From the Journals of Jean Seberg
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Mark Rappaport
Mary Beth Hurt
Janet Cassady
Mark Daniels
Coleen Fitzgibbon
Mark Rappaport
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
Jean Seberg's story, from her Cinderella-like rise to celebrity in Otto Preminger's SAINT JOAN in 1957 to her equally precipitous fall after the movie was released, through her resurrection as a star in Godard's BREATHLESS to her death, officially labeled a suicide, in 1979, is examined through clips from a wide range of her films and other films of the time. But FROM THE JOURNALS OF JEAN SEBERG is hardly a conventional "bio-pic". A political and emotional casualty of the '60s, Seberg's life and work is recast in a political context. Portrayed by Mary Beth Hurt in a fictitious autobiography, Seberg herself re-examines her roles and assesses her place and that of people with whom she worked in a larger context of film history which, as she says in the film, is "a very, very long gossip column." The result is a meditation on the artifice and conventions of cinema, as well as the contradictions inherent in all modes of cinematic representation.
Director
Mark Rappaport
Cast
Mary Beth Hurt
Film Details
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Miscellaneous Notes
Shown at Boston Film Festival September 8-21, 1995.
Shown at Locarno International Film Festival (Special Video Programmes) August 3-13, 1995.
Shown at New York Film Festival September 29 - October 15, 1995.
Shown at Rotterdam International Film Festival January 24 - February 4, 1996.
Shown at Telluride Film Festival September 1-4, 1995.
Shown at Toronto International Film Festival September 7-16, 1995.
Released in Huntington (Cinema Arts Centre), Long Island March 8-14, 1996.
Released in United States 1995 (Shown at AFI Los Angeles International Film Festival (American Cinema) October 19 - November 2, 1995.)
Released in United States 1995 (Shown at New York Film Festival September 29 - October 15, 1995.)
Released in United States 1996 (Shown at Rotterdam International Film Festival January 24 - February 4, 1996.)
Released in United States Spring March 1, 1996
Winner of the 1995 Douglas Edwards Independent/Experimental Film/Video Award from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association.
Winner of the KNF Prize from the Circle of Dutch Film Journalists at the 1996 Rotterdam International Film Festival.
Released in United States 1995
Released in United States 1996
Released in United States August 1995
Released in United States March 8, 1996
Released in United States May 31, 1996
Released in United States September 1995
Released in United States September 1996
Released in United States Spring March 1, 1996
Released in United States September 1995 (Shown at Boston Film Festival September 8-21, 1995.)
Released in United States September 1995 (Shown at Telluride Film Festival September 1-4, 1995.)
Released in United States September 1995 (Shown at Toronto International Film Festival September 7-16, 1995.)
Released in United States September 1996 (Shown in New York City (Anthology Film Archives) as part of program "Best of the Indies" September 5-15, 1996.)
Released in United States March 8, 1996 (Angelika 57; New York City)
Released in United States May 31, 1996 (Laemmle Music Hall; Los Angeles)
Released in United States August 1995 (Shown at Locarno International Film Festival (Special Video Programmes) August 3-13, 1995.)
