Email Author Scott Foundas

Awards

• 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

• 2010 - National Entertainment Journalism Awards/LA Press Club, published April 9, 2009

  "Boxing, Sex, and Madness"

• 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

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  COVER STORY

  Our Own Glorious Basterds, J. Hoberman, Robert Wilonsky And Scott Foundas Put Their Minds Together And Come Up With Their Favorite Films of 2009

  published December 24, 2009

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

• Our Three Critics Each Pick Their Three Favorite Films Of The Decade--And Surprise, There's Not A Sequel Or A Prequel In The Bunch

  published December 24, 2009

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

• Clint Eastwood, 79 And Facing The End Of A Very Prolific Directing Decade, Is Virtually Unstoppable, Tackling Mandela And The Hereafter

  published December 24, 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 >>

• Up In The Air Director Jason Reitman Has A Good Sense Of Where He's From (Hollywood) And Where He's Headed (Hollywood)

  published December 24, 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 >>

• It's Complicated is Simply Bad

  published December 24, 2009

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

• Nine

  published December 24, 2009

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

• The Princess and the Frog

  published December 10, 2009

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

• Fantastic Mr. Fox

  published November 26, 2009

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

• Precious Pushes the Limits of Taste, But Locates the Heart--and Hell--of Its Heroine's Struggle

  published November 12, 2009

  In her broad outlines, Claireece Precious Jones risks sounding like the epitome of ghetto cliché: an obese, illiterate 16-year-old;... More >>

• An Education and Its Star, Carey Mulligan, Get Good Marks

  published October 29, 2009

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

• With 9, Shane Acker Creates an Animated Post-Apocalyptic Hellscape. Wall-E Would Never Get Out Alive.

  published September 10, 2009

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

• Alien Invasion As Apartheid Metaphor? It Works In District 9.

  published August 13, 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 >>

• Miyazaki Dives Under the Sea for Ponyo, His Latest Environmental Fairy Tale

  published August 13, 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 >>

• Adam Sandler and Judd Apatow are Funny People

  published July 30, 2009

  After devoting his first two films as director, The 40-Year-Old Virgin and Knocked Up, to getting laid and having kids,... More >>

• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince: That Old Potter Magic Still Beguiles

  published July 16, 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... More >>

• The Hurt Locker: A business suit for what might be the worst job in the world

  published July 9, 2009

  Kathryn Bigelow's Iraq War drama The Hurt Locker is a full-throttle body shock of a movie. It gets inside you like a virus, puts... More >>

• Public Enemies: Innovative Camera Work Brings Dillinger to Life

  published July 2, 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 >>

• Outrage peers behind the closet door at Washington's not-so-secret gays

  published June 11, 2009

  Director Kirby Dick doesn't actually stick his camera under any Capitol Hill bathroom stalls in the new documentary Outrage, but... More >>

• Away We Go: Dave Eggers' Debut Screenplay is a Staggering Work of Not-Genius

  published June 4, 2009

  Midway through A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Dave Eggers' solipsistic, terminally-apologetic-for-being-solipsistic... More >>

• Goodbye Solo: Taking A Taxi To the Dark Side

  published May 14, 2009

  At 73, the Memphis-born actor, stuntman, former U.S. Marine and Golden Gloves boxer Red West has the stoic, leathery repose of a barfly on a... More >>

• Tyson Delivers a Powerful Blow

  published May 7, 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, and... More >>

• Lymelife

  published April 30, 2009

  Lymelife There's nothing new under the suburban sun (save for infectious ticks) in Derick Martini's Lymelife, whose weighty... More >>

• Fighting goes down for the count

  published April 23, 2009

  Writing about A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints, the 2006 debut film by director Dito Montiel, I likened it to the sort of crude but... More >>

• High School Zero

  published April 16, 2009

  This much is for sure about the makers of the new Zac Efron picture 17 Again: They know their audience. Scientifically engineered... More >>

• Adventureland: Greg Mottola loves the '80s

  published April 2, 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... More >>