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...POLLOCK...
There are two things you have to say about Jackson Pollock: he figured out a way to paint as no one before him ever had, and he was, as a human being, a shambles--drunken, depressed, disloyal and near to moronically inarticulate. The only way to approach his short and miserable life (he died in a possibly suicidal car crash at age 44) is as an insoluble mystery, and that's precisely what Harris, the star, director and co-producer of Pollock, does...
Harris' great performance has a kind of blank grimness; it contains not a single moment of charm or self-awareness. Harris never allows his exhibitions of Pollock's inexplicable gift to soften or redeem the man's monstrousness. The result is a harrowing film, impossible to "like" in any conventional way, hypnotically impossible to turn away from...
...Pollock Starring: Ed Harris, Marcia Gay Harden Director: Ed Harris Opens: Dec. 15 in N.Y. and L.A.; wide...
There are two things you have to say about Jackson Pollock: He figured out a way to paint as no one before him ever had, and he was, as a human being, a shambles - drunken, depressed, disloyal and near to moronically inarticulate. The only way to approach his short and miserable life (he died in a possibly suicidal car crash at age 44) is as an insoluble mystery, and that's precisely what Harris, the star, director and co-producer of Pollock, does. The script by Barbara Turner and Susan J. Emshwiller offers no explanation of the painter's dysfunction...