As Oscar rituals become ever more calcified, the biggest news when the annual nominations are announced is not necessarily who’s made the cut but rather who’s been snubbed. While a nom is worth a momentary celebration, a snub can turn into weeks, if not years, of outraged commentary. Nominations, and even wins, are often soon forgotten. But a snub can be eternal. For example, die-hard Barbra Streisand fans haven’t forgiven the Academy for denying her directing noms for either 1983’s Yentl (for which she won a Golden Globe) or 1991’s The Prince of Tides (a best picture nominee) even as it showered gold on male stars like Robert Redford (Ordinary People) and Kevin Costner (Dances With Wolves) for their directorial debuts.
But not all so-called “snubs” are so obvious. In fact, the very word now suffers from overuse since it implies Academy members somehow get together and...
But not all so-called “snubs” are so obvious. In fact, the very word now suffers from overuse since it implies Academy members somehow get together and...
- 2/20/2023
- by Gregg Kilday
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The most fun moments of watching the Oscars are always the surprises.
The unexpected wins from dark horses are always so much more thrilling than predictable outcomes.
It's not that the winners were undeserving -- it's often that their wins seemed to come out of nowhere.
With prognosticators having Oscar predictions down to a science, anything remotely surprising is a rare treat.
Here are some of the most shocking wins that left us with our jaws on the floor!
Adrien Brody (Best Actor In A Leading Role) in The Pianist
Brody was the only Oscar-less member of his cohort when he won for his role as Holocaust survivor Władysław Szpilman.
Up against Jack Nicholson, Nicolas Cage, Michael Caine, and Daniel Day-Lewis, Brody's win made him the youngest Best Actor in the history of the Oscars, at age 29.
Unfortunately, his behavior is what most people remember about his win -- when...
The unexpected wins from dark horses are always so much more thrilling than predictable outcomes.
It's not that the winners were undeserving -- it's often that their wins seemed to come out of nowhere.
With prognosticators having Oscar predictions down to a science, anything remotely surprising is a rare treat.
Here are some of the most shocking wins that left us with our jaws on the floor!
Adrien Brody (Best Actor In A Leading Role) in The Pianist
Brody was the only Oscar-less member of his cohort when he won for his role as Holocaust survivor Władysław Szpilman.
Up against Jack Nicholson, Nicolas Cage, Michael Caine, and Daniel Day-Lewis, Brody's win made him the youngest Best Actor in the history of the Oscars, at age 29.
Unfortunately, his behavior is what most people remember about his win -- when...
- 1/30/2023
- by Mary Littlejohn
- TVfanatic
Aubrey Plaza has apparently done some unusual research ahead of her Saturday Night Live hosting debut.
Following the NBC comedy series’ month-long hiatus, the White Lotus star will be the first SNL host of 2023 when she leads the Jan. 21 episode alongside musical guest Sam Smith. The previous episode, with Elvis star Austin Butler and Lizzo, aired Dec. 17 and featured SNL mainstay Cecily Strong’s final appearance as a regular castmember.
In a promo released Wednesday, Plaza compliments castmember Chloe Fineman on her talent for impersonating such celebrities as Drew Barrymore before offering to perform a few of her own.
“Chloe, you’re not the only one who can do impressions,” the Emily the Criminal actress boasts. She then recites a few key lines from Marcia Gay Harden’s Oscar-winning role as Lee Krasner in 2000’s Ed Harris-starring drama Pollock.
After Fineman describes the performance as “a little intense,” Plaza...
Following the NBC comedy series’ month-long hiatus, the White Lotus star will be the first SNL host of 2023 when she leads the Jan. 21 episode alongside musical guest Sam Smith. The previous episode, with Elvis star Austin Butler and Lizzo, aired Dec. 17 and featured SNL mainstay Cecily Strong’s final appearance as a regular castmember.
In a promo released Wednesday, Plaza compliments castmember Chloe Fineman on her talent for impersonating such celebrities as Drew Barrymore before offering to perform a few of her own.
“Chloe, you’re not the only one who can do impressions,” the Emily the Criminal actress boasts. She then recites a few key lines from Marcia Gay Harden’s Oscar-winning role as Lee Krasner in 2000’s Ed Harris-starring drama Pollock.
After Fineman describes the performance as “a little intense,” Plaza...
- 1/19/2023
- by Ryan Gajewski
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
This week’s 20 Questions On Deadline guest is Marcia Gay Harden.
