The Godfather cast reunite for screening of trilogy on film’s 45th anniversary
It came a day after Quentin Tarantino gathered Reservoir Dogs co-stars
THE Godfather cast reunited as mob movie icons took over the Tribeca Film Festival’s weekend billing.
Francis Ford Coppola — who directed the legendary mafia drama — posed with original cast members Al Pacino, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton, James Caan and Talia Shire, his sister, in New York on Saturday.
They joined 1974 sequel star Robert De Niro for an epic nine-hour screening of the trilogy to celebrate the 1972 film’s 45th anniversary.
Late actor Marlon Brando, who played Godfather Vito Corleone and died of respiratory failure in 2004 aged 80, was honoured in the following Q&A, during which his screen-son Al, 77, revealed he thought it would be the worst film ever made.
Recalling a conversation with Diane, 71, after filming, he said: “The whole thing had a surreal feeling.
“We were talking about, ‘Where do we go from here? We’re gone. It’s over.
“This is the worst film ever made.’”
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It came a day after the cast of Reservoir Dogs reconciled for the film’s 25th anniversary.
Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen and Steve Buscemi joined director Quentin Tarantino following a screening of the heist romp at the Beacon Theatre.
Original cast members Chris Penn, who played Nice Guy Eddie Cabot, died of heart disease aged 40 in 2006, while Lawrence Tierney, who portrayed Joe Cabot, passed away in a care home in 2002 aged 82.
It went more seamlessly than the original showing at the Park City festival in 1992, which was blighted by technical glitches.
Quentin, 54, revealed on a Q&A: “That was a disaster ... it gets to the final climax and all of a sudden the lights come up. Someone says, ‘Oh s**t,’ and they brought the lights down.
“Then everybody has their guns pointed on everybody else and right at the height of that scene, there’s a power outage and all of the power goes out. It was a f***ing disaster.”