• Director(s)

    Janes Giles, Ali Catterall

  • Production Year

    2023

  • Release date

    19/01/2024

  • Genre(s)

    Documentary

  • Approx. running minutes

    96m

  • Cast

    Barry Adamson, John Akomfrah, Rick Baker

Film

Scala!

strong real sex

This documentary covers the rise and fall of London's legendary Scala cinema, between 1978 and 1993. It includes clips of many cult and art house films which played there, with brief moments of strong sexual content.…

This documentary covers the rise and fall of London's legendary Scala cinema, between 1978 and 1993. It includes clips of many cult and art house films which played there, with brief moments of strong sexual content.

  • Director(s)

    Janes Giles, Ali Catterall

  • Production Year

    2023

  • Release date

    19/01/2024

  • Genre(s)

    Documentary

  • Approx. running minutes

    96m

  • Cast

    Barry Adamson, John Akomfrah, Rick Baker

strong real sex
Classified Date:
23/08/2023
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
BFI Films
violence
There are brief but strong scenes of violence involving hand to hand fighting and use of weapons such as bats, canes, knives and nunchucks in clips from films which include A Clockwork Orange and The Warriors. We see real life moments of violence with footage and pictures of rioting in London from the period.
threat and horror
Scenes of brief threat and horror include a man's neck and head stretching and mutating into a monstrous creature, sight of zombies overwhelming a man, and people experiencing supernatural illnesses causing unnatural deformities. There are moments of gun threat and we see a horror character dancing with a chainsaw.
language
There is infrequent very strong language ('c**t'), strong language ('f**k) and milder terms which include 'whore', 'pussy', 'piss', 'shit', 'turd' and 'bloody'.
sex
Clips from films briefly show penetrative sexual intercourse with sight of a penis, as well as scenes of people in fetish-wear and references to BDSM. These include naked women on leashes being humiliated, crawling on all fours and having food thrown to them. There are references in the documentary to people having sex in cinema toilets and in darkened areas of the theatre.
discrimination
There are verbal references to discriminatory attitudes toward gay people and also to historic racist attitudes.
drugs
There are verbal references to drug misuse, with mention of marijuana, amphetamines, LSD and magic mushrooms. There are impressionistic depictions of joint smoking and of drug-induced hallucinogenic experiences.
suicide
There are references to the suicide of a man who suffered from depression.
injury detail
Clips from films shown at the Scala cinema contain strong bloody images, including sight of an exploding head and a bloody hand rising from a bath.
nudity
Sexualised nudity includes breasts and buttocks.
rude humour
We see a comic, caricatured illustration of a man urinating from his seat, with sight of his penis, and of a man's buttocks as he seems to be having sex with another cinema-goer.
flashing/flickering lights
This work contains flashing images which may affect viewers who are susceptible to photosensitive epilepsy.
strong real sex
Classified Date:
02/10/2023
Version:
2D
Use:
Physical media + VOD/Streaming
Distributor:
BFI Video
violence
There are brief but strong scenes of violence involving hand to hand fighting and use of weapons such as bats, canes, knives and nunchucks in clips from films which include A Clockwork Orange and The Warriors. We see real life moments of violence with footage and pictures of rioting in London from the period.
threat and horror
Scenes of brief threat and horror include a man's neck and head stretching and mutating into a monstrous creature, sight of zombies overwhelming a man, and people experiencing supernatural illnesses causing unnatural deformities. There are moments of gun threat and we see a horror character dancing with a chainsaw.
language
There is infrequent very strong language ('c**t'), strong language ('f**k) and milder terms which include 'whore', 'pussy', 'piss', 'shit', 'turd' and 'bloody'.
sex
Clips from films briefly show penetrative sexual intercourse with sight of a penis, as well as scenes of people in fetish-wear and references to BDSM. These include naked women on leashes being humiliated, crawling on all fours and having food thrown to them. There are references in the documentary to people having sex in cinema toilets and in darkened areas of the theatre.
discrimination
There are verbal references to discriminatory attitudes toward gay people and also to historic racist attitudes.
drugs
There are verbal references to drug misuse, with mention of marijuana, amphetamines, LSD and magic mushrooms. There are impressionistic depictions of joint smoking and of drug-induced hallucinogenic experiences.
suicide
There are references to the suicide of a man who suffered from depression.
injury detail
Clips from films shown at the Scala cinema contain strong bloody images, including sight of an exploding head and a bloody hand rising from a bath.
nudity
Sexualised nudity includes breasts and buttocks.
rude humour
We see a comic, caricatured illustration of a man urinating from his seat, with sight of his penis, and of a man's buttocks as he seems to be having sex with another cinema-goer.
flashing/flickering lights
This work contains flashing images which may affect viewers who are susceptible to photosensitive epilepsy.

  • Classified date

    23/08/2023

  • Language

    English