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Six months ago, we learned that the 1980 thriller Night of the Juggler would be getting a 4K Uhd release. Now, not only do we know the release date for the 4K disc, but it has also been revealed that Night of the Juggler is returning to theatres! In fact, the movie is already playing at the IFC Center in New York City. As of September 4th, it will be playing at the American Cinematheque in Los Angeles – and the film’s star, James Brolin, will be will be in attendance for Q&As after select screenings.

Kino Lorber’s 4K Uhd and Blu-ray release is scheduled for September 16th and is available for pre-order at This Link.

Directed by Robert Butler from a screenplay by Rick Natkin and Bill Norton Sr., Night of the Juggler is based on a novel by William P. McGivern and has the following synopsis: The...

Gritty 1980 thriller Night of the Juggler has been newly restored in 4K from the original camera negative with Dolby Vision/Hdr.

It’s currently playing at the IFC Center in New York City and will open at the American Cinematheque in Los Angeles on September 4. James Brolin (The Amityville Horror) will be in attendance for Q&As after select screenings.

The new restoration will be released on 4K Ultra HD and Blu-ray on September 16 via Kino Lorber. It includes reversible artwork and a slipcase.

Disc 1 – 4K Uhd:

4K Restoration from the Original Camera Negative (new) Dolby Vision/Hdr Presentation Audio Commentary by Film Historians Steve Mitchell and Nathaniel Thompson (new) 5.1 Surround and Lossless 2.0

Disc 2 – Blu-ray:

4K Restoration from the Original Camera Negative (new) Audio Commentary by Film Historians Steve Mitchell and Nathaniel Thompson (new) Summer of ’78: Interview with Actor James Brolin (new) The Sweet Maria: Interview with Actress Julie Carmen...

Kino Lorber is back with another stunning 4K restoration, this time for obscure, gritty thriller Night of the Juggler, soon available for the first time in 40 years.

We can exclusively debut the new trailer for the restoration, a re-cut of the original that gives a look at the twisty, sleazy intensity ahead and an impressive cast.

The new 4K restoration of Night of the Juggler opens at the IFC Center in NYC on August 1 before rolling out to select cities that currently include Los Angeles, Atlanta, Portland, San Francisco, Austin, and Chicago, with more to follow.

In Night of the Juggler, “Twenty-four hours of nerve-jangling tension and suspense begin when a twisted psychotic kidnaps a teenaged girl, mistaking her for the daughter of a wealthy real estate developer. Her determined father, a hard-hitting ex-cop, doggedly pursues them through New York’s seamy streets, decaying, burned-out Bronx tenements, and the grimy...

Over the past century, movie characters have captivated audiences in countless ways, whether through love, hate, admiration, fear, or a mix of emotions. Movie characters are what audiences can identify with, whether they relate to their own life or the lives of the people around them.

These character journeys are the heart of a story, allowing audiences to witness growth, struggle, and triumph. Through the seamless weaving of plot and development, these movies create a masterful experience where characters not only explore their own worlds but also leave a lasting impact on the viewers.

Michael Corleone Takes the Godfather Name by Any Means Necessary Michael Corleone from The Godfather (1972)

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Michael Corleone’s arc in The Godfather is one of the most compelling and tragic transformations in cinematic history. As an outsider to the family business, Michael is initially portrayed as a war hero,...

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Now considered one of the greatest actors of our time, it's strange to think that even Al Pacino had a heavy case of nerves when it came to taking on what is easily the most beloved role in his career. Way back when, in the early stages of Francis Ford Coppola's "The Godfather," the actor set to become the son of Don Vito Corleone (Marlon Brando) had a strong case of doubt about his future in the film.

In Pacino's memoir "Sonny Boy," the actor explains that the pressure was on for his place in the Corleone family tree. Whatever the young actor was turning up with wasn't working. The studios could see it, and worst of all so could his director. It was during an unplanned meeting with Coppola that Pacino quickly realized just how close he...

Its hard to imagine anyone other than the legendary Al Pacino in the role of Michael Corleone some 50 years after the premiere of The Godfather, but if the iconic actor had his way, he wouldnt have appeared in the movie at all. Thats according to his new memoir Sonny Boy, which hit shelves on October 8, and revealed in Pacinos own words how he felt relieved after an ankle injury threatened his permanent removal from the production.

