The auditorium was cut up, shrunk and sanitised, the seats where hundreds got lost in an especially dank darkness long gone. But old shapes were mentally sketched by ageing regulars as a small screen ...

In a spirit of full disclosure, the reviewer here notes that, for a good portion of the Scala cinema’s final years, he lived almost immediately across the road from that legendary north London venue.

Simply sign up to the Film myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. In its glory days in the 1980s and early 1990s, the Scala cinema in King’s Cross was one of London’s essential cultural ...

Imagine a setting sleazier than Henenlotter’s New York, weirder than Waters’ Baltimore, and more dangerous than Carpenter’s post-apocalyptic Los Angeles. Welcome to the Scala in London’s King’s Cross, ...