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

• Crude

  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 >>

• Shane Acker creates an animated postapocalyptic hellscape in 9

  published September 9, 2009

  Early in Shane Acker's computer-animated debut feature 9, a diminutive anthropomorphic whatsit with wooden hands, copper fingers, and... More >>

• Somers Town gets at the heart of working-class London

  published August 26, 2009

  The title of Shane Meadows' Somers Town refers to the bleak working-class neighborhood that lies in the shadow of London's St. Pancras... More >>

• All Town, No Gown

  published August 26, 2009

  Commissioned by the Eurostar train company as part of the promotional campaign for its new high-speed rail service from London to Paris, Shane... More >>

• Alien invasion as apartheid metaphor? It works in District 9

  published August 12, 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 >>

• Hayao Miyazaki dives under the sea for his latest environmental fairy tale, Ponyo

  published August 12, 2009

  In the same week that the South African import District 9 gives us a Johannesburg beset by alien invaders, the latest film by animation... More >>

• Tyson

  published August 12, 2009

  Director James Toback’s documentary about former heavyweight boxing champ Mike Tyson isn’t a traditional nonfiction portrait so much as... More >>

• Cheap Thrills

  published August 5, 2009

  At the same moment that directors like Peter Weir and Gillian Armstrong were earning festival kudos and critical acclaim for the early films of... More >>

• Judd Apatow and Adam Sandler, together at last in Funny People

  published July 29, 2009

  After devoting his first two films as director, The 40-Year-Old Virgin and Knocked Up, to getting laid and having kids,... More >>

• That old black Harry Potter magic continues to beguile in Half-Blood Prince

  published July 15, 2009

  Don't let the PG rating fool you: The dark arts are back with a vengeance in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, the generally grim,... More >>

• Irene in Time

  published July 15, 2009

  Casually dismissed by those who place a premium on things like narrative, visual lucidity, and editorial smoothness, writer/director/emotional... More >>

• Julia

  published July 8, 2009

  Tilda Swinton doesn’t merely act the title role in French director Erick Zonca’s Julia—she devours it, spits it back up, dances... More >>

• As unconventional as the warfare it depicts, The Hurt Locker is a ticking time bomb of a movie

  published July 8, 2009

  Kathryn Bigelow's Iraq War drama, The Hurt Locker, is a full-throttle body shock of a movie. It gets inside you like a virus, puts your... More >>

• The Hurt Locker

  published July 8, 2009

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

• The life and crimes of John Dillinger in the fast and furious Public Enemies

  published July 1, 2009

  "They're all about where people come from. Nobody seems to wonder where somebody's going." So says the Depression-era bankrobber-cum-folk-hero... More >>

• Going Up

  published July 1, 2009

  As William, a taciturn senior who seems to be planning for his final days, veteran character actor and former Elvis Presley bodyguard Red West... More >>

• Duplicity

  published June 24, 2009

  It’s little surprise that, for his second film as director, Michael Clayton director Tony Gilroy leans heavily on his favored tropes... More >>

• Woody Allen on life, actors, younger women, and his 40th film

  published June 24, 2009

  The new Woody Allen film, Whatever Works — his 40th, for those keeping count — signals a return for the filmmaker in more... More >>

• Just Some Girl

  published June 24, 2009

  There’s not much to this thin, sun-drenched concoction about a straight-arrow Paris lawyer (Fabrice Luchini) who descends on the titular... More >>

• Dave Eggers and Vendela Vida make their film writing debut with Away We Go

  published June 10, 2009

  Midway through A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Dave Eggers' solipsistic, terminally-apologetic-for-being-solipsistic... More >>

• O’Horten

  published May 20, 2009

  The premise of this gentle existential farce from Norwegian director Bent Hamer is little more than an excuse for a series of deadpan vignettes... More >>

• Adoration

  published May 13, 2009

  Atom Egoyan’s 12th feature film offers a typically kaleidoscopic rumination on voyeurism, videography, the relative nature of truth, and the... More >>

• The 'Land of the Lost

  published May 13, 2009

  Drawn from Superbad director Greg Mottola’s own experiences working at a ramshackle suburban amusement park in the 1980s,... More >>

• Gran Torino

  published May 6, 2009

  Like many characters Clint Eastwood has played in his six-decade screen career, recently widowed Korean War vet Walt Kowalski is a man outside of... More >>

• Kirby Dick outs closeted pols and the media that protect them in Outrage

  published May 6, 2009

  Director Kirby Dick doesn't actually stick his camera under any Capitol Hill bathroom stalls in the new documentary Outrage, but his... More >>