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Stardust Memories (1980)
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"Doesn't he know he's got the greatest gift anyone can have, the gift of laughter?" Woody Allen stars as filmmaker Sandy Bates, who, like John Sullivan in Preston Sturges's Sullivan's Travels, no longer wants to make comedies. As studio executives threaten to wrest control of his latest film, he reluctantly attends a weekend film-culture festival in his honor, where he is besieged by journalists ("I'm doing a piece on the shallow indifference of celebrities"), groupies ("I drove all the way from Bridgeport to make it with you"), and persistent oddballs ("Can I talk to you about my idea I have for a movie? It's a comedy based on the...
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Woody Allen's homage to Fellini's 8½ plays out much in the same way, as Allen creates yet another skewed version of himself, this time called Sandy Bates. Bates is at a film festival for a retrospective on his career, and throughout the course of the weekend, he reflects on his personal life, his past films, and the future...
(complete Stardust Memories review by Ryan Midnight)
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