Film Forum

U.S., 1974
Directed by Francis Ford Coppola
Starring Al Pacino, John Cazale, Robert De Niro, Diane Keaton, Sofia Coppola
Music by Nino Rota
WINNER Academy Awards® – Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor (Robert De Niro), Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Art Direction, Best Original Dramatic Score, 1975
Approx. 200 min. 4K DCP.

Prequel and sequel to the original, as Pacino’s Michael consolidates his empire after dabbling in Cuban futures and vets the family for weaklings, while Oscar®-winner Robert De Niro, as the young Godfather-to-be, takes on the bosses of turn-of-the-20th-century Little Italy.

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

Reviews

“Maybe it’s Cazale’s performance in THE GODFATHER PART II, in a role slightly more pronounced than he had in the first, that’s the hair’s breadth of difference between the two films, the edge of greatness that can come from a single glance."
– TIME Magazine

“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.”
– Pauline Kael

“One of the saddest movies ever made, a tale of loss, grief and absolute loneliness, an unflinching stare into the darkest moral abyss.”
– Tom Huddleston, Time Out (London)