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	Stardust Memories
		The accusation that Stardust Memories reveals Allen's own hostility to his audience (a view based mainly on his depiction of sycophantic film buffs and adulating fans) does not do justice to the metacritical nuances of the film.
		Moving from the monochrome nostalgia of Manhattan (1979), Stardust Memories shifts register and plays upon the art-house associations of black and white; the film assumes a chromatic cinematic gravity, contributing to the more general and reflexive interest of the film in directorial authorship.
		By creating a film within a film, and discreetly sliding the narrative of Stardust in and between the "inner" film's conception and consumption, Woody Allen looks at the interchange between creative process, cult personality and critical pretension.
	www.nottingham.ac.uk /film/journal/filmrev/stardust-memories.htm (885 words)

	RollingStone.com: David Bowie : Ziggy Stardust Rises Again : News
		Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars was shot by D.A. Pennebaker (Don't Look Back) at the Hammersmith Odeon theater in London in 1973; the film captures Bowie and his "Spiders" performing, as well as backstage.
		The film that captures David Bowie's final performance as Ziggy Stardust will be revived on July 10th at the Film Forum in New York City, before revisiting theaters nationwide later this year.
		The revival is part of a celebration of the thirtieth anniversary of the release of the album, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars, which first hit stores in June 1972.
	www.rollingstone.com /news/story/_/id/5934619 (204 words)

	Stardust Memories - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Stardust Memories is a film written and directed by Woody Allen which was released in 1980; Allen considers this to be one of his best films in addition to The Purple Rose of Cairo.
		Stardust Memories largely draws influence from the films of Federico Fellini, one of Allen's favorite directors.
		Among the extended cast members was an ingenue named Sharon Stone, in her first film appearance, future political commentator Alan Colmes ("Hannity and Colmes," the Fox News Channel) in his first role, and a young Brent Spiner, later famous as the character "Lieutenant Commander Data" on the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Stardust_Memories (250 words)

	Stardust Memories
		Stardust Memories is Allen's most self-confessional film (I will later make a strong case Stardust is more autobiographical than even Husbands and Wives or Deconstructing Harry, if only because it manages to cover a wider array of topics and ideas, particularly Allen's career and his responsibilities as an artist).
		Stardust Memories' opening sequence is the ending of a rough cut screening of a famous film director's new film, this time a drama instead of comedy.
		Stardust Memories is Allen's best, most thorough, and most effective balancing of comedy and drama, surpassing even Crimes and Misdemeanors and Hannah and Her Sisters.
	www.jaredsapolin.com /stardustmemories.html (3257 words)

	Stardust Memories
		At the center of Stardust Memories are the thoughts of Woody Allen’s character Sandy Bates, a celebrated film director attending a far-flung festival of his work, conflicted over his next film, unable to choose between the women in his life.
		For audiences and critics in 1980, Stardust Memories was Allen’s most difficult film yet, a challenging, allusive excursus on the creative intellect prompted by box office kudos and full of the Freudianism and in-joking that Allen had made his own.
		Stardust Memories is a cacophony of voices from movie executives to UFO spotters, fans to psychoanalysts, visiting aliens to Sandy’s relatives.
	home.comcast.net /~flickhead/StardustMemories.html (2085 words)

	Movie Info for Stardust Memories on MSN Movies
		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.
		Bates is a famous film director who has been invited to attend a festival of his work being held at the Stardust hotel.
		Find Deals on Stardust Memory and other Home & Garden Products at DealTime.
	entertainment.msn.com /movies/movie.aspx?m=149511 (267 words)

	Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (1973)
		'Ziggy Stardust and the Spider's From Mars' is a concert film and nothing more, and you watch concerts on TV or at the movies for a better view of the performance, not a lesser view.
		'Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars' gives you a David Bowie concert from the perspective of an audience member with the worst seats in the house.
		D.A. Pennebaker's sole moment of visual appeal was probably his 1953 short film 'Daybreak Express,' a jazz-scored time-lapse ride across New York City's transit rails from the perspective of a metro train.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0086643 (343 words)

	Stardust Memories (1980)
		Stardust Memories has also been accused of Woody's most self-indulgent film, but this is an outrage.
		Everyone has such distaste for this film because they thought that this was an autobiography and it was Woody's attack on his fans/critics.
		It seems that Stardust Memories does not get the credit that it truly deserves.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0081554 (363 words)

	BinaryFlix.com
		Stardust Memories is a beautifully shot black and white film as done by one of the great masters of cinematography Gordon Willis.
		Stardust Memories is more entertaining now that we have a twenty-year backlog of his other films.
		Stardust Memories does have some charms for the actors are all good and age has made the movie seem less of a sketch of Allen's viewed contempt of his audience.
	www.binaryflix.com /movie.asp?scope=s&ID=522 (912 words)

	:: rogerebert.com :: Reviews :: Stardust Memories (xhtml)
		Stardust Memories inspires that kind of frustration, though, because it's the first Woody Allen film in which impotence has become the situation rather than the problem.
		Probably, but no matter; he clearly intends Stardust Memories to be his 8-1/2, and it develops as a portrait of the artist's complaints.
		Most of the action of the film centers around two subjects.
	rogerebert.suntimes.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19800101/REVIEWS/1010330/1023 (666 words)

