Scalarama 2020
2020-09-01 - 2020-09-30 | East Sussex

Scalarama Leeds Summer Screenings: Perfect 10 (2019)
2021-08-12 20:00 - 22:00 (Europe/London) | Headingley HEART, Heart, Bennett Road, Headingley,, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS6 3HN, United Kingdom
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 him, she finds excitement in a much darker world. Working with first-time actors, Eva Riley’s debut feature is a gripping coming-of-age drama that centres on the special relationship between the two siblings.
After the screening, director Eva Riley will join us for a virtual Q&A.

Content Warnings (may contain spoilers)
Perfect 10

Emotional abuse (Leigh gets bullied by the other gymnasts)
Implied drug abuse
Strong language

Scalarama X Nottingham Red Carpet Launch Night!
2021-09-01 18:30 - 22:00 | East Sussex, United Kingdom
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 At First Sight Vintage Pop up Shop
📸 Fashion in Film Picture Quiz
👩🏻‍🎤 + Live DJ and Fancy dress competition!
Attend wearing your very best charity shop finds, pre-loved outfits or even better, come as Charity Shop Sue!
Free entry, paid bar, tickets limited – get yours NOW!
Wednesday 1st September – Doors open 18:30 til 22:00pm
Turn the Bloody Heat Up!
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Nottingham Castle Presents The Princess Bride (Outdoor Screenng)
2021-09-04 18:15 - 21:00 | Nottingham Castle, Nottingham Castle Trust, Lenton Road, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, NG1 6EL, United Kingdom
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 PG rated. Parental supervision required.
The Castle grounds will open from 6pm, allowing plenty of time for the kids to let off steam in our adventure playground, Hood’s Hideout, before the screening. Our friendly team of Explainer’s will also be hosting craft activities on the Outer Bailey.
Looking to improve your own fencing skills before the show? Join Radcliffe Swords Club, who will be demonstrating fencing on the tree-lined Outer Bailey to get you in the fighting spirit!
Run time: 94 mins
Interval: No
Outdoor Performance
In Partnership with Broadway Cinema.
Please note, although some seats will be available, we recommend bringing your own blankets and camping chairs to guarantee comfort on the night.

Works Social Presents Blade Runner Final Cut
2021-09-09 18:30 - 22:00 | East Sussex, United Kingdom
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 atmospheric ground floor event space.
What to expect:
6:30pm – Your choice of Rick Deckard’s favourite drink on arrival (Whiskey Sour, Tsing Tao Beer or Coca Cola)*
7:00pm – Blade Runner – The Final Cut Screening Part I
7:10pm – Steaming Nongshim instant kimchi noodle bowls brought to your seat
8:00pm – Interval – Drinks & loo break
8:30pm – Blade Runner – The Final Cut Screening Part II
9:30pm – Film ends and last orders at the bar
10:00pm – That’s all folks!
*Included in ticket price then a licensed bar will be open throughout the night with a selection of beers, wines, spirits and soft drinks available to purchase (heads up – card payments only).
** Optional but included in ticket price. Allergy info: Contains wheat and soy.
Expect a wonderfully immersive evening in a cosy and contemporary setting.
“WAKE UP, TIME TO DIE!” But make sure you bag your tickets first… 🤣
🎟 £9

Dirty Filthy Sexy Presents Nottingham Pre-Pride P(arty)
2021-09-10 15:00 - 23:00 | Fishergate Point, Fisher Gate Point, 1 Fisher Gate, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, NG1 1GD, United Kingdom
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 Scalamara social diary and add it to your pre-pride planner!
🎟 Pay what you can on the door.

