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Power Ballad

John Stark

I can’t believe it’s been as long as it has since we learned to fall slowly, but John Carney has since made a career out of films using music as their core. The director of Once transitioned from that Academy Award-winning film into the popular Sing Street, my personal favorite Begin Again, the complicated Flora and Son, and now Power Ballad, the newest music-centric film starring Paul Rudd and Nick Jonas. This one centers around Rick, an older musician who gave up his rock star years when he met a girl, settled down, and became a dad. Now he works … Continue reading Power Ballad

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Flora and Son

John Stark

Where I Watched it: Apple Plus English Audio Description?: Yes I would like to first state that John Carney clearly is beating us over the head with the power of music. I’d love to see him direct an honest to God musical, in the most truest sense instead of these films about musicians playing music that matters. I really wonder if his love of music could resonate in a musical adaptation of something headed to the big screen. Perhaps Spring Awakening would be up his alley? Flora and Son is my least favorite John Carney film, but for the guy … Continue reading Flora and Son

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Best Of 2016: Directing Awards

John Stark

For me, when I pick my directors, I think of many different factors. Was the film made better because the director was attached to it? Does the director have a unique voice and/or perspective? How well shot and edited was the film? Did it have a lot of pacing issues? Was the work original and groundbreaking, or just more of the same. Could literally anyone have replicated their work? These are the 10 directors I felt did the best directing job of 2016, plus five more for “Breakthrough In Directing”, which means they either had directed their first feature, or nearly their first.
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