While attending a retrospective of his work, a filmmaker recalls his life and his loves: the inspirations for his films.While attending a retrospective of his work, a filmmaker recalls his life and his loves: the inspirations for his films.While attending a retrospective of his work, a filmmaker recalls his life and his loves: the inspirations for his films.
- Awards
- 2 nominations
Anne DeSalvo
- Sandy's Sister
- (as Anne De Salvo)
- Director
- Writer
- All cast & crew
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaWoody Allen has always strenuously denied that the film is autobiographical. Allen has said in the book "Woody Allen on Woody Allen: In Conversation with Stig Björkman" (1994): "[Critics] thought that the lead character was me. Not a fictional character but me. Not a fictional character but me, and that I was expressing hostility towards my audience. That was in no way the point of the film. It was about a character who is obviously having a sort of nervous breakdown and, in spite of success, has come to a point in his life where he is having a bad time".
- Quotes
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.
Featured review
It seems that Stardust Memories does not get the credit that it truly deserves. Everyone has such distaste for this film because they thought that this was an autobiography and it was Woody's attack on his fans/critics. Woody himself has said many times that this is not the case, but even if it were, I believe that the fans/critics deserve to be lowered down a peg. After all, Woody's interpretation of his fans (via Fellini's style of awkward and hilarious faces) is valid. Fans and critics alike should never have verbally abused him so much after the release of Interiors (1978). Why should directors be type-casted? Let him have his freedom! After all, Interiors wasn't such a bad movie. It was different, but not bad. Stardust Memories has also been accused of Woody's most self-indulgent film, but this is an outrage. All of Woody's films have something to do with his personal life, but if he had casted someone like John Cusack as Sandy Bates, then everyone would have stopped complaining about it's self-indulgence and start understanding how much of a creative genius Woody Allen is. Overall, Stardust Memories will be one of his films that lasts; but only time will tell.
- Dinsdale123
- Apr 15, 2004
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- Release date
- Country of origin
- Languages
- Also known as
- Recuerdos
- Filming locations
- The Great Auditorium, Ocean Grove, New Jersey, USA(exterior of The Stardust Hotel)
- Production companies
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Box office
- Budget
- $10,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $10,389,003
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $326,779
- Sep 28, 1980
- Gross worldwide
- $10,389,003
- Runtime1 hour 29 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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