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 February 14, 2008

  "Diary of the Dead"

• 2009 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published December 25, 2008

  "Benjamin Button"

• 2009 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published April 10, 2008

  "The Visitor"

• 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

• Claude Lelouch: A Man and Another Movie

  published May 15, 2008

  “One day I’ll make a film for the critics, when I have money to lose.” Rainer... More >>

• Cannes 2008: Joyeux Anniversaire à la Quinzaine

  published May 15, 2008

  On the occasion of the 40th edition of the Directors’ Fortnight, L.A. Weekly asked several... More >>

• Jon Favreau's Iron Man Has a Heart

  published May 1, 2008

  Chalk it up to personal preference, but I’ve always been fonder of those comic book heroes who emerge by intent rather... More >>

• UCLA's Manoel de Oliveira Retrospective Enters Final Week

  published April 24, 2008

  As the UCLA Film & Television Archive’s monthlong Manoel de Oliveira retrospective enters its final weekend (including the local... More >>

• Intrigue and more at City of Lights, City of Angels

  published April 17, 2008

  The Tunisian-born director Abdellatif Kechiche, whose latest film, The Secret of the Grain, screens as the closing... More >>

• Bons Away! City of Lights, City of Angels

  published April 10, 2008

  It is one of the paradoxes of contemporary French cinema, the director Olivier Assayas told me in a recent interview, that... More >>

• The Visitor: The New McCarthyism

  published April 10, 2008

  Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: A lonely dwarf, a wisecracking Cuban-American and a grieving mother walk into... More >>

• Bienvenue Chez les Ch'tis

  published April 10, 2008

  In France, the film Bienvenue Chez les Ch’tis is already the most successful French-language... More >>

• The Voodoo Lounge: Love Songs; Shine a Light

  published April 3, 2008

  Where the great movie musicals of yesteryear put a song in your heart, Christophe Honoré’s Love Songs... More >>

• Manoel de Oliveira: Man of the Century

  published April 3, 2008

  If it seems impossible to discuss the 99-year-old Portuguese filmmaker Manoel de Oliveira (whose imminent centenary is the... More >>

• Leatherheads: There Will Be Mud

  published April 3, 2008

  When Time recently featured George Clooney on its cover accompanied by the headline “The Last Movie... More >>

• Heinz Emigholz: Build It and He Will Come

  published April 3, 2008

  A cursory description of the architecture films of the German avant-garde filmmaker Heinz Emigholz can make them sound like... More >>

• The Last Movie: Continuity Is for Sissies

  published April 3, 2008

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• Continuity Is For Sissies

  published April 3, 2008

  Eight years before Francis Coppola’s Apocalypse Now, Dennis Hopper got lost in a celluloid jungle born from his own messianic,... More >>

• Stop-Loss: Coming Home Again

  published March 27, 2008

  Considering that the war in Iraq has proven to be Washington’s shot-by-shot remake of Vietnam, it’s only natural... More >>

• Manoel de Oliveira: A Man for All Seasons

  published March 27, 2008

  “A long life is a gift from God, but it has its price.” More >>

• Boarding Gate's Olivier Assayas on Getting Carried Away ...

  published March 20, 2008

  On a rainy March afternoon, the French director Olivier Assayas is typing a text message on his cell phone in the café... More >>

• Michael Haneke Will Be Your Mirror

  published March 13, 2008

  Also read Scott Foundas' Agent Provocateur: Michael Haneke... More >>

• The Counterfeiters' Stefan Ruzowitzky Challenges Holocaust Dogma

  published February 28, 2008

  Stefan Ruzowitzky's The Counterfeiters, which won this year's Foreign Language Oscar and has just opened in American... More >>

• Vantage Point: Pointless

  published February 21, 2008

  Remember the 1985 movie version of the Parker Brothers whodunit board game Clue, with its pre-DVD-era gimmick of... More >>

• Diary of the Dead: George Romero's Back

  published February 14, 2008

  It's been 40 years since the reanimated corpses of George Romero's Night of the Living Dead first staggered their... More >>

• Fool's Gold: McConaughey and Hudson Plumb the Depths

  published February 7, 2008

  When a friend told me recently that she'd been confused by the poster for the Matthew McConaughey-Kate Hudson fortune-hunting... More >>

• Sundance Highs and Lows

  published January 31, 2008

  Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden'sSugar, which premiered in the U.S. Dramatic Competition at the 2008 Sundance Film... More >>

• Pregnant Pause: 4 months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days

  published January 31, 2008

  The title of Romanian director Cristian Mungiu's 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, also known as the acclaimed Romanian... More >>

• Sundance: A Midwinter Night's Dream

  published January 24, 2008

  "How does this compare to other film festivals, like Cannes?" asked a woman seated next to me at a screening on the first... More >>