Make A Scene Film Club

Make A Scene Film Club Make A Scene is Manchester's loud, proud, way too interactive film club showing camp classic and quee

Manchester's q***r film party...The screaming film club for friends of Dorothy (and their friends)!

NEW SCREENING 🚨TO WONG FOO - Wed 24 June at CULTPLEX “Little Latin boy in drag, why are you crying?” 🚨🚗👄🌺💖Make A Scene p...
12/06/2026

NEW SCREENING 🚨TO WONG FOO - Wed 24 June at CULTPLEX

“Little Latin boy in drag, why are you crying?” 🚨🚗👄🌺💖

Make A Scene proudly presents: To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar - the glitter-soaked 1995 road movie comedy that got an entire generation of straight Hollywood stars to put on heels!

Following three New York drag queens stranded in a small conservative town it has a strangely similar plot to the more well known The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, but To Wong Foo rightfully deserves its place right alongside it in the great pantheon of drag cinema.

Straight-as-they-come actors Patrick Swayze, Wesley Snipes, and John Leguizamo all play drag queens at a time when major Hollywood movie stars never played gay let alone dragged up!

The result is genuinely committed and tender performances, especially from Swayze, who brings real elegance and emotional depth to Vida Boheme.

And yes, keep your eyes peeled for an early cameo from RuPaul, appearing before Drag Race would turn her into a global institution. Looking back now it all feels like a fascinating snapshot of drag entering mainstream culture just before q***r representation exploded.

More than anything, To Wong Foo has survived because people keep referencing it, rediscovering it, and passing it on. You can see its fingerprints everywhere from the drag comedies that followed to Sn**ch Game impressions and endless GIFs.

It’s campy, heartfelt and chaotic just like your fave drag queen and you’re going to love it!

Introduction by Gary James Williams curator for Make A Scene Film Club and programme lead for SCENE: Manchester LGBTQ+ Film & TV Festival SCENE Festival

TONIGHT AT Come in from the warm and ease on down the road. Ticket still available and on the door
28/05/2026

TONIGHT AT

Come in from the warm and ease on down the road. Ticket still available and on the door

THURSDAY! The Wiz at Ticket link in bio. Diana Ross in The Wizatd of Oz? Yes please!
23/05/2026

THURSDAY! The Wiz at Ticket link in bio. Diana Ross in The Wizatd of Oz? Yes please!

Coming up… THE WIZ Thu 28 May at CULTPLEXThe Motown remix of The Wizard of Oz story by legendary filmmaker Sidney Lumet ...
16/05/2026

Coming up… THE WIZ Thu 28 May at CULTPLEX

The Motown remix of The Wizard of Oz story by legendary filmmaker Sidney Lumet starring Diana Ross and Dorothy, Michael Jackson as the Scarecrow and Richard Pryor as The Wizard! Need I say more!

See you on Thursday 28th May at

Ticket link in bio

NEW SCREENING ANNOUNCEMENT! 🚨🎉THE WIZ Thu 28 May 2026 19.30 🧙🏼👠Ticket link in bioMake Scene Film Club invites you to eas...
09/05/2026

NEW SCREENING ANNOUNCEMENT! 🚨🎉

THE WIZ Thu 28 May 2026 19.30 🧙🏼👠

Ticket link in bio

Make Scene Film Club invites you to ease on down the road with: The Wiz - a dazzling, disco-infused reimagining of The Wizard of Oz that turns a familiar tale into something bold, soulful and super extra. 
 
Directed by Sidney Lumet and featuring music supervised by the legendary Quincy Jones, this 1978 spectacle transforms Oz into a dreamlike, urban fantasia. The yellow brick roads become city streets and underground stations, the Emerald City is a motel and Dorothy Gale’s home is a New York apartment filled with family. It’s big, it’s weird, it’s camp…and unapologetically black.
 
