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Michael Apted's subjects, collaborators shed light on future of documentary series Up After Michael Apted's 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 he’d known since they were 7 years old. Throughout nine instalments of the Up series — which ...

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 even more so right now. I’ve gotten to know my friends Mrs. Smith, Sara Lee, and Little Debbie a ...

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 East End, caught the imagination of TV viewers on Seven Up!, a special edition of

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...

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 – and his German girlfriend, Astrid Kirchherr, played by Sheryl Lee. (This tragic slant may have ...