Scott Foundas Articles

Cristian Mungiu's 4 MONTHS, 3 WEEKS AND 2 DAYS: Biggest Oscar Snubs #4d Matteo Garrone's mafia drama Gomorrah was the most internationally acclaimed Italian production of 2008. Among its award nominations were those from the British Academy, the Danish Film Critics, the French Academy's Cesar, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, and the Spirit Awards. Additionally, Gomorrah won the Grand Prix at the 2008 Cannes Film [...]

Laura Vasiliu, Anamaria Marinca, 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days Pedro Almodóvar's VOLVER: Biggest Oscar Snubs #4c A harrowing drama about a young woman (Laura Vasiliu) trying to get an abortion with the help of her friend (Anamaria Marinca) in Nicolae Ceausescu's Communist Romania, Cristian Mungiu's 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days won the Palme d'Or at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival. It [...]

Last Year in Marienbad by Alain Resnais In the L.A. Weekly, Scott Foundas on Alain Resnais, the subject of a month-long retrospective at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art: "'They say that a director always makes the same film,' says Resnais when I meet him on a damp Paris morning earlier this month, his beige overcoat ­ the same one he seems to be [...]

Philippe Garnier on Cannes 2009, in the LA Weekly: "By this time, news should be out everywhere that Cannes this year was a special vintage. Not only did most of the selected 'usual suspects' outdo themselves in big and unexpected ways — or, like Alain Resnais, find new resources and verve which, frankly, we didn’t know they had in them — but it is also [...]