The Film Comment Letter: NYFF62 #1 - RaMell Ross on Nickel Boys + The Brutalist 🏛️

September 27, 2024 The Film Comment Letter: NYFF62 #1 - RaMell Ross on Nickel Boys + The Brutalist 🏛️ View in browser   |   filmcomment.com September 27, 2024 WEBSITE   |   PODCAST   |   LATEST Dear Readers, Today marks our opening salvo from the early days of the 62nd New York Film Festival, that annual celebration of cinema that we gladly and tirelessly chronicle for you, our loyal readers. Our coverage opens with Devika's interview with director RaMell Ross about his second feature, the NYFF opening-night selection Nickel Boys . This poetic film tells the story of a Black teenager (played by Ethan Herisse) who is arrested for a crime he didn't commit and finds himself sent to the Nickel Academy, a terrifying, abusive distillation of the racist society outside its gates. The two discuss Ross's initial attraction to Colson Whitehead's Pulitzer Prize–winning source novel, the film's compelling use of first-person point of view, and Ross's abiding interest in building stories out... read