Ed Rampell
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‘Unbroken Blossoms’: D.W. Griffith’s self-correction after ‘Birth of Nation’?
July 10, 2024Unbroken Blossoms is a highly entertaining, enlightening play that helps break the chain and yoke of racist narratives.
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‘The Dead Don’t Hurt’: Viggo Mortensen as Lord of the Gunslingers
June 5, 2024The thoughtful, left-leaning Western is well-acted and well-made, and in his second time up at bat as a writer/director, Viggo Mortensen proves that he’s much more than a mere lord of the rings.
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Aristocrats, acrobats, anarchists, marriage proposals and a plane crash populate Shaw’s ‘Misalliance’
June 3, 2024Let the worldly wise tomfoolery and drollery unfold.
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‘Topsy Turvy’: From Covid to Ovid, a pandemic parable
May 29, 2024The play not only lampooned but harpooned the Bush administration and the professional flatterers of mass murderers.
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Non-aligned movement featured at South East European Film Festival
May 21, 2024The award-winning Mila Turajlić expands the boundaries of conventional nonfiction films.
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‘Monsters of the American Cinema’: Creatures from the Black and sexual lagoon
May 13, 2024St. Croix’s play dramatizes this above all else: What we have in common is more powerful than what keeps us apart.
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TCM Festival 2024: The ‘Coachella of Classic Movies’ rides again in Hollywood
May 9, 2024So this year I looked forward to the April 18-21 TCM Classic Film Festival more than ever. At least I’d be able to enjoy TCM for four days without interruption, and as usual, I wasn’t disappointed.
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‘The Bespoke Overcoat’: Gogol’s giggles, ghosts and class struggle
March 28, 2024A theatrical adaptation of “The Overcoat,” a short story written in 1842 by the Ukrainian-born Nikolai Gogol, who along with Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, Turgenev, and Gorky is one of the most renowned contributors to Russian literature.
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