Ed Rampell
LATEST ARTICLES BY Ed Rampell
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A would-be Gorbachev in the People’s Republic: “The Chinese Mayor”
June 4, 2015This film is an insider's look at Geng Yanbo, the reform-minded mayor of Datong, one of the People's Republic of China's most polluted cities.
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The cost of fame: “The Cult of JT Leroy”
June 3, 2015The film shows how nonfiction becomes novelized, with dramatization and confabulation fobbed off as "news" and "truth."
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Ray’s eye: The magnificent Apu Trilogy rides again
June 2, 2015Before there was Bollywood or "The Mindy Project" there was Satyajit Ray, India's movie maestro.
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Controversial Aloha co-stars Hawaiian independence leader
June 1, 2015A lynch mob is attacking writer/director Cameron Crowe's new movie "Aloha," which opened May 29.
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The fetishism of commodities: “Mad Men,” capitalism, and its discontents
June 1, 2015What made "Mad Men" arguably the greatest dramatic series in American TV history is that there was a method to its madness.
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When Aaron met Rachel: “The Fourth Noble Truth”
May 26, 2015While at first the discussions about the tenets of Buddhism do raise some consciousness and are absorbing and educational, Noble quickly runs out of steam.
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East meets island: movies from Asian Pacific Film Festival
May 22, 2015The 31st Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival continues to serve as a gateway for features, shorts, animation, and documentaries.
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A grand romance in staged Around the World in 80 Days
May 19, 2015Lightning-fast changing of costumes, props and sets lends itself to levity as mustaches droop and muttonchops fall off of undaunted actors who know the show must go on.
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