Gordon Willis

Gordon Willis

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Gordon Hugh Willis, Jr., ASC (May 28, 1931 – May 18, 2014) was an American cinematographer. He is best known for his work on Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather series as well as Woody Allen's Annie Hall and Manhattan. Fellow cinematographer William Fraker called Willis's work a "milestone in visual storytelling", while one critic suggested that Willis "defined the cinematic look of the 1970s: sophisticated compositions in which bolts of light and black put the decade's moral ambiguities into stark relief". When the International Cinematographers Guild conducted a survey in 2003, they placed Willis among the ten most influential cinematographers in history.

  • Title: Gordon Willis
  • Popularity: 0.5472
  • Known For: Camera
  • Birthday: 1931-05-28
  • Place of Birth: Astoria, New York, USA
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  • Also Known As: Gordon Hugh Willis Jr., Gordon Hugh Willis, Jr.
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Gordon Willis Movies

  • 2011
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    Woody Allen: A Documentary

    Woody Allen: A Documentary

    6.85 2011 HD

    An intense portrait of the iconic filmmaker, writer, actor, comedian and musician Woody Allen: his life, family and friends; his writing and directing habits, and his relationship with performers.

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  • 1992
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    Visions of Light

    Visions of Light

    7 1992 HD

    Cameramen and women discuss the craft and art of cinematography and of the "DP" (the director of photography), illustrating their points with clips from 100 films, from Birth of a Nation to Do the Right Thing. Themes: the DP tells people where to look; changes in movies (the arrival of sound, color, and wide screens) required creative responses from DPs; and, these artisans constantly invent new equipment and try new things, with wonderful results. The narration takes us through the identifiable studio styles of the 30s, the emergence of noir, the New York look, and the impact of Europeans. Citizen Kane, The Conformist, and Gordon Willis get special attention.

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  • 1971
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    'Klute' in New York

    'Klute' in New York

    6.4 1971 HD

    A closer look at the making of "Klute" (1971). The project follows the complex shooting on multiple locations in New York with major stars Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland, under the direction of Alan J. Pakula. The two actors and the director share a little about their perspectives on the film and the experience of being part of it.

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  • 1980
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    To Woody Allen from Europe with Love

    To Woody Allen from Europe with Love

    1 1980 HD

    Initiated by producer-director Pierre Drouot, Woody Allen for the very first time agrees to let a filmmaker, Belgium's André Delvaux, film him during one of his own productions, Stardust Memories. Woody talks about his work, always steering clear of the anecdotal or the private.

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  • 2006
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    Telling the Truth About Lies: The Making of "All the President's Men"

    Telling the Truth About Lies: The Making of "All the President's Men"

    5.2 2006 HD

    A short documentary on the making of "All the President's Men."

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  • 2006
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    Film Noir: Bringing Darkness to Light

    Film Noir: Bringing Darkness to Light

    7.1 2006 HD

    Film Noir burrows into the mind; it's disorienting, intriguing and enthralling. Noir brings us into a gritty underworld of lush morbidity, providing intimate peeks at its tough, scheming dames, mischievous misfits and flawed men - all caught in the wicked web of a twisted fate.

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  • 2008
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    Emulsional Rescue: Revealing 'The Godfather'

    Emulsional Rescue: Revealing 'The Godfather'

    6.5 2008 HD

    We hear from Coppola, Spielberg, director of photography Gordon Willis, consulting restoration cinematographer Allen Daviau, film archivist Robert A. Harris, Paramount Post Production executive VP Martin Cohen, MPI senior technical advisor Daniel Rosen, MPI scanning technician Chris Gillaspie, senior digital artist Steven A. Sanchez, digital artist Valerie V. McMahon, and MPI technical director and senior colorist Jan Yarbrough as they offer interesting facts about the original cinematography, details on the restoration of the three films.

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  • 2012
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    An Amazing Time: A Conversation About End of the Road

    An Amazing Time: A Conversation About End of the Road

    6 2012 HD

    In the summer of 1968, a group of people assembled in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. They were making a film of John Barth's 1958 novel The End of the Road.

