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Nic Cage takes on Scorsese, defends MCU

"What could be wrong with wholesome entertainment that is appealing to the parents and the children?"

Salon

James Caan says he walked out of The Godfather screening over one of his scenes being cut: ‘I was so pissed’

Actor said director Francis Ford Coppola scrapped 10-page sequence

The Independent UK

An Offer You Can't Refuse: The 10 Weirdest Gangster Films Of All Time

This month marks the 50th anniversary of the premiere of Francis Ford Coppola’s masterpiece “The Godfather.” Paramount Pictures (NASDAQ: PARAA) re-released the film in theaters last month and is putting out a 4K restored and remastered edition on Blu-ray and DVD.

Benzinga

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The Godfather at 50: celebrating the mob saga that raised the bar for gangster films

It’s one of the most famous climactic scenes in film: a tense and shocking denouement that sees a series of brutal assassinations intercut with the central character calmly renouncing Satan as he becomes godfather to his nephew.

The Conversation

The Godfather at 50: set among the American Mafia of the 40s, Coppola's film is unmistakably a film of the disillusioned 70s

When it was released 50 years ago, The Godfather won a swag of Oscars and hailed director Francis Ford Coppola as the voice of a new auteur. But timing is, as they say, everything.

The Conversation

This thing of ours: why does The Godfather still ring true 50 years on?

From Succession to the real-life drama of the Tory government, the influence of Francis Ford Coppola’s mafia film is everywhere

The Guardian - UK

‘The Godfather’ star James Caan reflects on Sonny’s iconic moments as film marks 50th anniversary

For James Caan, “The Godfather” remains the don of all movies five decades after its premiere.

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How Mafia bosses almost scuppered The Godfather and then grew to love it

The Godfather first premiered in 1972 and was the highest grossing film of that year - it also cleaned up at the awards winning best picture and best adapted screenplay

Daily Mirror

Francis Ford Coppola unimpressed by the ‘big razzle dazzle’ of modern-day Oscars

‘I like it more intimate, when they had a gentle quality,’ director said

The Independent UK

The Godfather review – a brutal sweep of magnificent storytelling

Francis Ford Coppola’s first film in the series is still an epic, full of hypnotic acting, which reinvented mafia criminals as players in a dynastic psychodrama

The Guardian - UK

‘The Godfather’: 50 ways to love the masterpiece as it nears half a century

Watching the greatest movie of all time when it returns to theaters Thursday is more fun when you know where Sofia Coppola shows up, how George Lucas contributed and what all those oranges mean.

Chicago Sun-Times

Coppola and Scorsese’s critique of Marvel is valid – why aren’t the younger stars saying it?

The internet outrage economy thrives on elder statesmen of cinema going after Marvel and the lack of ambition in most modern blockbusters, writes Adam White. But Coppola, Scorsese and their ilk also have a point – and you wish younger A-listers would join them

The Independent UK

Francis Ford Coppola says films like Dune and No Time to Die waste talented directors

‘You and I could pull the same sequence out of both of them and put them together,’ said the filmmaker

The Independent UK

Francis Ford Coppola says Dune and No Time to Die feel interchangeable, suggests they waste talented directors

‘You and I could pull the same sequence out of both of them and put them together,’ said the filmmaker

The Independent UK

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2022 Ford E-Transit review: Why it could be the most significant EV ever

The E-Transit is a lightly modified version of the existing Transit van, trading an internal combustion engine for a battery and electric motor. It could be one of the most important EVs yet.

Tribune News Service

Why commercial customers are poised to lead EV transformation

SEBASTOPOL, Calif. — Steve Dutton can't get his hands on an electric pickup fast enough.

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