Scala!!! Or, The Incredibly Strange Rise and Fall of the World's Wildest Cinema

It's a nightspot now, but over an era spanning the late '70s to the early '90s, the Scala Cinema in London's King's Cross neighborhood was an anything-goes repertory theater that offered everything from arthouse films to softcore porn to exploitation fare to classics, servicing all manner of fan groups in the Thatcher era. This affectionate documentary look back talks to management, staffers, and patrons regarding a lost era in moviegoing. John Waters, Mary Harron, Ben Wheatley, Caroline Catz, many others speak. 96 min. Widescreen; Soundtrack: English; audio commentary; featurettes; short films; theatrical trailer.