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This one is best seen by film buffs and blindly devoted Woody Allen fans who will accept even his castigation. The rest of us can hope he cheers up soon. Oct 25, 2018 | Full Review…
This one is best seen by film buffs and blindly devoted Woody Allen fans who will accept even his castigation. The rest of us can hope he cheers up soon.
Linda Deutsch
Though there are laughs along the way, this is a truly mean-spirited picture. Mar 23, 2009 | Full Review…
Though there are laughs along the way, this is a truly mean-spirited picture.
Variety Staff
With its blunt, artless angst, the picture leaves you feeling depleted, squashed. Mar 23, 2009 | Full Review…
With its blunt, artless angst, the picture leaves you feeling depleted, squashed.
Dave Kehr
One long cry of anguish about the price of fame comes perilously close to self-pity. And self-abuse. Jun 24, 2006 | Full Review…
One long cry of anguish about the price of fame comes perilously close to self-pity. And self-abuse.
It's the first Woody Allen film in which impotence has become the situation rather than the problem. This is a movie about a guy who has given up. Oct 23, 2004 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
It's the first Woody Allen film in which impotence has become the situation rather than the problem. This is a movie about a guy who has given up.
Roger Ebert
Invokes the mood of an early Fellini film as it swirls through the troubled recollections of a film director, played by Mr. Allen. Aug 30, 2004 | Rating: 4/5
Invokes the mood of an early Fellini film as it swirls through the troubled recollections of a film director, played by Mr. Allen.
Janet Maslin
Woody Allen's altar is the art of filmmaking, and Stardust Memories is his crisis of faith. Dec 27, 2014 | Rating: 76/100 | Full Review…
Woody Allen's altar is the art of filmmaking, and Stardust Memories is his crisis of faith.
Dan Jardine
Woody Allen pays tribute to Fellini's seminal 81/2 in this stylized, self-reflexive, often irritating feature. Apr 27, 2011 | Rating: C+ | Full Review…
Woody Allen pays tribute to Fellini's seminal 81/2 in this stylized, self-reflexive, often irritating feature.
Emanuel Levy
Allen never seemed more indulgent, posturing, or physically repulsive -- and yet all the film's many strengths lie in its anatomisation of this nasty display. Mar 23, 2009 | Full Review…
Allen never seemed more indulgent, posturing, or physically repulsive -- and yet all the film's many strengths lie in its anatomisation of this nasty display.
Film4 Staff
A disappointing outing, despite its many laughs and inside jokes. Mar 23, 2009 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…
A disappointing outing, despite its many laughs and inside jokes.
Woody at his most autobiographical. Jan 27, 2008 | Rating: B | Full Review…
Woody at his most autobiographical.
Dennis Schwartz
An overlooked Woody Allen gem Nov 8, 2004 | Rating: 5/5
An overlooked Woody Allen gem
Rich Cline
Unlike most, I enjoyed this work of Woody Allen's, much more so than many of his "arty" films, and specifically because it doesn't seem as if it's trying to do any of that pretentious fawning for approval. As usual, Allen is chasing women - for better or for worse, his Muses, only placebo Muses - in between bouts of dealing with unthinking, selfish fans and the "get to the bottom line" money people, but it all has the endgame in sight of achieving satisfaction of his one true love: film. He even got a coupla laughs out of me, and it's been awhile since he's done that. Good stuff.
Super Reviewer
Sandy Bates: You can't control life. It doesn't wind up perfectly. Only-only art you can control. Art and masturbation. Two areas in which I am an absolute expert. Stardust Memories isn't a movie that jumps to mind when you think about Woody Allen. It is nowhere near his best and actually may be my least favorite film of his. I found it unlikable in a lost every way. This is odd because it is Allen paying his respects to Fellini and one of my favorite movies, 8 1/2. But just because you use Fellini type images and elements of plot from 8 1/2, doesn't mean you are making a worthwhile movie. This is just a bore of a film and probably Allen's most annoying. Sandy Bates is a talented director. He makes funny movies and when he decides to change direction and start making more serious pictures, he gets pressure from studio heads to stick to the comedy. While he stays at the Stardust Hotel, while attending a festival of his films, he has memories of the past and his loves. Along the way, we see him spend a great majority of his time fighting fans off who want to go him movie ideas and who want to shower him with praise for being such an intelligent filmmaker. This whole experience got tedious after the first twenty minutes and became the most disappointing of any Woody Allen film I have ever seen. It isn't a movie I would ever recommend, but obviously people do like it, so I might just be crazy. I'll stick to Hannah and Her Sisters and Match Point; you can have this garbage.
Dear Mr. Allen, Your film is famous for it's quote "I don't want to make funny movies anymore. I look around and all I see is human suffering." And you're right, the world is filled with suffering, and that's exactly why you should make comedies. If I wanted to see human suffering I would turn on the news, read the newspaper, or walk down the street of any major metropolitan city. No one wants to pay $12 dollars to be reminded that the world sucks. Next time you feel like popping a Bergman film into your DVD player, please re-watch Sullivan's Travels instead. Your devoted fan, Ken
Some scenes/shots remind me of Fellini. Some, of Bergman. The typical (and great) Woody Allen´s "philoshopical comedy". One of his best films. And a plus: Charlotte Rampling is stunning!
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