About the Event
The Godfather
Directed by Francis Ford Coppola
(US, 1972, 175 min.)
Friday, September 6, 7:00 pm
Saturday, September 7, 7:00 pm
Murfee Worsham Screening
A rare combination of commercial success and critical success, Coppola’s tale of a gangster dynasty stars Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Robert Duvall, Talia Shire, and Diane Keaton with groundbreaking photography by Gordon Willis.
Pauline Kael, March 10 1972, The New Yorker: “If ever there was a great example of how the best popular movies come out of a merger of commerce and art, The Godfather is it… In the film we see organized crime as an obscene symbolic extension of free enterprise and government policy, an extension of the worst in America—its feudal ruthlessness. Organized crime is not a rejection of Americanism, it’s what we fear Americanism to be. It’s our nightmare of the American system. When “Americanism” was a form of cheerful bland official optimism, the gangster used to be destroyed at the end of the movie and our feelings resolved.”
Discounted parking available in Founder’s Court lot, $6 flat fee, credit card required.