NonSuch Presents Mother - Korean Film & Food NIght
2021-09-16 18:00 - 21:30 | NonSuch, Nonsuch Studios, 92 Lower Parliament Street, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, NG1 1EH, United Kingdom
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 Korean town, where she scrapes out a living selling medicinal herbs. Mother and son are plunged into a nightmare when the body of a murdered young girl is discovered.
This film is only suitable for those aged 15+
We can’t wait 😋
🎟 Tickets are from £5 (film only)

The Carousel Presents Ahead of the Curve
2021-09-23 20:00 - 22:00 | The Carousel, 25 Hockley, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, NG1 1FH, United Kingdom
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 races in 1990, the extraordinary 23-year-old Franco Stevens was able to scrape enough money together to kickstart Curve magazine, which would go on to become the most successful lesbian magazine ever published.
Expect a wonderfully inspiring evening from 8pm at The Carousel
🎟 £5

Based On A True Story Cinema Presents Spiceworld!
2021-09-25 19:00 | Bonington Theatre, High St, Arnold, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, NG5 7EE, United Kingdom
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!
Presented by Bonington Theatre.
This is a 12+ event

The Loft Movie Theatre Presents The Terminator (1984)
2021-09-27 20:30 | East Sussex, United Kingdom
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 same name.
But when she is dramatically rescued by a mysterious stranger claiming to be a soldier of the human resistance army from the post-apocalyptic future of 2029, she learns that ‘The Terminator’ (Arnold Schwarzenegger) is actually an android killing machine sent from the same time to locate and assassinate the mother of a John Connor; the future leader of the human resistance and the enemy of his creators.
With the fate of mankind in their hands, Sarah Connor and Kyle Reese (Michael Biehn) must do everything in their power to prevent the deadly cyborg from carrying out his orders and changing the course of history forever. With an iconic performance from Arnold Schwarzenegger, unforgettable practical effects from Stan Winston, and a story that spawned a billion dollar movie franchise, The Terminator is the B-Movie-turned-Blockbuster not to be missed on the big screen!

The Connection (Shirley Clarke, USA, 1964)
2023-09-12 20:00 - 22:30 | Lord Palmerston, 33 Dartmouth Park Hill, London, NW5 1HU, United Kingdom
“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 music while waiting for their heroin connection to show up. They’ve also struck a deal with documentary filmmaker Jim Dunn (William Redfield): they’ll let him film them provided he pays for their drugs. What could possibly go wrong…? The Connection was legendary cult film-maker Shirley Clarke’s debut feature – and a very early example of the ‘found-footage’ genre of film. (And the jazz is great too!)

Beatside & Scalarama Leeds present: Janvāris (January)
2023-09-26 18:00 | Left Bank Leeds, Cardigan Road, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS6 1LJ, United Kingdom
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 2022 political drama Janvāris (January), accompanied by a performance of Latvian folk dance and music.
Set against the backdrop of a fight for independence in 1991, Janvāris follows a Latvian filmmaker traversing the trenches of love and war in a dreamy and grungy coming-of-age drama.
Learn more on our website: beatside.org/janvaris.
The film is in Latvian with English subtitles. The event is open to everyone, but children will have to be supervised by an adult, as the film is rated 12A. The venue is wheelchair accessible – although, unfortunately, the toilets aren’t large enough to allow wheelchair use. Tickets are available on a pay-what-you-can basis, with a minimum fee of £2 and suggested donations of £5 – £10 to contribute towards future events.
This screening is part of the Scalarama Leeds 2023 Film Festival, a DIY cinema festival celebrating film exhibition in non-cinema venues. See the full programme of films here: instagram.com/scalaramaleeds/.
BUY TICKETS HERE

Sound it Out (Jeanie Finlay, UK, 2011)
2023-09-26 20:00 - 22:30 | Lord Palmerston, 33 Dartmouth Park Hill, London, NW5 1HU, United Kingdom
“It’s a delightful, real-life version of Nick Hornby’s novel High Fidelity, a song of love, sadness and mortality with everyone involved doing it their way as they face the vinyl curtain.”
— Philip French, Observer
A documentary about ‘the last surviving record shop in Teeside’, when Sound It Out was released in 2011 an independent record shop was closing in the UK every three days. Since then the vinyl revival has changed their fortunes, though sadly the shop at the centre of this film has now closed following the sudden death earlier this year of the shop’s owner, Tom Buchart (a man whose passion, humour and generosity elevated his shop into not only a haven for music fans of all stripes but also a community centre-cum-pilgrimage site). Jeanie Finlay’s film is a distinctive, funny and intimate film about men, the North and the irreplaceable role music plays in our lives – showing us what a wonderful man Tom was and how much his local community loved him. This screening is also in tribute to him.

