Pollock

Pollock is a really good movie. Ed Harris is groovy when it comes to playing artist Jackson Pollock. I love Marcia Gay Hardin in that film, too. She plays his wife, who is also an artist.... Full review

This was a very dissapointing movie. I have a Degree in Fine Art and have done alot of research on Pollock. In my opinion, this movie came no where close to what Jackson Pollock's life would have been like. For a... Full review

Adapted from the biography ‘Jackson Pollock: An American Saga’ written by Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith. The film focuses on the trials and tribulations of modernist Jackson Pollock, a pioneer in the field of abstract impressionistic painting that influenced artists... Full review

I hate the main character too much to analyze the movie. The alcohol, the affair, the nigh-murder and suicide. I can't believe his poor paintings are acclaimed. I would have graded the movie an F, but there's probably a worse movie... Full review

Jackson Pollock was not a likable person. He was an alcoholic, an adulterer, an egotist and simply a plain jerk. He also was a pioneer in the field of modern art, so he became famous and hence, even had this... Full review

This movie had a lot of nothing going on. The scenes in which he was painting were memorable but the other bits were vert forgettable. A drunk and unfaithful man sells art for millions....how original. Only get if you love art... Full review

a good film, though perhaps i was expecting a little more. The psyche of a troubled artist is somewhat predestined these days and maybe it is just that our assumptions are correct as they are all portrayed in a predictable... Full review

I watched this having heard of Jackson Pollock here and there over the years and more recently through some of those funky art programs like "Art 21" and "This is Modern Art". I knew what Pollock looked like, and the... Full review

...about an artist. This movie shows the ups and downs to being a painter and it is very inspiring for someone like me who is planning on becoming an artist. Brilliant movie and one of my favorite movies of all times.... Full review

I really loved this movie. I didn't really know anything about Jackson Pollock before I saw this movie, and I was suprisingly impressed by his work (normally I don't find anything interesting in abstract art). The movie was EXTREMELY well directed,... Full review

most of the film, understated.....In fact, through the years his acting has also been commendable....Jeremy Irons is great, the intellectual, cultured psychopathic robber baron type who plays chess with you one minute....the shots and the result is a tidy set of images.... ... Full Review

The film is beautifully shot by Mr. Harris, tackling a dual role as director. Mr. Harris gets a glint of inspiration in his eye and suddenly he's vigorously throwing colors with masterful control. ... Full Review

Biopics based on artist's lives so often make for great film.....Pollock presents a rare and graceful film insight into the artistic process where other artist biopics have not.....There is the mythology, the melodrama and usually, the disastrous personal behaviour for ecstatic screenwriters to toy....not only is he one of America's best actors but a fine filmmaker as well..... ... Full Review

Harris portrays Pollock as a raging alcoholic, frequently given to outbursts of rage or humiliating public display, such as urinating on the fire at a dinner party or drunkenly insulting his guests. The film begins in New York in 1941, at the point when Pollock meets Lee Krasner (Marcia Gay Harden), the woman who nurtures and develops his career as an artist by introducing him to the New York art world, and who later becomes his wife. ... Full Review

Pollock's" key achievement, besides blowing jazz and breathing fire into an American master, is its demonstration of how two actors can render scenes from a hellish marriage. A LIVING HELL What the film lacks in biographical detail it makes up for in its personification of the '40s New York art ethos. ... Full Review