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

• Manny Farber Remembered

  published August 28, 2008

  I was 16 in 1976 when I attended Manny Farber’s lecture on Fassbinder’s Effi Briest, at a community... More >>

• Screeching to the Choir

  published August 14, 2008

  The director Richard Dutcher is far from a household name, even in houses belonging to independent film aficionados. His moves don’t play in... More >>

• Tropic Thunder: Jungle Feverish

  published August 14, 2008

  Tropic Thunder arrives in theaters hyped, virally marketed and decreed by no less an authority than The... More >>

• Bardem Farce: Javier Makes Whoopee With Scarlett, Rebecca and Penelope

  published August 14, 2008

  Leave it to Woody Allen to make a romantic comedy in which all the major players end up either single, homicidal or trapped... More >>

• Woody Allen's European Vacation: Vicky Cristina Barcelona

  published August 14, 2008

  The last time I interviewed Woody Allen, at his editing suite on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, he was preparing the... More >>

• Bad Trips: Pineapple Express, Transsiberian

  published August 7, 2008

  If you took last summer’s good-natured, geek-power comedy, Superbad, and spliced its DNA with one of those... More >>

• Comedy Director Richard Quine's Desperate Characters and Lonely Hearts

  published August 7, 2008

    (Click to enlarge) Pushover ... More >>

• Swing Vote: Bud, Wiser

  published July 31, 2008

  Swing Vote’s clever premise, which would have seemed like pure science fiction no more than eight years ago,... More >>

• Look Back in Angst

  published July 24, 2008

  For every household name of contemporary British cinema represented in the UCLA Film & Television Archive’s excellent series, “The... More >>

• Step Brothers: Blended Family Values

  published July 24, 2008

  I haven’t seen much at the movies in the past two years that has given me as much unbridled comic pleasure as the sight... More >>

• The X-Files: I Want to Believe

  published July 24, 2008

  The truth is still out there, like an unsold lawn chair at a garage sale, in this just plain lousy second big-screen outing for erstwhile FBI... More >>

• Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight: Batman Continues

  published July 17, 2008

  What a brooding pleasure it is to return to Christopher Nolan’s Gotham City — if pleasure is the right word for a... More >>

• Cinefamily Screens Lucien Pintilie's Reenactment

  published June 26, 2008

  Anyone who keeps abreast of trends in world cinema likely already knows that, thanks to a series of major-prize wins at the Cannes, Romanian... More >>

• Avant-gardist Owen Land Comes Out of the Shadows

  published June 26, 2008

  "There are two things you should know about me,” says Owen Land. “One is that I’m a follower of Christ, and... More >>

• Indie Remix: Los Angeles Film Festival 2008

  published June 19, 2008

  It’s purely coincidental, of course, that this year’s Los Angeles Film Festival (June 19-29) opens for business as t... More >>

• Steven Conrad's The Promotion: It's a Wonderful Supermarket

  published June 5, 2008

  The screenwriter Steven Conrad writes movies about success and self-fulfillment in America — how we define it, the... More >>

• Border Stories: Fatih Akin's Edge of Heaven

  published June 5, 2008

  Selected by Germany as its official foreign-language entry to this year’s Oscars, The Edge of Heaven is in... More >>

• Eastwood Retrospective: A Life in Film, a Week at the Aero

  published June 5, 2008

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• Stuff and Dough Makes Its Belated L.A. Debut

  published June 5, 2008

  The “stuff” in Cristi Puiu’s Stuff and Dough is a satchel full of prescription drugs that must be hand-carried to... More >>

• Controversy at Cannes: The Headless Woman

  published May 29, 2008

  “I feel a little ... I don’t feel good.” So says Veronica, the middle-aged upper-middle-class Argentinean... More >>

• Norwegian Pie: Joachim Trier's Reprise

  published May 29, 2008

  Like their American youth-movie counterparts, the 20-something guy friends of Norwegian director Joachim Trier’s... More >>

• Van Morrison Once Again Ventures Into the Slipstream

  published May 22, 2008

  I was originally supposed to write about the new Van Morrison album, Keep It Simple (which was released in the U.S.... More >>

• Indiana Ford ... and the Kingdom of Lucas and Spielberg

  published May 22, 2008

  It’s been 19 years since the daredevil archaeologist Indiana Jones let the Holy Grail slip through his fingers at the... More >>

• Cannes Comebacks: Our Midfestival Report

  published May 22, 2008

  Call them the comeback kids: In its early days, the 2008 Cannes Film Festival has served as a staging ground for a number of... More >>

• Cannes 2008: A Brief History of the Directors' Fortnight

  published May 15, 2008

  Forty years ago this week, the Cannes Film Festival ground to a halt. At an impromptu press conference held on the morning of... More >>