The Godfather Trilogy: Coppola Restoration

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#101 Post by fdm » Sun Sep 28, 2008 1:06 pm

Luke M wrote:The case is slightly bigger than regular cases. It has hubs like don't hold the discs too well. Mine was broken and the first disc sometimes floats around because the case doesn't hold.

Overall, very shabby packaging. Didn't help that Amazon shipped it in a yellow envelope.
(Make them replace it. I just sent mine back and bought locally. Was expecting such careful handling on amazon's part and so was only a little disappointed.)

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#102 Post by Octave » Tue Dec 02, 2008 5:22 am

As above, anyone getting this new restoration set? Available in DVD and Blu-ray

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#104 Post by Schkura » Sat Dec 06, 2008 11:18 am

Octave wrote:As above, anyone getting this new restoration set? Available in DVD and Blu-ray
I have the Blu Ray, but thanks to the recent sale I also have about 20 others. I should get to it by the end of the month.

Umm... Dog Day Afternoon looked sharp. :oops:

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#105 Post by Antoine Doinel » Thu Dec 11, 2008 9:24 am

An excerpt from the Godfather Family Album in which Mario Puzo talks about his inspiration behind the novel.

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#106 Post by Antoine Doinel » Thu Feb 19, 2009 9:41 am

Vanity Fair has an in depth piece on the making of The Godfather.

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#107 Post by colinr0380 » Sat Feb 21, 2009 6:59 pm

Jonathan Rosenbaum revisits The Godfather.

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#108 Post by kinjitsu » Tue Feb 21, 2012 7:39 pm

Paramount Pictures Sues Puzo Estate Over ‘Godfather’ Sequels:
Paramount, which says it bought the copyright to Puzo’s novel in 1969, is trying “protect the integrity and reputation of The Godfather trilogy,” according to a complaint filed Feb. 17 in federal court in Manhattan.

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#109 Post by Tom Hagen » Thu Mar 01, 2012 5:28 pm

Catch the theatrical re-release. Today.

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#110 Post by kinjitsu » Thu Mar 01, 2012 6:22 pm

The showtime dates are for today and the 22nd. I guess the writer didn't bother to thoroughly check that link.

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#111 Post by Stefan Andersson » Thu Sep 03, 2020 1:56 pm

Restored Godfather III, plus Coppola´s new re-edit "Mario Puzo’s THE GODFATHER, Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone", announced:
https://www.hometheaterforum.com/commun ... ne.368780/

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#112 Post by Stefan Andersson » Thu Sep 03, 2020 1:58 pm

For the record --

Colorist Jan Yarbrough on restoring The Godfather:
https://www.hometheaterforum.com/commun ... ne.368780/

Relevant links about various versions of the trilogy, in English or German:
http://godfathermuseum.blogspot.com/201 ... chive.html
https://www.movie-censorship.com/report.php?ID=35402
https://www.schnittberichte.com/schnitt ... s=%20-%200 (this page has links to 11 other relevant pages)
https://www.schnittberichte.com/schnitt ... php?ID=610

Schnittberichte.de is the German-language version of Movie-censorship.com.

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#113 Post by TMDaines » Thu Sep 03, 2020 6:08 pm

Stefan Andersson wrote:
Thu Sep 03, 2020 1:56 pm
Restored Godfather III, plus Coppola´s new re-edit "Mario Puzo’s THE GODFATHER, Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone", announced:
https://www.hometheaterforum.com/commun ... ne.368780/
Given I am always forced to watch Part III by a certain someone after wanting to rewatch Part I and Part II, I am hoping this will only be an improvement. Gonna be hard to cut Sofia Coppola's performance out entirely though...

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#114 Post by CSM126 » Thu Sep 03, 2020 8:08 pm

Andy Garcia is so ungodly terrible in this movie but everyone picks on Sofia Coppola… who’s perfectly fine and not a bad actor. I never got the misplaced hatred here.

