The Godfather's title refers as much to Marlon Brando's Vito Corleone as it does to his son, Michael, but there's a third ...

Film openings are a treacherous art, demanding an impossible balance as they must grab attention, introduce vital players, and sketch a world we’re about to lose ourselves in. Few have ever nailed ...

This is FRESH AIR. Francis Ford Coppola also is a Kennedy Center Honoree for 2024. We're going to listen to the story he told Terry Gross in 2016 about how Marlon Brando came to be cast in Coppola's ...

The Godfather is the greatest gangster movie ever made, and it's probably going to stay that way. Film fans love it for too many reasons to count, even over 50 years after its initial release, but its ...