Here's the Weekend Edition of Set Your DVR! These three movies should carry you through until Monday, and all are on IFC on Sunday, February 1.
First up is an Akira Kurosawa double-feature. IFC is showing Drunken Angel at 7 am central/8 am eastern. Drunken Angel is Toshiro Mifune's first film with Kurosawa. It's a yakuza/gangster flick, and I've never seen it, so I'm excited about it. Also starring Takashi Shimura.
Immediately afterwards is Ikiru at 8:45 am central/9:45 am eastern, which is easily one of the most profound and touching films you could ever see. This one has Shimura in the lead as a dying bureaucrat who wants to leave his small mark on the world. I know that sounds like an opportunity for the worst sort of Forrest Gump-like cinematic idiocy, but remember that it's Kurosawa behind the wheel, not some Hollywood hack.
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