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Ipswich Film Theatre is a two-screen community-based cinema housed in the basement of Ipswich Corn Exchange in central Ipswich in Suffolk, England. It specialises in independent English language films and world cinema. It is run by the Ipswich Film Theatre Trust, a not-for-profit organisation, and is staffed by volunteers. Ipswich Film Theatre, which had been "dark" for six months, reopened in May 2010 after a group of six like-minded cinema enthusiasts, who didn't feel their tastes were being catered for by the mainstream multiplex experience, decided there was a significant audience in Ipswich and the surrounding area for something different and banded together to form a trust. It initially opened on three evenings a week, Thursday to Saturday, but has gradually expanded as audiences have grown and it now has screenings Tuesday to Saturday evenings, with matinees on Thursdays and Saturdays. Some of our biggest box office successes have included Stiegg Larsson's Millenium Trilogy, The Ghost, The Illusionist, Made In Dagenham, Another Year, The King's Speech, The Guard, The Artist, Midnight In Paris and The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. Cinema One has about 200 seats, with modern digital projection, and Cinema Two has 40 seats. We are fully accessible for the disabled, with lifts and a stairlift. Our box office is open 30 minutes before each performance, and we take debit and credit cards as well as cash. Our well stocked kiosk also opens 30 minutes before the performance, selling freshly-brewed Fairtrade coffee, tea, cold drinks, Suffolk-made ice creams and confectionary. Apart from our regular screenings, with programme changes usually taking place on Fridays, we are also available for private hires by community organisations on Sundays, Mondays and non-matinee afternoons - hosting Bollywood films on Sunday afternoons and Ipswich Film Society on Monday evenings, for example. We also run occasional film courses and regularly host one-off screenings of classics like Les Enfants Du Paradis, The Life And Death of Colonel Blimp and The Lavender Hill Mob, the NT Live relays from the National Theatre, which almost always sell out, and special showings during the annual National Schools' Film Week. We recently screened the world premiere of On Landguard Point, Robert Pacitti's film about his native East Anglia, with original music by Michael Nyman.