MOVIES - Jan. 13, 1993

French Flap: Directors Jean-Jacques Annaud and Claude Berri have resigned as vice presidents of France’s Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to protest a decision to give the group’s best picture award only to French-language movies. The new policy knocked two top box-office successes out of the running: Annaud’s “The Lover” and British director Ridley Scott’s “1492: Conquest of Paradise.” Both were in English. Annaud, who has made four movies in English, said the images in films were more important than their words.