Ed Rampell

Ed Rampell is an L.A.-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. Rampell’s novel about the Native Hawaiian Sovereignty Movement for Indigenous rights, The Disinherited: Blood Blalahs, is being published this year.

LATEST ARTICLES BY Ed Rampell

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‘The 7 Stages of Grieving’: An original Aboriginal Australian one-woman show
November 7, 2019 By Ed Rampell
As soon as the curtain lifts at the Skylight Theatre, "The 7 Stages of Grieving" kicks off with something most American audiences are likely to have never seen before in all of their theatergoing.
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Film review: All aboard the freedom train with “Harriet”
November 1, 2019 By Ed Rampell
In a straight forward, conventional manner co-writer/director Kasi Lemmons (1997’s Eve’s Bayou) unfolds the life story of Araminta "Minty" Ross.
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‘Indirect Actions’ and ‘The Advocates’: Two new films on social problems
October 30, 2019 By Ed Rampell
The 11th annual DTLA Film Festival has just concluded.
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Comic cosmic consciousness in East meets West meets jest ‘Yoga Play’
October 7, 2019 By Ed Rampell
Yoga Play is the latest installment in the tradition of works about and interactions between “mystical” Easterners encountering Westerners living in the material world who seek enlightenment.
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‘Abominable’: Himalayan hijinks highlight awesome animated adventure with a Yeti
September 27, 2019 By Ed Rampell
The delightful computer-animated feature Abominable is one of those rare movies that will enchant adults and children alike.
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Pachyderm puppetry and human folly in ‘Miss Lilly Gets Boned’
September 24, 2019 By Ed Rampell
Boned is must-see, essential theatergoing that is for adventurous ticket buyers who enjoy being challenged, amazed and who, well, aren’t boneheads.
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Red Diaper Baby: Big Brother’s still watching you
September 23, 2019 By Ed Rampell
The world premiere of Leda Siskind’s thought-provoking, topical The Surveillance Trilogy is so perfectly timed.
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Artists Rise Up Los Angeles returns with stand-up benefit for Planned Parenthood
September 11, 2019 By Ed Rampell
Artists Rise Up Los Angeles (ARULA) returned to the stage on August 27 at The Federal NoHo in order to raise consciousness and cash for a cause.
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