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Nickel Boys: Ross's First-Person Adaptation

RaMell Ross adapted Colson Whitehead's Pulitzer-winning novel through a first-person camera almost continuously across two hours. The argument is that the formal gamble is the adaptation, and the adaptation is, so far, the film of the awards year.

Lena Ashworth·2 Oct·6 min

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Nickel Boys and the Camera That Remembers

RaMell Ross adapted Colson Whitehead's Pulitzer novel by refusing the one thing most literary adaptations insist on. The camera is the character, and the choice changes what the film can do.

Lena Ashworth·2 Aug·6 min