Scalarama Leeds 2024 Meeting and Fundraiser
2024-02-21 19:00 - 22:00 | Wharf Chambers, Ground Floor, 23 - 25 Wharf Street, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS2 7EQ, United Kingdom
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 who’s part of the gang, to meet new people and to find out more about the origins of the film festival too! They’re all very friendly and love films, so if that sounds like you too, please come along and get involved. Their DIY independent film festival is for the whole month of September and anybody can be a part of it, so if you have a brilliant idea for a film event, they would like to see you at the meeting!
Put this date in your diary
Wednesday 21 February
Wharf Chambers
Meeting – 7PM
Surprise film screening – 8:30 PM
Raffle
Bake sale
Please show your support, come along and give as much as you can at the fundraiser so they can make their annual film festival in September happen and bring you all the usual eclectic and brilliant film events from their Scalarama Leeds Film Festival!
Don’t forget that you must be a member or a guest of a member to attend any events at Wharf Chambers and annual membership costs £2/year and you can get this on their website. Non-members are welcome to our space as guests of members. One paid member may bring up to 3 guests to Wharf Chambers.

'Nice Girls Didn't Go To The Academy!' Cinemas of Brighton tour
2024-09-06 17:00 - 18:30, 2024-09-13 17:00 - 18:30 | Duke of York’s Picturehouse, Preston Road, Brighton and Hove, Brighton and Hove, BN1 4QF, United Kingdom
Step back in time with The Usherette and discover the lost and lasting cinemas of Brighton on this guided tour.
Join The Usherette as she leads you through the town, evoking the Golden Age of the Silver Screen. The tour begins at the Duke of York’s Picturehouse and ends at Pinello restaurant approximately 6.30pm. Pinello was formerly the Pandora Gallery, where the first films to be shown outside London were screened in 1896.
Supper at Pinello (formerly known as the Melrose) is optional – please book a table directly
Pinello restaurant

Meet outside the Duke of York’s Picturehouse, Preston Circus, Brighton.
Free but booking essential.

Do The Right Thing
2024-09-12 18:00 - 20:30 | Fabrica, Duke Street, Brighton and Hove, Brighton and Hove, BN1 1AG, United Kingdom
Presented by Fresh Perspectives

Do The Right Thing / 1989 / 2hrs / Rated 18 It’s the hottest day of the summer. You can do nothing, you can do something, or you can…
Over the course of the hottest day of the year in New York City, a pizza delivery boy navigates through racial, generational, and class conflicts as tensions intensify and reach their boiling point around a pizza joint in Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood.
Spike Lee’s polemical masterpiece is a dissection on humanity, told through comedy and tragedy. The compelling characters, dialogue, and vignettes provide insightful storytelling which has lasting power and relevancy.
This project is possible with support of the BFI Film Audience Network, awarding funds from the National Lottery in order to bring this project to more audiences across the UK

DANCE DOUBLE BILL: Girl Walk// All Day (2011) + Hairspray (2018)
2024-09-19 18:00 - 22:30 | Fabrica, Duke Street, Brighton and Hove, Brighton and Hove, BN1 1AG, United Kingdom
Fabrica and Filmspot present a dance double bill as part of Scalarama 2024 this September. Two cult films to make you want to cut some rug, as day turns to night!
First screening at 7pm (doors open at 6:30pm): Girl Walk// All Day, 2011
Girl Walk//All Day is directed by Jacob Krupnik, is a high-energy unconventional dance film, set to Girl Talk’s 2010 mash up album, ‘All Day’. The movie follows three dancers as they transform New York City into their stage, breaking free from everyday routines to explore themes of freedom and self-expression. Bursting with creativity, it captures the spirit of youth, adventure, and the power of music to bring people together. This film is a visual feast, inspiring viewers to see the world around them as a canvas for their own moves and to embrace life with unbridled enthusiasm and spontaneity. Filmed guerrilla style on the streets of New York, and originally released in short ‘chapters’ on YouTube, this is a rare opportunity to see the completed film on the big screen.

