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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 - Scala!!!
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Title: Scala!!!

Release Date: 5 Jan 2024

Runtime: 1h 36m

Genre: Documentary

Director: Fifty Foot Woman, Channel X, Anti-Worlds, BFI

Production Companies: Fifty Foot Woman, Channel X, Anti-Worlds, BFI

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.

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Average Vote: 7.9 (8 votes)

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
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