Hi everyone! This September, Scalarama will return to Leeds, which means that anyone, anywhere can be a cinema. There are no restrictions to who can take part and there's no cost to being involved. It's a great opportunity to put on that film screening you've been thinking about, but didn't know how! We organise the […]
#reelstories Reel Stories is a special exhibition of more than 40 original film posters and memorabilia celebrating Liverpool’s starring role in films from the past 60 years. Liverpool is a filmmaker’s dream. It’s a city of storytellers and performers, writers and entertainers, musicians and poets. From those first flickering pioneering days of cinema, filmmakers have […]
Scalarama festival is coming back to Bristol in September and we thought this would be a great opportunity to introduce you to the festival as well as reminding previous contributors of how it all works in the I Want to be a Cinema Workshop! The I Want to be a Cinema Workshop is geared towards […]
Scalarama Film Festival is coming back to Bristol! A DIY celebration of cinema taking place every September, for everyone, by everyone. A great opportunity to get involved with local repertory cinema with support from Scalarama - put on a screening, write about movies, help with promotion and more. Scalarama is open to everyone, no restrictions, […]
Scalarama is an annual festival of independent cinema that takes place for the whole month of September. People from across the city come together to put all kinds of films on in venues of all shapes and sizes. Would you like to know more? Come along to one of our meetings and get involved! This […]
Scalarama is a month-long celebration of cinema that takes place in cinema and non-cinema venues each September across the UK. Would you like to nurture a more vibrant, more diverse film culture in Edinburgh? Whether you already organise film screenings (or would like to!), programme a cinema/festival/venue, or have absolutely no idea where to start […]
Scalarama is an annual DIY celebration of cinema, for everyone, by everyone, everywhere, every September. Love films? Would you like to nurture a more vibrant, more diverse film culture in Glasgow? Whether you already organise film screenings (or want to), programme a cinema/festival/venue or have no idea at all where to start - come along […]
This year, the volunteers behind Scalarama Nottingham want to create our most ambitious Scalarama Film Festival ever. To achieve this, we need you! To be as varied and inclusive as possible, we need as many of you as possible to become a meaningful part of both planning and creating this year's festival. So if you've […]
This will be a drop in session for people who want to keep in touch, have a drink and a chat, maybe to update the rest of the group on their plans. We have no agenda or talks this time, but Leeds co-ordinators Laura and Alice will be there for a couple of hours between […]
So this is the creepiest picture I managed to find of the venue we are having our next meeting at:) You will have to enter Summerhall, proudly march right past the reception to the back door, find yourselves in the courtyard and see this beauty in front of you. It will be the room that's […]
Hey film friends, Join us for a meet-up to chat all things Scalarama! At this meeting we’ll be talking about the shared programme and how to get involved. You can tell us your ideas or how your event is going and any support you might need. Scalarama Film Festival is a DIY celebration of cinema […]
2nd Meet up #ScalaramaLiverpool 2017
Our first ever DIY workshop I WANT TO BE A CINEMA @ Scalarama Liverpool. f you’ve always dreamed of owning a cinema or fancy your hand at showing films to others – but don’t know where to start – you’ve come to the right place.! The workshop will give you a deep insight in how […]
Join us for the launch party of Scalarama Film Festival! Live DJ set & Refreshments from Bluebird Tea Co., Barefoot Wine & Bubbly & Higgidy. Scalarama is a month of film running throughout September. 30 days in which cinemas across the world celebrate watching motion pictures together; where cities, towns and villages are transformed with […]
Jobriath A.D. // Scalarama Leeds programme launch The film Jobriath A.D (2012) is Kieran Turner's fascinating documentary about 70s glam rock musician Jobriath. Jobraith is considered to be "the first openly gay rock star" and was dubbed "the American Bowie". He was also, tragically, one of the first rock stars to die of AIDS. He […]
Celebrating our 3rd year as part of one of the most exciting cinema DIY festival on earth #Scalarama, we have organised an exciting launch film programme where everyone is invited! No etiquette, no ticket, no nada.. only your presence is needed. Embrace the Scalarama spirit in one of the most upbeat bars in town, the Baltic […]
Our home at Summerhall this year will be open to all scalaroamers to come together and celebrate the start of this beautiful month of September, full of hand-picked exciting cinema to hide from the rain in! Come round to the Royal Dick Bar, chin chin some extravagant cocktails and locally brewed beer with us, meet […]
With September upon us, so is Scalarama! Join us at this meet up to learn all about the films, exhibitors and events taking place in Scalrama Bristol 2017. They'll also be plenty of beautiful printed programmes for you to pick up and start distributing as well! So come join us for a few drinks, invite […]
Kicking off Scalarama Brighton and Beyond in true Scalarama style is a late-night screening of David Lynch's surreal psychological thriller Lost Highway. This noir-influenced spine-chiller follows a jazz saxophonist (Bill Pullman) who, after a bizarre encounter at a party, is framed for the murder of his wife (Patricia Arquette). In prison, the man inexplicably transforms into a […]
The ‘90s in cinema were an amazing nightmare. A sugar-syrup throb of VHS scanlines, dire fast food tie-ins and probably the weirdest time in Arnold Schwarzenegger's life. Come join the Video Namaste boys in a wee trip through the weird videoshop hellscape of 90s cinema and all the amazing stuff that orbited it. Have a […]
