The Godfather Marathon at Film Forum

In honor of the recent restorations of Coppola's Godfather series, Film Forum has been screening the first two installments, and recently we attended the back-to-back marathon, nearly seven hours of ambition, compromise, vengeance, murder, and snappy suits. We got there early to stake out the best seats--you have to be strategic if you're going to be in a movie theater for more time than it takes to fly to Europe--and listened as people in the crowd quoted their favorite lines, debated Michael Corleone's motives, and left our New York for another one, full of secrets and covered in darkness.

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