The greatest movie ever made..!

Just intense enough to provide a much-needed diversion, just lightweight enough to make you forget about it soon after it’s over. It’s not exactly “good,” per se, but it does what it sets out to do in terms of putting us on edge, which makes it … successful?

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

Blistering performances.

Woody Allen tries aping Federico Fellini and comes up criminally short,as Allen is no Fellini. The film has no real plot, a bad script, only a few comic touches, and is ultimately tedious to boot. If you are obsessed with the personal details of Allen's life, you might enjoy this more than the average viewer. But anyone who sees this as a masterpiece needs to see a LOT more movies!

While not for me one of Woody Allen's greatest films, Stardust Memories is along with Interiors one of his most under-estimated as well as one of his cleverest and most personal. It does ramble on a little too much sometimes and it does end on a strange note. But while one can understand why people would not like it- maybe they found the more biting and satirical moments hard to take (I think it was made very clear what Allen was trying to do)- Stardust Memories from a personal point of view was a great film from Allen and film in general and didn't deserve the hate it got at the time. The black and white and the photography do look gorgeous. The script is a great mix of truly biting satire, hilariously acerbic comedy and touching drama structured tightly and well blended, the dialogue being some of Allen's smartest and most thought-provoking. Stardust Memories pays homage to Fellini and 8 1/2, like Allen did in Interiors with Bergman, as can be seen in the more dream-like parts, very wittily done and photographed sumptuously. The story is not that hard to follow and while paced deliberately it still draws you in due to the homages, satire, how character relationships are explored and the situations depicted. The characters are as ever with Woody Allen are neurotic but also very real, Allen's character is not "likeable" but what he thinks of his fans and critics and how they treat him is something that can be related to. Allen directs assuredly and gives a very good performance as well, while Charlotte Rampling is indeed breathtaking and believable with Allen chemistry-wise. Jessica Harper underplays affectingly, in fact all of the acting is great. Look out for the brief appearance of Sharon Stone. Overall, a technically beautiful, smartly written and excellently played film, not a personal favourite from Allen but Stardust Memories is great and deserving of more credit. 9/10 Bethany Cox

Stardust Memories seems to be a somewhat divisive Woody Allen movie. In it Allen plays a film director who attends a retrospective of his work at the Stardust Hotel. While there he is constantly harassed by fans who bestow unconditional devotion on him. His contempt for them is quite clear. It's this last bit that has made this movie so divisive amongst Allen fans. A few seemed to have taken some offence at this. Allen has been at pains to say that Stardust Memories isn't autobiographical at all. Well, no one can say for sure but to be perfectly honest a movie where Allen stars as a film director frustrated with a public who want him to make more funny films when he wants to make serious ones really sounds a little bit autobiographical but what do I know? Like several of Allen's movies this one is shot in black and white. It's one of his most interesting looking films. There are several comic segments taken from the movies in the retrospective scattered throughout the film. These are all beautifully conceived, funny and original. Their fantastical nature only adds to the interesting aesthetic, along with a beautiful montage of images of Charlotte Rampling towards the end. It's overall a visually bold film. The combination of comic fantasy, flashbacks and serious drama make for involving viewing.Overall, Stardust Memories is one of Allen's finest efforts. Its combination of the autobiographical and the inventive is very successful. It's a movie that probably deserves at least two viewings in order to fully appreciate it. Furthermore, it ends with a very nice little twist that just makes it even better.

Let us start by getting to the heart of the matter.Stardust refers to an extremely naive romantic quality.By this yardstick,stardust memories are those romantic remembrances of the past which are an integral part of human consciousness.Old memories must be assessed on a timely basis in order to make sense of the life one is leading.This is precisely something which Woody Allen chose to depict in his film "Stardust Memories".In many ways,this film gives viewers an idea about Woody Allen's status in American cinema.We get to see through this film that he is neither a product of Hollywood studios nor a leading light of American independent cinema movement.He is quite simply an American director who has embedded a lot of European sensibilities in his films.Stardust Memories reveals that film directors like to lead different kinds of lives outside of their film making activities.It is a common fact that everybody would like to be associated with a film director in order to promote some social cause.This aspect has been nicely depicted by Woody Allen in this film.One word about Woody Allen's women characters.The women characters of "Stardust Memories" are not weak but they have also not been shown as strong willed women.In this manner their is a mysterious ambivalence concerning this film's women protagonists.Black and White format is a nice method chosen by Woody Allen as all our dreams,all our memories are invariably made up of black and white images.