Ed Harris's directing debut is a smart but disappointingly conventional
portrait of an artist who had little use for convention. At a time when other
artists were taking baby-steps into abstraction, Jackson Pollock put down the
brush and picked up the paint, dripping and splashing it across the canvas in
expressive tangles and arcs. The film, adapted from Steven Naifeh and Gregory
White Smith's Pulitzer-Prize winning biography, flashes back to 1941 when
Pollock (Harris), then a starving New York City artist struggling against form and
alcoholism, first meets Lee Krasner (Marcia Gay Harden), the fellow painter
who eventually became his ...
Released:
2000
Rated:
R
Length:
122 mins