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Producer’s Choice: Pollock (2000) and Conversation with Meryl Poster and Lead Actor and Director Ed Harris

Wed, November 12th at 7:00 PM - 10:00 PM

$15

Films build community through shared experiences.

NOMA presents a series of films—selected by award-winning producer and filmmaker Meryl Poster—followed by insightful special guests. Don’t miss your chance to revisit or discover modern classics on the big screen and gain behind-the-scenes insight into the film industry from leading figures.

Discussions will draw connections to art more broadly and celebrate cinema as an essential art form.

NOMA will screen Pollock (2000) for this program. Doors open at 6:30 pm, and the screening will begin at 7:00 pm. At 9:10 pm, the conversation between Poster and the film’s lead actor and director Ed Harris (joining via Zoom) will begin. 

The NOMA Museum Shop will be present at the screening from 6:30-9:30 pm with merchandise related to the series’s theme “Artists on Film.”

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Tickets

Tickets are $10 for NOMA members and $15 for general admission.

Buy Tickets for “Pollock”

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Ticket Waitlist Policy

If tickets are sold out for a screening, there will be a first come, first served policy to fill any unoccupied seats:

  • At 6:30 pm, the waitlist will open at the Front Desk.
  • At 7:00 pm, we will count the number of vacant seats and begin to fill them with waitlisted individuals, who will be invited to purchase a ticket and be seated.
  • NOTE: There are no additional tickets available at the door. Waitlisted individuals will only be able to claim seats left open by no-show attendants. We cannot guarantee that individuals on the waitlist will be able to sit together.
  • The museum is open until 7:00 pm on Wednesday evenings. While waiting, waitlisted individuals are welcome to view NOMA exhibitions.

About the Film

Pollock (2000, 2h 2m)

Pollock is a look back into the life of the artist, who engaged in a lonely tug-of-war between needing to express himself and wanting to shut the world out across his career.

About Meryl Poster

Meryl Poster is an award-winning producer and filmmaker. Starting as the second ever female trainee in the William Morris Agency mailroom, she has since led and developed a slate of groundbreaking, critically acclaimed films, including the Oscar-winning Chicago, Chocolat, Cider House Rules, Cop Land, Beautiful Girls, Bounce, Kate and Leopold, and An Unfinished Life.

About Ed Harris

Actor and Director Ed Harris. Photo by O’Shane Howard.

Ed Harris has an acclaimed film career spanning five decades. He is a four-time Academy Award nominee and a two-time Golden Globe winner for his brilliant performances in The Hours, The Truman Show, Apollo 13, Game Change (HBO), Empire Falls (HBO) and Pollock – his feature film directing debut.
Harris has a prolific and diverse filmography of leading roles with acclaimed filmmakers, including Alamo Bay (Louis Malle), The Abyss (James Cameron), The Firm (Sydney Pollack), Nixon (Oliver Stone), The Rock (Michael Bay), Absolute Power (Clint Eastwood), A Beautiful Mind (Ron Howard), Snowpiercer (Bong Joon-ho), Mother! (Darren Aronofsky), and three films with veteran filmmaker Agnieszka Holland. Harris starred in blockbuster Top Gun: Maverick and in Netflix’s The Lost Daughter, Maggie Gyllenhaal’s award-winning film adaptation of the Elena Ferrante novel.
Upcoming, Harris will star in the highly anticipated Yellowstone spin-off The Dutton Ranch from creator Taylor Sheridan. He most recently starred alongside Jessica Lange in MGM’s Long Day’s Journey Into Night, a screen adaptation of Eugene O’Neill’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play.
Harris’s recent work includes crime thriller feature Riff Raff, alongside Jennifer Coolidge, Dustin Hoffman, and Pete Davidson. He also starred in the comedy-drama film My Dead Friend Zoe, which had its debut at SXSW, winning the Audience Award, and alongside Kristen Stewart in the A24 film Love Lies Bleeding, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January of 2024.
In addition to directing Pollock, his second film, as director, screenwriter, and actor, was Appaloosa, co-starring Viggo Mortensen. His television credits include Empire Falls (HBO) and Riders of the Purple Sage (TNT), co-starring and co-produced with his wife Amy Madigan. Harris also starred as the enigmatic “Man in Black’ for four seasons of the critically acclaimed HBO series Westworld, which earned him an Emmy nomination.
Harris’ theatre credits include: Ronald Harwood’s Taking Sides, Sam Shepard’s Fool for Love (Obie), and Simpatico (Lucille Lortel Award for “Best Actor”), George Furth’s Precious Sons (Drama Desk Award, Tony Nomination), Prairie Avenue, Scar, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Grapes of Wrath, and Sweet Bird of Youth, Aaron Sorkin’s stage adaptation of To Kill a Mockingbird, and Shephard’s Buried Child, in which Harris and Madigan made their London West End debut and for which he received an Olivier nomination.

Details

Date:
Wed, November 12th
Time:
7:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Cost:
$15
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Venue

NOMA’s Lapis Center for the Arts