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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 to as his life’s work: documenting the same ordinary people he’d known since they were 7 ye...

Michael Apted, "Up" Series and "The World Is Not Enough" Director, Dead at 79 Tobias Carroll, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail Coal Miner’s Daughter and the James Bond adventure The World Is Not Enough. Apted’s most lasting legacy as a filmmaker, however, may come from his work as a documentarian — The Up Series, which followed the same group of people at 7-year intervals for over half a century, is regarded as a towering achievement in documentary film. The Hollywood Reporter and other publications report that Apted has died at the age of 79, with Roy Ashton at the Gersh Agency conf...

With Run The Series, The A.V. Club examines film franchises, studying how they change and evolve…Read more Apted began his career in the 1960s, with Granada Television. Working as a researcher for the broadcaster, he gathered the school-age subjects for an episode of the current affairs program World In Action. That 1964 documentary, Seven Up!, depicted the lives of 14 seven-year-olds representing various British social classes; in 1970, those same children were profiled in a follow-up, 7 Plus Seven, this time directed by Apted. And so it was every seven years afterward, each subsequent ...