Highlights of the AFI Festival

Following are capsule reviews of a selection of today’s screenings in the American Film Institute Los Angeles International Film Festival at the Cineplex Odeon Century Plaza Cinemas:

‘The Big Dis’

United States, 1988, 105 minutes 8:45 p.m. A lecherous young Long Islander home from the military spends his entire weekend leave wandering his neighborhood in a vain attempt to find an easy woman for a quickie. This rap-accompanied cheapie comedy of frustration lasts less than two hours, but thanks to cinema verite docudrama techniques, the boldly banal vulgarity seems to exist in a hellish real time that’ll have most viewers begging for theatrical artifice. Dis it.