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 9, 2007

  "Badlands"

• 2008 - Southern California Journalism Awards/LA Press Club

  Film reviews

• 2008 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published November 30, 2007

  "Iron Butterfly"

• 2008 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published November 23, 2007

  "Born Identities"

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2008 Stories by Scott Foundas

• The Haunting

  published December 31, 2008

  No writer ever gazed deeper or more despairingly into the prison of middle-class American conformity than Richard Yates, which may explain why... More >>

• Old Man Pitt

  published December 24, 2008

  The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is certainly curious — a modest F. Scott Fitzgerald story, about a man born in the twilight of... More >>

• The Man Who Nearly Killed Hitler

  published December 24, 2008

  It's July 20, 1944, and Adolf Hitler has been assassinated — the victim of a bomb blast organized and executed by a cabal of high-ranking... More >>

• Five Greats preview: Our guide to the season’s must-see movies

  published December 24, 2008

  In the days and weeks ahead, several tremendous (dare we say Oscar-caliber?) films will be arriving in Bay Area theaters. They're poignant,... More >>

• Our critics name the best films of 2008

  published December 24, 2008

  Is it a sign of the apocalypse? Something in the water? Or is it just the way the wind is blowing? Whatever the case, when our... More >>

• Year of the Ram

  published December 24, 2008

  I hated the '90s. The '90s fuckin' sucked," says professional wrestler Randy "The Ram" Robinson early on in The Wrestler — and he... More >>

• It's a Miserable Life

  published December 17, 2008

  Two years ago nearly to the day, Will Smith and Italian director Gabriele Muccino released The Pursuit of Happyness, one of the most... More >>

• Forgiven

  published December 17, 2008

  Walt Kowalski growls a lot — a dyspeptic rumble that wells up from deep inside his belly when he catches sight of his midriff-baring... More >>

• Belle de 50 Ans

  published November 26, 2008

  Siren. Icon. Muse. You can apply any or all of those labels to Catherine Deneuve but trying to make any one of them stick is trickier than... More >>

• Slumdog Millionaire

  published November 26, 2008

  Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Well, who wouldn’t in this economy, even if the currency in question is rupees and winning the loot... More >>

• Game-Show Masala

  published November 12, 2008

  Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Well, who wouldn't in this economy, even if the currency in question is rupees and winning the loot means... More >>

• I Think I'm Getting a Kauf

  published November 12, 2008

  If you traveled the length of John Malkovich’s medulla oblongata and walked through the adjoining door of the interstellar hotel room at the... More >>

• The World Is a Stage

  published November 5, 2008

  If you traveled the length of John Malkovich's medulla oblongata, hung a sharp left at the desk where Beckett's Krapp recorded his last tape,... More >>

• The Son Also Rises

  published October 22, 2008

  Sitting in the back of the restaurant at New York's überchic Royalton Hotel in an orange polo shirt and khakis, Oliver Stone looks out of... More >>

• Filth and Wisdom

  published October 22, 2008

  A splashy Berlin Film Festival premiere may not have been the ideal launch strategy for this modestly scaled first feature co-written and... More >>

• Lies We Can Believe In

  published October 8, 2008

  A new kind of war movie for a new kind of war, Body of Lies is about the War on Terror as it is being waged on the ground, in the air,... More >>

• Very Minor Miracle

  published September 24, 2008

  On some level, you have to hand it to Spike Lee. There are probably fewer than a handful of directors working in Hollywood today who could put... More >>

• Biblical Proportions

  published September 17, 2008

  The most vital movie I ended up seeing at this year's Toronto International Film Festival didn't have its first screening until the festival's... More >>

• Your Friends and Neighbors

  published September 17, 2008

  Earlier this year, when I found myself assigned to jury duty on a drug-related trial at the Los Angeles Superior Court, our jury foreman turned... More >>

• In the Heat of the Knight

  published September 3, 2008

  And so another summer movie season comes to an end, not with a bang but a whimper — what else to call four new releases (Babylon A.D.,... More >>

• Mighty Aphrodites

  published August 13, 2008

  Perhaps this review should begin with a disclaimer: Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Woody Allen's 39th film as writer-director, will do little... More >>

• The Young Man's Dream

  published August 13, 2008

  The last time I interviewed Woody Allen, at his editing suite on Manhattan's Upper East Side, he was preparing the release of Match... More >>

• Change You Can't Believe In

  published July 30, 2008

  Swing Vote is an election-themed comedy that's about twice as smart as you expect it to be and still only half as smart as you wish it... More >>

• Men Will Be Boys

  published July 23, 2008

  I haven't seen much at the movies in the past two years that has given me as much unbridled comic pleasure as the sight of Will Ferrell as the... More >>

• Bustin' Down the Door

  published July 23, 2008

  The title of director Jeremy Gosch’s engaging, elegantly made surf documentary describes the oftentimes brash methods employed by a pack of... More >>