Pollock (2000)

Genres:

Drama

Languages:

English | Spanish | Italian

Reviews:

1 reviews

Released:

24 February 2003

Format:

DVD

Staring

Director

Ed Harris

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Painters are weird

Henning from Dublin, 12 Dec 2007

Ever wonder why Jackson Pollock's paintings were the way they were and how they got done? This retraces his strange life. Ed Harris plays Pollock and has based everything closely on actual footage. A dedicated cast and excellent acting. The guy just wasn't very nice...

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Based on the biography "Jackson Pollock: An American Saga" by Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith, the film Pollock tells the story of this artist, a leader of abstract expressionist painting whose work is one of the cornerstones of the modern art movement. Pollock's technique - of throwing, drizzling, and splattering strings of paint from the brush to the canvas - had almost nothing to do with the effect he created. His painting was instead about the process itself, a...

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