Best of the Big Screen!
Tuesday, September 6th at 7 PM
50th Anniversary Celebration! New digital
restoration!
THE GODFATHER
Introduction by Philip Harwood
Members $10 | Public $15
This year the Academy Award-winning masterpiece, The
Godfather, celebrates its 50th anniversary. Considered by many to be one of
the greatest films of all time, the movie follows the saga of the Corleone
crime family led by Don Vito Corleone (Marlon Brando), then later his
son Michael (Al Pacino). Gangster films were no longer a popular genre
when Paramount optioned Mario Puzo’s novel about an aging head of a
crime family and the son reluctant to join the family business, but Francis
Ford Coppola’s faithful and emotionally resonant film version was a box
office blockbuster as well as one of the most critically acclaimed American
films of all time, with many of the finest actors of the modern era playing
their first star-making roles. (USA, 1972, 177 min., Color, DCP /
Director: Francis Ford Coppola / Cast: Marlon Brando,
Al Pacino, James Caan, Diane Keaton, Robert Duvall, Talia Shire)

