Pollock (film)
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| Directed by | Ed Harris |
| Starring | Ed Harris Marcia Gay Harden |
| Music by | Jeff Beal |
| Cinematography | Lisa Rinzler |
| Editing by | Kathryn Himoff |
| Release date(s) | September 6, 2000 |
| Running time | 122 min |
| Language | English |
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Pollock is a 2000 biographical film which tells the life story of artist Jackson Pollock. It stars Ed Harris, Jennifer Connelly, Robert Knott, Bud Cort, Molly Regan, Marcia Gay Harden and Sada Thompson.
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[edit] Cast
- Ed Harris as Jackson Pollock
- Marcia Gay Harden as Lee Krasner
- Tom Bower as Dan Miller
- Jennifer Connelly as Ruth Kligman
- Bud Cort as Howard Putzel
- John Heard as Tony Smith
- Val Kilmer as Willem de Kooning
- Amy Madigan as Peggy Guggenheim
- Sally Murphy as Edith Metzger
- Stephanie Seymour as Helen Frankenthaler
- Matthew Sussman as Reuben Kadish
- Jeffrey Tambor as Clement Greenberg
- Norbert Weisser as Hans Namuth
- Everett Quinton as James Johnson Sweeney
- John Rothman as Harold Rosenberg
- Kenny Scharf as William Baziotes
[edit] Production
The movie was adapted by Barbara Turner and Susan Emshwiller from the book Jackson Pollock: An American Saga by Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith. It was directed by Harris.
This film was a long term dream of Ed Harris.[1] After his father gave him a copy of Pollock's biography, he started thinking about the project, which took almost 10 years to bring to fruition.
Filming took a mere 50 days with a six week layoff after forty days so Harris could take time to gain thirty pounds and grow a beard.[2]
Harris himself did all the painting seen in the film. [2]
[edit] Awards
Marcia Gay Harden won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for portraying Lee Krasner, Pollock's wife.[3]. Ed Harris was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor.[3]
Harden was also nominated at the Independent Spirit Awards and won at the New York Film Critics Circle Awards.[3]
[edit] References
- ^ Sony Pictures production notes. http://www.sonypictures.com/classics/pollock/
- ^ a b Interview with Ed Harris at DVDtalk
- ^ a b c IMDB awards
[edit] External links
- Pollock at the Internet Movie Database
- Breathing fire into an artist
- Ed Harris interview at IndieWire
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