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Michael Apted
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: First Run Features
: Documentary, Foreign, Biographies, UK
: 134 min.
: English
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Filmmaker Michael Apted returns to the director's chair to catch up with the subjects he has been following since the 1963 telefilm 7 Up with this sequel to 1999's 42 Up. In the seventh installment of the long-running documentary series, Apted continues to follow the lives of everyone from aspiring jockey and part-time actor Tony to teacher Bruce and barrister John -- who returns to the series following a self-imposed exile that preceded 42 Up. While many of Apted's subjects seem to have settled into a comfortable existence, sharp-tongued Jackie and once-troubled Neil inject a bit of liveliness into the mix by recalling their colorful pasts and questioning the director's motivations with the Up series. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
New York Times film critic A.O. Scott has called 49 Up and Michael Apted's Up series as a whole "one of the most remarkable experiments in the history of cinema." To which Jonathan Marlow, introducing his career-spanning talk with the director, adds that the DVD format is "ideally suited for such a collection." Full article >>
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