Family, Love, and Tragedy in “The Godfather”

By |2022-03-18T11:26:39-05:00November 22nd, 2018|Categories: Books, Culture, Featured, Film, Literature, Love, Morality, Paul Krause, Senior Contributors, St. Augustine, The Godfather, Tragedy|

The Godfather is the Augustinian film par excellence–though it does not conclude where Augustine's vision ends... The Godfather, by Mario Puzo, was the best-selling book when it was first published and the film adaptation by Francis Ford Coppola is rightly considered a masterpiece. The drama of The Godfather is an epic; it is an epic because [...]

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Tradition and Modernity in “The Godfather”

By |2022-03-18T11:27:35-05:00September 28th, 2015|Categories: Culture, Featured, Film, Mark Malvasi, Modernity, The Godfather, Timeless Essays, Tradition|

(Today’s offering in our Timeless Essay series affords our readers the opportunity to join Mark Malvasi as he examines corruption and The Godfather trilogy. —W. Winston Elliott III, Publisher) America, that bright, shining land of freedom, opportunity, and progress, is irredeemably corrupt. It is in the hands of debased and hypocritical politicians, judges, businessmen, and their [...]

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