‘The Scala was a portal to another world’ – Peter Strickland on London’s maddest cinema

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Long before immersive cinema was a thing, there was King’s Cross’s Scala Cinema. For moviegoers in ’90s London, a visit was a portal to a heady but frill-free world of movies – a big-screen Babylon where bad taste and high art were showcased with equal enthusiasm, anything went during its famous late-night marathons (the toilets could get pretty seedy) and the two resident cats, Huston and Roy, gazed on it all with a seen-it-all-before nonchalance, cadging snacks from indulgent audience members.

 

Source: https://www.timeout.com/news/the-scala-the-story-of-the-worlds-ultimate-cult-cinema-010324