Film Forum

U.S., 1972
Directed by Francis Ford Coppola
Based on Mario Puzo’s novel
Starring Al Pacino, Marlon Brando, John Cazale, James Caan, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton
WINNER Academy Awards® – Best Picture, Best Actor (Marlon Brando), Best Adapted Screenplay, 1973 
Approx. 175 min. 4K restoration.

“I’ll make him an offer he can’t refuse.” Al Pacino’s Michael Corleone is back from WWII and opting out of The Family, until an attempted hit on dad Marlon Brando pulls him back in. Oscars® for Best Picture, Screenplay, and Actor—to Brando, though Supporting Actor-nominated Pacino’s part is bigger.

Presented with support from The Ada Katz Fund for Literature in Film

Reviews

“One of the most brutal and moving chronicles of American life ever designed within the limits of popular entertainment.”
– Andrew Sarris, The Village Voice

 “Francis Ford Coppola’s first film in the series is still an epic, full of hypnotic acting, which reinvented mafia criminals as players in a dynastic psychodrama.”
– Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian

 “An obscene nightmare image of American free enterprise.”
– Pauline Kael, The New Yorker

“In its blending of new depth with an old genre, it becomes that rarity, a mass entertainment that is also great movie art.”
– Jay Cocks, TIME