Stardust memories

Movie
German title	Stardust memories
Original title	Stardust memories
Country of production	United States
original language	English ; French
Publishing year	1980
length	89 minutes
Age rating	FSK 12
Rod
Director	Woody Allen
script	Woody Allen
production	Robert Greenhut
camera	Gordon Willis
cut	Susan E. Morse
occupation
	Woody Allen : Sandy Bates; Charlotte Rampling : Dorrie; Jessica Harper : Daisy; Marie-Christine Barrault : Isobel; Tony Roberts : Tony; Daniel Stern : actor; Amy Wright : Shelley; Helen Hanft : Vivian Orkin; John Rothman : Jack Abel; Sharon Stone : young woman on the train;

Stardust Memories is in black and white twisted American tragicomedy directed by and starring Woody Allen from the year 1980th

action

Filmmaker Sandy Bates, famous for his comedies, no longer wants to make comic films. His latest work is so melancholy that the producers threaten to cut it and re-shoot the end. In frustration, Sandy drives to the “Stardust Memories” hotel, where a retrospective is dedicated to him . While he is being watched by his fans, past, present and fiction mix for Sandy: he reviews the failed relationship with the melancholy Dorrie, meets several times the musician Daisy, whose friend Sandy's films adores, and receives a surprising visit from his French lover Isobel, who broke up with her partner and brought her two children with her. During a nightly party of UFO supporters, Sandy is apparently shot by a fan, but the "assassination attempt" turns out to be a nervous breakdown. His current film, for which he shot a new, positive ending, is enthusiastically celebrated. After the screening, Sandy is the last to leave the cinema alone.

background

Stardust Memories was launched on 26 September 1980 in the US and on 22 January 1981 in the cinemas of the Federal Republic of Germany .

Reviews

Stardust Memories received mostly negative reviews in the US press when the film was released, but it also received multiple praise in Europe.

“[Allen] clearly sees Stardust Memories as his eight and a half , and it develops as a portrait of the artist's complaints. […] Stardust Memories is a disappointment. It takes a bigger idea, an organizing force, to hold all these scenes full of nagging and whining together and lead them somewhere. "

- Roger Ebert , Chicago Sun-Times

“[Stardust Memories is] a terrible betrayal. [...] Woody Allen was often physically vicious towards himself - now he is vicious towards his fans. "

- Pauline Kael , The New Yorker

“Not a proper balance sheet after nine films in eleven years, not a straight line, but a scribble line broken many times. Woody Allen, whose art has always been narcissistic, based solely on his difficult inner world, is more closed than ever. [...] I love it, not only 'the early comic films', also and especially 'Stardust Memories': a very serious, very funny film. "

- Hans-Christoph Blumenberg , Time

“A tragic comedy; Puzzlingly floating between (night) dream, distorting mirror of reality, self-reflection and self-criticism. Woody Allen's most personal, most complex and most pessimistic work up to this point. "

- Lexicon of international film

Awards

Woody Allen's original screenplay was nominated for the 1981 Writers Guild of America Award .

Web links

Stardust Memories in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Stardust Memories at Rotten Tomatoes (English)

Individual evidence

^ Stardust Memories in the Internet Movie Database .
↑ ^a ^b Stardust Memories in the Lexicon of International Films .
^ Marion Meade: The Unruly Life of Woody Allen. E-Rights / E-Reads, New York 2000, pp. 189-191.
↑ Hellmuth Karasek: Woody Allen's Curse of Ridiculousness . Review in Der Spiegel No. 5/1981 of January 26, 1981, accessed on March 26, 2013.
↑ "[...] he clearly intends Stardust Memories to be his 8-1 / 2, and it develops as a portrait of the artist's complaints. […] Stardust Memories is a disappointment. It needs some larger idea, some sort of organizing force, to pull together all these scenes of bitching and moaning, and make them lead somewhere. ”- Review in the Chicago Sun-Times of January 1, 1980, accessed on March 25, 2013 .
↑ "[...] a horrible betrayal [...] Woody Allen has often been cruel to himself in physical terms - now he's doing it to his fans." - Pauline Kael: The Frog Who Turned Into a Prince, The Prince Who Turned Into a Frog. Reviewed in The New Yorker, Oct. 27, 1980, p. 178.
↑ Hans-Christoph Blumenberg: The clown must die . Review in Die Zeit Nr. 6 on January 30, 1981, accessed on March 25, 2013.

[1] Stardust Memories in the Internet Movie Database .

[ldif-2] Stardust Memories in the Lexicon of International Films .

[3] Marion Meade: The Unruly Life of Woody Allen. E-Rights / E-Reads, New York 2000, pp. 189-191.

[4] Hellmuth Karasek: Woody Allen's Curse of Ridiculousness . Review in Der Spiegel No. 5/1981 of January 26, 1981, accessed on March 26, 2013.

[5] "[...] he clearly intends Stardust Memories to be his 8-1 / 2, and it develops as a portrait of the artist's complaints. […] Stardust Memories is a disappointment. It needs some larger idea, some sort of organizing force, to pull together all these scenes of bitching and moaning, and make them lead somewhere. ”- Review in the Chicago Sun-Times of January 1, 1980, accessed on March 25, 2013 .

[6] "[...] a horrible betrayal [...] Woody Allen has often been cruel to himself in physical terms - now he's doing it to his fans." - Pauline Kael: The Frog Who Turned Into a Prince, The Prince Who Turned Into a Frog. Reviewed in The New Yorker, Oct. 27, 1980, p. 178.

[7] Hans-Christoph Blumenberg: The clown must die . Review in Die Zeit Nr. 6 on January 30, 1981, accessed on March 25, 2013.