In a chat covering her love for celebrity psychotherapist Esther Perel, Oprah and Clint Eastwood, Harden delves into her regrets and delights, and with touching honesty reveals an all-too-common lifelong struggle with feelings of shame.
She also picks the actress who would play her in the biopic of her life, what TV show she would take into her nuclear bunker and how she bit a hole in her tongue the first time she met Eastwood.
Recently Emmy-nominated for her guest role on limited series The Morning Show, Harden’s storied career has seen her win an Academy Award for playing Lee Krasner in the film Pollock, and later Oscar-nominated for her role in Mystic River. She also won a Tony for her work in the play God of Carnage.
Her latest film, Confess, Fletch, is in theaters and streaming starting today.
In a chat covering her love for celebrity psychotherapist Esther Perel, Oprah and Clint Eastwood, Harden delves into her regrets and delights, and with touching honesty reveals an all-too-common lifelong struggle with feelings of shame.
She also picks the actress who would play her in the biopic of her life, what TV show she would take into her nuclear bunker and how she bit a hole in her tongue the first time she met Eastwood.
Recently Emmy-nominated for her guest role on limited series The Morning Show, Harden’s storied career has seen her win an Academy Award for playing Lee Krasner in the film Pollock, and later Oscar-nominated for her role in Mystic River. She also won a Tony for her work in the play God of Carnage.
Her latest film, Confess, Fletch, is in theaters and streaming starting today.
- 9/17/2022
- by Antonia Blyth
- Deadline Film + TV
Today, many consider Jackson Pollock to be one of the greatest painters to have ever lived. His famous drip technique is recognized as a revolutionary turning point in abstract art, and his paintings sell for many millions of dollars, but the artist never experienced that kind of financial success during his lifetime. In spite of the larger-than-life genius label the painter comes with now, Pollock spent most of his life struggling with poverty, manic depression, and alcoholism, and it was only through painting that Pollock was able to battle his demons.
Back in the late '80s, after receiving a book on Pollock from his father, Academy Award nominee Ed Harris became fascinated by the life and work of the late artist. After reading several biographies and studying the work of Pollock, Harris was interested in portraying the artist in a movie, but over the next decade, Harris' interest in the late painter's life intensified.
Back in the late '80s, after receiving a book on Pollock from his father, Academy Award nominee Ed Harris became fascinated by the life and work of the late artist. After reading several biographies and studying the work of Pollock, Harris was interested in portraying the artist in a movie, but over the next decade, Harris' interest in the late painter's life intensified.
- 9/9/2022
- by Christian Gainey
- Slash Film
Marcia Gay Harden was up against some stiff competition in 2001, the year she won the Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for “Pollock.” In her winning turn as painter Lee Krasner, Harden had to contend with Judi Dench for “Chocolat,” Kate Hudson and Frances McDormand for “Almost Famous,” and Julie Walters for “Billy Elliot.” In a new interview with Vulture, Harden implies there was one nominee who wasn’t so happy over her surprise win that night.
“It’s new blood. It just felt great,” she said of the unexpected win. “And by the way, I felt the girls were really happy for me as well. There was one I will not mention — but it wasn’t Kate — who seemingly wasn’t so happy.”
When pressed further by writer Matt Jacobs, Harden ruled out Julie Walters, and said “I’m friends with Frances McDormand. There you go,” leaving only Judi Dench as the only possibility.
“It’s new blood. It just felt great,” she said of the unexpected win. “And by the way, I felt the girls were really happy for me as well. There was one I will not mention — but it wasn’t Kate — who seemingly wasn’t so happy.”
When pressed further by writer Matt Jacobs, Harden ruled out Julie Walters, and said “I’m friends with Frances McDormand. There you go,” leaving only Judi Dench as the only possibility.
- 4/10/2021
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
There’s a spectacular contradiction at the heart of art forgery. Forgeries, which pretend to be paintings by timeless artists, hang in museums all over the world; there are more of them than anyone knows, all hiding in plain sight. When a case of forgery comes to light, it tends to be greeted with moral outrage. The act of imitating a famous artist’s work, and profiting off it, is seen as a sleazy low-life con, as well as a major crime. Yet art forgery isn’t just about the eye candy of duplicity and profit. As Orson Welles caught in his jump-cut meditation “F for Fake” (1973), there’s a fantasy behind it: What if you had the daring, and the talent, to produce a fake work of art so drop-dead authentic that no one alive could tell it was fake? There’s an audacity to that, a kind of grand illusion.
