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

• Birth of a Zombie Nation: The Undead in the Movies

  published May 14, 2009

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• Uneasy Riders: Christian Petzold’s Postindustrialist Road Movies

  published May 14, 2009

  Life is a highway in the films of German director Christian Petzold — perhaps not surprising given that Petzold hails... More >>

• Outrage: Dick Outs, Gays Hide

  published May 7, 2009

  Director Kirby Dick doesn’t actually stick his camera under any Capitol Hill bathroom stalls in the new documentary... More >>

• Lost in Space: J.J. Abrams' Younger, Buffer Star Trek

  published May 7, 2009

  Not very boldly going where many a Hollywood franchise has gone before, Alias and Lost creator J.J.... More >>

• There Will Be Gavaldón

  published April 30, 2009

  I’ve seen only three of the 50 features directed by Mexico’s Roberto Gavaldón, considered by many to be one of the most... More >>

• Frownland: Freaks and Freaks

  published April 23, 2009

  Like a signal flare rising above the streets of the Fairfax District, Frownland announces that underground cinema is... More >>

• CoLCoA’s Closing Week: Paint by Bullets

  published April 23, 2009

  Like his fellow two-part-biopic subject, Che Guevara, French bank robber and jailhouse memoirist Jacques Mesrine has lived on in pop culture... More >>

• 17 Again: Zac Efron Shoots Wad, Scores!

  published April 16, 2009

  This much is for sure about the makers of the new Zac Efron picture, 17 Again: They know their audience.... More >>

• City of Lights, City of Angels: 27 French films in L.A.

  published April 16, 2009

  One year ago, the biggest news in French cinema was a homegrown fish-out-of-water farce, Bienvenue chez les... More >>

• Boxing, Sex and Madness: Mike Tyson, James Toback and the Ties That Bind

  published April 9, 2009

  Though he no longer sports the black trunks, sockless black boots and gut-twisting scowl with which he cut such a menacing... More >>

• Jeanne Dielman: Chantal Akerman's Domestic Mystique

  published April 9, 2009

  Chantal Akerman’s first masterpiece came early in her career. In the Brussels-born filmmaker’s second feature-length production,... More >>

• Driving Mr. William: Ramin Bahrani's Goodbye Solo

  published April 9, 2009

  At 73, the Memphis-born actor, stuntman, former U.S. Marine and Golden Gloves boxer Red West has the stoic, leathery repose of... More >>

• Summer of 1987: Joy, Sadness and Yearning in Greg Mottola’s Adventureland

  published April 2, 2009

  Set a mere two decades ago, Greg Mottola’s Adventureland seems like it could be taking place on a distant... More >>

• Sugar: Take Them Out to the Ball Game

  published April 2, 2009

  Writing about Half Nelson filmmakers Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden’s second feature, Sugar, when it... More >>

• Death in Maze: Artist Steve McQueen on his Bobby Sands film, Hunger

  published March 26, 2009

  Set almost entirely within the “H Block” of Northern Ireland’s Maze prison during the 1981 hunger strike led... More >>

• Spy vs. Spy: Tony Gilroy’s Duplicity

  published March 19, 2009

  Whether it’s the amnesiac superspy of the Bourne franchise or the weary law-firm fixer of Michael... More >>

• Master of the Mix: A Bruce Conner assemblage

  published February 26, 2009

  It has been 50 years since artist and filmmaker Bruce Conner promoted his own exhibition at San Francisco’s Spatsa... More >>

• Crossing Over: Wayne Kramer's Borderline Offensive

  published February 26, 2009

  Haven’t we been here before? The inbred mutant offspring of Crash and Babel, writer-director Wayne Kramer’s... More >>

• Sprechen Sie Berlinale? Looking for "Slow Cinema" Among the Polyglot Unhappy Meals at the Berlin International Film Festival

  published February 19, 2009

  The around-the-world-in-11-days tour that was the 2009 Berlin International Film Festival started right at home, with a... More >>

• Coming Home: Taking Chance Writer Lt. Col. Michael Strobl and Producer-Director Ross Katz on the Iraq Movie About America

  published February 19, 2009

  “I have kept a diary or a journal on three occasions,” says Lieutenant Colonel Michael Strobl, USMC (Ret.).... More >>

• Shades of Gray: Two Lovers Director on Ford and Fellini, Phoenix and Paltrow

  published February 12, 2009

  If there are, as Steven Soderbergh is fond of saying, three types of filmmakers — those who don’t know what... More >>

• Tom Tykwer Zings The International

  published February 12, 2009

  Tom Tykwer’s The International is one of those movies in which shadowy men meet in parked cars, abandoned... More >>

• Coraline's Stop-Motion Splendor

  published February 5, 2009

  If Alice in Wonderland were retold by the Mad Hatter, it might look something like Henry Selick’s 3-D,... More >>

• Couscous de Coeur: The Secret of the Grain

  published January 29, 2009

  The French-Tunisian director Abdellatif Kechiche is that rare thing at the movies these days: an intelligent humanist. In his 2003 feature... More >>

• The Sundance Experience

  published January 29, 2009

  The crowds were thinner, the temperature warmer, and the name Obama mentioned so many times that you might have thought he had... More >>