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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2009 Stories by Scott Foundas

• Eastwood on the Pitch: 79 at the turn of a very prolific decade, Clint tackles Mandela and the Hereafter

  published December 30, 2009

  On a late March morning, the sun sits high in the Cape Town sky, illuminating the trapezoidal monolith of Table Mountain in the distance, while... More >>

• Something's Gotta Give: Nancy Meyers can't keep making the same movie over and over again

  published December 23, 2009

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

• Director's Block: Fantasy meets harsh reality as Rob Marshall takes on a Fellini classic

  published December 23, 2009

  There's no city-clogging traffic jam in Nine, the musicalized version of Federico Fellini's movie-about-­moviemaking urtext 8... More >>

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  COVER STORY

  Grounded: Up in the Air director Jason Reitman has a good sense of where he's from and where he's headed

  published December 23, 2009

  Unlike the zigzagging protagonist of his latest film, Up in the Air, Jason Reitman tends to stay close to home. "If we were in a small... More >>

• Three Critics, One List, 10 Best: J. Hoberman, Robert Wilonsky and Scott Foundas put their minds together and come up with their favorite films of the year. Let's hear it for teamwork!

  published December 23, 2009

  1. The Hurt Locker: The decade's strongest Iraq movie is also the year's finest action flick, not to mention director Kathryn Bigelow's... More >>

• Best of the Decade: Our film reviewers recap their favorites of the last ten years

  published December 23, 2009

  Looking back on a decade dominated by the movie franchise — Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, Star Wars and Spider-Man, to name... More >>

• The year's 10 best movies and more: 2009 in film!

  published December 23, 2009

  Three Village Voice Media critics agree: More >>

• Whitewash: Some fairy tale! Disney's first black princess can't escape the ghetto.

  published December 9, 2009

  Six decades after unleashing persistent NAACP bugaboo Song of the South (1946), and two after firmly suppressing it, that peculiar... More >>

• Good Housekeeping: Tackling the thorny role of a live-in maid, Sebastián Silva's film cleans up

  published December 2, 2009

  Cleanliness may be next to godliness, but for the title character of the pitch-black Chilean comedy The Maid, it's closer to an infernal... More >>

• What a Fox: Wes Anderson brings his Wes Anderson-ness to animation — and it's a fantastic fit

  published November 25, 2009

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

• Diary of a Sad Black Woman: Precious pushes the limits of taste, but locates the heart — and hell — of its heroine's struggle

  published November 18, 2009

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

• Choice Cuts: The St. Louis International Film Festival's eighteenth year brings together films shot around the world and in our back yard

  published November 12, 2009

  St. Louis came down with a wicked case of Clooneymania earlier this year when the superstar, along with director Jason Reitman, used our fair... More >>

• Higher Learning: An Education and its star, Carey Mulligan, get good marks

  published November 12, 2009

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

• Truth in Advertising: Somers Town gets at the heart of working-class London.

  published October 7, 2009

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

• Thingamabob Vs. Machine: Shane Acker creates an animated post-apocalyptic hellscape. WALL-E would never get out alive.

  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 >>

• The Big Blue: Miyazaki dives under the sea for his latest environmental fairy tale

  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 >>

• Divide and Conquer: Alien invasion as apartheid metaphor? It works in District 9.

  published August 12, 2009

  The aliens have been with us for twenty years already at the start of South African director Neill Blomkamp's fast and furiously inventive... More >>

• It's a Wacky Life: Judd Apatow and Adam Sandler, together at last

  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 >>

• Prince of Darkness: That old black Potter magic continues to beguile

  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 >>

• Mann on the Run: 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 bank-robber-cum-folk-hero... More >>

• Have screenplay, will travel: Dave Eggers makes his 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 >>

• Sucker Punch: With a blunt and searching Iron Mike, Tyson delivers a surprisingly powerful blow

  published June 3, 2009

  The face of Mike Tyson stares out from the screen like a sentry — intent, sober, watchful. The camera sits close, the framing is tight,... More >>

• Great America: The summer of our '80s youth in Adventureland

  published April 1, 2009

  Set a mere two decades ago, Greg Mottola's Adventureland seems as if it could be taking place on a distant planet, less for the leg... More >>

• The Tracks of His Years: Van Morrison talks about his classic LP Astral Weeks

  published March 18, 2009

  "I believe I've transcended," Van Morrison repeatedly incanted toward the end of the title track from his 1968 album, Astral Weeks,... More >>

• The Bourne Comedian: Tony Gilroy's (heretofore unseen) expert light touch in Duplicity

  published March 18, 2009

  Whether it's the amnesiac super spy of the Bourne franchise or the weary law-firm fixer of Michael Clayton, Tony Gilroy... More >>