Scala!!!

Scala!!! (2024)

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

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.

Date of release
2024-01-05
TMDB
7.8 / 10 (9)
Runtime
1h 36m
Genres
Documentary
Director
Jane Giles, Ali Catterall

Casting

Interesting facts

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, or simply Scala!!!, is a 2023 British documentary film directed by Ali Catterall and Jane Giles.

Production

The film received initial funding from the BFI Doc Society Fund (awarding National Lottery funding) in April 2020, followed by an additional £40,416 raised through a successful crowdfunder on Kickstarter (far exceeding the initial target of £25,000).

Between May–August 2021 the producers filmed 50 interviews with former members of the Scala audience 1978–1993, including: filmmakers Mary Harron, Isaac Julien, John Waters, and Ben Wheatley; musicians Barry Adamson (of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds) and Matt Johnson (of The The); broadcasters Adam Buxton and James O’Brien; comedian Stewart Lee; LGBT rights activist Lisa Power; and illustrator Graham Humphreys.

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