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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2003 Stories by Scott Foundas

• The Lie, the Whole Lie, and Nothing But the Lie

  published December 18, 2003

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• A Rheum of One’s Own

  published December 18, 2003

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• RVs and Rabbit Holes

  published December 18, 2003

  Photo by Joan LaBanca Written and directed by A. Dean Bell, What Alice Found is the story of an 18-year-old supermarket checkout girl... More >>

• All’s Well in the Shire

  published December 18, 2003

  The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King opens in tight close-up on the rather awe-uninspiring image of a single, squirming... More >>

• Shadow Warriors

  published December 4, 2003

  Edward Zwick’s The Last Samurai is Dances With Wolves — or A Man Called Horse — transplanted to Me... More >>

• Taking Measure

  published November 27, 2003

  Someday, film historians will argue over where and when the once-concrete notion of independent cinema devolved into such an abstraction that... More >>

• The Very Good Word

  published November 20, 2003

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• The More the Murkier

  published November 13, 2003

  In earlier years, when you had a dragon in a Hollywood movie, it only had one head. But now, those same dragons have seven... More >>

• Welcome to L.A. Los Angeles

  published November 6, 2003

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• Lost in Translation

  published November 6, 2003

  Philip Roth’s 2000 novel The Human Stain was an untidy, overstuffed thing to begin with, a mad scramble to cram his every though... More >>

• Elephant Boys

  published October 30, 2003

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• Intolerable?

  published October 16, 2003

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• Curiouser and Curiouser

  published October 9, 2003

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• Master, Old and New

  published September 25, 2003

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• Catch as Catch Can

  published September 25, 2003

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• Second Wind

  published September 18, 2003

  Around the time of Rushmore — the defining image of which may be the slow, sad dive of Herman J. Blume into that backyard swimmin... More >>

• More Than This

  published September 18, 2003

  The man (Bill Murray), somewhere in the neighborhood of 50, presses his drawn face against the car window, the dancing neon of... More >>

• One Dances

  published September 4, 2003

  The dancing is dazzling in director Emilio Martínez-Lázaro’s The Other Side of the Bed, but the movie itself is a... More >>

• The Good, the Bad, and the God-awful

  published August 28, 2003

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• Dangerous Games: Revisiting George Clooney, Chuck Barris, et al.

  published August 21, 2003

  When you treat movies like Play-Doh, throwing them at movie screens by the fistful and standing by whichever ones happen to stick, something... More >>

• American Splendors

  published August 21, 2003

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• Chic Lovers, Dirty Sheets

  published August 7, 2003

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• Summer Stock

  published July 31, 2003

  Camp wants you to like it — really, really wants you to like it — and that’s precisely the movie’s problem: It’s way too eag... More >>

• Pipe Dreams and Pipe Bombs

  published July 24, 2003

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• Aargh!

  published July 17, 2003

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