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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2009 Stories by Scott Foundas

• Panic, Despair and Revolution

  published December 31, 2009

  And so another year comes to an end, and with it a decade (Gregorian contrarians notwithstanding) in which the answer to the... More >>

• The Wry Romanian: Corneliu Porumboiu

  published December 24, 2009

  “I don’t think writers are sacred, but words are,” observes the playwright protagonist of Tom... More >>

• It’s Complicated: It’s Fucking Annoying

  published December 24, 2009

  Does Nancy Meyers hate women? The thought ran through my head not very long into It’s Complicated,... More >>

• Avatar: On Top of a Distant World

  published December 17, 2009

  As the first decade of the new millennium draws to a close, Hollywood movies seem ever longer on extravagant visions and... More >>

• Nine: So You Think You Can Direct

  published December 17, 2009

  There’s no city-clogging traffic jam in Nine, the musicalized version of Federico Fellini’s... More >>

• EASTWOOD ON THE PITCH

  published December 10, 2009

  On a late March morning, the sun sits high in the Cape Town sky, illuminating the trapezoidal monolith of Table Mountain in... More >>

• Grounded: Jason Reitman

  published December 3, 2009

  Unlike the zigzagging protagonist of his latest film, Jason Reitman tends to stay close to home. “If we were in a small... More >>

• Frog of the South

  published November 26, 2009

  Six decades after unleashing persistent NAACP bugaboo Song of the South (1946), and two after firmly suppressing it,... More >>

• John Woo: Back in Action

  published November 26, 2009

  John Woo spent a decade navigating the big-studio minefield — longer than most foreign auteurs last in Hollywood before... More >>

• Defamation: Real and Imagined

  published November 13, 2009

  Defamation, Jewish Israeli director Yoav Shamir’s cheerfully incendiary documentary about the modern face of anti-Semitism,... More >>

• Hellfire and Camp Nation: Jack Smith’s Flaming Creatures

  published November 5, 2009

  The interchangeably heavenly and infernal beings who constitute the title characters of performance artist Jack Smith’s 1962 Flaming... More >>

• Deep Purple: Precious

  published November 5, 2009

  In her broad outlines, the character of Claireece Precious Jones risks sounding like the epitome of ghetto cliché: an... More >>

• How Do You Say Oscar Scandal in Dutch and Chinese?

  published October 29, 2009

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• AFI Fest 2009: What if Movies Were Free?

  published October 29, 2009

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• Couples Chaos: German Director Maren Ade Talks About Everyone Else

  published October 29, 2009

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• Past, Moving Forward: The Little Theater of Pedro Costa

  published October 29, 2009

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• Front Window: Sebastian Silva's Searing Look Inside the World of The Maid

  published October 22, 2009

  Cleanliness may be next to godliness, but for the title character of the pitch-black Chilean comedy The Maid,... More >>

• Beasty Boy: Where the Wild Things Are

  published October 15, 2009

  Tinkering with a sacred cultural totem can be riskier business than nuclear fission. Just ask Peter Sellars, the visionary... More >>

• An Education: Higher Learning

  published October 8, 2009

  The title is a double entendre in An Education, the film version of British journalist Lynn Barber’s memoir... More >>

• American Radical: Ken Jacobs’ Nervous Magic Lantern

  published October 8, 2009

  Can there be cinema without film — or video? The answer is a resounding yes if you ask legendary avant-garde filmmaker... More >>

• Form and Emotion: The Art and Life of Alain Resnais, at LACMA

  published October 1, 2009

  “After the cinema, nothing surprises you. Everything is possible.” So says the lovesick obsessive Georges Palet in... More >>

• A City of Sadness: The Great 1989 Taiwanese Film at LACMA

  published September 24, 2009

  An extraordinarily ambitious sociohistorical epic, comparable in its impact to the Godfather films, Hou Hsiao-hsien’s 1989 A... More >>

• Crude: A Sticky Situation

  published September 17, 2009

  Water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink. Why? Because it’s thick with sludge. Moving briskly through a stranger-than-fiction,... More >>

• Thingamabob vs. Machine in 9

  published September 10, 2009

  Early in Shane Acker’s computer-animated debut feature, 9, a diminutive anthropomorphic whatsit with wooden... More >>

• Little Big Man: Chris Fuller on His Microbudget Loren Cass

  published September 10, 2009

  The last time I saw Chris Fuller, the 26-year-old writer-director-actor reminds me on a recent afternoon, was at a viewing... More >>