Scala!!!

Name: Scala!!!
Genre: Documentary
Released: July 19, 2024
Duration: 96 min
Rating: 74
Cast: Adam Buxton, Bal Croce, Barry Adamson, Caroline Catz, Helen de Witt

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BFI Distribution | Release Date: July 19, 2024 | Not Rated

Starring: Adam Buxton, Bal Croce, Barry Adamson, Caroline Catz, Helen de Witt, Jane Giles, John Akomfrah, Paul Burston, Ralph Brown, Rick Baker

Summary: 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.

Director: Ali Catterall and Jane Giles

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 96 min

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Phil de Semlyen

Nov 29, 2023

As a piece of London social history, Scala!!! is winningly leftfield and its spirit is wildly infectious. But you could watch it without having been within a thousand miles of this once-seedy corner of King’s Cross and still get a kick out of it. Read full review

The Observer (UK) Wendy Ide

Jan 10, 2024

Borrowing a punky, handmade aesthetic from the famous monthly programme posters, the film collates wildly entertaining interviews with former staff and punters. Read full review

The Guardian Peter Bradshaw

Jan 3, 2024

A very entertaining madeleine for movie-going of the analogue age. Read full review

Donald Clarke

Jan 5, 2024

Along the way, Scala!!! (the number of exclamation points varies) takes in the history of a wider culture. You could see the community under discussion as that swimming in the long wake of punk. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Matt Zoller Seitz

Jul 22, 2024

Jane Giles and Ali Catterall's documentary "Scala!!!" is about a legendary, notorious, hugely influential and long-gone London theater. But it'll appeal to anyone whose formative moviegoing years were defined by eccentric, usually urban or college-town cinemas that programmed whatever the folks who ran the place found interesting and switched lineups every day or two. Read full review

David Jenkins

Jan 3, 2024

This is an exhaustive and lively document of a cult scene that you’re very happy it existed, but maybe don’t want to be a part of yourself. Read full review

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