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OUT NOW: a major feature-doc by co-directors Jane Giles and @AliCatterall about the incredible rise & fall of the world's wildest cinema. News and updates here
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We can now officially announce - on the Summer Solstice no less! - that our passion project debut movie has been picked up by the mighty
@BFI
- the perfect partner to help honour our adored Scala Cinema and bring her back to life for a new generation of filmgoers.
#Scala
#Cinema
Exclusive: ‘SCALA!!!’, a documentary about the iconic London cinema, scores UK-Ireland theatrical release through
@BFI
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The word is out! We're beyond excited and honoured to be part of this. Thanks so much to everyone who supported our movie x
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What's the most influential film book in your collection?
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**SCALA NEWS**
Thrilled to announce our debut film SCALA!!!, a major feature doc about the rise & fall of the world's wildest cinema, co-directed by Jane Giles &
@alicatterall
, has its world premiere at the Bologna Film Festival on June 25. VIVA LA SCALA!
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For SCALA!!! we were incredibly lucky to have as producers
@ChXtv
(Detectorists, Worzel Gummidge) and
@anti_worlds
, aka Andy Starke (who has produced Peter Strickland & Ben Wheatley), who regularly led us out of the forest when we were lost & sprinkled magic dust over our debut.
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At long last, the word is out!
SCALA!!!, our X-rated debut doc about the world’s wildest, most notorious and influential cinema, is on general nationwide release from 5 Jan 2024 and Blu-ray and
@BFI
player from the 22nd Jan. This has been an incredible adventure. Viva la Scala!
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Jane and I have never made a movie before.
But we've just been told our SCALA!!! Blu-ray was the *fifth biggest selling new-release* in the UK last week and the 45th best-selling title in the UK marketplace overall.
This is unreal.
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The quad posters have arrived!
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Merry Christmas from the SCALA!!! Thank you to all our crowdfunders, backers, supporters and Scala heads for helping us bring our deranged love letter to the screen. See you in the new year for more jaw-dropping, eye-popping, heart-stopping thrills.
Much love from Jane and Ali x
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PS, news just in: we just sold out our opening night 😀
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Five years in the making, SCALA!!! finally hits UK cinemas on Fri 5th Jan, c/o the
@BFI
. Phew!
Here's where it opens at, and the number of days it's showing this month. Please check with venues for screening times.
PS: Intros & Q&As with the filmmakers (that's us!) are in pink.
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Out on
@BFI
Blu-ray today!!!
SCALA!!!, our labour of love debut, can now be part of your very own Scala cinema-themed all-nighter from the comfort of your own sofa. (Resident cats and carrot cake optional)
Now also on BFI player, free with
@PrimeVideo
.
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YES!!!! Four stars from
@TimeOutLondon
!
"As a piece of London social history, SCALA!!! is winningly leftfield and its spirit is wildly infectious. Embrace the weirdness"
****
Thanks to
@PhildeSemlyen
for a fantastic review.
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We've had SO MUCH FUN in our opening weekend, with fantastically friendly audiences at
@BFI
,
@CentralPictureH
,
@BerthaDocHouse
,
@TheGardenCinema
,
@riocinema
&
@thecastlecinema
. Thank you!! Word of mouth massively helps little docs, so pls spread the word! Love from Ali and Jane x
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SWOON!
@foppcoventgarden
told us earlier that the SCALA!!! Blu-ray, on sale from today, has been their single best-selling item today in *any* format, of any kind, including records and books. So they've had to order more copies 😀
WE ❤️ FOPP!!!
#SCALA
!!!
#scalacinema
#fopp
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John Waters, Adam Buxton, Stewart Lee, Mary Harron,
@thethe
, Ben Wheatley,
@Ralphwjbrown
,
@PaulBurston
, Peter Strickland, Barry Adamson,
@markmoore01
,
@PrincessJulia__
,
@mrjamesob
,
@realjahwobble
,
@AnnoDracula
... just a few of the fab guests in our Scala Cinema doc, coming soon.
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Yet more incroyableness at the
@BFI
Southbank last night, when film academic and pro-Go-go dancer, the magnificent
@SelavyVirginie
, topped off her intro for a screening of Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! like this...
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Peter is in our film too! Discussing an especially seminal midnight movie..
Many congrats to Ali Catterall and Jane Giles who made the Scala film. I first visited on February 10th, 1990 and the whole experience opened up something in me that I probably wasn't even aware of at such a formative age. One of those 'before' and 'after' moments in life.
