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Justin LaLiberty

@jlalibs

2 years

nobody understood cinephiles like Godard

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Justin LaLiberty

@jlalibs

2 years

porn stars have been maintaining monogamous relationships for decades while having unsimulated sex on camera, this whole rhetoric of sex scenes now being used as a basis for respecting marriage is bogus — you can do both and no actor, or sex worker, should be shamed for that

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One Perfect Shot NAPOLEON: The Director's Cut (2024) Dir: Ridley Scott DP: Dariusz Wolski

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2 years

We got @Tubi out here with straight screener tape rips up for the people to stream from their beds in 2022

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2 months

Never knew I needed a plush film reel until I saw one

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1 year

there will never be another William Friedkin -- he was the definition of an iconoclast, told it like it was and was decidedly stubborn down to the bitter end he leaves behind a career of great films, even a few bonafide masterpieces, but also a lot of perfect interviews RIP

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Justin LaLiberty

@jlalibs

10 months

evergreen reminder for today and all days

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@jlalibs

1 year

one of my favorite things is movies that exist for the enjoyment of absolutely nobody

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10 months

With THE BOY AND THE HERON as number one and GODZILLA: MINUS ONE as number two yesterday, are we poised to have the first domestic weekend with two Japanese language films topping the box office? Should be a sign to major theater chains that Americans *will* read subtitles.

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Justin LaLiberty

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2 years

this conversation between Nicolas Cage and John Carpenter is just the greatest, sweetest, thing

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1 year

baffling to me that there are people out there who think BATMAN FOREVER isn’t good

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@jlalibs

4 months

This being bare bones and skipping UHD is honestly wild. Let people who really care about this do it, please.

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@letterboxd

4 months

🎾 Challengers arrives on Blu-ray on July 9

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Justin LaLiberty

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3 years

just a friendly reminder that Soderbergh has a new movie out on Friday on HBO Max which they seem intent on not marketing for some reason

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@jlalibs

1 year

a saga in two acts

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Justin LaLiberty

@jlalibs

2 years

put one of these in every park, invest in community art spaces as much as community athletic spaces

Jason Thorne

@JasonThorne_RPP

2 years

A micro-theatre. I love it. Every park could have one.

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Justin LaLiberty

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2 years

I’m all for the “physical media is the only way to own content” narrative and will back it up personally and professionally every day, but the most troubling thing about HBO Max is the films they are removing aren’t even on disc, mostly, and if they are, those discs are subpar

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2 years

weird to have both best picture and best director winners unavailable on physical media, and with no confirmed upcoming releases globally, due to both being bought/produced by streaming services; not only a blow to collectors but also to libraries that circulate to the public

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Justin LaLiberty

@jlalibs

2 years

the whole “shotguns aren’t horror” Scream 6 discourse is cute

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Justin LaLiberty

@jlalibs

2 years

my custom media shelves got finished yesterday morning/filled last night and it’s one of the reasons I most wanted to own a house — truly a dream come true for someone actively collecting physical media for over twenty years now

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Justin LaLiberty

@jlalibs

3 months

Big physical media news day for transgressive 90s cinema heads

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2 years

I know it's cool to hate streaming, but please stop praising Blockbuster as if they were saviors of cinema, providing unfettered access to moving image history -- they did as much harm as good & your local library *right now* probably has more movies than Netflix and doesn't suck

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Justin LaLiberty

@jlalibs

3 years

I was in 7th grade in 1997 and we had to do movie reports for Language Arts class. I chose to see ALIEN RESURRECTION over Thanksgiving break and I think I stand by this assessment.

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Justin LaLiberty

@jlalibs

2 years

@itismitchell Well, to be fair…

What Does Rachel Bilson Miss About Ex Bill Hader? Why, His Big Dick, of Course

May all of your exes remember you fondly on podcasts!

www.jezebel.com

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8 days

So many great details in the packaging for this set @Criterion

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@jlalibs

3 years

PINK FLAMINGOS is now a part of the National Film Registry at the Library of Congress. A watershed moment in filth. Also, don't ignore that THE WATERMELON WOMAN also made the list which is an equally important and transgressive addition to a largely boring canon.

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Justin LaLiberty

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2 months

I’m all for movie theaters succeeding in 2024 but one movie occupying 43% of screens in the US is absurd, not to mention that if you add INSIDE OUT 2 screens to those for DEADPOOL and Disney has well over half of the screens in the country which might as well be a monopoly

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Justin LaLiberty

@jlalibs

6 months

Will never get over the fact that Guillermo shops at our store, a true champion of physical media.

