"Bamako," which opens Wednesday at Film Forum in Manhattan, is a courtroom drama that takes place within a mud-walled compound.

"Notre Musique" opens Wednesday in New York.

The second festival, which organizers hope will attract 80,000 people, opens Wednesday with a parade and runs through next Sunday.

After the season opens Wednesday night at Anaheim, he knows failures will be trumpeted.

But that is not the playwright's aim in "Spunk," which opens Wednesday at the Public Theater.

Expo opens Wednesday at 2 P.M. and continues through Sunday.

Open 2 to 5 Monday and Wednesday, 10 to noon and 2 to 5 Sunday, or by appointment.

Meanwhile, the Braves-Dodgers series - which opens Wednesday in Los Angeles - will be a virtual arm Olympics.

It opens Wednesday at Playwrights Horizons, 416 West 42d Street.

Directed by Robert Redford, the film opens Wednesday with powerful advance reviews but uncertain commercial prospects.