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1 month ago | 
counterpunch.org | Stan Cox |Ed Rampell
Israel’s genocide against the Palestinian people has provoked the largest, most energetic international campaign of boycotts, divestment, and sanctions since the movement against apartheid in the 1980s and early 90s. The multipronged strategy now known as BDS played an important role in freeing South Africa from white minority rule, and now it’s being deployed to […] To read this article, log in here or subscribe here.
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1 month ago | 
counterpunch.org | Ed Rampell |Jeffrey St. Clair
In conventional Hollywood movies, cameras are generally mounted on a tripod, dolly or tracks, etc., so that the polished cinematography flows smoothly, seamlessly. But more often than not, the camerawork in No Other Land is handheld, jumpy, herky-jerky, even blurry, shot with natural light and a “you-are-there” verve. Instead of being a trained unionized camera […] To read this article, log in here or subscribe here.
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2 months ago | 
counterpunch.org | Ed Rampell |Jeffrey St. Clair
The exceptional new documentary The Palestine Exception, co-directed by Jan Haaken and Jennifer Ruth, focuses on the wave of pro-Palestinian protests that swept across U.S. college campuses in 2024 and the repressive backlash students, faculty and activists encountered, which is called onscreen “the New McCarthyism.” In only 71 minutes the nonfiction film covers lots of […] To read this article, log in here or subscribe here.
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2 months ago | 
counterpunch.org | Jeffrey St. Clair |Ed Rampell
+ After 15 months of unrelenting Israeli bombardment and a week of a still fragile ceasefire, this is what Gaza looks like: + At least 47,161 Palestinians have been listed by the Ministry of Health as being killed by Israeli military actions. Another 12,000 or so are missing under the bomb rubble and presumed dead. […] To read this article, log in here or subscribe here.
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Jan 12, 2025 | 
covertactionmagazine.com | Ed Rampell
Once again Americans have been inundated by a tsunami of one-sided “news” coverage and an officially sanctioned mourning period and state funeral were exploited (at taxpayers’ expense) for political purposes, as we were subjected to a hagiographies of former President Jimmy Carter.
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Jan 6, 2025 | 
peoplesworld.org | Ed Rampell
Whereas in 1934 Paramount released Death Takes a Holiday, starring Frederic March and co-written by playwright Maxwell Anderson, 90 years later, smack dab in the holiday season Sony Pictures Classics has unleashed a movie about death in Los Angeles and New York. In Spanish director/co-writer Pedro Almodóvar’s The Room Next Door former combat correspondent Martha (Tilda Swinton) is stricken by stage-three cervical cancer and undergoing an experimental treatment.
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Dec 15, 2024 | 
counterpunch.org | Ed Rampell
In October 1947 19 screenwriters, directors and producers were summoned from Tinseltown to Washington to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee about alleged subversion in the motion picture industry. Eleven of those subpoenaed testified, including the so-called “Hollywood Ten,” and the German playwright Bertolt Brecht. Eight of the “Hollywood Nineteen” were not called then […] To read this article, log in here or subscribe here.
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Dec 7, 2024 | 
covertactionmagazine.com | Ed Rampell
According to its mission statement, “AFI FEST… showcase[es] the best films from across the globe to captivated audiences in Los Angeles.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
peoplesworld.org | Ed Rampell
This year AFI’s 38th festival screened several top-notch films with political themes. Here’s a review of Brazilian director Walter Salles’ fact-based I’m Still Here. Creator of Motorcycle Diaries, Salles rides again with one of the best political pictures in years. It succeeds so completely because it is very much a family drama, but one that shows how politics can profoundly affect a family.
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
rockcellarmagazine.com | Ed Rampell
Redd Kross (Photo: Tony Molina Filmworks 2019) While Redd Kross never went to the top of the charts, before there were social media influencers they influenced the music scene — even if Jeff and Steven McDonald founded one of the most famous bands you may never have heard of. But now, in his first film, veteran TV writer Andrew Reich is setting the record straight, finally giving the trendsetting SoCal musicians their due in his new documentary Born Innocent: The Redd Kross Story.
