Article: Thinking man's sex symbol; Jeanne Moreau films featured at two AFI venues.(SHOW)(FROM THE VAULTS)

Byline: Gary Arnold, THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Entrusted with the cinematic dimension of the Kennedy Center's four-month cultural bash, "The Festival of France," the American Film Institute seems to have settled for new wave nostalgia.

The movie programs, which begin today at the new AFI Silver Theatre and Wednesday at the institute's erstwhile showcase, the National Theater at Kennedy Center, open with a retrospective devoted to actress Jeanne Moreau. Later, they follow up with a retrospective devoted to director Alain Resnais, introduce a handful of new features and, finally, revive a trio of idiosyncratic pictures from the 1960s: Robert Bresson's "Au ...

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