Scala!!!

Jan 5, 2024

1h 36m

★ 7.8

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.

Genres

Documentary

Production Companies

Fifty Foot Woman

Channel X

Anti-Worlds

BFI

Scala!!! Trailers

Cast

Self

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

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7.0

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La Caissière fait son cinéma

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8.0

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5.7

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6.4

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Built in 1942 by a maverick film preservationist, this small Los Angeles theater championed silent film at the very moment when the Hollywood studios across town were busily destroying their nitrate inventories. With hard chairs, phonograph-record accompaniments, and mostly original vintage prints, the dingy mom-and-pop operation was nonetheless a palace to the fanatical few who became its loyal audience.

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5.0

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8.0

Cinema Morocco

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For two decades, Cine Marrocos, a movie theatre in the heart of São Paulo, was one of the most popular and opulent of the city. After it was closed, in 1972, it was occupied by a homeless workers' movement. The documentary tells the story of the people who lived there, alternating scenes from an acting class with those of the movies exhibited there in the past.

6.2

Temple of Film: 100 Years of the Egyptian Theatre

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Guillermo del Toro, Rian Johnson and other film luminaries look back at LA's historic Egyptian Theatre as it returns to its former movie palace glory.

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