- 2/24/2021
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
While it is rare for a long performance to win a Best Supporting Actress Oscar, a fair amount of them have. The average screen time for winners in the category is 28 minutes and five seconds, with over one third of them surpassing 30 minutes. Here is a look at the 10 longest winners of all time. (And here’s the list of the 10 shortest winning performances for Best Supporting Actress.)
10. Katina Paxinou (“For Whom the Bell Tolls”)
43 minutes, 41 seconds (26.46% of the film)
The Greek theatre actress made history in 1944 with her debut film role as anti-fascist guerrilla fighter Pilar. She triumphed at the first ever Golden Globes ceremony and set a new record for longest performance to win in the Best Supporting Actress Oscar category, which she went on to hold for eight years.
9. Kim Hunter (“A Streetcar Named Desire”)
44 minutes, 52 seconds (35.97% of the film)
While Hunter’s role as abused wife...
10. Katina Paxinou (“For Whom the Bell Tolls”)
43 minutes, 41 seconds (26.46% of the film)
The Greek theatre actress made history in 1944 with her debut film role as anti-fascist guerrilla fighter Pilar. She triumphed at the first ever Golden Globes ceremony and set a new record for longest performance to win in the Best Supporting Actress Oscar category, which she went on to hold for eight years.
9. Kim Hunter (“A Streetcar Named Desire”)
44 minutes, 52 seconds (35.97% of the film)
While Hunter’s role as abused wife...
- 12/24/2020
- by Matthew Stewart
- Gold Derby
Indie veteran lining up development and production fund.
Rose Ganguzza, the New York producer of summer release Fatima, has unveiled a Rose Pictures development slate that includes new work from the directors of How To Build A Girl and Grudge.
Ganguzza, a veteran of the independent space whose producing credits include Margin Call and Kill Your Darlings, has partnered on the content pipeline for 2021 with Max Born, a producer The Devil All The Time, and Jake Alden Falconer, a producer on summer horror film 1Br.
As Fatima – the film released by Bob and Jeanne Berney’s Picturehouse – ranks in the...
Rose Ganguzza, the New York producer of summer release Fatima, has unveiled a Rose Pictures development slate that includes new work from the directors of How To Build A Girl and Grudge.
Ganguzza, a veteran of the independent space whose producing credits include Margin Call and Kill Your Darlings, has partnered on the content pipeline for 2021 with Max Born, a producer The Devil All The Time, and Jake Alden Falconer, a producer on summer horror film 1Br.
As Fatima – the film released by Bob and Jeanne Berney’s Picturehouse – ranks in the...
- 11/4/2020
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Indie veteran lining up development and production fund.
Rose Ganguzza, the New York producer of summer release Fatima, has unveiled a Rose Pictures development slate that includes new work from the directors of How To Build A Girl and Grudge.
Ganguzza, a veteran of the independent space whose producing credits include Margin Call and Kill Your Darlings, has partnered on the content pipeline for 2021 with Max Born, a producer The Devil All The Time, and Jake Alden Falconer, a producer on summer horror film 1Br.
As Fatima – the film released by Bob and Jeanne Berney’s Picturehouse – ranks in the...
Rose Ganguzza, the New York producer of summer release Fatima, has unveiled a Rose Pictures development slate that includes new work from the directors of How To Build A Girl and Grudge.
Ganguzza, a veteran of the independent space whose producing credits include Margin Call and Kill Your Darlings, has partnered on the content pipeline for 2021 with Max Born, a producer The Devil All The Time, and Jake Alden Falconer, a producer on summer horror film 1Br.
As Fatima – the film released by Bob and Jeanne Berney’s Picturehouse – ranks in the...
- 11/4/2020
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
The coronavirus pandemic shut down film and TV productions across Hollywood, which resulted in the postponement of National Geographic‘s “Genius: Aretha,” but the cable network has moved up another limited series. “Barkskins” is an eight-part series based on a novel by Annie Proulx and starring David Thewlis and Marcia Gay Harden. It will premiere on Memorial Day, May 25, and will air two episodes per week over four weeks. So it could take “Aretha’s” place in the Emmy race.
SEEAfter a ‘Free Solo’ sweep, can Nat Geo strike Emmy gold again with Oscar nominee ‘The Cave[/link]’?
