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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2006 Stories by Scott Foundas

• The Best Films of 2006: The Year of Army of Shadows

  published December 28, 2006

  Iremember being infuriated by a teacher in film school who used to say that she only liked “independent and foreign films.” To... More >>

• The Critics Speak

  published December 28, 2006

  Note on 12/26 --dc replaced 12/22 text with 12/26 text from SFBest Films of 2006Army of Shadows (263 points, 33... More >>

• Clint's Last Ride?

  published December 21, 2006

  On an early-December afternoon at the offices of Malpaso Productions, Clint Eastwood’s four Academy Awards (the same number that John... More >>

• The Happy Spelunker

  published December 21, 2006

  David Lynch is building a lamp. Well, for now it’s just a couple of metal rods and a tangle of wires, which seems only fitting, given how... More >>

• Nothing Lost in Translation

  published December 21, 2006

  In the new Clint Eastwood movie, ordinary young men — husbands and fathers, artisans and aristocrats — are drafted into a war whose... More >>

• Don't Stop Thinking About Tomorrow

  published December 21, 2006

  In the year 2027, the planet has plunged into war-torn chaos, and the human race has been plagued by 20 years of female infertility. On the... More >>

• Two or Three Things I Know About Her

  published December 21, 2006

  The “her” of Jean-Luc Godard’s 1966 masterpiece is Paris in the throes of redevelopment. It’s also a Parisian housewife... More >>

• Dreamgirls and Inland Empire: Performance Art

  published December 14, 2006

  It is said that a great actor or actress can “bring down the house,” but I can’t recall the last time, before I saw (and... More >>

• No Trivial Pursuit

  published December 14, 2006

  My father spent most of his adult life watching one supposedly can’t-miss business venture after another implode, whether it was the... More >>

• Apocalypto: The Passion of Mel

  published December 7, 2006

  Mel Gibson’s Apocalypto tells of a time that is known to us only through ruins and artifacts, but its message could scarcely be... More >>

• The Holiday: Trading Spaces

  published December 7, 2006

  From its wink-wink, nudge-nudge movie-within-a-movie opening through to its boldfaced quoting of such classic Hollywood farces as The Lady... More >>

• The Stasi Who Came in From the Cold

  published November 30, 2006

  The Stasi was much, much worse than the Gestapo, if you consider only the oppression of its own people.—Simon... More >>

• The Passion of the Christ: The Prequel

  published November 30, 2006

  Sure, the Virgin Mary doesn’t get high on aerosol fumes, and Joseph doesn’t ride in on a skateboard, but in most other respects,... More >>

• International Man of Myths

  published November 23, 2006

  If it seems odd that the man responsible for introducing moviegoers to the postapocalyptic soldier of fortune called Mad Max should more... More >>

• Love's Labors

  published November 23, 2006

  The Fountain tells a love story that spans 1,000 years, and the movie is one that the young writer-director Darren Aronofsky (who... More >>

• Betting On Bond

  published November 16, 2006

  Among its other merits, the latest James Bond picture, Casino Royale, offers a handy lesson in current global economics. In this 21st... More >>

• Hardened Arteries and Empty Calories

  published November 16, 2006

  It’s a sad fact of life, Don, but we all have to eat a little? shit from time to time.—Dialogue from Fast Food... More >>

• North and South

  published November 9, 2006

  I suppose director Daniel Gordon’s Crossing the Line would have been a hot ticket at the 2006 Pusan International Film Festival... More >>

• Uneasy Ottomans

  published November 9, 2006

  Turkish writer-director Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s Climates is about the winds of change that blow through seasons and marriages. It... More >>

• Missing the Ex-Factor

  published November 2, 2006

  First, the good news: In its 20th year, the American Film Institute’s AFI Fest film festival has taken a turn for the better.Gone... More >>

• Volver

  published November 2, 2006

  The title of the new Pedro Almodóvar film means “to come back,” and that’s exactly what happens to Irene (Carmen Maura),... More >>

• Jigsaw Puzzle

  published October 26, 2006

  For his turn as the serial killer John “Jigsaw” Kane in 2004’s surprise horror hit Saw and its even more successful... More >>

• Babel: Speaking in Tongues

  published October 26, 2006

  Directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu and written by Guillermo Arriaga, Babel is the latest exercise in narrative and... More >>

• Print the Legend

  published October 19, 2006

  A single photograph, we’re told early on in Clint Eastwood’s Flags of Our Fathers, can win or lose a war. But sometimes,... More >>

• Welcome to The Grand Illusion

  published October 19, 2006

  If the greatest magicians never reveal their tricks, then Christopher Nolan wouldn’t make it past the children’s birthday party... More >>