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...GODFATHER, PART II is both a sequel and a prequel, circling round the events of the original Godfather but leaving that tightly-knit, well-spun story--a film that kept everyone, critics and mass audience alike, on the edge of their seats--standing alone and untouched. Francis Ford Coppola's new movie is cut from the same cloth as Godfather I, but the pieces are arranged differently. It contains the same kinds of scenes--a sudden barrage of machine-gun fire rips open a quiet evening, the Don deals with his petitioners like a medieval monarch receiving his subjects...
...CONVERSATION. Francis Coppola's remarkable and moving study of an electronic surveillance expert (wonderfully acted by Gene Hackman) and his inadvertent, frightening implication in a crime. The movie also concerns rituals of ruptured privacy, and has a prevailing urgency which moves it past mere topicality...
...GODFATHER, PART II. Final proof that sequels can be better than originals. The questionable glories and bitter defeats of the Corleone family, brilliantly acted and told with a breadth of ambition and intensity characteristic of the work of Francis Coppola, for whom this has been a prodigious year...
...Everyone knew there would be a standoff if we met under formal conditions," says Strasberg, so the meeting was arranged socially. Coppola and Strasberg talked about Toscanini; Coppola's father had played flute with the NBC Symphony Orchestra. Soon afterward, Paramount placed the official call. Strasberg told the studio to make him an offer, which he promptly refused. "Ten thousand dollars-that was silly," he sniffs...
...results of all this labor were exemplary and work saving. Both he and Coppola were dissatisfied with Roth as written. Neither found the role complete, says Strasberg, "but since somehow I was able to make a character out of it, there was no need to rewrite...