SCALA!!! The World’s Wildest Cinema

About the movie

SCALA!!! is an anarchic, uproarious, and ultimately heart-breaking documentary telling the riotous inside story of London’s legendary Scala cinema, 1978-1993. It inspired an entire generation with its iconic monthly repertory programmes, which included everything from high-art classics to sexploitation, horror, Kung Fu and LGBTQ+ in daily changing double-bills and unforgettable All-Nighters. Battered 35mm and 16mm prints of films by alternative auteurs. Many of the Scala’s young audience members went on to become musicians, writers, artists, actors, activists and, naturally, filmmakers. With John Waters, Caroline Catz, Ben Wheatley, Ralph Brown, Mary Harron, Adam Buxton, Peter Strickland, Beeban Kidron, Isaac Julien, Stewart Lee and many more.

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