Ed Rampell
LATEST ARTICLES BY Ed Rampell
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‘Truth to Power: Barbara Lee Speaks for Me’ at Pan African Film Festival
February 23, 2021I enjoyed Truth, which has a joyous surprise ending that I didn’t see coming, it will leave you smiling. Which seems appropriate, considering the outstanding life story of this documentary’s admirable protagonist, who took the struggle...
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‘This is the Way We Rise’: Hawaiian poetry in motion
February 19, 2021A poetic short about Polynesian slam poet Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio that recently screened as part of the Sundance Film Festival
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‘41st & Central: The Untold Story of the L.A. Black Panthers’
February 19, 202141st & Central zooms in on what the Panthers were probably most widely known for: Audacious, fearless militancy.
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‘Marble-ous’: Russian maestro’s masterful Michelangelo biopic
February 9, 2021Michelangelo Buonarroti, that incomparable Renaissance Man, is masterfully brought back to life by movie maestro co-writer/director Andrei Konchalovsky in Sin (Il Peccato).
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Will Trump be the Orange Ogre who stole New Year’s?
January 4, 2021Dr. Seuss wrote about “How the Grinch stole Christmas," but we could be dealing with something altogether different.
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‘Donbass’: The ‘People’s Republic of Donetsk’ and more in the Wild East
November 23, 2020Press notes and critics observe that Donbass contains commentary on disinformation, propaganda and has an Orwellian outlook regarding our “post-truth” age of “alternative facts.”
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New movie musical about 1919 Canadian general strike takes timely ‘Stand!’
November 16, 2020More than a century later, Winnipeg's 1919 General Strike gets the big screen treatment.
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Documentary ‘Hopper/Welles’: When ‘Easy Rider’ met ‘Citizen Kane’
October 29, 2020The documentary Hopper/Welles, which screened at the 34th annual AFI Fest, is to film history what 1989’s When Harry Met Sally is to romcoms.
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