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

• Air France

  published April 6, 2006

  One of the highlights of the closing weekend of this year’s City of Lights, City of Angels film festival, Love Is in the Air keeps... More >>

• Vive La France!

  published March 30, 2006

  When people talk about “French cinema” (a blanket term about as meaningful as “independent films”), chances are... More >>

• O.C. Confidential

  published March 30, 2006

  It all begins with this dame called Emily, you see, a social climber who falls in with this bad-news crowd and ends up dead. Then this private... More >>

• Director's Cut Series: Heaven's Gate

  published March 30, 2006

  Since its initial release, Michael Cimino’s recounting of a despicable episode from America’s not-too-distant past — the 1892... More >>

• Inside Job

  published March 23, 2006

  The heist at the heart of Inside Man is brilliant, and so is the movie. It’s one of the most diabolically clever of all... More >>

• The Brothers Grim

  published March 23, 2006

  When La Promesse, the story of a father and son involved in a human-trafficking operation, made a splash in the Directors Fortnight at... More >>

• Anarchy in the U.K.

  published March 16, 2006

  Four hundred years ago last November, an anarchist by the name of Guy Fawkes was discovered in the bowels of Britain’s House of Lords,... More >>

• The Intruder

  published March 16, 2006

  A grizzled recluse (69-year-old French actor Michel Subor, exuding a rugged, liver-spotted grandeur) searches for a new (transplanted) heart... More >>

• Border Crossings

  published March 16, 2006

  Born in Paris and raised in Africa, Claire Denis has lived the life of a wanderer. By the time of her first feature film, the luminous... More >>

• Hollywood Through the Looking Glass

  published March 16, 2006

  By now, the American filmmaking renaissance of the 1960s and ’70s has been so thoroughly lionized (by the epic documentary A Decade... More >>

• Gone With the Wind

  published March 9, 2006

  Los Angeles, give me some of you! Los Angeles, come to me the way I came to you, my feet over your streets, you pretty town I loved you so... More >>

• Chain: The Time We Killed

  published March 9, 2006

  At a time when the health of American independent cinema is constantly under question, two recent films that rank among its most vital signs... More >>

• Return to the New Hollywood: Puzzle of a Downfall Child & Loving

  published March 9, 2006

  The American Cinematheque kicks off an essential series of rarely screened gems from the American film renaissance of the late 1960s and early... More >>

• Take the Long Way Home

  published March 2, 2006

  New York City detective Jack Mosley (Bruce Willis) has been up too late — a few years past his bedtime by the look of it. His complexion... More >>

• Dirty Deeds

  published February 23, 2006

  Forget about the Bloods and the Crips. In Dirty, the most lethal gang on the streets of Los Angeles is the one decked out in natty... More >>

• The Fight Continues

  published February 23, 2006

  SPOILER ALERT!: Do not read the following interview if you do not want to know the outcome of the 2002 Newark mayoral election... More >>

• Patrick and Michèle Bokanowski: Angel's Flight

  published February 23, 2006

  In French director Patrick Bokanowski’s rapturously mysterious avant-garde opus, L’Ange (1982), we climb a strange winding... More >>

• Heaven Can Wait

  published February 16, 2006

  The second feature film directed by Mexico’s Carlos Reygadas, Battle in Heaven begins with a doozy of a slow-mo blowjob. On... More >>

• Tale of Cinema

  published February 16, 2006

  The man bumps into the woman by chance on the street. Two years before, they met and fell in love, but she was already dating his friend, and... More >>

• Reverence: The Films of Owen Land (Formerly Known as George Landow)

  published February 2, 2006

  REVERENCE:  THE FILMS OF OWEN LAND (FORMERLY KNOWN AS GEORGE LANDOW)Irreverence is more... More >>

• The Old Joy of Sundance

  published February 2, 2006

  If, at the end of the day (make that 10 days), any consensus had emerged about the 2006 Sundance Film Festival, it was that this was one of the... More >>

• Good Old Boy

  published February 2, 2006

  To get to the La Cancha de San Saba polo field just outside of West Palm Beach, Florida, you must first get off the highway, cross over a canal... More >>

• Here and There and Back Again

  published February 2, 2006

  When the Australian-born director Roger Donaldson set about making his debut feature in his adopted home country of New Zealand, people told... More >>

• Pick for Friday, February 10

  published January 19, 2006

  TRISTRAM SHANDY: A COCK AND BULL STORYPurporting to be the autobiography of a man more... More >>

• Roger and Me

  published January 19, 2006

  Dear Roger:Save for the storied contretemps between Pauline Kael and Andrew Sarris, film critics are generally far too... More >>