The great movie scenes: The Godfather
- Written by Bruce Isaacs, Senior Lecturer in Film Studies, University of Sydney
Composite: Stills from Godfather (1972), Shutterstock
What makes a film a classic? In this column, film scholar Bruce Isaacs looks at a single sequence from a classic film and analyses its brilliance.
The Godfather is hailed as one of the greatest American films of all time. Francis Ford Coppola’s 1972 saga about a New York crime family...