Pollock
- Director: Ed Harris
- Writer: Steven Naifeh; Gregory White Smith
- Producer: Joseph Allen; Heiner Bastian
CGiii Comment
Marcia Gay Harden won the Oscar for this.
Poofy art critics and dealers ridicule and rape a man with an incredible gift and a horrible ailment - he was a vile, disgusting drunk - according to the script.
It's a definite labour of love for Harris (10 years in the making)...but, it only scratches at the surface.
As for CGiii, it may be loaded with subtext...simply because the art world really is so terribly gay.
Not great - not bad.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
At the end of the 1940's, abstract expressionist Jackson Pollock (1912-1956) is featured in Life magazine. Flashback to 1941, he's living with his brother in a tiny apartment in New York City, drinking too much, and exhibiting an occasional painting in group shows. That's when he meets artist Lee Krasner, who puts her career on hold to be his companion, lover, champion, wife, and, in essence, caretaker. To get him away from booze, insecurity, and the stress of city life, they move to the Hamptons where nature and sobriety help Pollock achieve a breakthrough in style: a critic praises, then Life magazine calls. But so do old demons: the end is nasty, brutish, and short.
Cast & Characters
Ed Harris as Jackson Pollock;
Marcia Gay Harden as Lee Krasner;
Tom Bower as Dan Miller;
Jennifer Connelly as Ruth Kligman;
Bud Cort as Howard Putzel;
John Heard as Tony Smith;
Val Kilmer as Willem DeKooning;
Robert Knott as Sande Pollock;
David Leary as Charles Pollock;
Amy Madigan as Peggy Guggenheim;
Sally Murphy as Edith Metzger;
Molly Regan as Arloie Pollock;
Stephanie Seymour as Helen Frankenthaler;
Matthew Sussman as Reuben Kadish;
Jeffrey Tambor as Clem Greenberg