Ed Rampell
LATEST ARTICLES BY Ed Rampell
-
Culture
‘Pacific Cinewaves’: South Seas cinema at Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival
May 10, 2022An Indigenous tidal wave of filmmaking has arisen with Natives writing, directing, producing, and starring in more authentic, accurate works for the big and little screens.
Read more -
Culture
Anti-Nazi drama ‘The Last Boy’ commemorates Holocaust Remembrance Day at Manhattan’s Town Hall
April 19, 2022Broadway breakout star Bret Sherman says, “If the story of the Holocaust doesn’t get told, it will be lost to history.”
Read more -
Culture
‘Paris, 13th District’: When the city really sizzles
April 14, 2022This big screen adaptation of American cartoonist Adrian Tomine’s graphic novel is quite graphic in terms of nudity and sexuality.
Read more -
Culture
From Russia with lust: Tolstoy meets ‘Florida Man’ in ‘Anna in the Tropics’
March 28, 2022It’s also worth a word that at a time when Russia is engaged in such a tragedy, this Tolstoy-derived drama reminds us of the other side of Russian history and culture, of the literature and theater...
Read more -
Culture
‘Assassins,’ Stephen Sondheim’s musical about Presidential shooters is a hit
February 24, 2022This imaginative, harrowing, gallows humor-type production marks the triumphant return of one of L.A.’s finest theaters.
Read more -
Culture
Melancholy Danes: A Scandinavian ‘Sunset Boulevard’ in Bille August’s ‘The Pact’
February 11, 2022The 73-year-old Danish helmer’s almost two-hour The Pact is a thought-provoking, moody movie.
Read more -
Culture
‘Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom’: Learning life’s meaning in the remote Himalayas
January 25, 2022What Lunana lacks in modern technical amenities it more than makes up for with majestic, mountainous scenery .
Read more -
Opinion
Remembering Archbishop Desmond Tutu: An encounter in Hawaii
January 4, 2022Desmond Tutu may have been slight in height but he was a colossus in stature.
Read more