Scala!!!
Or, the Incredibly Strange Rise and Fall of the World's Wildest Cinema and How It Influenced a Mixed-up Generation of Weirdos and Misfits
Overview
This feature-length big screen documentary tells the riotous inside story of the infamous sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll repertory cinema which inspired a generation during Britain's turbulent Thatcher years.
- Production
- Fifty Foot Woman, Channel X, Anti-Worlds, BFI, Doc Society
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Cast
John Waters
Self
Adam Buxton
Self
Stewart Lee
Self
James O'Brien
Self
Isaac Julien
Self
Caroline Catz
Self
Mary Harron
Self
Beeban Kidron
Self
Princess Julia
Self
Kim Newman
Self
Ben Wheatley
Self
Ralph Brown
Self
JoAnne Sellar
Self
Peter Strickland
Self
Stephen Woolley
Self
John Akomfrah
Self
Thurston Moore
Self
J.G. Thirlwell
Self
Jah Wobble
Self
Paul Putner
Self
Crew
- Director
- Jane Giles,Ali Catterall
- Producers
- Jim Reid,Alan Marke,Andrew Starke
- Cinematography
- Sarah Appleton
- Composer
- Barry Adamson
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CinemaSerf
January 13, 2024
This is quite a fascinating documentary following the fate of a cinema that even John Waters said "shocked him". It wasn't always on the same site in Central London, but the "Scala" name quickly became a magnet for all those who didn't conform to the more mainstream - with their own behaviour and/or attitudes and/or taste in films. Using an astonishing amount of well researched actuality and some interviews with the folks who worked there or attended over the years, we learn of a place that offe…