Scala Forever!

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The much lamented Scala cinema at Kings Cross is being remembered with a series of screenings at various locations across the capital from 13 August to 2 October. Anywhere you can see a double bill of The Final Programme and Zardoz is okay by me

Details in the link.

Scala Forever

[CaptainWaggett]

I loved the Scala! Peter Lorre triple bills! 'Rare 1950s Hitchcock film starring James Stewart and KIm Novak'! The Marx Brothers triple bill I watched twice! The biting cold! The cat! The Ed Wood films! It was fantastic

[Robin Davies]

Not forgetting the jungle-themed decor and the occasional rumble of the underground trains.
The place was a gold-mine of cult movies and TV in the days before video. I remember seeing some fantastic TV bills comprising two Prisoner episodes, one Danger Man and one Avengers, separated by vintage adverts.
Another fond memory was one of the all-day and all-night horror fests called Shock Around The Clock, including interviews with the likes of Clive Barker and Jonathan Ross plugging his latest cult movie TV series. Trying to get the intensely morbid Nekromantik off my mind on the way home was difficult though...

[Rowdon]

I think I once saw an all-day Frank Sinatra fgollowed by an all-night Marilyn Monroe, but it probably is just my mind playing tricks.
I remember falling asleep during the all-night film-noir.
And back to back videos from the 50s and the 60s (from Dion and Danny and the Juniors to the Byrds) for hours on end ...
And the coffee and brownies.
Those great suits, fabulous hairstyles and the constant promise of romance ... and that was just ME in the queue.

[Steve Crook]

Part of the Scala Forever! season at the Roxy in Borough High Street includes The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp - introduced by Tilda Swinton. It'll be good to see her again

Steve