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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2007 Stories by Scott Foundas

• Rare Cut

  published October 18, 2007

  When Taiwanese director Edward Yang died this summer at the age of 59, it was widely noted how difficult it was to see most of Yang’s... More >>

• Road to Hell

  published October 18, 2007

  After about 100 pages, I gave up on John Burnham Schwartz’s 1998 novel Reservation Road, a typically overwritten and contrived... More >>

• Schindler's Houses

  published October 11, 2007

  German experimental filmmaker Heinz Emigholz’s latest film in his ongoing “Architecture as Autobiography” series surveys a... More >>

• Humpty Dumpty Back Together Again

  published October 11, 2007

  By night, the approach to downtown from the Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport has a ghostly, disembodied tenor. Two years on... More >>

• Natural Wonder

  published October 4, 2007

  The title of James Benning’s newest film, Casting a Glance, could likewise be taken as a summary statement on Benning’s... More >>

• Still Lives

  published October 4, 2007

  A year after winning the Golden Lion for best film at the 2006 Venice Film Festival, director Jia Zhangke’s Still Life receives a... More >>

• Penn Journeys Into the Wild

  published September 20, 2007

  I like men who can do things, who know the names of trees and engine parts, the meaning of certain clouds and shifts in the wind. I admire... More >>

• Seeing Pedro Costa

  published September 20, 2007

  “We live in a really poor country, and the saddest of them all.”—Dialogue from In Vanda’s... More >>

• The Brave One: Femme Fatal

  published September 13, 2007

  In the new Neil Jordan movie, Jodie Foster plays New York talk-radio DJ Erica Bain, who survives a vicious Central Park mugging and becomes... More >>

• Fierce People: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

  published September 13, 2007

  In one of those karmic quirks of the film-release calendar, actor turned director Griffin Dunne’s Fierce People finally staggers... More >>

• Unmasking the Essential American Soul

  published September 6, 2007

  Sitting on the beachside terrace at Shutters in Santa Monica, Neil Jordan looks slightly uncomfortable, which could just be the beating of... More >>

• Hour of the Gun

  published September 6, 2007

  Walk the Line director James Mangold’s update of Delmer Daves’ 1957 Western runs about a half-hour longer than the Columbia... More >>

• Splattered: An Interview with James Wan

  published August 30, 2007

  By late summer, when director James Wan’s Death Sentence is playing side by side with Neil Jordan’s The Brave One at many ... More >>

• In Search of Shyam Benegal

  published August 30, 2007

  When I first learned that the Indian director Shyam Benegal would be the subject of a tribute at this year’s Telluride Film Festival (Augus... More >>

• The Nanny Diaries: Child-care Crisis

  published August 23, 2007

  Shortly after graduating from film school, I took a part-time job as the assistant to a successful movie and television director who told me... More >>

• All at Sea

  published August 23, 2007

  In October of 1968, a 36-year-old marine electronics salesman named Donald Crowhurst impulsively and ill-preparedly threw his sailor’s... More >>

• Superbad: It Happened One Night

  published August 16, 2007

  The latest comic meteorite to hurtle forth from the galaxy of producer Judd Apatow, Superbad imagines the teenage equivalent of being a... More >>

• The Invasion

  published August 16, 2007

  Is there a Razzie Award for worst casting? If so, it’s one of several that can be reserved early for this fourth, spectacularly lousy... More >>

• Brett Ratner, The Popcorn King

  published August 2, 2007

  It’s a bright March afternoon on the set of Rush Hour 3,and the mood is tense. After shooting last winter on location in Paris,... More >>

• The Simpsons Movie: Longer, Wider, Deeper

  published July 26, 2007

  In his big-screen debut, Homer Simpson utters the “D’oh!” heard ’round the world — or at least as far away as... More >>

• Loss of a Rational Mind

  published July 26, 2007

  “Life is a mixture of happy and sad things. Movies are so lifelike — that’s why we love... More >>

• Hairspray: Tame Waters

  published July 19, 2007

  {mosimage} Did John Waters sell out? Mellow with age? Or did this increasingly laissez-faire, metrosexual... More >>

• Harry Potter's Dark Arts

  published July 12, 2007

  {mosimage} The magic has returned to the Harry Potter franchise — albeit magic of the old, blac... More >>

• Rescue Dawn: Air America

  published July 5, 2007

  The German-American naval pilot Dieter Dengler was one of those immigrants to this country who embodied what some have termed “patriotic... More >>

• Dances With Films

  published July 5, 2007

  When it began in 1998, Dances With Films felt like a suicidal novelty act — a film festival devoted to movies lacking so much as a single... More >>