Pollock
- Released
- 26/03/2003
- Film and TV Genre
- Drama, General
- Video Format
- PAL
- DVD Region
- 4 (will only play on Region 4 and Multi-Region DVD players)
Description
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.
Plot Synopsis
A drama based on the true life story of artist Jackson Pollock who revolutionised art in America.
Product Details
- Actors
- Director
- Ed Harris
- Tags
- Subtitle Language
- Czech,
- Dutch,
- English,
- Hindi,
- Hungarian,
- Italian,
- Spanish
- Award
- OSCAR - Best Actress In A Supporting Role 2001
- OSCAR - Best Actress In A Supporting Role 2001- Marcia Gay Harden
- Audio Format
- Dolby Digital 5.1 - English
- Dolby Digital 5.1 - English, French
- English Audio Commentary Dolby Digital
- Stereo Dolby Digital 5.1 - English
- Dolby Digital 5.1 English Italian Spanish
- Disc Features
- Interactive Menus
- Making Of
- Scene Selection
- Theatrical Trailer
- Audio Commentary - 1. Ed Harris - Director
- Deleted scenes
- more »
- Aspect Ratio
- 1.85:1
- 1.85 Wide Screen
- Year of release
- 2000
- Media Format
- DVD-Video
- Film Format
- Anamorphic
- Number of Discs
- 1
- Film Rating (Australia)
- R18+
- Run Time (minutes)
- 118
- Film Rating (UK)
- 18
- Subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing
- English
- Cast & Crew
- Barbara Turner (Screenwriter)
- Susan Emshwiller (Screenwriter)
- Steven Naifeh (Author)
Additional Information
- InterviewwithEdHarris
