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Scott Foundas is the chief film critic for the Village Voice. Before Foundas, a native of Tampa, Florida, moved to New York in 2009, he was the film editor at the Voice's sister paper in Los Angeles, LA Weekly, from 2005 to 2009. Foundas was also associate program director at the Film Society of Lincoln Center from January 2010 to December 2012. Foundas' film reviews and features appear in all Voice Media Group publications, as well as on its websites and mobile platforms. Follow Scott on Twitter at @FoundasOnFilm.

Awards

• 2010 - National Entertainment Journalism Awards/LA Press Club, published April 9, 2009

  "Boxing, Sex, and Madness"

• 2010 - National Entertainment Journalism Awards/LA Press Club

  2009 Film Issue

• 2010 - Southern California Journalism Awards/LA Press Club, published December 10, 2009

  "Eastwood on the Pitch"

• 2009 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published December 25, 2008

  "Benjamin Button"

• 2009 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published February 14, 2008

  "Diary of the Dead"

• 2009 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published April 10, 2008

  "The Visitor"

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

  "Iron Butterfly"

• 2008 - Southern California Journalism Awards/LA Press Club

  Film reviews

• 2008 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published November 9, 2007

  "Badlands"

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

  "Born Identities"

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2013 Stories by Scott Foundas

• Ryan Gosling Is Your Trailer Park Prince Valiant in The Place Beyond the Pines

  published March 27, 2013

  The Place Beyond the Pines opens with a close-up of Ryan Gosling's chiseled abdomen—surely one of the more salable quantities in... More >>

• James Salter on Writing, Women, and Being Not-Quite-Famous

  published March 27, 2013

  It's March, but a zigzag of skiers still winds its way down Corkscrew, Aspen Mountain's double-black-diamond run. This is the view from Justice... More >>

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  The Return of John Sayles and Other Observations from SXSW

  published March 27, 2013

  They say everything's bigger in Texas -- a sentiment that apparently extends to wait lines for airport taxis, the noise level of hotel air... More >>

• Come Out and Play Moves with Astonishing Stupidity

  published March 20, 2013

  Possibly the least deserving film ever to bear in its full title a possessive director's credit, Makinov's Come Out and Play offers a... More >>

• Jacques Rivette's 1981 Le Pont du Nord Gets A U.S. Debut

  published March 20, 2013

  Shot quickly and cheaply in 16mm on the streets of Paris in 1981, Jacques Rivette's Le Pont du Nord was a "comeback" film of sorts for... More >>

• The World's Riches: New Directors/New Films Is the Year's Best Local/Global Movie Celebration

  published March 20, 2013

  It's been a season of change for two of New York's august film institutions, the Film Society of Lincoln Center and the Museum of Modern Art.... More >>

• Olympus Has Fallen Gets All America! Fuck Yeah!

  published March 20, 2013

  The first of this year's dueling Die Hard in the White House opuses (to be followed in June by Roland "Independence Day"... More >>

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  Michael Cimino Revisits His Notorious Flop Heaven's Gate, Which Maybe Was a Masterpiece All Along

  published March 20, 2013

  "This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend." So goes the adage from John Ford's 1962 classic The Man Who Shot... More >>

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  Harmony Korine's Spring Breakers Are Girls Gone Godard

  published March 13, 2013

  All you need to make a movie is a girl and a gun" goes Jean-Luc Godard's quip. Add to that a few more girls and their bikinis and you have the... More >>

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  Gimme the Loot: Bronx Bombers

  published March 13, 2013

  For a movie as much in love with New York’s outer-borough street life as Adam Leon’s Gimme the Loot, it will not do just to... More >>

• Beauty and Controversy in Godard’s Le Petit Soldat

  published March 6, 2013

  A scandal in 1960, banned by French authorities for its depiction of 
government-sanctioned torture and references to that... More >>

• The Urgent Beyond the Hills Reveals A Crisis of Faith

  published March 6, 2013

  The hills of Cristian Mungiu’s Beyond the Hills (Dupa dealuri) are a barren canvas of straw grass and leafless trees,... More >>

• If Only Oz the Great and Powerful Had A Wizard

  published March 6, 2013

  It’s a bad omen when, early on in Oz the Great and Powerful, we learn that the full given name of its wizard is Oscar, also the... More >>

• Jack the Giant Slayer Is Fee-Fi-Fo-Fun

  published February 27, 2013

  To paraphrase Stephen Sondheim, there are big, tall, terrible, fleshy, bulbous-headed giants in the sky in Jack the Giant Slayer. And... More >>

• Dan Sallitt, The Modest Master, at Anthology

  published February 27, 2013

  It's difficult to pinpoint exactly why the films of Dan Sallitt have remained such a well-kept secret for the past two decades, poorly... More >>

• Lincoln Center's Rendez-vous with French Cinema

  published February 27, 2013

  If Rushmore's Max Fischer and the anonymous videographer from Michael Haneke's Caché somehow spawned a love child, he'd... More >>

• Molly's Theory of Relativity: More Confounding than Cosmic

  published February 27, 2013

  Best known as a 40-year veteran of the indie distribution scene, Jeff Lipsky has latterly carved out a sideline as one of New York's most... More >>

• Berlin Film Festival Discoveries

  published February 20, 2013

  If Sundance signals the annual launch of American indie cinema's new product line, the 63-year-old Berlin Film Festival (February 7–17)... More >>

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  River Phoenix's Dark Blood: Not the Epitaph He Deserves

  published February 20, 2013

  When River Phoenix died in October, 1993, he was three weeks away from completing his performance in Dark Blood, an $8 million indie... More >>

• Like Someone in Love Teases the Realm of the Senses

  published February 13, 2013

  Like the yearning Jimmy Van Huesen/Johnny Burke torch song that lends it its title, Abbas Kiarostami's Like Someone in Love is a sly,... More >>

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  North Korea Pinch Hits for the USSR in Spy Thriller The Berlin File

  published February 13, 2013

  In a season that has seen two of South Korea's top directors—Kim Jee-woon (The Last Stand) and Park Chan-wook... More >>

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  Berlin Discoveries: Greatness Emerges at the Year's First Major Film Festival

  published February 13, 2013

  If Sundance signals the annual launch of American indie cinema’s new product line, the 63-year-old Berlin Film Festival (February... More >>

• Runaway Slaves Torment The Haunting in Connecticut Sequel, Ghosts of Georgia

  published February 6, 2013

  Just in time for Black History Month comes a horror movie about . . . the horror of slavery? Well, not exactly, although some of the restless... More >>

• Steven Soderbergh and Scott Z. Burn on Side Effects, Their Latest Collaboration

  published February 6, 2013

  "I've been lucky in that I've always worked with writers whose voices are so specific that there really isn't any way to recalibrate things... More >>

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  Peering into the Strange and Beguiling Life of Porfirio

  published February 6, 2013

  Improbable but true, in 2005 a paraplegic Colombian man named Porfirio Ramírez hijacked a plane bound for Bogota using two grenades... More >>