How the ‘Nickel Boys’ Team Delivered RaMell Ross’ Immersive Vision Through Detailed Design Work
RaMell Ross ’ “ Nickel Boys ” unearths the haunting realities of two boys, Elwood (Ethan Herisse) and Turner (Brandon Wilson) ...
Here’s What RaMell Ross Wants You To Know About Nickel Boys
In adapting Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “The Nickel Boys,” director RaMell Ross faced what he calls a ...
How the Department Heads of ‘Nickel Boys’ Worked with Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor to Create an Unforgettable Character
Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor and the hair, makeup, and costume department heads of 'Nickel Boys' discuss collaborating to create the ...
Nickel Boys director RaMell Ross uses the camera as a character
RaMell Ross dove into Nickel Boys with a uniquely useful background.First, as a Black man raised in the South, the filmmaker ...
Nickel Boys gives a first-person perspective of racial subjugation
Filmmaker RaMell Ross adapted of Colson Whitehead's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Nickel Boys, based in the Dozier reform ...
America Magazine1d
‘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’ Star Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor Never Watches Herself on Screen — Here’s Why
When Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor (who has been acting professionally since her debut as Ariel in 1995’s Broadway revival of “The ...
Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor 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 ...
'Nickel Boys' based on Pulitzer Price-winning Colson Whitehead novel about Florida reform school
'Nickel Boys' based on Pulitzer Price-winning Colson Whitehead novel about Florida reform school ...
Nickel Boys director’s approach is radical – and riveting
It’s hard to describe Nickel Boys. It seems like an injustice to call it, simply, a film. It’s a remarkable piece of art, ...
The Taipei Times2d
‘Nickel Boys’
The central character in the story is Elwood (Ethan Herisse), an early 1960s African American teenager in racially segregated Tallahassee, Florida. Raised by his doughty, loving grandmother Hattie ...
He went on YouTube to look up ‘how to work with actors’: ‘Nickel Boys’ director RaMell Ross on his unconventional techniques
The director shot his debut narrative feature, based on Colson Whitehead's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, almost entirely through the main characters' eyes.