Email Author Scott Foundas

Awards

• 2010 - National Entertainment Journalism Awards/LA Press Club, published April 9, 2009

  "Boxing, Sex, and Madness"

• 2010 - National Entertainment Journalism Awards/LA Press Club

  2009 Film Issue

• 2010 - Southern California Journalism Awards/LA Press Club, published December 10, 2009

  "Eastwood on the Pitch"

• 2009 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published April 10, 2008

  "The Visitor"

• 2009 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published February 14, 2008

  "Diary of the Dead"

• 2009 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published December 25, 2008

  "Benjamin Button"

• 2008 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published November 30, 2007

  "Iron Butterfly"

• 2008 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published November 23, 2007

  "Born Identities"

• 2008 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published November 9, 2007

  "Badlands"

• 2008 - Southern California Journalism Awards/LA Press Club

  Film reviews

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2013 Stories by Scott Foundas

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  Is Ryan Gosling Parodying Masculinity?

  published March 28, 2013

  The Place Beyond the Pines opens with a close-up of Ryan Gosling's chiseled abdomen — surely one of the more salable commodities... More >>

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  Spring Breakers Review: Godard Meets Girls Gone Wild

  published March 14, 2013

  "All you need to make a movie is a girl and a gun," goes Jean-Luc Godard's quip. Add to that a few more girls and their bikinis, and you have... More >>

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  Beyond the Hills Review: Cristian Mungiu’s Powerful Film About a Crisis of Faith

  published March 7, 2013

  The hills of Cristian Mungiu's Beyond the Hills (Dupa dealuri) are a barren canvas of straw grass and leafless trees, framed by a... More >>

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  Oz the Great and Powerful Is Neither of Those Things

  published March 7, 2013

  It's a bad omen when, early on in Oz the Great and Powerful, we learn that the full given name of its wizard is Oscar, also the... More >>

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  Jack the Giant Slayer Review: Bryan Singer's Adventure Film Has an Old-Fashioned Spirit

  published February 28, 2013

  To paraphrase Stephen Sondheim, there are big, tall, terrible, fleshy, bulbous-headed giants in the sky in Jack the Giant Slayer. And... More >>

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  River Phoenix's Dark Blood: Not the Epitaph He Deserves

  published February 21, 2013

  When River Phoenix died in October 1993, he was three weeks away from completing his performance in Dark Blood, an $8 million indie... More >>

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  Like Someone in Love Review: An Audacious Romance About a Tokyo Call Girl

  published February 14, 2013

  Like the yearning Jimmy Van Heusen/Johnny Burke torch song that lends it its title, Abbas Kiarostami's Like Someone in Love is a sly,... More >>

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  Berlin Discoveries: Greatness Emerges at the Year's First Major International Film Festival

  published February 14, 2013

  If Sundance signals the annual launch of American indie cinema’s new product line, the 63-year-old Berlin Film Festival... More >>

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  Steven Soderbergh and Screenwriter Scott Z. Burns Talk Side Effects, Collaboration and Big Pharma's Dominance

  published February 7, 2013

  "I've been lucky in that I've always worked with writers whose voices are so specific that there really isn't any way to recalibrate things... More >>

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  Michael Cimino Revisits His Notorious Flop Heaven's Gate, Which Maybe Was a Masterpiece All Along

  published January 17, 2013

  "This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend." So goes the adage from John Ford's 1962 classic The Man Who Shot... More >>

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  French Crime Master Claude Sautet's 1971 Film Max and the Junkmen Finally Arrives in L.A.

  published January 10, 2013

  The Max of Claude Sautet's 1971 Max and the Junkmen (Max et les Ferrailleurs) is a Paris detective in charcoal topcoat and matching... More >>

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  How an LAPD Homicide Detective Became One of Hollywood's Top Screenwriters

  published January 3, 2013

  "Like a lot of other stuff in my life, I sort of fell backwards into it," screenwriter Will Beall says of his unexpected perch atop Hollywood's... More >>