Guillermo del Toro

@RealGDT

6 months

Shopping at Vinegar Syndrome ⁦ @VinegarSyndrome ⁩ 399 Roncesvalles in Toronto- great Shop!! Did some damage!

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Justin LaLiberty

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2 years

JURASSIC WORLD: DOMINION (2022) Dir: Colin Trevorrow

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1 year

evergreen

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2 years

also, not for nothing, but super disconcerting that sex scenes are an issue for Badgely but not that, you know, he plays a total stalker creep that abuses women

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Justin LaLiberty

@jlalibs

2 years

She’s an archivist too

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7 months

I didn’t love American Fiction but everything he said is right: bring back the studio financed low and mid budget movie, twenty $10 mil budgeted movies over one $200 mil budget tentpole — give filmmakers, and films, a fighting chance #oscars

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Justin LaLiberty

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23 days

The real story here is that this 215 minutes was shot, and is being screened, on 70mm. That’s 26 reels of 70mm, which is about 300lbs of film. Can’t wait to watch this at @TheNYFF

Variety

@Variety

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Brady Corbet, who is premiering his 215-minute #TheBrutalist at Venice, is shrugging off discourse around movie runtimes being too long. “That’s like criticizing a book for being 700 pages instead of 100 pages," he said.

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2 years

This is what I love to see: preservation and restoration efforts being made widely accessible and at no cost. Please take advantage of this and watch some great films and share widely so that other institutions see the value in the model.

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@DEADLINE

2 years

Martin Scorsese Foundation Launches Virtual Screening Room For Restored Films, First Up ‘I Know Where I’m Going!’

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Justin LaLiberty

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1 year

two decades of comic book movies since, and none of them match the visual lunacy of Ang Lee’s HULK (2003)

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1 year

every time

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Justin LaLiberty

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3 years

Hey, so a little @letterboxd update re: adult films. They're coming "early next week" and you'll be able to opt-in to see them and make lists, etc. There's a lot of films, pretty much all of the heavy hitters, and the curation was a concerted group effort that I'm v proud of.

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@jlalibs

2 years

@BrndnStrssng For the life of me, I don’t understand why the obvious answer to everyone like this isn’t just to watch something else rather than advocate for changing entertainment and art as we know it.

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Justin LaLiberty

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I can’t think of anything that feels more “couple goals” to me than this

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3 months

Huge news day for fans of Scorsese’s best film of the 90s and a major HD upgrade bucket list release for me

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2 years

brace yourselves, we're about to make books

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4 months

can't believe these images are all from the same film, Ken Russell was just on a different plane than the rest of humanity

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3 years

baffling that A24 simultaneously released AFTER YANG on Showtime alongside theatrical with zero fanfare; figuring out how/when/where to see films shouldn’t be this convoluted

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Justin LaLiberty

@jlalibs

4 months

New York Times out here fulfilling the @letterboxd prophecy

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@jlalibs

7 months

the fallacy that nobody can see anything if it isn’t on VOD immediately following, or simultaneously with, a theatrical run is bogus. People had plenty of chances to see this in theaters, both in color and black and white, and it will absolutely be made available to view at home.

IndieWire

@IndieWire

7 months

Unless you were an Academy member who could watch "Godzilla Minus One" in the voters' portal during Oscars voting, you're out of luck. See why no one can see the now Oscar winning film:

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1 year

feel like I’m a broken record in this topic but the lack of physical releases for born digital (and, honestly, shot on film) movies produced by streamers is not only frustrating as a fan and collector but really worrisome for preservation and future access

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3 years

The impassioned letter that Melvin Van Peebles sent to the MPAA to protest the absurd X-rating handed to SWEET SWEETBACK’S BAADASSSS SONG is vital in addressing censorship of marginalized voices in our industry and should be shared everywhere

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2 months

Cleaned out a closet earlier this week @Criterion

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9 months

if we want proof that there’s an inherent bias in our ratings system in the US, both financially and politically, just look at PASSAGES being given an NC-17 (which was surrendered) and POOR THINGS an R

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5 months

This article may be about Paul Schrader but it has the most Bret Easton Ellis quote perhaps ever attributed to Bret Easton Ellis himself just hiding in plain sight

Variety

@Variety

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Paul Schrader says that Martin Scorsese's dog bit off and ate part of his thumb.

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5 months

I truly cherish the theatrical experience but it’s exceedingly difficult to make a case for it lately, even as someone who goes multiple times a week, due to how disrespectful audiences constantly are and how subpar presentation has become — Hollywood isn’t to blame, people are.

