Aaron Smith manages Evansville’s largest theater, Showplace Cinemas East, and has done so for almost 20 years. That makes him a first-hand witness on the subject everyone in the film industry is constantly trying to predict: the tastes of the average, middle America movie-goer. We talk about how the ’90s American indie wave felt in a small market, watching movies out of order in the theater while on the job only to later reconstruct their narrative together, and why, for a brief but glorious time, being a 35mm projectionist in a multiplex was the greatest job.

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