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Director RaMell Ross (‘Nickel Boys’) is Redefining Cinema

2025/2/23
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One week from Oscar Sunday, we’re joined by Nickel Boys director RaMell Ross.

At the top, RaMell describes the formal innovations of the new film (6:44), the naivete that allowed him to make this singular project (8:02), and how photography is shaped by race in ways we don’t consider (12:00). Then, we dive into RaMell’s Virginia upbringing (29:28), the hoop dreams that brought him to Georgetown (29:35), and the “question everything” mindset that took flight in his college years (30:30).

On the back-half, Ross explains the cinematic lineage of his Oscar-nominated documentary Hale County This Morning, This Evening (42:25), his aim to portray the American South in a new light (50:26), and why *Nickel Boys *is just the beginning of this next chapter in Black cinematic history (57:00).

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