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...Stardust Memories is Woody Allen's 8½.Taking his cue from Federico Fellini's great comic fantasy, Allen has set his film in a resort hotel and cast himself as a film maker, very much like the Woody Allen we think we know, who finds himself in a creative culdesac. The film mixes memory and fantasy with the surreal-life present. Its visual style is a gloss on 8½'s: seductive black-and-white images, express-train pacing, a foregrounding of comic bit players. The three main women in 8½ (a mistress, a wife...
...STARDUST MEMORIES Directed and Written by Woody Allen...
...control life," says Woody Allen in Stardust Memories. "It doesn't wind up perfectly. Only art you can control. Art and masturbation-two areas in which I'm an absolute expert." Some moviegoers will see the film as life made into art, the rarefied atmosphere of Manhattan high life bottled, aged and served with a chill. Others will wonder if the movie isn't an elaborate mechanism of self-abuse, a Rube Goldberg dildo, a film about a dead end that is a dead end for this prolific, personal film maker. Stardust Memories has much to please...
...Hitchcock reliquary. Paul Mazursky has stared into his navel and found François Truffaut. And Woody Allen, whose films find their strength in reflections on his life and the lives of the beautiful battered people around him, has retreated into an anguished remake of 8½. In Stardust Memories, he has erected a movie-studio cage around his experience and produced pictures of his bars and his keepers...
...rock star he created Ziggy Stardust, the orange-haired founder of bisexual chic. In his 1976 film debut, he played Thomas Jerome Newton, the cat-eyed extraterrestrial of The Man Who Fell to Earth. Now, British-born David Bowie, onetime idol of the glitter set, has come in for a landing on the legitimate stage. His typically freakish role; John Merrick, the deformed central figure in that Broadway hit The Elephant Man, which opens in Denver this week. Says Bowie of his assorted personas: "It looks like I'm always going to have a physical or psychological limp...