Selma tells the amazing story of Martin Luther King's campaign for equal voting rights and his historic 1965 march from Selma to Montgomery. This screening will include a display of civil rights objects from the International Slavery Museum's collection along with the chance to make your own Martin Luther King badge and view rare Black […]
Blue Gate Crossing (2002) “Should you give your first kiss to the boy who likes you or the girl you like?” MENG Ker-Rou and LIN Yue-Zhen are high school friends who can talk to each other about everything and anything. On the school grounds one early summer, Yue-Zhen develops a crush on the charming ZHANG […]
Death Watch (1980) follows the story of Katherine Mortenhue (Romy Schneider) who gets famous for having an incurable disease in a future where death from illness has become extremely unusual. Journalist Roddy (Harvey Keitel) has a camera implanted in his eye which transmits what he sees so it can be relayed back to the television […]
On a snowy Christmas night, Tucker and Esther Cobblepot throw their deformed infant child Oswald into Gotham River, fearing he would become a menace to society after attacking their pet cat. His basket floats to an abandoned zoo and is found by a flock of penguins who raise him as one of their own. 33 […]
Scalarama Liverpool is participating in the Student Creative Fayre a promotional platform for local services and businesses, celebrating the creative industries and some great local independents in Liverpool. The event will include talks on a a variety of interests: anything from local support services, lifestyle information, to student discounts. SAE Institute is one of the world’s […]
Following on from her feature debut Diva, Anna Biller directed, wrote, produced, scored and created all of the sets and costumes for her next film, The Love Witch. As that title suggests, Elaine (Samantha Robinson) is a witch who uses magic potions and spells to make men fall madly in love with her, and usually […]
Based on Jack Ritchie’s short story The Green Heart and directed by the great Elaine May, A New Leaf stars Walter Matthau as Henry, a once-rich bachelor who has spent his entire inheritance. Desperate to marry into further financial support, he meets Henrietta (May), a shy, awkward, though independently wealthy botany professor. What follows is […]
Director : Karel Zeman // Year : 1962// Nationality : Czech Republic (In Czech with subtitles) When Tony the astronaut lands on the moon, the last thing he expects to find there is Baron Munchausen enjoying a glass of wine. Our fantastic voyage with this odd couple combines animation and live action in a dazzlingly […]
OXIDE GHOSTS: THE BRASS EYE TAPES (Michael Cumming, 2017) Made from hundreds of hours of unseen material from his personal archive, director Michael Cumming’s film shares insights into the process of making the legendary TV series Brass Eye. Michael directed both the pilots and the series and, over a two-year period, witnessed the highs and […]
OXIDE GHOSTS: THE BRASS EYE TAPES (Michael Cumming, 2017) Made from hundreds of hours of unseen material from his personal archive, director Michael Cumming’s film shares insights into the process of making the legendary TV series Brass Eye. Michael directed both the pilots and the series and, over a two-year period, witnessed the highs and […]
Be the first to get your hands on the Document 2017 brochure at our official programme launch. Featuring highlights from this year’s programme and a screening of Justin Schein’s controversial documentary Left on Purpose. "A bonfire of documentary ethics", Left on Purpose collides radical politics, mental illness, addiction and the ageing process. Ultimately, it exposes […]
Immature 32-year-old bachelor slacker Sonny Koufax lives in New York City and refuses to take on adult responsibility. Despite having a law degree, he refuses to take the bar exam, works one day a week as a toll booth attendant and lives off a sizeable legal settlement from a minor accident. His girlfriend, Vanessa, threatens to […]
Matchbox Cineclub present Guy Maddin's Cowards Bend The Knee, with brand-new live score written and performed by Ela Orleans, plus Q&A with journalist Brian Beadie. Guy Maddin is one of the most distinctive and idiosyncratic directors currently working. The Canadian auteur has mined and subverted the imagery and style of late silent and early sound cinema […]
A documentary on the music and career of the influential musician Scott Walker. Scott Walker first became famous in the 1960s, as lead singer of the pop trio The Walker Brothers. The film follows his musical and personal journey into his later career as solo artist, avant garde composer and more recently, record producer. Artists he has […]
Scalarama Brighton and Beyond, Brighton Digital Festival, and the Duke of York’s Picturehouse are proud to celebrate the Duke’s 107th birthday with this unique screening of Metropolis, with a live piano accompaniment from Scottish-based musician Dmytro Morykit. Written by Thea Von Harbou and directed by Fritz Lang, Metropolis is a German silent expressionist film regarded […]
When Oh (Jim Parsons), a loveable misfit from another planet, lands on Earth and finds himself on the run from his own people, he forms an unlikely friendship with an adventurous girl named Tip (Rihanna) who is on a quest of her own. Through a series of comic adventures with Tip, Oh comes to understand […]
Bees Make Honey are proud to present a one-off screening of Pan's Labyrinth from the visionary director, Guillermo Del Toro. The film will be screened in the basement of Nottingham Writers' Studio. There will be a dark fairytale theme to the evening with work by local artists and themed drinks to celebrate this strange and […]
Merseyside Polonia presents : The Cruise ( Rejs) regarded as Polish cinema's first 'cult' film..
