Ethan Warren
Ethan Warren
PositionSenior Editor
JoinedMay 27, 2017
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Ethan Warren is the writer-director of the independent feature film West of Her. He lives on the south shore of Boston with his wife, Caitlin, and their children.

Short Film Spotlight: Dulce

Ethan Warren·
Short Film Spotlight
There’s a type of story I’ve come to recognize as my favorite: the ones that seem in the moment to be about small, even insubstantial, personal concerns yet reveal themselves immediately upon finishing to have conveyed something like the full enormity of what it means to be alive. Read More
Penelope Cruz in Vanilla Sky (2001) | Paramount Pictures

In Defense of Indulgence

Ethan Warren·
Issue 80: A Fine Mess
Never have I encountered a more fascinating case of self-indulgence than the diptych of Abre los ojos and Vanilla Sky, two films identical in plot but divergent in story, one chilly and distant and the other seeming to have been shot from inside the most passionate depths of the director’s soul. Read More

No Man’s Land

Ethan Warren·
New Releases
It would be natural to assume it’s impossible to recreate Harold Pinter’s effects on-screen. What cinematic setting could ever replicate the feeling of an ordinary space that simultaneously exists in a howling metaphysical void? Read More