Pollock (film) Smith. It was directed by Harris. This film was a long term dream of Ed Harris. After his father gave him a copy of Pollock's biography, he started thinking about the project, which took almost 10 years to bring to fruition. Filming took a mere 50 days with a six-week layoff after forty days so Harris could take time to gain thirty pounds and grow a beard. Harris himself did all the painting seen in the film. "Pollock" received positive reviews from critics and has a "certified fresh" score of 81% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 108 reviews with an
Robert L. Pollock Robert L. Pollock Robert L. Pollock is an editorial writer and Wall Street Journal editorial board member. Robert Pollock was born in Buffalo, New York. He studied at Yale. Pollock joined the "Wall Street Journal Europe" in Brussels as an editorial page writer in 1995. He moved to "The Wall Street Journal"'s headquarters in New York City in 2000 as an assistant features editor. In 2002 Pollock became an editorial writer and in 2005 he joined the Editorial Board. From 2007-2012 he was the Journal's editorial features (op-ed) editor. Pollock was a finalist for the Pulitzer prize in 2003 for