RaMell Ross takes us inside the pages of the ‘Nickel Boys’ script
RaMell Ross estimates he read a grand total of one screenplay before collaborating with producer Joslyn Barnes on the adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning…
How RaMell Ross made ‘Nickel Boys’ as ‘visceral’ as real life
In the latest episode of The Envelope video podcast, “Nickel Boys” filmmaker RaMell Ross breaks down the film’s distinctive style and costume designer Arianne Phillips…
‘Nickel Boys’ review: Paean to lives of reform-school kids
The 2012 discovery of a mass unmarked grave on the grounds of the Florida School for Boys was the sort of headline that short-circuits the…
RaMell Ross took a radical approach to get inside ‘Nickel Boys’
Cinema’s most transcendent promise is that it can put us in another person’s shoes. But what if a film could take that further and allow…
Telluride Film Festival: ‘A good year for Cannes’
It hit 100 today, and I’d like to whine about the temperature, but then I read that we’re 100 days shy of the streak Phoenix…
Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor believes you can handle ‘Nickel Boys’
TELLURIDE, Colo. — Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor is listening to Louis Armstrong singing “Makin’ Whoopee” on her phone as I slide into a booth at a Telluride hotel…