Email Author Scott Foundas

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 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

• Nicolas Ray's Bigger Than Life at Film Forum

  published December 31, 2008

  In 1955, the year that frames the drama in Revolutionary Road, famed New Yorker medical writer Berton Roueché published a... More >>

• Benjamin Button Features Pitt and Blanchett in Orgy of Excess

  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 >>

• Winslet and DiCaprio Awake to Yates's Revolutionary Road

  published December 24, 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 >>

• Will Smith Encores Pursuit of Happyness with Seven Pounds

  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 >>

• Clint Eastwood Finds Salvation in Gran Torino

  published December 10, 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 >>

• Elissa Down's The Black Balloon

  published December 3, 2008

  Produced for what was likely a day's Botox budget on Baz Luhrmann's Australia, the auspicious Oz import The Black... More >>

• Fengming: A Chinese Memoir

  published December 3, 2008

  The old woman, He Fengming, treks through the snow, enters her apartment, sits down in a leather armchair, and proceeds to tell us her story.... More >>

• Bollywood meets Hollywood in Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire

  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 being... More >>

• Art Imitates Life Imitating Art in Charlie Kaufman's Synecdoche, New York

  published October 22, 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 >>

• Madonna Not Quite Goddard [sic] with Filth & Wisdom

  published October 15, 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 >>

• Ridley Scott's Body of Lies is the Post-9/11, Tech-Savvy Terror Thriller We Deserve

  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 >>

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  Mickey Rourke is The Wrestler

  published September 23, 2008

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

• Spike Lee's WWII Epic Miracle at St. Anna

  published September 23, 2008

  You've got to hand it to Spike Lee for managing to secure the financing for this big-budget, three-hour World War II epic, performed largely in... More >>

• Toronto Rounds Out Film Festival with Four-Plus Hours of Its Best Material in A Time To Stir

  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 >>

• Racial Tension, Above and Below the Surface, in Neil LaBute's Lakeview Terrace

  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 >>

• Pierre Rissient: Man of Cinema

  published September 17, 2008

  Variety chief film critic and occasional documentarian Todd McCarthy (Visions of Light) has called Pierre Rissient "the least... More >>

• Midway Through the Toronto Film Fest, and Things are Looking Bleak

  published September 10, 2008

  If this year's Toronto International Film Festival had a subtitle, it could be "When Good Directors Go Bad." At least that's what it has felt... More >>

• Overlooked and Undervalued, the Films of Jerry Schatzberg

  published September 3, 2008

  Recently, Julian Schnabel has navigated a relatively successful transition from the art world to the movie world. But in the 1970s, the... More >>

• John Carpenter Lives in a BAM Retrospective

  published August 27, 2008

  I'm not sure if John Carpenter ever actually spoke the oft-reproduced quote: "In France, I'm an auteur; in Germany, I'm a filmmaker; in... More >>

• Dare Not Walk Alone

  published August 19, 2008

  The more things change, the more they stay the same for disenfranchised African- Americans in the historic city of St. Augustine, Florida. At... More >>

• The House Bunny

  published August 19, 2008

  Anyone who saw her light up the edges of Lost in Translation and Just Friends, or steal the entire show in Gregg Araki’s... More >>

• Vicky Cristina Barcelona's Mighty Aphrodites

  published August 12, 2008

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

• An Interview With Woody Allen

  published August 12, 2008

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

• Films of the Dardenne Brothers

  published August 5, 2008

  The eastern Belgium industrial town of Seraing (pop. 60,000) is considerably better known for its factories—iron, steel, crystal—... More >>

• Trygve Allister Diesen's Red

  published August 5, 2008

  If Death Wish had begun with armed thugs killing Charles Bronson's dog instead of his wife, and Bronson had spent the rest of the movie... More >>