Gathering together four recipients of the AFI Life Achievement Award – Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Diane Keaton and, most recently, Francis Ford Coppola – THE GODFATHER PART II (1974) also features impeccable art direction from Dean Tavoularis and groundbreaking sound from Walter Murch, both recipients of the AFI Honorary Degree. Deepening the story of the Corleone crime family, the iconic sequel was named by AFI among the art form’s great gangster pictures and appears on both the original and the anniversary edition of the American Film Institute’s chronicle of the greatest films of all time, with Pacino’s Michael Corleone earning a place among cinema’s villains, whose his cynical wisdom – “Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer” – ranked among the art form’s most memorable movie quotes.
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Mike Hafezi
It’s also #3 on the top 10 gangster films.