Original Ballard, Carroll Movie Posters

Carroll Ballard movie posters are among the most quietly distinguished in American cinema — a small body of films defined by their extraordinary visual beauty — a filmmaker whose handful of features share an almost obsessive commitment to natural landscape, animal subjects, and the wordless relationship between humans and the non-human world.

The Black Stallion (1979), produced by Francis Ford Coppola's American Zoetrope and shot by Caleb Deschanel, is one of the most visually beautiful films in American cinema history: the extended shipwreck sequence, the boy and the stallion alone on the beach, the horse races rendered as pure visual experience. Its theatrical campaign — warm, luminous, focused on the relationship between child and animal — reflects the film's extraordinary sensory achievement. United Artists one-sheets from the original 1979 release are among the most beautiful children's film posters of the decade.

Never Cry Wolf (1983) brought similar visual intelligence to the story of a biologist studying wolves in the Canadian wilderness, and Fly Away Home (1996) told the story of a girl who teaches orphaned geese to migrate. Ballard's films are unified by their patience with the non-verbal and their trust in the audience's capacity to find meaning in image rather than dialogue. Original US one-sheets from The Black Stallion are now scarce and seldom encountered in fine condition.

Find original theatrical prints from this extraordinary visual filmmaker whose small body of work is among the most beautiful in American cinema.

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