High-school seniors Seth (Jonah Hill) and Evan (Michael Cera) have high hopes for a graduation party: The co-dependent teens plan to score booze and babes so they can become part of the in-crowd, but separation anxiety and two bored police officers (Bill Hader, Seth Rogen) complicate the pair's self-proclaimed mission. Macaroni Cheese, chilli beef nachos […]
The event is the launch of Leeds Cineforum, previously The Arts PGR Film Club. Do the Right Thing is a 1989 American comedy-drama film by Spike Lee. The Oscar nominated film centers around the racial tension in a Brooklyn neighbourhood, bubbling just beneath the surface, which finally explodes on the hottest day of the […]
As part of Glasgow Scalarama: Plug your Windows 95 OS into your neck port and wait a week for it to start up. Jump through the 0's and slide down the 1's in a multifarious network of gunfights and cybertravel as Video Namaste screen turbo-cool JOHNNY MNEMONIC in full futuristic and absolutely not out-dated LASERDISC. […]
Back at our cosy Summerhall lair and pleasantly tired after 6 months worth of preparation, we will be bringing Scalarama Edinburgh '17 to its grand finale – you must be there to celebrate with us! It will be your chance to pour out all the compliments to our curators, optionally paired with some bits of useful observations […]
This beautifull hand drawn animation follows the story of ten year old Ben who lives with his father Conor, a lighthouse keeper, and his young sister Saoirse. Their mother has disapeared and Ben has a resentful relationship with Saorise who is mute. Unknown to all of them Saorise is a selkie like her mother, who […]
Plena Rondo follows a Japanese performance artist on a sixty-day experiment to master the world’s easiest and most egalitarian language, Esperanto, using only free learning tools
first festival-in-a-festival, the Celtic Animation Film Festival showcases animated films from those submitted to this year’s inaugural competition. As part of Liverpool Irish Film Festival
Peter Greenaway's visually stunning 1985 film was the first with his "most important collaborator" cinematographer Sacha Vierny. A story of twin zoologists Oswald and Oliver Deuce who, after losing their wives in a freak car collision with a swan outside the zoo where they work, develop a curious attachment to the car's driver Alba, who […]
Jingle Bell Rocks! ...searching for the Soul of Christmas Music. A festive film event in conjunction with The Culture Vultures & Scalarama Leeds. 5.00pm - 6.00pm Before the screening, join us at the Hyde Park Picture House as local authors Clare Fisher & Chris Nickson present some of their favourite Christmas stories. 6.00pm - […]
Want to run a film festival? Now you can! Join us to plan for Scalarama 2018, taking place again all through September this year. This meeting, we'll look at what needs doing and who wants to do what - and hear everyone's ideas + plans. Open to all and all are welcome - if you […]
FIRST SCALARAMA LIVERPOOL MEETING OF 2018- 186 DAYS TO #SCALARAM
Scalarama is an annual festival of independent cinema that takes place for the whole month of September. People from across the city come together to put all kinds of films on in venues of all shapes and sizes. Would you like to know more? Come along to one of our meetings and get involved! All […]
Scalarama is a DIY celebration of cinema that takes place every September while championing alternative film culture all year round. Inspired by the eclectic programming of the legendary Scala Cinema, since 2011, groups and individuals who have a passion for movies have united to celebrate and encourage watching films together. Join a mix of local […]
Drawing on photographs from her forthcoming book about the history of the Scala cinema from 1978-1993, Jane Giles will talk about the wild life and times of this legendary venue and the diverse audience tribes who made it their own.
Join us for the next Scalarama Leeds planning meeting at Outlaws Yacht Club. Scalarama's celebration of cinema is fast approaching, less than 100 days away! It's time to get your screenings confirmed and start filling up our calender with some amazing film events!
If you’ve always dreamed of owning a cinema or fancy your hand at showing films to others – but don’t know where to start – you’ve come to the right place.
What is Scalarama? A month of film: 30 days in which cinemas across the world celebrate watching motion pictures together; where cities, towns and villages are transformed with screenings popping up in unexpected places; and where classic, rare or locally made films get an annual showing impotenzastop.it/. Since 2011, every September, cinemas, film clubs and […]
Join us for the launch of the Scalarama Scotland 2018 programme, and a rare screening of John Waters' Polyester (1981) as it was intended - in original scratch 'n' sniff Odorama! Meet Francine Fishpaw, tortured suburban housewife. With a pornographer husband, a pregnant teenage daughter, and a son with a foot-stomping fetish, Francine smells trouble […]
We are up for cinema partying in Liverpool ! Join us in THE launch of Scalarama Liverpool 2018 programme where everyone is invited and you can not missed! No etiquette, no ticket, no nada.. only your presence is needed. Embrace the Scalarama spirit in one of the most upbeat bars in town, The Baltic Social, be […]
Prince Purple Rain on our big VHS cinema screen
With karaoke and Prince soundtrack in our VideOdyssey arcade
