Pollock | | Cast : | Ed Harris, Marcia Gay Harden | | Director : | Ed Harris | | Studio : | Columbia/Tristar Studios | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, Dolby | | Released Date : | January 01, 2000 | | DVD Released Date : | July 24, 2001 | | Language : | French (Dubbed), French (Subtitled), English (Dubbed), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), English (Original Language) | | Audience Rating : | R (Restricted) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | August 06, 2005 | | Summary | Uninteresting one-dimensional characters, interesting art | Content
 | I have seen several films about Van Gogh, all which were fascinating. In each Van Gogh was a character that was portrayed in a manner that was human and who had ideas and humanity as well as a need to do art. By contrast, Harris' Pollock lacked any humanity, except for one scene where he takes a dog to a vet. And Pollock didn't seem to be someone who thought about life at all. He hardly cared about anyone and in the whole movie connected with no one with the exception of his wife, and that was far more a practical relationship than a love relationship. His wife Lee was portrayed as a generally uninteresting person as well. I was not drawn in by the film at all by any of the main characters. Pollock's gift to the world was his art; who he was and the life he lived were not worth making a movie of if this is the best the story can be told in film. |
| Rating | | | Date | August 03, 2005 | | Summary | Ed Harris is phenominal in this role | Content
| Ed Harris give a very powerful performance as Jackson Pollack.
The supporting cast is outstanding and the film does a very good job of evoking the feel of the time period through scenery, costumes and automobiles. The film captures the dark side of Pollack as he struggles with his many demons. It is not a "feel good" movies by any means, but should not be missed especially by those interested in the world of modern art in America in the mid-twentieth century. |
| Rating | | | Date | April 17, 2005 | | Summary | As good as its subject... | Content
| with an end just as pointless. Amazing performances by Ed Harris and Marcia Gay Harden - see it for her performance, if nothing else. She is fierce in her role as Lee Krasner.
This doesn't feel like watching a movie. It feels like looking in on someone's actual life. You'll ache for a happy ending, and grieve that it never comes. Highly recommended. |
| Rating | | | Date | March 18, 2005 | | Summary | The essential anguish! | Content
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Ed Harris is one of the most talented and real heavy weight character actors I the world. Even he owns a great repertoire of emotive range, facial expressions and expressive brightness, he has not yet persuaded to the members of the Jury to win a more than deserved Academy Award. Think in his incredible and amazing performance in The Hours for instance.
In this singular project, Harris caught the essential roots of this mesmerizing artist. The artistic direction was wonderfully good taste made. Marcia Gay Harden is overwhelming too. Pollock is shown in all his primitive nature, his creation process, his troubles with the alcohol and twist of character supported by a very kinetic frenzy. The dialogues are admirably well depicted and so his inner demons and his irreverent mood.
You must be absolutely immersed in those years to enjoy every frame of this portrait of one of the most fundamental icons in United States.
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| Rating | | | Date | January 04, 2005 | | Summary | There's you and the paintings, You Need, You Need! You Need! | Content
| Pollock is my favorite Ed Harris Movie, and it's also a good biopic about an artist that's as inspirational and moving as Frida, except it's not as visually inovative. Harris and Marcia Gay Harden are deeply penetrating, and their performances made it more compelling to watch this slow-paced film.
This film chronicles the life and death of America's first internationally-famous modern painter. Harden played Lee Krasner, a fellow artist and girlfriend to Pollock(Harris). She unconditionally supported him and wanted to help him gain recognition and success, even though she had to neglect her own career. Pollock's first show at Peggy Guggenhuiem's gallery was not well received, because people didn't like his style.
Krasner and Pollock got married and moved to the country side, there Pollock painted his best "spatter" work which ultimately propelled him to international stardom in the art world. At that point, he started to unravel emotionally. He started to lose hold of himself and creativity when Krasner refused to have a baby. Then he started to see another woman(Jennifer Connelly). Krasner couldn't take it anymore and decided to leave him unless he stops seeing her......
Marcia Gay Harden gave her most striking performance that was well-worthy of the Oscar she won. She was great in one of the fight scenes with Pollock. It goes like this: She just got out of the bath, and Pollock started to talk to her about making a baby. She gave him a very angry reaction. She shouted at him,"I am not going to bring another life into that! We are painters Pollock, we don't have any money, we don't get by, we struggle! You are a great painter! I believe in Jackson Pollock! There's you and the paintings, you need! you need! you need!......".That was an incredible scene and she was very mesmerizing.
Ed Harris did a great job at directing, acting, and producing of this film. It was a labour of love for him. I was very moved by the scene when he read a letter from Krasner after they had been separated. It was so sad that he was in pieces and nothing meant anything to him anymore. It's admirable that he was welling to put on as much as 30 lbs when his character got very fat from over drinking and eating.
As Krasner had said,"You have done it Pollock, you have cracked it wide open!" |
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