Category: Snugberth Cinema

  • The Snow Goose

    The Snow Goose

    1971 Dir Patrick Garland 50 minutes Based on a short story and then the novel by Paul Gallico, in 1941, this classic film is a gentle, if sentimental, love story of a reclusive crippled artist… […]

  • The Navigator – Buster Keaton

    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… […]

  • Sailing to a Viking festival across the North Sea in January

    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!)… […]

  • Maiden – How Tracy Edwards broke the women-at-sea myth

    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… […]

  • The Sailorman

    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… […]

  • The Age of Sail

    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… […]

  • Great Sailing Films

    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… […]

  • 1492 Conquest of Paradise

    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.… […]

  • The Riddle of the Sands

    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… […]