Stardust Memories (1980)

PG   |    |  Comedy, Drama

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While attending a retrospective of his work, a filmmaker recalls his life and his loves: the inspirations for his films.

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1 nomination.

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14 September 2003 | silvertron
10
| A little self induldgent, but brilliantly so
While this film doesn't get the praise and respect of, say, "Annie Hall" or "Manhattan," I think it is a brilliant look into the mind of a film director. How much of Woody Allen is Sandy Bates? Some, I'm sure, but I think it's more interesting to compare Sandy to Woody Allen's "persona"--that is, who the public thinks he is.

The structure of the film is also quite interesting to me. Allen had done a very non-linear story structure, mixed with occasional flights of fantasy, in "Annie Hall," but "Stardust Memories" does that and piles on a movie within a movie within a movie, and manages to both comment on all that, at the same time as he's telling the story of the brilliant, but self-absorbed Sandy Bates.

A great movie, that you probably should see more than once to appreciate.

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The movie is based on weekend film festivals that were hosted by movie critic Judith Crist, who can be seen in a cameo in Sandy Bates' magician fantasy.

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Sandy Bates: I gotta give my one classical-music joke which I put in every single picture and I invariably cut it out.
Daisy: Yeah?
Sandy Bates: Um - the, eh, uh..."I don't know much about classic music. For years I thought the Goldberg Variations were something Mr. and Mrs. ...

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One O'Clock Jump
(1933)
Music by Count Basie
Performed by The Jazz Heaven Orchestra (as Jazz Heaven Orchestra)

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Plot Summary

Genres

Comedy | Drama

Details

Release Date:

26 September 1980

Language

English, French, Persian

Country of Origin

USA

Filming Locations

The Great Auditorium, Ocean Grove, New Jersey, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$10,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend USA:

$326,779 28 September 1980

Gross USA:

$10,389,003

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$10,389,003

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