Sidmouth cinema has a night to remember

Sidmouth Film Society is showing an anniversary screening of the Titanic docu-drama A Night to Remember, with a collection to benefit Sidmouth Lifeboat. 

At 11.40pm on April 12th, 1912, the Titanic had its fateful collision with an iceberg in the North Atlantic. At 7pm on April 12th, 2024, a film concerning what transpired out there amid the freezing waves will be screened at the Radway Cinema, Sidmouth. A Night to Remember, starring stalwarts of British cinema such as Kenneth More and Honor Blackman, sticks as accurately as possible to the true story, setting out in hugely realistic fashion the events surrounding the berg strike. 

‘This incredible film was released in 1958, at a time that many of the survivors of the sinking were very much still alive. The filmmakers were aware of this, and were intent on doing faithful service to those survivors by sticking to the facts of the story, and pulling few punches in the depiction of the tragedy’ says Sidmouth Film Society member Jennifer Jennings-Wright. ‘This is definitely the Titanic film to see. James Cameron’s 1997 version was perfectly OK, but if you want the real story, come and see A Night to Remember.’

There will be a collection in the foyer in support of Sidmouth Lifeboat, the town’s maritime independent emergency service, which is not part of the RNLI hence completely dependent on contributions such as this. 

The film will be shown in pristine digital, on the Radway Cinema’s 36’ wide screen. Tickets are only £5/£6 and include a short discussion about the film afterwards, during which complimentary tea and coffee will be served. 

Fans of great cinema are reminded that on Sunday 31st March the film society is showing the French classic The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, and on Sunday 28th April there’s the weepy par excellence Brief Encounter. All screenings are at the Radway Cinema, starting at 7.00pm.