 85% (2) From the Journals of Jean Seberg 97 min N/A [Documentary, Biography] [Mark Rappaport] [01 Mar 1996]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 71%, Rotten Tomatoes: 100%, External Reviews Awards: 2 wins & 1 nomination. Actors: Jean Seberg, Mary Beth Hurt Writer: Mark Rappaport External Links: External Links: Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English Country: USA Plot: Mark Rappaport's creative bio-pic about actress Jean Seberg is presented in a first-person, autobiographical format (with Seberg played by Mary Beth Hurt). He seamlessly interweaves cinema, politics, American society and culture, and film theory to inform, entertain, and move the viewer. Seberg's many marriages, as well as her film roles, are discussed extensively. Her involvement with the Black Panther Movement and subsequent investigation by the FBI is covered. Notably, details of French New Wave cinema, Russian Expressionist (silent) films, and the careers of Jane Fonda, Vanessa Redgrave, and Clint Eastwood are also intensively examined. Much of the film is based on conjecture, but Rappaport encourages viewers to re-examine their ideas about women in film with this thought-provoking picture. Rotten Tomatoes: The rise and fall of actress Jean Seberg is dissected in this complex pseudo-documentary. After two years as a Hollywood star, Seberg went on to become a European icon of New Wave cinema. During her life she was married four times, attempted suicide, miscarried, and eventually overdosed on barbiturates. 1 / 9 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |  62% (3) Airport 137 min G [Action, Drama, Thriller] [George Seaton, Henry Hathaway] [25 Mar 1970]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 66%, Rotten Tomatoes: 80%, Metacritic: 42%, External Reviews Awards: Won 1 Oscar. Another 3 wins & 19 nominations. Actors: Burt Lancaster, Dean Martin, George Kennedy, Jacqueline Bisset, Jean Seberg Writer: Arthur Hailey (from the novel by), George Seaton (written for the screen by) External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English, Italian Country: USA Plot: This precursor to later 'epic' 70's disaster films illustrates 12 hours in the lives of the personnel and passengers at the 'Lincoln Airport.' Endless problems, professional and personal, are thrown at the various personnel responsible for the safe and proper administration of air traffic, airline management and aviation at a major US airport. Take one severe snowstorm, add multiple schedules gone awry, one elderly Trans Global Airlines stowaway, shortages, an aging, meretricious pilot, unreasonable, peevish spouses, manpower issues, fuel problems, frozen runways and equipment malfunctions and you get just a sample of the obstacles faced by weary, disgruntled personnel and passengers at the Lincoln Airport. Toss in one long-suffering pilot's wife, several stubborn men, office politics and romance and one passenger with a bomb and you have the film 'Airport' from 1970. Rotten Tomatoes: In this disaster film, a nutcase detonates a bomb aboard a plane, leaving the flight and ground crews to figure out how to safely land their dangerously-crippled vessel during a terrible blizzard. The bulk of the story centers on the ways in which people deal with the situation. 2 / 9 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |
 52% (1) Macho Callahan 99 min R [Western] [Bernard L. Kowalski] [17 Aug 1970]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 52%, External Reviews Awards: N/A Actors: David Janssen, James Booth, Jean Seberg, Lee J. Cobb Writer: Richard Carr (story), Cliff Gould External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English Country: Mexico, USA Plot: A man tricked into enlisting in the Confederate army is later thrown into a hellish stockade on desertion charges. He eventually breaks out of the prison camp, reunites with his old partner and sets out to kill the man who was responsible for his being in the camp in the first place. However, after accidentally killing a Confederate officer, he finds himself pursued by a gang of vicious bounty hunters intent on collecting the reward put up by the dead officer's widow. Rotten Tomatoes: In this violent western, David Janssen plays the title character, a Civil War prisoner who escapes to track down his accuser, Duffy (Lee J. Cobb). While waiting for the man in a small-town saloon, he kills a one-armed Southern soldier (David Carradine) and incurs the wrath of his widow (Jean Seberg). She hires Duffy to kill Callahan, but changes her mind after falling in love with Callahan. 3 / 9 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |  48% (3) Paint Your Wagon 164 min PG-13 [Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance, Western] [Joshua Logan] [15 Oct 1969]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 67%, Rotten Tomatoes: 27%, Metacritic: 50%, External Reviews Awards: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 1 win & 2 nominations. Actors: Clint Eastwood, Harve Presnell, Jean Seberg, Lee Marvin Writer: Alan Jay Lerner (book), Alan Jay Lerner (screenplay), Paddy Chayefsky (adaptation) External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English Country: USA Plot: A Michigan farmer and a prospector form a partnership in the California gold country. Their adventures include buying and sharing a wife, hijacking a stage, kidnaping six prostitutes, and turning their mining camp into a boomtown. Along the way there is plenty of drinking, gambling, and singing. They even find time to do some creative gold mining. Rotten Tomatoes: After a debut on Broadway in 1951, Paramount spent an estimated 17 to 20 million dollars in production costs for this Lerner and