The Godfather - The Coppola Restoration Giftset DVD |  | Actors: Marlon Brando, Al Pacino
Studio: Paramount
Category: DVD
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Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Dubbed)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Number Of Discs: 5
Running Time: 549 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.5 x 1.3
MPN: 131354
UPC: 097361313542
EAN: 0097361313542
ASIN: B0018CMJSU
Theatrical Release Date: 1972
Release Date: September 23, 2008
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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 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. 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
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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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 Must see February 7, 2010
C. SANTIAGO (Puerto Rico)
This movie saga is one of the best of all time. The story line, the performances, the direction, everything is great.
The Godfather-The Coppola Restoration Giftset DVD January 26, 2010
Oscar R. Lopez (Uniondale, NY USA)
I love it! The Godfather Coppola Restoration Giftset DVD is incredible. It looks and sounds much better than the old Godfather DVD Collection which was released in 2001 a. The colors on on the new Godfather Giftset DVD are more lighter and brighter and the sounds are remastered so the DVD would sound more better than the previous godfather DVD collection. The Godfather Coppola Restoration has five discs which disc four has the original special features from the previous Godfather DVD collection. Disc 5 has new special features like the Godfather World which they talk the phenomenal godfather movies had impacted on our culture for many years on other filmmakers.I have to say that they really did a good job on making these godfather movies look and sound much better. I highly recommend that you should add this on your DVD collection and compared to your old Godfather DVD collection.
The best for a "Godfather" fan! January 18, 2010
ML (MI, USA)
I bought this as a Christmas gift for my son, who is a huge "Godfather" fan. He was overjoyed, to say the least. Highly recommend it to other fans.
Never better January 4, 2010
M. shafik
Yes, never better.
What do I need more.
Item nicely packaged.
Shipped on time, received earlier than scheduled.
Excellent bonus material.
Perfectly re-mastered.
An offer you can not refuse.
 The Original Master sleeps with the fishes, It is what it is. December 26, 2009
Walter Blackledge (Alton, Illinois United States)
Their was a problem, and its gone, and their was nothing they could do about it, and that's that. What ya gonna' do? We had nothing to do with it, It was between the directors.
Forgive my mixing of mob movie metaphors.
Their has been a lot of talk about the results of this restoration. I think it can be split into two categories. Image quality, and Image color. The extras disc claims the movie was a victim of its own success, in that many more film prints for theaters were made from the original master than were expected. This caused deterioration in the original master, and forty years later some of the frames in the original master are just gone and beyond repair. Can any of us say we haven't experienced some physical deterioration since 1970? So they had to fill in the holes as best they could. This process is explained in detail on the extras disc. In a nutshell, you can't fill in something with nothing, and the filler had to be consistent with the entire film or visa versa. This is why it has been digitized, normalized, and has a bit of a video game look. Given current technology, this is about as good as anyone could do.
Now about the Coloring, and blown out whites. This was a personal choice of the editors and director of photography who worked as a team during the restoration process. According to the extras disc, Coppola signed off on the final copy but wasn't directly involved in the day to day restoration process. The team claimed this is as close as possible as to what was seen at the theater when the film opened. The key words here are AS CLOSE AS POSSIBLE.
So, in a nutshell, the Coppola restoration is that in name only, but still is as good as any team could do given what they had to work with. Pixel peepers won't be happy with it, but seldom are anyway, and since Mr. Peabody and his Wayback Machine hasn't been able to retrieve the unharmed original master from 1970, this is about as good as it gets. If your looking for the resolution, and sharpness of Avitar, then you will be disappointed because it was never there in the first place. It's a great film, so sit back and relax and Forget about it.
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