Scott Foundas

Nick Hornby’s wonderful 1992 nonfiction book, Fever Pitch, tied 24 years of memories to a series of English football matches, culminating in that empyrean moment in 1989 when Arsenal midfielder Michael Thomas scored an injury-time goal to win that beleaguered London club its first championship in 18 seasons. It was......

Anyone seeking proof of the profound diversity of interests and influences at work in today’s French cinema need look no further than the ninth edition of the City of Lights, City of Angels film festival (April 11–17), where the 17 features on display again serve as a strong counterbalance to......

Photo by Mike McCoy Sr.To say of a movie that it makes you feel like taking a shower afterward usually isn’t taken as a compliment. In the case of Dana Brown’s Dust to Glory, it should be. When you emerge from the theater after two hours of this documentary about......

You’ve never been shy when it comes to voicing your opinion of movies or movie critics, so I won’t beat around the bush either. Last spring, when you served as jury president at the Cannes Film Festival, word spread quickly that one of the films was by far your personal......

Genocide can occur anywhere. It is not an African phenomenon. We must have global vigilance. And never again must we be shy in the face of the evidence. —Bill Clinton, 1998 A few years down the road, will ask for forgiveness. He’ll make the promise of “never again.” But in......

In the opening scenes of the new Bruce Willis movie, world-weary hostage negotiator Jeff Talley (Willis) lounges on his back beneath a sizzling Los Angeles sun, combing his grizzly beard with one hand while holding a telephone in the other, calmly reasoning with the jealous husband who’s holding his unfaithful......

(Far right) Greaves and Buscemi inSymbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take 2 1/2Prior to every screening at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival, the word independent appeared emblazoned across a red screen in fat white lettering — until, as certain letters began to blur and fade from view, independent morphed into inept. This wordplay preceded......

From Blowup to Blow Out, from The Conversation to Memento, there has been a unique breed of movie thriller devoted to the unattainability of truth and the obsessive paranoia of those who seek it. These are movies for a nation raised on Watergate and the JFK assassination, movies that treat......

Stop me if you’ve heard this one. A coach/teacher/Reno lounge singer walks into a gym/classroom/convent filled with unmotivated athletes/students/nuns and, through his/her compassion and the irrefutable power of sport/learning/song, transforms the washouts into winners. From Goodbye, Mr. Chips to Hoosiers to Sister Act to Mr. Holland’s Opus, the inspirational-mentor genre......

Photo by Joe Berlinger "In what has become a tribal ritual, accusations are again flying about the Oscar nominees for Best Documentary Feature Film." With that line, critic Ann Hornaday began her New York Times article titled "Documentaries and the Oscars: No Cinderellas at the Ball." The date was March......