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

• The Place Beyond the Pines's actors take the film beyond its plot

  published April 4, 2013

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

• Harmony Korine's Spring Breakers is a trip!

  published March 28, 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 >>

• Girls Gone Godard

  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,... More >>

• Was Heaven's Gate 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 >>

• Cate Shortland's Lore resembles a dark children's fable

  published March 7, 2013

  Nine years on from her intoxicating road-movie debut, Somersault, Australian director Cate Shortland has fashioned a different kind of... More >>

• The reimagined Jack the Giant Slayer is a tale well told

  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 >>

• Berlin screenings reveal two possible cases of grading on the curve

  published February 21, 2013

  When River Phoenix died, in October 1993, he was three weeks from completing his performance in Dark Blood, an $8 million indie film... More >>

• 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 7-17) offers... More >>

• 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 >>

• Sundance 2013 rolls out a surprisingly good lineup

  published January 31, 2013

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

• 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 film-goer — will turn toward the frigid wilds of Park City, Utah,... More >>

• Gangster Squad director Will Beall 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," says screenwriter Will Beall of his unexpected perch atop Hollywood's... More >>

• At long last, David Chase achieves his rock-and-roll dreams

  published January 3, 2013

  David Chase looks like he wants to whack somebody. Not just anybody, mind you, but the middle-age guy with the bad dye job a few tables away... More >>