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Ed Rampell

Ed RampellEd Rampell is an L.A.-based full-time freelance writer and author. He was named after legendary CBS broadcaster Edward R. Murrow because of his TV exposes of Sen. Joe McCarthy and majored in Cinema at Manhattan’s Hunter College. After graduating, Rampell lived in Tahiti, Samoa, Hawaii, and Micronesia, reporting on the nuclear free and independent Pacific and Hawaiian Sovereignty movements for: ABC News’ “20/20,” Reuters, AP, Radio Australia, Radio New Zealand, NewsWeek, Honolulu Weekly, etc. In 1999 Rampell relocated to L.A. and contributed to: “The Finger” column for New Times L.A., Variety, Written By, The Nation, L.A. Times, L.A. Daily News, Financial Times, New York Press, Guardian, The Progressive, Sierra Magazine, Earth Island Journal, Washington Post, The Forward, In These Times, AlterNet, DestinAsian, etc. Rampell currently covers L.A.’s arts scene for: HollywoodProgressive.com, Jesther Entertainment, People’s World, etc.

Rampell co-authored “Conversations with W.S. Merwin” and the film histories: “Made In Paradise, Hollywood’s Films of Hawaii and the South Seas,” “Pearl Harbor in the Movies, and “The Hawaii Movie and Television Book.” Rampell is solo author of the 2005 book “Progressive Hollywood, A People’s Film History of the United States.” Rampell appears in the 2005 Australian documentary “Hula Girls, Imagining Paradise.”

Halloween, Hollywood, Hitchcock & Herrmann Get the LA Opera Treatment

By Ed Rampell

Ed Rampell: Seeing/hearing Psycho this way during LA Opera’s Off Grand annual live “Symphonic Night at the Movies” during Halloween greatly enhanced the motion picture experience.

Posted on November 3, 2019

All-Aboard the Freedom Train: A Real Life African American Action Hero

By Ed Rampell

Ed Rampell: The film starkly portrays how monstrously cruel the “peculiar institution” of slavery truly was and demolishes the despicable, odious notion that humans can be owned by others.

Posted on October 31, 2019

Citizen Hearst

By Ed Rampell

Ed Rampell: Was she coerced, brainwashed or a willing participant in the extremists’ violent crimes, which included shootouts, bank robberies and so on?

Posted on October 27, 2019

Gimme Shelter

By Ed Rampell

Ed Rampell: This heartwarming documentary takes an insider look at a compelling crisis that seems to be mushrooming across Los Angeles far beyond the confines of Skid Row: Homelessness.

Posted on October 25, 2019

A Futuristic Film Form for a Traditional Struggle

By Ed Rampell

Ed Rampell: At its best, with 360 degree imagery often encircling the viewer overhead, Indirect Actions brings moviegoers right into the action during the tail end of the historic 2016 protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline project in North Dakota.

Posted on October 25, 2019

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