15 Questions With Justin LaLiberty

"Turn off your phone and go see a movie, it might save you."

Name: Justin LaLiberty
Location: Connecticut
Occupation: Director of Operations at OCN Distribution/Vinegar Syndrome and Curator/Producer for Cinématographe
Links: Vinegar Syndrome, Justin’s Letterboxd

1. What’s your favorite day & time to go to the movies?

I'm a die hard matinee watcher. I love a weekend morning 10am round, if available. But, sometimes hype gets the best of me and I'll drop by a Thursday or Friday evening show to sate my eagerness to see something I've been looking forward to. At the end of the day, my favorite time is just what works best. The movies themselves are the priority.

2. What’s your favorite movie theater?

I'm going to cheat here and list two theaters: The Brattle in Cambridge, MA and Anthology Film Archives in New York, NY. The Brattle is the movie theater that impacted me the most as a teenager, when I was becoming a "cinephile" and that's where I saw so many important films for the first time. I was introduced to Tarkovsky, Godard, Kurosawa, Terrence Malic…