by calden » Sat Feb 02, 2008 9:48 am
A couple that come to mind are the drama White Squall and the thriller Dead Calm with Nicole Kidman and Sam Neill in it. She's on a boat with her husband taking a cruise after a miscarriage or child death (can't remember which), and they run into a psycho guy in the middle of the ocean. Good sailboat footage in both of them. Captain Ron always comes up as a sailing movie. Funny, too.
Then there's always Master and Commander for the big-boat feel, or better yet, the Horatio Hornblower mini-series for TV, available via Blockbuster online.
There are lots of instructional videos out there - I got one from our library on basic dinghy sailing, set in SF Bay in the early 80's. Not very sophisticated production, but it was great to see them setting up the boat and doing basic maneuvers. I also dug the clothes and hairstyles and cars and scenery - I was a graduate student in SF in the early 80's and it was very nostalgic for me.
Can't wait to see the suggestions. I'm hurting under a foot of snow.
Carlos
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calden on Sat Feb 02, 2008 11:32 am, edited 1 time in total.
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