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

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“Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit”: propaganda dressed as entertainment
January 17, 2014 By Ed Rampell
Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of Ruskies? The Shadow Recruit knows!
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Black-themed films lead Progie nominations
January 16, 2014 By Ed Rampell
Riding a wave of black-themed films, movies about slavery, apartheid, and police repression dominate this year's nominations for best progressive films.
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“Reaching for the Moon”: Love dares speak its name
December 4, 2013 By Ed Rampell
I really liked this movie, mainly because of its unusual characters based on actual historical figures.
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Mozart, propagandist, in new rendering of old classic
November 27, 2013 By Ed Rampell
The current version of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's The Magic Flute at Los Angeles Opera raises two essential artistic questions (plus, perhaps, eyebrows).
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Rushes to judgment: Top 10 assassination / conspiracy movies
November 22, 2013 By Ed Rampell
Conventional thinkers, hacks and propagandists may seek to perpetrate and perpetuate lone gunman, magic bullet and other cover-ups about assassinations and the like - but the big screen knows better!
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In Verdi’s “Falstaff,” all the world’s a jest
November 18, 2013 By Ed Rampell
What better way to celebrate Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi's bicentennial than with a production of Falstaff?
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Thrills are alive with sound of Audra McDonald
October 31, 2013 By Ed Rampell
Audra McDonald revealed herself as not only possessing a stellar soprano voice, but also a sparkling wit, winning personality and a strong social consciousness and conscience.
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“The Lion in Winter” delivers royal drama with rip-roaring wit
October 29, 2013 By Ed Rampell
John Rafter Lee and Diane Hurley deliver bravura turns as the title character and his imprisoned, estranged wife Eleanor.
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