The German film blog Kinogucker has published a review of Cinemaps! (Note that it is in German.) This comes on the heels of Cinemaps winning “Best Illustrated Book on Film” at the Frankfurter Buchmesse Film Awards.
Acclaimed artist Andrew DeGraff has created beautiful hand-painted maps of all your favorite films, from King Kong and North by Northwest to The Princess Bride, Fargo, Pulp Fiction, even The Breakfast Club—with the routes of major characters charted in meticulous cartographic detail. Follow Marty McFly through the Hill Valley of 1985, 1955, and 1985 once again as he races Back to the Future. Trail Jack Torrance as he navigates the corridors of the Overlook Hotel in The Shining. And join Indiana Jones on a globe-spanning journey from Nepal to Cairo to London on his quest for the famed Lost Ark. Each map is presented in an 11-by-14-inch format, with key details enlarged for closer inspection, and is accompanied by illuminating essays by film critic A. D. Jameson, who speaks to the unique geographies of each film. This beautifully designed atlas is an essential reference for anyone who loves great art and great films.
A. D. Jameson's Blog 
Kinogucker = movie watcher
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Thanks! I was wondering what a gucker was 🙂
… I wonder if it’s related to the English word “gawk”?
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My dictionary says that “gawk” has a negativ meaning. Like people look at accidents etc.
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Yeah, for sure. The website etomonline.com defines “gawk” as meaning “to stare stupidly”: https://www.etymonline.com/word/gawk
I didn’t mean to imply that “gucker” means the same thing. Rather, I was wondering if the words share a common root. According to that same etomonline.com entry, “gawk” might have entered Middle English from an Old Norse word “ga,” meaning “to heed,” though that’s disputed. I’ll paste the whole entry below! (It’s even geek-related.)
gawk (v.)
“stare stupidly,” 1785, American English, of uncertain origin. Perhaps [Watkins] from gaw, a survival from Middle English gowen “to stare” (c. 1200), from a Scandinavian source akin to Old Norse ga “to heed,” from Proto-Germanic *gawon, from PIE *ghow-e- “to honor, revere, worship” (see favor (n.)); and altered perhaps by gawk hand (see gawky). Liberman finds this untenable and writes that its history is entangled with that of gowk “cuckoo,” which is from Scandinavian, but it need not be from that word, either. Nor is French gauche (itself probably from Germanic) considered a likely source. “It is possibly another independent imitative formation with the structure g-k” (compare geek). From 1867 as a noun. Related: Gawked; gawking.
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