Thursday, Aug 25 @ 8:30pm

East Village Tompkins Square Park

The GodfatherRated R

Move over, Tony Soprano: it turns out there was a time in American history before mob bosses had psychiatrists and houses in the suburbs and amusing dreams about strippers. The epic tale of the Corleone family took the world by storm in 1972, as the visceral family ties between Marlon Brando and Al Pacino threatened to leap right off the screen. Director Francis Ford Coppola takes seemingly simple themes - right and wrong, the American Dream, proper disposal of a horse head - and transforms them into a sweeping saga for the ages. Fun fact: Brando famously refused to accept his Academy Award for Best Actor, instead sending a woman dressed in Native American garb to the ceremony in his place.