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So the trilogy has ONE flashback and the rest of the movie is in order? Strange. Honestly I though putting the scenes in chronological order really caused the film to drag. For me they play much better in the flashback style. Doug

From what I gathered from the interview, he preferred the Godfather Part 2 playing out flashing back and forth between the early 1900s and the 1950s. He felt that some of the points of comparison between Michael and his Father were lost in the chronological version, and that those flash backs...

I'm fairly sure the Godfather Trilogy was just the Novel For Television with the Godfather Part 3 tagged on the end as I don't believe there are any flash back scenes in that film. Doug

Travis is correct. The Novel for Television, which is the first two movies cut together into one long movie in chronological order, was done in 1977. Apparently Coppola did it as a way to raise money to finish Apocalypse Now. Doug

My understanding from what I read, and this was quite some time ago, he did the novel for television version as a favor to Paramount, and as kind of an experiment. He never really liked the results and would prefer that the films been seen only in the theatrical cut. I believe the theatrical...

I've read that Coppola wasn't particularly thrilled with the "Novel for Television" version, so I think its unlikely that that version will ever see the light of day on home video. Doug

I'll forgive her acting because she is a hell of a director! Doug

Well it wouldn't surprise me one way or the other. There have been several restorations that didn't get anything more than a limited showing in Los Angeles. Doug

Well they MIGHT have done all this work to re-release it into Theaters. Not to mention if they didn't do it now, it would probably be too late. Doug

I think most of the sound issues you describe have more to do with the improvisational nature of the acting in the film than any technical problems. The actors were encouraged to to improvise making the recording of their voices complicated, and many times actors are talking over the top of each...

Yeah they don't call Gordon Willis the "Prince of Darkness" for nothing! :D Doug

Perhaps you could give us a link to the specific quote you are talking about here on HTF? Doug

I believe, if I understand the couple of books I've read about Technicolor, that the red, blue and green elements are separated by use of colored filters used on the internegative in the printing/dye process. B&W separations could be made for protection, but they are superfluous to the actual...

Yes there are probably some good prints floating around, but I doubt that the ON was in that great a shape, considering the condition of the negative for Jaws and Star Wars. I believe they were shot on the same stock. And having a Technicolor print made doesn't mean that separations were made...

Just because the video representation of the film looks reasonably accurate to what was shown in theaters, doesn't mean that the film elements are in danger of becoming unusable, and in need of restoration. Doug