For documentarian Hartmut Bitomsky (Reichsautobahn) the B-52 bomber carries as much meaning as it does ordnance, and this 2001 feature manages to unload just about all of it.
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Writer-producer-director Philip Dolin picked a title that grossly exaggerates the fun quotient of his 2004 feature debut; as a send-up of cheesy low-budget 50s and 60s indies, this is barely even a C movie.
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Ravi Chopra directed this 2006 Bollywood drama about a man who tries to bring happiness to his daughter-in-law's life after the death of his son.
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Melvin Van Peebles's no-budget indie Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (1971) struck a mighty blow for African-American cinema and inaugurated the blaxploitation boom with its tale of a righteous stud (Van Peebles) on the run from racist cops.
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Part thriller, part social history, this tense 2008 drama traces the rise and fall of the Baader-Meinhof gang, a violent communist terror group whose track record of carnage across West Germany in the late 60s and early 70s made the Weather Underground look like a tea party.
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The best Algerian film I've seen, Merzak Allouache's feature contains one of the clearest and most persuasive depictions of the recent rise of Islamic fundamentalism.
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Julie Shles's Israeli documentary (1995) concerns a man searching for the father who abandoned him 40 years earlier, while immigrating from Brazil to Israel.
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Based on a 1932 script by Salvador Dali (for a film that was to follow Un chien andalou and L'age d'or), this 1998 Spanish feature by Manuel Cusso-Ferrer is fascinating mostly for its utter failure as both cinema and surrealism.
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A Canadian-German-French coproduction, this 1999 animated feature is based on the popular series of children's books by Jean de Brunhoff, and tells the story of how Babar lost his mother, grew up among humans, and returned to the jungle to assume his throne.
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Written by director Nacer Khemir and veteran Italian screenwriter Tonino Guerra (L'Avventura, Amarcord), this vibrant 2006 fable was inspired partly by the work of the Sufi mystic Rumi.
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