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

• It's Complicated: Empty Nest

  published December 23, 2009

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

• Nine: Fellini, 8½. Marshall, 0

  published December 23, 2009

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

• A Single Man: Groomed to Death

  published December 23, 2009

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

• The Princess and the Frog: Disney Runs Afoul of Race

  published December 9, 2009

  Six decades after unleashing the persistent NAACP bugaboo Song of the South (1946), that peculiar cultural institution known as the Walt... More >>

• Fantastic Mr. Fox: George Clooney Wants to Steal Your Chickens

  published November 25, 2009

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

• Red Cliff: John Woo’s Shorter Cut Is Still Too Long

  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... More >>

• Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire: A Big Serving of Urban Misery

  published November 18, 2009

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

• Gentlemen Broncos: Only Jemaine Clement Makes It Watchable

  published November 11, 2009

  Nothing if not consistent, Napoleon Dynamite and Nacho Libre director Jared Hess once again presents adolescence as a... More >>

• An Education: The Decade She Became a Woman

  published November 4, 2009

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

• The Fourth Kind: Milla Jovovich Is a Doctor? May We Check Her Credentials?

  published November 4, 2009

  Seventy-one years after Orson Welles' War of the Worlds radio broadcast snookered a gullible American public with its real-time... More >>

• Irene in Time: Henry Jaglom Refuses to Retire

  published October 28, 2009

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

• Crude: Our Thirsty SUVs Destroy Latin America

  published October 21, 2009

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

• PICK Somers Town: An Adorable Boy Lost in the Big (Not So Bad) City

  published September 16, 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 >>

• 9: Animated Puppets Survive the Apocalypse

  published September 9, 2009

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

• PICK District 9: E.T. Goes to Guantánamo

  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 >>

• PICK Not Quite Hollywood: Exploitation in Oz

  published August 12, 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 >>

• Funny People: Apatow and Sandler Confront Middle Age

  published July 29, 2009

  After canvassing the getting of manly wisdom in The 40-Year-Old Virgin and childbirth in Knocked Up, Judd Apatow brings the... More >>

• The Girl From Monaco: Crime and Farce in the South of France

  published July 22, 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 >>

• PICK Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince: Six Is Not Enough

  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,... More >>

• PICK Kabei: Our Mother: Family Drama From Japan

  published July 8, 2009

  An unpretentious and old-fashioned (that is, crisply legible) domestic drama, Kabei shows how Rising Sun Japan's sense of national... More >>

• PICK Public Enemies: Johnny Depp as Movie-Mad Hoodlum

  published July 1, 2009

  "They're all about where people come from. Nobody seems to wonder where somebody's going." So... More >>

• Adoration: Atom Egoyan Is Still Smart, Confounding

  published June 24, 2009

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

• PICK O’Horten: An Endearing Oddball From Norway

  published June 17, 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 >>

• Away We Go: Dave Eggers’ Movie Not a Work of Staggering Genius

  published June 10, 2009

  The first original screenplay by hipster lit-world phenom Dave Eggers is, much like his 2001 memoir A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering... More >>

• My Life in Ruins: Why Does Nia Vardalos Hate Greece?

  published June 3, 2009

  Substitute "career" for "life" in the title of this stillborn travelogue comedy, and you'll have a succinct verdict on My Big Fat Greek... More >>