Film and DVD links and reviews

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

2020-11-06T11:24:09+00:00November 15th, 2018|Snugberth Cinema|

2003, Dir Peter Weir, Universal Studios and Miramax, PG-13, 138 mins Sailors and fans of Patrick O Brian’s series of novels of the Georgian Navy love this film and it’s one to buy and re-watch every so often. The screenplay (by weir and John Collee) delivers a cracking storyline and draws from other novels in [...]

Wind

2018-12-12T18:27:47+00:00November 15th, 2018|Snugberth Cinema|

1992 Director Carrol Ballard 126min The eternally preppy Matthew Modine and a fresh faced Jennifer Grey star in this fictional but far from standard losing everything and winning it all back  film about the America’s Cup set to a soaring score. Modine is blamed for losing The Americas Cup and strives, with the help of [...]

The African Queen

2020-11-06T11:24:10+00:00November 15th, 2018|Snugberth Cinema|

1952, Dir: John Huston, Horizon/Romulus Cert U, 105 mins This legendary Technicolour Boy’s Own adventure, set in 1914 German East Africa, is a love story cleverly wrapped in an intrepid river journey. Bogart plays a filthy river captain (for which he won an Oscar) of the eponymous, equally grubby 30ft river steamer (the one used [...]

Vanishing Sail – a film of hope in the Caribbean

2020-11-06T11:24:15+00:00October 30th, 2018|Heritage, Snugberth Cinema|

An extraordinary documentary about one man's battle to keep his local boatbuilding tradition alive. The film is the story of the local wooden sloops of the Caribbean, most of which were built in Carriacou near Grenada. The boats were used for fishing and travelling between the islands and still have a reputation as fast and [...]

Adrift is one of the best sailing films ever made

2020-11-06T11:25:02+00:00June 28th, 2018|News, Snugberth Cinema|

2018, Dir Baltasar Kormakur, Sony Pictures, UK12, DVD, 92 min It is with trepidation that the sailor approaches a sailing film. All too often realisms are compromised for the sake of safety, cost or general ignorance. Not so in Adrift, a life affirming, tragic and uplifting film based around a couple’s (played by Shailene Woodley [...]

The Mercy – film review

2020-11-06T11:26:16+00:00February 9th, 2018|Snugberth Cinema|

   Directed by James Marsh (1hr 52min 2018) The film of Donald Crowhurst, The Mercy, starring Colin Firth and Rachel Weisz opens in UK cinemas today Friday February  9th and it’s good – classic sailors should go and see it. It’s a sympathetic view of how Crowhurst came to be owned, both spiritually and physically, [...]

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