Hot Trailer: Dustin Hoffman’s ‘Quartet’

COMMENTS (16)

• Looks great. Good to see Pauline Collins. Tom Courtenay looks terrific. Maggie Smith, the best.

  Comment by Mark K. — Sunday October 28, 2012 @ 7:38pm PDT  Reply to this post

• This looks awesome.

  (Hopefully there’s a “Hitchcockian” cameo.)

  Comment by Hoffman's Reputation — Sunday October 28, 2012 @ 7:56pm PDT  Reply to this post

• ‘Marigold Hotel’ Part Deux?

  Comment by CR — Sunday October 28, 2012 @ 8:08pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • Hollywood still does not get the fact that many older people around the world WANT to go to the theatre and see a movie especially one that features relatable characters.

    Here is THE BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL doing “135 MILLION” WORLDWIDE on a “10 MILLION” budget but Hollywood seems to think it’s an aberration and somehow just got lucky.

    I’ll bet QUARTET did not cost more than 10 – 15 MILLION and it will return 5 times that budget.

    Comment by TJ — Monday October 29, 2012 @ 8:56am PDT  Reply to this post

• All the actors in this film are older than my parents… and yet it’s a film I’ll see. Looks wonderfully reaffirming.

  Comment by Film Fan — Sunday October 28, 2012 @ 8:15pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Beautiful production. Love the lighting. Congratulations to camera, light, and production design.

  Comment by Robert Wilde — Sunday October 28, 2012 @ 8:54pm PDT  Reply to this post

• GLEE: The Retirement Years.

  Comment by la07 — Sunday October 28, 2012 @ 9:36pm PDT  Reply to this post

• This has stunning reviews coming out of TIFF. I’m extremely excited to see it.

  Comment by Kelsey — Sunday October 28, 2012 @ 10:15pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Agree with everybody. My only concern is that people might confuse it with the similar–and similarly titled–A LATE QUARTET, to the detriment of both.

  Comment by cadavra — Sunday October 28, 2012 @ 11:18pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • Agreed. Also to mention the 1981 Merchant Ivory film and the 1977 Altman film, also with the same name.

    Comment by stephen — Monday October 29, 2012 @ 8:21am PDT  Reply to this post

    • The Altman film was QUINTET. In any event, those films weren’t being released within a month of each other.

      Comment by cadavra — Monday October 29, 2012 @ 11:51am PDT  Reply to this post

• He waited this long to make a movie, and he decides to make this?

  I don’t think it looks like a bad film, but it also doesn’t look like a great film. Hoffman starred in so many important films. And this is what he wants to have be his first film? To each their own, I guess. I wish him luck.

  Comment by Jake — Sunday October 28, 2012 @ 11:49pm PDT  Reply to this post

• The Perks Of Being A Pacemaker

  Comment by Jason — Monday October 29, 2012 @ 4:35am PDT  Reply to this post

• I’m there. Actual characters. This makes a much better directing debut than “Dead Poet’s Society” would’ve.

  Comment by Santayana — Monday October 29, 2012 @ 9:58am PDT  Reply to this post

• A similar storyline appeared many years ago on TV thanks to a visit by Morley Safer and the 60 Minutes team to an Italian pension for retired opera singers. Interesting similarities.

  Comment by musicmaven — Monday October 29, 2012 @ 12:50pm PDT  Reply to this post

• This appears to be a thoughtful, well-spoken, entertaining movie with vibrant dialogue and a wonderful veteran cast, and not a single explosion, serial killer, super hero, or car chase in sight… and that usually means it will probably earn about 11 bucks and change.

  I do hope I’m mistaken.

  Comment by Bluto — Monday October 29, 2012 @ 8:00pm PDT  Reply to this post