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	Pollock (2000) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		A film about the life and career of the American painter, Jackson Pollock.
		Although the skeleton of the film is no more than the troubled life of an alcoholic struggling with fame, the power of the acting and sequence of the film take it a step further.
		The relationship between Krasner and Pollock mirrors that of Stanley and Stella Kowalski but Krasner is a much stronger character and Marcia Gay Harden more than deserved the oscar she received for the part.
	www.imdb.com /Title?0183659 (361 words)

	Film \| What Pollock taught America
		In his 1956 film Lust for Life, released the year Pollock died in a car crash, Vincente Minnelli brings together the myth of the modern artist with that of the awkward outsider; the brilliant misfit.
		Like a Pollock painting, it is a visionary chaos, from the opening fantasia of helicopters, fire and trees, to Martin Sheen's narcissistic judo-dance in his hotel room, to the ritual slaughter of Brando.
		Pollock and Brando both saw themselves as native Americans; Pollock claimed his inspiration came from the Indian sand painters of the west, and Brando's Oscar was picked up by Native American activists.
	film.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,4414614-3181,00.html (1373 words)

	Pollock (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Jackson Pollock is shown in the film to be suffering from bipolar mood swings that are intensified by his abuse of alcohol.
		In the beginning of the film, Pollock is cared for by his brother and later the burden of dealing with his outbursts is taken on by his wife Lee Krasner.
		Pollock was a good example of how the mental illness was helpful to his work because he seems in the film to be a disturbed mental state when he gets into his painting.
	www.english.iup.edu /eaware/ArtTherapy/pollock.htm (329 words)

	zingmagazine 14: Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Pollock’s repeated flights from reality, his avoidance of looking directly, his silences, going blank or gazing into space, crying, shivering, exploding in anger, are ambiguous and hard to interpret.
		The Pollock film discloses the influence and power of the art market in the twentieth century, and centers on the conflicted relationship of husband and wife.
		Pollock’s demise was precipitated by his profuse drinking, his ceasing to paint and his brief love affair with the beautiful and young Ruth Kligman (Jennifer Connolly) in 1956.
	www.zingmagazine.com /zing14/review/09.html (1582 words)

	The Pollock Movie
		Pollock reflects this; not only does it have the feel of accuracy in every detail - particularly physical detail - but it is accuracy so adroitly managed that some of it seems almost thrown away rather than thrown at us.
		Pollock was one of the few artists Clem did not disparage in some way, except to strongly condemn him for the death of the girl in the final, fatal car accident and to reprove him because he did not "take care of his gift".
		When you look at the photographs of Pollock painting the tense poise, the mouth hanging half-open and the furrowed forehead with the downward-sloping protrusion on the outside of each eyebrow powerfully covey the desperate urgency of artmaking as a matter of life-or-death, because for Pollock it was.
	newcrit.art.wmich.edu /plain/DBpollock.html (1809 words)

	Pollock
		Film biographies of artists may be numerous, but it’s hard to think of many good ones – there’s Charlton Heston as a laughably heterosexual Michelangelo, or Kirk Douglas as an impossibly tall Van Gogh, to name only two of the more prominent and less illustrious examples.
		But the truth of the story keeps the film low to the ground, and it’s a compelling portrait of a destructive genius and his wife, who sacrifices much of her own artistic career to serve as his agent and babysitter and muse.
		We see lots of Pollock paintings, and much of the supplementary material is devoted to the tales of their creation – CGI effects were dismissed as too artificial, and so some fine scenic artists re-created the Pollock canvasses.
	www.dvdcorner.net /html/pollock.html (1045 words)

	Amazon.ca: Pollock (Widescreen): DVD: Ed Harris,Jennifer Connelly,Barbara Garrick,Marcia Gay Harden,John Heard,Val ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		The film also suggests that Pollock's success was largely attributable to the devotion of his wife, artist Lee Krasner, played with matching ferocity by Marcia Gay Harden in an Oscar®-winning performance.
		Pollock's meteoric rise to glory meant that he succumbed soon to common celebrity ills -- booze, promiscuity, temper -- and this is the area that the film seems to cast a dramatic wide-angle lens on.
		The medium shot of Pollock staring at the canvas (off to the left of the frame) while holding his paint brush in his right hand (which was centered in the middle of the frame).
	www.amazon.ca /Pollock-Widescreen-Ed-Harris/dp/B00005KHJJ (2264 words)