Per Variety, Pacinos performance in The Godfather when he was around 30 years old wasnt living up to Paramounts expectations, leading to rumors on set that he was going to be released from his contract, and that director Francis Ford Coppola would also be terminated because he was the one who championed Pacino for the part. As such, when it came time to perform his own stunt which saw his character of Michael Corleone jump onto a moving car,...

Hundreds of gangster movies have been made in Hollywood. Yet, The Godfather remains the sharpest, caustic take on the Cosa Nostra world and the extensive assortment of hoodlums, hangers-on, and businessmen that populate it. The behind-the-scenes facts about the production process of the gangster classic are as interesting as the movie itself.

Paramount saw the potential in the story before Mario Puzos novel had even matured from manuscript to paperback, but the journey to completion would take many interesting turns. From the Colombo crime family interfering with production to Francis Ford Coppola being fought by some of his crew members during filming, there was no shortage of chaos.

The Godfather Release Date March 14, 1972Director Francis Ford CoppolaCast Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Richard S. Castellano, Robert Duvall, Sterling HaydenRuntime 175Main Genre Crime

Ultimately, the hurly-burly paid off. Though everyone feuded viciously throughout the manufacturing process, all the participants threw...

Clemenza was written out of Godfather Part II due to actor disagreements. The film gave closure to Clemenza's character and mentioned his off-screen death. Coppola found a way to fill in Clemenza's absence with new character Frank Pentangeli.

The Godfather Part II continued the story of Michael Corleone (Al Pacino) after becoming the new Don of the Corleone family, and while most of the cast from the first movie returned, the character Peter Clemenza was notably absent. In 1972, Francis Ford Coppola brought whats now considered one of the greatest films of all time and the best in the gangster genre: The Godfather. Based on Mario Puzos 1969 novel of the same name, and with a screenplay co-written by Puzo and Coppola, The Godfather was a massive critical and commercial success, and made way for a trilogy.

The Godfather introduced viewers to the Corleone family in New York City, led by Vito...

The Godfather and its sequel are perfect companion pieces, exploring the dynamics of the mafia through the Corleones' rise and fall. Al Pacino prefers The Godfather over the sequels for its storytelling and entertainment value, as Michael's journey unfolds in a gripping way. While The Godfather Part III may have faced criticism, the overall trilogy is seen as a cinematic masterpiece that continues to hold up today.

In 1972, Francis Ford Coppola changed Hollywood history when, alongside Paramount Pictures, he released a film that would rock the entire industry as it portrayed a different side of humanity trapped in a hazy underworld of crime. The Godfather, based on Mario Puzo's novel of the same name, starred Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Diane Keaton, and Robert Duvall, among others. The film tells the story of Vito Corleone (Brando), a mafia boss who must pass along the family's leadership to his reluctant son,...

Francis Ford Coppola's 1977 creation of The Godfather Saga attempted to re-frame the original films in chronological order for network TV. Some enjoyed The Godfather Saga's coherence and additional footage, while others believed it stripped away the original magic of the films. The 1981 VHS version of The Godfather Saga is a chronological cut that includes the scenes removed during the television event.

There are plenty of films that end up at the top of lists called Best Films of All Time. There are the classics and the modern classics. The majority of these lists inevitably feature The Godfather, The Godfather Part II, or both films. However, for a long time, the only way to watch them was in the theater and separately. That was, until 1977.

That year, NBC aired The Godfather Saga, and it was made for a variety of reasons. What makes it so fascinating is how it aired,...

Nicholson turned down The Godfather due to personal preferences, opting for projects he found more intriguing and personal. He believed Chinatown and The Last Detail had stronger scripts than The Godfather and The Sting. Although initially interested in playing Michael Corleone, Nicholson felt he was the wrong choice for the role.

Between 1969 and 1971, Jack Nicholson went from being a great character actor to a great star with his memorable performances in the films Carnal Knowledge, Easy Rider, and Five Easy Pieces. Throughout the rest of the 1970s, Nicholson, who won the first of his three Academy Awards for his unforgettable performance in the 1975 psychological drama film One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, emerged as the greatest and most influential actor of his generation.