Second screening at 9pm (doors open at 8:30pm) – Hairspray, 1988
Hairspray, directed by Scalarama darling, John Waters, is a fun, vibrant film set in 1962 Baltimore. It follows Tracy Turnblad, a plucky teenager with big hair and even bigger dreams, who lands a spot on a local TV dance show. Tracy becomes an overnight sensation, challenging the status quo with her unique style and progressive views on racial integration. The movie is a lively mix of dance, music, and comedy, highlighting important themes like self-acceptance and social justice. With its catchy tunes and colourful characters, ‘Hairspray’ offers an entertaining yet meaningful look at a pivotal time in American history.
The screening includes projections by Level 3 Animation & Illustration students at East Sussex College in Lewes.

All Of Us Strangers
2024-09-23 20:00 - 21:45 | The Old Market, 11A Upper Market Street, Hove, East Sussex, BN3 1AS, United Kingdom
All of us hurt. All of us hope. All of us love.
One night in his near-empty tower block in contemporary London, Adam has a chance encounter with a mysterious neighbour Harry, which punctures the rhythm of his everyday life. As a relationship develops between them, Adam is preoccupied with memories of the past and finds himself drawn back to the suburban town where he grew up, and the childhood home where his parents appear to be living, just as they were on the day they died, 30 years before.
“After an impressive body of work, Andrew Haigh levels up even further, with a flawless film that reaches for the stars, and gets there. It aches and shimmers” – Alex Godfrey, EMPIRE
Doors: 7.15pm
Film: 8.00pm

12 Angry Men
2024-09-24 20:00 - 21:45 | The Old Market, 11A Upper Market Street, Hove, East Sussex, BN3 1AS, United Kingdom
A suggestion from one of our TOM’s Film Club audience members. Life is in their hands – Death is on their minds!
The defense and the prosecution have rested and the jury is filing into the jury room to decide if a young Spanish-American is guilty or innocent of murdering his father. What begins as an open and shut case soon becomes a mini-drama of each of the jurors’ prejudices and preconceptions about the trial, the accused, and each other.
“Thoroughly engaging, there is nothing dated or corny in Reginald Rose’s intensely knowing screenplay and Lumet’s energetic direction” – Ian Nathan, EMPIRE
Doors: 7.15pm
Film: 8.00pm

HEARTS OF DARKNESS: A FILMMAKER'S APOCALYPSE
2024-09-24 20:00 - 21:45 | Wagner Hall, Regency Road, Brighton and Hove, Brighton and Hove, BN1 2RU, United Kingdom
Doors: 7.30pm Film: 8.00pm
With the impending release of The Godfather director Francis Ford Coppola’s self financed 120 million dollar potential masterpiece / disaster-piece Megalopolis, and it’s accompanying discussion / bizarre controversy surrounding it’s production, we take a look back at the king of all madcap Coppola productions with this remarkable film documenting the sheer insanity surrounding the production of Coppola’s undoubted 1979 masterpiece, Apocalypse Now.
Combining archival footage shot by Francis Coppola’s wife Eleanor and interviews shot later with those involved in the making of the film such as Robert Duvall, Dennis Hopper, George Lucas, John Milius, & Martin Sheen, ‘Hearts of Darkness’ delves into the psyche of an artist on the edge as Coppola wrestles with his famed uncompromising artistic vision in the face of a $31 million dollar (easily $200+ million in today’s money) production of staggering technical and physical complexity.​
Filmed in the forests of Philippines, the production deals with everything from severe shooting conditions and cast and crew problems, to life threatening illnesses and natural disasters, all in pursuit of Coppola’s mad undefinable vision of a Vietnam war epic that has become both the textbook example of late 70s filmmaking excess, as well as one of the towering achievements of America’s golden age of modern cinema.
Truly one of the great films about filmmaking, the descent into near madness for Coppola is fascinating to watch as he chases his vision and nearly loses all sense of reality in an up river journey into the jungle almost as bizarre and wild as the ones experienced by the characters in the actual film.
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Also available is a discounted joint ticket for this screening and our November 29th screening of ‘American Movie’, a profoundly funny and beloved cult documentary about a young filmmaker with no less ambition but far less money (approximately $3000) attempting to shoot a horror film in mid 90s Wisconsin, only to a face a series of hopelessly hilarious setbacks.

