Date/Time
Date(s) - 13/05/2024
7:30 pm
Location
King Street Cinema, Corn Exchange
Category(ies)
13th May 2024
Ipswich Film Society presents
MRS. HARRIS GOES TO PARIS (PG) UK/CAN/FR/HUN/BEL 2022
Lesley Manville is a delight, playing Ada Harris, in this latest adaptation
of Paul Gallico’s story from the 1950s. Cleaning lady Ada is left some
money and knows exactly how to spend it – on a Dior dress, of course.
This gorgeous film oozes style, glamour and humour.
Directed by Anthony Fabian (115 minutes)
7:30pm at King Street Cinema, Corn Exchange Ipswich IP1 1DH
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Full membership details at: www.ipswichfilmsociety.org.uk
2023 / 2024 Programme:
18th September 2023
Ipswich Film Society presents.
THE 12th MAN (15) Norway 2017
The season kicks off with this gritty, edge of seat wartime thriller, based on true events concerning the Norwegian ‘one that got away’. When he and his eleven comrade saboteurs are betrayed to the Germans, what follows is a Revenant style endurance test as his nemesis, Sturmbannführer Jonathan Rhys Meyers hunts him down.
Directed by Harald Zwart (135 minutes)
7:30pm at King Street Cinema, Corn Exchange Ipswich
2nd October 2023
Ipswich Film Society presents.
THE BIG LEBOWSKI (18) US/UK 1998
Despite lukewarm reviews when first released, this Coen Brothers comedy thriller has become a cult classic. Jeffrey ‘The Dude’ Lebowski, a Los Angeles drifter, is mistaken for another Jeffrey Lebowski, leading to a bizarre series of events involving adult film producers, ferrets, a severed toe and a stash of ransom money.
Directed by Joel Coen, Ethan Coen (117 minutes)
7:30pm at King Street Cinema, Corn Exchange Ipswich
16th October 2023
Ipswich Film Society presents.
THE QUIET GIRL (12A) Eire 2022
When young Cáit is sent to summer with relatives while her mother takes her pregnancy to term, she finds life on their farm in the west of Ireland to be an awakening on the most primal of levels. Nominated for Best International Film at this year’s major awards, the film beguiles with its radiant cinematography and lead performance.
Directed by Colm Bairéad (95 minutes)
7:30pm at King Street Cinema, Corn Exchange Ipswich
6th November 2023
Ipswich Film Society presents.
BLUE JEAN (15) UK 2022
As a schoolteacher in 1988, coming out as gay is not an option. Still worse is being outed by one of your students, but such is the predicament facing Jean in this hard hitting yet uplifting Section 28 drama.
Directed by Georgia Oakley (97 minutes)
7:30pm at King Street Cinema, Corn Exchange Ipswich
20th November 2023
Ipswich Film Society presents.
THREE COLOURS: WHITE (15) Fr/Switz/Poland 1994
The middle film of Kieslowski’s trilogy, subtitled ‘égalité’, is the story of a Polish man who is divorced by his beautiful French wife, and who vows to get ‘even’. Once again, the director’s humanism transcends the genre trappings of this so-called anti-comedy to bring us a profound study of human behaviour in crisis.
Directed by Krzysztof Kieslowski (92 minutes)
7:30pm at King Street Cinema, Corn Exchange Ipswich
4th December 2023
Ipswich Film Society presents.
LIVING (12A) UK/Japan/Sweden 2022
Britain 1953: men in identical suits and bowler hats commute to London, among them a Mr Williams (an understated Bill Nighy). Following serious news about his health, Williams surprises everyone: he meets different people, visits new places and leaves behind a secret. A remake of Akira Kurosawa’s classic, this is an outstanding, sumptuous, film.
Directed by Oliver Hermanus (102 minutes)
7:30pm at King Street Cinema, Corn Exchange Ipswich
18th December 2023
Ipswich Film Society presents.
LUNANA: A YAK IN THE CLASSROOM (PG) Bhutan 2019
Premiered at the London Film Festival, this sweet-natured film has a young aspiring singer in the final year of his teacher training, who determines to change course and emigrate to Australia to pursue his dream. However, fate takes a hand when he is posted to a remote mountain village with an empty hut for a classroom. And a yak.
Directed by Pawo Choyning Dorji (110 minutes)
7:30pm at King Street Cinema, Corn Exchange Ipswich
8th January 2024
Ipswich Film Society presents.
THE GUILTY (15) Denmark 2018
Fans of real-time chamber pieces will relish this gripping Nordic thriller about a police officer placed on emergency call duty pending an enquiry into his shooting of a suspect. When he receives a call from a woman who seems to be talking to a child, the truth dawns that she is a kidnap victim. Can he gather enough information about her to come to her aid?
