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Making the journey back to the Great American Midwest, King Corn screened at the 5th Annual Milwaukee International Film Festival this weekend, playing to a sold-out Friday-night crowd.

This was no ordinary screening, though: Milwaukee’s lavish, 1920s-era Oriental Theater was the site of the first-ever projection of King Corn’s new 35mm print. And boy, is it beautiful.

The film unspooled amid the crunch of movie-house popcorn and the whir of the old-school projector, and the post-film Q&A with director Aaron Woolf was especially lively. (Several corn farmers, both conventional and organic, lent their insights to the conversation.)

The best review of the evening came from a teenager, though, and we’ve a hunch that our shiny new film print had something to do with it. “My Mom made me go see King Corn,” he said. “But I really liked it. It was like… a real movie.”

Edible Brooklyn’s Gabrielle Langholtz gives a glowing review of King Corn in the magazine’s most recent issue, writing that “not since The Meatrix have food issues so complex been so masterfully made plain.”

Reminding us that Brooklynites become the end-users of ton upon ton of Iowa corn — drinking 139 million gallons of corn-sweetened soda each year — Langholtz also urges us to look for Brooklyn’s King Corn cameo. (A hint: look for Methodist Hospital endocrinologists Dr. Farida Khan and Dr. Sabita Moktan, and Park Slope native Fray Mendez, when you see the film at New York’s Cinema Village).

Check out the full review here.