Ethan Warren
Ethan Warren
PositionSenior Editor
JoinedMay 27, 2017
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Ethan Warren is a multi-hyphenate writer whose works include the 2018 independent feature film West of Her and the plays Why Are You Nowhere? and Fast Young Beautiful. Under contract with Columbia University Press, he is currently working on his first book, The Cinema of Paul Thomas Anderson. He lives on the south shore of Boston with his wife, Caitlin, and their children.
Kevin Costner in Field of Dreams | Universal Pictures

Between Heaven and Iowa

Ethan Warren·
Issue 90: Frames
In the soft focus of his gaze, Costner shows us a man seeing his own life superimposed onto itself, the uncanny vertiginous struggle to reconcile your existence as someone’s child with your existence as someone’s parent, the effort to locate your own life through triangulation between lives spent and lives just beginning to unfold. Read More
It's Such a Beautiful Day | Cinemad Presents

Isn’t Everything Amazing?

Ethan Warren·
Extras
“It’s such a beautiful day,” my wife and I say each morning as we look out the sliding glass door onto the backyard, imbuing it with a weight and meaning we never have before, because it’s not the weather that matters so much as the freshness of the air. And, of course, we say it because there isn’t much else we can say now that isn’t tinged by either sorrow or fear. Read More

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