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Amazing scenes at the
@BFI
last night, when six of the coolest people in the universe (who, perhaps not coincidentally, also star in our SCALA!!! film) came together in one room: l-r:
@AdamsonBarry
; Douglas Hart;
@markmoore01
@CatzCaroline
;
@realjahwobble
; and Cathi Unsworth...
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Romaine Hart obituary
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Wouldn't it be great if a documentary about audiences won the LFF Audience Award for Best Documentary?
Voting closes 23:59 on Thurs 19 Oct. It's quick and easy to do, just follow the link with your name and where / when you saw the film. No ticket order number needed. THANK YOU!
Voting is now open for this year's
#LFF
Audience Awards!
Support your favourites across four categories: Best Feature Film, Best Documentary, Best British Film or Work, and Best Immersive Art and XR
#LFFAwards
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Thank you so much to the great
@PeterBradshaw1
for this beautiful four-star review of our debut movie in
@guardianfilm
. It's always an enormous relief when critics really get it, and what we've been trying to do. SCALA!!! is out in UK cinemas from Friday.
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We're thrilled to announce today we have been invited to France's world-famous festival of the bizarre, the unusual and the horrific. All of which we are. SCALA!!! will be showing on 12-13 September at
@etrangefestival
in Paris. Merci Mille Fois!
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Utterly fabulous intro to John Waters' meisterwerk, Pink Flamingos, at the
@BFI
Southbank last night, from legends
@markmoore01
and Tasty Tim, as part of the fantastic month-long SCALA!!! season. Also in attendance: the divine Raven Mandella.
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News just in... we're truly stoked to be included in this year's fabulous
@fantasticfest
line-up, making our North American premiere this September in the biggest genre film festival in the US. See you in Texas!
You’ve been waiting patiently.
And now it’s here.
Not just a first wave, but THE wave.
Let’s dive in, shall we? 👀🌊😍
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And we have our first official teaser trailer! SCALA!!!, the debut movie by Jane Giles and
@AliCatterall
, out early in the new year from the
@BFI
.
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SCALA!!! the Blu-ray is now available to pre-order! Link here, with details of the many, many Blu-ray extras. Out 22 Jan from
@BFI
, we reckon it'll make a fabulous belated Xmas present.
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News literally just in!
We're hosting another SCALA!!! screening & Q&A at the cinema often considered one of the Scala's spiritual heirs,
@ThePCCLondon
on Mon 18 March, 6pm. Followed by Scala-favourite, Salo.
A lovely double-bill of taste and restraint...
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Another signing session with Jane and Ali in
@FoppCovent
at midday, if you're passing and want to say hello! And snap up a beautifully signed extras-laden SCALA!!! Blu-ray (with
@AliCatterall
's personalised cat drawing motif, of course). We ❤️ physical media!
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Spotted off Brick Lane - a *trio* of SCALAs!!! (Scalettes?) With thanks to spotter
@KeironPim
.
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Groovy! A Scala Cinema-inspired John Waters all-nighter on the 18th at
@CentralPictureH
, kicking off with a special preview of our own SCALA!!!
Co-director
@AliCatterall
will intro the movies, before conking out in a sleeping bag with a glass of hot drugs.
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Just returned from signing nearly 50 copies of our new SCALA!!! Blu-ray at the wonderful
@FoppCovent
. Teeming with extras, including tons more interviews, it's a beautifully put together package from the
@BFI
. And with any luck, we're back next week to sign some more.
We ❤️ Fopp!
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Scala's version of the
#Barbenheimer
double bill = Superstar! The Karen Carpenter Story (Todd Haynes, 1988) + Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Stanley Kubrick, 1964)
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Huge big-up to our award-winning sound designers
@nikkiruck
and
@_martinpavey_
, whose incredible atmospheric handiwork you can hear in everything from A Field in England to Meg 2 - and here, in our new SCALA!!! trailer.
Delighted to say our first
@scalacinema
trailer has just dropped...
SCALA!!!, my and Jane Giles' directorial debut, is out early next year from the
@BFI
, with a cast of thousands, and more sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll than should be allowed in a single movie theatre.
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A very furry and purry New Year from the Scala and Roy. See you in cinemas in 2023...
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BOOM. We did it. And 15k over the initial target! This film's definitely gonna be made. Thank you so much to everybody who donated - we literally couldn't have done this without you.
#ScalaForever
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Huge SCALA!!! news dropping around this time tomorrow...
