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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2008 Stories by Scott Foundas

• Valkyrie: The Man Who Nearly Killed Hitler

  published December 25, 2008

  It’s July 20, 1944, and Adolf Hitler has been assassinated — the victim of a bomb blast organized and executed by... More >>

• The Haunting: Revolutionary Road

  published December 25, 2008

  No writer ever gazed deeper or more despairingly into the prison of middle-class American conformity than Richard Yates, which... More >>

• The Curious Case of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

  published December 25, 2008

  The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is certainly curious — a modest F. Scott Fitzgerald story, about a man born... More >>

• Clint Eastwood, America's Director

  published December 18, 2008

  “You’ve made the first movie of the Obama generation!” exclaimed an audience member, as he rushed up to... More >>

• Will Smith Encores His Pursuit of Happyness

  published December 18, 2008

  Two years ago nearly to the day, Will Smith and Italian director Gabriele Muccino released The Pursuit of Happyness,... More >>

• Clint Eastwood Finds Salvation in Gran Torino

  published December 11, 2008

  Walt Kowalski growls a lot — a dyspeptic rumble that wells up from deep inside his belly when he catches sight of his... More >>

• The Weekly Goes to the Movies

  published December 4, 2008

  Contributing writer 2003-2005Film editor 2005-presentIn my beginning is my end—T.S. Eliot I wish I... More >>

• Catherine Deneuve: Belle De 50 Ans

  published November 20, 2008

  Siren. Icon. Muse. You can apply any or all of those labels to Catherine Deneuve but trying to make any one of them stick is... More >>

• Fall Film: Delta Blues, in Black and White

  published November 13, 2008

  When the lights came up after the first screening of Ballast at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, an audible... More >>

• Fall Film: Slumdog Millionaire: Game Show Masala

  published November 13, 2008

  Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Well, who wouldn’t in this economy, even if the currency in question is rupees... More >>

• Van Morrison and Astral Weeks: LA Weekly Snags a Rare One-on-One Interview with the Elusive Singer

  published November 6, 2008

  When it was announced that Van Morrison would close out the Hollywood Bowl’s fall season with two nights of concerts at... More >>

• AFI Fest Grows Up - Finally!

  published October 30, 2008

  The days leading up to film festivals great and small are supposed to be occupied by minutiae and mundanities, such as making... More >>

• LACMA'S Arnaud Desplechin Retrospective: In the Family Way

  published October 30, 2008

  The tragicomic universe of French director Arnaud Desplechin thrives on the messy collisions between old friends and new lovers, selfish... More >>

• AFI Festival: Quixotic Filmmaking with Albert Serra

  published October 30, 2008

  Crazed visionaries are something of an endangered species at the movies these days, so thank goodness for 33-year-old Spanish director Albert... More >>

• AFI Festival: "Spotlight on Kazakhstan"

  published October 30, 2008

  It’s one of the routine — if entirely unpredictable — pleasures of the international film-festival circuit that, every few... More >>

• Synecdoche, New York: Art Imitates Life Imitating Art in Charlie Kaufman's Latest

  published October 23, 2008

  If you traveled the length of John Malkovich’s medulla oblongata, hung a sharp left at the desk where Beckett’s... More >>

• Oliver Stone on W., and the President Who Would Be John Wayne

  published October 16, 2008

  Sitting in the back of the restaurant at New York’s überchic Royalton Hotel in an orange polo shirt and khakis,... More >>

• Body of Lies: Terror Porn We Can Believe in

  published October 9, 2008

  A new kind of war movie for a new kind of war, Body of Lies shows us the War on Terror as it is being waged on the... More >>

• Mickey Rourke Returns as The Wrestler

  published September 25, 2008

  "I hated the ’90s. The ’90s fuckin’ sucked,” says professional wrestler Randy “The Ram”... More >>

• Spike Lee's Miracle at St. Anna: Cheesy

  published September 25, 2008

  On some level, you’ve got to hand it to Spike Lee. There are probably less than a handful of directors working in... More >>

• Lakeview Terrace: Samuel L. Jackson Is the Cop Next Door

  published September 18, 2008

  Earlier this year, when I found myself assigned to jury duty on a drug-related trial at Los Angeles Superior Court, our jury... More >>

• Gems Finally Emerge at Toronto Film Festival

  published September 18, 2008

  The most vital movie I saw this year in Toronto didn’t have its first screening until the festival’s final day and... More >>

• Disappointments and Surprises: Toronto International Film Festival

  published September 11, 2008

  If this year’s Toronto International Film Festival had a subtitle, it could be “When Good Directors Go Bad.”... More >>

• Thank God It's the End of Summer!

  published September 4, 2008

  And so another summer-movie season comes to an end, not with a bang but a whimper — what else to call four new releases... More >>

• Manny Farber, 1917-2008

  published August 28, 2008

  I never met Manny Farber, but about a decade ago, when I was just starting out as a freelance film reviewer for... More >>