An Eighties London film scene housed at a King’s Cross theatre that drew the likes of Boy George and Christopher Nolan to the arcane (Herzog) and the profane (Waters), Scala Cinema gets an eternal tribute in a new documentary. Fifty fans and former patrons, including John Waters himself, extol the Scala Cinema’s community-building influence over a soundtrack by Barry Adamson, formerly of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. A true arthouse cinema, housing art ranging from sexploitation to martial arts, “the legendary Scala Cinema pushed the boundaries of film programming … SCALA!!! is the ticket to film-geek heaven,” writes AFS. – Lina Fisher
