Nickel Boys director RaMell Ross uses the camera as a character
Nickel Boys director and co-writer RaMell Ross explains how he navigated the complex relationship between audience and ...
Aunjanue Ellis Is Nobody’s Second Fiddle
The 'Nickel Boys' actress specializes in supporting roles that steal the spotlight: “If we only know the figurehead and we don’t know the women who were doing the groundwork, it’s not the full truth.” ...
Filmmaker RaMell Ross on adapting Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel
Not only do we need a new language, but the language of photography – and film at large – needs to adapt to the complexity of ...
The huge gambit RaMell Ross pulled off to make ‘Nickel Boys’
For “Nickel Boys,” RaMell Ross asks his audience to inhabit the perspective of two Black teenagers at an abusive reform ...
Nickel Boys director RaMell Ross on his groundbreaking approach to depicting the complexity of trauma
The Oscar-nominated director sits down with Q’s Tom Power to discuss his critically acclaimed new film, Nickel Boys, which is based on Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer-winning novel of the same name.
‘I’m trying to not be overly categorized’
The hug is so powerful, it’s as if each audience member can feel it. When a bereaved grandmother named Hattie encounters a friend of her grandson on the grounds of a reform school, she embraces the ...
‘Nickel Boys’ — how a prized literary work became a game-changing movie
Given this is a tough story tied to the atrocities committed at the Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys, where 55 bodies of ...
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’Nickel Boys’ director chooses first-person perspective in showing cruelties of a Southern reform school
When filmmaker RaMell Ross first read “The Nickel Boys,” Colson Whitehead’s harrowing 2019 novel about two teenage boys, Elwood and Turner, who meet at an abusive reform school in 1960s Florida, he ...