Ed Rampell
LATEST ARTICLES BY Ed Rampell
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“Aferim!”: The wild, wild East in film
January 22, 2016It has a number of genre conventions of the Western, though one could argue that the Romanian-set film should be called an "Eastern."
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Quintessential Quentin: “The Hateful Eight” reviewed
December 25, 2015It's worth seeing because of its scorching onscreen examination of racism -- then and now -- but it completely squanders the big screen process.
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Where there’s a Weill, there’s a way; Julia Migenes review
December 8, 2015Fans of Kurt Weill and cabaret-style music who won't trip over the language barrier are likely to enjoy Julia Migenes' bravura performance.
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Dalton Trumbo, the “Spartacus” screenwriter who broke the blacklist
November 19, 2015Dalton Trumbo, the jailed screenwriter who broke the Hollywood Blacklist, is making a comeback in a superb biopic.
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Rampling and Courtenay: The past preserved haunts the present in “45 Years”
November 19, 2015Andrew Haigh's film is a profoundly stirring one about a longtime married couple poignantly portrayed by two cinema greats.
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Leith: weaponized Aryans on film in North Dakota
November 16, 2015Neo-Nazis insinuate their way into the tiny town of Leith, pitting the hardcore reactionaries against the population of ordinary townsfolk and their allies.
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“Mediterranea”: Europe’s embattled migrants on film
November 13, 2015"Mediterranea" succeeds in putting the stateless, the homeless, and the wretched of the Earth in the limelight they deserve.
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“Embrace of the Serpent”: Odyssey into Amazonian “heart of darkness”
November 10, 2015Inter-species interaction between outer space aliens and human beings has long been a staple of the science fiction genre.
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