National Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt vs Pollock
National Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt has the higher audience score (8.8/10 against 6.7/10 for Pollock). Pollock is the shorter watch at 2h 12m compared with 2h 20m. Pollock is the older of the two (2000 against 2022). Both are drama, history movies, so they suit a similar mood.
National Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt
Pollock| National Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt | Pollock | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 8.8/10 | ★ 6.7/10 |
| Year | 2022 | 2000 |
| Length | 2h 20m | 2h 12m |
| Genres | Drama, History | Drama, History |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Patrick Marber | Ed Harris |
| Main cast | Arty Froushan, Eleanor Wyld, Joshua Satine, Aidan McArdle, Wesley Holloway | Jennifer Connelly, Ed Harris, Marcia Gay Harden, Tom Bower, Bud Cort |
Synopsis
National Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt
At the beginning of the 20th century, Leopoldstadt was the old, crowded Jewish quarter of Vienna, Austria. But Hermann Merz, a factory owner and baptised Jew now married to Catholic Gretl, has moved up in the world. We follow his family’s story across half a century, passing through the convulsions of war, revolution, impoverishment, annexation by Nazi Germany and the Holocaust. A company of 40 actors represent each generation of the family in…
Pollock
In August of 1949, Life Magazine ran a banner headline that begged the question: "Jackson Pollock: Is he the greatest living painter in the United States?" The film is a look back into the life of an extraordinary man, a man who has fittingly been called "an artist dedicated to concealment, a celebrity who nobody knew." As he struggled with self-doubt, engaging in a lonely tug-of-war between needing to express himself and wanting to shut the…
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