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Scala!!!( 2024)

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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.

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      John Waters

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      Adam Buxton

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      Stewart Lee

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      James O'Brien

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      Isaac Julien

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      Caroline Catz

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      Mary Harron

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      Beeban Kidron

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      Princess Julia

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      Kim Newman

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      Ben Wheatley

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      Ralph Brown

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      Graham Humphreys

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      JoAnne Sellar

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      Peter Strickland

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      Stephen Woolley

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      John Akomfrah

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      Thurston Moore

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      J.G. Thirlwell

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      Cathi Unsworth

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      Jah Wobble

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      Barry Adamson

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      Paul Putner

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      Jane Giles

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      Alan Jones

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      Douglas Hart

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      Matt Johnson

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      David McGillivray

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    A review by CinemaSerf

    7
    Written by CinemaSerf on Sat Jan 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 offered a venue for any combination of the Bohemian, the decadent, the drugged up, boozed up, gay - and, ...

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    Facts

    Status

    Released

    Original Language

    English

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    Keywords

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