Scott Foundas on Alain Resnais
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 wearing in every photograph ever taken of him turned up at the collar, his gleaming sneakers nearly the same shade of white as his swept-back hair. ‘I try to make, as François Truffaut said, the next film in opposition to the one that came before. I’m not sure if I [...]
by Andre Soares | October 1, 2009
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Tags: Alain Resnais, Classic Movies, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles Screenings, Scott Foundas
Cannes 2009 Aftermath at the LA WEEKLY
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 a measure of how shockingly strong this year was that the fest still had room for very good fare in the 20-film Un Certain Regard sidebar, from Israeli first-timer Haim Tabakman’s Eyes Wide Open [above] to the wonderful Colombian entry The Wind Journeys by Ciro Guerra, in which an [...]
by Irene Young | May 28, 2009
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Tags: Alain Resnais, Caché, Cannes 2009, Cannes Film Festival, Christian Friedel, Ciro Guerra, Eyes Wide Open, Film Festivals, Funny Games, Haim Tabakman, Hidden, LA Weekly, Palme d'Or, Philippe Garnier, Scott Foundas, The White Ribbon, The Wind Journeys, Un Certain Regard
Oscar 2008: 4 MONTHS, 3 WEEKS AND 2 DAYS of Outrage
Anamaria Marinca, Laura Vasiliu in 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
In the LA Weekly, Scott Foundas wonders, "How do you say ‘Oscar scandal’ in Romanian"?
Oscar scandaliu perhaps?
I mean, for Zeus’ sake, even Scott Foundas’ own mother liked Cristian Mungiu’s widely praised Cannes Film Festival winner 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days. Why didn’t those Academy voters who pick the potential nominees for best foreign-language film feel the same way?
Why indeed.
I generally find the Academy’s choices pathetic, but that organization’s best foreign-language film voters make its best picture voters seem like arbiters of cinematic quality. (Of course, I know that taste is personal, etc., etc., but the loads of money poured into Oscar vote-buying and all the internal politicking [...]
by Andre Soares | January 16, 2008
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Tags: 2008 Oscar, 4 Months 3 Weeks and 2 Days, Academy Awards, Film Awards, Foreign Language Films, Mark Johnson, Nazarin, Scott Foundas
Critics’ Influence on the Oscars
Kevin Spacey, Mena Suvari in American Beauty
Critics and Awards Season: Part I
It’s too bad that U.S. film critics have such short memories — see Jack Mathews‘ top comment in the previous page — as Once is the type of small, foreign film that needs year-end critics’ awards so Academy members can a) become aware of its existence b) check it out. Here’s wondering if voting "compromises," as mentioned by Mathews in his second comment, ended up leaving Once almost totally shut out of the myriad U.S. critics’ lists.
Both Stephen Witty’s and Scott Foundas‘ articles are well worth a read. I do, however, disagree with Foundas’ statement that the Oscar’s "golden luster" has been badly tarnished in recent years. After all, [...]
by Andre Soares | December 31, 2007
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Tags: Academy Awards, American Beauty, Critics Choices, Film Awards, Gordon Pinsent, Once, Patrick Goldstein, Scott Foundas, Vera Farmiga
Critics and Awards Season
Glen Hansard, Marketa Irglova in Once
Jack Mathews‘ "Next Up in Oscar Race: Voters Who Matter" in the New York Daily News:
"It’s been fun watching the evolution of the awards, as critics’ groups narrowed the field with their collective awards while breaking the hearts of many of the individual members. Movies that will end up on many top 10 lists didn’t even get a nod of collective approval. When the small Irish musical Once opened in May, it received almost universal praise and with an 88 (out of 100) score on the review collating site metacritic.com, it’s the year’s third best-reviewed film. Only No Country for Old Men and The Diving Bell and the Butterfly rank higher, yet Once is completely [...]
by Andre Soares | December 31, 2007
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Tags: Critics Choices, Film Awards, Glen Hansard, Jack Matthews, Once, Patrick Goldstein, Scott Feinberg, Scott Foundas, Stephen Witty
