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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3482 in DVD
• Released on: 2008-06-02
• Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over
• Formats: Box set, PAL, Colour, Dolby
• Original language: English, Italian
• Number of discs: 5
• Running time: 549 minutes

Amazon.co.uk Review
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 America's 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, Amazon.com

DVD Description

The Godfather Trilogy - The Coppola Restoration

The Godfather and The Godfather Part II fully restored including 5.1 stereo for the first time, with direct involvement from Francis Ford Coppola

5 discs box set, including 2 special features discs

New Special Features:

Godfather World

The Masterpiece That Almost Wasn't

When The Shooting Stopped

Emulsional Rescue - Revealing The Godfather

The Godfather on the Red Carpet

Four Short Films on The Godfather: GF Vs. GF Part II; Cannoli; Riffing on the Riffing; Clemenza

Hidden Easter Egg: Cosa Nostra & Coppola

Previously Available Special Features (also included)

Director’s Commentary for all 3 films

Behind the Scenes

Additional Scenes Chronology

The Family Tree

Photo Galleries

Theatrical Trailers

Acclaim and Response

Filmmaker Biographies

Synopsis
THE GODFATHER is a chilling portrait of a Sicilian family's rise and near fall from power in America, and the passage of rites from father to son. Based on the novel by Mario Puzo. THE GODFATHER – PART II continues the saga of two generations of power within the Corleone family. Rounding off this epic trilogy, THE GODFATHER - PART III sees Michael searching for his successor and a way of freeing his family from a life of crime.