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2 years

it’s officially Chantal Akerman’s world and we’re all just living in it

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1 month

Gena Rowlands was a once in a lifetime icon and she knew it. I had the fortune of seeing her once at a screening of A WOMAN UNDER THE INFLUENCE and after the film she refused to wait in line for the ladies room and just walked right into the men’s room, all confidence. RIP

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6 months

name a better final shot, I'll wait

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@jlalibs

3 years

A lot of hate directed at “horror fans” for not seeing GINGER SNAPS before Joe Bob showed it. I have logged 10,700+ films on letterboxd and have 6300+ in my watchlist still, am I less of a cinephile? Stop judging people by what they’ve seen or haven’t seen. Thread

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3 years

RIP to Douglas Trumbull, who created some of the best special effects in cinema history, and always called it like it was

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2 years

a tragedy in two acts

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4 years

sometimes, I think about this photo of Scorsese, Stallone and Paul Bartel sharing a bucket of KFC and it makes me happy

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2 years

I’ve been seriously collecting home video since the mid-90s and I can sincerely say that *right now* is the best time for any home video format I have ever seen — it’s an embarrassment of riches on a monthly basis and ripe for discovery with labels putting in *work* thread

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2 months

I know that there are Criterion drops today but *nothing* will top this surprise 4K announce from Sony today Massive UHD bucket list release for me

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1 year

I love that so many people are eager to see Oppenheimer on film but the important part of the conversation that feels all but absent is that these prints don’t run themselves and the quality of your screening has less to do with film gauge and more to do with who is running it

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7 months

I thought I was too jaded to find joy in the #Oscars at this point and then four people went on stage carrying Godzillas

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3 years

AIRHEADS is currently on HBO Max in HD - the Blu-ray has been OOP for years and can sell for up to $300 so get to it

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4 months

One of the all time great scene transitions in any movie is the tanning beds to coffins in Final Destination 3

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20 days

Dare you to say his name three times

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7 months

highly recommend employing a full time physical media archivist

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Did not expect a 20 film Frank Capra at Sony box set this year (with nine of them on UHD) but here we are. Likely the best year for physical media in my lifetime.

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2 years

am I missing something here, I would like to think that “hope for men” or people in general would be the ability to navigate potentially difficult things (like sex scenes) with your partner and for anyone who chooses to do that to not be looked down upon

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9 months

Letterboxd with the breaking news that I’m curating and producing a new @VinegarSyndrome sub-label that I can’t wait for you all to experience in 2024 — big things coming and honestly a dream come true for me

Letterboxd

@letterboxd

9 months

Curated and produced by @jlalibs , @VinegarSyndrome has announced their new sub-label @cine_matographe , which will offer “a mix of auteur driven studio films produced during the New Hollywood era of the late 1960s and 70s all the way through the indie boom of the 1980s and 90s.”

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Still my favorite @letterboxd stat and the one that, I think, has the most to say about a person

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3 years

this is a major blow to physical media and, potentially, repertory cinema programming - act happy all you want about Bond being on Prime but this is not a good thing for many people in this industry

Amazon to buy MGM Studios for $8.45 billion

The deal emphasizes Amazon's willingness to spend deeply to remain competitive in a crowded streaming market.

www.cnbc.com

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1 year

SHOWGIRLS now on 4K UHD from us at Vinegar Syndrome

lala 🦠

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lmao

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10 months

hear me out: maybe it’s a good thing that Best Buy won’t carry physical media any longer

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@jlalibs

4 years

Paramount+ launched today, three days after Paramount let go of 23 employees in its home entertainment division - many who had been with the company for years doing home video distribution and marketing. Save your physical media, the studios only care about streaming now.

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2 years

No, it shouldn’t — go to your local library or, if you’re fortunate enough to have one, a local video store instead — Blockbuster wasn’t a good company then, and it won’t be a better company now

Polygon

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Blockbuster might be staging a comeback — and y’know what, it should

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4 months

It sucks that people aren’t seeing FURIOSA (because it’s great, not because $$$) but the flip side of a dearth of massive movies being released, for whatever reason, is that an indie like IN A VIOLENT NATURE can open on 1500 screens and make 2 mil which used to never happen.

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imagine going to a movie theater in 1992 and seeing this on the screen, we didn’t even know that cinema peaked with THE LAWNMOWER MAN, it was beyond our comprehension

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I don’t vibe with most work anniversary stuff but I hit five years at Vinegar Syndrome this week which is the longest I’ve been with any company and has been constantly challenging & rewarding. Looking forward to the next five! Thanks for supporting VS, OCN and Cinématographe!

