HOTEL [Scalarama 2026!]

About this event

Join us for the 25TH ANNIVERSARY with a recorded intro by director Mike Figgis! In a mysterious hotel in Venice, a British film crew arrives to shoot a guerrilla, Dogme-style adaptation of the Jacobean revenge tragedy The Duchess of Malfi. As the pretentious director battles an chaotic, ego-driven cast, a brash American documentary crew captures every frame of behind-the-scenes drama. Strange things begin to occur, as the cast stays oblivious to the dark goings on inside the hotel.... Expect split-screens that switch between a stacked cast including David Schwimmer, Salma Hayek, John Malkovich, and Burt Reynolds to name a few. Plays like an experimental, horny fever dream of obsession and cannibalism, Hotel is a truly unique cinematic experince brought to the Crosby Suite in the Adelphi Hotel. Definiely for fans of Lynch's Inland Empire, which this precedes by 5 years! With a specially recorded intro from director Mike Figgis. Certificate 18. Running time: 112 mins. ----------------------------------------- FLESH, DESIRE, RUIN Paraphysis Cinema's thread at Scalarama Festival! also including: 964 PINOCCHIO (1991) DAUGHTERS OF DARKNESS (1971) -------------------------------------------- SCALARAMA LIVERPOOL IS BACK! This October, a month long DIY film festival presented by 8 clubs of the Liverpool DIY Cinema Collective takes place across the city. Find us in cafes, music and arts venues, a grand hotel, even a laundrette! Bringing you carefully selected films for the time of year when darkness is starting to creep in. Transgressive, political, comedic, liminal, the popular and the rarely screened; come be a part of this celebration of cinema! Check out our full line up here: https://scalaramaliverpool.co.uk/ Scalarama Liverpool is supported by Film Hub North with National Lottery funding on behalf of the BFI Film Audience Network.