New Indie
Don’t feel bad if you missed one of 2018’s best films on the big screen: with its four-hour running time (two parts at two hours each) and city-by-city distribution schedule, “A Bread Factory” (Grasshopper Film) traveled under many viewers’ radars. Now that it’s finally on Blu-ray, however, you can carve out the time for this delicately brilliant comedy-drama about a small town in upstate New York and the community arts center operating out of the titular building. Writer-director Patrick Wang uses his real estate to tie together various plots and storylines among the town’s citizens and the visiting artists, and he gets the most out of an exceptional ensemble that includes Tyne Daly, Glynnis O’Connor and Janeane Garofalo.