Scala!!! at the Electric Palace, 30 August | Event in Hastings | AllEvents

Scala!!! at the Electric Palace

ElectricPalace Hastings

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Sat, 30 Aug, 2025 at 07:30 pm

1.8 hours

39A High Street, TN34 3ER Hastings, United Kingdom

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Sat, 30 Aug, 2025 at 07:30 pm to 09:15 pm (BST)

39A High Street, TN34 3ER Hastings

39a High Street, Hastings, TN34 3, United Kingdom

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Scala!!! at the Electric Palace
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Heartfelt big screen documentary about the riotous inside story of the infamous sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll repertory cinema which inspired a generation during Britain's turbulent Thatcher years. The cinema was housed in a wonderfully stately building with a cupola in London’s scuzzy and pre-gentrified King’s Cross between 1981 and 1993; the building in fact now survives and thrives as a nightclub.

The Scala also became legendary for its wonderful monthly poster-style foldout sheets advertising the forthcoming attractions which were sexier and more exciting than the earnest booklets in other cinemas; it became a movie theatre with the excitement of a 24/7 punk festival, not a college of further education. And this was the pre-Google, pre-YouTube age, when simply finding out about the existence of films, never mind actually seeing them, was very difficult.

Who you'll see in the film: John Waters, Cathi Unsworth, James O'Brien, Mary Harron, John Akomfrah, Ben Wheatley, Isaac Julian, Caroline Catz, Stewart Lee, Adam Buxton, Peter Strickland, Thurston Moore, and Jah Wobble.

Part of National Cinema Days Weekend celebrating and supporting communal film watching and independent cinemas in August!


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Scala!!! at the Electric Palace, 30 August | Event in Hastings | AllEvents
Scala!!! at the Electric Palace
Sat, 30 Aug, 2025 at 07:30 pm