(aka "Der Pate Teil III" or "El padrino parte III" or "Il Padrino parte III" or "Le Parrain 3è partie")
directed
by Francis Ford Coppola
USA 1990
"The Godfather, Part III" continues the Corleone family history in 1979, as the sins of the parents are visited upon the children. Despite every attempt to go legit, to become respectable, the past cannot be silenced. The family has amassed unimaginable wealth, and as the film opens Michael Corleone (Al Pacino) is being invested with a great honor by the church. Later that day, at a reception, his daughter announces a Corleone family gift to the church and the charities of Sicily, "a check in the amount of $100 million." But the Corleones are about to find, as others have throughout history, that you cannot buy forgiveness. Sure, you can do business with evil men inside the church, for all men are fallible and capable of sin. But God does not take payoffs.
Excerpt from Roger Ebert at the Chicago Sun Times located HERE |
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Theatrical Release: December 25th, 1990 - USA
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DVD Comparison:
Paramount (Coppola Restoration) - Region A Blu-ray - NTSC vs. Paramount - Region 1 - NTSC vs. Paramount (UK) - Region 2 - PAL |
Big thanks to Ole Kofoed and Gregory Meshman for the SD-DVD Screen Caps!
1) Paramount (The Coppola Restoration) - Region A - Blu-ray - LEFT2) Paramount - Region 1 - NTSC - MIDDLE 3) Paramount - Region 2 - PAL - RIGHT
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Paramount - 1080P Region A - Blu-ray |
Paramount Region 1 - NTSC |
Paramount (UK) Region 2 - PAL |
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Runtime | 2:50:15 | 2:50:10 | 2:43:05 (PAL Speedup) |
Video |
1.78:1 Aspect Ratio 1080P - Dual-layered Blu-ray Average Bitrate: 29.0 mb/s |
1.78:1 Aspect Ratio
16X9 enhanced |
1.78:1 Aspect Ratio
16X9 enhanced |
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Blu-ray |
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Audio |
English: Dolby TrueHD
5.1 French: Dolby Digital 5.1 Spanish: Dolby Digital 5.1 |
English Dolby Digital 5.1, French DD 2.0 mono. |
English Dolby Digital 5.1 |
Subtitles | English SDH, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, none | English or none. | English, English for the Hearing Impaired, Dutch, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian Finnish or none. |
Features |
Release Information: Studio: Paramount Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1 1080P - Dual-layered Blu-ray Edition Details: Thick
Blu-ray Case inside cardboard box |
Release Information: Studio: Paramount Aspect Ratio: Widescreen anamorphic - 1.78:1 Edition Details: |
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NOTE:
The below
Blu-ray
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Blu-ray
disc.
Our complete coverage of the entire Blu-ray 'Coppola Restoration' package will be forthcoming but as interest is so high on these titles - we have also decided to compare them to the original SD releases first - and we have added some SD-DVD Coppola Restoration captures to compare as well.
This final entry in the saga is on a dual-layered third (of 4) Blu-ray, taking up 46.5 GB for the almost 3 hour feature film and it appears to have much greater differences than the first two entries versus their original SD-DVD counterparts. It has some significantly darker moments looking predominantly more red/maroon - especially on the Blu-ray where those hues are even more pronounced. Colors are wildly different from the original editions and the detail is significantly improved in 1080P, over all three SD-DVD releases. Leonard Norwitz has covered the entire collection with more screen captures HERE. I don't believe that this third film was part of the official 'Coppola restoration' but there are significant alterations in the appearance - as the screen captures below will indicate. I very much appreciate all the past emails (many posted in the first two comparisons) and I tend to like this 'new' look although the representation of skin tones can occasionally, but not always, look fairly intense and darker at times. I can only assume this look is very intentional. As typical with Blu-ray over SD - everything seems more pronounced.
NOTE: I've done my best to match the captures below at the exact same frame.
Audio: This time I categorically did notice a difference in the buoyant TrueHD track (to the older 5.1). It had some very aggressive moments (the helicopter ambush as one demonstrative example). We will be examining this in greater detail during the week and in reviewer Leonard Norwitz full coverage of the entire Blu-ray package.
Aside from the commentary there are no additional extras on this third Blu-ray disc.
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(Paramount - Region 1 - NTSC - LEFT
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Screen Captures
CLICK EACH BLU-RAY CAPTURE TO SEE ALL IMAGES IN FULL 1920X1080 RESOLUTION
1) Paramount (The Coppola Restoration) - Region A - Blu-ray - TOP2) Paramount (The Coppola Restoration) - Region 1 - SD-DVD - SECOND 3) Paramount - Region 1 - NTSC - THIRD 3) Paramount - Region 2 - PAL - BOTTOM |
1) Paramount (The Coppola Restoration) - Region A - Blu-ray - TOP2) Paramount (The Coppola Restoration) - Region 1 - SD-DVD - SECOND 3) Paramount - Region 1 - NTSC - THIRD 3) Paramount - Region 2 - PAL - BOTTOM |
1) Paramount (The Coppola Restoration) - Region A - Blu-ray - TOP2) Paramount (The Coppola Restoration) - Region 1 - SD-DVD - SECOND 3) Paramount - Region 1 - NTSC - THIRD 3) Paramount - Region 2 - PAL - BOTTOM |
1) Paramount (The Coppola Restoration) - Region A - Blu-ray - TOP2) Paramount (The Coppola Restoration) - Region 1 - SD-DVD - SECOND 3) Paramount - Region 1 - NTSC - THIRD 3) Paramount - Region 2 - PAL - BOTTOM |
1) Paramount (The Coppola Restoration) - Region A - Blu-ray - TOP2) Paramount (The Coppola Restoration) - Region 1 - SD-DVD - SECOND 3) Paramount - Region 1 - NTSC - THIRD 3) Paramount - Region 2 - PAL - BOTTOM |
1) Paramount (The Coppola Restoration) - Region A - Blu-ray - TOP2) Paramount (The Coppola Restoration) - Region 1 - SD-DVD - SECOND 3) Paramount - Region 1 - NTSC - THIRD 3) Paramount - Region 2 - PAL - BOTTOM |
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Distribution |
Paramount - 1080P Region A - Blu-ray |
Paramount Region 1 - NTSC |
Paramount (UK) Region 2 - PAL |
Individual review and separate comparisons to SD-DVD:
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