Fannish Fifty #4 - Living and Ikiru

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It's been a very long time since I watched a movie and knew before it even ended that I needed to vid that film.  Living did that to me today.  A remake of Akira Kurosawa's Ikiru, Living is set in post-war Britain instead of Japan but is stays very true to Ikiru's tone, plot, and themes.  Bill Nighy's performance as the lead character, a civil servant who relearns to embrace the joy in living in the face of his own death, is fantastic.

Ikiru has been one of my favorite movies for a long time and Living holds its own, maybe surpasses it.  Guess I need to watch both films again now,