The greatest American film of the last fifty years

Rating: 10/10 (8 April 2020)

It's such an iconic piece of cinema - no matter how many times I catch this on TV, I never change the channel. It's such a mythic study of power. Coppola never needed to make another film, but fortunately he did, creating three more classics within the same decade - The Godfather Part II, The Conversation and Apocalypse Now.
The Godfather is just timeless, with such pitch perfect performances, cinematography, direction, editing, music, production design, sound design... the list goes on. This film and its sequel is the high water mark of American cinema in the latter half of the 20th century,