	Operation Green Cheese
		Spurred on by Soviet space successes, Stardust went into high gear, producing its first results in 1962, in the form of the Mercury "flights." Spaceflight footage was produced by the brilliant young director Stanley Kubrick, whose use of stark lighting would later prove ideal in imagining the lunar landscape.
		By that time, however, Stardust was well under way.) Most of the famous props used in the space spectaculars were dispersed among science museums, and the book was quietly closed on an unusual chapter in US history.
		Operation Stardust, irreverently dubbed "Green Cheese," commenced in 1958.
	www.vermilion-sands.com /rantlib/greencheese.html (943 words)

	Marty (1955)
		The film's screenwriter Paddy Chayefsky transformed his own original teleplay into a successful major motion picture - and the modest film remains one of the best examples of the cinematization of a television play.
		By film's end, he and another homely 29 year old Brooklyn schoolteacher and female wallflower are liberated - both are triumphant over their respective limitations.
		A modest, black and white film in an era of wide-screen color epics, its critical acclaim and box-office success were phenomenal - its $340,000 production budget yielded over $5 million in gross proceeds.
	www.filmsite.org /mart.html (1618 words)

	Rykodisc Catalog - Ziggy Stardust : The Motion Picture - David Bowie
		Luckily, this, the last ever show of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars was captured on film by D.A. Pennebaker.
		Although he attempted to put the character to rest on the occasion of this recording, Ziggy Stardust refuses to die.
		After being shown in truncated version onTV the film was finally given theatrical release in 1983, ten years after it was recorded.
	www.rykodisc.com /rykoindex/catalog/dump/rykoalbums_163.asp (294 words)

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		Stardust Memories is a fractured film that confounds traditional narrative structure, instead working according to dream logic.
		MGM’s DVD of Stardust Memories is presented anamorphically enhanced in its original aspect ratio and in a full-frame transfer.
		Stardust Memories is a winning satire with plenty of humorous moments.
	www.dvdmon.com /videoreview.asp?varGenre=Comedy&keyVideoID=237 (751 words)

	The Ziggy Stardust Companion: Encyclopedia: B
		Of interest to the Ziggy Stardust Era (but not appearing in this collection) are three films reportedly shot by Mick Rock in late 1972 featuring live Ziggy footage dubbed to the studio versions of "Moonage Daydream", "Starman" (The Ziggy Stardust Show film) and "Rock n Roll Suicide" (Rock N Roll Suicide film)
		Burretti was responsible for most of the Ziggy Stardust costumes and also fronted the temporary Arnold Corns project where he went by the name of Rudi Valentino.
		: Numerous bootlegs exist of the Ziggy Stardust concerts in 1972 and 1973 and of various outtakes and demos.
	www.5years.com /encyb.htm (1988 words)

	Stardust Memories - Moviefone: MAIN
		Synopsis: 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...
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	movies.aol.com /movie/main.adp?mid=5886 (193 words)

	Harbottle's Encyclopedia
		r'n'b band from Irish film of same name some members were previously in a band called And And And
		Other bands featured in the film were: Murph And The Magictones and The Good Ol' Boys
		So here it is, a pretty much comprehensive list of all the made up bands, pseudonyms, alter egos, nom de plumes etc. that we could find.
	www.professorharbottle.co.uk /rockfict.html (1103 words)

	The Ziggy Stardust Companion: Purple Stardust by Christopher Barton
		Bowie: Ziggy Stardust is considered by many to be Bowie’s breakthrough hit, although he enjoyed a few successes before this album; notably, the 1969 song and album “Space Oddity”, the title tune being about a future gone wrong (the title itself being a take-off on Stanley Kubrick’s classic film 2001: A Space Odyssey).
		While Purple Rain was a concept based on autobiographical events, Ziggy Stardust has been described as a fictional character, which David Bowie began to transform into – the reverse construction of Prince’s character of The Kid.
		Purple Rain: The album/film has widely been described as a “semi-autobiographical” portrait of Prince, under the characters name of The Kid.
	www.5years.com /purplestardust.htm (1900 words)

	The Ziggy Stardust Companion: Encyclopedia: B
		Of interest to the Ziggy Stardust Era (but not appearing in this collection) are three films reportedly shot by Mick Rock in late 1972 featuring live Ziggy footage dubbed to the studio versions of "Moonage Daydream", "Starman" (The Ziggy Stardust Show film) and "Rock n Roll Suicide" (Rock N Roll Suicide film)
		Burretti was responsible for most of the Ziggy Stardust costumes and also fronted the temporary Arnold Corns project where he went by the name of Rudi Valentino.
		In early 1971, Bowie explained the concept of Ziggy Stardust to him while writing the lyrics to the title song.
	www.5years.com /encyb.htm (1900 words)

