If you never got a chance to watch films directed by Carroll Ballard, you are really missed some of the best cinematic experience ever created in film history.
Ballard started his career as a documentary film maker. Later he was given chance to direct a feature film by his old classmate Francis Ford Coppola. His first feature film The Black Stallion was released on 1979, which was a hit at box office as well as got lot of critical acclaim. It was only a beginning of a marvelous and inspiring career.
The film was followed by some of the finest cinematic works like Never Cry Wolf (1983), Nutcracker (86), Wind (92), Fly Away Home (96) and Duma (2005). In these films my favorites are Fly Away Home, Never Cry Wolf and Duma.
His films are very closely connected with interactions of nature and human beings. For example in Fly Away Home a 13 year old girl and her father are trying to teach Geese (migratory birds) how to fly and find their routes for migration.
His films have breath talking visuals of nature and human expressions and music which creates a feel of poetic experience.
I am keeping these films as precious gifts to my daughter....
Ballard started his career as a documentary film maker. Later he was given chance to direct a feature film by his old classmate Francis Ford Coppola. His first feature film The Black Stallion was released on 1979, which was a hit at box office as well as got lot of critical acclaim. It was only a beginning of a marvelous and inspiring career.
The film was followed by some of the finest cinematic works like Never Cry Wolf (1983), Nutcracker (86), Wind (92), Fly Away Home (96) and Duma (2005). In these films my favorites are Fly Away Home, Never Cry Wolf and Duma.
His films are very closely connected with interactions of nature and human beings. For example in Fly Away Home a 13 year old girl and her father are trying to teach Geese (migratory birds) how to fly and find their routes for migration.
His films have breath talking visuals of nature and human expressions and music which creates a feel of poetic experience.
I am keeping these films as precious gifts to my daughter....
