Ed Rampell

Ed Rampell is an LA-based film historian and critic, author of "Progressive Hollywood: A People’s Film History of the United States," and co-author of "The Hawaii Movie and Television Book." He has written for Variety, Television Quarterly, Cineaste, New Times L.A., and other publications. Rampell lived in Tahiti, Samoa, Hawaii, and Micronesia, reporting on the nuclear-free and independent Pacific and Hawaiian Sovereignty movements.

LATEST ARTICLES BY Ed Rampell

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‘Donbass’: The ‘People’s Republic of Donetsk’ and more in the Wild East
November 23, 2020 By Ed Rampell
Press notes and critics observe that Donbass contains commentary on disinformation, propaganda and has an Orwellian outlook regarding our “post-truth” age of “alternative facts.”
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New movie musical about 1919 Canadian general strike takes timely ‘Stand!’
November 16, 2020 By Ed Rampell
More than a century later, Winnipeg's 1919 General Strike gets the big screen treatment.
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Documentary ‘Hopper/Welles’: When ‘Easy Rider’ met ‘Citizen Kane’
October 29, 2020 By Ed Rampell
The documentary Hopper/Welles, which screened at the 34th annual AFI Fest, is to film history what 1989’s When Harry Met Sally is to romcoms.
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‘My Psychedelic Love Story’: A flashback down memory lane to meet Timothy Leary
October 27, 2020 By Ed Rampell
Morris’s cinematic sensibility meshes well with Leary’s psychedelic psyche.
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LGBTQ, homelessness, family, prison at 2020 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival
October 26, 2020 By Ed Rampell

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More capsule reviews from 2020 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival
October 21, 2020 By Ed Rampell
With Kalewa, independent Hawaii filmmaker Mitchel Viernes is reminiscent of Jules Verne, as he takes the South Seas Cinema genre into outer space.
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‘Totally Under Control’ documentary shows COVID-19 response totally out of control
October 15, 2020 By Ed Rampell
It documents the Trump regime’s tragedy of errors and terrors in its catastrophic, reactionary reaction to the coronavirus.
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‘Waikiki’ shines at Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival
October 14, 2020 By Ed Rampell
America is currently experiencing a historic surge of protests igniting a cultural awakening and racial reckoning.
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