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

Culture

“The Madwoman of Chaillot”: An anti-capitalist method to her madness
September 29, 2017 By Ed Rampell

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Culture

Going Rogue: The original American Antifa?
September 21, 2017 By Ed Rampell
As the Nazis ride again, British playwright Oliver Cotton’s brilliant play "Daytona" is about how fascism impacts and haunts survivors throughout their lives.
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Arts

“Trouble in Mind”: Nobody knows the stage stereotypes I’ve seen
August 16, 2017 By Ed Rampell
This production of Alice Childress’ Trouble in Mind came to me as a theatrical revelation. It is a classic “the worm turns” tale.
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Culture

Ann Coulter interrupta, Chelsea Handler, Roger Stone & more at Politicon
August 7, 2017 By Ed Rampell
This “politi-palooza” attracted prominent speakers, performers and audiences from across the liberal and conservative ends of the spectrum.
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Culture

Capsule reviews from the L.A. Film Festival 2017
June 26, 2017 By Ed Rampell
This year’s 23rd LAFF stressed a multitude of voices with regard to ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, etc.
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Culture

Artists vs. apparatchiks in Wajda’s last film “Afterimage”
May 31, 2017 By Ed Rampell
Wajda found a subject through which he could express his credo as an artiste—criticism of Stalinism.
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Culture

New Bulgarian documentary “Angel Wagenstein: Art is a Weapon”
May 9, 2017 By Ed Rampell
The USSR had Sergei Eisenstein, while Bulgaria had Angel Wagenstein.
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Culture

Cross-dressing, cruelty to critters and constitutional rights in Croatia: A film review
May 3, 2017 By Ed Rampell
The Constitution is one of the most human films I’ve seen in a long time.
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