Why 1968? 1968 was a year that practically ripped up American culture - Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy were assassinated within days of each other, Andy Warhol was shot by a radical feminist and Star Trek shocked the world with American television's first interracial kiss. Young men forcibly recruited for the Vietnam war burned […]
Come and see an amazing time-lapse film of a beautiful English walled garden and then join us for home-grown food and drink on the Chapel FM allotment. Using real-time and time-lapse footage, the film explores the relationship between the seasons and the plants and people who work within the walls of the garden. Locked into […]
From the director of Ratcatcher and We Need To Talk About Kevin, You Were Never Really Here is the brutal and defiantly masterful new film by uncompromising British filmmaker Lynne Ramsay, and stars an ever-excellent Joaquin Phenoix as a damaged Gulf War veteran and former FBI agent turned assassin for hire, tasked with rescuing a […]
Obsessively punctual FedEx executive Chuck Noland (Tom Hanks) is en route to an assignment in Malaysia when his plane crashes over the Pacific Ocean during a storm. The sole survivor of the flight, Chuck washes ashore on a deserted island. When his efforts to sail away and contact help fail, Chuck learns how to survive […]
France’s answer to Fleabag sees Laetitia Dosch explode onto the screen as Paula in Léonor Serraille’s debut film Jeune Femme, a live-wire comedy and an excessive exercise in humour and urgency which explores modern life’s everyday misfortunes. Back in Paris after a long absence and finding the key to her boyfriend’s apartment no longer works, Paula […]
In The Lesson, school teacher Nadezhda (Margita Gosheva) struggles against the odds to keep her home, her family and her integrity intact. An act of theft in her classroom is just the beginning of an escalating series of challenges, as Nadezhda faces financial precarity at home that sees her seek ever more risky solutions. The ethical […]
“I felt I needed to invent my cinema. With La Pointe Courte, I just jumped in, in the most radical fashion.” Anticipating the style and attitude of the French New Wave by a number of years, Agnès Varda’s directorial debut remains as fresh and as original as the day it was made. La Pointe Courte […]
The Movie Orgy (Joe Dante, 1968) 280 minutes A mind-bending predecessor to the modern mash-up, The Movie Orgy is also the Rosetta Stone for Joe Dante’s oeuvre and a must-experience for movie fans and cinephiles alike. Before The ‘Burbs, before Gremlins, before The Howling, before he started his career cutting trailers for Roger Corman, director […]
Discover amazing African folk tales and mythology and create your own beautiful artwork to take home. Family Friendly Event. Free drop-in event, no need to book
Shot in Paris during the height of the Sixties, Varda’s second film Cléo from 5 to 7 tells the story of Cléo, a pop singer who passes her time drifting through different locations and conversations while awaiting the results of a vital and potentially life-changing medical examination. A forerunner to the French New Wave, Cléo from […]
During the dawn of the digital age in the late 1990s and early 2000s, The Gleaners and Iemerged as one of the first true masterpieces to evolve from the new and (at the time) relatively unexplored format. Taken from the old pastime of gleaning (collecting leftover crops from fields after they have been harvested), Varda’s […]
“I’ve had friends who’ve been very important in my life. In L’Une chante, l’autre pas I’ve told their story as if it were a novel.” After a hiatus from making feature films to focus on having a family, Varda’s return to filmmaking was largely inspired by her involvement in the French Women’s Movement of the 1970s, which […]
Scalarama Liverpool marks 50 years since 1968 to see what impact that revolutionary year had on the world and what can we learn from the past to deal with the current state of affairs. We'll be launching the BLACK POWER strand of this programme with an event at the Black-E looking at the legacy of […]
All Happy Gilmore (Adam Sandler) has ever wanted is to be a professional hockey player. But he soon discovers he may actually have a talent for playing an entirely different sport: golf. When his grandmother (Frances Bay) learns she is about to lose her home, Happy joins a golf tournament to try and win enough […]
For the second year in a Scalarama Liverpool is participating in the Student Creative Fayre
A Dinner & Cinema experience at the Little Reliance Cinema! FILM STARTS AT 7:30PM WITH DINNER FROM 6PM TICKETS ARE £13 AVAILABLE FROM THE BAR OR OVER THE PHONE. 0113 295 6060
The Secret Cinema has been one of Inkwell Art’s huge success stories and has been running for over six years bringing communities together using the magic of cinema and the power of good wholesome food. We are hosting a special evening offering a unique cinema and dining experience in our warm friendly gallery space in […]
Mortido is a short film by Miska Morning, it explores childhood imagination and memories in a tale of mourning a loss of a father, set somewhere between dark horror and a bittersweet fairy tale.
A free screening of the 1954 musical film Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. Set in the 1850s, Adam goes into town seeking a wife to run the household. He finds Milly, a waitress, and persudes her to come home with him to his ranch in Oregon. There, she discovers that Adam and his six brothers, […]
The nights are still blessedly light - but in darkened rooms, the longer nights can stink of fright.