The series tells the story of a mysterious massacre in 17th century Canada, which threatens to throw the region into war. Creator and executive producer Elwood Reid said in a statement, “‘Barkskins’ is a primeval story of survival and the quest to build a civilization out of the endless forest. The settlers who...
SEEAfter a ‘Free Solo’ sweep, can Nat Geo strike Emmy gold again with Oscar nominee ‘The Cave[/link]’?
The series tells the story of a mysterious massacre in 17th century Canada, which threatens to throw the region into war. Creator and executive producer Elwood Reid said in a statement, “‘Barkskins’ is a primeval story of survival and the quest to build a civilization out of the endless forest. The settlers who...
- 4/13/2020
- by Daniel Montgomery
- Gold Derby
“Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” creators Amy Sherman-Palladino and her husband Daniel Palladino are developing a drama series about female abstract artists in the 20th century for Amazon Studios, TheWrap has learned.
The tech giant has optioned the rights to Mary Gabriel’s 2018 book “Ninth Street Women” for the Palladinos to develop as the couple’s latest project under their overall deal with the studio, which they renewed in February.
Here’s the official description for the novel, a New York Times Critics’ Top Book of 2018: Set amid the most turbulent social and political period of modern times, “Ninth Street Women” is the impassioned, wild, sometimes tragic, always exhilarating chronicle of five women, Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell and Helen Frankenthaler, who dared to enter the male-dominated world of twentieth-century abstract painting — not as muses but as artists. These women changed American art and society, tearing up...
The tech giant has optioned the rights to Mary Gabriel’s 2018 book “Ninth Street Women” for the Palladinos to develop as the couple’s latest project under their overall deal with the studio, which they renewed in February.
Here’s the official description for the novel, a New York Times Critics’ Top Book of 2018: Set amid the most turbulent social and political period of modern times, “Ninth Street Women” is the impassioned, wild, sometimes tragic, always exhilarating chronicle of five women, Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell and Helen Frankenthaler, who dared to enter the male-dominated world of twentieth-century abstract painting — not as muses but as artists. These women changed American art and society, tearing up...
- 4/24/2019
- by Jennifer Maas
- The Wrap
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’s Emmy-winning EPs, Amy Sherman-Palladino and Daniel Palladino, have designs on the modern art scene, having optioned the non-fiction book Ninth Street Women for their next Amazon project.
Released in 2018, the Mary Gabriel-penned work chronicles the lives of five women — Lee Krasner (wife of Jackson Pollack), Elaine de Kooning (wife of Willem de Kooning), Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell and Helen Frankenthaler — “who dared to enter the male-dominated world of 20th-Century abstract painting — not as muses, but as artists,” according to the book’s official logline. “These women changed American art and society, tearing up the prevailing...
Released in 2018, the Mary Gabriel-penned work chronicles the lives of five women — Lee Krasner (wife of Jackson Pollack), Elaine de Kooning (wife of Willem de Kooning), Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell and Helen Frankenthaler — “who dared to enter the male-dominated world of 20th-Century abstract painting — not as muses, but as artists,” according to the book’s official logline. “These women changed American art and society, tearing up the prevailing...
- 4/24/2019
- TVLine.com
Obscure Objects of Desire: The Films of Luis Buñuel is showing March 12 – May 23, 2019 on Mubi in the United Kingdom.“Luis was a jealous macho. His wife had to be a kind-of child woman who had not matured,” said Jeanne Rucar, Luis Buñuel’s wife, summing up their marriage. Rucar’s personal note has surprising bearing on the director’s oeuvre. Vicious, dreamlike, sly, witty, deviant—Buñuel the artist was all those things. Besides colorful tales of his petit bourgeois upbringing and his ascetic adult life, what truly fascinates is his surrealism. Buñuel left Spain for Paris five years before Un chien andalou (1929), and the French Surrealists embraced his work (even thought he claimed not to know about them while conceiving his debut). L'âge d'or (1930), his second collaboration with Salvador Dalí, followed, to critical acclaim.What does this have to do with women? In her book on abstract expressionist art in New York,...
- 3/24/2019
- MUBI
Are we underestimating Julia Roberts (“Ben is Back”) for Best Actress at the Oscars? That’s what one of our Top 24 Users thinks. Our Top 24 got the highest scores out of more than 8,000 users who forecast last year’s Oscar noms, so their picks this year carry extra weight. User Deydou scored 81.15% which tied them for the 12th best accuracy — that’s almost the top thousandth percentile. And as of this writing they say Roberts will break through.
