While attending a retrospective of his work, a filmmaker recalls his life and his loves: the inspirations for his films.While attending a retrospective of his work, a filmmaker recalls his life and his loves: the inspirations for his films.While attending a retrospective of his work, a filmmaker recalls his life and his loves: the inspirations for his films.
- Awards
- 2 nominations
Anne DeSalvo
- Sandy's Sister
- (as Anne De Salvo)
- Director
- Writer
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaWoody Allen has always strenuously denied that the film is autobiographical. Allen has said in the book "Woody Allen on Woody Allen: In Conversation with Stig Björkman" (1994): "[Critics] thought that the lead character was me. Not a fictional character but me. Not a fictional character but me, and that I was expressing hostility towards my audience. That was in no way the point of the film. It was about a character who is obviously having a sort of nervous breakdown and, in spite of success, has come to a point in his life where he is having a bad time".
- Quotes
Sandy Bates: You can't control life. It doesn't wind up perfectly. Only-only art you can control. Art and masturbation. Two areas in which I am an absolute expert.
Featured review
The problem with Woody has always been that everyone takes his movies more seriously than he does. Here, using the tactics of Felini, he makes fools of his detractors including the greatest detractor of all, Woody himself. For many reasons, I rank this among his best. He removes the restraint of plot, and just goes balls out nuts with his usual philosophical angst, and endless worship of beautiful dames. Oddly enough, without the fetters of convention, to me it was actually less pretentious or indulgent I think people like to call it, and a lot easier to understand and empathize with. One thing that I've always found absurd, and ironically what this film dwells on, is the complaints by fans and critics that he should go back to making comedies. Woody cannot not make a funny movie. If he's in it, and he's talking, I'm laughing. Especially back in this era, when his jokes were so fresh. So make no mistake, this film is loaded with comedy. Finally, I liked his choice of women in this. Charlotte Rampling is what I suppose the word breathtaking was originally meant to describe. If you arent touched by the final scenes with her, you got issues.
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- Release date
- Country of origin
- Languages
- Also known as
- Recuerdos
- Filming locations
- The Great Auditorium, Ocean Grove, New Jersey, USA(exterior of The Stardust Hotel)
- Production companies
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Box office
- Budget
- $10,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $10,389,003
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $326,779
- Sep 28, 1980
- Gross worldwide
- $10,389,003
- Runtime1 hour 29 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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