SIFF Makes an Offer You Can't Refuse

Yes Virginia, life will go on after the snow stops falling. If you're capable of thinking past the Snowpacalypse/ Snowmageddon '08, not to mention the upcoming holidays, make plans to go to SIFF Cinema sometime soon. Sure, even SIFF is closed tonight due to weather, but tomorrow they'll be back in business to kick off their two-week run of Francis Ford Coppola's masterpieces The Godfather and The Godfather II. (We also refuse to acknowledge that a third film was ever made.) Consider it a very merry mafia Christmas present from SIFF.

Brand-spanking new, frame-by-frame restored, Coppola-approved studio reels will be screened, meaning the images will be downright immaculate. All the better to take in that dark, lush, bloody, stylized, '70s cinematography, not to mention Al Pacino when he was just a baby, rather than a haggard old troll. On most days, both films will show back-to-back, so if you're up to it, camp out at the cinema for both Godfathers. (Separate admission required.)

Part II includes a ten-minute intermission. Leave your gun in the toilet tank for retrieval at that time.

Dec. 19th-Jan. 1st // SIFF Cinema // 321 Mercer St. // $10 GA, $7 matinee // Schedule and times here