POLLOCK
A film by Ed Harris
w/ Ed Harris, Marcia Gay Harden, Amy Madigan
Including a Q & A discussion via live zoom with Director / Actor Ed Harris and CineMania’s Scott Garen.
When Jackson Pollock emerged on the scene, Life Magazine asked “Is Jackson Pollock the greatest living painter in the United States?” Nearly 50 years later, Pollock’s Number 17A sold for a new World record of $140-million dollars.
In 2000, Ed Harris explored the depths of Pollock’s life and creative process through a film that has been hailed as the best dramatic film ever made about an artist. The film is a look back into this complex man who has been called an artist dedicated to concealment – a celebrity who nobody knew. Struggling with self-doubt, engaging in a tug-of-war between his need to express himself and his desire to shut the world out, Pollock began a downward spiral into alcoholism while breaking the glass ceiling of abstract art. Out of the maelstrom of his life, Pollock created paintings the likes of which had never been seen – and have never been duplicated.
Ed Harris dove head-first into this film with a total commitment to reveal the truth about Pollock’s life, the demons that haunted him, and the genius of his talent. Ed started thinking about this film 15 years before its making. He commissioned the screenplay. He raised the money. He starred in it and directed it with a ferocity that equaled the ferocity of his subject.
The supporting characters are all excellent and fully-fleshed-out, including Marcia Gay Harden as Lee Krasner, who discovers and marries Pollock, and who won an Academy Award for her performance. Amy Madigan (Ed’s real-life wife) plays the tempestuous Peggy Guggenheim who collects Pollock’s art and launches his career, with Jeffrey Tambor, Jennifer Connelly and Santa Fe’s own Val Kilmer playing Willem de Kooning.
w/ Ed Harris, Marcia Gay Harden, Amy Madigan
Including a Q & A discussion via live zoom with Director / Actor Ed Harris and CineMania’s Scott Garen.
When Jackson Pollock emerged on the scene, Life Magazine asked “Is Jackson Pollock the greatest living painter in the United States?” Nearly 50 years later, Pollock’s Number 17A sold for a new World record of $140-million dollars.
In 2000, Ed Harris explored the depths of Pollock’s life and creative process through a film that has been hailed as the best dramatic film ever made about an artist. The film is a look back into this complex man who has been called an artist dedicated to concealment – a celebrity who nobody knew. Struggling with self-doubt, engaging in a tug-of-war between his need to express himself and his desire to shut the world out, Pollock began a downward spiral into alcoholism while breaking the glass ceiling of abstract art. Out of the maelstrom of his life, Pollock created paintings the likes of which had never been seen – and have never been duplicated.
Ed Harris dove head-first into this film with a total commitment to reveal the truth about Pollock’s life, the demons that haunted him, and the genius of his talent. Ed started thinking about this film 15 years before its making. He commissioned the screenplay. He raised the money. He starred in it and directed it with a ferocity that equaled the ferocity of his subject.
The supporting characters are all excellent and fully-fleshed-out, including Marcia Gay Harden as Lee Krasner, who discovers and marries Pollock, and who won an Academy Award for her performance. Amy Madigan (Ed’s real-life wife) plays the tempestuous Peggy Guggenheim who collects Pollock’s art and launches his career, with Jeffrey Tambor, Jennifer Connelly and Santa Fe’s own Val Kilmer playing Willem de Kooning.
