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A drama based on the true life story of artist Jackson Pollock who revolutionised art in America.

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EAN5035822270534

eBay Product ID (ePID)3963392

Product Key Features

ActorSada Thompson, Amy Madigan, Jeffrey Tambor, Tom Bower, Jennifer Connelly, Matthew Sussman, John Heard, Bud Cort, Norbert Weisser, Robert Knott, Ed Harris, Val Kilmer, Marcia Gay Harden

Film/TV TitlePollock

DirectorEd Harris

LanguageEnglish

Subtitle LanguageCzech\Dutch\English\Hindi\Hungarian\Italian\Spanish

Run Time118 Mins

Aspect Ratio1.85 Wide Screen

Release Year2003

FormatDVD

FeaturesWidescreen, Closed Caption, Audio Commentary - 1. Ed Harris - Director\Star\Trailer\Featurette\Deleted Scenes\Interview - 1. Ed Harris - Director\Filmographies, With Subtitles

GenreDrama, General

Additional Product Features

Number of Discs1

Certificate18

Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States of America

Hearing ImpairedEnglish

AwardsBest Actress In A Supporting Role 2001 - Marcia Gay Harden

Additional InformationEd 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.

ReviewsFilm Comment - ...Moments of visceral, sensual beauty....Amy Madigan is tart and vivid..., Chicago Sun-Times - ...It contains all of the hum and buzz of the postwar New York art world....POLLOCK is confident, insightful work -- one of the year's best films..., Rolling Stone - ...Harris brings an energy to [the] action-painting scenes that is pure and exhilarating....This is a towering performance of bruising inspiration..., Total Film - ...Harden's performance conveys the guts and heart of the drama....You'll be drained, enthralled and maybe even a little inspired..., Sight and Sound - ...Harris' film describes a confrontation between genius and human frailty....It tracks a mythology of creativity which runs from Caravaggio to Patti Smith, and is still running, unended..., USA Today - ...[Harris] seems as natural playing the abstract-expressionist superstar as he did playing John Glenn in THE RIGHT STUFF..., Box Office - ...POLLOCK is beautifully shot....There is a nice cameo by Jeffrey Tambor..., Entertainment Weekly - ...Ed Harris has always been a great actor in search of a role that could match his haunted intensity, and in POLLOCK, which he directed and stars in, he finds it..., Los Angeles Times - ...Ed Harris' film is as successful as it is because it passionately follows the artist's lead...

ScreenwriterSusan Emshwiller, Barbara Turner

Dubbing LanguagesSpanish\Italian

AuthorSteven Naifeh

Format DescriptionDVD 9

Sound sourceDolby Digital 5.1

Movie/TV TitlePollock