Ed Rampell
LATEST ARTICLES BY Ed Rampell
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Documentary ‘Hopper/Welles’: When ‘Easy Rider’ met ‘Citizen Kane’
October 29, 2020The 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, 2020Morris’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
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More capsule reviews from 2020 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival
October 21, 2020With 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, 2020It 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, 2020America is currently experiencing a historic surge of protests igniting a cultural awakening and racial reckoning.
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If Black Lives Matter, must ‘Gone with the Wind’ be gone?
June 18, 2020Without a doubt, the four-hour Technicolor blockbuster about the antebellum South, Civil War and Reconstruction is problematic.
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‘On the Record’ documentary lays bare music industry racial and sexual politics
June 3, 2020During an election year when the role Black women play in society receives lots of attention, this documentary adds another rarely seen dimension to that discussion.
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