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Directed by FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA Screenplay by FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA and MARIO PUZO...
Criminal Life. This is particularly remarkable because he does not even appear in long stretches. As a way of offering historical perspective on the Mafia (and of warming up his movie), Coppola contrasts Michael's fight for continued control over his inheritance by crosscutting to the story of his father's arrival in this country from Sicily and his first successes in the criminal life. Robert De Niro is excellent as the young Don; Coppola's reconstruction of life in Little Italy around the year 1918 is obviously a work of love as well as research. Somehow...
...Godfather, Part II is a worthy successor to its predecessor. Francis Coppola has made a richly detailed, intelligent film that uses overorganized crime as a metaphor to comment on the coldness and corruption of an overorganized modern world. -Richard Schickel...
...Director Francis Ford Coppola's first movie, and along with "The Godfather," his only good one. A comedy about some strange people in New York. Music by the Lovin' Spoonful. Ch. 56, 4 p.m. Color, 2 hours...
With The Godfather, Coppola became a superb film craftsman. Here, as before, he has had some excellent assistance-most notably that of Production Designer Dean Tavoularis and Editor Walter Murch, who worked not only on structuring the film but also on its disquieting sound track. Noises-odd and ominous, never quite real-become progressively more unsettling...