“The artiness of Coppola’s aesthetic ultimately becomes an ethic as Pacino, in somber profile, emerges more victim than villain, more a melancholy Dane than a bloody Macbeth.”
Originally published December 23, 1974
“Coppola and copilot Mario Puzo blast off for some cosmic Shakespearean netherworld of tearful soliloquies and dynastic tragedy,”
Originally published December 25, 1990
“Since 'The Godfather' is about as unkind to the Mafia as 'Mein Kampf' is to Adolf Hitler, it is hard to understand why the local little Caesars didn’t pay a commission for all the free publicity.”
Originally published March 16, 1972
“What ‘The Godfather’ is trying to peddle us is that turning to crime was not a choice but a necessary absorption in order to get along in a hostile country. Thus it is an ode to impotence and a grave insult to the Italians”
Originally published June 30, 1975
Think things are weird now? Along with the strange machinations surrounding the fall of Richard Nixon, the Watergate era also gave us the David Bowie look-alike contest.
August 9, 2018