Film and DVD links and reviews

Shackleton’s Captain

2021-07-01T16:17:24+01:00November 30th, 2018|Snugberth Cinema, Uncategorised|

2012  Dir: Leanne Pooley 85 mins The story of Ernest Shackleton’s ill-fated 1914 bid to cross Antarctic is one of the most extreme survival epics of the 20th century. All the more so because Shackleton took Frank Hurley, a superlative photographer and film-maker who captured most of the misadventure on film. That appeared in 1919 – [...]

Down to the Sea in Ships – Reviewed

2021-07-01T15:33:45+01:00November 15th, 2018|Snugberth Cinema|

1949, Dir Henry Hathaway, B&W, 20th Century Fox, PG, 120mins The character development in this classic New Bedford whaling tale makes you realise how much of modern cinema is rubbish. Its three central actors visibly grow through their relationship in a story centred around a whaling voyage in the late 1800s. There’s the grandpa captain [...]

Captains Courageous

2020-11-06T11:24:06+00:00November 15th, 2018|Snugberth Cinema|

1937, Dir Victor Fleming, B&W, MGM, DVD, U, 112mins It’s not just the star-studded cast that brings this movie to life – much of the footage takes place aboard real working Grand Banks schooners of the American north east fishery which gives it superlative reality. Based on Rudyard Kipling’s excellent novel of the same name [...]

Moby Dick

2020-11-06T11:24:07+00:00November 15th, 2018|Snugberth Cinema|

1956, Dir: John Huston, Moulin Productions, PG, 110 mins Several versions of this film have been made, and the most recent was in 2010 starring William Hurt, Ethan Hawke and Donald Sutherland. There is also a 1998 two-part made for TV version, starring Patrick Stewart as Captain Ahab, which we’d recommend and the recent 2016 [...]

Lifeboat

2018-12-05T07:09:45+00:00November 15th, 2018|Snugberth Cinema|

1944 Dir: Alfred Hitchcock  97 mins In the genre of Hitchcock’s “limited setting” films (think also Rear Window, Rope) this is an underrated classic. It’s set entirely on a lifeboat full of, at the beginning, nine WW2 survivors, including women, of several ships one of whom is a German, possibly the German U-Boat Captain who [...]

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