Scala Beyond
After the success of London’s Scala Forever season last year, which celebrated the long defunct sleazy cinema club in King’s Cross, we now have the nationwide Scala Beyond, which has already been going for a couple of weeks but also runs throughout September. The season celebrates all forms of cinema, but mainly, thankfully, the weird and wonderful. But if this season lacks such Scala fodder as Jodorowsky, Meyer and Argento, it makes up for it by focusing on independent cinema, apparently thriving in the UK, and having film workshops and showings in clubs, festivals, pop-up venues and even schools and homes.
The many highlights include The Erotic Rites of Frankenstein on 19 September at London’s Horse Hospital, where my boon companion and I finally got to watch the extraordinary Thundercrack at last year's Scala Forever; and a rare screening of Alan Clarke’s visionary Penda’s Fen on 25 September.
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