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Final scores on the doors: £40,416 from 315 backers. A massive thank you to our awesome friends at
@Scalarama
for helping us with the Kickstarter, and to those who donated or shared this past month: we cannot thank you enough. And now... we have a film to finish! X
#ScalaForever
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Here's some lovely things the critics have been saying about our film, out in selected UK cinemas now c/o the wonderful
@BFI
. 😊
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WOWSERS.
Just 21 tix left for our
#LFF
prem on Sat 14 Oct at
@BFI
Southbank, and 16 for the matinee
@ThePCCLondon
the following day.
If you're considering supporting your humble debut filmmakers, don't delay: we're gonna sell out. (Reader's voice - "You sold out years ago!!")
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A fantastic screening last night at the
@tynesidecinema
, with SCALA!!! contributors and special guests,
@vizcomic
's
@DHBJones
, brilliant local photographer and filmmaker
@jasalexthompson
, and Cabaret Voltaire co-founder Chris Watson. Many thanks to
@Andrew_Simpson_
for hosting.
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Our Blu-rays have sold out pretty much everywhere, including
@AmazonUK
, but
@FoppCovent
are ordering more next week, when we'll be popping in to sign them. As usual,
@AliCatterall
will be drawing one of his cats inside every inlay sleeve. Which takes forever, but it's important.
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An absolutely fantastic review of SCALA!!! from Mark Kermode on
@kermodeandmayo
. Thanks Mark!
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Our first official press review for SCALA!!! has just landed on the digital doormat - and it's a brilliant four stars, from the excellent
@annasmithjourno
in
@RollingStoneUK
. (Potential poster quote: "You'll be agog.") Boom! 😊
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The Scala was a sanctuary for countercultural artists, writers, actors, filmmakers - and especially musicians, such as Matt
@thethe
Johnson, who told us about the Scala's influence on his work - see clip. Please help us finish our film via the Kickstarter.
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Ahead of our North American premiere at
@fantasticfest
this September, here's our first teaser trailer for SCALA!!! - a glimpse of the beautiful madness within...
Delighted to say our first
@scalacinema
trailer has just dropped...
SCALA!!!, my and Jane Giles' directorial debut, is out early next year from the
@BFI
, with a cast of thousands, and more sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll than should be allowed in a single movie theatre.
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RIP American artist, filmmaker and photographer James Bidgood, whose exquisite underground classic Pink Narcissus became a
@scalacinema
favourite; the ninth most-screened film during the cinema's lifetime.
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SCALA!!! co-directors Jane and Ali loved Texas so hard. (And yes, reader, Ali bought the rabbit felt Silverbelly Stetson. An investment.)
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The fabulous John Waters, who says he's looking forward to seeing our movie. Us too, Mr Waters, us too!
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Watch the great John Waters in SCALA!!! Out now from
@BFI
Blu-ray, on BFI Player, via
@PrimeVideo
, and in selected cinemas throughout the UK.
Here's the Pope of Trash on the unique, marvellous depravity of the Scala audience - were you one of them? Share your experiences here!
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Clowning around on the red carpet at
@etrangefestival
, 2023. Pictured: SCALA!!! co-directors Jane Giles and
@AliCatterall
, and producer/editor Andy Starke of
@anti_worlds
. Photos by the very talented
@fredambroisine
.
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A reminder that you can catch our debut movie SCALA!!! on
@BFIPlayer
, free with Amazon
@PrimeVideo
, right now. Here's some lovely words from
@KermodeMovie
about the kind of thing you're in for :)
Misfits Assemble: A glorious tribute to a notorious picture palace. Mark Kermode applauds the brilliant SCALA!!!
#BFIPlayer
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Brighton calling!
SCALA!!!! shows this 13 Nov at 18:30, at
@cinecity_bton
, the
@DukeofYorks
, where we'll be Intro-ing the movie and a Q&A hosted by legendary artist, musician & writer
@DorothyMax
. Come for a rare art print by
@vizcomic
's
@DHBJones
& badge!
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A bizarre episode in our SCALA!!! road tour: a sequence from a mashup co-director
@AliCatterall
made in 2011, using audio from the Wicker Man and visuals from Dougal & the Blue Cat (the whole mashup's on Vimeo), shown as part of
@KermodeMovie
's sell-out
@BFI
show last night...
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Over the moon that our forthcoming
@scalacinema
movie heads up the 'In Production' column in the gorgeous-looking new edition of
@SightSoundmag
! Zoom in to read the article from
@thomasflew
.
