(Keith Moon), are frustrated at being ignored while Jim, promoted by Porter Lee and Mike, becomes the focus of media attention. The other Stray Cats, especially drummer J.D. The Stray Cats embark on a successful tour of the US, where they meet their new manager, Porter Lee Austin (Larry Hagman), a wealthy Texan who has bought a majority financial interest in Jim and the group. Jim becomes the new center of attention for fans and press, causing the jealous Johnny to leave the band. Largely through Mike's efforts, the Stray Cats have their first hit single with a song sung by Jim, even though it was released as the B-side to a song sung by Johnny. Privately, Mike tells Jim that arrogant singer/ guitarist Johnny (Paul Nicholas) must go in order for the band to be a success. Mike accepts and proves to be a shrewd operator, arranging a better van, accommodations, and a recording session for the group. Jim tells Mike he's joined a touring rock group called the Stray Cats and invites Mike to come along as their road manager, pointing out that Mike could make millions if the group succeeds. Joffe (executive), Jack Rollins (executive)Ĭast: Woody Allen (Sandy Bates), Charlotte Rampling (Dorrie), Jessica Harper (Daisy), Marie-Christine Barrault (Isobel), Tony Roberts (Tony), Daniel Stern (Actor).On the evening of the Kennedy assassination, Jim MacLaine (David Essex) visits his friend Mike Menary (Adam Faith) at the funfair where Mike works. The latter sequence would prove to be prophetic when, just a few months later, former Beatle John Lennon was murdered outside his New York City residence by a psychotic fan.
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And in the opening sequence of the film, you can spot Sharon Stone in her movie debut as the beautiful blonde who blows a kiss to Bates from the opposite train car window.Īmong the many memorable scenes in Stardust Memories are the comic nightmare where Bates' 'hostility' goes on the rampage in Central Park, pursued by police and tracker dogs the appearance of an extraterrestrial named Og who confesses he prefers the filmmaker's earlier films a sequence which epitomizes Bates' idea of a perfect day with his former lover, Dorrie (Charlotte Rampling), accompanied by Louis Armstrong's rendition of "Stardust" on the soundtrack a paranoid fantasy in which an autograph hound assassinates Bates. Andy Albeck, the former head of United Artists, also makes a brief appearance as a film mogul who is concerned that Bates' new movie won't be funny. The 'Film Culture' weekend event in Stardust Memories is modeled on the Tarrytown film seminars organized by movie critic Judith Crist who also has a cameo in a flashback sequence. It was shot mostly in the Nassau area of Long Island with additional locations in Asbury Park, the old Filmways Studio in Harlem, and the Ocean Grove Great Auditorium, which served as the exterior of the Stardust Hotel. I wondered if I had contributed over the past twenty years to this man's unhappiness." But for Allen, Stardust Memories was about an artist on the verge of a mental breakdown who viewed the world through a distorted state of mind.ĭespite the controversy surrounding Stardust Memories, the film remains one of Allen's most complex and fascinating works. In an interview in The New York Times, Joffe said, "When I walked out of the first screening, I found myself questioning everything. The New Yorker's Pauline Kael called the film "a horrible betrayal.a whiff of nostalgia gone bad," while Andrew Sarris of The Village Voice thought the film seemed "to have been shaped by a masochistic desire to alienate Allen's admirers once and for all." Even Charles Joffe, Allen's steadfast executive producer on most of his films, had his doubts. Though the director has denied it, many critics felt Allen was using this film to express his disgust with his audience, the critics, and the film industry in general. However, it is entirely speculative whether Sandy Bates is really an alter ego for Woody Allen. There's no denying that Stardust Memories paints a bleak picture of Bates' profession with its stark black-and-white cinematography by Gordon Willis and a gallery of grotesque characters who wouldn't be out of place in a Diane Arbus photograph or a Hogarth painting. And he is further incensed by the studio suits who want him to make funny movies when all he sees is human suffering everywhere. Sandy no longer finds any personal satisfaction in his achievements or in his current relationships.
Obviously influenced by Fellini's 8 1/2 (1963), Stardust Memorie follows a prominent filmmaker named Sandy Bates to a weekend movie seminar at the Stardust Hotel in New Jersey where he is besieged by adoring fans and sycophants.
The true acid test for any fan or critic who loves Woody Allen movies is Stardust Memories (1980), his misunderstood and generally maligned ninth feature.
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