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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2013 Stories by Scott Foundas

• The Place Beyond the Pines Makes a Heavy-Handed Grab at being a Masterpiece. It Isn't.

  published April 4, 2013

  The Place Beyond the Pines opens with a close-up of Ryan Gosling's chiseled abdomen and heavy... More >>

• The Spring Breakification of the Disney Princess Complex

  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 >>

• Bronx Bombers

  published March 14, 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 talk about... More >>

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

  published March 14, 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 >>

• James Franco's 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. That, of... More >>

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

  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.... More >>

• In Berlin, Greatness Emerges from the Year's First Major Film Festival

  published February 21, 2013

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

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

  published February 21, 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 >>

• The Partners!

  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 >>

• 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 >>

• Sundance Preview: Movies to Know from Park City

  published January 17, 2013

  For the next 10 days, all Hollywood eyes will turn toward Park City, Utah, at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival (January 17 through 26). Here's... More >>

• Gangster Squad's Cop-Turned-Screenwriter Faces the Thin Blue Line Edit

  published January 10, 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 >>

• Zero Dark Thirty Reports and You Decide

  published January 3, 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... More >>