On a dark night, in a small Danish town, Thomas Andersen has a violent encounter with his double. A screening with a difference - Radio Atlas brings you incredible subtitled audio in languages other than English. The story of two young men who lived in Viborg, a small town in Denmark, both with the same […]
Filmed to commemorate its centenary this year, this new documentary film traces the history of the Fire Brigades Union since its inception at the end of the First World War, and the contribution the union has made over ten decades to improve public and firefighter safety through its campaigning work. It is being screened in […]
Filmed to commemorate its centenary this year, this new documentary film traces the history of the Fire Brigades Union since its inception at the end of the First World War, and the contribution the union has made over ten decades to improve public and firefighter safety through its campaigning work. It is being screened in […]
O!PLA - "Oh! Polish Animation" returns back to Liverpool in an new brand edition brought by Big Cinema Adventure and Merseyside Polonia
In the film that introduced the world to Jacques Tati’s memorable creation, the affable yet clumsy M Hulot takes his vacation, encountering all the delights and curiosities of a sunny seaside town. Whilst there he meets all sorts of people, from the hotel proprietor, to guests playing tennis, restaurant staff and children, who all come […]
For many of us from the first moment we enjoy the freedom that comes with riding a bike another thought occurs – where can I explore ? where will this bike take me ? As riders have ventured further bikes have evolved to carry them on their journeys. “Off the Beaten Path” is an adventure cycling film celebrating […]
The year is 1899 and Christian, a young English writer, has come to Paris to follow the Bohemian revolution taking hold of the city's drug and prostitute infested underworld. And nowhere is the thrill of the underworld more alive than at the Moulin Rouge, a night club where the rich and poor men alike come […]
Brighton based film collective, Octopus Films, presents 12 short film monologues covering the full range of human experience. Funny, mysterious, surreal, tragic and heartwarming - just like life. Octopus Films are a Brighton based short film collective made of up of professional filmmakers, keen enthusiasts and students. We have been working together since 2015 and […]
What’s the best film you’ve never heard of? Show + Tell invites guests to play a trailer and tell us something strange about a film they love, or love to hate. Physical Impossibility’s Show + Tell is a confessional, a soapbox, a chance for our guests to spread the word or clear their consciences. Come […]
Ever wanted to talk back to the film Me Before You, abelism and 'cripping up'!? Now is your chance! Presented in partnership with Fabrica, The Other Screen invites you to our most interactive live cinema event yet. In the style of midnight movies and The Rocky Horror Picture Show, each audience member will be given a […]
A short Horror shot in Brighton about a woman who gets stuck in a lift with a weirdo lift attendant, later she realises who he is! Doors open at 7, film at 7.30pm
Luc Besson and Jean Reno at there best and Natalie Portman's wonderful in her debu
Fresh Perspectives and Fabrica present the Battle of Algiers as part of Uprising: the Spirit of '68. More info to follow Doors from 7pm, feature starts at 7:30pm
A special Scalarama + Thought Bubble screening of the 1994 documentary Crumb by Terry Zwigoff. The master of the misfit film, Zwigoff creates a fascinating and intimate portrait of one of America's most iconic, innovative and prolific underground cartoonists, Robert Crumb. Crumb's notorious career began in 1968 with the publication of the first issue of Zap comix […]
The Florida Project follows Moone a mischevious young girl and her friends as they explore the world around them, living in a motel near Disneyland.
Bill Murray's birthday - Life Lessons learned from comedy icon Bill Murray
Discussion in the VideOdyssey video shop followed by screening of Quick Change in our VHS cinema
To echo the restoration of Yellow Submarine (1968) earlier this June, there is more of The Beatles coming to Edinburgh this September! A Hard Day's Night (1964) to start with on Friday 21st: to see where it all began, to get ourselves into the pure black and white mischief and celebrate life! The Beatles in their feature […]
Yes, community cinema is Staying Alive, and we’re going back to 1959 California with the fantastic and ground-breaking musical drama Grease. Directed by Randal Kleiser this 1978 film starred John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John. It tells the story of Danny and Sandy who fall in love at the beach, only to find themselves very much […]
As #MeToo and #TimesUp shine a light on the film industry's dark side, Women Over 50 Film Festival fights back with short films that amuse, astound and agitate, celebrating the work of older women on both sides of the camera. WOFFF18 presents 2 feature films, over 50 short films, an all-female panel event and a […]
To echo the restoration of Yellow Submarine (1968) earlier this June, there is more of The Beatles coming to Edinburgh in September! Curious Cat | Cinema Club is making its opening party with Across the Universe (2007) – a magical mystery party you won't wanna miss! Featuring 33 Beatles compositions, Across the Universe is one of the most polarising musicals ever […]
Marking the 108th anniversary of the Duke of York’s and the 90th anniversary of Carl Theodor Dreyer’s powerful masterwork The Passion of Joan of Arc, Scalarama and the Duke’s are presenting this seminal silent film from a rare 35mm print with a new and original live score performed by Heliopause and This Ship Argo. This […]
As #MeToo and #TimesUp shine a light on the film industry's dark side, Women Over 50 Film Festival fights back with short films that amuse, astound and agitate, celebrating the work of older women on both sides of the camera. WOFFF18 presents 2 feature films, over 50 short films, an all-female panel event and a […]
