Ed Rampell
LATEST ARTICLES BY Ed Rampell
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Suspended animation: In Philip Glass’ “The Perfect American” Uncle Walt is Mickey Rat
March 22, 2017Glass’ repetitive music is often lovely and evocative, a sonic tapestry expressing Disney’s dilemmas and visions.
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Nostalgia and politics in Eugene O’Neill’s “Ah, Wilderness!”
March 17, 2017"Wilderness!" is a veritable showcase of his diverse talents, ranging from the comedic to the tragic.
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Native Women in Film Festival highlights anti-pipeline cause
March 7, 2017By presenting the usually overlooked female indigenous point of view onscreen, the filmmakers of this festival are pathfinders, blazing new trails in cinema and television.
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The not so “Great Wall”
February 21, 2017Put your 3D glasses on and your brains into neutral to watch this vapid but eye-popping big budget picture which, at $135-150 million, is reportedly the most expensive movie ever made in China.
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Totem and Taboo and Tanna: A Melanesian Romeo and Juliet
February 13, 2017"Tanna" dispels the simplistic notion that “primitive” people living in a state of nature inhabited problem-free paradises.
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Two “All Power”-ful Panther docs at Pan African Film Festival
February 13, 2017The PAFF's exec. director, Ayuko Babu, was a member of the Black Panther Party and imbues the filmfest with its high level of political consciousness.
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Mozart opera, feminism, and Allah the merciful
February 2, 2017Director James Robinson has reset Mozart’s 18th-century "Singspiel" in the Roaring Twenties.
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“The Salesman”: Iranian film asks: Is this the enemy?
January 26, 2017“The days of cinema giving answers is over. Cinema should ask questions…"
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