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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2005 Stories by Scott Foundas

• Signed, Sealed, Delivered

  published September 1, 2005

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• The Impossible Dream

  published August 25, 2005

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• Not Showing at a Theater Near You

  published August 25, 2005

  The fact is that movies train the eyes of their audiences, and when they have been trained on these types of Hollywood movies, it is very... More >>

• Is It Life or Is It Memorex?

  published August 18, 2005

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• Sex and the Pocket Protector

  published August 18, 2005

  Like one of the plastic-encased action figures that line his bedroom (and bathroom and living room) shelves, Andy Stitzer (Steve Carell)... More >>

• Looking Homeward

  published August 4, 2005

  Director Phil Morrison’s Junebug unfolds amid an impromptu family reunion: Prodigal son George (Alessandro Nivola) ha... More >>

• The Thrill Is Gone

  published August 4, 2005

  In Jim Jarmusch’s Broken Flowers, Bill Murray delivers another master class in movie-acting minimalism — so much so that his earli... More >>

• A Foot in Each World

  published July 21, 2005

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• Buy Me a Liver

  published July 21, 2005

  Photo by Doug HyunStop me if you’ve heard this one before. In the not-too-distant future, an unspecified ecological disaster has kille... More >>

• Remembering Don Siegel

  published July 21, 2005

  On the occasion of the UCLA Film and Television Archive’s Don Siegel retrospective, L.A. Weekly asked several o... More >>

• Man of Few Words

  published July 14, 2005

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• The Secret Lives of Independents

  published July 7, 2005

  Whereas most filmmakers strive to claw their way up from no-budget obscurity toward mainstream acceptance, Campbell Scott has... More >>

• He’s Still Here

  published July 7, 2005

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• The Ultra Critic

  published June 30, 2005

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• Starfire and Brimstone

  published June 30, 2005

  It may be that in the larger design of the universe this invasion . . . is not without its ultimate benefit for men; it has robbed us of... More >>

• July’s First

  published June 23, 2005

  Though its action is largely confined to a few blocks of an unidentified American suburb, the spellbinding charm of performance artist... More >>

• Dead Director Rises Again

  published June 23, 2005

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• Just Say Yes

  published June 16, 2005

  Photo by A. Majoli/Magnum PhotosWhen Sally Potter’s Yes screens this week in the Los Angeles Film Festival, it will mar... More >>

• The Other Tehran

  published June 9, 2005

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• Who Was That Masked Man?

  published June 9, 2005

  Photo by David JamesI’m guessing — and it’s strictly a hunch — that Christopher Nolan enjoyed a happier, better-adjusted childhood ... More >>

• Vague Young Things

  published June 2, 2005

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• Wipe Out!

  published June 2, 2005

  Photo by Jamie TruebloodThe young Skip Engblom, co-founder of Santa Monica’s Zephyr surf shop, is glimpsed only fleetingly in the archiva... More >>

• The Man With the Golden Camera

  published May 26, 2005

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• All Good Films Are for Anyone

  published May 19, 2005

  French director Arnaud Desplechin is a master of organized chaos. His work thrives on messy collisions between friends and spouses, parents... More >>

• Seems Like Old Times

  published May 19, 2005

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