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

• Yo Ho-Hum

  published July 6, 2006

  When producer Jerry Bruckheimer announced plans to make back-to-back sequels to his 2003 smash Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the... More >>

• the Puffy Chair

  published July 6, 2006

  The troublesome object at the heart of this winning debut feature by the Duplass brothers (Jay writes and directs; Mark writes and stars) is a... More >>

• It Ain’t Easy Bein' Blue

  published June 29, 2006

  Lex Luthor hasn’t stopped angling for a chunk of prime waterfront property. Lois Lane continues to stick her plucky neck out in search of... More >>

• Skater Boyz 'n the Hood

  published June 29, 2006

  If Crash grew a pair of cojones, it might look something like Larry Clark’s cheerfully defiant Wassup Rockers, in... More >>

• Moving Pictures

  published June 22, 2006

  “We all love each other .?.?.” says Los Angeles Film Festival director Rich Raddon.“.?.?. until about April, and then... More >>

• Michael Winterbottom Takes on The Elephant

  published June 22, 2006

  Writing about Michael Winterbottom’s 2003 science-fiction romance Code 46, set in an eerily familiar neofuture of high government... More >>

• L.A. International

  published June 22, 2006

  The most intriguing of this year’s LAFF sidebars showcases three films by foreign-born filmmakers who eventually became Los... More >>

• Click

  published June 22, 2006

  The most disturbing, weirdly confessional item in the Adam Sandler canon since the demented Hanukkah cartoon Eight Crazy Nights, and the... More >>

• The Films That Got Away

  published June 22, 2006

  This ongoing series of acclaimed recent films that have yet to screen locally, curated by members of the Los Angeles Film Critics... More >>

• Man of Steel

  published June 15, 2006

  Superman Returns director Bryan Singer is sitting on the wrong side of the camera. It’s an early June afternoon on Stage 17 of the... More >>

• The Craftsman

  published June 8, 2006

  Every show’s my last show. That’s my philosophy.—Garrison Keillor,A Prairie Home... More >>

• Let Them Eat Film

  published June 1, 2006

  At the Cannes Film Festival, where fortunes can change more quickly than at the court of Versailles, Sophia Coppola’s Marie... More >>

• Three Guys Walk Into a Bar . . .

  published May 25, 2006

  Not to take sport in the kicking of a dead horse, but I’d be remiss if I didn’t add one delicious footnote to the Da Vinci Code... More >>

• Apocalypto

  published May 25, 2006

  “This is the way the world ends,” says a disembodied voice at the start of Richard Kelly’s Southland Tales. Three... More >>

• Cavite

  published May 25, 2006

  Co-directors Neill Dela Llana and Ian Gamazon’s jugular thriller plays like a no-budget, guerrilla-style variant on Hollywood’s... More >>

• Clean and Sober

  published May 18, 2006

  Clean, the first predominantly English-language film by the French director Olivier Assayas, is similar to one of those moody, wounded... More >>

• As Times Goes By

  published May 11, 2006

  Regular readers of these pages will be no strangers to the name of Taiwanese filmmaker Hou Hsiao-Hsien, though they may well be strangers to... More >>

• Urban Cowboy

  published May 11, 2006

  Sidling up to the bar — the breakfast bar — of the Farmers Market’s venerable Kokomo Cafe on an unseasonably warm April... More >>

• Army of Shadows

  published May 11, 2006

  The great French director Jean-Pierre Melville (Le Samourai, Le Cercle Rouge) is said to have bristled at the suggestion that his... More >>

• To Reality and Back: Classic and Contemporary French Documentaries — Part I

  published May 11, 2006

  In 1914, at the dawn of his career, the celebrated French playwright and filmmaker Sacha Guitry (Le Roman d’un Tricheur) used his... More >>

• Love & Death

  published May 4, 2006

  The sun is shining on the warm March afternoon when I show up at the offices of Mandragora Films, an unassuming two-story building located in a... More >>

• Cruise in Control

  published May 4, 2006

  Once upon a time, when I was an undergraduate at the University of Southern California, some friends and I trekked over to that big, blue... More >>

• In-Flight Movie

  published April 27, 2006

  Back on September 11, 2001, as the day’s horrific images were flashed before us at various speeds and from ever more angles, until they... More >>

• Independent Lens

  published April 20, 2006

  Charles Burnett’s first feature film, Killer of Sheep (1977), remains to this day a near-mythic object, one of the first 50 films... More >>

• C for Castration

  published April 13, 2006

  In the ripped-from-the-headlines morality play Hard Candy, a resourceful eighth-grader who can tie a wicked knot and knows her way... More >>