Roberts gives an emotionally showy performance as the mother of the title character (played by Lucas Hedges), who has returned home to his family unexpectedly after a stint in rehab. Substance abuse stories are popular with awards voters, as evidenced by the wins for Marion Cotillard as drug and alcohol addict Edith Piaf in “La Vie en Rose” (2007), Jeff Bridges as an alcoholic in “Crazy Heart” (2009) and Christian Bale as a drug...
Roberts gives an emotionally showy performance as the mother of the title character (played by Lucas Hedges), who has returned home to his family unexpectedly after a stint in rehab. Substance abuse stories are popular with awards voters, as evidenced by the wins for Marion Cotillard as drug and alcohol addict Edith Piaf in “La Vie en Rose” (2007), Jeff Bridges as an alcoholic in “Crazy Heart” (2009) and Christian Bale as a drug...
- 12/21/2018
- by Daniel Montgomery
- Gold Derby
Nearly 700 guests gathered on Wednesday evening at Pier Sixty at Chelsea Piers to honor one of America’s most dedicated and energetic art and education benefactors, Dorothy Lichtenstein, at the annual Stars of Stony Brook Gala.
The philanthropist and wife of the late artist Roy Lichtenstein was recognized for her long-running support of a host of arts, cultural and science initiatives at the University, including the Stony Brook Southampton creative writing and film program, one that provides a vital incubator for students and established writers and filmmakers at campuses on Long Island’s East End and in Manhattan.
Since its inception in 2000, the Stony Brook Foundation’s Stars of Stony Brook Gala had raised $50 million to support student scholarships and a featured academic program of excellence. This year’s Gala adds a new record with over $7.1 million raised, including a $5 million donation from Lichtenstein earmarked to support Stony Brook Southampton...
The philanthropist and wife of the late artist Roy Lichtenstein was recognized for her long-running support of a host of arts, cultural and science initiatives at the University, including the Stony Brook Southampton creative writing and film program, one that provides a vital incubator for students and established writers and filmmakers at campuses on Long Island’s East End and in Manhattan.
Since its inception in 2000, the Stony Brook Foundation’s Stars of Stony Brook Gala had raised $50 million to support student scholarships and a featured academic program of excellence. This year’s Gala adds a new record with over $7.1 million raised, including a $5 million donation from Lichtenstein earmarked to support Stony Brook Southampton...
- 4/17/2018
- Look to the Stars
Almost 70 years ago, newlyweds Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock moved into a greying, shingled house from 1879 in Springs, a little-known fishing town six miles northeast of Grey Gardens in East Hampton. They got the house with $5,000 of borrowed Guggenheim cash, and there was a barn that fishermen had used. Pollock moved it to open up a view of the small creek the property abuts and put his studio in it, then famously painted on the floor.Because they had to do everything differently, they moved to the Hamptons in the fall, right as things were getting cold. “And once we moved to Springs,” the East Hampton hamlet they called home, “which was in 1945,” Lee Krasner remembered decades later, “we didn’t see very much of the New York art world.” “We’d come in,” Krasner says of their trips to the art world and the city, “and there was...
- 5/22/2015
- by Ian Epstein
- Vulture
Behind every tortured artist is someone who has to do the housekeeping. Zachary Heinzerling's documentary about 80-year-old Japanese action painter Ushio Shinohara, "Cutie and the Boxer," centers on that very someone. In the case of Shinohara, it's his scrappy wife Noriko, an artist in her own right who forsook her own dreams to support her unruly husband. Rather than create a biography of Shinohara as he originally intended, Heinzerling explores this codependent couple's stormy relationship and fraught history of regret and disappointment. He lovingly paints Ushio and Noriko as two individuals overflowing with personality, at once enmeshed in the New York art scene and also holed up in their Brooklyn loft, toiling to make ends meet. There are plenty of tempestuous artist couples in history -- Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner, Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, Ulay and Marina Abramovic -- but Ushio and Noriko never achieved that kind...
- 1/16/2014
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Thompson on Hollywood
Odd List Ryan Lambie Simon Brew 28 Nov 2013 - 06:04
Our series of lists devoted to underappreciated films brings us to the year 2000, and another 25 overlooked gems...
