Godfather, Part II

Francis Ford Coppola''s The Godfather, Part II (1974) is a magisterial cinematic work, a gorgeous, stylized, auteur epic, and one of the few sequels judged by many to be greater than its predecessor. This despite the fact that it consists largely of meetings between aspiring ''Godfather'' Michael Corleone and fellow gangsters, politicians and family members. The meetings remind us that the moder...