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Pollock (2000)

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Reviews Counted: 102 Fresh: 84  Rotten:18 Average Rating: 7/10
 
Consensus: Though Pollock does not really allow audiences a glimpse of the painter as a person, it does powerfully depict the creative process. Harris throws himself into the role and turns in a compelling performance.
 

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Runtime: 2 hrs 2 mins

Theatrical Release: Dec 15, 2000 Limited

Box Office: $7,280,174

Synopsis: Ed Harris's POLLOCK is a moving portrait of artist Jackson Pollock, a leader of abstract expressionist painting whose work had major influence on the modern art movement. A serious alcoholic who was married to Lee Krasner, another prominent painter, the film illustrates Pollock's rise to... Ed Harris's POLLOCK is a moving portrait of artist Jackson Pollock, a leader of abstract expressionist painting whose work had major influence on the modern art movement. A serious alcoholic who was married to Lee Krasner, another prominent painter, the film illustrates Pollock's rise to art world fame in the last 15 years of his life, and his subsequent surrender to the bottle which brought his death in 1956. In its best moments, POLLOCK shows Krasner (a strong, dynamic, and fascinating Marcia Gay Harden) and Pollock (a stern Harris) conversing about the progression of the modern movement while criticizing each other's work from their adjoining studios in a tiny apartment in Manhattan's East Village. Other highlights of the film include a handful of high energy painting sequences that demonstrate Pollock's technique--the fluid straight-from-tube strokes of his earlier work and the more radical throwing, drizzling, and splattering of paint from the brush to the canvas in his later works; along with amusing depictions of the New York and Long Island art worlds with Peggy Guggenheim (Amy Madigan), Clement Greenberg (Jeffrey Tambor), Willem de Kooning (Val Kilmer), and Howard Putzel (Bud Cort) in the major roles. Based on the biography JACKSON POLLOCK: AN AMERICAN SAGA by Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith, the film has an uplifting musical score and a soundtrack that includes some of Pollock's favorite jazz-blues tunes, both of which are welcome counterpoints to the movie's darker moments. [More]

Genre: Dramas

Starring: Ed Harris, Marcia Gay Harden, Tom Bower, Jennifer Connelly, Bud Cort

Director: Ed Harris
Screenwriter: Susan Emshwiller, Barbara Turner
Composer: Jeff Beal

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Jul 27, 2001

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Many films about artists indulge opportunities to depict people behaving recklessly. Harris seems more interested in showing us the nature of creativity.

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01/15/05
Jeffrey Overstreet
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Not a review, but an Interview with Ed Harris, who discusses Pollock among other roles.

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08/04/04
Christopher Smith
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12/15/03
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12/27/02
Mark Freeman
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Passion can easily lead to self-indulgence, and that is certainly the unfortunate case here.

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12/08/02
Michael Dequina
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You can decide for yourself if Pollock was a great artist. He wasn't such a great man, but at least he got a pretty good movie.

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Ron Wells
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10/30/02
Matthew Turner
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More than a straightforward biography charting Jackson Pollock's rise to prominence, Ed Harris' film is a penetrating study of the work ethic as it applied to one of America's great post-war painters.

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Harris has created an enduring portrait of this man, self-destructive, violent and difficult, who changed the face of American abstract expressionism.

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10/21/02
Jean Lowerison
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If ever there were an artist to prove that the art is bigger than the artist, it was Jackson Pollock. Like him, this film embraces pain and chaos and self-loathing and returns beauty.

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10/15/02
Margaret A. McGurk
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10/10/02
Mark Halverson
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Harris as an actor does justice to his long-term passion to play Pollock.

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09/26/02
Peter Rainer
New York Magazine
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