Chez Classics at GV: Ikiru (maybe John)

Let us support the lovely Chez folks and the ongoing classics series now at the Greenwood Village.

The old man knows he is dying of cancer. In a bar, he tells a stranger he has money to spend on a “really good time,” but doesn’t know how to spend it.
I saw “Ikiru” first in 1960 or 1961. I went to the movie because it was playing in a campus film series and only cost a quarter. I sat enveloped in the story of Watanabe for 2 1/2 hours, and wrote about it in a class where the essay topic was Socrates’ statement, “the unexamined life is not worth living.”‘ Over the years I have seen “Ikiru” every five years or so, and each time it has moved me, and made me think. And the older I get, the less Watanabe seems like a pathetic old man, and the more he seems like every one of us. (Roger Ebert ****/****)

Tickets available at the box office and online

Free parking in the adjacent lot

This is a longish movie and no after event is planned