Ed Rampell
LATEST ARTICLES BY Ed Rampell
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Culture
‘Assassins,’ Stephen Sondheim’s musical about Presidential shooters is a hit
February 24, 2022This imaginative, harrowing, gallows humor-type production marks the triumphant return of one of L.A.’s finest theaters.
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Culture
Melancholy Danes: A Scandinavian ‘Sunset Boulevard’ in Bille August’s ‘The Pact’
February 11, 2022The 73-year-old Danish helmer’s almost two-hour The Pact is a thought-provoking, moody movie.
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Culture
‘Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom’: Learning life’s meaning in the remote Himalayas
January 25, 2022What Lunana lacks in modern technical amenities it more than makes up for with majestic, mountainous scenery .
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Opinion
Remembering Archbishop Desmond Tutu: An encounter in Hawaii
January 4, 2022Desmond Tutu may have been slight in height but he was a colossus in stature.
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Culture
AFI Fest features the reel and the real Little Tramp, Charlie Chaplin
November 23, 2021I love and highly recommend The Real Charlie Chaplin, which provides a penetrating portrait of one of the geniuses who coinvented and shaped the silver screen.
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Culture
L.A.’s AFI Fest returns with films about occupation, voting, and protest
November 22, 2021The AFI Fest returned to Hollywood for live, in-person screenings and events, with an additional virtual component.
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Culture
L.A.’s biggest film festival returns with great anti-racist films
November 19, 2021Some of the screenings were accompanied by talent who introduced and/or spoke about their films when they were shown at the TCL Chinese Theatres.
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Culture
‘The Serpent’: An Edenic experimental classic returns to the live stage
October 27, 2021Instead of telling a single tale, in The Serpent the dozen multi-culti, mostly young members of the Odyssey Theatre Ensemble stage a series of vignettes with an improvisational vibe.
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