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	The Godfather (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Godfather is a 1972 film adaptation of the novel of the same name, written by Mario Puzo, directed by Francis Ford Coppola and starring Marlon Brando and Al Pacino.
		A third sequel, titled The Godfather: Part IV is said to be released around 2012, the 40th anniversary of the original Godfather.
		In The Godfather Part II, Michael Corleone receives an orange from an associate of a group behind an attempt on his life, and later in the movie, is seen eating an orange as he orders the "hit" against his enemies, in preparation for the climax of the film.
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	The Godfather (novel) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Godfather is a novel written by American author Mario Puzo and which was originally published in 1969 by G.
		Although it is widely reported that Puzo was inspired to use "Godfather" as a designator for a Mafia leader from his experience as a reporter, there is no evidence to indicate that any real organized crime group, Italian or otherwise, ever used the term.
		The Godfather referred to in the title is Vito Corleone, whose surname recalls the town of Corleone, Sicily.
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	The Godfather - Wikimovies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Godfather (in Italian Il Padrino) is a term used to identify the boss of a Mafia clan, the eldest or the most representative member of a family.
		It should be noted that in the movie sequel, The Godfather II, it was revealed that the Godfather's real name was Vito Andolini and he was given the surname Corleone as a result of a mistake during his registration at Ellis Island.
		Bonasera is forced to accept the Godfather as head of the system and must demonstrate that he considers himself part of the family (he must call him "Godfather").
	www.wikimovies.net /wikimovies/The_Godfather (3081 words)

	The Godfather: Part Ii - Movie Review
		Unlike many critics, I don't feel the sequel has the weight of the original -- many feel it to be better than the first film -- but it certainly is a necessary and extremely good follow-up, adding a wealth of information about "the family" that only serves to enhance the experience of the original movie.
		Godfather 2's most memorable moments -- the Senator's private meeting with Michael ("My offer is this: Nothing."), the denouement of Fredo -- pale in comparison.
		Technically, Godfather 2 is just as aptly produced as the original, though by the time we get to the revolution in Cuba, things have gotten a bit garish, losing the austerity and subtle, dim lighting of the original film.
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	DVD Review: The Godfather: Bonus Disc (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Godfather Family: A Look Inside is a rather infamous documentary of the films that was produced about the time of The Godfather Part III.
		All three Godfather films are far too long, involved and violent to be appropriate for most of the youngsters.
		Continue with reviews of The Godfather, The Godfather Part II and the The Godfather Part III.
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	The Godfather Part II DVD review on AudioRevolution.com
		All during the making of "The Godfather," director/co-writer Francis Ford Coppola was worried that he might be yanked off the film at any moment, or that the film would be taken away from him once it was finished, and edited by unfriendly hands.
		The Michael sequences are launched, as was "The Godfather," by a huge, lavish party; this one, the first communion of Michael's son, is held at Lake Tahoe.
		Like "The Godfather," "The Godfather Part II" is so magnetically compelling, the characters and incidents -- many of which are based on real criminals and their activities -- are so involving that it's very easy (for some of us, almost unavoidable) to watch these films again every couple of years.
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	The Godfather DVD Collection review
		Godfather and Godfather II are typically ranked at or near the top of any serious movie buffs alltime best movie lists, myself included.
		The DVD collection also includes Godfather III, which is worth watching even though it lacks some of the magic of the first two films.
		The films themselves are the theatrical releases, but deleted scenes and the additional footage shot for "The Godfather Saga" are included in the extras.
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	Reel.com: The Godfather: Vito Corleone and Sons
		The Godfather is a gangster film like no other in that, in some ways, it and its two sequels are not gangster films at all.
		To buy Coppola's vision of The Godfather, it is necessary to believe Vito as a father, husband, and businessman and the 47-year-old Brando, aged by makeup and lumbering body language comes across as the warm and respected paterfamilias.
		The Godfather's climax makes a neat play on the double-meaning of the word "godfather." As his nephew's Godfather, Michael is sworn to attend to the child's religious education and moral upbringing in the absence of his nephew's father.
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	The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980 (1992) (V) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Plot Outline: The multigenerational saga of the rise and fall of the Corleone crime family.
		The movie compilation was released on VHS and played on TV as part of a mini-series type deal, but I never got around to seeing it back then.
		It starts off with scenes from "The Godfather Part II" - a young Vito Corleone emigrates from Corleone, Sicily (and no, the film wasn't actually shot there...I went to the real town of Corleone and it's nothing like in the film) to Ellis Island at the turn of the century.
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	TechnoFILE Reviews "The Godfather Trilogy" on DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The movies take up the first four discs (Godfather Part II is spread over two discs), with the fifth disc reserved for oodles of interesting extras.
		But it takes the Godfather saga from that of being merely the recounting of a famous crime family and turns it into an American tragedy that's really quite moving.
		All the actors in all three parts are terrific, and Pacino is especially wonderful in all three movies, but he's particularly outstanding in Part III where he appears as the aging Don, obviously not in the best of health and carrying the weight of the world on his shoulders.
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	Cinephiles Discussion Forums: The Godfather
		Within insular 'The Godfather' patriarchal haven, the audience is able to romanticise the ideals in an otherwise cruel and violent life.
		The Godfather trilogy (and I have to admit, III isn't as bad as I first thought) isn't just a mafia saga, it isn't just about a man's rise to power, it isn't just about family or America or loyalty...it's about everything in our own lives.
		Godfather was the first gangster movie I can remember where the central charecter was the family.
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	Filmtracks: The Godfather Trilogy (Compilation)
		The Godfather Trilogy: (Compilation) As much as John Williams fans would argue with the claim, no trilogy of film music has had a more significant influence on world-wide audiences than the scores by Nino Rota and Carmine Coppola for the three parts of The Godfather saga.
		Rota only lived less than ten years beyond his involvement with the first two films for The Godfather, and he recalled in those late years how astonished he was to hear the love theme from the original film performed on so many street corners as he would travel about the city.
		The choice of Rota for the start of the saga was successful because his work brilliantly played to both the authentic and stereotypical expectations for the series, breathing life into the myth of Sicilian power.
	www.filmtracks.com /titles/godfather01.html (838 words)

