As founder of The Warren Report, Warren Etheredge hosts over 250 events every year,
a podcast and television series. The Warren Report promotes "slow culture" through commentary, outreach,
events and education. Our principle: Smarter audiences make a better world!
Additionally, Warren is one of the founding faculty of
TheFilmSchool, along with Tom Skerritt and Stewart Stern.
For six years, Warren served as the Curator for the 1 Reel Film Festival (at Bumbershoot) and before that, worked in a variety of capacities for the Seattle International Film Festival.
Warren has staged over 40 plays in New York, published five books, written countless magazine articles and recently completed a feature-length documentary,
HUMOR ME. Warren is invited to speak at festivals and conferences worldwide. He is the host of Words & Wine and The Good Life,
conversation series with A-list authors, and a regular contributor to Seattle's premiere public radio station, KUOW
Posted on: Wednesday, March 10th, 2010
Comments: 2
Admittedly, some of my favorite films are more downbeat than rounds in the terminal ward. However, I often find the greatest hope within these dark journeys. Steve McQueen’s HUNGER completed the Aughts as one of the decade’s best (and has since been celebrated by Criterion with a deluxe edition).L.I.E., released in 2001, serves as its complementary bookend. Co-written and directed by the under-achieving Michael Cuesta, L.I.E. is a dramatically ambiguous profile of the burgeoning relationship between a parentally-neglected, sexually-curious young boy who inadvertently befriends an admired community leader… who’s also a pederast. The material is challenging and the execution expert — amazing given it marked Cuesta’s feature debut — but it is the performances by Paul Dano and Brian Cox that cement the suburban saga as a universal, if flawed, landmark. I urge you to rent or revisit L.I.E.then watch the trailer for THE GOOD HEART below. The movie reunites actors Dano and Cox in an on-screen relationship that appears less erotically-charged yet equally compelling. THE GOOD HEART premieres on VOD, Amazon VOD, Xbox Live and Playstation on April 2nd. And, for those who prefer the four-walled anonymity of the local multiplex, THE GOOD HEART opens in theaters on April 30th.
You’re going to see more and more of this sort of alternative release as big-budget studio pics choke the normal distribution channels — ALICE IN WONDERLAND played on over 7,000 screens this past weekend — and marketing expenses continue to inflate exponentially. It some ways, I think this is a good thing, as audiences learn new ways to find films other than the overblown options at the multiplex.
As founder of The Warren Report, Warren Etheredge hosts over 250 events every year,
a podcast and television series. The Warren Report promotes "slow culture" through commentary, outreach,
events and education. Our principle: Smarter audiences make a better world!
Admittedly, some of my favorite films are more downbeat than rounds in the terminal ward. However, I often find the greatest hope within these dark journeys. Steve McQueen’s HUNGER completed the Aughts as one of the decade’s best (and has since been celebrated by Criterion with a deluxe edition
March 10th, 2010 at 4:31 pm
Okay, so what’s the scoop on the distribution? Is that going to be the form of future releases or just indies?
March 10th, 2010 at 7:01 pm
You’re going to see more and more of this sort of alternative release as big-budget studio pics choke the normal distribution channels — ALICE IN WONDERLAND played on over 7,000 screens this past weekend — and marketing expenses continue to inflate exponentially. It some ways, I think this is a good thing, as audiences learn new ways to find films other than the overblown options at the multiplex.