3 The Godfather (1972) Photo : Courtesy Everett Collection Riding the crest of the New Hollywood, Francis Ford Coppola made what is still the greatest film since the fadeout of the studio system: a classical epic of indelibly dark sweeping grandeur, and a movie that embedded itself so richly...
Aguirre, the Wrath of God (Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes) (1972) Cabaret (1972) Solaris (Solyaris) (1972) Cries and Whispers (Viskingar och Rop) (1972) The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (Le Charme Discret de la Bourgeoisie) (1972) The Godfather (1972) Last Tango in Paris (Ultimo Tango...
Long after we recorded our first episodes about “The Godfather,” our panelists get back together to talk about the late-sequel “The Godfather Part III,” or is it “The Godfather Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone” now? Only Francis knows for sure....
Embracing the open pastures of HBO, creator David Chase drew on his own Garden State upbringing, as well as Mafia epics like “The Godfather,” to deliver his take on assimilation, American decline and Freudian family dynamics. Tony’s interwoven personal and professional lives form a tapestry ...
With memorable set-pieces ranging from a helicopter ambush – which may have inspired the mob boss sequence in Godfather III (1990) – to a gunpoint standoff that undeniably anticipated some of Woo’s most famous scenes, Long Arm of the Law tops it off with a climatic shootout inside the...
from that point we see his evolution into veritable hard-case. The basic structure, as a man evolves into a perfect criminal, may seem familiar from The Godfather to GoodFellas and everything in between, but the addition of prison walls compresses the action, amps up the tension and increas...
Afrika Bambaataa is one of the originators of breakbeat DJing and is respectfully known as "The Godfather" and "Amen Ra of Hip Hop Kulture", as well as the father of electro-funk. Through his co-opting of the street gang the Black Spades into the music and cultur...
It has been hailed as perhaps the first cyberpunk novel, which to me suggests that John Waters is the godfather of cyberpunk! The titular Dr. Adder is a Doctor Moreau-like surgeon who dwells in the ruins of future Los Angeles, reshaping the body parts of Orange County’s perverted teen ...
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s almost like watching The Godfather in a 1972 theater, then viewing it in IMAX. The jazz organ underpinning the original “Memory Lane” becomes a swirling concerto complemented by the DJ Green Lantern’s scratches. Earlier, Nas shouts out his dad’s original cornet solo on “Life’s a ...