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This month marks the 50th anniversary of the premiere of Francis Ford Coppola’s masterpiece “The Godfather.” Paramount Pictures (NASDAQ: PARAA) re-released the film in theaters last month and is putting out a 4K restored and remastered edition on Blu-ray and DVD.

It’s one of the most famous climactic scenes in film: a tense and shocking denouement that sees a series of brutal assassinations intercut with the central character calmly renouncing Satan as he becomes godfather to his nephew.

‘I like it more intimate, when they had a gentle quality,’ director said

Francis Ford Coppola’s first film in the series is still an epic, full of hypnotic acting, which reinvented mafia criminals as players in a dynastic psychodrama

Watching the greatest movie of all time when it returns to theaters Thursday is more fun when you know where Sofia Coppola shows up, how George Lucas contributed and what all those oranges mean.

The internet outrage economy thrives on elder statesmen of cinema going after Marvel and the lack of ambition in most modern blockbusters, writes Adam White. But Coppola, Scorsese and their ilk also have a point – and you wish younger A-listers would join them

‘You and I could pull the same sequence out of both of them and put them together,’ said the filmmaker

‘You and I could pull the same sequence out of both of them and put them together,’ said the filmmaker

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