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...turquoise-and-black camouflage pants of the Palestinian Authority's Rapid Deployment Force. The other held a Kalashnikov. They grabbed Jalila's son Adnan, 38, and dragged him down the street. Jalila pleaded with the men not to take him. His hands bound behind his back, the terrified house painter cried to Jalila, "Don't leave me, Mother!" The man with the pistol pushed Jalila away and forced Adnan onto his knees in the empty street. His first shot hit Adnan in the shoulder; the next entered his neck and killed him. As the two gunmen hurried down an alley...
...script by Barbara Turner and Susan J. Emshwiller offers no explanation of the painter's dysfunction or his genius. We meet him pretty much when his wife Lee Krasner (the excellent Harden) does: hanging around Greenwich Village in the 1940s, struggling to break away from his imitative work. Then we see him achieve his breakthrough and watch his burgeoning celebrity do him in. There has never been a more antiheroic biopic than this one. Or a better portrait of the artist as a hopeless mess...
...artist] was closer to cinema than any other painter of his day, partly because he was obsessed by the power of cinema to make dreams immediate...
...short and miserable life (he died in a possibly suicidal car crash at age 44) is as an insoluble mystery, and that's precisely what Harris, the star, director and co-producer of Pollock, does. The script by Barbara Turner and Susan J. Emshwiller offers no explanation of the painter's dysfunction or his genius. We meet him pretty much when his wife Lee Krasner (the excellent Harden) does: hanging around Greenwich Village in the 1940s, struggling to break away from his imitative work. Then we see him achieve his breakthrough and watch his burgeoning celebrity do him in. There...
Ashbery read "Some Trees," a lyrical piece written during his time as a Harvard undergraduate (later published in 1956), "The Painter" (see your Norton Anthology), and several recent works illustrative of his trademark style. The language of the poems was straightforward and casual; the content associative and complex; the meaning elusive. The applause was great...