Corleone Family Values - Washington Free Beacon
Once each decade since 1952, Sight & Sound, a noted British film magazine, publishes a poll in which it asks top critics to name the "greatest films of all time." Not surprisingly, most of the lists have consisted in the main of high-class critics’ darlings like Battleship Potemkin, Citizen Kane, and The Rules of the Game, but in 2002 a pair of ringers, The Godfather and The Godfather Part II, got slipped into the deck. It’s hard for me to imagine that anyone in his right mind would have foreseen in 1972 that Francis Ford Coppola’s screen version of Mario Puzo’s 1969 nove...