In contrast to the keen commercial sense that increasingly guided Nicholson’s career in the 1980s and 1990s, Nicholson’s rise to stardom in the 1970s was...

Set in a New Jersey bowling alley but filmed in West Germany, Peter Lilienthal’s film stars Joe Pesci as a nightclub owner looking to score in Vegas. Two of our favorite mobsters co-star as roadblocks to Pesci’s success, The Godfather‘s Richard S. Castellano, and Frank Vincent, so memorable in both Goodfellas and The Sopranos.

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Scarface hadn’t been made when Pete Townshend’s 1974 song “The Punk and the Godfather” came out, but The Godfather certainly had. The Who’s anthem was a musical allegory about the rock scene, but the lyrics might as well be interpreted as a conversation between Michael Corleone and Tony Montana. Possibly right before they rumble.

Al Pacino played both men in both movies, and in each film, he begins the story as a punk. But in The Godfather, at least, he grows into the establishment. Michael becomes don. Tony was a shooting star on the other hand, one on a collision course with an unyielding atmosphere. Both roles are smorgasbords of possibilities to an actor, especially one who chased Richard III to every imaginable outcome. Each are also master criminals. But which is more masterful?

The obvious answer would seem to be Michael Corleone because he turned a criminal...

Francis Ford Coppola recently worked cinephiles into a frenzy by saying that, after an eight-year absence from filmmaking, he’d finally begun work on long-planned passion project “Megalopolis,” a film that’s always been dogged by funding issues. That followed his unspooling of “Apocalypse Now: Final Cut” at the Tribeca Film Festival in April, which cut certain scenes from 2001’s extended “Apocalypse Now Redux” while adding back some of the “weirder” elements lost from the 1979 theatrical cut. “Final Cut” will be released on Blu-ray in August.

“Apocalypse Now” — and what it says about how a work of art can shape-shift, in both its own form and in the minds of viewers and critics — was the reason for a wide-ranging new interview with Coppola conducted by Rolling Stone‘s David Fear. The whole Q&A is a reminder of what a forward-looking thinker the “Godfather” filmmaker is; he even almost kicked...

Some moviegoing experiences change your life: “2001: A Space Odyssey” at Hollywood’s Cinerama Dome; “The Tree of Life” accompanied by a 100-piece symphony orchestra; “The Shining” restored and retrofitted for IMAX. And for the more than 1,000 people at Radio City Music Hall yesterday, it was watching “The Godfather” and “The Godfather Part II.”

Read More: ‘The Godfather’ Reunion: Robert Duvall Imitates Marlon Brando’s Laugh and Other Highlights From Closing Night at Tribeca

Francis Ford Coppola’s crime saga closed out the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival with a 45th anniversary celebration that included restoration screenings of the first two parts and a conversation with Coppola and the cast, including Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, and Diane Keaton. While the chance to see the cast reunited was a once-in-a-lifetime event, so was the opportunity to experience the full power of “The Godfather” surrounded by cinephiles. And after 45 years, a few things have become abundantly clear.

Vigoda (left) with Richard Castellano and Marlon Brando in "The Godfather" (1972)

By Lee Pfeiffer

Abe Vigoda, whose hang-dog expression and low-key mannerisms help propel him to fame, has passed away at age 94. Vigoda toiled in films and TV without notable success until director Francis Ford Coppola cast him in the key role of Tessio, a mob lieutenant in the Corleone crime family in the 1972 classic "The Godfather".  Tessio was one of the most trusted "employees" of the Corleone family but following the death of its patriarch Vito Corleone, Tessio is discovered to be planning the assassination of the new godfather, Michael Corleone. Memorably he is led away to his execution with typical understated emotion. Vigoda's stock in the film industry rose immediately and he became a popular character actor, appearing in such films as "The Cheap Detective", "The Don is Dead", "Newman's Law", "Look Who's Talking" and "The Cannonball Run II...

