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Dominican Rep. Pollock
- Original title
- Pollock
- Year
- 2000
- Running time
- 122 min.
- Country
United States- Director
- Screenwriter
- Cast
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Ed Harris
Marcia Gay Harden
Tom Bower
Jennifer Connelly
Bud Cort
John Heard
Val Kilmer
Robert Knott- David Leary
Amy Madigan- Sally Murphy
- Molly Regan
Stephanie Seymour- See all credits
- Music
- Cinematography
- Producer
- Genre
- Drama | Biography. 1940s. Painting
- 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 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 (From amazon.com)
- Awards
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2000: Oscar: Best Supporting Actress (Marcia Gay Harden). 2 Nominations2000: New York Film Critics Circle: Best Supporting Actress (Marcia Gay Harden)2000: Festival Toronto: Mejr Actor (Ed Harris)2000: Independent Spirit Awards: Nominated for Best Supp. Actress (Marcia Gay Harden)2000: Satellite Awards: nominated to Actor in a Motion Picture, Drama.2000: National Society of Film Critics (NSFC): nominated to Best Supporting Actress.
- Critics' reviews
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"The movie forces you, as few of its kind ever do, to see the fruits and spoils of genius framed against the gritty, banal canvas of normal life."
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"There are few more thrilling sights around than watching the great Ed Harris furiously hovering over a canvas in Pollock."
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"The pleasure of watching these two superb actors [Harris and Harden] play figures of such stature without a trace of sentimentality is enormous."
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"Stands out among creative bio-pics for an ability to show art being made in a way that's as realistic and exciting as it's ever been on screen."
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"The movie falls short of achieving its apparent goal: being the 'Raging Bull' of the art world."
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"Ed Harris has always been a great actor in search of a role that could match his haunted intensity, and in Pollock ... he finds it."
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"Distinguished by its quiet, intelligent, admirably restrained approach and by two finely wrought performances from Harris and Marcia Gay Harden"
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