THE GODFATHER - GODFATHER MOVIES RESTORED

GODFATHER MOVIES RESTORED

The Godfather The Coppola Restoration is being released today (Tuesday) as a five-disc collection of all three Godfather films , as well as two discs of bonus features, on DVD ($73.00) and Blu-ray disc ($120.00). In an interview with USA Today Francis Ford Coppola, who directed the original '70s films, said that when he saw the 1972 classic on its 25th anniversary in 1997 he was disappointed in the quality and learned that the negative had deteriorated after being used to strike so many prints over the years. He said that he eventually appealed to Steven Spielberg, who had been instrumental in the restoration of Lawrence of Arabia , to seek funding for a Godfather restoration at Paramount, which had acquired Spielberg's DreamWorks studio. In the end, not only was the film restored to its original luster but problem scenes in the original footage were corrected. All of the work, incidentally, was performed not at Paramount but at Warner Bros. Motion Picture Imagine in Burbank. Paramount post-production executive Marty Cohen told USA Today "This is about rebuilding to some degree and putting new paint on the house."  

23/09/2008