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Art (on) Film
Pollock
2000 – USA – 2hrs 2min – color – 35mm – dir: Ed Harris
Troubled artist Jackson Pollock turned the art world on its ear with his ground-breaking abstract-expressionist paintings. As played by Ed Harris, he’s alternately neurotic, misogynistic and brilliant. This engaging film follows Pollock from the launch of his career by Peggy Guggenheim through his marriage to fellow artist Lee Krasner (a union tested by his infidelity and alcoholism) to recognition by the art world.
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