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 ...
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‘Nickel Boys’ has a horrific backstory, but ‘love is at the core of it’
Director RaMell Ross on adapting Colson Whitehead's novel of systematic racism and abuse into a highly subjective film.
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'Nickel Boys' offers an astonishing point of view
The entire film is shot from the perspectives of the protagonists, two teenage Black boys sent to a brutal, segregated reform school in the Jim Crow-era South. "You’re not just in there with the kids, ...
Review: ‘Nickel Boys’ is a priceless paean to the lives of victimized reform-school kids
RaMell Ross landed an Oscar nomination with his first feature, and this soul-stirring drama, based on Colson Whitehead's book ...
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‘Nickel Boys’ is the rare film adaptation that does justice to the book
Nickel Boys’ preserves Colson Whitehead’s critically acclaimed narrative style while adding cinematic texture that enhances key details of the book.
‘Nickel Boys’: How the First-Person Cinematography ‘Creates Intimacy and Urgency in Every Shot’
Cinematographer Jomo Fray talks about a sentient perspective – an image that feels like it’s attached to a real person.