Squash's seasonal events return with their Autumn edition, taking place at their new headquarters on 112-114 Windsor Street, L8 including films, workshops and of course lovely food! Taking Root Lisa Merton, Alan Dater, USA, 2008, 81 minutes Discover the story of Kenyan Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Wangari Maathai whose simple act of planting trees grew into […]
Cleo, a singer living in Paris, awaits the test results of a biopsy – she meets friends, makes friends, wanders the city and attempts to deal with the limbo-like state of waiting. Writer/Director Agnès Varda vividly captures the atmosphere of Paris in the 1960s, unfolding the narrative in real time to create a nimble, spirited […]
Yes, that’s correct, fellow freeks! It’s the second annual channel hopping, toenail popping, scanline worshipping Video Namaste Bacchanal!! Last year’s was a dive into the weird cinema world of the 90’s, this year we’re turning ourselves into a pseudo quiz show multimedia cinema-paraphenalia hellparty!! 1st Prize is a signed Hawk from the set of Hudson […]
EVENT POSTPONED Due to some unforeseen circumstances, we will be postponing this event - we will look to reschedule this for mid-late October. Apologies for any inconvenience this has caused. -------------------------------------------------- Scalarama Liverpool, a month-long film season across Merseyside, marks 50 years since 1968 to see what impact that revolutionary year had on the world […]
This 90-minute programme, presented by Leeds Animation Workshop, will include the premiere of a new short film made at the Workshop, as well as a couple of old and new favourites from the local women’s collective, set up 40 years ago. Also showing: a selection of films by women animators from the UK, and around the […]
Shallow, rich and socially successful Cher (Alicia Silverstone) is at the top of her Beverly Hills high school's pecking scale. Seeing herself as a matchmaker, Cher first coaxes two teachers into dating each other. Emboldened by her success, she decides to give hopelessly klutzy new student Tai (Brittany Murphy) a makeover. When Tai becomes more […]
1970: England is preparing for the defence of the World Cup. Bromley FC had seen better days: playing and crowd support are embarrassingly poor. David, nevertheless, is a big fan; he longs to be in the inner sanctum of his beloved club. Teams opposing Bromley lose count of the number of goals conceded. Gambler-Manager McQueen […]
It was the legendary cinema that banned Shane McGowan for his exploits during an All-Nighter, fought the ‘Video Nasties’ bill and was prosecuted for showing A Clockwork Orange… 25 years later the Scala Cinema is back for one night only to launch a new book featuring the complete collection of its iconic monthly programmes from […]
More beautiful than ever in a new 4K digital restoration, Jean Cocteau’s spellbinding, sensuous and poetic masterpiece was recently described by Guillermo del Toro as ‘the most perfect cinematic fable ever told’. A hapless merchant, lost in a dark forest, seeks refuge in the castle of a hideous monster who threatens to kill him unless […]
Images of Apartheid: Filmmaking on the Fringe in the Old South Africa (Calum Waddell, 2018) Matchbox Cineclub and Africa in Motion (AiM) film festival present the untold story of the B Movies that flourished under the brutal regime of race-segregation and political persecution. From the maker of 42nd Street Memories and American Grindhouse, Images of Apartheid uncovers the […]
Join VideOdyssey as we press play on our VCR and head on a voyage to desolate Tokyo in 1956. Laid to ruins by the rampaging Godzilla.
For one month only in September we are teaming up with the Scalarama film festival in Leeds and are asking people to out a bit of a film-twist on their performances—film music, dialogue, comedy…that kind of thing. And yes we can screen short films too…have fun! “What a brilliant, brilliant place to perform in.” In […]
An exciting and fun creative workshop for children. Sign up to run a cinema from the inside: make posters, trailers, props and more
This was one of the sensations of 2017, and was the closing film of the Leeds International Film Festival. It also won the Oakwood Cinema ‘audience choice’ vote earlier this year! Three Billboards is an unusual film; it deals with murder, revenge, grief and loss, as well as police violence and racism, but it is […]
Inspired by the true story of the women who inspired the world, Suffragette tells the inspirational story of the foot soldiers of the early feminist movement who risked everything in the fight for equality.
Leeds Palestinian Film Festival Fundraiser We need to raise funds for this year's Film Festival in order to pay for some great films and travel expenses for speakers coming from other places. Please come and support us! Along with a tasty Middle eastern buffet we'll be showing one of our favourite Palestinian films, The Wanted […]
In Things to Come Isabelle Huppert plays Nathalie, a philosophy professor navigating life in middle-age with a graceful defiance. Throughout Hansen-Løve’s absorbing film she faces a series of trying experiences including an unwell mother (screen legend Edith Scob), political protests, marital infidelity and career compromises. Nathalie’s is a compelling and authentically told story, as we […]
World of Film Festival presents a FREE film screening of current international short films followed by music from emerging DJs. The DJs playing after the screening are emerging DJs living in Glasgow. We want to give those artists a chance to play their sets after our screening so people can hang out and chat or […]
Returning for the second year, the Celtic Animation Film Festival celebrates and encourages new and emerging Celtic and international animators to forge an ongoing global community to share practice, tell stories and reflect on Celtic culture and concerns.
this will be the first of three planning meeting of Liverpool's Scalarama 2019. Andy has kindly let us have it at Videoddysey which (if you don't know) is pretty close to the Anglican in Toxteth.
