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Win With Quartet!

by Martyn Conterio 9 January 2013

After a false start with 1978′s Straight Time, which Dustin Hoffman began directing before allowing Ulu Grosbard to take over the reins, the actor has now made his directorial debut proper – thirty-five-years later – with QUARTET. To celebrate, we’re giving away three Quartet gardening kits and one signed poster!

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Special Gala Previews: Dustin Hoffman’s Quartet

by Maryann O'Connor 10 December 2012

Dustin Hoffman’s directorial debut Quartet, set in a home for retired opera singers, is due to be released early next year but fans of Hoffman and the film’s excellent cast, including Maggie Smith and Billy Connolly, will be able to catch a special screening tomorrow evening.

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In Review: Go To Blazes on DVD

by Tom Cottey 9 April 2012

Released in 1962 Go To Blazes represents British cinema at an uneasy stylistic point: somewhere between the post-war whimsy of the Carry On films and the more dynamic, ‘swinging London’ style liberation of A Hard Days Night and the films of Michael Caine. Go To Blazes is an utterly British heist-comedy which is at times [...]

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