#scalacinemadoc
#scalacinema
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Delighted to announce that tickets are now on sale for the UK premiere of SCALA!!!
You can catch us Saturday 14th October, 17.50 at BFI Southbank, NFT1 - or the very next day, Sunday 15th, midday, at Prince Charles Cinema, Chinatown. Why not come to both!
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So au revoir Dinard, with its picture-postcard streets, screensaver beaches, and warm welcoming audiences for the Scala’s blend of wildness and wickedness! Merci beaucoup to
@DinardFilm
for hosting us and giving us the red carpet treatment. Next stop: Athens &
@nyxtespremieras
...
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The Scala's on R4 and at 36:44 minutes in you’ll hear presenters Ellen E Jones and Mark Kermode mention that our feature-length documentary will be out later this year!
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Delighted to announce that SCALA!!! now has a Scandinavian/Baltics distribution deal! And from 1-4 March we're making our Finnish debut at the most beautiful cinema in Helsinki,
@CinemaOrion
, complete with its exquisite, original art deco fittings. Upeaa!
Orion täyttää 96 vuotta, tervetuloa juhlimaan! - Juhlan kunniaksi ensi-illassa dokumentti lontoolaisteatterista, Scala!!!. Erikoisnäytöksessä kulttitapaus Etsin sinua Mr. Goodbar. Sobar avaa ovensa naapuriimme ke 28.2.! Viikkokirje:
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Barry Adamson has joined our film as composer! ❤️
13 Reasons... 8 days to go. Music was central to the Scala cinema and its audiences.
More info here
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We're delighted to announce our next international festival is
@tsplusf
, a wonderfully imaginative programme in a beautiful setting with SCALA!!! (in conversation with
@alanfrightfest
) showing in the deliciously named Theatro Miele, on Sunday 29th October.
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Official portrait on the occasion of the North American premiere of SCALA!!! at
@fantasticfest
2023. We brought a cast member with us.
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IMDb page for our debut movie SCALA!!! is now live, with details of our enormous cast list: famous filmmakers, musicians, comedians, activists & writers, who regaled us with amazing stories of how the cinema became a crucial part of their DNA.
#ScalaCinema
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Sunday Jan 7th - Day three!
To London's East End, we are bound
The
@riocinema
's hallowed ground
Tim Stevens hosts our Q&A
at 15:30 - don't delay
And after that, as is our due
To
@thecastlecinema
Hackney too
That's at 7.15pm
So maybe see you there and then!
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Tonight is special - our final London gig this year. And to mark it, we're saying farewell at that exceedingly Scala Cinema-like venue,
@ThePCCLondon
. SCALA!!! is really a film about audiences - and there's no better way to experience it than with one.
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So
@kermodeandmayo
just randomly bigged up SCALA!!! again during a testy takedown of Ethan Cohen's Drive-Away Dolls. Thanks, Mark!
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Really lovely feedback from a festivalgoer and crowdfunder.
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Today,
@AliCatterall
is introducing a screening and doing a Q&A at the
@UPPCinema
, Oxford, while Jane is back in London introducing Looking for Mr Goodbar at the
@BFI
. We'd be delighted to see you at either - come along!
#SCALA
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Wonderful SCALA!!! feature in the
@Guardian
today. Many thanks to the lovely
@MrPMHarrison
for such a smashing article.
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The Pogues (Scala regulars, of course) and Kirsty MacColl filmed onstage at the Scala cinema, 1990, beneath the screen. RIP.
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13 Reasons... 9 days to go. The Scala cinema was inexpensive with extra concessions for students, unemployed, NHS workers and OAPs, allowing people hungry for films to devour triple-bills and All-Nighters. Please help us finish our film here
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Lovely final UK gig (for a while) at the beautiful
@Electric_palace
Cinema in Hastings yesterday. Warmed up the audience, too, with a bit of the old Joanna stroking. Many thanks to
@sliderulesyou
and the cinema for arranging such an excellent day trip.
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@AliCatterall
will be co-presenting and our fab producer
@anti_worlds
will be there too! 12th & 13th Sept, if you're in Paris please join us
Jane sera également présente pour présenter en AVP française son documentaire 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, salle dont elle fut la programmatrice historique!!
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A soupçon of Stewart Lee, as featured in our forthcoming Scala Cinema doc. We'll be sharing tasters of our fantastic interviewees throughout the course of our Kickstarter, which has some great rewards. Link here:
#Scala
#ScalaCinema
#CultCinema
#StewartLee
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