Robert De Niro, Al Pacino Reunite for The Godfather

The screen legends reunited Thursday for a 50th anniversary screening of The Godfather at United Palace, hosted by the Tribeca Film Festival, which De Niro, 78, co-founded in 2002 to revive the cultural scene of lower Manhattan in the wake of 9/11.

Pacino, 82, and author Michael Hainey participated in a discussion about the seminal mafia title from director Francis Ford Coppola before Tribeca screened the films restoration.

De Niro and Pacino previously joined Coppola, 83, onstage at the 94th Academy Awards where the iconic director reflected on his magnum opus’ milestone anniversary.

‘I feel moments like this should be sincere and brief,’ he said. ‘This project hat we began 50 years ago with really the most extraordinary collaborators, many of them legends and so many of them that I can’t take the time to list them all, but you know them all well. So I’m going to only thank two from the bottom of my heart,’ Coppola added.

The film, which is based on screenwriter Mario Puzo’s 1969 novel of the same name, has been widely regarded as one of the best films of all time since it premiered in 1972. It won three Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay, in addition to nominations for Coppola and Pacino.