RaMell Ross' 'Nickel Boys' brings to life the notorious cruelty of a ...
Dec 16, 2024 · Of the two main characters in “Nickel Boys,” Jack Turner, played by Brandon Wilson, is more seasoned and he befriends the more naïve Elwood Curtis, whose bright future as a college student in ...
'Nickel Boys' Team on Making the First Person Point of View …
17 hours ago · RaMell Ross’ “Nickel Boys” unearths the haunting realities of two boys, Elwood (Ethan Herisse) and Turner (Brandon Wilson), as they navigate a brutal reform school, blending visceral ...
In 'Nickel Boys,' striving for a new way to see | AP News
Dec 12, 2024 · In “Nickel Boys,” one of the most thrillingly innovative American films of the decade, Ross adapts Colson Whitehead’s 2019 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. It’s about two young men — Elwood (Ethan Herisse) and Turner (Brandon Wilson) — who’ve been sent to an abusive, mid-century Florida reform school called Nickel Academy.
Nickel Boys: The blistering drama showing the US's racist past
Dec 14, 2024 · The Oscar-tipped film by RaMell Ross adapts Colson Whitehead's novel about two boys at an abusive "reform" school and shoots it from their point of view. The effect is profound.
In 'Nickel Boys,' Striving for a New Way to See - U.S. News
Dec 12, 2024 · NEW YORK (AP) — RaMell Ross sometimes sends his photography students out on a unique assignment. He tells them to photograph a white person, a Black person, an Asian person and an Indian...
‘Nickel Boys’ Director RaMell Ross On Reinventing the Very Act …
Dec 20, 2024 · A year after RaMell Ross finished filming “Nickel Boys,” he learned to fly. Ross doesn’t know if he became a pilot out of post-big-project depression, his desire to try new things or maybe ...
'Nickel Boys' director, stars, recall unique on-set experiences
Dec 30, 2024 · “Nickel Boys,” with Ross as director and co-screenwriter, opens in Bay Area theaters on Jan. 3 as an innovative visual elegy on Black American identity that is gaining traction in the...
RaMell Ross took a radical approach to get inside 'Nickel Boys'
Dec 19, 2024 · Told mostly in the first-person point of view, director RaMell Ross’ “Nickel Boys” is an experiential — and experimental — adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer-winning novel from 2019. The...
'Nickel Boys' Director RaMell Ross on Working With Marvel …
Jan 2, 2025 · RaMell Ross has something to say. With his latest film, “Nickel Boys,” the co-writer and director solidifies his reputation as one of contemporary cinema’s most daring storytellers.Adapted ...
The huge gambit RaMell Ross pulled off to make ‘Nickel Boys’
Dec 28, 2024 · For “Nickel Boys,” RaMell Ross asks his audience to inhabit the perspective of two Black teenagers at an abusive reform school — and share in the horrors they endure.