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Stacy Title, Director of ‘The Last Supper’ and ‘The Bye Bye Man,’ Dies at 56 Title also directed “Let the Devil Wear Black” among other creditsRoss A. Lincoln | January 11, 2021 @ 9:49 PM Last Updated: January 12, 2021 @ 6:34 AM Via IMDB Stacy Title, a writer-director known for supernatural horror and black comedy films like “The Last Supper” and “The Bye Bye Man,” died Monday following a three-year battle with ALS. She was 56. Title began her directing career with the 1993 Oscar-nominated short film “Down on the Waterfront.” Her feature debut came in 199...

The World is Not Enough: how Michael Apted wrenched Bond into a new, darker era The late director, who claimed ignorance of action films, gave Pierce Brosnan’s 007 fresh grit – and upended the ‘Bond girl’ mould forever 12 January 2021 • 12:00pm Michael Apted's brief for The World Is Not Enough was to 'beef up the stuff between the action sequences' Michael Apted once admitted that he was “scared s---less” going into his 1999 Bond film, The World is Not Enough. And the director, who died last week aged 79, was an unlikely choice to take on 007. He was best known for directing t...

Michael Apted, a prolific British filmmaker, passed away at the age of 79 in Los Angeles on Thursday.

His “Up” series chronicled lives over five decades and revealed profound changes in society. Andrew H. Walker/Getty Images When the director Michael Apted died, at 79 years old, on January 7, social media lit up with remembrances. He had directed many films, including Coal Miner’s Daughter, and more recently, prestige shows on premium cable, but fans mourning him were uniquely oriented toward one of his efforts, the Up series. “Give me a child until he is seven, and I will show you the man,” was the maxim of the first of the series, 7 Up. To make good on that saying, for ...

Mixed-race Symon, who grew up in an orphanage and became a foster parent. Neil, the would-be astronaut and restless soul who later dropped out of university and lived in a squat . . . No doubt, as you read this, some of you can picture their faces now, just a few of the unforgettable characters we met as children in the ITV documentary series Seven Up! (later Up) and have followed throughout their lives — remember Lynn the librarian and am-dram actress Sue? One of the girls, Suzy Lusk (pictured above in the series when she was a child) refused to take part in the latest instalment. Apted r...