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Stardust Memories (Widescreen/Full Screen) | 
| Director: Woody Allen
Actors: Woody Allen, Charlotte Rampling, Jessica Harper, Marie-christine Barrault, Tony Roberts
Studio: MGM
Category: DVD
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Rating:  25 reviews
Sales Rank: 12519
Format: Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), Spanish (Original Language)
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 5 x 0.6
MPN: MGMD1000796D
ISBN: 0792846125
UPC: 027616851161
EAN: 9780792846123
ASIN: 0792846125
Theatrical Release Date: September 26, 1980
Release Date: April 1, 2003
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"Doesn't he know he's got the greatest gift anyone can have, the gift of laughter?" Woody Allen stars as filmmaker Sandy Bates, who, like John Sullivan in Preston Sturges's ISullivan's Travels/I, no longer wants to make comedies. As studio executives threaten to wrest control of his latest film, he reluctantly attends a weekend film-culture festival in his honor, where he is besieged by journalists ("I'm doing a piece on the shallow indifference of celebrities"), groupies ("I drove all the way from Bridgeport to make it with you"), and persistent oddballs ("Can I talk to you about my idea I have for a movie? It's a comedy based on the whole Guyana mass suicide").p After the exhilarating IManhattan/I, IStardust Memories/I was a dramatic departure that threw critics and fans for an outraged loop. But out of all of Allen's films, it is perhaps the one most ripe for rediscovery. It poses the same dilemma Stephen King would later tackle in IMisery/I: What happens when a popular artist is held captive by an adoring audience that doesn't want him to change? The answer may come from an extraterrestrial, who in one of the many fantasy sequences advises the comedian, "You want to do mankind a real service? Tell funnier jokes." p The film is impeccably cast with Charlotte Rampling, Jessica Harper, and Marie-Christine Barrault (of ICousine/Cousine/I) as the three women in Sandy's life. There are also choice bits by Sharon Stone as a fantasy woman on a train, Daniel Stern as an aspiring actor, Louise Lasser as Sandy's overwhelmed secretary, Laraine Newman as an unimpressed studio executive, and Tony Roberts as Tony Roberts. My own aunt, Victoria Zussin, utters the film's most famous line as the patron who tells Sandy she loves his movies, especially "your early funny ones." I--Donald Liebenson/I
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 Woody's Best Film. July 18, 2004
Bernard Chapin (CHICAGO! USA)
As a huge Allen fan I warmly recommend this movie. It's quirky, neurotic, romantic, and generally all of the things that make us love Woody so much in the first place. I know that Ebert trashed the film by saying that it was merely a spin-off of 8 1/2 but I disagree. This movie cannot be dismissed simply by saying its derivative and I think, although it may be blasphemy to say so, that it's a better work than the one by Fellini. Furthermore, Charlotte Rampling is absolutely wonderful in it.
 Disappointed March 14, 2004
Joseph Hart (Visalia, CA United States)
Apparently this flick was trashed when it was released (extreme) and is adored now (also extreme). I do not understand movies and know nothing about foreign ones, so I can neither recognize nor comment on Woody Allen's influences. The less for me. However, I thought this movie was shallow and superficial. I thought it was well and interestingly directed, had a few good chuckles in it (but was hardly a laugh riot), had some interesting scenes (not many), but if this is the way Allen sees his fans (a lot of grinning idiots, devoted slobbering dogs, virtual freaks), the less for him. I am a fan of Allen and I like to think well of my heroes, not as demeaning, blase gods. And I prefer movies in color. And just for the record, I've had it to the teeth with Allen's private life, that's just what it is, a PRIVATE life. I know people who based on his life dislike his movies and have never even seen any! (And on the subject of decency, if I'd been Janet Jackson, I'd have shown them the other one, but I would NOT have apologized!) I did not think this movie was funny enough to watch again nor complex and subtle enough (like his more serious movies) to study. But (sigh) maybe I'll watch it again in 6 months and love it. I did that to Manhattan Murder Mystery.
It is, believe it or not ya radges, Allen's bestest. February 29, 2004
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The Woodmeister himself has declared Stardust Memories one of his best movies, and I have to agree with the funny old ferret. Allen's early career consisted of laugh-a-minute slapstick comedies, which were wonderful (especially Love Death in 1975); from Manhattan(1979) onwards he toned everything down a bit, replacing the slapstick with human drama, although always leaving in the priceless oneliners. pI feel that Stardust Memories(1980) is his best film because it manages to meld the comedy and drama together better than all of his other attempts. (I'm not a big fan of Manhattan, I think it's dull; Crimes Misdemeanors is perhaps his second-best move-tastic motion picture.) There's some out-and-out hilarious comedy, which self-knowingly refers back to Allen's early comedic style, and the drama is complex and moving. There are moments of bad taste, and the film sometimes seems geared to patronise Allen's fans, but these are brave moves, and make it all the more memorable. pBeautifully shot, wonderfully acted, brilliantly written, astoundingly funny, powerfully touching, insanely insane, comically surreal, slyly self-referential, overtly recommendable to friends and family, oven-fresh and microwave-compatible. pPS Keep your eyes peeled for a blink-and-you'll-miss-it from a young Sharon Stone at the beginning. ...
Tell Funnier Jokes January 19, 2004
Crazy2Bhere (USA)
There are 2 kinds of Woody fans- those who like his earlier silly stuff (ala Mel Brooks) and those who appreciate his deeper side. Those who like the 1st kind of films will not like this. This is by far his best film- along with the brilliant Another Woman where he shows us a poetic side of himself, trying to find meaning in this life, only then to be visited by aliens who tell him to tell funner jokes if he wants to do the world a real favor. People who dis this film don't see how profound a statement that is- basically do what you're good at. Just think about how many singers/song writers set out to do good rather than just focus on what they do best. Just think if Picasso had chosen to be a missionary rather than what he's known for- we would have all suffered on account of it. Highly symbolic and deeply probing, this film is not without humor as well. I don't understand how people can rip on this film yet think something like Saving Private Ryan is four star material. Stardust Memories has multiple meanings and dementions, unlike the one-dimentional Hollywood attempt to be deep, by stating the obvious, that yes, WAR IS BAD.
 dreamy October 20, 2003
Strange movie, undoubtably influenced by some of the European masters. A bit different than the typical Allen fare, almost melancholic. Look out for the young Sharon Stone, she was only 18!
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