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The Godfather DVD Collection (The Godfather/ The Godfather - Part II/ The Godfather - Part III) by Francis Ford Coppola
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DVD detailsActor: Al Pacino, Marlon Brando, Robert De Niro Director: Francis Ford Coppola Brand: Paramount DVD: Region Code 1 Audio: English (Original Language); French (Original Language); English (Subtitled) Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen Running Time: 545 minutes DVD Release Date: 2001-10-09 Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Studio: Paramount Accessories:
DVD Reviews of The Godfather DVD Collection (The Godfather/ The Godfather - Part II/ The Godfather - Part III)DVD Review: Very, very, very good Summary: 5 StarsI got it for my husband as an upgrade, and he love it. He try the movies right at the moment. They are in very good shape and I received the packages pretty quick. I'm very please with my purshase. Thanks
DVD Review: Great Buy!! Summary: 5 StarsThis was a great buy!! There was no way I would ever have found the entire "Godfather Collection for under $20. I love it, and the dvds are very clear and professional looking.
DVD Review: the autumns of the patriarch Summary: 5 StarsThis breathtaking classic of American film-making frames Francis Ford Coppola as one of the all-time great cinematic craftsmen.
Having inexplicablyl missed out on this piece of Americana at the time of its popularity, this reviewer bought the three-film set in time to finish it just after his fiftieth birthday. It was worth the wait.
This epic saga of a mob family that cannot escape the burden of honor no matter how hard it tries (or, at times, fails to try) does not glorify gangsters or their ways. To the contrary, we grow to pity Michael Corleone for the centuries-old Sicilian trap into which he has unwittingly fallen.
Along the way, gorgeous cinematography delights both eye and ear even as it saddens the soul. The Corleone family, and Michael in particular, passes through the various autumns of their fate en route to the ignoble demise of Il Padrino in his sunlit chair. He is old, bereft, and apparently forgotten.
It is a quite splendid sadness that this trilogy leaves in its majestic wake. Evil is not so much a roaring lion as the end game of a thousand small decision, any one of which might have changed the game. Alas, none did.
With inexorable, unforgiving and unforgiven beauty, autumn begets winter.
DVD Review: Godfather DVD collection Summary: 5 StarsLoved this trilogy. Pacino is great. In fact, the cast in all three films were perfectly done.
DVD Review: not good. Summary: 1 Starsone of the dvds was damaged and not playable. product needs to be returned.
Description of The Godfather DVD Collection (The Godfather/ The Godfather - Part II/ The Godfather - Part III)Features: the godfather: the godfather ii: the godfather ii: each featuring a new full-length directors audio commentary. Plus a three hour extraordinary bonus disc produced especially for the dvd collection. English subtitles and closed captioning. Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 05/23/2006 Run time: 725 minutes Rating: R Throughout his long, wandering, often distinguished career Francis Ford Coppola has made many films that are good and fine, many more that are flawed but undeniably interesting, and a handful of duds that are worth viewing if only because his personality is so flagrantly absent. Yet he is and always shall be known as the man who directed the Godfather films, a series that has dominated and defined their creator in a way perhaps no other director can understand. Coppola has never been able to leave them alone, whether returning after 15 years to make a trilogy of the diptych, or re-editing the first two films into chronological order for a separate video release as The Godfather Saga. The films are our very own Shakespearean cycle: they tell a tale of a vicious mobster and his extended personal and professional families (once the stuff of righteous moral comeuppance), and they dared to present themselves with an epic sweep and an unapologetically tragic tone. Murder, it turned out, was a serious business. The first film remains a towering achievement, brilliantly cast and conceived. The entry of Michael Corleone into the family business, the transition of power from his father, the ruthless dispatch of his enemies--all this is told with an assurance that is breathtaking to behold. And it turned out to be merely prologue; two years later The Godfather, Part II balanced Michael's ever-greater acquisition of power and influence during the fall of Cuba with the story of his father's own youthful rise from immigrant slums. The stakes were higher, the story's construction more elaborate, and the isolated despair at the end wholly earned. (Has there ever been a cinematic performance greater than Al Pacino's Michael, so smart and ambitious, marching through the years into what he knows is his own doom with eyes open and hungry?) The Godfather, Part III was mostly written off as an attempted cash-in, but it is a wholly worthy conclusion, less slow than autumnally patient and almost merciless in the way it brings Michael's past sins crashing down around him even as he tries to redeem himself. --Bruce Reid
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