Email Author Scott Foundas

Awards

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

  "Boxing, Sex, and Madness"

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

  "Eastwood on the Pitch"

• 2010 - National Entertainment Journalism Awards/LA Press Club

  2009 Film Issue

• 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

• Yearning to Breathe Free

  published October 12, 2006

  As a boy, John Cameron Mitchell used to cry whenever he heard “The Star-Spangled Banner.” When the national anthem makes its... More >>

• Apartheid's Song

  published October 12, 2006

  Patrick Chamusso didn’t set out to become a terrorist, but the times in which he lived made him into one. An oil-refinery worker in the... More >>

• Tru Romance

  published October 12, 2006

  At screenings of Infamous — or, as it is destined to be known, the other Truman Capote movie — you will hear... More >>

• From Russia With Love

  published October 5, 2006

  Greg Berson has never met Johnny Depp, though the actor’s manager did once call to say, “Thank you very much.” That... More >>

• Cops and Robbers

  published October 5, 2006

  I’d like to begin by thanking the Academy — for snubbing Martin Scorsese. Regardless of their respective merits, Scorsese’s... More >>

• Rescue Me

  published September 28, 2006

  Watching The Guardian, you will learn that the U.S. Coast Guard’s rescue swimmers rank among the bravest and least heralded of... More >>

• The World According to Amadeus

  published September 21, 2006

  How best to go about staging this fall’s 250th-birthday party for the boy-genius composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791)? Why,... More >>

• Paint It Black

  published September 14, 2006

  The young, dark-haired ingenue stares out from the frames of a flickering, black-and-white screen test; there is something fragile about her... More >>

• Terror in the Aisles

  published September 7, 2006

  Picture this: You’re away from L.A. for a few days, visiting friends and family in Florida; you’re about to walk into a restaurant... More >>

• Films Fatale

  published September 7, 2006

  Is there another contemporary American director who more sharply divides critics and audiences alike than Brian De Palma? For more than 30... More >>

• Mutual Appreciation Society

  published September 7, 2006

  Any cursory description of the films of writer-director-actor Andrew Bujalski risks making them sound like a thousand others that have... More >>

• Opposites Attract

  published August 24, 2006

  The man sits on the floor in his cramped Brooklyn apartment, the cleanest surface of which is the freshly Windex-ed table used for cutting and... More >>

• Not of This Earth

  published August 24, 2006

  On any given day, one can find B-movie magnate Roger Corman doing more or less the same thing he’s been doing for the last 50 years, in... More >>

• Who Let the Mother #!%@ing Snakes Out?

  published August 17, 2006

  {mosimage}Is there another screen actor today who engenders as much audience goodwill as Samuel... More >>

• Who Let the Mother #!%@ing Snakes Out

  published August 17, 2006

  Is there another screen actor today who engenders as much audience goodwill as Samuel L.Jackson? When he first appeared onscreen, about ten... More >>

• The 13th Festival of Preservation

  published August 10, 2006

  The UCLA Film and Television Archive’s invaluable semiannual survey of recently restored work from the past century of moving pictures... More >>

• The Fast and the Curious

  published August 3, 2006

  Watching Will Ferrell in the title role of the mock auto-racing biopic Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, I was reminded of... More >>

• Undercover Blues

  published July 27, 2006

  Michael Mann’s MiamiViceis like a car that’s been stripped of everything but its two bucket seats and rebuilt from... More >>

• A Mann's Man's World

  published July 27, 2006

  If it is true, as Jean Renoir said, that a director makes only one movie, then Michael Mann makes the one I don’t just want to watch,... More >>

• Dear Kevin

  published July 20, 2006

  To: Kevin SmithFrom: Scott FoundasRe: Clerks IITiffs between critics and the subjects of their criticism are... More >>

• Aquawoman

  published July 20, 2006

  In the same week that Kevin Smith came gunning for yours truly, it turns out M. Night Shyamalan has it in for movie critics everywhere. Late in... More >>

• The Man Who Came to Dinner

  published July 13, 2006

  Owen Wilson has gone from crashing weddings to crashing entire marriages. In Anthony and Joe Russo’s farce You, Me and Dupree, his... More >>

• Old Is the New New

  published July 13, 2006

  What do Sherlock Holmes, Laurel and Hardy, the avant-garde short films of Kenneth Anger and two televised dramas starring a... More >>

• Blue Velvet at 20

  published July 13, 2006

  Can it be 20 years since fresh-faced college student Jeffrey Beaumont (Kyle MacLachlan) first peered through the slats of those louvered closet... More >>

• Little Man

  published July 13, 2006

  With its equal parts tasteless and hilarious assault on the hypocrisy of Hamptons high society, the Wayans brothers’ white-faced farce... More >>