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USA Colour PG 123 min 2000

The film will be screened using digital equipment in the Long Room, Michael Hall School, Priory Road, Forest Row as one of the supporting events of the art and sculpture exhibition taking place over the weekend.

Ed Harris' visceral and perceptive life of Jackson Pollock shows us his brilliance and his demons. Beginning with a shot of Pollock at the height of his success, giving an autograph to the woman with whom he would eventually die in a car crash, the film tracks his life from the point nine years earlier struggling in 40s New York. Suffering self-doubt, impotent rage, and drunkenness, Pollock is eventually supported by Lee Krasner, a fellow painter who becomes his wife and champion. With her help, Jackson wins the patronage of wealthy Peggy Guggenheim, but his fame creates difficulties between himself and Lee. Some of the most remarkable scenes show Pollock at work on his famous drip paintings, producing dense patterns with a mixture of skill, luck, and gravity. But Harris is equally at home showing the artist's self-destructive streak and its effect on Krasner. Marcia Gay Harden won the best supporting actress Oscar for her part as Lee Krasner.