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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2013 Stories by Scott Foundas

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  Everything Is Not Enough: The Place Beyond the Pines is a stab at a masterpiece

  published April 11, 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 >>

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  Beyond the Hills Reveals a Crisis of Faith

  published April 4, 2013

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

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  Spring Breakers is a thrilling corruption of the Disney princess set

  published March 21, 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... More >>

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

  published March 21, 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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  In the Realm of the Senses: Iranian master Kiarostami's audacious romance

  published March 14, 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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  If I Only Had a Wizard: This Oz is neither great nor powerful

  published March 7, 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 ceremony... More >>

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  Fee-Fi-Fo-Fun: Jack the Giant Slayer is a new adventure with old-fashioned spirit

  published February 28, 2013

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

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

  published February 14, 2013

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

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  The Partners! Steven Soderbergh and Scott Z. Burns talk Side Effects and collaboration

  published February 7, 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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  Stacie Passon's Superb Concussion Is Why We Have a Sundance in the First Place

  published January 24, 2013

  Sometimes, one film in a festival lineup can help to reveal another in sharper relief. To wit, one of the loveliest entries in Sundance 2013's... More >>

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  Sundance 2013: America's Black Indie Film Renaissance

  published January 24, 2013

  You could hear a pin drop during the first Sundance screening of writer-director Ryan Coogler's Fruitvale, an... More >>

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  What You Need to Know From Sundance

  published January 24, 2013

  Bold, impassioned, ecstatically beautiful, Shane Carruth's Upstream Color -- a lyric reverie on loss, love, and various invasions of... More >>

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  The Movies to Know from Sundance and the Year Ahead

  published January 17, 2013

  For the next ten days, all Hollywood eyes — and those of many a filmgoer — will turn toward the frigid wilds of Park City, Utah,... More >>

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  Sundance 2013: Sex with James Franco, Sultry Scarlett Johansson, Daniel Radcliffe's Jew-Fro, and a Great Film From Jordan

  published January 17, 2013

  In his brief remarks before the first public screening of the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, Robert Redford praised the More >>

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  The thrilling manhunt of Zero Dark Thirty

  published January 10, 2013

  Just so you know, it's going to take a while," says the CIA officer to his newly arrived colleague at the start of Kathryn Bigelow's Zero... More >>

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  L.A.'s Finest: Gangster Squad's cop-turned-screenwriter faces the thin blue line edit

  published January 3, 2013

  "Like a lot of other stuff in my life, I sort of fell backwards into it," screenwriter Will Beall says of his unexpected perch atop Hollywood's... More >>