Filmmaker Rustin Thompson journeys into the American West on a search for traces of what was once a center of small-town life: the movie theater. On the trip, he finds long abandoned and forgotten cinemas; movie houses that have fallen into disrepair; theaters recently closed, th... Read all
There's been a Laemmle in the movie business since there's been a movie business. Only in Theaters chronicles 4 generations dedicated to the art of film. This is a story about a family business, but also about the future of cinema.
The evolution of the movie business over the past century, from penny arcades and nickelodeons, to the grand movie palaces built by the studios, and what happened over the years as they were challenged by television and cell-phone cinema.