Email Author SCOTT FOUNDAS
Awards
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2010 - National Entertainment Journalism Awards/LA Press Club, published April 9, 2009
"Boxing, Sex, and Madness"
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2010 - National Entertainment Journalism Awards/LA Press Club
2009 Film Issue
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2010 - Southern California Journalism Awards/LA Press Club, published December 10, 2009
"Eastwood on the Pitch"
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2009 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published April 10, 2008
"The Visitor"
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2009 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published February 14, 2008
"Diary of the Dead"
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2009 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published December 25, 2008
"Benjamin Button"
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2008 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published November 30, 2007
"Iron Butterfly"
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2008 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published November 23, 2007
"Born Identities"
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2008 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published November 9, 2007
"Badlands"
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2008 - Southern California Journalism Awards/LA Press Club
Film reviews
2013 Stories by SCOTT FOUNDAS
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Everything Is Not Enough In 'The Place Beyond the Pines'
published March 28, 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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Michael Cimino Revisits His Notorious Flop 'Heaven's Gate'
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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Bronx Bombers
published March 21, 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 to just talk about... More >>
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Girls Gone Wilder In 'Spring Breakers'
published March 14, 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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Where There's Still a Devil, 'Beyond the Hills'
published March 7, 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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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, just like the... More >>
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'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. And... More >>
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Berlin Discoveries
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 (held Feb. 7-17) offers... More >>
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'Like Someone In Love': In the Realm of the Senses
published February 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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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... More >>
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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 >>
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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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Park City's Breakouts
published January 17, 2013
For the next 10 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 and Daniel Radcliffe's Jew-Fro
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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Sundance 2013: America's Black Indie Film Renaissance
published January 17, 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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'Gangster Squad' Shows LA's Finest
published January 3, 2013
"Like a lot of other stuff in my life, I sort of fell backward into it," screenwriter Will Beall says of his unexpected perch atop Hollywood's... More >>
