October 2, 2007 at 5:35 pm
· Filed under King Corn Across America
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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.”
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