Ipswich Film Society
Two screen independent cinema. Part of the Corn Exchange entertainment complex.
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Wajib (Palestine 2017)
24-03-2025 at 19:30
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Shadi returns to his native Palestine to help the family prepare for his sister's wedding, and accompanies his father on his rounds, catching up with guests, artisans and old acquaintances. In this comedy drama, Shadi's experiences living in Western Europe make him increasingly intolerant of his parent's abrasive views as the day wears on.
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Ipswich Film Society, King Street, Ipswich, IP1 1DH
Perfect Days (Japan/Germany 2023)
07-04-2025 at 19:30
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A Tokyo toilet cleaner takes a devotional interest in applying the highest standards of cleanliness. A man of routines, he greets each new dawn with a smile of gratitude. Wim Wenders lavishes analogue recordings of 70s pop and black and white animation on this beguiling character study.
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Ipswich Film Society, King Street, Ipswich, IP1 1DH
City of God (Brazil 2002)
28-04-2025 at 19:30
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Meirelles/Lund's film certainly channelled Do the Right Thing and La haine, but heralded a new decade of Latin American cinema with a scruff-of-the-neck urgency and directness for which the Cinema Novo of the 60s offered little preparation. City of God deals with life among the favelas of Rio de Janeiro through the eyes of a budding young photographer.
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Ipswich Film Society, King Street, Ipswich, IP1 1DH
One Life (UK 2023)
12-05-2025 at 19:30
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Anthony Hopkins plays Nicky Winton, the London broker who helped rescue over 600 Jews from Prague in the lead up to World War Two. Flitting between past and present, as the pensioner resolves to make a clean sweep of his record keeping, the film inspiringly reminds us of the difference one life can make.
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Ipswich Film Society, King Street, Ipswich, IP1 1DH
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The Holdovers (USA 2023)
18-12-2024 at 19:30
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Following Oscar nominations for Nebraska and Sideways, Alexander Payne here gives us classics master Paul Giamatti babysitting a student whose family is not taking him home for the Christmas recess. Early 70s wintry Massachusetts is nostalgically caught, as frosty relations between teacher and pupil gradually thaw into a common acknowledgement of their frailties.
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The Holdovers (USA 2023), King Street, Ipswich, IP1 1DH
Another World (France 2021)
06-01-2025 at 19:30
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Factory boss Vincent Lindon is tasked by the parent company with finding forty redundancies among his personnel, this while his marriage is falling apart, and his loyalties are divided. After La loi du marche, shown in the 2018/19 season, this is Brize's second of three collaborations with the actor in an industrial context, and it provides compelling drama.
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Another World (France 2021), King Street, Ipswich, IP1 1DH
Twelve Angry Men (USA 1957)
20-01-2025 at 19:30
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When one juror delivers a 'not guilty' vote in a murder trial, all twelve must deliberate, either until they change his mind, or he theirs. Sidney Lumet's gripping drama is essentially a piece of filmed theatre, but his television-trained team lend it freshness and cohesion, with a gallery of emerging talent in front of the camera.
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Twelve Angry Men (USA 1957), King Street, Ipswich, IP1 1DH
Ennio (Italy 2021)
10-02-2025 at 19:30
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On his death in 2020 at the age of 91, Ennio Morricone had penned more than 500 scores for cinema and TV. In this spectacular documentary, the director of Cinema Paradiso talks to the man about his career and offers a jaw-dropping, ear beguiling tour of his unique discography.
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Ennio (Italy 2021), King Street, Ipswich, IP1 1DH
The New Boy (Australia 2023)
24-02-2025 at 19:30
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An Aboriginal orphan boy in the mid-1940s is picked up and placed in a monastery run by a renegade nun (Cate Blanchett). There his native religious beliefs and practices ultimately give way to indoctrination by his captors. A visually striking period drama that premiered at Cannes in 2023.
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The New Boy (Australia 2023), King Street, Ipswich, IP1 1DH
The Taste of Things (France 2023)
10-03-2025 at 19:30
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Dodin Bouffant shares two things with his cook of twenty or so years: a passion for food, and his bed. The Vietnamese director's camera watches entranced by their preparation of rich examples of classic French cuisine, but there are portents of tragedy from the get-go. The film recalls Babette's Feast and Sunday in the Country for its celebration of shared things.
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The Taste of Things (France 2023), King Street, Ipswich, IP1 1DH