... bit of good news concerning a critic leaving his job: L.A. Weekly film editor Scott Foundas was announced today as the new Associate Director of Programming at the Film Society of Lincoln Center, the body that each year hosts the New York Film Festival. Foundas has been on the NYFF selection committee since 2007 and has worked at L.A. Weekly since 2003; after new LAFF ...

Before Billy Norris, before Mina Asayesh-Brown, the first St. Petersburg Times teenage movie critic was a highly capable and confident young man named Scott Foundas, who could occasionally get on my nerves because he had this knack for being right. Scott went on to the University of Southern California where he earned a degree in Cinema and Television Studies. That led to an enviable career as ...

Los Angeles is losing film critic Scott Foundas - he is moving to New York to become associate program director for The Film Society of Lincoln Center. Foundas currently works as the film editor of the LA Weekly. Variety has more details: Foundas, who reviewed hundreds of films for Variety between 2000 and 2005, will begin in his new post at the start of ...

Scott Foundas has been named the new associate program director of The Film Society of Lincoln Center, where he will work on series and ... film culture." IndieWire's Anne Thompson says Foundas' move is another nail in the coffin for the "dying art" ... criticism. "As one of the best critics working today, Foundas should be anticipating a long and happy career," she writes. ...

... got a chance to see it Sunday during the AFI Film Festival. It's a remarkable, extraordinary film. I can't even wrap my head around it yet, so in the meantime here are some words from Scott Foundas: Written and directed by Lu Chuan, The City of Life and Death is a startling historical epic, as brilliantly well-made as it is sociologically astute, set during the 1937 Japanese occupation of ...

... one thing, he's only one voice out of five on the committee; for another, he formerly edited fellow selector J. Hoberman, who still writes for the Voice, and committee member Scott Foundas is part of the same chain out in Los Angeles. They may argue about one or two titles, but otherwise the status quo of the programming should continue for this very august festival: safe and solid, with one ...