• It’s certainly not hard to find more and more to say about the godfather even after 5-10 visits and times revisiting
  • The opening long take is an absolute stunner and certainly not something I appreciated when I first started getting into cinema
  • I think I may have referred to Fincher as “the master of darkness” on a recent post but of course Godon Willis- the DP here- is that. Pakula films, Woody Allen films- but nothing better than this.
  • So many dissolves in the editing style took me back here. I love it. one highlight is the ellipsis editing dissolve approach at the horse head scene- wonderful
  • It’s just one dizzyingly beautiful set piece after another
  • The ending montage is one of the greatest in film history
  • This may also be the greatest pure narrative in the history of film
  • There’s zero fat here- Enzo the baker and the undertaker at the beginning – both come up later
  • There is real love here in the two scenes between Clemenzo and Pacino- one showing him how to cook and the other how to shoot. There’s a lot here.
  • The greatest single scene in the film, and there’s a lot to choose from, is the train noise close-up of Pacino
  • The best film of 1972 and one of the very best films of all-time
  • Masterpiece