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#115 Post by hearthesilence » Thu Sep 03, 2020 8:58 pm

I thought the third part was fine, but I didn't get how terrible it could look until I watched it right after the first two. (This wasn't marathon viewing, it was one part per day over three days.) I'll keep an open mind, but one wonders how many more films he's going to recut. Apocalypse Now (mainly for restoring the context of Western colonialism) and especially The Cotton Club made sense, but how many more Coppola films are in need of such restorations?

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#116 Post by beamish14 » Thu Sep 03, 2020 9:26 pm

CSM126 wrote:
Thu Sep 03, 2020 8:08 pm
Andy Garcia is so ungodly terrible in this movie but everyone picks on Sofia Coppola… who’s perfectly fine and not a bad actor. I never got the misplaced hatred here.
With the exception of Eli Wallach, the whole cast is uniformly awful. Pacino looks disinterested/on quaaludes and Keaton has nothing to do.
Garcia getting an Oscar nomination was mystifying (but so was the damn film getting a Best Picture nom).

I agree with heartthesilence about how seeing the first two relatively soon before it will amplify your perceptions of the film's worst attributes.
My girlfriend had enjoyed seeing the them in 35mm a few months before we sat down to watch this (I had kept imploring her to not get
upset with me if it failed to live up to those standards!) and she was just aghast at what she saw. The goddamn helicopter, the papal vote,
the opera intercutting...it's just a farce.
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#117 Post by beamish14 » Thu Sep 03, 2020 9:31 pm

hearthesilence wrote:
Thu Sep 03, 2020 8:58 pm
but how many more Coppola films are in need of such restorations?

It's not exactly "his" film in the strictest sense, but Wim Wenders' Hammet deserves a fresh coat.

That press release mentions Paramount/Zoetrope saving practically every rush from Godfather III, but they probably couldn't keep
a single interpositive of what Wenders delivered in 1981?

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#118 Post by Big Ben » Thu Sep 03, 2020 9:34 pm

Well surely the new version can't be worse right? I struggle to remember much of anything about the film besides the final shot which says a lot considering the other two entries in the trilogy are uniformly excellent.

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#119 Post by hearthesilence » Thu Sep 03, 2020 10:01 pm

One detail I remember was hearing Elvis Costello's "Miracle Man" from My Aim Is True. Presumably Mary is playing it when she's with Vincent, but it felt like an early hint of the post-punk and New Wave music Sofia Coppola would use for her own films.

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#120 Post by beamish14 » Fri Sep 04, 2020 1:43 am

I am particularly curious about what the new bookends in the film will be. Pacino doing fresh narration (he recorded some decades later for Hugh Hudson's
revised cut of Revolution)? Coppola sitting in his own vineyard and reflecting upon the experience? Or he could go the Andrzej Zulawski/On the
Silver Globe
route and have himself wandering the streets of Rome, frantically telling us what he and Puzo had intended to do.

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#121 Post by Calvin » Fri Sep 04, 2020 2:36 am


hearthesilence wrote:I thought the third part was fine, but I didn't get how terrible it could look until I watched it right after the first two. (This wasn't marathon viewing, it was one part per day over three days.) I'll keep an open mind, but one wonders how many more films he's going to recut. Apocalypse Now (mainly for restoring the context of Western colonialism) and especially The Cotton Club made sense, but how many more Coppola films are in need of such restorations?
I wouldn't be surprised if Coppola takes the opportunity with any anniversary restoration that he's asked to oversee. We're coming up to One from the Heart's 40th, so he might revisit that one again

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#122 Post by tenia » Fri Sep 04, 2020 3:23 am

Dementia 13's 4k restoration credits also mentioned it as a Director's Cut.

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#123 Post by knives » Fri Sep 04, 2020 6:21 am

I’ll be the guy to quietly say I think the third is about as good as the second and that I personally think it’s the one I’ll watch more often.

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#124 Post by TMDaines » Fri Sep 04, 2020 7:50 am

There's always one. Just be quiet at the back and don't make a scene.

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#125 Post by willoneill » Fri Sep 04, 2020 9:58 am

The only thing that bothers me about this is the new title: "Mario Puzo’s THE GODFATHER, Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone". Just keep it as either The Godfather Part III, or the title he originally wanted, The Death of Michael Corleone. But that, that is too much.

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