Loewe musical. With Loewe's permission, Lerner wrote five additional tunes for the film with Andre Previn. Ben Rumson (Lee Marvin) is the grizzled prospector trying his luck panning for gold in California. Pardner (Clint Eastwood) is his companion. When Ben buys a woman from a Mormon, Elizabeth (Jean Seberg) expects equal rights for her gender and chooses to live with both men. Ben and Pardner tunnel under the boomtown to gather the fallen gold dust that has filtered through the cracks of the saloon and other places. The musical comedy features 13 songs, the most recognizable being 'They Call The Wind Maria'. The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band helps out on the song 'Hand Me Down That Can O' Beans'. Both Clint Eastwood and Lee Marvin are given a chance to show their vocal ability (or lack of it) in several songs. The initial release fell far short of regaining the millions put into the production, and most critics dipped their pens in poison to pan the picture -- though the film plays better than the critics would lead anyone to believe. Many jumped on the Paint Your Wagon smear campaign after the film proved to be not nearly as successful as other musicals. 4 / 9 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |
 58% (1) A Fine Madness 104 min Not Rated [Comedy, Drama, Romance] [Irvin Kershner] [23 Sep 1966]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 58%, External Reviews Awards: N/A Actors: Jean Seberg, Joanne Woodward, Patrick O'Neal, Sean Connery Writer: Elliott Baker (screenplay), Elliott Baker (based upon the novel by) External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English Country: USA Plot: Samson Shillitoe, a frustrated poet and a magnet for women, is behind in his alimony payments, and lives with Rhoda, a waitress who stands by him through all his troubles. Samson becomes belligerent when he cannot find the inspiration to finish his big poem so Rhoda tries to get him to see the psychiatrist Dr. West, who claims to be able to cure writer's block. Samson ends up being pursued by various women while trying to evade the subpoena servers and finish his poem. Rotten Tomatoes: Sean Connery attempted to make a clean break from his 'James Bond' image in the boisterous comedy A Fine Madness. Connery plays Samson Shillitoe, a Brendan Behan-like poet with a mile-wide misogynistic streak. Try as he might to complete his latest masterpiece, Shillitoe is constantly interrupted by the women in his life. Driven to a nervous breakdown, he seeks help from the medical establishment -- and ends up a babbling shell of his former self. The film takes scattered potshots at a repressive society that forces the truly creative among us into near-madness; at times, it is sidesplittingly funny, though never quite as potent as the Elliot Baker novel upon which it is based. Sean Connery is brilliant, but the public wanted James Bond to behave himself, thus the film didn't do as well at the box office as it should have. 5 / 9 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |  85% (2) Lilith 114 min N/A [Drama] [Robert Rossen] [15 Jan 1965]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 70%, Rotten Tomatoes: 100%, External Reviews Awards: N/A Actors: Jean Seberg, Kim Hunter, Peter Fonda, Warren Beatty Writer: Robert Rossen (screenplay), J.R. Salamanca (novel) External Links: External Links: Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English Country: USA Plot: Lilith is a about a mysterious young woman in an elite sanitarium in Maryland, who seems to weave a magical spell all around her. A restless, but sincere young man with an equally obscure past is seemingly drawn into her web. As time passes, their relationship deepens and intensifies, and the differences between them begin to blur, leading to a shocking, but oddly logical conclusion. Rotten Tomatoes: Vincent Bruce (Warren Beatty) is a Korean War veteran who becomes an occupational therapist in a private mental hospital that cares for wealthy, schizophrenic clientele. He slowly begins to fall for Lilith Arthur (Jean Seberg), a patient who is mentally locked in her own little world. Vincent eventually begins his own psychological disintegration over his feelings for the woman and asks for help. Watch for early career performances from Olympia Dukakis and Gene Hackman in this depressing psychodrama. This was the final film from the gifted director Robert Rossen, who died in 1966. 6 / 9 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |
 88% (2) Breathless 90 min Not Rated [Crime, Drama] [Jean-Luc Godard] [07 Feb 1961]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 79%, Rotten Tomatoes: 97%, External Reviews Awards: Nominated for 1 BAFTA Film Award. Another 4 wins & 2 nominations. Actors: Daniel Boulanger, Henri-Jacques Huet, Jean Seberg, Jean-Paul Belmondo Writer: François Truffaut (original scenario) External Links: External Links: Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Website Language: French, English Country: France Plot: Michel Poiccard, an irresponsible sociopath and small-time thief, steals a car and impulsively murders the motorcycle policeman who pursues him. Now wanted by the authorities, he renews his relationship with Patricia Franchini, a hip American girl studying journalism at the Sorbonne, whom he had met in Nice a few weeks earlier. Before leaving Paris, he plans to collect a debt from an underworld acquaintance and expects her to accompany him on his planned getaway to Italy. Even with his face in the local papers and media, Poiccard seems oblivious to the dragnet that is slowly closing around him as he recklessly pursues his love of American movies and libidinous interest in the beautiful American. Rotten