Directed by Gustav Möller (85 minutes)
7:30pm at King Street Cinema, Corn Exchange Ipswich
22nd January 2024
Ipswich Film Society presents.
UNDINE (12) Germany 2020
Undine, who works as a guide at a museum of architecture, is jilted by one man and swears vengeance, only to be distracted by another, a diver at a hydroelectric dam. Such is the unlikely premise of the director’s latest exploration of cinema as fable, a more than titular riff on Andersen’s The Little Mermaid.
Directed by Christian Petzold (91 minutes)
7:30pm at King Street Cinema, Corn Exchange Ipswich
5th February 2024
Ipswich Film Society presents.
THE OLD MAN & THE GUN (12A) US/UK 2018
Robert Redford, in what he has declared will be his final film, plays Forrest Tucker, a career criminal and proven escape artist. Despite his advanced years, Tucker breaks out of San Quentin Prison, embarking on a crime spree, with detective Casey Affleck hot on his tail. Capturing the hearts of the public with his atypically gallant form of stick-up, he is also charmed by Sissy Spacek’s widow. Will he finally retire and settle down?
Directed by David Lowery (93 minutes)
7:30pm at King Street Cinema, Corn Exchange Ipswich
19th February 2024
Ipswich Film Society presents.
THE TRUFFLE HUNTERS (12A) Italy/Greece/US 2020
This eccentric documentary is an artfully composed and spiritually nourishing study of elderly Piemontese truffle hunters, and their hounds. As they are rooked by their brokers and the wealthy elite enjoy the fruits of their labours at the dinner table, we ponder the future of a trade that hangs on the disinterested relationship of one man and his dog.
Directed by Michael Dweck, Gregory Kershaw (84 minutes)
7:30pm at King Street Cinema, Corn Exchange Ipswich
4th March 2024
Ipswich Film Society presents.
ROPE (PG) US 1948
Patrick Hamilton’s play of intellectual pride concerns two Manhattan aesthetes who conspire to commit the perfect murder. Strangling an old prep school chum, they conceal the body in a trunk which serves as buffet when they invite the dead man’s loved ones for cocktails. Will they get away with the crime and, more importantly, will James Stewart, their Nietzsche spouting housemaster, approve?
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock (80 minutes)
7:30pm at King Street Cinema, Corn Exchange Ipswich
18th March 2024
Ipswich Film Society presents.
BROKER (12A) SOUTH KOREA 2022
A desperate young mother, reconsidering what to do about her unwanted baby, discovers an underground scheme that procures infants for adoption to wealthy families. She joins them on a road trip to interview the prospective parents, but the police are also on their trail. The Japanese director of Shoplifters brings some familiar Korean faces to this elaboration of themes from his earlier work, such as social responsibility and poverty.
Directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda (129 minutes)
7:30pm at King Street Cinema, Corn Exchange Ipswich
8th April 2024
Ipswich Film Society presents.
HELL OR HIGH WATER (15) US 2016
Divorced father Toby (Chris Pine) and his ex-con brother Tanner (Ben Foster) become bank robbers in an attempt to save the family farm in west Texas, threatened with foreclosure. British director Mackenzie follows Ridley Scott’s example in reframing an American staple, the pursued outlaw movie, playing down the police sirens and focusing on the waiting game.
Directed by David Mackenzie (98 minutes)
7:30pm at King Street Cinema, Corn Exchange Ipswich
22nd April 2024
Ipswich Film Society presents.
MONSIEUR LAZHAR (12) Canada 2011
An Algerian immigrant helps out a Montreal primary school in trauma, forging a peculiar bond with his class. As the dust settles and it dawns on the headmistress that he is not all he seems, we learn more of his background as a refugee. A nominee for Best Foreign Language Film at the 2012 Oscars, this soul-touching drama continues to proclaim its relevance.
Directed by Philippe Falardeau (95 minutes)
7:30pm at King Street Cinema, Corn Exchange Ipswich
13th May 2024
Ipswich Film Society presents.
MRS. HARRIS GOES TO PARIS (PG) UK/CAN/FR/HUN/BEL 2022
Lesley Manville is a delight, playing Ada Harris, in this latest adaptation of Paul Gallico’s story from the 1950s. Cleaning lady Ada is left some money and knows exactly how to spend it – on a Dior dress, of course. This gorgeous film oozes style, glamour and humour.
Directed by Anthony Fabian (115 minutes)
7:30pm at King Street Cinema, Corn Exchange Ipswich
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Full membership details at: www.ipswichfilmsociety.org.uk
