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Emulsion Compulsion is an electronic altar built at the feet of the Great Gods Cinema. You will find many full length and blurb reviews of new films as well as classic DVD releases. Featuring a collection of tens of thousands of pictures, posters, books, magazines, tchotchkes and many other sorts of movie collectibles that will be regularly post for your enjoyment and edification.Scott Marks regularly deliver reviews on San Diego’s KPBS-Radio.
I must admit that even though I see upwards of 200 new releases each year, for all intents and purposes Hollywood abandoned making films for adults somewhere around the time of Star Wars and Raiders of the Lost Ark. (Needless to say, spielberg and lucas are neither spoken or welcome here.) With the exception of the 15 or 20 films a year I find praiseworthy, if you’re looking for someone to back up your disappointment and disgust over a current release, I’m your man.
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Scott Marks is available for radio, TV & print interviews, to add his unique perspective on movies and popular culture.
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Scott Marks was born and raised in some of Chicago’s finest single-screen theatres. He credits getting his start as a cineholic when his parents allowed their 9-year-old son to stay up till all hours of the morning watching Marx Bros. and W. C. Fields movies on The Late, Late Show.
It was love at first site. Every movie theatre in town became his home the day Scott obtained his driver’s license. It wasn’t long before he was a regular at both Northwestern Universities’ Film Society as well as the University of Chicago’s legendary Doc Films, to which Scott was the first civilian to have a set of keys to the film vault.
Scott wrote criticism for the Illinois Entertainer, managed the Parkway Theatre when it was a revival house that changed double-bills daily, and eventually taught film history and aesthetics electives for 11 years at Columbia College.
In the late 90s, Scott was brought on board to oversee the Woodfield 5 - 9, Cineplex Odeons’ valiant effort to bring art films to suburbia. While in Chicago, the greatest gift he gave movie lovers was the rebirth of the LaSalle Bank Theatre which, he is proud to say, continues to draw big crowds even to this day.
In 2000, Scott answered the call West to curate the Museum of Photographic Arts (MoPA) inaugural film program in San Diego. For five years Scott booked and programmed a wide variety of film series in MoPA’ state-of-the-art Joan and Irwin Jacobs Theatre. He also hosted and introduced the screenings which ranged from esoteric items like Japanese stylist Yasujiro Ozu and master documentarian Chris Marker to a hugely successful annual summer series of offbeat favorites that featured the work of such cultists as schlock-meister Ed Wood and Russ Meyer, King of Bosomania!
Scott currently co-hosts The KPBS-Radio Film Club of the Air. In addition to teaching film classes as UCSD and SDSU, Scott also ventured into television with a stint as Fox 6 in the Morning’s film critic as well as a televised version of the KPBS Film Club of the Air.Late in 2006, San Diego’s North Park Theatre called upon Scott to lend his talent and expertise where he programs and hosts classic film screenings in the magnificently refurbished picture palace. Given the venue and the sterling bookings, it’s no wonder that San Diegans are turning out in droves.
Emulsion Compulsion affords Scott a platform to spout his unique, at times caustic and always refreshing opinions on cinema & popular culture. Scott cautions, “If you’re looking for puff ball pieces, glorified plot synopses instead of criticism, or someone who embraces theme park rides that pass for movies, feel free to check out the competition.”According to Scott, “Many so-called discerning contemporary viewers turn their noses up at genre films or anything released before last week.
Just because I worship Welles and Renoir doesn’t mean that I don’t have a soft spot in my heart (and head) for “Hot Rods to Hell” and “The Oscar,” two unintentional comedies that are funnier than any of the ones ever produced by SNL. Who cares why you’re laughing just so you are!”
Scott stands fearless in the face of all cinema. For him, there’s no such thing as a bad genre, only bad storytellers. You never know where or when you’re going to find a great (or grate) movie and Scott refuses to stop trying.
Scott Marks is available for radio, TV & print interviews, to add his unique perspective on movies and popular culture.
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email: emulsioncompulsion@gmail.com
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