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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2009 Stories by Scott Foundas

• The I Rock War

  published December 30, 2009

  Directed by Kathryn Bigelow (Point Break, Strange Days), the Iraq War drama The Hurt Locker is a full-throttle body... More >>

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  COVER STORY

  The Inglourious Year in Film

  published December 23, 2009

  1/ The Hurt Locker The decade's strongest Iraq movie is also the year's finest action flick, not to mention director... More >>

• Eastwood on the Pitch

  published December 23, 2009

  On a late March morning, the sun sits high in the Cape Town sky, illuminating the trapezoidal monolith of Table Mountain in the distance, while... More >>

• Best Films of the Decade

  published December 23, 2009

  Looking back on a decade dominated by the movie franchise — Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, Star Wars, and Spider-Man to... More >>

• Going Places

  published December 23, 2009

  Unlike the zigzagging protagonist of his latest film, Up in the Air, Jason Reitman tends to stay close to home. "If we were in a small... More >>

• Nine: Fantasy meets harsh reality as Rob Marshall takes on a Fellini classic

  published December 23, 2009

  There's no city-clogging traffic jam in Nine, the musicalized version of Federico Fellini's movie-about-moviemaking ur-text 8... More >>

• It's Complicated : Nancy Meyers keeps making the same movie

  published December 23, 2009

  Does Nancy Meyers hate women? The thought ran through my head not very long into It's Complicated, Meyers' biennial stocking-stuffer... More >>

• Tom Ford's A Single Man: It's better to look good than to be good

  published December 9, 2009

  Too much is never enough for fashion designer turned filmmaker Tom Ford, whose debut feature flaunts its capital-A Artiness the way some... More >>

• Whitewash: Disney's The Princess and the Frog can't seem to escape the ghetto

  published December 9, 2009

  Six decades after unleashing persistent NAACP bugaboo Song of the South (1946), and two after firmly suppressing it, that peculiar... More >>

• Zombieland

  published December 2, 2009

  The zombie movie—that evergreen vessel for all manner of social and political allegory—gets stripped down to its “Holy shit!... More >>

• Red Cliff

  published November 25, 2009

  After a decade navigating Hollywood, John Woo returned to China to make his latest film, but scale back he did not. The most expensive movie ever... More >>

• Ponyo

  published November 25, 2009

  The great ocean deep proves a natural canvas for Japanese animation legend Hayao Miyazaki (Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away), whose latest feature... More >>

• Mr. Fox is a fantastic fit

  published November 25, 2009

  Given his preference for static, symmetrical, scrupulously color-coordinated and art-directed compositions, it's less surprising that Wes... More >>

• Red Cliff: John Woo's killer instincts are back in action

  published November 25, 2009

  John Woo spent a decade navigating the big-studio minefield — longer than most foreign auteurs last in Hollywood before throwing in the... More >>

• Red Cliff

  published November 25, 2009

  After a decade navigating Hollywood, John Woo returned to China to make his latest film, but scale back he did not. The most expensive movie ever... More >>

• The Maid

  published November 11, 2009

  For more than 20 years, Raquel (Catalina Saavedra) has worked as the hired help for an upper-class Santiago family, whom she has served with the... More >>

• District 9

  published November 11, 2009

  The aliens have been with us for 20 years already at the start of South African director Neill Blomkamp’s fast and furiously inventive... More >>

• The Maid cleans up

  published November 11, 2009

  Cleanliness may be next to godliness, but for the title character of the pitch-black Chilean comedy The Maid, it's closer to an infernal... More >>

• Precious locates the heart — and hell — of its heroine's struggle

  published November 11, 2009

  In her broad outlines, Claireece Precious Jones risks sounding like the epitome of ghetto cliché: an obese, illiterate 16-year-old;... More >>

• The Hurt Locker

  published November 11, 2009

  Directed by Kathryn Bigelow (Point Break, Strange Days), the Iraq War drama The Hurt Locker is a full-throttle body shock of a movie. It... More >>

• An Education

  published October 14, 2009

  The title is a double entendre in An Education, the film version of British journalist Lynn Barber’s memoir about the crash course she... More >>

• An Education and its star, Carey Mulligan, get good marks

  published October 14, 2009

  The title is a double entendre in An Education, the film version of British journalist Lynn Barber's memoir about the crash course she... More >>

• Oblivion

  published September 30, 2009

  Born in Lima, the child of Polish Jewish refugees, Heddy Honigmann studied film in Rome, lives in Amsterdam, and has made documentaries in Paris,... More >>

• Passing Strange: The Movie

  published September 30, 2009

  For those (like this critic) who missed singer-songwriter Stew’s Tony-winning, autobiographical rock musical during its runs at the Public... More >>

• Masterful documentary Crude details the toxic battle between big oil and natives in Ecuador

  published September 23, 2009

  Water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink. Why? Because it's thick with sludge. Moving briskly through a stranger-than-fiction,... More >>