2 November 2026 Ipswich Film Society 2026/27 Season The Penguin Lessons – (12A) Spain/UK/US 2024. Directed by Peter Cattaneo. Steve Coogan plays a slightly jaded EFL teacher drifting through South America in the 1970s, who rescues a penguin from a beach and finds himself an adopted parent. The screenplay achieves a delicate balance between humour, […]
16 November 2026 Ipswich Film Society 2026/27 Season Hunt – (Unrated) S.Korea 2022. Directed by Lee Jung-jae. A good old-fashioned Le Carré-style espionage thriller: with a North Korean mole having penetrated the South’s International agency, the latter must join with the domestic branch to root out the enemy. Squid Game actor, Lee’s film is full […]
30 November 2026 Ipswich Film Society 2026/27 Season Robot Dreams – (PG) Spain/France 2023. Directed by Pablo Berger. This European animation recreates New York in the 1980s and centres around the vicissitudes of a robot and his canine friend. It is based on a 2007 graphic novel and has won several animated feature awards. As […]
14 December 2026 Ipswich Film Society 2026/27 Season Four Mothers – (15) Eire 2024. Directed by Darren Thornton. Based on Gianni Di Gregorio’s Mid-August Lunch, the Thorntons’ bracing comedy concerns a writer who, over the course of a trying weekend, must attend to the needs not only of his own frail mother but three other […]
4 January 2027 Ipswich Film Society 2026/27 Season The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog – (A) UK 1927. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Celebrating the centenary of this, Hitchcock’s first foray into material he would make his own. As Ivor Novello seeks lodgings in the midst of a spate of murders of blonde women, […]
18 January 2027 Ipswich Film Society 2026/27 Season Annie Hall – (AA) US 1977. Directed by Woody Allen. Our second tribute presentation is for Diane Keaton, whose partnership with Woody Allen more than any other provided an outlet for her considerable gifts as a comedienne. Allen, who continues to make films at 90, here negotiates […]
1 February 2027 Ipswich Film Society 2026/27 Season The Farewell – (PG) US/China 2019. Directed by Lulu Wang. The family of a dying grandmother keeps the truth from her but plans to use a forthcoming wedding to celebrate her life. Wang’s film offers humour and poignancy but also examines how native and host cultures sometimes […]
22 February 2027 Ipswich Film Society 2026/27 Season In A Lonely Place – (PG) US 1950. Directed by Nicholas Ray. A Hollywood screenwriter with a reputation for violent behaviour is treated as a murder suspect by police, but defended by his neighbour, who then has second thoughts. Humphrey Bogart and Gloria Grahame star in this […]
8 March 2027 Ipswich Film Society 2026/27 Season Santosh – (15) India 2024. Directed by Sandhya Suri. Newly widowed Santosh inherits her husband’s job as a police constable in the rural badlands of Northern India. When a girl’s body is found, she is pulled into the investigation under the wing of a charismatic feminist inspector. […]
22 March 2027 Ipswich Film Society 2026/27 Season Bernie – (12A) US 2011. Directed by Richard Linklater. Based on a true-life crime story from small-town Texas, Linklater’s black comedy deals with a caring mortician (Jack Black) who offers a supporting arm to elderly widows. When he meets Shirley Maclaine, however, he encounters his most challenging […]
