Category: Snugberth Cinema
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The Navigator – Buster Keaton
October 13th 1924 Dir Donald Crisp / Buster Keaton 59mins [fusion_builder_container hundred_percent=”yes” overflow=”visible”][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type=”1_1″ background_position=”left top” background_color=”” border_size=”” border_color=”” border_style=”solid” spacing=”yes” background_image=”” background_repeat=”no-repeat” padding=”” margin_top=”0px” margin_bottom=”0px” class=”” id=”” animation_type=”” animation_speed=”0.3″ animation_direction=”left” hide_on_mobile=”no” center_content=”no” min_height=”none”][fusion_youtube… […]
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Sailing to a Viking festival across the North Sea in January
Inspirational winter passage by Erik Aanderaa, a true latter-day Viking, sailing his Contessa 35 Tessie from Haugasund in Norway to the three-day Up Helly Aa winter Viking festival at Lerwick in Shetland (in 30 hrs!)… […]
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Maiden – How Tracy Edwards broke the women-at-sea myth
Documentary 2018 Dir: Alex Holmes 93 mins Maiden opens in UK cinemas on Friday 8th March This is a truly inspirational film. It takes us back a bit, though not too far, to 1989 and… […]
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The Sailorman
1975, Dir: David Gowing, 51 mins The old timers speak out across the decades, of their times working in the Thames Sailing Barges, a shoal draught coastal freight carrier that had not changed much since… […]
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The Age of Sail
This is a fabulous short animated film with Ian McShane playing an old Bristol Channel Pilot skipper (and Pilot) Wm Avery who feels washed up and unwanted in the age of steam. He’s on a… […]
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Great Sailing Films
This list of our favourite films about the sea is of course subjective, but we did set ourselves some criteria – that we wanted from all the films here. Firstly the list is… […]
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1492 Conquest of Paradise
1992, Dir Ridley Scott, Paramount etc, UK15, DVD, 154 min Visiting Seville in 1992 and seeing and then going aboard the replicas of the Nina, Pinto and Santa Maria was an experience to be remembered.… […]
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The Riddle of the Sands
1979 Dir: Tony Maylam 102 mins Erskine Childers’ classic novel hardly needs recommendation to Classic Sailors. This film version was made at the height of the 1970s vogue for elegant, accurate, authentically British adaptations of… […]
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Deep Water
2006 Dir: Louise Osmond, Jerry Rothwell 93mins Documentary In a year when there have been two movies made about Donald Crowhurst and his ill-fated quest to win the Golden Globe Race in 1968, it’s salutory… […]
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