Free NYC outdoor movie series
June 30 - September 1
Sit under the stars and watch movies in Coney Island, The East Village, Long Island City and Williamsburg. The movies aren't the only things that are FREE.
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.
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