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Don Vito Corleone, head of a mafia family, decides to hand over his empire to his youngest son Michael. However, his decision unintentionally puts the lives of his loved ones in grave danger. (R, 175 min.)
7:00 PM
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January 23: The Godfather (1972)
January 30: The Godfather 2 (1974)
Francis Ford Coppola's epic masterpiece features Marlon Brando in his Oscar©-winning role as the patriarch of the Corleone family. Director Coppola paints a chilling portrait of the Sicilian clan's rise and near fall from power in America, masterfully balancing the story between the Corleone's family life and the ugly crime business in which they are engaged. Based on Mario Puxo's best-selling novel and featuring career-making performances by Al Pacino, James Cann and Robert Duvall, this searing and brilliant film garnered ten Academy Award® nominations, and won three including Best Picture of 1972. [Paramount]
Starring: Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, John Cazale , Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton, Sterling Hayden, Richard Conte, Talia Shire, Al Lettieri
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Genre(s): Drama, Crime, Thriller
"The ultimate family film."
— Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
"Coppola's masterpiece reveals something new every time you watch it."
— Neil Smith, BBC.com
"In scene after scene ... Coppola crafted an enduring, undisputed masterpiece."
— Edward Guthmann, San Francisco Chronicle
"A three-hour film that thunders by like it was only 90 minutes. Truly, a milestone film."
— Elston Brooks, Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
"In its blending of new depth with an old genre, it becomes that rarity, a mass entertainment that is also great movie art."
— Jay Cocks, TIME Magazine
"If ever there was a great example of how the best popular movies come out of a merger of commerce and art, 'The Godfather;' is it."
— Pauline Kael, New Yorker
"As filmmaking and storytelling, 'The Godfather' remains a bravura piece of work, its set pieces, dialogue and performances entrenched cinematic icons."
— Ben Walters, Time Out
"The Godfather is an epic gangster movie adapted from the raw materials of Mario Puzo's best-seller about the Mafia and probably the best of its kind ever made."
— Kevin Kelly, Boston Globe
"Francis Ford Coppola has made one of the most brutal and moving chronicles of American life ever designed within the limits of popular entertainment."
— Vincent Canby, New York Times
"The Godfather is the most memorable, most influential, most quoted, most beloved, most discussed, most imitated, most revered and most entertaining American movie ever made."
— Richard Roeper, Chicago Sun-Times
"The years have been kind to this timeless Mafia epic, which seems particularly rich now that studio blockbusters no longer demonstrate this kind of care with character, atmosphere and storytelling."
— John Hartl, Film.com
"There are volumes that could be written -- and have been -- about the movie's uniformly powerful performances; its precedent-setting editing by William Reynolds and Peter Zinner; Nino Rota's haunting score; and Dean Tavoularis's evocative set design."
— Desson Thomson, Washington Post
"The supporting cast is a marvel, including Diane Keaton as Pacino's bewildered fiancee, Robert Duvall as Brando's second-in-command, James Caan as Pacino's headstrong brother, [and] Al Martino in a role patterned after Frank Sinatra."
— Michael H. Price, Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
"The Godfather is one of those rare films which works on just about every level. It it is entertainment: it is art. Superficially exciting with a strong narrative sense and rapid-fire yet consistent action, it is also provocative and deeply disturbing."
— Martha DuBose, Sydney Morning Herald