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  • 2007
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    Fog City Mavericks

    Fog City Mavericks

    8.5 2007 HD

    Fog City Mavericks: The Filmmakers of San Francisco is a compelling exploration of the legendary filmmakers who call the San Francisco Bay Area home including George Lucas, Francis Ford Coppola, Clint Eastwood, Chris Columbus and producer Saul Zaentz. The special weaves interviews, commentaries and unforgettable moments from some of the most visionary movies ever created such as American Graffiti, the Star Wars film series, the Indiana Jones film series, The Godfather trilogy, Apocalypse Now, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Amadeus, Toy Story, The Incredibles, Lost in Translation, Flags of Our Fathers and many others. It also features interviews with those who have worked with Bay Area mavericks: Steven Spielberg, Michael Douglas, Anthony Minghella, Milos Forman and Frank Darabont.

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  • 2003
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    Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood

    Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood

    7.115 2003 HD

    The chronicle of the mind-blowing journey that was Hollywood during the seventies; the true and gripping story of the last golden age of American cinema, an exalted celebration of creativity and experimentation; but also of sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll: a turbulent and dark tale of ambition, envy, betrayal, hatred and self-destruction.

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  • 1990
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    The Godfather Part III

    The Godfather Part III

    7.4 1990 HD

    In the midst of trying to legitimize his business dealings in 1979 New York and Italy, aging mafia don, Michael Corleone seeks forgiveness for his sins while taking a young protege under his wing.

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  • 1974
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    The Godfather Part II

    The Godfather Part II

    8.572 1974 HD

    In the continuing saga of the Corleone crime family, a young Vito Corleone grows up in Sicily and in 1910s New York. In the 1950s, Michael Corleone attempts to expand the family business into Las Vegas, Hollywood and Cuba.

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  • 1971
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    Klute

    Klute

    6.7 1971 HD

    A high-priced call girl is forced to depend on a reluctant private eye when she is stalked by a psychopath.

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  • 1979
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    Manhattan

    Manhattan

    7.7 1979 HD

    Manhattan explores how the life of a middle-aged television writer dating a teenage girl is further complicated when he falls in love with his best friend's mistress.

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  • 1977
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    Annie Hall

    Annie Hall

    7.732 1977 HD

    New York comedian Alvy Singer falls in love with the ditsy Annie Hall.

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  • 1976
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    All the President's Men

    All the President's Men

    7.7 1976 HD

    During the 1972 elections, two reporters' investigation sheds light on the controversial Watergate scandal that compels President Nixon to resign from his post.

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  • 1986
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    The Money Pit

    The Money Pit

    6.51 1986 HD

    After being evicted from their Manhattan apartment, a couple buy what looks like the home of their dreams—only to find themselves saddled with a bank-account-draining nightmare. Struggling to keep their relationship together as their rambling mansion falls to pieces around them, the two watch in hilarious horror as everything—including the kitchen sink—disappears into the Money Pit.

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  • 1985
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    The Purple Rose of Cairo

    The Purple Rose of Cairo

    7.4 1985 HD

    Cecilia is a waitress in New Jersey, living a dreary life during the Great Depression. Her only escape from her mundane reality is the movie theatre. After losing her job, Cecilia goes to see 'The Purple Rose of Cairo' in hopes of raising her spirits, where she watches dashing archaeologist Tom Baxter time and again.

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  • 1997
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    The Devil's Own

    The Devil's Own

    6.178 1997 HD

    Frankie McGuire, one of the IRA's deadliest assassins, draws an American family into the crossfire of terrorism. But when he is sent to the U.S. to buy weapons, Frankie is housed with the family of Tom O'Meara, a New York cop who knows nothing about Frankie's real identity. Their surprising friendship, and Tom's growing suspicions, forces Frankie to choose between the promise of peace or a lifetime of murder.

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  • 1993
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    Malice

    Malice

    6.261 1993 HD

    A tale about a happily married couple who would like to have children. Tracy teaches infants, Andy's a college professor. Things are never the same after she is taken to hospital and operated upon by Jed, a "know all" doctor.

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  • 1983
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    Zelig

    Zelig

    7.419 1983 HD

    Fictional documentary about the life of human chameleon Leonard Zelig, a man who becomes a celebrity in the 1920s due to his ability to look and act like whoever is around him. Clever editing places Zelig in real newsreel footage of Woodrow Wilson, Babe Ruth, and others.

