tag:blogs.laweekly.com,2009:/foundas//45 2009-03-04T05:49:05Z Movable Type Enterprise 4.21-en tag:blogs.laweekly.com,2009:/foundas//45.181158 2009-03-03 21:38:33 2009-03-04T05:49:05Z

Another New York-only (for now) film retrospective that will, with any luck, eventually make its way West centers around the volatile, Texas-born character actor Rip Torn and, in particular, the rarely screened independent and underground cinematic experiments (including two films...

Scott Foundas Another New York-only (for now) film retrospective that will, with any luck, eventually make its way West centers around the volatile, Texas-born character actor Rip Torn and, in particular, the rarel...

Continue reading "Let It Rip" > ]]> tag:blogs.laweekly.com,2009:/foundas//45.180539 2009-03-02 09:47:52 2009-03-03T17:06:26Z

Somewhere, Guy Debord is smiling -- or at least nodding in approval. Although it's been nearly 15 years since the French author, filmmaker and all-purpose radical put a gun to his heart and ended his life at the age...

Scott Foundas Somewhere, Guy Debord is smiling -- or at least nodding in approval. Although it's been nearly 15 years since the French author, filmmaker and all-purpose radical put a gun to his heart and ended ...

Continue reading "Reflections on a Darkened Screen" > ]]> tag:blogs.laweekly.com,2009:/foundas//45.178510 2009-02-23 04:40:45 2009-02-23T14:04:59Z

Much as I am loathe to give any further wind to the orgy of self congratulations and poor taste that was this year's Academy Awards, given that it has been something of an ongoing discussion on this blog I do...

Scott Foundas Much as I am loathe to give any further wind to the orgy of self congratulations and poor taste that was this year's Academy Awards, given that it has been something of an ongoing discussion on this b...

Continue reading "How Do You Say "Oscar Scandal" in Hebrew?" > ]]> tag:blogs.laweekly.com,2009:/foundas//45.175779 2009-02-13 03:29:58 2009-02-13T11:52:45Z

As earlier noted, the 2009 Berlin Film Festival opened with a Hollywood movie (The International), directed by Germany's own Tom Tykwer and filmed in a half-dozen countries around the world, then continued with a French movie (In the Electric Mist)...

Scott Foundas As earlier noted, the 2009 Berlin Film Festival opened with a Hollywood movie (The International), directed by Germany's own Tom Tykwer and filmed in a half-dozen countries around the world, then cont...

Continue reading "Rated "G" For Globalization" > ]]> tag:blogs.laweekly.com,2009:/foundas//45.175391 2009-02-12 03:14:37 2009-02-13T11:53:27Z

Not many films in the 60 years since Robert Flaherty's immortal Louisiana Story have evoked the atmosphere of the Bayou State as strongly as Bertrand Tavernier's In the Electric Mist, a movie that doesn't seem to have been filmed so...

Scott Foundas Not many films in the 60 years since Robert Flaherty's immortal Louisiana Story have evoked the atmosphere of the Bayou State as strongly as Bertrand Tavernier's In the Electric Mist, a movie that doe...

Continue reading "Mist Opportunity" > ]]> tag:blogs.laweekly.com,2009:/foundas//45.173832 2009-02-06 17:01:43 2009-02-07T01:25:39Z

For the next 10 days, I'll be posting regularly from the Berlin International Film Festival (a.k.a. the Berlinale), generally considered to be the second largest festival in Europe (after Cannes) and, at 59, one of the oldest. This year, the...

Scott Foundas For the next 10 days, I'll be posting regularly from the Berlin International Film Festival (a.k.a. the Berlinale), generally considered to be the second largest festival in Europe (after Cannes) and,...

Continue reading "Run Naomi Run" > ]]> tag:blogs.laweekly.com,2009:/foundas//45.170131 2009-01-27 13:31:29 2009-01-27T22:31:45Z

Hollywood and John Updike, who died today at the age of 76, never made for the easiest of bedfellows. In 1970, the underrated director Jack Smight took an admirable stab at filming Rabbit, Run, the first in Updike's tetralogy of...

Scott Foundas Hollywood and John Updike, who died today at the age of 76, never made for the easiest of bedfellows. In 1970, the underrated director Jack Smight took an admirable stab at filming Rabbit, Run, the fi...

Continue reading "John Updike at the Movies" > ]]> tag:blogs.laweekly.com,2009:/foundas//45.169312 2009-01-24 16:35:01 2009-01-25T01:24:06Z

If the U.S. dramatic competition at Sundance this year failed to yield one truly great film, it did offer up a lovely surprise in writer-director Cherien Dabis' Amreeka, which follows a Palestinian single mother and her son as they emigrate...

Scott Foundas If the U.S. dramatic competition at Sundance this year failed to yield one truly great film, it did offer up a lovely surprise in writer-director Cherien Dabis' Amreeka, which follows a Palestinian si...

Continue reading "Coming to Amreeka" > ]]> tag:blogs.laweekly.com,2009:/foundas//45.168816 2009-01-22 18:45:00 2009-01-22T23:52:10Z

One of Anna Wintour's most significant (and profitable) contributions to Vogue, we learn in The September Issue, has been her decision to put movie stars -- rather than fashion models -- on the magazine's cover. That gives The September Issue...

Scott Foundas One of Anna Wintour's most significant (and profitable) contributions to Vogue, we learn in The September Issue, has been her decision to put movie stars -- rather than fashion models -- on the magazi...

Continue reading "Crude Realities" > ]]> tag:blogs.laweekly.com,2009:/foundas//45.168812 2009-01-22 14:00:37 2009-01-22T21:49:55Z

"The dirty little secret about Sundance is that the best films every year are the documentaries," says Oscar-winning An Inconvenient Truth director David Guggenheim in one of the trailers for this year's Sundance Film Festival. Actually, it's more of an...

Scott Foundas "The dirty little secret about Sundance is that the best films every year are the documentaries," says Oscar-winning An Inconvenient Truth director David Guggenheim in one of the trailers for this yea...

Continue reading "Shalom Documentaries!" > ]]>