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, or simply Scala!!
[3] Between May–August 2021 the producers filmed 50 interviews with former members of the Scala audience 1978–1993, including: filmmakers Mary Harron, Isaac Julien, John Waters, and Ben Wheatley; musicians Barry Adamson (of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds) and Matt Johnson (of The The); broadcasters Adam Buxton and James O’Brien; comedian Stewart Lee; LGBT rights activist Lisa Power; and illustrator Graham Humphreys.
[4] On release, critics praised the documentary for its rich re-telling of the ups and downs of the cult cinema venue.
Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian described it as a “heartfelt tribute to an icon of independent cinema […] richly enjoyable and informative”.
“celebrates the diversity of people who were drawn to the cinema—people of all ages, races, genders, and sexualities—all of whom found in it a safe haven, a place where they could be themselves, in the company of some of the most eye-popping movies ever made”,[8] and in his review on Kermode & Mayo’s Take, he called the film “a riotously entertaining yet also an impressively serious account” of the infamous venue.