Justin LaLiberty
@jlalibs.com
Film archivist, programmer, writer, collector etc
Director of Operations at OCN Distribution, Curator of Cinématographe, Producer at Vinegar Syndrome
Words at Screen Slate and Letterboxd, mostly
https://letterboxd.com/jlalibs/
Director of Operations at OCN Distribution, Curator of Cinématographe, Producer at Vinegar Syndrome
Words at Screen Slate and Letterboxd, mostly
https://letterboxd.com/jlalibs/
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Justin LaLiberty
@jlalibs.com
· Nov 11
This was my pinned image on the other site for two years, following the death of Godard, and it still captures who I am and what I care about more than anything else so it’s here too. For posterity.
“At Indiana University, where Erpelding worked until 2024, professors could track whether students watched films on the campus’s internal streaming platform. Fewer than 50 percent would even start the movies, he said, and only about 20 percent made it to the end.”
Rather disheartening statistics
Rather disheartening statistics
The Film Students Who Can No Longer Sit Through Films
The attention-span crisis goes to the movies.
www.theatlantic.com
February 1, 2026 at 2:59 PM
“At Indiana University, where Erpelding worked until 2024, professors could track whether students watched films on the campus’s internal streaming platform. Fewer than 50 percent would even start the movies, he said, and only about 20 percent made it to the end.”
Rather disheartening statistics
Rather disheartening statistics
The weird thing about male front nudity in American movies, especially almost anything mainstream, is that it is often prosthetic based. Including all three examples here. Is that really progress?
I suppose it’s a good thing that studios are willing to “go there” but I don’t think this is it.
I suppose it’s a good thing that studios are willing to “go there” but I don’t think this is it.
Full frontal male nudity is having a major mainstream media moment
In a sign that taboos may be shrinking, Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, and The Pitt all put penises on the screen.
www.polygon.com
January 31, 2026 at 9:17 PM
The weird thing about male front nudity in American movies, especially almost anything mainstream, is that it is often prosthetic based. Including all three examples here. Is that really progress?
I suppose it’s a good thing that studios are willing to “go there” but I don’t think this is it.
I suppose it’s a good thing that studios are willing to “go there” but I don’t think this is it.
I don’t think the box office is a gauge of quality or even necessarily public interest in film but, even still, that the number one movie in america yesterday was directed by a popular YouTuber and the number three is, well, MELANIA is a proper sad state of affairs. Embarrassing, to be honest.
January 31, 2026 at 8:02 PM
I don’t think the box office is a gauge of quality or even necessarily public interest in film but, even still, that the number one movie in america yesterday was directed by a popular YouTuber and the number three is, well, MELANIA is a proper sad state of affairs. Embarrassing, to be honest.
Just removed over a dozen titles from this list but there's still nearly 300 to go! I know that a few are planned though...
blu-ray most wanted
only includes films never released on blu-ray anywhere in the world, even if OOP
letterboxd.com
January 27, 2026 at 2:16 AM
Just removed over a dozen titles from this list but there's still nearly 300 to go! I know that a few are planned though...
Been working on this for a few months, feels like the right time to share it. Watch something radical if you’re snowed in today, maybe it’ll inspire you to act.
towards a new canon of resistance cinema
radicals, revolutionaries, strikers, activists, guerillas, dissidents and everything in between presented in chronological order
boxd.it
January 25, 2026 at 3:13 PM
Been working on this for a few months, feels like the right time to share it. Watch something radical if you’re snowed in today, maybe it’ll inspire you to act.
At what point do we just actually try to overthrow the government? Asking for a country.
January 24, 2026 at 5:45 PM
At what point do we just actually try to overthrow the government? Asking for a country.
Reposted by Justin LaLiberty
I’m so sick of people throwing their hands up and saying abolishing ICE isn’t possible right now. Abolishing ICE is extremely popular and calls to do so will only continue to grow, meanwhile conservatives manage to do incredibly unpopular things all the time because nobody stops them
January 24, 2026 at 5:11 PM
I’m so sick of people throwing their hands up and saying abolishing ICE isn’t possible right now. Abolishing ICE is extremely popular and calls to do so will only continue to grow, meanwhile conservatives manage to do incredibly unpopular things all the time because nobody stops them
Reposted by Justin LaLiberty
"Just stay cool and don't make trouble until the midterms" is not going to cut it as an opposition response to a murderous regime whose masked thugs are killing people in the streets and then attempting to round up witnesses and destroy evidence.
January 24, 2026 at 5:10 PM
"Just stay cool and don't make trouble until the midterms" is not going to cut it as an opposition response to a murderous regime whose masked thugs are killing people in the streets and then attempting to round up witnesses and destroy evidence.
Reposted by Justin LaLiberty
ICE must be destroyed.
January 24, 2026 at 4:16 PM
ICE must be destroyed.
First stack of new arrivals for 2026
January 24, 2026 at 4:31 PM
First stack of new arrivals for 2026
Oscar nomination for SIRĀT for sound is fitting, but diabolical, work.
January 22, 2026 at 1:46 PM
Oscar nomination for SIRĀT for sound is fitting, but diabolical, work.
I can’t recommend this book by @xuanlintham.bsky.social enough — a brisk read about the politics of sex scenes that offers an essential counterpoint (if not a few) to the constant barrage of sex negative discourse that we get around our media.
Published by @404ink.bsky.social
Published by @404ink.bsky.social
January 21, 2026 at 2:33 PM
I can’t recommend this book by @xuanlintham.bsky.social enough — a brisk read about the politics of sex scenes that offers an essential counterpoint (if not a few) to the constant barrage of sex negative discourse that we get around our media.
Published by @404ink.bsky.social
Published by @404ink.bsky.social
The current state of pre-orders for me going into 2026. I have a bunch to add to this but there's a bunch of major, long wanted, upgrades here already!
