Long Live Scala Cinema!

Founded in 1979 by actor, producer, and director Stephen Woolley in 1979, for 14 years The Scala—initially a venue on Tottenham Street in central London then, two years later, relocated to its long-term home near the King’s Cross railway station—was the destination for adventurous London cinephiles with a taste for somewhat more disreputable fare, envisaged as Albion’s answer to the Times Square grindhouse, with an eclectic, daily-changing program that included all-night Shock Around the Clock horror marathons. Welcoming directors Ali Catterall and Jane Giles—a former programmer at the theater—to screen their new documentary SCALA!!!, examining the cinema’s history and legacy, Metrograph presents a program of Scala standards: films by John Waters, Bette Gordon, Stephen Sayadian, and David Lynch, as well as the banned-in-the-UK A Clockwork Orange, whose screening landed the theatre in legal hot water.

In Theater Appearances:

Café Flesh
Extended introduction from director Stephen Sayadian
Friday, July 19, 11pm

Post-screening presentation and Q&A with director Stephen Sayadian, moderated by filmmaker Zach Clark
Saturday, July 20, 10:15pm

Eraserhead
Q&A with cinematographer Frederick Elmes
Saturday, July 20, 5:45pm

Introduction from SCALA!!! co-director Ali Catterall
Saturday, July 21, 9:30pm

La Marge
Introduction from writer Nick Pinkerton
Saturday, July 20, 8:10pm

SCALA!!!
Q&A with co-director Ali Catterall and co-director & former Scala film programmer Jane Giles
Sunday, July 21, 7pm

Introduction and Q&A with co-director Ali Catterall and co-director & former Scala film programmer Jane Giles
Tuesday, July 23, 7:40pm

A Clockwork Orange
Introduction from SCALA!!! co-director Ali Catterall
Monday, July 22, 6:40pm

King Kong
Introduction from Jane Giles, SCALA!!! co-director and former film programmer at The Scala
Monday, July 22, 9:30pm

Variety
Introduction from Jane Giles, SCALA!!! co-director and former film programmer at The Scala
Tuesday, July 23, 5:30pm