Paramount plans to launch theatrical revivals of the Oscar winning epics The Godfather and The Godfather Part II in September. The Film Forum in New York will show each movie for a one week period. Both films were directed by Francis Ford Coppola and both won the Best Picture Oscar respectively in 1972 and 1974. No added scenes are being edited into the films, but legendary film restoration specialist Robert Harris has overseen the project and the sound is being greatly improved, including a line that was intentionally muffled in which Marlon Brando refers to the Cosa Nostra. In the buildup to the film's original release, a firestorm of criticism was unleashed by Italian-Amerian ethnocentric groups that claimed the movie unfairly portrayed all Italians as criminals. Among the chief critics: Frank Sinatra! For more click here
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