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Below is a selection of movies just in this month, but you can see the entire list of new titles in the Library catalog.
| Brick Like film noir? Like high school movies? Never thought you'd see the two together? You have to watch this hard-boiled, watching-from-the-edge-of-your-seat crime flick which takes the best of Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett and James Cain and drops it into a contemporary California high school. | 
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| Cilantro y Perejil This romantic comedy follows the lives and loves of two sisters and their grandmother. | 
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| Death of Mr. Lazarescu Described as a "Black comedy with serious side effects”, this Romanian film follows the title character's if-something-can-go-wrong-it-will trip to the emergency room. You'll never want to get ill in Romania again. | 
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| Duck Season A boring Sunday becomes less so for two fourteen year olds left to their own devices in an empty apartment. All it takes is an older neighbor with a recipe for a pot-brownies, a pizza delivery man willing to be paid in video soccer games and a pretty awful duck painting. A must for fans of directors Kevin Smith and Jim Jarmusch. | 
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| Gojira This DVD is made for Godzilla fans! Watch Godzilla trample Tokyo in the original 1954 Japanese edition, then watch Godzilla trample Tokyo as Raymond Burr watches in the 1956 U.S. release. Still not satisfied? The DVD is full of commentaries, original trailers and featurettes. If that's not enough, you'll have to rent Godzilla vs. Mothra again. | 
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| La Petit Jerusalem A beautiful story of a young Jewish woman in Paris who falls in love with a Muslim coworker. | 
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| Water This movie, the third from Deepa Mehta's element series (see also Fire and Earth), may take place in India during the 1930s but the political and social themes resonate just as strongly today. Mehta's exploration of the marginalized lives of widowed women enraged fundamentalists in India as it enchantend audiences around the world. | 
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