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Arts > Movies > Directors > 20th, 21st century
Michael David Apted 1941-2021
A scene from “Seven Up!” (1964), the first in Mr. Apted’s series of “Up” documentaries.
On top of the slide, from left, were Ms. Bassett, Ms. Johnson and Ms. Davis at 7 years old.
Photograph: First Run Features
Michael Apted, Versatile Director Known for ‘Up’ Series, Dies at 79 His output included “Coal Miner’s Daughter” and a James Bond film. But he was best known for his long-running documentary series about life in Britain. NYT Published Jan. 8, 2021 Updated Jan. 12, 2021
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/08/
Michael Apted in 2012.
His death last week left the fate of his decades-long project up in the air.
Photograph: Robert Yager for The New York Times
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. NYT Jan. 14, 2021
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/14/
Michael David Apted 1941-2021
versatile director whose films were as varied as the James Bond picture “The World Is Not Enough” and the biographical dramas “Gorillas in the Mist” and “Coal Miner’s Daughter,” and who made his most lasting mark with the “Up” documentary series, which followed the lives of a group of British people in seven-year intervals for more than a half century
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Mr. Apted, who was British, was a researcher at Granada Television in England when he helped pick the 14 children, all of them 7, who became the subjects of “Seven Up!,” the initial documentary in the “Up” series, which was directed by Paul Almond and shown on British television in 1964.
The film was intended as a one-off, but Mr. Apted picked up the ball seven years (more or less) later, acting as director of “7 Plus Seven,” broadcast in England in late 1970, in which he interviewed the same children, now at a more developed stage of life.
Then came “21 Up” in 1977, “28 Up” in 1984 and so on, with new installments arriving every seven years, all directed by Mr. Apted.
“63 Up” was released in 2019.
Collectively, the films are a serial portrait of a group of ordinary people, observing them as they advance through life, from childhood through adulthood, and charting their different paths, changing perspectives and various fates (one participant, Lynn Johnson, died in 2013).
The New York Times in 2019 called it “the most profound documentary series in the history of cinema.”
The intent of the original program in 1964 was to look at different segments of Britain’s class system.
Thanks to Mr. Apted’s persistence, “Up” became something more.
“I realized for the first time, after 20 years on the project, that I really hadn’t made a political film at all,” he wrote in 2000.
“What I had seen as a significant statement about the English class system was in fact a humanistic document about the real issues of life.”
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