The new millennium brought with it an eclectic range of hit films. Hong Kong action director John Woo brought us Mission: Impossible II, the most profitable film of the year at the box office. Ridley Scott enjoyed one of the biggest critical and financial successes of his career with Gladiator, while Robert Zemeckis created a memorable drama with Tom Hanks and a ball named Wilson in Cast Away.
From a comic book movie standpoint, 2000 was also a key year. X-Men not only established a successful film franchise which is still going, with X-Men: Days Of Future Past out next year, but also headed up a wave of big-budget Marvel adaptations which shows no sign of slowing down.
As ever, we've travelled far outside the...
Our series of lists devoted to underappreciated films brings us to the year 2000, and another 25 overlooked gems...
The new millennium brought with it an eclectic range of hit films. Hong Kong action director John Woo brought us Mission: Impossible II, the most profitable film of the year at the box office. Ridley Scott enjoyed one of the biggest critical and financial successes of his career with Gladiator, while Robert Zemeckis created a memorable drama with Tom Hanks and a ball named Wilson in Cast Away.
From a comic book movie standpoint, 2000 was also a key year. X-Men not only established a successful film franchise which is still going, with X-Men: Days Of Future Past out next year, but also headed up a wave of big-budget Marvel adaptations which shows no sign of slowing down.
As ever, we've travelled far outside the...
- 11/27/2013
- by ryanlambie
- Den of Geek
Jackson Pollock and Tony Smith: Sculpture: An Exhibition on the Centennial of their Births and Tony Smith: Source Matthew Marks Gallery Through October 27, 2012
Nominally a show of sculpture, Matthew Marks is presenting something more like relics of art world myth, or a romanticized artist-buddy story (think Lust for Life or Schnabel's Basquiat). It seems an odd pairing at first glance: Pollock, whose paintings consist of poured or dripped skeins of paint and are the archetype of Ab Ex passion, and Tony Smith, whose Buckminster Fuller-like geodesic monuments ushered in an Age of Cool. This show presents the remains of a day, one spent at Smith's New Jersey home, when Smith tried to coax out of the fallow (and soon-to-be-dead) Pollock a few last attempts at making art and ended up becoming a sculptor himself.
This five-work show is essentially a teaser for the uber-Minimal show Source, at Marks's larger space on 24th Street.
Nominally a show of sculpture, Matthew Marks is presenting something more like relics of art world myth, or a romanticized artist-buddy story (think Lust for Life or Schnabel's Basquiat). It seems an odd pairing at first glance: Pollock, whose paintings consist of poured or dripped skeins of paint and are the archetype of Ab Ex passion, and Tony Smith, whose Buckminster Fuller-like geodesic monuments ushered in an Age of Cool. This show presents the remains of a day, one spent at Smith's New Jersey home, when Smith tried to coax out of the fallow (and soon-to-be-dead) Pollock a few last attempts at making art and ended up becoming a sculptor himself.
This five-work show is essentially a teaser for the uber-Minimal show Source, at Marks's larger space on 24th Street.
- 10/2/2012
- by bradleyrubenstein
- www.culturecatch.com
Jackson Pollock spawned a thousand imitators in the art world when he chose to work in denim jeans and a t-shirt. Referred to somewhat derogatorily as ‘Jack the Dripper’ by Time magazine, his paint splattered denim was copied by, among others, Max Ernst and Andy Warhol. Costume design for the film Pollock (2000) by David C. Robinson precisely recreates his most iconic workwear looks.
At the start of the story as a struggling artist, Pollock (Ed Harris) is straightaway established as an outsider against the progressive backdrop of metropolitan New York. Fuelled by an alcoholism that he never recovered from, Pollock was eager to succeed although had yet to find his true artistic voice. His clothes, like his art, were inspired, at least in part during those early years, by Pablo Picasso.
Picasso often painted in casual, lightweight denim. Similarly we see Pollock working in dark rinse jeans with thick selvedge...
At the start of the story as a struggling artist, Pollock (Ed Harris) is straightaway established as an outsider against the progressive backdrop of metropolitan New York. Fuelled by an alcoholism that he never recovered from, Pollock was eager to succeed although had yet to find his true artistic voice. His clothes, like his art, were inspired, at least in part during those early years, by Pablo Picasso.
Picasso often painted in casual, lightweight denim. Similarly we see Pollock working in dark rinse jeans with thick selvedge...
- 2/15/2011
- by Chris Laverty
- Clothes on Film
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