A celebration of the world’s most cherished cinemas, from vintage movie houses to quirky start-ups. Grab your popcorn and settle in to the world of Silver Screens, where the magic of cinema lives on.
Cinemas are where emotions come alive – where heartstrings are tugged, fears exposed, and joy explodes with every happy ending. Cinemas are a place of communal experience, of first dates and unforgettable reactions.
Silver Screens captures that magic, celebrating remarkable movie houses and drive-ins around the world that are still showing films today. Part travel guide, part love letter to cinema, it whisks you across the globe through stunning photography.
Step inside art deco masterpieces like Jaipur’s Raj Mandir and Melbourne’s Sun Theatre; visit icons such as Hollywood’s Chinese Theatre and Madrid’s Cine Doré; and uncover hidden gems in far-flung corners of the world. From the northernmost to the southernmost, from India’s largest single screen to Italy’s officially smallest, from Britain’s oldest to the world’s very first – Silver Screens is your ticket to cinema’s most extraordinary destinations.
A celebration of the world’s most cherished cinemas, from vintage movie houses to quirky start-ups. Grab your popcorn and settle in to the world of Silver Screens, where the magic of cinema lives on.
The perfect gift book for classic cinema lovers, blockbuster film fans, Hollywood filmmaking, vintage theatre explorers and collectors of iconic movie history
The perfect gift book for classic cinema lovers, blockbuster film fans, Hollywood filmmaking, vintage theatre explorers and collectors of iconic movie history
· Written by the Editor in Chief of Total Film, Jane Crowther – (30m users per month online)
· Launched to coincide with the Venice Film Festival and subsequently the British Film Festival in Fall ‘25.
· Cinemas from UK, US, Canada, Australia, NZ, France, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Greece, Hong Kong/China, Germany, India, Croatia, Thailand
Competition: Colours of Film;Cinema Book;Box Office Poison:Star Wars Complete Locations;The Mandalorian Visual Guide;Ultimate Movie Trivia Challenge;Mark Kermode's Surround Sound;Story of Film;Film Book. Charles Bramesco;Tim Robey;Jason Fry;Pablo Hidalgo;Bill O'Neill;Mark Kermode;Ronald Bergan;Mark Cousins
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Biografisk notat
Film journalist Jane Crowther has been writing about movies and the ephemera surrounding them since her teens when she started out as a youth writer on The Yorkshire Post newspaper. Since then she’s written about the silver screen across all platforms for numerous outlets, as well as commenting and reviewing on TV and radio. She is currently the editor-in-chief of Total Film magazine, the vice chair of The London Film Critics’ Circle and a member of BAFTA and the Critics’ Choice Association.