Ethan Warren
JoinedMay 27, 2017
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Ethan Warren has been contributing to Bright Wall/Dark Room since 2016. His first book, The Cinema of Paul Thomas Anderson: American Apocrypha, was published in April 2023 by Wallflower Books, a division of Columbia University Press. A member of the Boston Society of Film Critics, he lives on the south shore of Boston with his wife, Caitlin, and their children.

People Like Me

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Issue 139: Fashion
In Marielle Heller’s A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, Mr. Rogers enacts the opening costume-change ritual. There’s something mythic about the transformation, something primal. This is what Mr. Rogers does: he changes his outfit. And thus, he becomes Mr. Rogers.
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The Little Tragedy

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Issue 130: Obsession
Miloš Forman’s Amadeus is the story of a rivalry, and it’s easiest to describe that feud as occurring between Salieri, the genteel craftsman, and Mozart, the buffoonish genius. But, more precisely, the feud is between Salieri and God, on whom he pins the blame for his torment.
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The Alternative Press

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Issue 123: Nostalgia
The now of Joan Micklin Silver’s 1977 masterpiece Between the Lines is a major concern for the characters. What is this generation’s identity now, another decade into adulthood and another decade removed from the days in which they believed they might actually change the world?
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