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Stardust Memories details
| Format: | 12 DVD |
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| Starring: | Charlotte Rampling, Woody Allen, Jessica Harper, Tony Roberts, Marie-Christine Barrault |
| Director: | Woody Allen |
| Genres: | Comedy - Romantic, Drama - Period |
| Studio: | MGM |
| Name | Discs | |
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Stardust Memories |
12 Feature |
DVD Information
| Run time: | 1 hour 25 minutes |
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| Rental release: | 16 Jul 2007 |
| Main languages: | English |
| Subtitles: | Danish, Dutch, Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish, Spanish |
| Hearing impaired subtitles: | English |
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Interesting intraspection
By NadeemF (84 reviews) from Saffron Walden , 06 Nov 2005[Highly rated reviewer]
The script copies reality as Woody Allen plays a writer who wants to change from comedy to serious work.
However the film is focused on his relationship with the beautiful but suicidal Charlotte Rampling.
Funny in bits, sad in bits, I would mainly recommend this to someone wanting to understand the path of Allen's career.- Was this review helpful to you?
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(8)Dithering Director's Dilemmas!
By Charles Brickley from Andover, Hampshire England , 06 Oct 2009Some say this is one of Woody Allen's best films, which would be a matter of personal taste.
Certainly Woody would appear to be drawing upon his vast library of experiences as a celebrity and a much used/ abused egomaniac film making entrepreneur.
The occurrences during his film about a weekend convention at the Stardust Hotel could well be drawn from his true life experience as there are several familiar bells ringing about how humans try to exploit each other.
You will either like or loathe this movie, but there are several scenes which will take a long time to fade from your memory.
I think that the DVD was worth the money as long as Woody gives me an autograph and agrees to review a project or two with me!- Was this review helpful to you?
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STICK WITH THE EARLY FUNNY ONES
By a customer from Lancashire , 25 Oct 2008Allen comes a cropper in this attempt to reconcile his bleak view of the world with his comic genius. Despite the excellent photography and good supporting turns from the likes of Charlotte Rampling and Jessica Harper (who makes an impression in spite of her character having no real bearing on the story) this comes across as an exercise in homage to Italian cinema. It's certainly stylish but it has no real substance. Some of the jokes are a bit too near the knuckle in retrospect of events in his private life and i can't really remember laughing out loud during the whole movie.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Better than Expected
By Bournat (45 reviews) from England , 14 Oct 2008Reading the other reviews, I thought I has picked a lemon - but I enjoyed it. Plently of little subltle jokes that perhaps only fans of Allen and his type of Jewish comedy would fully appreciate, but Woody - playing 'himself' is having an ongoing early mid life crisis and seems surrounded by some people even more crazy than himself (or perhaps he is the only sane one?) His girlfiend, manic depressive Charlotte Rampling is joined by an assortment of 'bods' that haunt his exsistence - always asking for autographs, trying to hand him their homemade film scripts and ultimately telling him - 'He was not funny like he used to be' I know nothing of Fellini or Bergman work - who are often quoted when some of Allen movies are mentioned, despite who his influences were - he does a good job here.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Some good bits, but generally directionless
By a customer from Solihull , 03 Oct 2008This movie has a 'cobbled together' feel - the story is weak, and this weakness is not counterbalanced by anything else.
It contains some decent Allen moments, an interesting cast of extras (mostly faintly bizarre-looking people shown in close-up), some classic North-East coast locations, and some moments of class (despite a difficult script) from the stunning Charlotte Rampling, but these fail to save the film from its generally unsatisfactory feel. One for the Allen completists only, I'm afraid. And I'm an Allen completist, I'm afraid.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Stardust Memories (1980) - ickleReview (DVD)
By domeheid (6 reviews) from Oxford , 04 Sep 2008A disappointing Woody Allen film shot in black and white. Allen plays a comic film director who no longer wants to make funny films. He goes to a film festival that is showing a retrospective of his films. He stays in the Stardust Hotel and reminisces about his life. There are three female love interests. The film doesn't have a clear structure. It's a bit like Antonioni: artfully shot, good-looking, but a bit boring and lacking in substance.
Nugget: one of Allen's missable misses.- Was this review helpful to you?
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