MOVIES THAT PLAYED SCALA: The Blues Brothers (1980)
Thanks to the British Film Institute, there’s a list of films that played Scala. To celebrate the release of Severin’s new documentary, I’ll share a few of these movies every day. You can see the whole list on Letterboxd. Jake and Elwood Blues (John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd) went from a musical comedy sketch on Saturday […]
MOVIES THAT PLAYED SCALA: Performance (1970)
Thanks to the British Film Institute, there’s a list of films that played Scala. To celebrate the release of Severin’s new documentary, I’ll share a few of these movies every day. You can see the whole list on Letterboxd. Donald Cammell was raised in a home “filled with magicians, metaphysicians, spiritualists and demons” and spent […]
MOVIES THAT PLAYED SCALA: The Harder They Come (1972)
Thanks to the British Film Institute, there’s a list of films that played Scala. To celebrate the release of Severin’s new documentary, I’ll share a few of these movies every day. You can see the whole list on Letterboxd. Reggae singer Jimmy Cliff plays Ivanhoe Martin, who was based on the real-life Jamaican criminal Rhyging, […]
25 DAYS OF CHRISTMAS CHALLENGE: The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus (1985)
Note: Obviously, I liked this enough to watch and review it twice. We all know and love Rankin/Bass Productions from our childhoods, but have we ever stopped to consider the nightmare world of bureaucracy that their Santa Claus operates? That he enables the abuse of Rudolph, even after the movie in the sequel, learning nothing? […]
MOVIES THAT PLAYED SCALA: Videodrome (1983)
Thanks to the British Film Institute, there’s a list of films that played Scala. To celebrate the release of Severin’s new documentary, I’ll share a few of these movies every day. You can see the whole list on Letterboxd. “The battle for the mind of North America will be fought in the video arena: the […]
MOVIES THAT PLAYED SCALA: Witchfinder General (1968)
Thanks to the British Film Institute, there’s a list of films that played Scala. To celebrate the release of Severin’s new documentary, I’ll share a few of these movies every day. You can see the whole list on Letterboxd. Based on Ronald Bassett’s — a man who was primarily known for his medical and pharmaceutical […]
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