The Godfather
Retrospective
Feature | United States | 175 MINUTESThis year the Academy Award-winning masterpiece, The Godfather, celebrates its 50th anniversary. Considered by many to be one of the greatest films of all time, the movie follows the saga of the Corleone crime family led by Don Vito Corleone (Marlon Brando), then later his son Michael (Al Pacino). Tribeca will screen a restoration of the film and it's star, Al Pacino will be in conversation prior to the screening.
Cast & Credits
Director
Francis Ford Coppola
Producer
Gray Frederickson, Albert S. Ruddy
Screenwriter
Mario Puzo, Francis Ford Coppola
Cinematographer
Gordon Willis
Editor
William Reynolds, Peter Ziner
Music by
Nino Rota
Cast
Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan
Panelists
Al Pacino
Actor and director Al Pacino was born in East Harlem and grew up in New York City’s South Bronx. He attended the School of Performing Arts until he moved on to study acting at the Herbert Berghof Studio with Charles Laughton, and later, at the Actors Studio with Lee Strasberg. His first leading part in a feature film was in the 1971 drama Panic in Needle Park. The following year, Francis Ford Coppola selected him to take on the breakthrough role of Michael Corleone in The Godfather, for which he was nominated for an Academy Award®.
Michael Hainey
Michael Hainey is the author of the New York Timesbest-selling memoir, After Visiting Friends: A Son’s Story, which was also an NPR Best Book of the Year. He is the former Deputy Editor of GQas well as the former Executive Director of Editorial at Esquireand is widely known for his revealing profiles of such actors as Brad Pitt, Leonardo DiCaprio, Clint Eastwood, Robert Redford, and Denzel Washington among many others. Currently he is a Deputy Editor of Graydon Carter’s Air Mail, and he is completing a screenplay.