The Coppola Restorations! Newly Restored 35mm Prints Overseen by the Director!
More than thirty years after Francis Ford Coppola’s masterpieces both brought home Best Picture Oscars in their respective years, Paramount Pictures has funded a glorious restoration project to do justice to cinematographer Gordon Willis's gorgeously dark images. Master preservationist Robert Harris's meticulous frame-by-frame restoration, overseen by Coppola himself, used state-of-the-art digital technology to accomplish this feat. We are thrilled to present these iconic classics in our beautiful state-of-the-art cinema, where we can properly illuminate Willis’s Rembrandt-like compositions. There is much more detail and depth in the darkness than previous prints allowed for! Happy Holidays, Seattle! Directed by Francis Ford Coppola. (The Godfather, 1972, 175 min.) (The Godfather, Part II, 1974, 200 min., plus a 10-minute intermission)
There will be many opportunities to see Godfather and Godfather, Part II in back-to-back screenings (see schedule to the right). Separate Admission.
“Gordon Willis' cinematography is celebrated for its darkness; it is rich, atmospheric, expressive. You cannot appreciate this on television because the picture is artificially brightened. Coppola populates his dark interior spaces with remarkable faces.”
—Roger Ebert
“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 organized crime in America will forever be marked by this movie.”
—Geoff Andrews, Time Out London (on The Godfather, Part II)
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 | Dir. Francis Ford Coppola, 1972, 175 min.
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 | Dir. Francis Ford Coppola, 1974, 200 min., plus a 10-minute intermission
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