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Michael Apteds subjects, collaborators shed light on future of documentary series Up After Michael Apteds death last week at the age of 79, he left behind not only his enormous artistic undertaking with Up, but also a nontraditional family unit in his documentary subjects and colleagues. Every seven years or so for more than half a century, filmmaker Michael Apted returned to what he referred to as his life’s work: documenting the same ordinary people ...

Random notes I jotted down this week … January is a weird month. Christmas is a nice distraction from our regular lives, but there’s always a bit of a letdown when the new year rolls around, even in years when we don’t have to social distance and wear a mask to buy milk. It’s those post-holiday blues that make everything feel a little “off.” No more trees in our living rooms or lights in our window or peppermint bark for another year. We stay inside more during the winter months and...

Why a 55-year-long documentary series deserves an ending For more than half a century, Michael Apted and his documentary crew followed the lives of a group of ordinary British schoolchildren. Then he died. Michael Apted, who died on January 9, spent 55 years following the same group of people from the age of seven.  Getty Share I want to be a jockey when I grow up. Yeah, I want to be a jockey when I grow up." In 1964, these words from seven-year-old Tony Walker, a perky little scamp from the E...

What Happens Now to Michael Apted’s Lifelong Project ‘Up’? His documentary series chronicled the lives of its subjects every seven years since 1964. Now the participants ponder whether it can carry on without him. Michael Apted in 2012. His death last week left the fate of his decades-long project up in the air.Credit...Robert Yager for The New York Times Jan. 14, 2021 Every seven years or so for more than half a century, the filmmaker Michael Apted returned to what he referred t...

Iain Softley’s smart movie about the early days of the Beatles finds an indirect way of getting up close and personal with the music legends; the film-makers couldn’t afford the expense of using the copyrighted Lennon/McCartney songs. A study of the band’s hardworking lives gigging in Hamburg in the early 60s, the film counterintuitively centres on Stuart Sutcliffe (Steven Dorff) – the band member who was destined to die of a brain haemorrhage just as they were on the verge of greatness...

Jessica Campbell, ‘Election’ and ‘Freaks and Geeks’ Star, Dies at 38 The actress-turned-naturopathic physician died suddenly last monthBrian Welk | January 13, 2021 @ 8:25 AM Last Updated: January 13, 2021 @ 10:53 AM Paramount Pictures Jessica Campbell, the young actress who played Tammy Metzler in Alexander Payne’s “Election” alongside Reese Witherspoon, has died. She was 38. According to a GoFundMe arranged by her cousin, Campbell passed away unexpectedly on Dec. 2...

Heroism is often found in the most ordinary lives. Michael Apted, the film-maker who died last week, stumbled into celebrating this without realising for several years what he was doing.In 1964

Corrections: Jan. 12, 2021 Jan. 11, 2021 FRONT PAGE Because of an editing error, an article on Friday about the riot at the Capitol misattributed a quotation. “We had enough people, we could have tore that building down brick by brick” was said by Eric Dark, not Brian Hobbs. An article on Monday about a chaotic vaccine rollout in Florida misstated the age group receiving vaccines first in Hawaii. It is those 75 and older, not 65 and older. An article on Monday about the use of lies as a pol...

British film director Michael Apted, who died January 7 aged 79, was responsible for a remarkable variety of work over his long career, from action thrillers to the documentaries that will probably stand as his most enduring legacy. Fascinated by the cinema from his teens, Apted worked with facility across a surprising range of material. Michael Apted in 2013 (Photo: Peabody Awards Anders Krusberg) There was a James Bond film, The World Is Not Enough (1999), a solid biography of country singer...

I can’t stop thinking about all those idiots who spent December shouting “Screw you, 2020!” and wondering what they’re doing now. What sort of sage anthropomorphic truisms are the soppy Gen-Z