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4 days ago · The Godfather is a 1972 American epic gangster film [2] directed by Francis Ford Coppola, who co-wrote the screenplay with Mario Puzo, based on Puzo's best-selling 1969 novel of the same title. The film stars an ensemble cast including Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Richard Castellano, Robert Duvall, Sterling Hayden, John Marley, Richard ...
1 day ago · The Godfather trilogy included some of the most acclaimed movies of all time, went on to take home nine Academy Awards, and received an astounding 28 nominations. As one of the crowning achievements in director Francis Ford Coppola's vast and varied career, more than 50 years since the first film was released, The Godfather series has remained an important touchstone in popular culture.
1 day ago · Winner of an Original Screenplay Academy Award and a Palme d'Or, Justine Triet's French psychological thriller is a masterclass in suspense. When a man is found dead in the snow outside a chalet in the Grenoble mountains, his wife is put on trial and their blind son becomes roped into a tricky investigation that embroils him in a moral dilemma.
4 days ago · Background and writing Giorgio Moroder wrote the music for the song. After winning the Academy Award for Best Original Score in 1979 for Midnight Express, Giorgio Moroder worked with Flashdance producer Jerry Bruckheimer on the 1980 film American Gigolo, and Bruckheimer contacted Moroder in 1982 to see if he would be interested in composing the music for the new film, which told the story of ...
1 day ago · What was the best picture in 1969? The year 1969 in film involved some significant events, with Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid dominating the U.S. box office and becoming one of the highest-grossing films of all time and Midnight Cowboy, a film rated X, winning the Academy Award for Best Picture.
2 days ago · "If [Henry the Human Fly] was a statement of intent, then the opening track was the distillation of the statement," Thompson wrote in Beeswing.Indeed, while "Roll Over Vaughn Williams" isn't the strongest song he ever wrote, it's a perfect opening salvo: a 22-year-old Thompson, emancipated from English folk-rockers Fairport Convention, sounds his strange, beautiful clarion call.
3 days ago · In April of 1972, the Hollies had a hit that was a film noir story set to music. Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress features an FBI agent, a bar filled with criminals and a 5’9″ beauty. Songfacts.com says: This tale of a government agent and a femme fatale contains one of the classic indecipherable lyrics in rock history.