	Film Review - 'Pollock \| LJWorld.com
		The debate over Pollock's talent is likely to continue, but actor and first-time director Ed Harris ("The Truman Show") is well aware of one aspect of Pollock that makes his story cinematic: His technique was remarkably photogenic (it doesn't hurt that it is shot by ace cinematographer Lisa Rinzler, "Three Seasons").
		Because of his uniqueness, Pollock was one of the first American artists to get recognition on an international stage and also was one of the earliest to capture the popular imagination.
		Pollock's paintings may be reminiscent of something that gave one indigestion.
	www2.ljworld.com /news/2001/mar/08/film_review_pollock (855 words)

	DVD Review - Pollock (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		The film is "Pollock," a look at the life of abstract painter Jackson Pollock, a man whose emotional state was as bizarre and unpredictable as his paintings.
		"Pollock" may not be a film for everyone, but it is an excellent study in human psychology, as well as a nice excursion into modern arts that always remains tangible.
		Harris managed to condense the material to a film that is very approachable and no matter whether you are familiar with Jackson Pollock or his work, or not, the film will offer you insight into a world that is firmly locked away to most of us.
	www.dvdreview.com /fullreviews/pollock.shtml (1062 words)

	Jeff Beal.com SOUNDTRACK MAG INTERVIEW
		Beal's score for POLLOCK is an exuberant, passionate tribute to the tortured, brilliant artist Jackson Pollock, who changed the face and nature of contemporary art with his drip paintings in the 1950s.
		POLLOCK was a great example where this working style gave Ed and I the chance to refine the writing over a period of weeks.
		Pollock was ahead of minimalist music in the sense that he used a very repetitive visual rhythm in his paintings in the 40s and 50s.
	www.jeffbeal.com /Pages/PressPages/SoundtrackMagJB.html (2141 words)

	Pollock: Film Review di Guido Mezzabotta
		Through documentary film, photos, and recorded interviews, Harris learned the physical moves, the voice, and the artist's famous splatter technique.
		After meeting Pollock and viewing his work, she decides to end her career and devote her life to his hidden genius.
		"Pollock" is a remarkable achievement and a sensitive portrait of a truly great artist.
	members.optusnet.com.au /~thesquiz/pollock.htm (573 words)

	DVD Review - Ed Harris
		The film must be a very personal one for you, since you produced, directed and acted.
		Especially with biographic films it is always hard to condense the immense wealth of information and facets of the personality into a 2-hour movie in order to properly do justice to the person depicted.
		The music of the film plays an important part in “Pollock,” creating a certain emotional attachment of the viewer to the character, even if viewers may not always understand his state of mind.
	www.dvdreview.com /html/dvd_review_-_ed_harris.html (1190 words)

	The DVD Journal: Pollock (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Jackson Pollock was a great painter, in the original sense of the word — one of the greatest American artists of all time, in fact.
		Pollock's career was famously short, ending in a fatal car crash when he was 44 years old.
		After a brief flout, we hear Lee shrieking, "POLLOCK!" the next morning, as she rails at the sleepy, hungover Jackson while he mutters, "You were blocked — I was trying to help." The ensuing fit of rage that she throws is every bit the equal of one of Pollock's.
	www.dvdjournal.com /reviews/p/pollock.shtml (2115 words)

	Pollock Website - Production
		Pollock's need for approval bordered on the psychopathic and yet his even deeper need to create art that had no hint of the lie about it, drove him to make art that had never been made before and was certainly fair game for ridicule and abuse.
		But Pollock's toughest critic was himself and he knew that only he knew what was pure and true and real as far as his own work was concerned.
		"Pollock" was filmed primarily in New York City and on the Pollock/Krasner property in East Hampton, Long Island.
	www.sonyclassics.com /pollock/production/production.html (1675 words)