At the centre is “The Boss” herself... Miss Diana Ross, giving us a Dorothy who is less wide-eyed ingénue and more searching, vulnerable adult. A beloved gay icon in a story adopted by the LGBTQ community, The Wiz taps into the long-standing q***r love for The Wizard of Oz - a story already rich with themes of chosen family, transformation and finding where you belong - and reframes it through Black culture and community. The result is something powerful: a story where marginalised identity, resilience and self-acceptance intersect that’s more than just “the Motown version” of L. Frank Baum’s classic American fairytale. 
 
And the vibe...glittering visuals, quirky performances (jumpscare from Michael Jackson as the Scarecrow and a delicious turn from Richard Prior as The Wiz himself), and a soundtrack that swings from gospel to funk to full disco fantasy with beautiful songs that match the classic 1939 version (“Home” and “Ease on Down The Road” being the standouts). 
 
The Wiz is messy, magical, and completely one of a kind - a camp classic that doesn’t just follow the same old yellow brick road, it creates it’s own path and struts right down it to the Emerald City and back to the real world.

NEW SCREENING ANNOUNCEMENT! 🚨🎉THE WIZ Thu 28 May 2026 19.30 🧙🏼👠Make Scene Film Club invites you to ease on down the road...
30/04/2026

NEW SCREENING ANNOUNCEMENT! 🚨🎉

THE WIZ Thu 28 May 2026 19.30 🧙🏼👠
Make Scene Film Club invites you to ease on down the road with: The Wiz - a dazzling, disco-infused reimagining of The Wizard of Oz that turns a familiar tale into something bold, soulful and super extra. 
 
Directed by Sidney Lumet and featuring music supervised by the legendary Quincy Jones, this 1978 spectacle transforms Oz into a dreamlike, urban fantasia. The yellow brick roads become city streets and underground stations, the Emerald City is a motel and Dorothy Gale’s home is a New York apartment filled with family. It’s big, it’s weird, it’s camp—and unapologetically black.
 
At the centre is “The Boss” herself... Miss Diana Ross, giving us a Dorothy who is less wide-eyed ingénue and more searching, vulnerable adult. A beloved gay icon in a story adopted by the LGBTQ community, The Wiz taps into the long-standing q***r love for The Wizard of Oz - a story already rich with themes of chosen family, transformation and finding where you belong - and reframes it through Black culture and community. The result is something powerful: a story where marginalised identity, resilience and self-acceptance intersect that’s more than just “the Motown version” of L. Frank Baum’s classic American fairytale. 
 
And then there’s the vibe...glittering visuals, quirky performances (jumpscare from Michael Jackson as the Scarecrow and a delicious turn from Richard Prior as The Wiz himself), and a soundtrack that swings from gospel to funk to full disco fantasy with beautiful songs that match the classic 1939 version (“Home” and “Ease on Down The Road” being the standouts). 
 
The Wiz is messy, magical, and completely one of a kind - a camp classic that doesn’t just follow the same old yellow brick road, it creates it’s own path and struts right down it to the Emerald City and back to the real world.

EYES OF LAURA MARS screening at introduced by curator and lead programmer Our midweek camp and q***r screenings in M...
22/04/2026

EYES OF LAURA MARS screening at introduced by curator and lead programmer

Our midweek camp and q***r screenings in Manchester continued with this Faye Dunaway American giallo set in the glittering world of 1970s New York fashion photography - all ending with possibly the greatest final credits song ever by Barbra Streisand 🪩🔪📸

Keep an eye out for an announcement of May screening…

TONIGHT! Tickets on the door still available for our 7.30 screening of EYES OF LAURA MARS at Faye Dunaway! Tommy Lee Jo...
22/04/2026

TONIGHT! Tickets on the door still available for our 7.30 screening of EYES OF LAURA MARS at

Faye Dunaway! Tommy Lee Jones! Disco! Fashion! Murder! Horror! Terror! And a Barbra Streisand theme tune!

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