Stardust Memories

Woody Allen's tenth film as writer/director, Stardust Memories opens with a scene reminiscent of the opening of 8 1/2 and continues to use that film for inspiration. Sandy Bates (Allen) sits in a train at a train station, the car filled with very unhappy looking people. In a train on another set of ...more

Woody Allen's altar is the art of filmmaking, and Stardust Memories is his crisis of faith. Allen has always used his art to shape and make sense of his reality, but as the film begins, he wonders if he is washed up, an empty vessel, with nothing left to offer that will help ease the suffering in the world. Hence his anger in the face of his loving audience: while Allen cruelly bashes unthinking devotion of the groupie, he also wonders underneath if he has done anything worthy of such ...more