Scott Foundas

Edward Zwick’s The Last Samurai is Dances With Wolves — or A Man Called Horse — transplanted to Meiji Restoration Japan, with noble samurai substituted for noble savages. Its central idea is that the modernization of Japan was akin to the taming of the American West, and, to make sure......

Someday, film historians will argue over where and when the once-concrete notion of independent cinema devolved into such an abstraction that it nearly ceased to exist. In the meantime, Independent Los Angeles, the inaugural film series at CalArts’ multi-use REDCAT theater space inside the Disney Concert Hall, represents an important......

Little in Canadian entrepreneur Garth Drabinsky’s long and varied career — which has included stints as entertainment lawyer, theater producer, and co-founder of the Cineplex Odeon cinema circuit — could have prepared him for the demands of his latest project: a $20 million film based word for word on the......

In earlier years, when you had a dragon in a Hollywood movie, it only had one head. But now, those same dragons have seven heads! —Abbas Kiarostami IN THE MATRIX REVOLUTIONS, THE DRAGONS — be they swarming Sentinels or replicating Smiths — have way more than seven heads, and so......

Filmmaker and CalArts faculty member Thom Andersen — whose Los Angeles Plays Itself debuted to great acclaim at this year’s Toronto Film Festival and premieres Wednesday in its namesake city — probably takes issue with the name of the very publication in which this article appears. As his film’s wry......

And so we come again to Elephant, Gus Van Sant’s thinly disguised re-creation of the Columbine High School shootings and the movie that, earlier this year, trampled its way across the Cannes Film Festival jury, picking up the best-picture (Palme d’Or) and Best Director prizes in the process. Writing about......