	WebMuseum: Pollock, Jackson
		Pollock's name is also associated with the introduction of the All-over style of painting which avoids any points of emphasis or identifiable parts within the whole canvas and therefore abandons the traditional idea of composition in terms of relations among parts.
		In 1944 Pollock married Lee Krasner (1911-84), who was an Abstract Expressionist painter of some distinction, although it was only after her husband's death that she received serious critical recognition.
		Pollock would fix his canvas to the floor and drip paint from a can using a variety of objects to manipulate the paint.
	www.ibiblio.org /wm/paint/auth/pollock (879 words)

	BBC - Films - review - Pollock
		It took Harris ten years to bring Jackson Pollock's story to the screen, and the result is a highly personal, rigorous, and thoughtful analysis of a truly troubled genius.
		Beginning with a shot of Pollock at the height of his success, giving an autograph to the woman with whom he would eventually die in a car crash, the movie backtracks nine years to find him struggling to make his mark in 40s New York.
		Prone to self-doubt, impotent rage, and drunkenness, Pollock is rescued from his demons by Lee Krasner (Harden), a fellow painter who becomes his wife, confidante, and most tireless champion.
	www.bbc.co.uk /films/2001/03/30/pollock_2000_review.shtml (354 words)

	Pollock (2000): Ed Harris, Marcia Gay Harden, Amy Madigan, Jeffrey Tambor - PopMatters Film Review
		Pollock becomes increasingly frustrated with Namuth's attempts to script his painting, particularly when Namuth insists Pollock paint on a glass panel so he can film both painting and artist's face at the same time.
		In Pollock, it is not so much through Jackson Pollock but Lee Krasner that the relationship of artist to the creative process is portrayed with the most complexity and originality, despite, or rather because of, the fact that Krasner's artistic life is put on the back burner for the sake of Pollock's.
		And while this might simply be because Pollock is not at all concerned with her artistic fame, nonetheless, the film's reticence in regards to Krasner's art and life is almost refreshing in contrast to its overproduction of Pollock's.
	popmatters.com /film/reviews/p/pollock.shtml (1306 words)

	Sex, Bullets & Popcorn: Charles Schoellenbach reviews the film Pollock. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Abstract painter Jackson Pollock, played by Ed Harris (Harris also directed the movie), is portrayed as a Promethean character experiencing the wrath of the gods for enlightening the world with his drip paintings of visual chaos.
		The deliberate manner of the film accompanied by a score resembling an Aaron Copland composition is contrary to the precarious immediacy of the man’s life depicted on the screen.
		Pollock in Harris’ film is practically incidental, a part that needed to be filled, which was quickly used up and at the end discarded.
	www.sbp-movie-reviews.com /rev_pollock.htm (1362 words)

	Jackson Pollock - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Pollock was introduced to the use of liquid paint in 1936, at an experimental workshop operated in New York City by the Mexican muralist David Alfaro Siqueiros.
		Pollock’s finest paintings… reveal that his all-over line does not give rise to positive or negative areas: we are not made to feel that one part of the canvas demands to be read as figure, whether abstract or representational, against another part of the canvas read as ground.
		Pollock is mentioned briefly in the lyrics "Jackson Pollock throwin' multi-colored thoughts at a rapid pace" of the song 'To Bob Ross With Love' by the Gym Class Heroes.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jackson_Pollock (2141 words)

	CityBeat: Lust for the Artist's Life·Film (2000-12-14)
		For Harris, Pollock is a film that attempts to portray its arts protagonist culturally, historically and artistically.
		Telling Pollock's story had become somewhat of an obsession for Harris, so it was important to balance the fine line between accurate storytelling, homage and pastiche.
		One of the genius things about Pollock is that he recaptured that innocence and that lack of manipulation by the brain in terms of allowing some purity to come out when he was working.
	www.citybeat.com /2000-12-14/cover6.shtml (951 words)

	Jackson Pollock
		The works are displayed in more or less chronological order so the genesis and development of Pollock's style may be observed, from his first images of figures and animals through the classic "drip" period, to his last disturbing works.
		By 1947 Pollock arrived at his signature painting technique, which involved pouring, dripping and flinging paint onto large canvases, creating densely filled works that are often exhilarating in their sense of freedom and blindingly complex as well.
		Pollock's last years were exploring a variety of new approaches, including brush work, creating surprisingly light, clear colored and almost pretty paintings such as Easter and the Totem.
	www.culturevulture.net /ArtandArch/Pollack.htm (461 words)