	Ziggy Stardust & The Spiders From Mars Review
		Throughout most of David Bowie's 1973 concert film "Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars," the flamboyantly androgynous (at the time) rock legend's performance isn't half as interesting as his gender-bending wardrobe.
		Even digitally remastered, Bowie's 'Ziggy Stardust' is a low-budget concert film lacking cinematic style
		This limited theatrical re-release (certain to be followed by a DVD) may serve as a transporting flashback for Bowie fans who became fans during his Ziggy Stardust and Aladdin Sane eras.
	excite.contactmusic.com /new/film.nsf/reviews/ziggystardust (1900 words)

	channel4.com/film - Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
		Musically minded director Pennebaker, the man responsible for the Bob Dylan doc Don't Look Back, here gives Bowie the film treatment with a largely concert-based account of his final performance under the Ziggy Stardust alter ego (something which erroneously led many to believe the glam rocker was quitting music altogether).
		Although there is some backstage footage of the gig, which took place at the Hammersmith Odeon on 3 July 1973, it's pretty much the show all the way, as Bowie and his band romp through all their classics ranging from 'Space Oddity', 'Aladdin Sane' and 'Changes' through to the film's title track.
		Although it was shown on TV in 1974, it didn't receive a cinema release for a further nine years.
	www.channel4.com /film/reviews/film.jsp?id=110534 (1900 words)

	Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars
		"Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars" is the digitally remastered feature film of the last concert and final performance of David Bowie as his gender-bender, crazy-clad alter ego, Ziggy Stardust, in 1973.
		While we can revel in the recreation of "Ziggy Stardust," "All the Young Dudes," "Space Oddity" and "Suffragette City," what truly awes in the realization of Bowie's completely mature command of both his voice and the stage so early in his career.
		The opening and closing sequences of the film take us back stage and gives us a look at Bowie's first wife, Angela, before he dumped her for supermodel Iman, and a brief interlude between Bowie and his good friend Ringo Starr.
	www.reelingreviews.com /ziggystardustandthespidersfrommars.htm (1900 words)

	Xah: Las Vegas Travelog: Stardust
		The word stardust is symptomatically a American coinage, as there are American song "Stardust" (1929) and American film "Stardust Memory" (1980).
		Being a Las Vegas oldie, the history of Stardust is filled with crime and gangsters.
		In front of Stardust is this curious fountain.
	xahlee.org /Periodic_dosage_dir/las_vegas/stardust.html (214 words)

	Stardust - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Stardust (1974 movie), a film (and the title track composed for the movie, later covered by Martin Gore) about a rock star, starring David Essex.
		Stardust (airplane), a Chilean airliner that vanished in 1947.
		Stardust (comic-book character), a fictional superheroine appearing in Femforce.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Stardust (219 words)

	Stardust - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Stardust (1974 movie), a film (and the title track composed for the movie, later covered by Martin Gore) about a rock star, starring David Essex.
		Stardust (comic-book character), a fictional superheroine appearing in Femforce.
		Stardust Disaster, a fire which killed 48 people on Valentine's Day 1981 in a Dublin nightclub.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Stardust (235 words)

	Stardust - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Stardust (1974 movie), a film (and the title track composed for the movie, later covered by Martin Gore) about a rock star, starring David Essex.
		Stardust (spacecraft), a comet coma sample return spacecraft.
		Stardust Disaster, a fire which killed 48 people on Valentine's Day 1981 in a Dublin nightclub.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Stardust (234 words)

	Stardust - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Stardust (1974 movie), a film (and the title track composed for the movie, later covered by Martin Gore) about a rock star, starring David Essex.
		Stardust (comic-book character), a fictional superheroine appearing in Femforce.
		Stardust (spacecraft), a comet coma sample return spacecraft.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Stardust (244 words)

	Casino (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Casino is a 1995 movie directed by Martin Scorsese, based on the book of the same name by Nicholas Pileggi and Larry Shandling.
		The film is noted for having many uses of the word "fuck".
		The story is based on Frank "Lefty" Rosenthal, who ran the Stardust, Fremont and the Hacienda casinos in Las Vegas for the mob from the 1970s until the early 1980s.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Casino_(movie) (334 words)

	Stardust - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Stardust (1974 movie), a film (and the title track composed for the movie, later covered by Martin Gore) about a rock star, starring David Essex.
		Stardust Disaster, a fire which killed 48 people on Valentine's Day 1981 in a Dublin nightclub.
		Stardust (airplane), a Chilean airliner that vanished in 1947.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Stardust (238 words)

	LABYRINTH - SUPERBIT DVD
		To be fair, Labyrinth holds some interest as an artifact of a time in filmmaking that was dominated more by invention than mainframes: latex and engineering lend a palpable feeling of weight missing in the glorified screensavers of the last several years.
		While the film is a nostalgic hallmark for many (and so is Pete's Dragon, it occurs), cinematically and artistically, better to revisit Henson's flawed but breathing The Dark Crystal.
		As riffs on Alice in Wonderland and The Wizard of Oz go, Jim Henson's Labyrinth is a painfully dated, shockingly un-magical romp through a fragmented netherworld populated by Ziggy Stardust and a horde of little people wearing giant papier-mâché heads.
	www.filmfreakcentral.net /dvdreviews/labyrinthsuperbit.htm (478 words)

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