	Amazon.com: The Godfather Collection (1972) : Video (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Godfather by Mario Puzo is one of the best selling novels of all time, but its film adaptation, (1972) directed by the young filmmaker, Francis Coppola, set a new benchmark in epic filmmaking.
		Godfather Part 1 is a beautiful film and a graphic depiction of violence and the culture of the early American-Sicilian.
		The Godfather Trilogy is a collection of quality filmmaking that should be part of anyone's DVD library because the story continues to resonate and will continue to do so for a long time.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/6302610702?v=glance (2201 words)

	AmericanMafia.com - Feature Articles 186
		The Godfather Waltz, Love Theme, Sicilian Pastorale, The Pick Up, The Godfather Tarantella, and all the rest: was there ever finer music conceived by man? I listen to it constantly while working on my computer concocting this wretched rag [THE LACKAWANNA COUNTY NEWS, PA] every two weeks.
		There is a distinct softness in the eyes and mouth - Pacino even seems to be willing it - which betrays an unmistakable passivity and softness that is, to say the least, unbecoming in the son of a mafia Don.
		The Saga was so disjointed that it came off as a real disappointment to real Italians.
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	Houston's Clear Thinkers: The Godfather Returns
		This NY Times book review tells us about The Godfather Returns, the latest book in the Godfather series that the late Mario Puzo began in the 1960's.
		Puzo died in 1999, he signed off on the hiring of someone to continue the Godfather saga.
		Stated another way, the book is not as good a story as the first Godfather novel, or the Godfather and Godfather II films, but is better than Francis Ford Coppolla's abomination, Godfather III.
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	Amazon.ca: The Godfather Returns: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Godfather fans will love this tale; Puzo himself must be raising a celestial glass and shouting a hearty "Salut'!" Let it be known that Winegardner, for his respect to the novel's antecedents and for his accomplishment, shall henceforth be known as a Man of Honor.
		Not a sequel to Mario Puzo's bestseller, THE GODFATHER RETURNS is, rather, a rousing addition to that acclaimed novel, which broadens and deepens the characters and plot of the original story.
		This is not a great addition to the Godfather saga and this book should not have been written.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0345478983 (1147 words)

	DVD Review - The Godfather: DVD Collection (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		An epic saga of both family and politics, of fratricide and communion, Francis Ford Coppola’s legendary trilogy peered into the heart of Mafia darkness and found nurturing parents, the hypocrisy of the American dream and a titanic struggle between good and evil.
		Released in 1972, the first "Godfather" film maps the declining days of Vito Corleone’s (Marlon Brando) gangster empire, set against the optimism of post-World War II America.
		Re-arranging the story events, the "Godfather Saga" starts with the young Vito Corleone story rather than the elderly Corleone at his daughter’s wedding.) Before I get into the nuts and bolts of the technical specs, let me say that these films should be seen in the theater whenever possible.
	www.dvdreview.com /fullreviews/the_godfather__dvd_collection.shtml (1467 words)

