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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2009 Stories by Scott Foundas

• Men Are From Seoul, Women Are From Pusanthe: The films of South Korean director Hong Sang-soo

  published September 10, 2009

  No animals are harmed (or, as memory serves, even appear) in Hong Sang-soo’s 1996 debut feature, The Day a Pig Fell... More >>

• The Long, Hot Summer of L.A. Film

  published September 3, 2009

  As wildfires scorched Southern California and Angelenos choked on the ocher air, so too did Los Angeles film culture find... More >>

• Headless Woman: Seeing but Not Seeing

  published September 3, 2009

  The Headless Woman, the third feature film written and directed by Argentina’s Lucrecia Martel, began with a recurring dream... More >>

• John Carpenter, Nibbling at Our Souls: Cinematheque Fest Features Two of Director’s Best

  published August 27, 2009

  I’m not sure if John Carpenter ever actually said the oft-attributed words: “In France, I’m an auteur; in... More >>

• Viennese Waltz: Inglourious Basterds Brings Late-Career Glory to Austrian Actor

  published August 20, 2009

  Christoph Waltz remembers exactly where he was when he learned he had won the role of the grandiloquent, polyglot SS Colonel... More >>

• District 9: Divide and Conquer

  published August 13, 2009

  The aliens have been with us for 20 years already at the start of South African director Neill Blomkamp’s fast and... More >>

• A Priest and a Woman: Jean-Paul Belmondo and Emmanuelle Riva in Melville’s Léon Morin

  published August 13, 2009

  In 1961, reeling from the failure of his U.S.-set thriller Two Men in Manhattan and resolved to break with his image as a cult... More >>

• Ponyo's Big Blue

  published August 13, 2009

  In the same week that the South African import District 9 gives us a Johannesburg beset by alien invaders, the latest... More >>

• Somers Town: Truth in Advertising

  published August 6, 2009

  The title of Shane Meadows’ Somers Town refers to the bleak, working-class neighborhood that lies in the shadow... More >>

• Dardenne Brothers on Lorna's Silence

  published July 30, 2009

  In the category of sudden and unexpected changes of scenery, the decision of filmmaking brothers Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne... More >>

• (Not So) Funny People

  published July 30, 2009

  After devoting the first two films he directed, The 40-Year-Old Virgin and Knocked Up, to getting laid and... More >>

• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

  published July 16, 2009

  Don’t let the PG rating fool you: The dark arts are back with a vengeance in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood... More >>

• LACMA SALUTES JAMES MASON

  published July 16, 2009

  Was James Mason born with that voice? Were his first words spoken in that velvety, Yorkshire-accented purr; that voice of... More >>

• UCLA retrospective: Lucrecia Martel

  published July 16, 2009

  The brief but striking filmography of Lucrecia Martel, whose three feature films are the subject of a weekend-long UCLA... More >>

• Back in Blue: Battered But Not Broken, Jean-Jacques Beineix Returns

  published July 2, 2009

  When director Jean-Jacques Beineix packed his bags, fired his agent and left Hollywood for his native Paris, he vowed never to... More >>

• Digital Dillinger: Public Enemies’ Johnny Depp plays hard to get

  published July 2, 2009

  “They’re all about where people come from. Nobody seems to wonder where somebody’s going.” So says the... More >>

• Coming to Amreeka

  published June 25, 2009

  In its basic outline, this first feature from Arab-American writer-director Cherien Dabis sounds like a collection of hoary coming-to-America... More >>

• The Hurt Locker: There Will Be Blasts

  published June 25, 2009

  Kathryn Bigelow’s Iraq War drama The Hurt Locker is a full-throttle body shock of a movie. It gets inside you... More >>

• At the Helm of the L.A. Film Festival

  published June 18, 2009

  “It’s really interesting how much overlap there is in terms of skill sets,” says veteran independent film... More >>

• Whatever Works for Woody

  published June 11, 2009

  The new Woody Allen film, Whatever Works — his 40th for those keeping count — signals a return for the... More >>

• Away We Go: An Unaffecting Work of Staggering Vacuity

  published June 4, 2009

  Midway through A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Dave Eggers’ solipsistic,... More >>

• Apocalypse Maintenant: Last Week at Cannes

  published May 28, 2009

  “It’s very intense, some of the films are very long, and some of them are very weird,” observed the British... More >>

• CSI Paris: French Crime at LACMA

  published May 28, 2009

  Hot on the heels of the Cannes Film Festival, where director Jacques Audiard’s epic prison drama A Prophet copped the Grand Jury... More >>

• Dreaming in Film: At Cannes and Its Renegade Festivals

  published May 21, 2009

  Bodily fluids, bowel movements and dismembered human remains were the dominant design principles as the official competition... More >>

• Van Morrison Goes Astral on The Tonight Show

  published May 14, 2009

  “I need to know that he’s going to do the three-minute-and-50-second version and not some eight-minute... More >>