Monday 21 September
Event: Sleazemania
Synopsis: So horrifying… and yet so fascinating! Celebrating the Scala Cinema’s famous love of the sleazy, the fetishistic and the bizarre, Strange Things Are Happening brings you an evening of oddball kink, gloopy gore, vintage weirdness and arthouse insanity – trailers, shorts, incredibly strange music and a mystery feature film unearthed from the private vaults of a Soviet party leader. Expect the unexpected and remember – as Picasso once said, “the chief enemy of creativity is ‘good’ taste”. Fetish wear optional. Bring your own barf bag.
Host: Strange Things Are Happening
Location: The Lounge, Broadway Cinema
Price: Free
Time: 7pm
Wednesday 23 September
Event: The Killing of America screening + The Madeline Rust Live
Synopsis: Co-written and (anonymously) directed by Leonard Schrader, The Killing of America was financed by Japanese producers hoping for another Faces of Death. Instead, they got a searing, passionate study of American gun culture and the sky rocketing murder rate in the wake of the assassinations of the Kennedy brothers and Martin Luther King. Brutal, unflinching and disturbing, this alternative history lesson is still unreleased in America, where the message is too close to home, but remains one of the most powerful documentaries ever produced. Accompanying the film is a live performance by The Madeline Rust, whose debut LP Truth or Consequences also explores the American love of the gun and the rise of the serial killer.
Host: Strange Things Are Happening
Location: Rough Trade
Price: Free
Time: 7pm
Friday 25 - Sunday 27 September
Event: Shots Remembered
Synopsis: A revival of the Shots in the Dark festival for Broadway Cinema’s 25th anniversary. Films screening over the weekend are In a Lonely Place, Fingers, The American Friend, Point Blank, a preview screening of Sicario, Thelma and Louise, The Wanderers and Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid.
Host: Broadway Cinema
Location: Broadway Cinema
Prices and Times: Various
Saturday 26 September
Event: Once Were Warriors screening
Synopsis: Us guys, as well as These City Lights, present a screening of the brilliant Once Were Warriors at The Lofthouse. Once Were Warriors is the brutal account of domestic violence in a Maori family in the suburbs of Auckland. Screening will include a recorded introduction by star Julian Arahanga and there will also be an after party, with live sets from The Megaphonic Thrift, Fists, JCDecaux and BAD MEN.
Host: LeftLion and These City Lights Media
Location: The Lofthouse
Price: Free
Time: 7pm
Sunday 27 September
Event: Sita Sings the Blues screening
Synopsis: An animated version of the epic Indian tale of Ramayana set to the twenties jazz vocals of Annette Hanshaw.
Host: Sumac Centre - Nottingham's DIY Social Centre
Location: The Sumac Centre
Price: Free
Time: 3pm
Event: Working Slowly a.k.a Radio Alice screening
Synopsis: Revisiting the Italy of the radical Seventies and its obsessions with class struggle, creative anarchy and macrame ponchos, Working Slowly (Radio Alice) provides a fascinating glimpse of a time of protest.
Host: Sumac Centre - Nottingham's DIY Social Centre
Location: The Sumac Centre
Price: Free
Time: 8pm
Scalarama will be taking place all over Nottingham throughout September. Keep your eye out for subsequent weekly rundowns.
Scalarama website
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