... be achieved. This film summarizes only fifteen years of Pollock's like, the years that most everyone knows about. The film opens in 1949 with a close-up of Pollock's paint-caked hands signing an autograph on the issue of "Life" magazine that featured his work. At this moment, he is on a pedestal in the art world and from his clear, placid gaze ... in clear, uncompromised view. The film wisely doesn't feel the need to wrap anything up. That would drain a viewer's ability to draw their own conclusions regarding one of America's most gifted, brilliant, hopeless, desperate, fascinating, unr...

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