Ed Rampell
LATEST ARTICLES BY Ed Rampell
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‘Waikiki’ shines at Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival
October 14, 2020America is currently experiencing a historic surge of protests igniting a cultural awakening and racial reckoning.
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If Black Lives Matter, must ‘Gone with the Wind’ be gone?
June 18, 2020Without a doubt, the four-hour Technicolor blockbuster about the antebellum South, Civil War and Reconstruction is problematic.
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‘On the Record’ documentary lays bare music industry racial and sexual politics
June 3, 2020During an election year when the role Black women play in society receives lots of attention, this documentary adds another rarely seen dimension to that discussion.
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The Kaminski method: Tight, taut WWII action in ‘Enemy Lines’
April 20, 2020As people grapple with a planetary pandemic, an exciting new movie is premiering just in time to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the end of our last global conflagration.
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‘The Hunt’ released Friday the 13th: Must we burn Blumhouse?
March 12, 2020
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‘Antigone, Presented by the Girls of St. Catherine’s’: On- and offstage lives
March 9, 2020Award-winning playwright Madhuri Shekar is the latest in this venerable lineage, injecting a female, (South Asian) Indian, and 21st-century sensibility with her idiosyncratic take on the iconic Grecian legend.
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‘Show Me a Hero’: Greek tragedy and valor from A to Z
March 2, 2020What I loved about playwright Willard Manus’s Show Me a Hero is that it introduced me to Greek freedom fighter Alexandros Panagoulis, a significant historical figure I’d never heard of, and brought back to life the...
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A traitor’s trial in ‘Roberto Devereux’: The unprivate lives of Elizabeth and Essex
February 26, 2020For its stellar stagecraft and affecting bel canto lyricism, I do indeed heartily recommend that opera-goers see, hear and enjoy Roberto Devereux.
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