At 434 minutes, critics felt this new edit resulted in a far less effective film, but fans were treated to over an hour’s worth of deleted scenes and footage. With “Apocalypse Now” running over-budget, Coppola tasked editor Barry Malkin to make a television cut of the “The Godfather” films in chronological order. So just how much more “The Godfather” is there? At least an hour or so (approximately 73 minutes). While “The Godfather Part II” runs 3 hours and 20 minutes, there are longer versions out there, though none are available to the public nowĪdditional scenes originally shot but not included in the theatrical version were added for the seven-plus-hour miniseries “ The Godfather Saga,” which showed the first two films in chronological order.
Now then, here’s five things about the picture you may not already know.ġ. More than ten years later that ranking persists, one of many tips of the hat to a towering achievement. In 1993 the drama was added to the United States National Film Registry for being “culturally significant,” and in 1997, the AFI ranked the picture #32 on their list of the 100 greatest films in American cinematic history.
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With such a long, distinguished and sometimes meandering career, one can kind of understand how hubris may have got the best of Coppola in the 1980s after his stunning run in the 1970s, which included two Palme d’Or wins, twelve Oscar nominations (for “ The Godfather,” “The Godfather Part II,” “The Conversation,” “ Apocalypse Now,” “ Patton,” which he wrote, and “ American Graffiti” which he co-produced) resulting in five wins, plus dozens of accolades for those films.Ĭoppola has had his share of major ups and downs, but during “The Godfather Part II” era, he was arguably at the peak of his powers. Curiously enough, while many consider ‘Part II’ superior, box-office-wise the 3 hour 20 minute running time was audience prohibitive, and the film only grossed $47 million domestically, as opposed to the $133 million of the original according to Box-office Mojo (though note other sites seem to dispute these figures and put them a little higher, and curiously enough BOM doesn’t have the worldwide gross numbers). This weekend, as we just mentioned in our piece about Coppola’s “ The Conversation,” marked the 73rd birthday of the famed director, and yesterday on April 8th, the anniversary of “The Godfather Part II” winning the Academy Award for Best Picture.
The original had also bagged eleven nominations, but won only three. A sprawling three-hour-and-twenty-minute American epic crime film, what can you say about Francis Ford Coppola’s “ The Godfather Part II” that hasn’t already been said? Nominated for eleven Academy Awards and winning six, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actor in a Supporting Role for Robert De Niro, “The Godfather Part II” was met with tremendous critical acclaim with many proclaiming it had outdone its predecessor.
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