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

Opinion

Cuban drama shines at LA film fest
July 13, 2011 By Ed Rampell
Those who missed June screenings at the Los Angeles Film Festival of the "Boleto a Paraiso" have another opportunity to buy a ticket.
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Opinion

“Richard III”: Classic with a modern lesson
July 12, 2011 By Ed Rampell
Enjoying Shakespeare under the stars at Topanga Canyon's Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum is de rigeur during summertime for Angeleno theatergoers.
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Opinion

Cuba See: L.A. film fest highlights Havana and more
June 20, 2011 By Ed Rampell
The Los Angeles Film Festival is currently taking place, and this year's multitude of movies includes: "International Spotlight: Cuba."
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Opinion

“Viva Riva!” goes beyond Blaxploitation in today’s Congo
June 16, 2011 By Ed Rampell
Beneath the shoot-'em-up sensibility, a critical eye is clearly at work, skewering the former Belgian colony, in this 2011 Pan African Film Festival's Best Feature Film prize winning film.
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Opinion

“Bride Flight”: South Seas film for grownups
June 13, 2011 By Ed Rampell
This is a highly recommended movie. It's an excellent, well-crafted feature and a realistic slice of life, albeit in an unusual milieu.
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Opinion

Einstein meets Eisenstein in “The Tree of Life”
May 26, 2011 By Ed Rampell
Four words I never thought I'd see in the same film: Sean Penn and dinosaurs.
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Opinion

“Chinese Massacre” dramatizes little-known history
May 16, 2011 By Ed Rampell
Playwright Tom Jacobson takes a Howard Zinn-like "people's history" look at Los Angeles, revealing a little-known pogrom against L. A.'s then-200 inhabitants of Chinese ancestry.
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Opinion

“The Temperamentals” strikes a blow for the sexual revolution
April 27, 2011 By Ed Rampell
The Temperamentals is part of a significant emerging trend in contemporary American theater.
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