OUT: Will & Harper
2024-09-25 18:00 - 20:00 | Duke’s at Komedia, 44-47 Gardner Street, Brighton, East Sussex, BN1 1UN, United Kingdom
When Will Ferrell finds out his close friend of 30 years is coming out as a trans woman, the two decide to embark on a cross-country road trip to process this new stage of their relationship in an intimate portrait of friendship, transition, and America.

Backbeat (35mm) + Q&A
2024-09-25 19:00 - 21:30 | Duke of York’s Picturehouse, Preston Road, Brighton and Hove, Brighton and Hove, BN1 4QF, United Kingdom
Join us after the screening for a Q&A with director Iain Softley.
In 1960, close friends Stuart Sutcliffe (Stephen Dorff) and John Lennon (Ian Hart), along with bandmates Paul McCartney (Gary Bakewell), George Harrison (Chris O’Neill), and Pete Best (Scot Williams), move to Hamburg, Germany, in search of success. Their tireless performing schedule and charismatic sound quickly put the Beatles on the road to stardom. But as Stuart falls in love with Astrid (Sheryl Lee), a local photographer, he realizes his commitment to the band isn’t as strong as he thought.

Psychomania
2024-09-26 18:00 - 20:30 | Fabrica, Duke Street, Brighton and Hove, Brighton and Hove, BN1 1AG, United Kingdom
Everybody dies, don’t they? But some come back… how do the dead come back, mother?

Psychomania is a quintessential example of British B-movie sleaze. Byronic biker gang leader Tom (Nicky Henson) lives in a glam-rock Gothic mansion with his psychic mother (Beryl Reid) and her butler (George Sanders), and yearns to discover the secret of immortality. When he finds it hidden in a locked room in the house, he returns from the dead in a suicidal ritual, and convinces his acolytes to follow his example and form an invincible army of juvenile delinquent motorcyclists. Can the police and Tom’s mother protect the country lanes and suburban streets of Surrey from this undead menace?
With a mixture of folk horror, black humour, flower power and teen melodrama, Psychomania is an utterly bonkers 70s genre flick with an enduring cult following. Have you been initiated yet?

Forbidden Planet (1956)
2024-09-28 17:00 - 18:45 | Duke’s at Komedia, 44-47 Gardner Street, Brighton, East Sussex, BN1 1UN, United Kingdom
In the 23rd century, a spacecraft travels to the distant planet Altair IV to discover the fate of a group of scientists sent there decades earlier.
When Commander John J. Adams (Leslie Nielsen) and his crew arrive, they discover only two people: Dr. Morbius (Walter Pidgeon) and his daughter, Altaira (Anne Francis), who was born on the remote planet. Soon, Adams begins to uncover the mystery of what happened on Altair IV, and why Morbius and Altaira are the sole survivors.

DRIVE AWAY DYKES
2024-09-30 20:00 - 21:45 | Wagner Hall, Regency Road, Brighton and Hove, Brighton and Hove, BN1 2RU, United Kingdom
Doors: 7.30pm Start: 8.00pm​

Yes, that’s right, we are using the original title. Drive Away Dykes or as it was stupidly re-christened by the movie studio, Drive Away Dolls is the product of legendary director Ethan Coen (who with brother Joel, created the likes of Raising Arizona, Fargo, The Big Lebowski, O’ Brother Where Art Thou?, No Country For Old Men and many more) working with producing partner Tricia Cooke, doing what a Coen does best, a superlative comedic crime caper.
When the free spirited Jamie (Margaret Qualley – Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, Poor Things) breaks up with her girlfriend (Beanie Feldstein – Ladybird, Booksmart) she decides it’s time to take her demure (possibly uptight) housemate Marian (Geraldine Viswanathan – Hala, Bad Education) on a road trip to Tallahassee. But things do not go as planned when the two inadvertently get tangled up in a ludicrous criminal plot that involves everyone from Pedro Pascal to Colman Domingo to Matt Damon. This quickfire little gem of a star studded queer road trip movie combines both that familiar off beat Coen Brothers feeling we all know and love as well as delivering a fresh, slickly delivered, cheerfully trashy B-movie vibe, with lots of goofiness and lots of sex.
