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

• Ratatouille: Rat Can Cook

  published June 28, 2007

  “Anyone can cook, but only the fearless can be great.” So goes the personal mantra of the late celebrity chef Auguste Gusteau, who... More >>

• Die Hardest

  published June 28, 2007

  {mosimage} Fully intact, Bruce Willis can be a fine actor; bloodied, bruised and battered — whether b... More >>

• Evan Almighty: Zoo Story

  published June 21, 2007

  Midway through the 2003 smash hit Bruce Almighty, Jim Carrey’s newly omnipotent news reporter used his powers to render pompous anchorma... More >>

• No Laffing Matter

  published June 21, 2007

  {mosimage} Once upon a time, Film Independent executive director Dawn Hudson never fails to remind me,... More >>

• Larry Fessenden X 3

  published June 21, 2007

  It’s like 1957 all over again with this cherry Chevy parked in front of Bob’s Market at 17th and Ocean Park in Santa Monica,... More >>

• New Crowned Hope

  published June 21, 2007

  When the Los Angeles–based opera director Peter Sellars accepted the Austrian government’s invitation to stage a massive arts festival ... More >>

• Movies & More

  published June 21, 2007

  When the trailblazing “new Hollywood cinema” of the 1970s is nostalgically evoked, two names too infrequently mentioned in the hallowed compa... More >>

• The Boss of It All: Man or Machine

  published June 14, 2007

  For those who may be wondering, the new Lars von Trier picture The Boss of It All is not — well, not exactly — a... More >>

• The Art Complex

  published June 14, 2007

  {mosimage}At the entrance, a wall of Venetian plaster greets you, framing a concierge desk of basalt... More >>

• Judd Apatow Explains Himself

  published June 7, 2007

  {mosimage} There is a moment early on in “Dead Dogs and Gym Teachers,” the 14th episode of t... More >>

• Ocean’s Thirteen's Con Job

  published June 7, 2007

  Blame it on the scarcity of natural light, or maybe the widespread absence of clocks, but Steven Soderbergh seems to have overstayed his Sin... More >>

• Eurocinema: New Films From Europe

  published June 7, 2007

  Once every 20 years or so, the British director John Boorman (Point Blank, Deliverance) gets it in his head to spin a modern... More >>

• Francophilia

  published May 31, 2007

  {mosimage}Last weekend, as Jerry Bruckheimer’s pirates were once again storming the international bo... More >>

• The Devil May Care

  published May 24, 2007

  “Idon’t mind if you take a shot of me eating,” William Friedkin tells the photographer between bites of an avocado sandwich.... More >>

• Extreme Downsizing

  published May 24, 2007

  {mosimage} The idea of “getting axed” is exploited for maximum double-entendre in Severance,... More >>

• Is There a Doctor in the House?

  published May 24, 2007

  I never gave much thought to the subject of health insurance until, in October of 2005, an odd swelling in my groin prompted me to make one of... More >>

• The Two Faces of Cannes: Gilles Jacob

  published May 17, 2007

  {mosimage} When Gilles Jacob was a boy, he dreamed of someday becoming a judge. And so he became one, not in a court of law, but rather the court... More >>

• Lumière’s Descendent: Thierry Frémaux

  published May 17, 2007

  In the main screening theater of the Cannes Film Festival, more than 2,000 plush, high-backed seats — some in a sweeping orchestra, the res... More >>

• Bob Barker

  published May 10, 2007

  There is a story, often told in my family, of the time when I was 3 years old and my nanny, Louise Morris, made a stop during one of our... More >>

• Edward James Olmos

  published May 10, 2007

  One of the most curious sights captured by TV news cameras during the 1992 Los Angeles riots was that of actor Edward James Olmos standing on... More >>

• Spider-Man, in Black and White

  published May 3, 2007

  {mosimage} Like Sandmen through the hourglass, so are the days of our superhero lives. At least that’... More >>

• Don't Call It a Comeback

  published May 3, 2007

  Let’s get one thing clear from the start: Charles Grodin is not — I repeat, not — planning a comeback. Though the 72-year-old... More >>

• If You Build It, They Will Come

  published May 3, 2007

  Writing in these pages three years ago, I described the odd sensation of traveling halfway around the world, from Los Angeles to Buenos... More >>

• Death, Landscape and Raymond Carver

  published April 26, 2007

  Ray Lawrence has sometimes been called the Australian Terrence Malick — a comparison that likely has less to do with both... More >>

• Ryan Gosling Fires Up Fracture

  published April 19, 2007

  {mosimage} Thankfully, this week’s generically titled studio suspense thriller, Fracture, ha... More >>