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I spent enough of my life working in movie theaters and film distribution to know that boycotting LATE NIGHT WITH THE DEVIL isn’t going to accomplish anything but making indie films, especially genre, harder to see in theaters — no excuse for AI, but those changes come elsewhere

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It feels like we are getting further and further from giving movies, and their fans, a fighting chance. Theaters are an unpredictable experience, theatrical windows are increasingly dictated by opening weekend gross, failure seems to not only be an option but likelihood.

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3 months

In constant contest for the scariest image in any movie I’ve seen. RIP

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2 years

this new “change poster” setting on @letterboxd is going to be fun to play with (which, I believe, is only for Patron accounts FYI)

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I love and support Criterion regularly but we and our partners do great work too! Glad to see folks taking notice more and more!

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this why I barely get Criterion stuff anymore

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2 years

whoever is art directing UHD upgrades at WB must be stopped

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5 months

It’s safe to say that I (and perhaps a lot of you) wouldn’t be doing what I’m doing today if it wasn’t for Roger Corman knocking down doors and changing the film industry for the better and being a force for seven decades. What a life, lived in service of us and the cinema. RIP

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It’s no secret that I love physical media, but I wrote a couple thousand words for ⁦ @letterboxd ⁩ about why and, more so, why right now — many labels mentioned ⁦ @SeverinFilms ⁩ ⁦ @ArrowFilmsVideo ⁩ ⁦ @Criterion ⁩ ⁦ @indicatorseries ⁩

Hoarders Without Borders: how home video is entering its next golden age • Journal

It’s a banner year for physical media, and there has arguably never been a better time for film lovers to build their collections. Home video champion Justin LaLiberty welcomes the new golden age…

letterboxd.com

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@jlalibs

3 months

Call it what you want, real heads know that’s Q: The Winged Serpent

Empire State Building

@EmpireStateBldg

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A son for a son. #HOTD @HouseofDragon 📷: @CraigsBeds

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3 years

THE DEVILS was released fifty years ago yesterday and as of now, the closest WB has come to publicly acknowledging its existence is including one of the nuns in the background of SPACE JAM 2

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bad look for the #Oscars to dump a bunch of names at the tail end of the in memoriam for a couple of seconds of screen time *but* at least they didn’t forget Kenneth Anger, which I thought they would

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@jlalibs

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Tired of repeatedly seeing home video collectors vilified for wanting, and expecting, the best presentation in 2023. If the source is viable, there’s no reason to not release new films on UHD, regardless of if you like it. And no, “costs” don’t count for billion dollar companies.

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3 years

I worked in a video store in the early 2000s and this is some of the worst physical media art I’ve ever seen

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4 months

As someone who worked years as a projectionist and a film programmer, few things suck as much as not getting a print or drive in hand in time for the screening and “the show must go on” etc but honesty goes a long way, be upfront with the audience and avoid embarrassment for all

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@SenorMustachio

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Oh hey, I just walked out in the last twenty minutes because the @netflix -owned theater literally just showed their asses by streaming the Conformist (advertised as a DCP) from @PrimeVideo , when the movie started buffering on the big screen. Absolute insanity

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3 months

starting a petition to release the Jan de Bont cut of Twister

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1 year

let’s be realistic, if you’re an avid physical media collector in 2023, you likely haven’t been purchasing the bulk of your media from Best Buy in recent years and, if you have, a whole new world of great stores just opened up to you: go support @diabolikdvd @orbitdvd @GHVKnox

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2 years

STUNTS STUNTS STUNTS STUNTS

TIFF

@TIFF_NET

2 years

What #Oscars category doesn’t exist, but should? (And who should win?)

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4 months

I have no public comment to make about the theaters that closed today or their company other than this: movie theater deserts already exist in major cities (New Haven has zero, The Bronx in NYC now has zero) and will continue to do so if the existing theaters aren’t supported

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2 years

finally

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Someone in my BLINK TWICE screening shouted “I see dead people” as soon as Haley Joel Osment appeared on screen and that was the least obnoxious thing for 103 minutes — as much as I want theaters to survive, if not thrive, I really wish a lot of these people would stay home

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2 years

I know the excitement will likely all focus on LOST HIGHWAY today but EVE’S BAYOU is one of the very best films of the 90s and this release is a true cause for celebration

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not sure how I'm just finding out that Lauren Bouzereau wrote a book about De Palma that's due out in September but maybe a few of you also need to know this pre-order

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