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

Arts

“Dying to Know” is new doc about a dynamic duo
July 22, 2015 By Ed Rampell
Gay Dillingham's "Dying to Know," narrated by Robert Redford, was an entertaining, informative doc about Ram Dass and Timothy Leary.
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Arts

“All American Girl” asks “who will save the children?”
July 22, 2015 By Ed Rampell
This play follows Katie, a bright and attractive girl committed to rescuing innocents from hardship and poverty, as she evolves into a passionate extremist.
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Arts

“Jimmy’s Hall”: Ken Loach’s Irish working class heroes
July 21, 2015 By Ed Rampell
"Jimmy's Hall" is about Jimmy Gralton, the only Irishman deported as an illegal alien from Ireland, the land of his birth, without so much as a trial!
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World

The Bushes, dirty tricks and regime change in nuclear-free Palau
June 30, 2015 By Ed Rampell
On June 30, 1985, 30 years ago today, Haruo Remeliik, the president of anti-nuclear Palau, had his brains blown out.
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Arts

Girlhood’s peaks and valleys: “Infinitely Polar Bear” reviewed
June 25, 2015 By Ed Rampell
Screenwriter Maya Forbes makes an auspicious directorial debut in this intensely personal film recreating her troubled Boston girlhood during the 1970s
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Arts

LA Film Festival: “Mekko”
June 23, 2015 By Ed Rampell
Sterlin Harjo's "Mekko" is a contemporary look at down and out Native Americans in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
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Arts

Hey, Boo: To stage a Mockingbird
June 22, 2015 By Ed Rampell
Theater Review: Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird; the Theatricum has its finger on the American pulse.
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Arts

Enigmatic Romanian film “The Japanese Dog” at SEEFest
June 15, 2015 By Ed Rampell
Films such as enigmatically named The Japanese Dog represent the drama of everyday life, without a single solitary screeching car chase, explosion or shooting.
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