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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

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Post date January 2 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
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Directors – Ali Catterall, Jane Giles – 2023 – UK – Cert. 18 – 96m ***** From 1978 to 1993, London’s Scala Cinema programmed everything from art house to sexploitation, ushering in the upcoming generation of anti-establishment musicians, filmmakers, and others – out in UK cinemas on Friday, January 5th Whatever the strengths of this […]

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The Story Of Looking

Director – Mark Cousins – 2021 – UK – Cert. 15 – 87m **** A highly personal film essay on the importance and significance of our visual senses – out in cinemas and on rental on BFI Player and Curzon Home Cinema from Friday, September 17th This opens with archive interview footage of musician Ray […]