About the Event
Nickel Boys
Directed by RaMell Ross
(US, 2024, 140 min.)
Saturday, March 8, 7:00pm
From the director of the extraordinary Hale County This Morning This Evening, and adapted from the Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Colson Whitehead, Nickel Boys tells the story of a young Black man unfairly sent to a corrupt reform school in the Jim Crow South.
“This is medium-defining work — aesthetically, spiritually — a rich and overwhelming cinema where the camera is always curious and what it finds is always arresting. In a time where there are more ways to make a film than ever (and yet less variation in the look, the feel, the shape of those films than in any other point in the medium’s history) RaMell has given us a new way of seeing. It is a thing to make one both humbled… and filled with gratitude” — Barry Jenkins
“Pure sense and subjectivity in a way that evokes the same visual magic of Ross’ documentary work, Nickel Boys so viscerally and fundamentally centers the experience of its young Black characters that even the most racist brand of revisionist history could never hope to deny their truth” — David Ehrlich, IndieWire
Free and open to the public.
Discounted parking available in Founder’s Court lot, $6 flat fee, credit card required.
