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
A feature-length big screen documentary telling 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.
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"It's a rather good documentary and it is a decent spilt between the short clips of the films and the people who came to watch, the musicians, the film makers and those like me who also wanted to see those films. Actually I was a bit older than most and during the middle of the sixties towards the end of the seventies instead of Scala it was Time Out that was my bible. Every week I would read every film listing and find where I could go and see all those very strange films that I couldn't see anywhere else. Usually it would be the NFT (now BFI) on the South Bank, in Camden at the Lond..."
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Despite all the issues with sexual activity in the toilets, a patron being found dead in his seat, another vomitting suicide by jumping off the roof, drug dealing occurring nearby and the film showing unrated movies that did not have classification, the Scala cinema was actually closed down because they had one screening of A Clockwork Orange (1971) in 1993 and therefore broke copyright notice as director Stanley Kubrick had ordered the film to not be shown in the UK. The screening drew the ire of Warner Bros legal department and ended up in court.
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A feature-length big screen documentary telling 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.