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 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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2008 Stories by Scott Foundas

• Heart of Darkness

  published July 16, 2008

  What a brooding pleasure it is to return to Christopher Nolan's Gotham City — if "pleasure" is the right word for a movie that gazes so... More >>

• Supermarket Sweep

  published June 11, 2008

  The screenwriter Steven Conrad writes movies about success and self-fulfillment in America — how we define it, the price we pay for it,... More >>

• Without a Paddle

  published June 11, 2008

  “It’s hard being a human, but being a common person in China is even more difficult,” one tearful shopkeeper says along the... More >>

• Love Songs

  published June 4, 2008

  If the great movie musicals of yesteryear put a song in your heart, Christophe Honoré's Love Songs leaves you with a funny taste... More >>

• A Polish auteur -- and Mike Tyson! -- stage comebacks at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival.

  published May 21, 2008

  Call them the comeback kids: In its early days, the 2008 Cannes Film Festival has served as a staging ground for a number of unlikely returns,... More >>

• Mighty Avenger

  published April 30, 2008

  Chalk it up to personal preference, but I've always been fonder of those comic-book heroes who emerge by intent rather than happenstance. I... More >>

• Body of War

  published April 23, 2008

  Co-directed by Ellen Spiro and Phil Donahue—yes, that Phil Donahue—Body of War is neither the most cinematic nor the most... More >>

• Unwelcome Visitor

  published April 16, 2008

  Stop me if you've heard this one before: A lonely dwarf, a wisecracking Cuban American, and a grieving mother walk into each other's lives,... More >>

• Young @ Heart

  published April 16, 2008

  From the washed-out images to the twee voice-over (courtesy of director Stephen Walker), this British television documentary about the titular... More >>

• Fourth and Inches

  published April 2, 2008

  When Time recently featured George Clooney on its cover accompanied by the headline "The Last Movie Star" — note, not even a... More >>

• Apolitical Theater

  published March 26, 2008

  Considering that the war in Iraq has proven to be Washington's shot-by-shot remake of Vietnam, it's only natural that Hollywood has followed... More >>

• He'll Be Your Mirror

  published March 12, 2008

  To the uninitiated viewer, Austrian director Michael Haneke might best be described as the modern cinema's master of the unkind rewind. In the... More >>

• Vantage Point Blocks View of a Good Terrorism Movie

  published February 20, 2008

  Remember the 1985 movie version of the Parker Brothers whodunit board game Clue, with its pre-DVD-era gimmick of multiple endings? Well,... More >>

• Israeli Hit The Band's Visit Uplifts, Elates

  published February 13, 2008

  Last fall, The Band's Visit made headlines after being disqualified as Israel's foreign-language submission to the 2008 Academy Awards... More >>

• Kate Hudson's 'Fool's Gold' Totally Worthless

  published February 6, 2008

  When a friend recently told me that she'd been confused by the poster for the Matthew McConaughey-Kate Hudson fortune-hunting romp Fool's... More >>

• 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days Director Cristian Mungiu Interview

  published February 6, 2008

  The title of Romanian director Cristian Mungiu's 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, also known as the acclaimed drama that didn't get... More >>

• Heroes and Zeroes at Sundance '08

  published January 30, 2008

  Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden's Sugar, which premièred in the U.S. Dramatic Competition at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival (and was... More >>

• Good Grief!

  published January 30, 2008

  Eleven months after winning the screenplay and audience awards at this year's Sundance Film Festival, writer-director James C. Strouse's... More >>

• Life Stinks, Blah, Blah, Blah

  published January 16, 2008

  "I do think the writing is pessimistic — all that stuff about life being a tragic experience," says Angela Stark (played by newcomer... More >>

• Disaster Ahead

  published January 16, 2008

  It took nine years for Godzilla to rise up out of the ashes of Hiroshima and wreak his destruction on the good people of Tokyo in 1954. Here in... More >>

• Grand Design

  published January 2, 2008

  The story of how The Kite Runner's Homayoun Ershadi got into movies is a bit like those fanciful tales of stars and starlets discovered... More >>