August, New Titles, 'Margaret', 'Salmon Fishing'

MARGARET (2011)
Kenneth Lonergan's long-awaited follow-up to the much-loved 'You Can Count On Me' fails to deliver that film's intelligent study of tenderness between quarrelling brother and sister, but this car-crash moral-maze melodrama has moments of insight and dramatic tension. Warner Brothers dithered over releasing the picture, then delayed the DVD, after difficulties between the studio and the maverick director threatened to shelve the movie. All of which suggests Lonergan should probably have trialled the script as a play off-Broadway, as with his earlier effort, before making a low-budget independent pic. Still, worth a look, but struggles with its portentous moral crux, over-long and for contemporary New York through eyes of morally conflicted twenty-something woman  not a patch on 'Girls'.

SALMON FISHING IN THE YEMEN (2011)
SLAP, THE (2011)
A LITTLE BIT OF HEAVEN (2011)
BATTLESHIP (2012)
LEDGE, THE (2011)
IN DARKNESS (2011)
SPUD (2010)
THIS MUST BE THE PLACE (2011)
CONFIDENCE (1979)
LARKS ON A STRING (1969)
CAPRICIOUS SUMMER (1968)
JOKE, THE (1969)
DAISIES / A REPORT ON THE PARTY AND GUESTS (1966)
RUGGLES OF RED GAP (1935)
LORAX, THE (2012)
NOTHING TO DECLARE
DOWNTON ABBEY SEASON 2 (2011)
PORTLANDIA (2011) SEASON 1
BREAKING UPWARDS (2009)
DEAR LEMON LIMA (2009)
AFRICA UNITED (2010)
BIG YEAR, THE (2011)
FORGIVENESS OF BLOOD, THE (2011)
HAYWIRE (2011)
SOLARIS (1972) BLU-RAY
BHOWANI JUNCTION (1956)
LIFEBOAT (1944) BLU-RAY
RUGGLES OF RED GAP (1935) BLU-RAY
SUMMER INTERLUDE (1951) CRITERION
SUMMER WITH MONIKA (1953) CRITERION
SANAM (2000)
A DANGEROUS METHOD (2011)
BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL, THE (2011)
CORIOLANUS (2011)
50/50 (2011)
HEADHUNTERS (2011)
LIKE CRAZY (2011)
SING YOUR SONG: HARRY BELAFONTE (2011)
CHINATOWN (1974) BLU-RAY