By Todd Garbarini

Cy Howard’s 1970 film Lovers and Other Strangers, which stars Bea Arthur, Bonnie Bedelia, Michael Brandon, Anne Jackson, Diane Keaton, and Cloris Leachman, celebrates it’s 45th anniversary this year. The Royale Laemmle Theater in Los Angeles will be holding a special one-night-only showing of the 104-minute comedy on Wednesday, May 20, 2015 at 7:30 pm. Scheduled to appear in person are actress Bonnie Bedelia, Cloris Leachman and the Oscar-nominated co-writers Joe Bologna and Renee Taylor for a post-screening Q&A with film critic Stephen Farber.

From the press release:

Lovers And Other Strangers was nominated for three Academy Awards in 1970 and won the Oscar for best original song, "For All We Know." This sharp and poignant comedy examines the relationships of a dozen characters involved in preparing for a family wedding. The superb ensemble cast includes Oscar winners Gig Young, Cloris Leachman, and Diane Keaton (in her first...

Eli Wallach and Anne Jackson on the Oscars' Red Carpet Eli Wallach and Anne Jackson at the Academy Awards Eli Wallach and wife Anne Jackson are seen above arriving at the 2011 Academy Awards ceremony, held on Sunday, Feb. 27, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood. The 95-year-old Wallach had received an Honorary Oscar at the Governors Awards in November 2010. See also: "Doris Day Inexplicably Snubbed by Academy," "Maureen O'Hara Honorary Oscar," "Honorary Oscars: Mary Pickford, Greta Garbo Among Rare Women Recipients," and "Hayao Miyazaki Getting Honorary Oscar." Delayed film debut The Actors Studio-trained Eli Wallach was to have made his film debut in Fred Zinnemann's Academy Award-winning 1953 blockbuster From Here to Eternity. Ultimately, however, Frank Sinatra – then a has-been following a string of box office duds – was cast for a pittance, getting beaten to a pulp by a pre-stardom Ernest Borgnine. For his bloodied efforts, Sinatra went on...

The poster for Voyage of the Damned makes a bold claim, and maybe those who saw Stuart Rosenberg’s star-studded blockbuster in 1976 have remembered it ever since. Until a couple of weeks ago, however, when I saw it in a list of past Oscar nominees, I had never heard of it, and I don’t think it would be unfair to say that it is a film that has not stood the test of time.

Voyage of the Damned, which chronicles the tragic failed escape of 937 Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany, was nominated for three Oscars (for Best Score, Best Adapted Screenplay, and for Lee Grant for Best Supporting Actress, the lone acting nominee among a boatload of international heavyweights).

Oscar nominations, especially for acting, tend to confer a certain amount of immortality on their recipients (you are forever “Academy Award nominee Lee Grant”) and there are many films and...

One reason for the longevity of "The Godfather" over the past 40 years is that, behind its gangster plot, is a classic story of an American family, tracing its journey from immigration and poverty toward assimilation and success. In fact, it's not just the story of the Corleone family, but of the Coppola family as well. The movie feels like a personal glimpse into a family album, but it's director/co-screenwriter Francis Ford Coppola's family album as much as it is the fictional Michael Corleone's. True, the characters came from Mario Puzo's novel. But, on screen, Coppola not only invested them with details from his own family history, he even cast several members of his own family in the three movies, often in roles corresponding to their real-life relationships to him. Playing Michael's sister Connie was Francis' sister, Talia Shire. The director's father and mother, Carmine and Italia Coppola,...

By Scott Feinberg

HollywoodNews.com: With summer barbecues just around the corner, I thought it might be fun to take a walk down memory lane and identify the 10 most memorable movie scenes involving food. It’s impossible to include everything—it especially pained me to leave off “To Catch a Thief” (1955, with Grace Kelly’s leg or breast double-entendre) to “Dumb and Dumber” (1994, with Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels spicy pepper prank) to “Julie & Julia” (2009, with Meryl Streep’s orgasmic reaction to sole meuniere)—but I think I hit most of the big ones. Let me know your favorite examples in the comments section below!

10. “Sling Blade” (1996)

Iconic scene: Karl (Billy Bob Thornton) famously mumbles, “Mhmm. I like them French fried taters.”

9. “Forrest Gump” (1994)

Iconic scene: Forrest (Tom Hanks) regales strangers with the far-fetched tales of his life, but always comes back to the same aphorism: “Mama always told me...