(1972 & 1974, Francis Ford Coppola) More than three decades after they both won the Academy Award for Best Picture, Coppola’s iconic classics have been meticulously restored by Paramount Pictures, overseen by Coppola himself. Both movies underwent extensive frame-by-frame examination and restoration using state-of-the-art digital technology. Robert A. Harris of the Film Preserve supervised the restorations under the direction of Coppola and cinematographer Gordon Willis (Manhattan, Annie Hall). Continually ranked at the very top of both critics’ and audiences’ “Best Of” lists, and the recipients of a combined total of nine Academy Awards, The Godfather and The Godfather, Part II will be shown exclusively at Film Forum for a single week each, with back-to-back screenings scheduled for the third and final week. THE GODFATHER: approx. 175 min. THE GODFATHER Part II: approx. 200 min. (plus 10 minute intermission)

THE GODFATHER
Fri/Sun/Tues 1:00, 8:20
Mon/Wed/Thurs/Sat 4:45

THE GODFATHER, PART II
Fri/Sun/Tues 4:30
Mon/Wed/Thurs/Sat 1:00, 8:35

"Tastefully restored productions...
You'll see Brando in a whole new light!"
– The New York Observer

“Possibly the greatest movie ever made.”
– Stanley Kubrick on THE GODFATHER

"One of the most brutal and moving chronicles of American life ever designed within the limits of popular entertainment... The gangster movie come of age, truly sorrowful, exciting, without the false piety of the films that flourished forty years ago."
– Vincent Canby (The New York Times) on THE GODFATHER

"The daring of Part II is that it enlarges the scope and deepens the meaning of the first film. Visually, Part II is far more complexly beautiful than the first, just as it’s thematically richer, more shadowed, fuller… An epic vision of the corruption of America."
– Pauline Kael on THE GODFATHER, PART II

"Coppola's superior sequel to his own very fine Mafia epic [is an] elliptical and elegantly orchestrated narrative charted with a terrifying lucidity. The performances, Gordon Willis' memorably gloomy camerawork, the stately pace and the sheer scale of the story's sweep render everything engrossing and so, well, plausible that our ideas of organised crime in America will forever be marked by this movie."
– Geoff Andrews (Time Out London) on THE GODFATHER, PART II