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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‘Altitude Not Attitude’: A freewheeling, wheelchair bound-for-glory story on film
June 11, 2021 By Ed Rampell
For the first time since the COVID lockdown began, after about 15 months of streaming cinema online, your peripatetic film critic finally attended his first screening in person.
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Masterpiece cinema: BFI Player Classics streams 200-plus British movies
May 17, 2021 By Ed Rampell
The British Film Institute has launched a subscription video on-demand collection of more than 200 of the top U.K. movies for buffs across the pond in the colonies.
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‘Stealing Chaplin’: The great gravediggers
May 5, 2021 By Ed Rampell
It 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, 2021 By Ed Rampell
Darnella’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, 2021 By Ed Rampell
Watching "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, 2021 By Ed Rampell
The 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, 2021 By Ed Rampell
America’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
March 3, 2021 By Ed Rampell

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