The Godfather - The Coppola Restoration Giftset (The Godfather / The Godfather Part II / The Godfather Part III) [Blu-ray] | ![The Godfather - The Coppola Restoration Giftset (The Godfather / The Godfather Part II / The Godfather Part III) [Blu-ray]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51ek%2BlM5IIL._SL500_.jpg)
| Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Actors: Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton
Studio: Paramount Home Entertainment
Category: DVD
List Price: $124.99
Buy New: $39.99
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Rating:  93 reviews
Sales Rank: 262
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Widescreen
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language), Spanish (Original Language), French (Subtitled), Portuguese (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Dubbed), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: Blu-ray
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Number Of Discs: 4
Running Time: 840 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 6.8 x 5.4 x 0.8
MPN: PARBR138644
UPC: 097361386447
EAN: 0097361386447
ASIN: B000NTPDSW
Release Date: September 23, 2008
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On the DVD People used to say this was Frank Sinatra's world, and the rest of us just lived in it. After watching the multiple special features in the box set The Godfather - Coppola Restoration, one might conclude it's actually time for a cultural and historical revision: This is the Corleone family's world. The rest of us better tread lightly. Actually, the point of the half-dozen or so features crammed onto a disc accompanying the beautifully restored The Godfather, The Godfather II and The Godfather III, is that The Godfather movies have penetrated popular culture in such a deep and meaningful way that they are second-nature to everything. David Chase, creator of and writer on The Sopranos, for example, describes in the featurette "Godfather World" that his hit HBO series was intended to be the story of the first generation of mobsters actually influenced by Francis Ford Coppola's hit trilogy. Joe Mantegna calls the three films "the Italian Star Wars." (Mantegna co-stars in The Godfather III.) Alec Baldwin says no matter what one is doing, one is compelled to stop and watch the films if they're on television. Richard Belzer calls the films "a religion." And so on. A number of people similarly testify in "Godfather World" to the importance and ubiquitousness of The Godfather and its sequels in American life. There's no point in arguing, so its best to move on to the other featurettes, including "The Masterpiece That Almost Wasn't," reviewing in detail much of what has been said about Paramount's mistreatment of Coppola, about casting fights (Steve McQueen as Michael?), about the studio's assumption they were getting a quick-and-dirty B-movie, and about producer Robert Evans' determination to keep his choice of director and unlikely actors under his wing. Fresh information within the special features, however, begins with "… When the Shooting Stopped," a fine study of post-production on The Godfather, with several surprising and fascinating facts. Among emerging details is an explanation of why Michael Corleone's scream toward the end of The Godfather III is silenced out. (Hint: it was meant to be the inverse of a sound effect in the first movie.) "Emulsional Rescue: Revealing The Godfather" talks about the painstaking work of restoring the first two films, beginning with a phone call from Coppola to Steven Spielberg (after the latter's DreamWorks studio became part of the Viacom family) asking if he'd request money from Paramount for restoration work. "The Godfather On the Red Carpet is a negligible series of fawning statements about the movie from hot young actors, while "Four Short Films" are brief and enjoyable takes on different aspects of The Godfather's impact on modern living. --Tom Keogh
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 The Gold Standard of Digital Film Restoration June 28, 2009
William R. Stockstill (Marietta, GA United States)
There are so many reviews on these 3 films that I will just comment on the quality of the restoration. This has to be one of the top 5, if not the best, jobs done on film restoration to date. Paramount used one of the best restoration labs in the world, owned by Warner Brothers, to restore this film only after a Kodak owned lab cleared it as being sturdy enough to run through the digitizing equipment. The whole restoration was spurred by a letter to Spielberg from Coppola asking him if he could get Paramount, who had recently been bought by Viacom if they would do a restoration on the Godfather films. The head of Paramount didn't even hesitate to cut the large check to fund the restoration. The result? Coppola says its more beautiful then he remembered it. The extent of the restoration is included on the Bonus disc. And in that the clip you will see that the filmographer instead of filming the scenes correctly exposed and then having the lab darken the frames went with shooting the scenes dark, the result being there is no detail in the black areas of the film. This explains how difficult it was to get this quality of a restoration, which meant finding the best copy available, which still left much to be desired, and going frame my frame and digitally correcting the image. What is impressive is that the WB Studio lab consulted the original filmographer. I don't know if there is an Academy Award for restoration, but if there is, I know this team deserves it.
NOTE: There seems to be some here that don't like the way the film looks. I suggest they watch Emulsional Rescue - Revealing the Godfather on the bonus disc. Anyone that buys the set, may want to watch it first too to see how the films were shot, underexposed and with an orange tint, and the care taken to restore that look and even in 1 scene improve on it. Watching this feature first will show that its the way it was shot and meant to look, not the restoration.
 Subtitles June 20, 2009
William Gleason
I have the old Videos of this collection. I can't believe they would put this on Blu-Ray and not include English Subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing. CCs don't cut it anymore. If I buy, it will be the older non Blu-Ray set.
As advertised ... mint condition.. June 1, 2009
Willie A. Green (Fanwood, NJ United States)
Received item as advertised ... arrived in mint condition and will be looking forward to our next transaction.
 Film Geek Conspiracy. May 27, 2009
Dylan Cassard (San Francisco, CA USA)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
I give Godfather 1 & 2 five stars as films, but I give this Blu-Ray 1 star for picture quality. I spent a good half hour playing with my TVs settings to get something that didn't remotely resemble a Vaseline smeared mess. I know part of the problem is the brilliance and audacity of Gordon Willis' LOW light cinematography that most HD TVs can't re-create it's velvety depth, but I feel like there could have been a decent compromise in this somewhere.
Since I know that both Scorsese and Coppola oversee the Blu-Ray restorations of their films, I can almost guarantee that any little hiss pop and crackle that remains on this print (and the reviled Gangs of New York Blu-Ray) were left in by the directors in an attempt to leave some of the filmic warmth. To bad BD is a medium that is tirelessly striving for window-like perfection.
Almost HD A Must Have May 26, 2009
Roberto Solano (Costa Rica)
Godfather I and II looks way better thanthe DVD's great restoration but part III is almost HD quality like it was filmed five years ago
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