And now, ladies and gentlemen, time for the show.

Alright.

I'm here.

I'm got my popcorn.

I met my local movie theater.

My community run movie theater.

And I'm very excited to see my movie.

I'm going to hit pause here for a second, because I love this moment.

It's a few seconds before the movie starts.

And the whole theater is going quiet, except for the crinkling popcorn and candy bags.

And there is just this promise, this suspense that hangs in the air.

It's just not something that happens when you watch movies in your living room.

I'm Dolan Therese, and this is Atlas Obscura.

Today, grab your popcorn, silence your cell phone, and settle in.

Because this is going to be a celebration of going to the movies.

Rico Goliano, the host of the movie podcast, that's MovieMUBI,

is going to take us to see a movie in Minneapolis, my hometown.

It is a movie that flopped truly terribly when it was released.

But still managed to change the course of movie history.

More after this.

Rico Goliano is what you would call a cinephile.

His first job as a teenager was at a movie theater in Pittsburgh.

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