Bedford’s Virtual Playhouse

Bedford’s Virtual Playhouse: The Bedford Playhouse has teamed up with independent film distributor Magnolia Pictures to stream BPH curated quality films into your home and help tide the playhouse over until they can open again. The Bedford Playhouse receives 50% of your streaming fees on all Magnolia distributed movies in BPH’s virtual library.

Narrative Films

Including, Once Were Brothers: J. Robbie Robertson and The Band, Robertson’s confessional tale of his early life and the rise and ultimate disintegration of one of the most iconic rock bands, and pre-cursor to the Americana movement, in popular music history. The film blends rare archival footage, photography, performances and interviews with Robertson’s friends and collaborators including Martin Scorsese, Bruce Springsteen, Eric Clapton, Van Morrison, and more. “TRIUMPHANT. Robertson deeply dissects The Band’s magic and dysfunction.” – Rolling Stone

Other films in their library include: Roads Not Taken, Sally Potter’s (Orlando) hallucinatory new drama set in Brooklyn that follows a day in the life of Leo (Javier Bardem) who is tormented by visions of potential lives he might have lived with his first love in Mexico and one on a Greek island. The Whistlers, a Romanian crime thriller, about a police inspector in Bucharest who plays two sides of the law. “If the Coen Brothers were Romanian, they might have made ‘THE WHISTLERS’.” — A.O. Scott, – The New York Times And Saint Francis, about a 34 year-old nanny who in quick succession finally meets a nice guy, gets a dream job offer and discovers her own unwanted pregnancy. Two out of three ain’t bad, as they say.

Documentaries

We will be watching, The Woman Who Loved Giraffes, a documentary about Ann Ennis Dagg who founded the science of giraffe biology. The film goes from a grainy black and white video of her appearance on the tv show To Tell The Truth to National Geographic quality footage of giraffes in the wild. More Magnolia Pictures documentaries include Slay The Dragon about gerrymandering, The Booksellers that takes viewers inside the fascinating world of obsessives, intellects, eccentrics and dreamers and their role in preserving history. And Fantastic Funghi, that explores this underground world and the prospects fungi present to solving pressing medical, therapeutic, and environmental challenges.

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