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On This Day - Scala Cinema
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On this day (1st November) in 1991, the Scala Cinema was showing Edward Scissorhands and Beetlejuice as a Tim Burton double bill.
On this night (31st October) in 1986, the Scala Cinema was showing Thundercrack!, Halloween, Letter To Brezhnev and Rollerball as part of JC’s Sleaze Halloween Party All-nighter with DJ’s Hidi & Harry.
On this day (30th October) in 1984, the Scala Cinema was showing Raging Bull and New York, New York as a Scorsese/De Niro double bill.
On this night (29th October) in 1988, the Scala Cinema was showing Sleazemania, Wild Guitar, The Wrestling Women vs. the Aztec Mummy, Dope Mania and High School Caesar as part of Johnny Legend’s Incredibly Strange All-nighter.
On this day (28th October) in 1990, the Scala Cinema was showing Les Enfants du Paradis aka Children of Paradise as an evening presentation.
On this day (27th October) in 1983, the Scala Cinema was showing The Ploughman’s Lunch and Room At The Top as a double bill.
I’ve had to guess at Assassin Of Youth as I can’t find any reference to the title in the programme Teenage Dope Attack and I’m thinking the 1960s tv/film version of Dragnet is most likely rather than the 50s or 80s version. If anyone knows better please tell me!
On this night (26th October) in 1991, the Scala Cinema was showing Teenage Wolfpack aka Die Halbstarken, Assassin Of Youth,
Dragnet, The Trip, I Drink Your Blood and Teenage UFO Rock n Roll Monster Show as part of a Johnny Legend presents Teenage Drug Crazed Mutant Ninja Zombies All-nighter.
Would help if I told you what year. It was 1981!
On this day (25th October) in 1985, the Scala Cinema was showing Les Diaboliques (from a new 35mm print) and The Blood of a Poet aka Le Sang d’un poète as a double bill. This played each day for 2 weeks that month.
On this day (24th October ) in 1981, the Scala Cinema was showing 4 episodes of The Avengers presented by WTVA. Episodes shown were Room Without A View from Series 4 (1966) and The See-Through Man, From Venus With Love and Mission… Highly Improbable from Series 5 (1967).
Soft Cell’s appearance on Top of the Pops performing Tainted Love was my equivalent of Bowie doing Starman. Next day at school we talked of nothing else.
On this day (23rd October) in 1987, the Scala Cinema was showing Get Carter, Mona Lisa and Billion Dollar Brain as a Michael Caine thriller triple bill.
On this day (22nd October) in 1980, the Scala Cinema was showing Performance and Peeping Tom as a double bill.
Well look at that. Guess that’s why they were showing it!
On this day (21st October) in 1979, the Scala Cinema was showing Blind Husbands and Foolish Wives as an Erich von Stroheim double bill.
On this day (20th October) in 1989, the Scala Cinema was showing Killing Dad and Personal Services as a Julie Waters double bill.
On this day (19th October) in 1985, the Scala Cinema was showing The Bird With The Crystal Plumage, Suspiria, Inferno, Tenebrae and Phenomena as a Dario Argento all-dayer.
Yes saw that just as I posted. It’s an experience. Fantastic soundtrack.
Inherent Vice is not strictly gumshoe and is set in 1970 but would be a hell of an addition.
On this day (18th October) in 1982, the Scala Cinema was showing The Long Goodbye and Chinatown as a double bill. Which is ok with me.
This was a “Sega Mega Movies” event promoting new games releases with demos available in the foyer. I have to assume the films chosen didn’t necessarily reflect the game titles!
On this day and night (17th October) in 1992, the Scala Cinema was showing Tetsuo: The Iron Man, 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Lawnmower Man and Terminator 2: Judgement Day as an all-dayer and Westworld, Videodrome, Jumpin’ Jack Flash and Demon Seed as an all-nighter.