wrongly located Pakistanis or Indians. McMullen casts the same actors as both the asylum inmates and their countries’ leaders. Along with the frequent mirror shots, it may seem like heavy irony, but it plays exhilaratingly well; one “Alice Through the Looking Glass” take of a nabob metamorphosing into a madman is unique, hypnotic. (McMullen will appear.) (Michael Wilmington)