The Godfather (Blu-ray, Coppola Restoration) R
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 2 hours, 57 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: February 2, 2010
- Originally Released: 1972
- Label: Paramount
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Robert Duvall, Al Pacino, Diane Keaton, James Caan, Talia Shire & Marlon Brando | |
Performer: | Sterling Hayden, John Cazale, Richard Castellano, John Marley, Richard Conte, Al Lettieri, Abe Vigoda, Gianni Russo, Rudy Bond, Morgana King, Richard Bright, Alex Rocco, Tony Giorgio, Vito Scotti, Julie Gregg, Angelo Infanti, Franco Citti, Saro Urzi, Sofia Coppola & Joe Spinell | |
Directed by | Francis Ford Coppola | |
Edited by | William Reynolds & Peter Zinner | |
Screenwriting by | Mario Puzo & Francis Ford Coppola | |
Composition by | Nino Rota | |
Art Direction by | Warren Clymer | |
Produced by | Albert S. Ruddy | |
Director of Photography: | Gordon Willis |
Memorable Quotes and Dialog:
"I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse."
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 1972 -
Best Actor: Marlon Brando
Academy Awards 1972 -
Best Adapted Screenplay: Francis Ford Coppola & Mario Puzo
Academy Awards 1972 -
Best Picture: Not Applicable
Entertainment Reviews:
The movie is preposterously entertaining, telling Puzo's compendium of old-time Mafia anecdotes with all the gravity of Old Testament epic.
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The New York Review of Books
A consistent work that sporadically makes palpable the talent of Francis Ford Coppola. [Full Review in Spanish]
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El Pais (Spain)
Rating: 4/4 --
Brando is the strong magnet that will draw fans to The Godfather. But behind-the-scenes creativity is of equal value to this film of towering proportions.
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New York Daily News
[Brando] astounded just about everyone with his performance
Total Film
[A] superlative achievement....[With] Gordon Willis's exquisitely dark Technicolor cinematography...
Premiere
I don't see how any gifted actor could have done less than Brando does here. His resident power, his sheer innate force, has rarely seemed weaker.
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The New Republic
It is a long (three hours), often exciting and always well-directed film about the struggle for survival of one of the five Mafia 'families,' the Corleones, in late 1940s New York.
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The Spectator
Product Description:
Based on the bestselling novel by Mario Puzo (who co-wrote the screenplay with director Francis Ford Coppola), THE GODFATHER tells an epic tale of Mafia life in America during the 1940s and '50s. Vito Corleone (Marlon Brando) is the family patriarch balancing a love of his family with an ambitious criminal instinct. At the wedding of the Don's daughter, Connie (Talia Shire), youngest son Michael (Al Pacino) is reunited with his family. A subsequent assassination attempt leaves the Don too ill to run the family business, forcing Michael and Sonny (James Caan), with the help of consigliere Tom Hagen (Robert Duvall), to lead the Corleones into a vendetta-filled war with other mob families. Violent revenge ensues as the family tries to change from its old criminal ways into legitimacy.
Coppola's certified masterpiece, which won three Oscars (including Best Picture) and spawned an Oscar-winning sequel (THE GODFATHER PART II), set a new screen standard for merging blood-soaked violence with intimate family drama. In the process, Coppola single-handedly established the Mafia as an industry in film and television (GOODFELLAS, THE SOPRANOS). Featuring truly unforgettable performances, including the Best Actor-winning Brando, the riveting Pacino, and an unexpectedly dramatic Diane Keaton, THE GODFATHER is the pinnacle of Hollywood cinema in the 1970s.
Coppola's certified masterpiece, which won three Oscars (including Best Picture) and spawned an Oscar-winning sequel (THE GODFATHER PART II), set a new screen standard for merging blood-soaked violence with intimate family drama. In the process, Coppola single-handedly established the Mafia as an industry in film and television (GOODFELLAS, THE SOPRANOS). Featuring truly unforgettable performances, including the Best Actor-winning Brando, the riveting Pacino, and an unexpectedly dramatic Diane Keaton, THE GODFATHER is the pinnacle of Hollywood cinema in the 1970s.
Keywords:
Classic
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Family Interaction
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Organized Crime
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Vengeance
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Betrayal
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Murder
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All-Star
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Epic
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Recommended
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Period Piece
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Blockbuster
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Theatrical Release
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Crime
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Mafia
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Gangsters
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Revenge
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Family Relations
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Mobsters
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Essential Cinema
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Based On A Novel