A restored "Godfather" at Cinerama

"The Godfather" at Seattle's Cinerama? A screen offering you can't refuse. Leave the gun, take the cannoli and head to Cinerama this week: "The Godfather," Francis Ford Coppola's 1972 Oscar-winning epic drama, plays through Thursday in a fully restored 35 mm print. Overseen by Coppola himself and by film preservationist Robert A. Harris (who masterminded the beautiful recent restorations of "Rear Window," "Vertigo" and "My Fair Lady," among others), the new version has been examined frame-by-frame and digitally restored. A new DVD set of the three "Godfather" films — all of which were restored — is now available, but you'll want to see this gem on the big screen. It screens daily at noon, 4 and 8:15 p.m. (with special 12:15 a.m. shows tonight and Saturday) at Cinerama, 2100 Fourth Ave., Seattle; call 206-441-3080 or see... [read full story]