January 21, 2026 at 2:09 AM
The current state of pre-orders for me going into 2026. I have a bunch to add to this but there's a bunch of major, long wanted, upgrades here already!
There used to be four multiplexes in Hartford, CT before 2020. All four have now closed, matching the similar fate which fell on New Haven. That’s two cities of over 100k people with no multiplex in the city limits, a truly sad state of affairs for moviegoing in 2026. Support your local cinema!
January 20, 2026 at 8:48 PM
There used to be four multiplexes in Hartford, CT before 2020. All four have now closed, matching the similar fate which fell on New Haven. That’s two cities of over 100k people with no multiplex in the city limits, a truly sad state of affairs for moviegoing in 2026. Support your local cinema!
Coming to NY cinemas, and elsewhere, very soon!
@hoperunshigh.bsky.social x @cine-matographe.bsky.social
@hoperunshigh.bsky.social x @cine-matographe.bsky.social
A NYC-Set Gem is Restored in Exclusive Trailer for Henry Jaglom’s Can She Bake a Cherry Pie?
Certainly the only movie in existence to star Larry David and Orson Welles, Henry Jaglom's Can She Bake a Cherry Pie? was a wonderful discovery at the 63rd New York Film Festival last fall, where a ne...
thefilmstage.com
January 20, 2026 at 3:57 PM
Coming to NY cinemas, and elsewhere, very soon!
@hoperunshigh.bsky.social x @cine-matographe.bsky.social
@hoperunshigh.bsky.social x @cine-matographe.bsky.social
I love seeing movies in theaters more than doing just about anything else, new or old. I know that people often harp on etiquette at multiplexes but rep crowds are just getting worse and worse. But it isn’t even limited to just phones now: it’s the constant laughing at *everything* — I don’t get it!
January 20, 2026 at 2:27 AM
I love seeing movies in theaters more than doing just about anything else, new or old. I know that people often harp on etiquette at multiplexes but rep crowds are just getting worse and worse. But it isn’t even limited to just phones now: it’s the constant laughing at *everything* — I don’t get it!
I’m sure a lot of people are stoked that a big movie like THE RIP went direct to streaming this weekend but I long for the days when mid-tier genre programmers like that dropped in the local multiplex every weekend. I haven’t watched yet, and will, but I’d definitely have seen it by now in a cinema.
January 18, 2026 at 9:25 PM
I’m sure a lot of people are stoked that a big movie like THE RIP went direct to streaming this weekend but I long for the days when mid-tier genre programmers like that dropped in the local multiplex every weekend. I haven’t watched yet, and will, but I’d definitely have seen it by now in a cinema.
I didn’t love DEAD MAN’S WIRE but I do love that we have a new Gus Van Sant movie that is playing wide and that it is a bonafide Movie for Adults that isn’t based on IP. It’s good, has a stacked cast and doesn’t overstay its welcome. Sometimes, that’s all you need.
January 16, 2026 at 10:54 PM
I didn’t love DEAD MAN’S WIRE but I do love that we have a new Gus Van Sant movie that is playing wide and that it is a bonafide Movie for Adults that isn’t based on IP. It’s good, has a stacked cast and doesn’t overstay its welcome. Sometimes, that’s all you need.
This is such a huge release because Boyz always gets the attention for Singleton but his body of work, almost entirely, is consistently interesting if not great — especially Poetic Justice and the (criminally underrated) Baby Boy.
Already a contender for most exciting package of 2026
Already a contender for most exciting package of 2026
January 16, 2026 at 6:40 PM
This is such a huge release because Boyz always gets the attention for Singleton but his body of work, almost entirely, is consistently interesting if not great — especially Poetic Justice and the (criminally underrated) Baby Boy.
Already a contender for most exciting package of 2026
Already a contender for most exciting package of 2026
Not to pile on the hype but THE BONE TEMPLE is the real deal — the type of legacy sequel that is reverential but is also willingly doing its own insane thing that nobody could have ever seen coming back in 2002. All hail Ralph Fiennes, a true madman and treasure.
January 15, 2026 at 9:24 PM
Not to pile on the hype but THE BONE TEMPLE is the real deal — the type of legacy sequel that is reverential but is also willingly doing its own insane thing that nobody could have ever seen coming back in 2002. All hail Ralph Fiennes, a true madman and treasure.
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January 12, 2026 at 7:44 PM
We are hiring a social media manager, for anyone in the CT area who wants to work with me and my colleagues. It's a good gig! This is an in person position with marketing experience required. Please, please, don't send me resumes -- just apply via email per the link!
Jealous of all of the people who are about to see BACURAU and NEIGHBORING SOUNDS for the first time soon. Some eyes are going to be opened.
January 12, 2026 at 4:28 AM
Jealous of all of the people who are about to see BACURAU and NEIGHBORING SOUNDS for the first time soon. Some eyes are going to be opened.
Neon should require all awards shows to just use a clip of the “leg scene” for THE SECRET AGENT, which would play great out of context for people viewing at home.
January 12, 2026 at 3:11 AM
Neon should require all awards shows to just use a clip of the “leg scene” for THE SECRET AGENT, which would play great out of context for people viewing at home.
I don’t hate that the “box office and cinematic achievement” award exists as it’s good that we are acknowledging, and encouraging, the movie theater experience but it’s a bummer that it’s inherently populist by nature and that SINNERS feels like it’ll be sidelined for money over craft.
January 12, 2026 at 2:42 AM
I don’t hate that the “box office and cinematic achievement” award exists as it’s good that we are acknowledging, and encouraging, the movie theater experience but it’s a bummer that it’s inherently populist by nature and that SINNERS feels like it’ll be sidelined for money over craft.