Stay for a post-screening talk with Carol Cruickshanks. Carol is a Michigan Scholar in College Teaching. Her career spans 40 years in a variety of venues in New England, Pennsylvania, 20 years with The College of New Jersey teaching Art History and Art Education. She is the Emerita Executive Director of New Hope Arts.
About the Film: Ed Harris directs and stars as Jackson Pollock, the American painter whose radical drip technique redefined modern art — and whose life came apart almost as fast as his career took off. Marcia Gay Harden won an Oscar for her role as Lee Krasner, the fiercely devoted artist who saw Pollock's talent before the world did — and paid the price for loving him.
The film traces Pollock's ascent from struggling artist to the face of a new American painting, without softening the alcoholism and self-destruction that ran alongside it. Harris spent years learning to paint in Pollock's style for the role, and the film's attention to craft — how the work actually got made — is one of its real strengths.A clear-eyed character study more than a conventional biopic.
Rated R, 2h2m