Next weekend, a couple of great choices are coming to Bay Area theaters – 99 Homes and Meet the Patels. I’ll be writing about those next week. For THIS weekend, I suggest that you look to video with my DVD/Stream of the Week and a couple other streaming choices.
My DVD/Stream of the Week is the Brian Wilson biopic Love & Mercy, the story of an extraordinarily gifted person’s escape from torment. It’s on my Best Movies of 2015 – So Far. Love & Mercy is available on DVD from Netflix and Redbox and streaming from Amazon Instant Video, iTunes and Vudu.
Joe Swanberg’s romantic comedy Digging for Fire is available for streaming from Amazon, Vudu, You Tube and Google Play.
She’s Funny That Way is just comic fluff, but it’s well-crafted fluff from master filmmaker Peter Boganovich; it’s now available to stream from Amazon Instant Video, Vudu, YouTube and Google Play.
Thanks again to Turner Classic Movies for playing the The Best Years of Our Lives on September 22, an exceptionally well-crafted, contemporary snapshot of post WW II American society adapting to the challenges of peacetime. Justifiably won seven Oscars. Still a great and moving film.