July 20, 2009

Pollock (2000)

This well received biopic is about the famous 20th century American painter, Jackson Pollock. This being the internet and all, I'm not too sure how familiar you may be with famous modern painters, so for the uninitiated, Jackson Pollock caused quite a stir by making a lot of nice new modern art that consisted of dripping paint onto the canvas.He made a lot of them and for a time they were really popular. Then they were not that popular anymore because the art world is full of fickle pretentious assholes who always turn on a scene if it starts to get too cool, accessible, or successful for them. Anyway, Jackson Pollock drank himself right into a fatal car crash. Vrooooooooooom! Kilmer reprises his masterful Dutch accent that he picked up in "The Saint" to briefly appear onscreen as Willem de Kooning, another popular post-war abstract artist. De Kooning is known mostly for his weird depictions of women:
Oh yeah, he was pretty out there:
Kilmer's in this movie for like two minutes. Moving on.

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