Dare you sing SAW? Witness James Wan's horror classic spliced with live drag performances inspired by its goriest scenes, all to celebrate the launch of Scalarama's 2019 programme! Matchbox Cineclub and Pity Party Film Club present SAW as you've never seen it before - ripped to shreds and reassembled, as local drag terrorisers slice up […]
Scalarama Leeds Programme launch at the Brudenell Social Club The first screening in Leeds of a brand new doumentary that traces the history of the world's most iconic ska, reggae and rock-steady record label, Trojan Records. Trojan Records started in Jamaica in 1968 with Duke Reid’s Trojan Sound System. Rudeboy: The Story Of Trojan Records […]
Welcome one and all to the Scalarama Merseyside launch for 2019! We’ve got so many amazing film events on this September so let’s celebrate all our hard work and all the exciting screenings to come. To warm us up we will have a screening of short films from the Aesthetica Short Film Festival followed by […]
Weird Weekend Cult Film Festival | 30/08-01/09/19 A weekend of strange and unseen cinema from around the world, showcasing orphans, outcasts and outliers, old and brand-new. Expect 12 films over three days - premieres, guests and plenty of bonus content at Glasgow's cult film festival. Matchbox Cineclub have scoured the world to bring you some […]
Radical Home Cinema is an experimental programming and exhibition event where film lovers invite you to watch films in their homes. This event aims to break down the boundaries between public and private audiences, to present films in unexpected places and to turn the viewing experience into something completely new. Radical Home Cinema is part […]
Liverpool Radical Film Festival presents the curated series Cannibals and Carnivals: A brief history of Brazilian underground cinema: 1964-1971. The first selection is Brazil's first horror film- At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul (1964) - which features the first appearance of Coffin Joe (José Mojica Marins) of the Coffin Joe Trilogy. A wicked undertaker whose […]
Inspired by Ugandan Author Monica Arac de Nyeko’s 2007 Caine Prize-winning short storyJambula Tree, Wanuri Kahiu’s acclaimed Rafiki (meaning ‘friend’ in Swahili) is a tender love story about the blossoming romance between two young women amid familial, societal and political pressures. In Nairobi, Kena (Samantha Mugatsia) is helping her father campaign for a local election […]
A sensorial and immersive trip into a teen’s psyche, Madeline’s Madeline boldly dissects mental health, racial tensions, and the vampiric relationship between identity and performance. Starring Miranda July, Molly Parker, and standout newcomer Helena Howard, this is relentless, electrifying cinema that solidifies Josephine Decker’s position at the forefront of contemporary experimental filmmaking. Sixteen-year-old Madeline has […]
Winner of Best Screenplay at last year’s Cannes Film Festival, Italian writer-director Alice Rohrwacher’s Happy as Lazzaro is a beguiling and luminous magic realist fable which echoes the surrealist films of cinematic masters like Pier Paolo Pasolini, Federico Fellini and Derek Jarman. Beautifully shot on super 16mm, the film follows the sweet natured peasant Lazzaro […]
Agnès Varda brings New York counterculture to Los Angeles. In a rented house in the sun-soaked Hollywood Hills, a woman and two men, Viva, of Warhol Factory fame, and James Rado and Gerome Ragni, who created and starred in the rock musical “Hair,” delight in one another's bodies while musing on love, stardom, and politics. […]
Exploring themes of identity and activism, with short films making a big impact! Get a closer look at the museums collections too.
Reel Tours is a cinematic adventure through the streets of Liverpool. Join us as we explore the city’s relationship with the silver screen, which dates from the latter days of the 19th Century right up to some of Hollywood’s biggest blockbusters of recent years. We provide a walking tour, in which you will visit many […]
Reel Tours is a cinematic adventure through the streets of Liverpool. Join us as we explore the city’s relationship with the silver screen, which dates from the latter days of the 19th Century right up to some of Hollywood’s biggest blockbusters of recent years. We provide a walking tour, in which you will visit many […]
Liverpool Radical Film Festival presents the curated series Cannibals and Carnivals: A brief history of Brazilian underground cinema: 1964-1971. The second offering of this collection is comedy Macunaima (Joaquim Pedro de Andrade, 1969. Based on the 1928 book by Mário de Andrade, the modern-day parable follows the misadventures of Macunaima, a black man who is […]
Once again Scalarama is taking part in one of the most exciting fairs in Liverpool, the SAE'S freshers fair, a promotional platform for local services and businesses, celebrating the creative industries and some great local independents in Liverpool. The event will include talks on a a variety of interests: anything from local support services, lifestyle information, […]
Transition Liverpool presents a film night as part of their monthly cafe at Quakers Meeting House. Join them from 6.30pm for food with the film at 7pm. Free but donations welcome to go towards the cost of the film. INHABIT - dir. Costa Boutsikaris - 2015 - documentary - 1h 32mins Synopsis: Inhabit is a […]
James Stewart and June Allyson star in a delightful biography of Glenn Miller, a talented young trombone player who became one of the most popular big-band leaders of all time. This is a funny, celebratory and sympathetic tribute to a talented musician who, at the outbreak of World War Two, was willing to travel to […]
Reel Tours is a cinematic adventure through the streets of Liverpool. Join us as we explore the city’s relationship with the silver screen, which dates from the latter days of the 19th Century right up to some of Hollywood’s biggest blockbusters of recent years. We provide a walking tour, in which you will visit many […]
A programme of short films by directors Naoto Yamakawa, Nobuhiro Aihara and Toshio Matsumoto. The films, spanning from 1975 up until the mid '80s, range from abstract experimentalism to more recognisable narrative structures, but all distort and challenge expectations of aesthetics, storytelling and recognition of oneself on film. Short films often offer a fleeting insight […]
