Posted on 01/14/2022 2:12:55 PM PST by nickcarraway
The Godfather will return to select movie theaters in honor of its 50th anniversary.
Paramount Pictures said in a press release Thursday that the 1972 film will have a limited theatrical release at AMC Theatres in the United States.
The Godfather will screen in Dolby Vision and Dolby Cinema beginning Feb. 22.
In addition, The Godfather trilogy -- The Godfather (1972), The Godfather Part II (1974) and The Godfather Part III (1990) -- has been restored and will be available in 4K Ultra HD for the first time beginning March 22. The films are based on Mario Puzo's novel The Godfather.
"I am very proud of The Godfather, which certainly defined the first third of my creative life," director Francis Ford Coppola said in a statement. "With this 50th anniversary tribute, I'm especially proud Mario Puzo's The Godfather, Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone is included, as it captures Mario and my original vision in definitively concluding our epic trilogy."
"It's also gratifying to celebrate this milestone with Paramount alongside the wonderful fans who've loved it for decades, younger generations who still find it relevant today, and those who will discover it for the first time," he added.
The Godfather stars Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Richard Castellano, Robert Duvall and Diane Keaton. Pacino and Keaton went on to star in The Godfather Part II and The Godfather Part III, both also directed by Coppola.
Somehow I’ve managed to never see The Godfather despite knowing it’s a classic. Turns to it’ll be playing at a theater near me starting the 22nd. So I’ll get to see it for the first time on the big screen. Woohoo!
This film was released the same year Brandon was first elected to the Senate.
It was apparently a good year for organized crime.
Not going to a noisy cramped movie theater for something I can watch at home for free.
When it played on TV for the first time, a bunch of my friends and a few wives got together to watch it. Every eye and ear was transfixed with the story, on a 27 inch set. Every eye except one. A very gorgeous young lady got tired of the attention the idiot box was getting and took off her top. The girls noticed, the guys heard about it on the way home from the “party”. It was that engrossing to 25 year old males, 5 years after release.
My wife and I watched the Godfather for the first time a few months ago! It was good.
I was just working on a project and the company used to be mob. An older guy was saying how you didn’t want to get on the bad side of the owner (now deceased). “But on the other hand, he paid for a bunch of people’s cancer medical bills and other stuff.”
I thought to myself “Just like in the movie!”
Saw on the big screen for the 40th anniversary in Queens at the MOMI. Will check it out again. Note: the movie came out four years before I was born.
Horrible! The San Gennaro shoot out alone made me want to vomit. I still think Sofia Coppola was a babe though.
And that's your excuse for not seeing it when it came out? Weak.
I’ve seen that movie at least 20 times. What a cast!
Joey Gallo is the one that most readily comes to mind. Amongst psychopath gangsters he was feared as a psychopath. He was also responsible for the hit on Joe Colombo.
He was a good friend of Jerry Orbach’s, Lenny from Law & Order.
Sammy deserves to be with his long-gone compatriots, though since our legal system works the way it does he gets to tell his tales.
I have the saga, where everything is in chronological order and has lots of stuff not in the originals. I have it on VHS, not available on DVD for some reason.
I like that film
I have it on VHS and you can probably find that on Ebay
Godfather Epic VHS
https://www.ebay.com/itm/265496328627?epid=3081743&hash=item3dd0d079b3:g:seQAAOSwwNJh1MW9
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