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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
“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 […]
Bristol Bad Film Club is going on the road… and we’re bringing Samurai Cop to Malvern! Imagine a low-budget version of Lethal Weapon where Mel Gibson spends most of his time being […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
“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 […]
Bristol Bad Film Club is going on the road… and we’re bringing Samurai Cop to Bath! Imagine a low-budget version of Lethal Weapon where Mel Gibson spends most of his time being […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
CineWire and Warrington Borough Council team up to present Brassed Off as part of the season "Film Up North " a season of great British films with local and regional connections.
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 […]
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, […]
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, […]
Part of the Wicked Wales Youth Film Festival George Romero's debut feature was not the first zombie film, but it may be the best. This story of strangers battling an […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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; […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The original 1968 classic as part of the Scalarama Season. Joining the Scalarama season during September with a season of cult and iconic movies. This year focusing on the Spirit […]
Bristol Bad Film Club is going on the road… and we’re bringing Samurai Cop to Oxford! Imagine a low-budget version of Lethal Weapon where Mel Gibson spends most of his time being […]
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.
We are gearing up for our September celebration of cinema and we have already had some excellent ideas for film screenings. Don't worry if you didn't come to the first […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Commencing Scalarama Leeds 2019 is a deadly double bill of B-movies. Taking us into the early hours of September 1st is a film noir pairing featuring two of cinema’s most […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
“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 […]
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 […]
“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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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, […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]