available anywhere?


I have wanted to see this for years.

I read that the recent Criterion edition of "Breathless" has a "video essay" by Mark Rapaport on Jean Seberg. I'm getting it tomorrow, I'm keeping my fingers crossed that it's this film.

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I should warn you -- he's a Fourierist.

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Unfortunately it is a different documentary and much shorter than journal...hopefully this dvd will be released somewhere?

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It came out in the early years of DVD, under the 'Image' label. It was a snap case region 1 DVD. I found my copy yesterday after noticing that 2 sellers on Amazon are asking over £200 for it!.......crazy. Hopefully it will get another release sometime.

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I really wish this was available again in R1.

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This is an outstanding scholarly documentary that is extremely relevant to anyone interested in the history of film and society's treatment of women – regardless of whether they are a fan of Seberg's or just casually acquainted with her work as I was. And I have you to thank for re-acquainting me with it.

Now that I have watched it again, it occurs to me that I have seen it before, but I'm quite certain it was before 1995. I know the copyright says 1995, but I'm sure I saw it in a film class in the late '80s or the early '90s at the very latest. Could it have been made a few years before Image copyrighted it? I'm next to positive I've seen it before 1995.

Regardless, this film provides a chilling, horrifying, absorbing analysis of a tortured soul. Mary Beth Hurt convincingly occupies a role that could have been awkward or phony with the wrong narrator playing Seberg. I'd love to read this script, which is extremely insightful. A lot of film analysis seems to tell us more about the analyst than the subject, but this one is spot-on.

I love this film, even though I'm still not sure how I feel about Seberg, the actress or individual. This is about so much more than her.

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Hello, Nic at Nite (and Day):

I'm really racking my brain trying to remember where I saw this before. It's frustrating when I can't place this in its proper perspective. I took several quarters of a film class here in the late '80s, possibly until '91, and I associate this film with that.

I distinctly remember the instructor talking about Otto Preminger's treatment of Jean Seberg and how she was intentionally burned at the stake in "Joan of Arc," and I really think he showed this film. Maybe he had a pre-release version or a working print. Maybe I later saw it at a film festival or on PBS and just connected the dots. Or maybe I have early-onset Alzheimer's (though wouldn't that make me forget seeing it?)

Regardless, it's a fascinating depiction of a woman completely unprepared for stardom who allowed herself to be used by the men who pulled the strings. Clearly she was woefully miscast as Joan of Arc, and probably most of her films, and her life spiraled down from there.

I need to see more of her films to judge her talents. I recently bought "A Fine Madness" with Sean Connery and Joanne Woodward. Have you seen that?

I'll seek out her biographies. I tend to have really good luck at local thrift stores and sidewalk sales. I've read a lot of actresses bios/autobios lately: Ellen Burstyn, Jane Fonda, Teri Garr, Phyllis Diller, Shirley MacLaine.

I saw a live production of "Rock Hudson's Home Movies" several years ago, I think with Michael Kearns. It was a very good production, though all I remember about it is a segment where he freezes on Tony Randall staring at his chest. That's in Mark Rappaport's film also, isn't it, or am I again fuzzy on history? I guess I should watch that next.

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It's on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiBfZs6P6OA

Interesting choice to pick Mary Beth Hurt to play Jean. Jean used to babysit Mary Beth!

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That is freaky! Really enjoyed this documentary.

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Not even remotely. This is a ridiculous, clunky documentary.

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