Tomatoes: Enjoy brunch in the Torpedo Room before screening BREATHLESS hosted by John DeSando and Johnny DiLoretto. There was before BREATHLESS, and there was after BREATHLESS. Jean-Luc Godard burst onto the film scene in 1960 with this jazzy, free-form, and sexy homage to the American film genres that inspired him as a writer for Cahiers du cinéma. With its lack of polish, surplus of attitude, anything-goes crime narrative, and effervescent young stars Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg, BREATHLESS helped launch the French New Wave and ensured that cinema would never be the same. 7 / 9 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |  79% (2) The Mouse That Roared 83 min Approved [Comedy] [Jack Arnold] [01 Nov 1959]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 70%, Rotten Tomatoes: 89%, External Reviews Awards: N/A Actors: David Kossoff, Jean Seberg, Peter Sellers, William Hartnell Writer: Roger MacDougall (screenplay), Stanley Mann (screenplay), Leonard Wibberley (novel) External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English, French Country: UK Plot: The Duchy of Grand Fenwick, the smallest country in the world, is nestled in the French Alps. Being as isolated as it is, its life is a throwback to olden days. It is a happy, peace-loving country. Its economy solely rests on export of its only wine, Pinot Grand Fenwick, to the US. When a California vintner starts producing and selling a knock-off of the Pinot Grand Fenwick at a lower price, the Grand Fenwick economy goes into a crisis situation, the country on the brink of bankruptcy. Three protests to the US go largely unanswered. Grand Fenwick's Prime Minister, Rupert of Mountjoy, believes the solution is to declare war on the US, and promptly lose the war in less than a day with no casualties on either side, after which the US, which it has historically done, will provide vast financial aide to rebuild the country. Grand Fenwick's monarch, the Grand Duchess Gloriana XII, ultimately supports this concept. The plan is to send an official declaration of war to the US, have a small army of approximately twenty sail from Marseilles to New York City, and the army immediately surrendering when they can't enter the US without visas anyway. Although seen as a hapless man, the person to lead the mission is Tully Bascombe, who inherited the roles of Grand Fenwick's head forest ranger, head field marshal and grand constable of the armed forces, which still uses longbows and arrows as their weapon. The Prime Minister and Duchess believe that even Tully cannot screw up losing the war. But things do not go according to plan, due largely to the US official receiving the declaration believing it to be a gag, and events happening in New York City the day the army arrives leading to the army having no one to surrender to. Things take a further turn when Tully believes that they can actually win the war by kidnapping Doctor Alfred Kokintz and his q-bomb - which is exponentially more deadly than the h-bomb - which he is developing for the US. This move by Tully leads to an all-out global crisis. In the process, they need to also kidnap Kokintz's daughter, Helen Kokintz, with who Tully falls in love, but who sees in Tully solely a criminal. Even the greatest diplomatic minds may not be able to figure a way out of this crisis, especially with Tully on the scene. Rotten Tomatoes: In this film, the tiny country of Grand Fenwick faces economic ruin when their chief export of wine loses out to a California vintage. They declare war on the United States, hoping to receive money to rebuild the country after they lose. However, things don't go according to plan. 8 / 9 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |
 77% (2) Bonjour Tristesse 94 min Not Rated [Drama, Romance] [Otto Preminger] [01 Feb 1958]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 69%, Rotten Tomatoes: 86%, External Reviews Awards: N/A Actors: David Niven, Deborah Kerr, Jean Seberg, Mylène Demongeot Writer: Arthur Laurents (screenplay), Françoise Sagan (based on the novel by) External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English Country: USA, UK Plot: Cecile, decadent young girl who lives with her rich playboy father Raymond. When Anne, Raymond's old love interest, comes to Raymond's villa, Cecile is afraid for her way of life. Rotten Tomatoes: Francoise Sagan's bittersweet novel Bonjour Tristesse is given a sumptuous Riviera-filmed screen treatment. David Niven plays a wealthy playboy, the father of teenaged libertine-in-the-making Jean Seberg. Seberg tolerates most of her father's mistresses, but doesn't know what to make of the prudish Deborah Kerr, who will not cohabit with Niven until after they're married. Feeling that her own relation with her father will be disrupted by Kerr's presence, Seberg does her malicious best to break up the relationship--only to be beaten to the punch by Niven, who despite his promises of fidelity to Kerr cannot give up his hedonistic lifestyle. The combination of the daughter's disdain and the father's rakishness drive Kerr to suicide. Niven and Seberg continue pursuing their lavish but empty lifestyle, though both realize that their lack of moral fibre has destroyed a life. The incestuous undertones of the original Sagan novel are only slightly downplayed in the film version; the 'tristesse' (sadness) is visually conveyed by filming the Deborah Kerr flashback scenes in color and the opening and closing of the film in bleak black and white. Bonjour Tristesse was codirected by Otto Preminger, who'd previously discovered Jean Seberg for his benighted 1957 filmization of Saint Joan. 9 / 9 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |