35mm The GODFATHER trilogy @ the Million Dollar Theater

Part of our Classic Trilogies series

Saturday, November 22, 2025, Million Dollar Theater

LOCATION: The Million Dollar Theater, 307 S Broadway, Los Angeles, CA 90013

10a THE GODFATHER (1972, dir by Francis Ford Coppola, w/ Al Pacino, Diane Keaton, Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, John Cazale, James Caan, Talia Shire, Paramount 175mns, USA, 35mm)

2p THE GODFATHER PART TWO (1974, dir by Francis Ford Coppola, w/ Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Diane Keaton, Robert Duvall, John Cazale, Talia Shire, Lee Strasberg, Paramount 202 mns, USA, 35mm)

630p THE GODFATHER PART THREE (1990, dir by Francis Ford Coppola, w/ Al Pacino, Diane Keaton, Talia Shire, Andy Garcia, Sophia Coppola, Eli Wallach, Paramount 162 mns, USA, 35mm)

For any screenings with 35mm prints, always be prepared that we may have to use a DCP.digital backup just in case.

You can get two for one (two tickets for the price of one) to any individual movie or get the GODFATHER TRILOGY All-Day pass (all movies, best deal) while supplies last.

10a THE GODFATHER Has any movie so revolutionized the sense of what could be both an artistic and commercial success as The Godfather? Jaws is a masterpiece that leans to the summer popcorn side of the spectrum (nothing wrong with that). Citizen Kane is a masterpiece that leans to the cinephile/moviemaker side of the dial (nothing wrong with that). Somehow The Godfather and The Godfather Part 2 lay claim to both. A rare feat. Adapted by Francis Ford Coppola and Mario Puzo from Puzo's best selling novel, The Godfather tells the story of 1940's New York crime family head Vito Corleone (a career high mark Marlon Brando) and how his criminal empire affects (and ultimately destroys) the lives of his four sons-Sonny, Fredo, Michael, Tom, and his daughter, Connie. The filmmaking has rarely been surpasse even 50 years later. Gordon Willis's cinematography is so good, it's now a benchmark standard. The performances are all so top shelf that the cast, in retrospect, seems impossible. Al Pacino, Diane Keaton, James Caan, Robert Duvall, Talia Shire. At the center is Francis Ford Coppola who took what could have been pulpy material and adapted it into an American Shakespearean tragedy of family, an America that corrupts as much as liberates. Oh yeah, and it's wildly entertaining.

Today, we screen all 3 Godfathers. Come for one or come for all for the full experience. Go to next door's historic Grand Central Market for breakfast, lunch, dinner, drinks as we take in an American classic.

2p THE GODFATHER PART 2 You'd be forgiven for thinking in 1974, before The Godfather Part 2 had been released to universal acclaim, that there was no way to make an organic sequel to The Godfather. Filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola and the actors had already told the tragic story of good hearted son Michael Corleone's fall from a law abiding war veteran to the head of one of the largest crime families in America. But Coppola and writer Mario Puzo found a way not just to expand the story but to advance it. And in the process they made what many consider to be THE greatest sequel of all time. Part 2 tells the parallel stories of the rise of young Vito Corleone (Robert De Niro) from poverty and obscurity to the head of his own crime family in 1910's New York City. We cross cut to the 1950's where son and current Don, Michael, is trying to take the Corleone family legit in Las Vegas, Nevada. But an assassination attempt on Michael's life early in the movie leads to a series of events and decisions that will change the Corleone family permanently and from which there is no coming back. A panoramic electric movie that even touches on the rise of Latin American communism in Cuba and different crime families around the United States, The Godfather 2 is the King Lear to the Godfather 1's Hamlet. A must see film.

Today, we screen all 3 Godfathers. Come for one or come for all for the full experience. Go to next door's historic Grand Central Market for breakfast, lunch, dinner, drinks as we take in an American classic.

630pm THE GODFATHER PART 3 . Coppola was (rightfully) convinced he had told the entire story of Michael Corleone when he finished The Godfather Part 2. But throug a series of unexpected events, he accepted the challenge to make a final chapter The Godfather Part 3. Initially Coppola didn't even want to call the movie Part 3. He insisted it be called: The Godfather Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone. But Paramount ultimately squashed the title. Neverthelss that is exactly what The Godfather Part 3 is. Coppola and writer Mario Puzo had the brilliant idea to center this final chapter in the late 1970's around the real world mysterious events of corruption at the Vatican bank and the strange death (some say M**der) of Pope John Paul 1 just a few weeks into his papacy. Michael Corleone, now in his late sixties like his father in the first movie, is trying to buy his way to redemption by financing the Vatican bank and taking all the Corleone interests legitimate. But you can't buy God's forgiveness or redemption. At the same time, Michael's nephew, the hot headed Vincent (a live wire Andy Garcia), Sonny's illigetimate son, is making moves without his Uncle's permission. Including falling in love with Michael's only daughter, Mary (Sofia Coppola, Coppola's own daughter).

The Godfather Part 3 is an unjustly sometimes overlooked necessary piece of the trilogy. A movie that accomplishes the near impossible task of feeling necessary and strong after a 16 year break, Godfather Part 3 may wobble from some of its shortcomings (most noticeably the absence of Robert Duvall as final brother Tom Hagen) but it manages to deliver a devastating and definitive final blow to the notion that violence wielded as power can yield anything but destruction and more violence.

Come watch The Godfather trilogy all in one day and experience the Shakespearean power of the entire piece.

All on glorious 35mm archive prints.

Today, we screen all 3 Godfathers. Come for one or come for all for the full experience. Go to next door's historic Grand Central Market for breakfast, lunch, dinner, drinks as we take in an American classic.

*Come to 1, 2, or all 3. Take advantage of our 2-1 ticket deals for any one individual movie or get a GODFATHER TRILOGY all-day pass (best deal) for all 3 movies, save money, enjoy breakfast lunch or dinner at next door's historic Grand Central Market.

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