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
2024•1h 36m•7.8/10
Documentary
Ratings
🎬TMDb
7.8/10(9)
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.
Production
Fifty Foot Woman, Channel X, Anti-Worlds, BFI, Doc Society
Language
EN
Status
Released
Release Date
Trailers & Videos
Available in Your Library
Cast
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
Self
Graham Humphreys
Self
JoAnne Sellar
Self
Peter Strickland
Self
Stephen Woolley
Self
John Akomfrah
Self
Thurston Moore
Self
J.G. Thirlwell
Self
Cathi Unsworth
Self
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