Seahorse (Jeanie Finlay, 2019) 1hr 31m Queer Classics and Matchbox Cineclub are delighted to screen Jeanie Finlay's documentary, Seahorse, the story of a dad who gave birth, which follows Freddy McConnell's journey through the pregnancy and birth of his son. Seahorse is an intimate documentary following Freddy McConnell's journey as a pregnant trans man, from […]
The Hyde Park Picture House in Leeds is a Grade II listed cinema, built in 1914. Visitors can explore the beautiful auditorium of the historic cinema and learn lots of fun facts about the building on a self guided tour anytime from 10am - 3pm. The Hyde Park Picture House is a fully functioning cinema […]
On the night of December 2, 1966, Shirley Clarke and a tiny crew convened in her apartment at the Hotel Chelsea to make a film. There, for twelve straight hours they filmed the inimitable Jason Holliday as he spun tales, sang, donned costumes and reminisced about his experiences as a gay hustler, sometime houseboy and […]
Liverpool Radical Film Festival presents the curated series Cannibals and Carnivals: A brief history of Brazilian underground cinema: 1964-1971. The final installment in this mini-series will be How Tasty was my Little Frenchman (Nelson Pereira dos Santos, 1971). A Frenchman (Arduíno Colassanti), who is part of a faction from his country trying to stake a […]
Totally Fucked Up (Gregg Araki, 1993) 1hr 25m The Doom Generation (Gregg Araki, 1995) 1hr 30m Nowhere (Gregg Araki, 1997) 1hr 25m A rare opportunity to see Gregg Araki’s '90s New Queer Cinema classics: the Teen Apocalypse Trilogy of Totally Fucked Up (1993), The Doom Generation (1995) and Nowhere (1997). A kaleidoscope of pop culture, […]
Liverpool Left Film Club screens Rosa Luxemburg (1986) Dir. Margarethe von Trotta Rosa Luxemburg was a towering figure on the revolutionary left of the German and Polish socialist movements. Born into a Jewish middle-class family, she had, by the age of 18 already been involved the organising of a general strike in Warsaw, for which four […]
Alert!! #newrelease2019 As charming and funny as it is thought-provoking, Hail Satan? chronicles the extraordinary rise of one of the most colourful and controversial religious movements in American history, The Satanists. Hail Satan? is an inspiring and entertaining new feature documentary from acclaimed director Penny Lane (Nuts!, Our Nixon). Director: Penny Lane Year 2019. Duration […]
The UK Premier of “El tren fantasma” (Ghost Train). Mexican Silent Film with Live Music performed by the pianist José María Serralde. About this Event “ caused an outstanding impression at the Festival with his exciting musical treatment...” Pordenone Silent Film Festival 2014 Catalogue “Bringing this film with Ensamble Cine Mudo, is for me a […]
84mins | Rated 15 | UK | Director: Eva Riley | Programmer: Fran Albrecht ‘Perfect 10’ tells the story of 14-year old Leigh (Frankie Box), a gymnast who struggles to get her flow back since her mum’s death. Her life takes an unexpected turn when her unknown half brother Joe (Alfie Deegan) suddenly appears. Through […]
S'cuse me Laydeh! You are invited to the Scalarama X Red Carpet Launch Night! This year's Opening Party theme is Fashion in Film 👗🕺🏻🎬📸 and we're chuffed to be hosting the festival launch at Works Social. Featuring... 📺 Back to back screenings of each episode of the iconic Charity Shop Sue web series! 🛍 Love […]
Join us for a night of cinematic magic at Nottingham Castle! Robin Wright and Cary Elwes star in this fairy tale adventure about a beautiful princess and the gallant hero who rescues her from an evil villain. Directed by Rob Reiner, it’s an enchanting classic the whole family will love! Please note, this film is […]
Works Social Presents… A screening of ‘Blade Runner - The Final Cut’ + film themed snacks and drinks on Thursday 9th September. Second up in this year's oh-so-eclectic ScalaramaX Film Festival program is a unique pop-up screening of the definitive version or the iconic classic - Blade Runner - The Final Cut in Work Social's […]
A chilled afternoon into evening of art, music and film curated by the fabulous DirtyFilthySexy at Nottingham’s newest creative hub Fishergate Point. Beginning at 3pm with a pride sign making workshop throughout the afternoon with Franx Franklin and progressing to live music, art, retrospective lockdown screenings and DJ’s through to 11pm. Get it in your […]
Nonsuch Studios presents…. “Mother” a night of film and food on Thursday 16th September! As a part of the Scalarama festival, join them for an evening of South Korean food and the incredible film Mother, by award-winning director Bong Joon-ho. A widow (Kim Hye-ja) resides with her mentally challenged son (Won-bin) in a small South […]
The Carousel presents… A screening of: “Ahead of the Curve” on Thursday 23rd September. This new feature documentary is about the extraordinary woman who started Curve magazine, and by doing so helped influence the political and social evolution of America. Armed with a handful of credit cards and a dash of miraculous luck at the […]
If like us, you want to dress as your favourite Spice Girl and watch their movie on the big screen then we have just the event for you! Join us for a fancy dress screening of Spice World, part of this year’s Scalarama film festival, an annual event that celebrates cinema in all its brilliance! […]
The Loft Movie Theatre is proud to present a one-night special screening of James Cameron's science fiction action classic: The Terminator (1984) In the year 1984, Los Angeles college student Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton) finds herself the target of a seemingly unstoppable hit man who appears hell-bent on wiping out all LA citizens of the […]
“The quartet of musicians, led by the pianist and composer Freddie Redd and the caustic-toned post-bop saxophonist Jackie McLean, perform brilliantly on-camera as they dramatize both the agonized wait and the needed high...” — Richard Brody, New Yorker In a cramped and dirty New York apartment, eight junkies variously goof off, chat and play jazz […]
Beatside presents: Dreamers & Rebels This is an event for the mad ones – those who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to dance, and mad to dream and to rebel. To kickstart our series, we are delighted to present a slice of Latvian culture and history with an eerily timely screening of […]
Scalarama Leeds' first meeting of the year will also be a fundraiser for this year's film festival! If you have never put on a film screening and would like to learn how, this would be a perfect time to meet the group. The first meeting is an intro to the film festival, to meet everyone […]