Director RaMell Ross and actress Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor ’92 discussed their upcoming film, “Nickel Boys,” in a Monday Q&A discussion moderated by Prudence Carter ’91, the director of the Center for the ...
The director of the acclaimed adaptation of Colson Whitehead's 2019 novel received the Auteur Award at the event on Thursday.
Nickel Boys' star Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor discusses what made being directed by IndieWire Honors Auteur Award recipient RaMell ...
Nickel Boys’ director RaMell Ross on his revolutionary filmmaking choice: ‘I don’t know if I could have told the story any ...
When he read Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, “The Nickel Boys,” director RaMell Ross knew immediately what ...
RaMell Ross’s first dramatic feature, an adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s novel, gives the bearing of witness an arresting ...
Despite his film being an adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning 2019 novel, director RaMell Ross has found it helpful to come out and give an introduction to any “Nickel ...
In it, she plays the grandmother of a young boy sent to an abusive reform school. The first fiction film from Oscar nominee ...
The first fiction film from Oscar nominee RaMell Ross, it employs a different technique to tell its story. Instead of showing actors talking to each other, it uses the camera as the scene partner.
RaMell Ross’ “Nickel Boys” is as vivid as its source material: Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize–winning 2019 novel about two Black boys enduring routine abuse at a 1960s Florida reform ...
RaMell Ross’ first film, the Oscar-nominated “Hale County This Morning, This Evening,” was an unusual project for a director whose day job was as an artist and a teacher at Brown University ...
Ross, who describes himself as a “language minimalist,” emphasizes the power of saying a lot with a little. “It’s about finding language that can be embodied by a character and it doesn ...