Ed Rampell

Ed Rampell was named after legendary CBS broadcaster Edward R. Murrow because of his TV exposes of Senator Joe McCarthy. Rampell majored in Cinema at Manhattan’s Hunter College and is an L.A.-based film historian/critic who co-organized the 2017 70th anniversary Blacklist remembrance at the Writers Guild theater in Beverly Hills and was a moderator at 2019’s “Blacklist Exiles in Mexico” filmfest and conference at the San Francisco Art Institute. Rampell co-presented “The Hollywood Ten at 75” film series at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures and is the author of Progressive Hollywood, A People’s Film History of the United States and co-author of The Hawaii Movie and Television Book.    

Ukrainian Actress Presents Antiwar Cinematic Stunner at SEEfest

Serving Two Masters: Mussolini’s Moviemaker and His Red Reels of Albanian Agitprop

The Industrial Workers of the World Ride Again

Ukraine Onscreen: The Lucky Ones

Paris When It Really Sizzles!

Will’s Smith’s Gift to Racists

From Russia, With Lust: Tolstoy Meets “Florida Man”

Hollywood Labor History

Greed is Us: Titans, The Rise of Wall Street

Revue Review: Stephen Sondheim’s Musical About Presidential Shooters is a “Hit”

Melancholy Danes: A Scandinavian Sunset Blvd

Onokhov of the North: Coming of Age in Chukotka

​Red Alert: The Redhead, the Red Scare and Aaron Sorkin’s Big Lie Caught Red-handed

The “Hellraising Humanitarian” on “Dreaming a New Dream”

Remembering My Time With Bishop Tutu

The Young Lords Ride Again

A Great American Author of Proletarian Literature is Ready for His Close Up

Imperialist Imbecility: The Man Who Shot Salvador Allende?

The Murky Politics of Film Noir

Afghanistan’s Armageddon 20 Years After 9/11 Offers Foreign Policy Choices: Groundhog Day or Imperial Reckoning?

Trial By Fire: Too Hot to Handle?

Bend It Like Megan: Will World Cup Winners Also Become Equality’s Champs in LFG?

In the Crosswind

Armageddon Then: Candid Doc Brings the War in the Pacific Home

Do We Need a New Deal for Artists Today?

Chasing Ghosts, The Life and Art of Bill Traylor

The Envelope Please: Darnella Frazier Deserves an Academy Award

The Jackie Robinson of Architecture

Panther Gunfight at a Not-So-O.K. Corral

All Power to the Pictures! Judas and the Black Messiah

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Trump’s Bombast

Meet the New FDR – Franklin DONALD Roosevelt?

The Advocates

Lone Wolf Antifa in New Anti-Neo-Nazi German Film

A Tale of Billionaires & Ballot Bandits

Titus Andronicus: Down With the Republic!

The Hottest Seats in Hell

Last Tango in Kabul

Great Caesar’s Ghost!: A Specter Haunts Hollywood in the Coen’s Anti-Anti-Commie Goofball Comedy

45 Years: A Rumination on Aging

The Witch-Hunters And Bloodsuckers Are Still Among Us

General Nat, the Black Spartacus: Straight Outta Southhampton

The Sounds of Sondheim

The Exit Interview (An Existential Comedy)

An Interview with Richard Wolff