	Flak Magazine: Review of Pollock, 2-18-01
		Pollock unsympathetically follows the artist from his near-anonymity when he and wife Lee Krasner (Marcia Gay Harden) first meet, through the height of his artistic powers, all the way to his has-been, alcohol-filled final days.
		Though the film's speculation that Pollock's technique was born of accident is somewhat bold and ridiculous, it's no less fascinating to watch Harris-as-Pollock, drizzling and splashing paint from brushes that never touch the canvas.
		When Pollock goes off the deep end and flips over a dining room table, Harris' audience feels worse for Krasner, who it knows will be the one to take care of this mess and put poor Jackson to bed.
	flakmag.com /film/pollock.html (921 words)

	The Austin Chronicle Film Listings
		The film opens in November 1941, with Pollock, drunk, in a Greenwich Village stairwell, hollering “Fuck Picasso” at the top of his lungs, which is as good a way to start the film as any.
		The heart of Harris' film -- as it was for Pollock -- is in the actual sweaty work of painting, the uncorking of the Djinn within that allowed the artist temporary sanctuary from his demons.
		Pollock is that rare breed, a biopic that makes you want to learn more about its subject, as much as you can, as fast as you can.
	www.austinchronicle.com /gyrobase/Calendar/Film?Film=oid:141030 (864 words)

	Orlando Weekly - Film Review - Pollock (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		A reception is taking place in Pollock's honor, and his eyes are wide with what should be delight but instead looks closer to sheer terror.
		That fleeting vignette is a tantalizing bit of foreshadowing, the appetizer for a limited yet liberating biography that follows its subject from his creative emergence in the Greenwich Village of the early 1940s to his death behind the wheel of a drunkenly piloted auto in 1956.
		In the hands of the incomparable Ed Harris, Pollock is all primal instinct, responsive to the rich sensations of jazz, booze and (of course) art, but deathly uncomfortable with the simplest demands of social interaction.
	www.orlandoweekly.com /film/review.asp?rid=5344 (579 words)

	PopMatters \| Film \| Interviews \| Ed Harris - Pollock (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Pollock's interviews in the film, even though they're not precisely when and where they took place in life, are useful in this sense of unifying the film.
		It would be nice at some point to make a film and not feel like you have to talk about it.
		That speaks to what goes on in the film, or in art more generally, that at its best, it can be a way to communicate without explaining, an opening up rather than a definition.
	popmatters.com /film/interviews/harris-ed.shtml (2279 words)

	GOLDEN Plays Supporting Role in "Pollock" the Movie
		Research of both the materials used by Pollock, as well as his techniques and methodologies for painting, were critical to understanding the nature of the custom paints required for the film.
		This was primarily due to Pollock's unique uses of such materials as house- paints and roof coatings as an artist's material.
		Pollock was part of a group of artists that borrowed materials from industrial sources for use in fine art.
	www.goldenpaints.com /justpaint/jp8article4.php (579 words)

	Film Quips \| POLLOCK
		artist Jackson Pollock, whose style knocked the art world on its ear for a short period, the film pays tribute to the genius of a man with the courage and the talent to pursue his own vision rather than follow the trends of the time.
		The film basically recounts the 15-year period between the early '40s and the mid '50s when Pollock (played by director Harris) rose from obscurity to equal if not surpass his main rival, Pablo Picasso, as one of the primary artistic forces in the world.
		Krasner, an artist herself, not only had to live in the shadow of her famous husband (whose success could arguably be attributed, at least in part, to her influence), but also was forced to endure his often humiliating behavior.
	www.filmquipsonline.com /pollock.html (551 words)

	Pollack
		The story of angry, moody, modernist painter Jackson Pollock, the film traces Pollock's career from those hungry days in the 1940s when he shared an apartment with his brother's family to the height of his fame.
		Pollock's alcohol abuse gets in his way and adds to his frustration in search of an artistic voice and critical recognition.
		Pollock (as portrayed) is himself nothing more than a boor, hungry for success, full of himself.
	www.filmsondisc.com /dvdpages/pollock.htm (759 words)

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