Ed Rampell
LATEST ARTICLES BY Ed Rampell
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Ann Coulter interrupta, Chelsea Handler, Roger Stone & more at Politicon
August 7, 2017This “politi-palooza” attracted prominent speakers, performers and audiences from across the liberal and conservative ends of the spectrum.
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Capsule reviews from the L.A. Film Festival 2017
June 26, 2017This year’s 23rd LAFF stressed a multitude of voices with regard to ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, etc.
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Artists vs. apparatchiks in Wajda’s last film “Afterimage”
May 31, 2017Wajda found a subject through which he could express his credo as an artiste—criticism of Stalinism.
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New Bulgarian documentary “Angel Wagenstein: Art is a Weapon”
May 9, 2017The USSR had Sergei Eisenstein, while Bulgaria had Angel Wagenstein.
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Cross-dressing, cruelty to critters and constitutional rights in Croatia: A film review
May 3, 2017The Constitution is one of the most human films I’ve seen in a long time.
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“Tosca” explores themes of sexual harassment, right-wing politics
April 28, 2017Isn’t it clear how rightwing politics favoring the rich and powerful fits together with abusive treatment of women? It’s all of a piece.
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“King of the Road: The Roger Miller Story,” effective bioplay
April 25, 2017You’re likely to find delight in this bioplay about a guitar-strumming bard whose bulb burned briefly but brightly.
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Radical theatre tradition lives on in “Harlequino: On to Freedom”
March 28, 2017Harlequino’s playwright upends conventional notions of this epoch and its theater by making the protagonist, Harlequino, Black. The African slave trade had already begun and the comedy (albeit with serious undertones) contends something I’d never heard...
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