	#6: The Godfather (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		When it comes to Francis Ford Coppola and Mario Puzo's three-film collaboration for "The Godfather" saga, there are two camps: those who believe the first film is superior and those who favor the second film.
		In some sense, The Godfather can be viewed as the ultimate "guy" movie, so it is perhaps surprising how many women count this among their cinematic favorites.
		The film opens in the study of Don Vito Corleone (Marlon Brando), the Godfather, who is holding court.
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	Beltway Politics: Godfather-Style
		Knowing that he would not care to hear a long retelling of the plot, I summed up the storyline by telling him that The Godfather saga was about an alternate form of government.
		Those under the counterfeit jurisdiction of the Godfather’s regime were willing to put up with paying extorted “protection money.” They considered it a tax for promised services.
		The predatory politics and violent methods of the Godfather are criminal.
	www.americanvision.org /articlearchive/01-30-06.asp (582 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - The Godfather -- Francis Ford Coppola - VHS
		The Godfather eschewed simplistic genre stereotypes in favor of naturalistic characterizations, thanks in great part to the film's extraordinary ensemble, including Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton, and Talia Shire.
		The Godfather, part one, isn't and shouldn't be about awards--they are always biased and inevitably subjective.
		Instead of some Huntington approach, the Godfather was unabashed in its candidness for the politically incorrectness of the dialogue that makes up the American heritage.
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	Book Reviews - The Godfather Returns by Mark Winegardner
		The Godfather Returns is meant to fill in the gaps between Mario Puzo's original The Godfather and the subsequent movies made from it.
		The Sheas, a family whose fortune was made from bootlegging wants Corleone help in getting one of their sons elected to the White House.
		Mark Winegardner was tapped by Random House to write this version of The Godfather saga and The Godfather Returns has received mixed reviews.
	www.reviewsofbooks.com /godfather_returns (212 words)

	AmericanMafia.com - Feature Articles 188
		The films, at least the first two, resonate with the period, the culture, the music, the smell of garlic and gunpowder, and the plotting is solidly based in history.
		In Godfather 2, Frankie Pentangeli's garroting by the Risottos, interrupted by a stray patrolman, is based on Larry Gallo's (older bother of Crazy Joey) garroting by the Persicos, in the Sahara Lounge in Brooklyn, also fortuitously interrupted.
		But my favorite aspect of the saga is the way in which humanity keeps creeping in, despite the death and sadness and greed.
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	eBay - VHS: The Godfather (UPC: 097360804935) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		THE GODFATHER was added to the Library of Congress National Film Registry in 1990.
		The Godfather, Godfather II and Godfather III VHS
		The Godfather excels in every aspect, and I firmly believe that it is one of the greatest films of all time.
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	The Godfather DVD Collection (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		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.
		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.
		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.
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	"Godfather" Leads Fall DVD Slate - Jun 23, 2001 - E! Online News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Of all the titles announced for this fall, the biggest is probably The Godfather set from Paramount Pictures and Coppola's own Zoetrope.
		"We had wonderful archives of materials that went into The Godfather and we're happy to present them on DVD," said Coppola, who announced the release at a Brooklyn block party last week that honored his father, Carmine (who composed much of the music for the trilogy).
		Aside from The Godfather, Paramount is also putting out digitally polished DVDs of Oscar winners Forrest Gump and Ordinary People.
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	Fact and Fiction in The Godfather movie Crime Library - The Crime library
		The Godfather, Part I (1972) and The Godfather, Part II (1974) are considered masterpieces of American cinema.
		Die-hard Godfather fans expressed their disappointment when it was released, and today it's generally relegated to footnote status when speaking of the Godfather saga.)
		But the Godfather films have also come under criticism for romanticizing gangsters and giving them an undeserved patina of nobility by presenting them as characters worthy of Shakespearean tragedy.
	www.crimelibrary.com /gangsters_outlaws/mob_bosses/the_godfather/1.html (862 words)

	Movie Forums - The Godfather Saga (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Godfather is an insightful sociological study of violence, power, honor and obligation, corruption, justice and crime in America.
		Part I of The Godfather Trilogy centers on the Corleone crime "family" in the boroughs of New York City in the mid 1940s, dominated at first by aging godfather/patriarch "Don" Vito Corleone (Marlon Brando in a tremendous, award-winning acting portrayal that revived his career).
		In the final instalment of the Godfather Trilogy, an aging Don Michael Corleone seeks to legitimize his crime family's interests and remove himself from the violent underworld but is kept back by the ambitions of the young.
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	eBay - The Godfather DVD Collection Reviews
		I rate "The Godfather" 10 out of 10-great cast, great screenplay-killer one-liners (and long liners), Coppola's directing shines as does Al Pacino, Marlon Brando, James Caan, Robert Duvall, Richard Castellano, Diane Keaton, and many more in the classic epic.
		In my humble opinion, the first Godfather movie was the greatest movie ever made, Godfather II is the best sequal ever made, and Godfather III is..well...Godfather III.
		With whole story of the Corleone family brought together on one DVD collection, the Godfather is magnificent.
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