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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2007 Stories by Scott Foundas

• American Cinema: Our Best Diplomat in 2007?

  published December 27, 2007

  Wherever my travels have taken me this year, whether as close as the screening room down the street or as far afield as the Cannes Film... More >>

• There Will Be Blood is Anderson’s Citizen Kane

  published December 27, 2007

  The Texas tea bubbles up from the ground reluctantly at the start of the new Paul Thomas Anderson film, like primordial blood loosed from... More >>

• Clint Eastwood: The Set Whisperer

  published December 20, 2007

  The first thing you notice when you walk on to the set, inside the shuttered Park Plaza Hotel overlooking MacArthur Park, are the 300 extras in... More >>

• Homayoun Ershadi's Grand Design

  published December 20, 2007

  The story of how The Kite Runner’s Homayoun Ershadi got into movies is a bit like those fanciful tales of stars and starlets... More >>

• Burton and Depp Give New Blood to Movie Musicals

  published December 20, 2007

  Attend the tale of Sweeney ToddThe show was a hit but a film seemed oddIt earned the yen of many men (Sam Mendes and Alan... More >>

• Will Smith: The Stuff of Legend

  published December 13, 2007

  There are two momentous performances in the Darwinian horror fable I Am Legend. One is given by the movie’s star, Will Smith, whom... More >>

• Dispatch from the European Film Awards

  published December 13, 2007

  A large digital screen featuring a clip of Jean-Paul Belmondo in Breathless, puffing on his Lucky Strike in an endless loop, was the... More >>

• Lacking Grace

  published December 6, 2007

  Eleven months after winning the screenplay and audience awards at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, writer-director James C.... More >>

• Strike Up the Band

  published December 6, 2007

  Earlier this fall, The Band’s Visit made headlines after being disqualified as Israel’s foreign-language submission to the... More >>

• Iron Butterfly

  published November 29, 2007

  At this year’s Cannes Film Festival, the American painter turned filmmaker Julian Schnabel (Basquiat, Before Night Falls)... More >>

• James Marsden: Low Profile and Loving It

  published November 29, 2007

  “Where do you normally do these?” James Marsden asks. “You probably go to the Ivy or something.”Well, no, not... More >>

• I’m Not There: Tackling Pop Culture’s Greatest Enigma

  published November 22, 2007

  Something about that movie though, well I just can’t get it out of ?my head/But I can’t remember why I was in it or what part I... More >>

• Margot at the Wedding: Born Identities

  published November 22, 2007

  Everyone is on the brink of something in Noah Baumbach’s Margot at the Wedding — marriage, divorce, puberty — and by... More >>

• Brian De Palma: Eyes Wide Open

  published November 15, 2007

  Brian De Palma is angry, about the war in Iraq and about the fact that his Iraq movie, Redacted, has fallen victim to the very... More >>

• Apocalypse No

  published November 15, 2007

  Nineteen months after it stink-bombed the 2006 Cannes Film Festival, got auctioned off by original co-producer Universal Pictures and retreated... More >>

• The Audience Is Baking

  published November 15, 2007

  In a stoner-worthy act of “What was I thinking?,” indie distributor First Look Studios financed writer Dylan Haggerty and director... More >>

• Agent Provocateur

  published November 8, 2007

  I don’t know why, but we’re all rather incapable of dealing with one another.—Dialogue from Michael... More >>

• Badlands

  published November 8, 2007

  “Hold still” — it’s what the hunters say to the hunted in the Coen brothers’ No Country for Old Men. The... More >>

• An American Realist

  published November 1, 2007

  Although he plays a college professor in his latest film, Robert Redford was, by his own admission, never much of a student, consistently more... More >>

• Seeing the Light with Director Carlos Reygadas

  published November 1, 2007

  One evening midway through this year’s Toronto Film Festival, patrons passing through the lobby of the festival’s Varsity multiplex... More >>

• Lee Chang-Dong Lets the Sunshine In

  published November 1, 2007

  In the opening moments of South Korean writer-director Lee Chang-Dong’s Secret Sunshine, a recent widow and her young son are... More >>

• AFI Fest: A to Y

  published November 1, 2007

  The tide has turned at AFI Fest, from embarrassment to embarrassment of riches. When it was announced this past spring that longtime AFI Fest... More >>

• Come Back Into the Dark

  published October 25, 2007

  I’ve said before that the 1999 opening of West L.A.’s Cinefile video store was one of the most significant happenings in recent Los... More >>

• Sidney Lumet's Long Journey

  published October 25, 2007

  “There’s a reason I’ve had some good pictures and other guys will never have good pictures,” Sidney Lumet says... More >>

• Charles Burnett x 3

  published October 25, 2007

  So rare is Killer of Sheep director Charles Burnett’s second feature film, My Brother’s Wedding (1983), that when I... More >>