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  • 1980
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    Stardust Memories

    Stardust Memories

    6.912 1980 HD

    While attending a retrospect of his work, a filmmaker recalls his life and his loves: the inspirations for his films.

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  • 1990
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    Presumed Innocent

    Presumed Innocent

    6.797 1990 HD

    Rusty Sabich is a deputy prosecutor engaged in an obsessive affair with a coworker who is murdered. Soon after, he's accused of the crime. And his fight to clear his name becomes a whirlpool of lies and hidden passions.

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  • 1982
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    A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy

    A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy

    6.477 1982 HD

    A nutty inventor, his frustrated wife, a philosopher cousin, his much younger fiancée, a randy doctor, and a free-thinking nurse spend a summer weekend in and around a stunning - and possibly magical - country house.

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  • 1984
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    Broadway Danny Rose

    Broadway Danny Rose

    7.136 1984 HD

    A hapless talent manager named Danny Rose, by helping a client, gets dragged into a love triangle involving the mob. His story is told in flashback, an anecdote shared amongst a group of comedians over lunch at New York's Carnegie Deli. Rose's one-man talent agency represents countless incompetent entertainers, including a one-legged tap dancer, and one slightly talented one: washed-up lounge singer Lou Canova, whose career is on the rebound.

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  • 1980
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    Windows

    Windows

    4.821 1980 HD

    Emily Hollander becomes the subject of a lesbian obsession at the hands of Andrea Glassen, her next-door neighbour.

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  • 1970
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    The People Next Door

    The People Next Door

    5.806 1970 HD

    A married couple struggle with the realities of their imperfect marriage as they fight to save and rehabilitate their teenage daughter from a life of drug addiction and ultimate committal to a mental ward.

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  • 1972
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    The Godfather

    The Godfather

    8.686 1972 HD

    Spanning the years 1945 to 1955, a chronicle of the fictional Italian-American Corleone crime family. When organized crime family patriarch, Vito Corleone barely survives an attempt on his life, his youngest son, Michael steps in to take care of the would-be killers, launching a campaign of bloody revenge.

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  • 1972
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    Bad Company

    Bad Company

    6.4 1972 HD

    After Drew Dixon, an upright young man, is sent west by his religious family to avoid being drafted into the Civil War, he drifts across the land with a loose confederation of young vagrants.

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  • 1978
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    Interiors

    Interiors

    6.836 1978 HD

    When Eve, an interior designer, is deserted by her husband of many years, Arthur, the emotionally glacial relationships of the three grown-up daughters are laid bare. Twisted by jealousy, insecurity and resentment, Renata, a successful writer; Joey, a woman crippled by indecision; and Flyn, a budding actress; struggle to communicate for the sake of their shattered mother. But when their father unexpectedly falls for another woman, his decision to remarry sets in motion a terrible twist of fate…

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  • 1974
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    The Parallax View

    The Parallax View

    6.82 1974 HD

    An ambitious reporter gets in trouble while investigating a senator's assassination which leads to a vast conspiracy involving a multinational corporation behind every event in the world's headlines.

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  • 1973
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    The Paper Chase

    The Paper Chase

    6.8 1973 HD

    A first-year law student struggles with balancing his coursework and his relationship with the daughter of a stern professor.

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  • 1970
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    The Landlord

    The Landlord

    5.8 1970 HD

    At the age of twenty-nine, Elgar Enders "runs away" from home. This running away consists of buying a building in a black ghetto in the Park Slope section of Brooklyn. Initially, his intention is to evict the black tenants and convert the building into a posh flat. But Elgar is not one to be bound by yesterday's urges, and soon he has other thoughts on his mind.

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  • 1970
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    End of the Road

    End of the Road

    4.6 1970 HD

    Moments after receiving his graduate diploma, Jacob waits at a train station. The future lies ahead, but life abruptly intervenes. Images flash in Jacob's mind: of war, injustice, assassination, protest, the entire spectrum of 1960s angst and anger - sending Jacob into a catatonic state. What follows during his bizarre rehab and its aftermath will be another form of madness.

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  • 1981
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    Pennies from Heaven

    Pennies from Heaven

    6.049 1981 HD

    During the Great Depression, a sheet music salesman seeks to escape his dreary life through popular music and a love affair with an innocent schoolteacher.

