Ed Rampell
LATEST ARTICLES BY Ed Rampell
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‘Stealing Chaplin’: The great gravediggers
May 5, 2021It may not be City Lights, but 'Stealing Chaplin' has its own delights for general audiences and film buffs who will enjoy seeing Charlie back in the limelight.
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‘The envelope please’: Darnella Frazier deserved an Academy Award
April 27, 2021Darnella’s document, which reignited the Black Lives Matter uprising and America’s ongoing racial reckoning, could be entitled "10 Minutes That Shook the World."
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A crowning achievement: Fairy tale vs. reality in ‘The Crown’
April 23, 2021Watching "The Crown" only strengthened my conviction that inherited wealth, privilege, and status are inherently evil, and that the British monarchy needs to be immediately abolished.
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At PAFF: Nate Parker’s ‘American Skin’ plus Angela Davis
March 11, 2021The undaunted 29th Pan African Film Festival kicked off on the last day of Black History Month and runs through March 14.
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Life and death: Two shorts explore a taboo and new romance at PAFF
March 9, 2021America’s largest and best annual Black-themed filmfest since 1992 has moved online. This year’s 29th annual Pan African Virtual Film + Arts Festival kicked off on the last day of Black History Month and runs through...
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‘Back of the Moon’: A Noirish apartheid-era South African film
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‘Hollywood’s Architect: The Paul R. Williams Story’ at PAFF
March 1, 2021I learned a lot from this very enjoyable, well-told 57-minute chronicle narrated by actor Courtney B. Vance that is about a truly admirable, gifted, dignified human being who defied the racism of his times by his...
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‘Finding Sally’: A filmic inquiry into the heart of Ethiopia’s revolutionary upheavals
February 25, 2021The absorbing, informative Finding Sally is Tamara Mariam Dawit’s first full-length documentary, but hopefully not her last.
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