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Welcome to the Ipswich Film Theatre web-site. We are a community-based two screen cinema situated in the Corn Exchange in King Street, Ipswich.
IFT specialises in independent and world cinema. It presents films for people who are looking for something different from the mainstream Hollywood/multiplex experience.
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Supporting British cinema
Apologies for the lack of updates on the blog front lately. Holiday, ten days at the Cambridge Film Festival and pressure of work have all meant that I have been away from my computer for longer than I had intended. There has been quite a shake-up in the film world since last we spoke. The [...] -
Portrait of an English lady
One of the people who serves to illustrate, quite aptly, the absurdities of type-casting, is none other than Kristin Scott Thomas – star of the film Leaving. From the time she burst into public consciousness as Hugh Grant’s dazzling would-be girlfriend in Four Weddings and A Funeral she has been regarded by British and Hollywood [...] -
Tearing down the barriers
I have never understood why Art House movies have to be serious, depressing or challenging to be taken seriously. In fact I think the very term Art House is divisive, limiting and just plain wrong. It puts up a barrier between the film and the audience and that has to be bad for cinema. Films [...] -
Believing in Brenda
One of the reasons that Brenda Blethyn is such a fabulous actress is because she is resolutely unstarry. She manages to bring a down-to-earth believability to all her characters. Even in her most unsympathetic roles, she manages to make an audience empathise with her. In Little Voice she was the mother from hell and yet [...] -
Tearing Up The Formula
As Hollywood demonstrates every week, romantic comedies are not easy films to get right. The problem is that because mainstream American movies have become increasingly formulaic, the romantic comedy has become increased tainted. Romantic comedies are easy to deride but every now and then a film comes along which makes us stop and re-evaluate this [...] -
Imagine a world with movies for all
I have to admit that these days I find life more than a little confusing. At a time when headline acts at Rock Festivals are getting older – Tom Jones, Bruce Springsteen, Blondie, Neil Young… even Damon Alban and Blur are no longer spring chickens – why is it that the average age of the [...] -
What now for the future of British film?
And, so the end is near, we await the final curtain…the abolition UK Film Council has not been one of the better decisions of the new coalition government. We understand their desire to get rid of wasteful quangos, expensive committees that sit around, talk for weeks on end, occupy expensive office space and achieve precious [...] -
Is 3-D really that important to cinema?
It gives me no pleasure to report that apparently Hollywood is starting to panic that the 3-D bubble has already burst. It seems that latest ticket sales suggest that demand for the new format, which has boosted ticket sales with spectacular looking science fiction dramas like Avatar and groundbreaking animation like Up and Toy Story [...] -
Writing a new book on UK film funding
There is never a particularly good time to be involved with the British film industry. It’s always a struggle to get films made, it’s even harder to get the finished films seen and the money always want to make sure they are putting their investment in something safe. Sorry guys there’s nothing safe. But, as [...] -
Getting all historical
The problem with history is that the story is always written by the victors. Worthy opponents are frequently reduced to the status of cannon fodder and clever generals or original thinkers are portrayed as crazed madmen. Fortunately with the invention of cinema and it’s insatiable quest for new stories to tell, history now has a [...]