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  • 1978
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    Comes a Horseman

    Comes a Horseman

    6.1 1978 HD

    Ella Connors is a single woman who gets pressured to sell her failing cattle farm to her corrupt ex-suitor, Jacob Ewing. She asks for help from her neighbor, Frank Athearn. As Ella and Frank fight back through stampedes, jealousy, betrayal, and sabotage... they eventually find love.

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  • 1985
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    Perfect

    Perfect

    5.6 1985 HD

    A female aerobics instructor meets a male reporter doing a story on health clubs, but it isn't love at first sight.

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  • 1970
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    Loving

    Loving

    5.75 1970 HD

    Brooks Wilson is in crisis. He is torn between his wife Selma and two daughters and his mistress Grace, and also between his career as a successful illustrator and his feeling that he might still produce something worthwhile.

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  • 1987
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    The Pick-up Artist

    The Pick-up Artist

    5.644 1987 HD

    A womanizer meets his match when he falls for the daughter of a gambling addict who is in debt to the mob.

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  • 1984
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    The Lost Honor of Kathryn Beck

    The Lost Honor of Kathryn Beck

    4 1984 HD

    A shopkeeper is condemned by the police and the press for sleeping with a suspected terrorist.

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  • 1975
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    The Drowning Pool

    The Drowning Pool

    6.3 1975 HD

    Harper is brought to Louisiana to investigate an attempted blackmail scheme. He soon finds out that it involves an old flame of his and her daughter. He eventually finds himself caught in a power struggle between the matriarch of the family and a greedy oil baron, who wants their property. Poor Harper! Things are not as straight-forward as they initially appeared.

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  • 1971
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    Little Murders

    Little Murders

    6.7 1971 HD

    A young nihilistic New Yorker copes with pervasive urban violence, obscene phone calls, rusty water pipes, electrical blackouts, paranoia, and ethnic-racial conflict during a typical summer of the 1970s.

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  • 1988
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    Bright Lights, Big City

    Bright Lights, Big City

    5.7 1988 HD

    A disillusioned young writer living in New York City turns to drugs and drinking to block out the memories of his dead mother and estranged wife.

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  • 1977
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    September 30, 1955

    September 30, 1955

    6.438 1977 HD

    A young Southerner loses his grip on reality when his favorite movie star James Dean suddenly dies in a car crash.

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  • 1980
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    Windows

    Windows

    4.821 1980 HD

    Emily Hollander becomes the subject of a lesbian obsession at the hands of Andrea Glassen, her next-door neighbour.

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  • 1972
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    Up the Sandbox

    Up the Sandbox

    5.8 1972 HD

    Bored with day-to-day life in New York City and neglected by her husband, a young wife and mother slips into increasingly outrageous fantasies: her mother breaking into the apartment, an explorer's demonstration of tribal fertility music at a party causing strange transformations, and joining terrorists to plant explosives in the Statue of Liberty.

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  • 1977
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    The Beatles at Shea Stadium

    The Beatles at Shea Stadium

    7.7 1977 HD

    The Beatles at Shea Stadium is a fifty-minute-long documentary of the Beatles' 1965 concert at Shea Stadium in New York, the highlight of the group's 1965 tour.

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  • 1981
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    The Godfather: The Complete Epic 1901–1959

    The Godfather: The Complete Epic 1901–1959

    8.944 1981 HD

    The Godfather 1901–1959: The Complete Epic is a reduced, 386-minute version of the 1977 television miniseries, "Mario Puzo's The Godfather: The Complete Novel for Television," released to video in 1981. Unlike the miniseries, which was presented in four segments (each with opening and closing credits), the Epic is presented as a single segment. In January 2016, HBO aired the Epic in its uncut and uncensored format, later making it available on its streaming platforms. The HBO showing contained most of the known deleted scenes, thereby lengthening the runtime of the Epic from its video release to 423 minutes.

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  • 1970
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    8.6 1970 HD

    A seven-hour chronological edit of The Godfather and The Godfather Part II, expanded with over an hour of restored scenes to trace the Corleone family’s rise from Vito’s youth in Sicily to Michael’s reign in 1950s America, re-edited for its 1977 network television broadcast.

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