On This Day - Scala Cinema
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No affiliation with the cinema just a former customer having a daft laugh. Letterboxd:
On this day (14th July) in 1979, the Scala Cinema was showing Queen Christina (1933) and Anna Karenina (1935) as a Greta Garbo double bill.
On this day (13th July) in 1984, the Scala Cinema was showing Christine (1983) and The Lift (1983) as a double bill.
On this day (12th July) in 1992, the Scala Cinema was showing The Color of Pomegranates (1969) and Why Has Bodhi-Darma Left For the East? (1989) as an ‘Eastern Priests and Poets’ double bill.
7 years ago. Fabulous time in Dublin with the AF Gang ❤️
On this day (11th July) in 1979, the Scala Cinema was showing Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) and The Roaring Twenties (1939) as a Cagney/Bogart double bill.
11 years ago I decided to watch every Arrow Video & Arrow Academy Blu-ray in release order. Started with Dawn Of The Dead and only managed 248 more films since then. 249 was Suture. Will soon reach the point when I stopped obsessively collecting the discs so could get tricky tracking down films.
On this day (10th July) in 1988, the Scala Cinema was showing White Mischief (1987) and Dance With a Stranger (1985) as a double bill.
On this day (9th July) in 1989, the Scala Cinema was showing Brief Encounter (1945) and Doctor Zhivago (1965) as a David Lean double bill.
On this day (8th July) in 1990, the Scala Cinema was showing Rosalyne et les Lions (1989) & Diva (1981) as a Jean-Jacques Beineix double bill.
On this day (7th July) in 1987, the Scala Cinema was showing Citizen Kane (1941) and The Lady From Shanghai (1947) as an Orson Welles double bill.
On this day (6th July) in 1991, the Scala Cinema was showing Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974) and Straw Dogs (1971) as a Sam Peckinpah double bill.
On this day (5th July) in 1982, the Scala Cinema was showing Time Bandits (1981) & The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T. (1953) as a double bill.
41 years ago today, I saw Bruce Springsteen at Wembley Stadium. Set 1: Independence Day Born in the U.S.A. Badlands Out in the Street Seeds Johnny 99 Darkness on the Edge of Town The River Working on the Highway Trapped Prove It All Night Glory Days The Promised Land My Hometown Thunder Road
Heading into London soon for a bit of this and thought I’d check how busy it might be… oh
On this day (4th July) in 1986, the Scala Cinema was showing Shadey (1985) and Myra Breckinridge (1970) as a double bill. Pretty sure I went to this!
Post a 70s movie that starts with the letter H 🎬 Hardcore (1979) 🖤
#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched Going through a BFI Flipside phase this week.
On this day (3rd July) in 1985, the Scala Cinema was showing Favourites Of The Moon (1984) and Full Moon In Paris (1984) as a double bill.
On this day (2nd July) in 1992, the Scala Cinema was showing Voyager aka Homo Faber (1991) and Oedipus Rex aka Edipo Re (1967) as a double bill.
On this day (1st July) in 1980, the Scala Cinema was showing Vivacious Lady (1938) and Once Upon a Honeymoon (1942) as a Ginger Rogers double bill.
On this day (30th June) the Scala Cinema was showing Fantastic Television!!! a collection of episodes and clips. This presented by Wider Television Access (WTVA). Details aren’t available but the programme shows images of The Addams Family and The Twilight Zone episode Cavender Is Coming.
On this day (29th June) in 1980, the Scala Cinema was showing The Marquise of O (1976) & Mes Petities Amoureuses (1974) as a double bill.
On this day (28th June) in 1985, the Scala Cinema was showing The Passenger (1975) and Last Tango In Paris (1972) as a Maria Schneider double bill.
On this day (27th June) in 1987, the Scala Cinema was showing The Projected Man (1966), The Fly (1958) and The Return of the Fly (1959) as a Sci-Fi Transformations triple bill.
On this day (26th June) in 1983, the Scala Cinema was showing Fritz Lang’s Die Nibelungen: Siegfried (1924) & Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild’s Revenge (1924) as a double bill.
On this day (25th June) in 1979, the Scala Cinema was showing Hunting Scenes from Bavaria (1969) as a benefit show for ‘Gay Pride Week’.
On this day (24th June) in 1991, the Scala Cinema was showing The Immoral Mr. Teas (1959), Lorna (1964) & Mudhoney (1965) as a Russ Meyer triple bill.
On this day (23rd June) in 1989, the Scala Cinema was showing Kamikaze (1986) and Videodrome (1983) as a ‘TV Terror’ double bill.
On this day (22nd June) in 1990, the Scala Cinema was showing Fellini’s Satyricon (1969) and Roma (1970) as a double bill.