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Mazel Tov: Emulsion Compulsion is One Year Old Today!

June 1st, 2008 by Scott Marks

It seems like only yesterday that I was writing a crappy AOL blog that even I didn’t read. What a difference a year makes. Now there are ads for Spike Lee and Indian dating services. Look how far we’ve come from the river, Charlie.

Thanks to a merry band or irregulars that hang on my every review and bit of sordid gossip, and whose comments frequently outshine The Master’s (John Schultz’s choice of words…and mine).

Look! I got a birthday card from Jean-Luc Godard!

So long as celebs keep dying, you can rest assured that Emulsion Compulsion will continue to deliver the finest obituaries anywhere on the net! And pictures? You don’t want to know what goes on in the bowels of the Image Vault!

As a gift to you, Martin Scorsese’s first film What’s a Nice Girl Like You Doing in a Place Like This?

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Jean-Luc Godard bows to Palestinian pressure and backs out of Israeli film festival

May 31st, 2008 by Scott Marks

Jean-Luc Godard, the grandfather of modern cinema, will no longer be the guest of honor at Tel Aviv’s 12th International Student Film Festival, an event official said on Saturday.

As reported on Breitbart.com, the groundbreaking film director had been due to arrive on Sunday but said he would not be attending for “reasons beyond his control,” Morane Tal said.

Late in May, Godard announced that he would be attending the festival “as a private citizen and as an eternal film student,” and would hold a meeting with students at the Tel Aviv Cinematheque on June 4.

“We are very disappointed because he seems to have succumbed to pressure from pro-Palestinian groups who launched a campaign for people to boycott Israel,” Ms. Tal added, without elaborating.

On May 25, the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) published an open letter to Jean-Luc Godard asking “someone with (Godard’s) history, moral commitment and consistent support for the causes of justice — from Algeria, to Vietnam, to Palestine — to stand in solidarity with us against occupation and apartheid.”

Read the entire letter here.

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New Photos Added: Woodstock Jewelry, CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS, Mattel Hot Wheels, THE LONG GOODBYE, Godard’s CONTEMPT, Toys, Cindy Crawford and Aurora models

May 10th, 2008 by Scott Marks

The curse of “Adventure Comics”: First Marilyn, then JFK. Will Jerry be next?

Cartoon All-Stars
Let’s Rap With Superman! Take this groovy 2 page survey and see if you and the Man of Steel agree on everything from astrology and pollution to “black people” and “other problems.” Part 1 and Part 2

Celebrity Endorsements
Pat Boone for Pat Boone Magazine, 1959

Woody Allen’s Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989) - 5 Lobby Cards & 6 Photo

Jean-Luc Godard’s Contempt (1963) - Added 11 Photos

Cindy Crawford - 7 Photos from Fair Game (1995)

Jerry Lewis - 3 Action-Packed Comic Books!

Robert Altman’s The Long Goodbye (1973) - 8 Lobby Cards

Smoking is Sexy
Kate Beckinsale in Snow Angels (2008)
Michelle Forbes in Kalifornia (1993)


Hey Mom! This Christmas give your kids the gift of Columbine!

Vintage Magazine Ads
Aurora Glow-In-The-Dark Monster Model Kits, 1969
Another ad for Daisy Toy Guns
Destination Moon Revell Model Kit, 1967
Mattel Hot Wheels, 1968
Skittle-Bowl by Aurora, 1968
Tijuana Taxi Monogram Model Kit
Woodstock Jewelry, 1971

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MASCULINE FEMININE / Jean-Luc Godard (1966)

July 16th, 2007 by Scott Marks

Jean-Luc Godard’s MASCULINE FEMININE (1966)

Masculin féminin: 15 faits précis (1966)

Directed by: Jean-Luc Godard

Written by: Jean-Luc Godard, Guy de Maupassant

Genres: Drama

Cast: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Chantal Goya, Marlène Jobert, Michel Debord, Catherine-Isabelle Duport, Eva-Britt Strandberg, Birger Malmsten

Aspect Ratio: 1.37 : 1

Running Time: 103 min.

Godard always believed that in order for them to function at their peaks, narrative and documentary cinema needed to become more interdependent. He first put these theories to the test in this observational, at times scientific chain of sequences examining the everyday reality of “the children of Marx and Coca-Cola.” Jean-Pierre Leaud is Paul, an excitable “poet” in love with Mozart, literary masterworks and Madeliene (Chantal Goya). She embodies the Coca-Cola generation while Paul’s friend Robert (Michel Debord), an anti-Vietnam communist, represents Uncle Karl. Paul charging into a projection booth in order to read a glaucomic operator the riot act is a moment to be devoutly cherished.

Rating: ★★★★★

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