Portal Cultura Inquieta has published images of the 25 most unusual cinemas around the world. According to the authors of the list, most of these “cinema shrines” survived fires, earthquakes and even wars. Eventually they were all restored, and their genuineness was preserved.
1. Olympia Theater (Greece)
2. Sci-fi Dine-in Theater, Disney’s Hollywood Studios (Los Angeles)
3. Electric Cinema (Notting Hill, London)
4. The Paramount Theater (Oakland, California)
5. Hot Tube Cinema (London)
6. Movie Theater in Paris
7. Egyptian Theater, American Cinematheque (Los Angeles)
8. Orinda Theater (California)
9. The Paramount Theater (Oakland, California)
10. Grauman’s Chinese Theater (Los Angeles)
11. The Fox Theater (Oakland)
12. Newport Ultra Cinema (Newport City)
13. The Bijou Theater (Bridgeport)
14. Grand Lake Theater (Oakland)
15. Brava Theater (San Francisco)
16. The Crest Theater (Los Angeles)
17. The City Cinema (Rishon LeZion, Israel)
18. Cinema City Santa Coloma (Barcelona, Spain)
19. The Orange Cinema Club (Beijing, China)
20. New People Cinema in San Francisco
21. Cinema City (Jerusalem, Israel)
22. The Four Star Theater (San Francisco)
23. Regent Cinema (Brisbane, Australia)
24. Cinema City Leiria (Portugal)
25. Cineteca de El Matadero (Madrid, Spain)
Earlier we published a list of films about love for the cinema.