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Scala!!!

Country: United Kingdom, Language: English, 96 mins

Original Title

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
  • Director: Ali Catterall, Jane Giles
  • Writer: Ali Catterall, Jane Giles
  • Producer: Michelle Brøndum, Alan Marke, Jim Reid, Lisa Marie Russo, Andrew Starke, Andy Starke

CGiii Comment

Between 1978-1993 over a million people passed through the doors of the Scala Cinema for its daily changing programme of double-bills and All-Nighters, from high art to horror via sexploitation, Kung Fu, and LGBTQ+ This film features new interviews with diverse audience members who went on to become filmmakers, musicians, writers, actors, activists and artists. The interviews are combined with previously unseen archive material, iconic movie clips, animation and graphics, plus a thrilling new score by the celebrated musician Barry Adamson. With its universal themes of youthful discovery and the underdog versus the establishment, this is no nostalgia trip but rather a film of universal relevance with clear parallels between then and now. Above all, it's a hilarious and joyous celebration of cinema-going.


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Cast & Characters

Barry Adamson (as Self)
John Akomfrah (as Self)
Rick Baker (as Self)
Ralph Brown (as Self)
Paul Burston (as Self)
Adam Buxton (as Self)
Caroline Catz (as Self)
Bal Croce (as Self)
Helen de Witt (as Self)
Jane Giles (as Self)
Lina Gopaul (as Self)
Mary Harron (as Self)
Douglas Hart (as Self)
Graham Humphreys (as Self)
Stefan Jaworzyn (as Self)
Matt Johnson (as Self)
Alan Jones (as Self)
Davey Jones (as Self)
Princess Julia (as Self)
Isaac Julien (as Self)
Ali Kayley (as Self)
Nick Kent (as Self)
Beeban Kidron (as Self)
David Lawson (as Self)
Stewart Lee (as Self)