Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor and the hair, makeup, and costume department heads of 'Nickel Boys' discuss collaborating to create the ...
Director RaMell Ross, his star and cinematographer on their film's innovative 'sentient camera'. Plus: a chat with Wallace ...
In adapting Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “The Nickel Boys,” director RaMell Ross faced what he calls a ...
RaMell Ross has something to say. With his latest film, “Nickel Boys,” the co-writer and director solidifies his reputation ...
Nickel Boys’ preserves Colson Whitehead’s critically acclaimed narrative style while adding cinematic texture that enhances key details of the book.
Nickel Boys director and co-writer RaMell Ross explains how he navigated the complex relationship between audience and ...
That’s perhaps why when it came to working with filmmaker RaMell Ross, co-writer and director of Nickel Boys, the adaptation ... well her push for roles and projects that center Black women.
Given this is a tough story tied to the atrocities committed at the Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys, where 55 bodies of ...
Nickel Boys is mostly composed of POV shots that either ... than it should be—reduced to gestures and ephemera. The larger ideas that animate Whitehead’s novel, particularly the discontinuity ...
“Nickel Boys” deftly embeds this warmth inside its ... them entirely just to absolve the grief and guilt. Instead, Ross crafts something that will live alongside viewers, much in the way ...
RaMell Ross’s drama—a remarkable one, about institutions, Black male friendship, social mimicry, and the Black political dream—feels shot through with the history of American image-making.
Director RaMell Ross’ “Nickel Boys” has an intimacy to its photography ... A camera language that Fray says “invites the viewer to almost project their mind into this movie.” ...