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      • Stardust Memories is a very sharp film, a black comedy of despair if you will, and though the jokes are extraordinarily bitter and biting, they are plentiful and they are breathtakingly funny.
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  1. Stardust Memories. 89 minutes ‧ PG ‧ 1980. Roger Ebert. January 1, 1980. 3 min read. The movie begins by acknowledging its sources of visual inspiration. We see a claustrophobic Allen trapped in a railroad car (that’s from the opening of “ 8 1/2,” with Marcello Mastroianni trapped in an auto), and the harsh black-and-white lighting ...

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  3. Woody Allen throws himself a pity party with all the surrealistic trimmings of Federico Fellini in Stardust Memories, a scabrous self-portrait that rankles as often as it impresses...

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  4. Stardust Memories is an odd film because it really has no storyline. It is told in an anecdotal narrative style as Bates recalls different moments in his life as new moments arise and influence him. He considers all the different oddities that inspired him to make the popular films he's made.

  5. Dec 31, 2017 · Unlike most Woody Allen films, Stardust Memories utterly defies capsule, much less a temporal breakdown, due to its use of flashback, dream, fiction, metafiction, and many other techniques. No, the film doesn’t really have a plot in terms of temporal sequence marked by ‘big events’, but it has something far more important: narrative ...

  6. Stardust Memories (movie 1980) review summary: Lambasted by some critics upon its release, this still-underappreciated, contemplative Woody Allen comedy – like Bob Fosse ’s 1979 musical All That Jazz, inspired by Federico Fellini’s 8½ – is a masterful work of art.

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  7. Stardust Memories is a very sharp film, a black comedy of despair if you will, and though the jokes are extraordinarily bitter and biting, they are plentiful and they are breathtakingly funny.

  8. In my opinion, Stardust Memories is Allen's greatest achievement. The film perceptively explores the relationships between art and reality, between the artist and his work, between the work and its consumers. Beyond its philosophic concerns though, this is also an incredibly funny film.

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