"63 Up" Director Michael Apted Has A Conversation About His Documentary
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- Опубліковано 7 вер 2024
- "63 Up," the latest installment of the groundbreaking, award-winning documentary series from director Michael Apted, returns to visit the people whose lives have been followed since they were seven. Featuring more of the original line-up than ever before, viewers discover what has happened to the group over the last seven years and what life has thrown at them in their sixties.
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Michael Apted has sadly died today. What a legacy. I am so sad that he didn’t live to complete the series at 70 UP
It's really interesting though that he died at 79 years old, just a month shy of 80, and 7x9 is 63 -- the final entry in the series.
@@mrtravispickle LMAO, very mildly interesting at most!
@@Freshy009 it's more interesting if you're into numerology and patterns.
What a shame,I wonder if the rest of the team will finish it as a legacy for him..I've watched this for years and never thought of him dying before completion,or how far in age they would go up to !!
@@lucius4556 One of the reasons, people said, that made huge success on this series is that the director had lived so long.
Best. Documentary ever, I am a fan for life.
I similarly enjoyed our PBS production of Harvard medical student's first year, followed by every seven.
"Doctor's Diaries"
I'm desperately sad to hear the news of Michael Apted's passing. The Up series is, without doubt, the greatest documentary TV series. Thank you Michael for leaving as profound a legacy as any director has made.
I've watched them all, in 7 year instalments, since 14 UP, when I was 9.
I watch them with extreme joy and extreme sadness simultaneously.
I desperately wish they ALL could continue as long as possible.
It's an absolute treasure for future generations. It's a form of immortality, for better or worse.
Documents the end of empire thru indivisible eyes. They didn't seem to realize this.
So very saddened to learn of his death four days ago. A 70 Up without him will not be the same. He was an inspired director, who created the first “reality tv” series.
His work will be watched and rewatched with pleasure.
I have been following this series since the beginning it is brilliant
Me too! Looking forward to watching it Tony was always my favourite.
@@tracy488 yea hes a character,always interesting to watch !!
His 7 UP series was amazing and ground-breaking. R.I.P MICHAEL APTED.
I first saw 7 Up at Bleecker St. Cinema in my 20's now I'm in my 50's. Although I've never met any of the participants they're like family now.
I first saw 7 +7 when I first came to UK in 1970. I was 7 years older than the participants and have been watching every series since.
It sadden me to hear Lynn has passed and Nick is poorly. It showed what lives are about for richer or for poorer. It was about dream, asperation, achievement, family mortality.
Neil's story is particularly interesting and inspiring. I think he should write a biography and it could become a best seller.
I am your age, and considered Nick the most interesting and even admirable.
He passed away this year.
Some of this man's directorial accomplishments include: Coalminer's Daughter (1980), Gorky Park (1983), Nell (1984), Gorillas in the Mist (1988), Unlocked (2017), etc
RIP Michael. Thank you for this legacy. I was really hoping you would get to 70 up!
I hope the series follows every person to the end. They can fill in passed subjects spots in the film with accounts from their family and/or friends, I think that'd be interesting.
Now we need a director to finish the job.
Any real journalist or film makers that can stand to the calibration of this man ❤️
RIP Michael Apted- The Up series will forever be remembered as a piece of unforgettable social documentary:utterly brilliant.🥶🇬🇧🙏🥶
I have watched every series with mixed emotions, particularly as I am of a similar age. Quite often throughout the years, the coldness of the interviews left me feeling extremely uncomfortable. Regarded as subjects, they are still human beings, many experiencing very sensitive & difficult periods. I just want to thank all of those young children who participated in this project, opening up their innocent young lives to the world for decades to follow. You are all heroes as far as I'm concerned.💜
i have to agree with you. as an interviewer he doesn't come across as a warm human being. very deadpan and cold. as simon said at one point - 'you always ask me if i am WORRIED about this or that'...it was a question he asked time after time, a bit of an unimaginative line of questioning. he also seemed to put neil under pressure with unkind questions when the man was clearly struggling to answer.
@chasey Wondering how they're doing over this incredible Jubilee wkend, hope they have happiness in their lives. 💕 Some of those dear humans have since sadly passed. Wishing you the best of everything. x
Thank you.
Hoping life is treating you well Jaqueline. 💟
@@patwilliams800 it is thank you
Interesting interview, a tad rambling, but I was fascinated to hear Apted's thoughts on the series. I was born in 1970 and have followed it closely since about 42 up (though I remember seeing snippets of earlier episodes). A shame this interview didn't cover the fact that several participants dropped out, either temporarily or permanently. There was one who appeared in all of them but chose not to take part in 63 Up. I thought that was a shame. Anyway, I love the series and I hope we see 70 Up in 2016.
@Richard M Yes
RIP Mr Apted, he made an absolutely amazing documentary. I would of liked to of been interviewed every 7 years, I find it fascinating looking back on your life at what you were doing and listening to your hopes and dreams at that particular time. God Bless Him 😢😢😢
Aww; MA was really gratified that the film moved the interviewer to emotion! Why can we not see this ANYWHERE in the U.S.? I haven't seen it in theatres OR on TV.
The most important series ever. Probably.
My favourite documentary series ever. A real artistic achievement and it’s wonderful how most of the kids are still doing it after all these years.
I hope the producer carries on and directs 70up. That would be an elegant way to end the series, 10 instalments from 7 to 70. The Russian and South African versions are equally as good too, although the pandemic and who knows what else appears to have halted those from carrying on to 35 and 42 respectively.
What a great poster! So glad they put it up as the backdrop.
Michael R.I.P.
I wonder if they will do a "70 Up" programme ?
So sad to know Micheal' passing away ! Really like 7 years up. It made me to think about the real meaning of our life and how we should live. Thank you Micheal. Still hope we can see 70 years up later.
63 Up..and the UP series is the best use of film in history. And, probably will always be. "Life isn't always kind...but it continues." This is an enlightened and perfect understanding of this film, and of LIFE itself. FYI, I'm a divorced, 50+ male born and raised in USA.
This director/man is a very enlightened person. His POV will be missed, and our collective understanding of "who we are" shall be diminished without him.
thx a lot. you let me experience different lives within these films. and it takes only a few days for me to watch all these. it s kind of shocked me but also made me come down to look over my life and rethink my future. really appreciate it a lot.
Roger Ebert one of our greatest film critics declared it the greatest documentary series he had ever seen, just recently bought it cheaply on DVD and am really enjoying it.
Excellent fella. Good work. God bless & RIP Michael.
Jackie had a very good point about Michael’s questioning of girls at 21. I would like to see Michael react with a bit more humility on that score. He strikes me as a bit arrogant here. That said, I have watched the entire series through the years and I love it.
What a great man. Fascinating documentary. Unfortunately most of today's programs are nowhere near that level of wisdom...
It inspires me the 7 UP series. Thank you and rest in peace sir Michael Apted
You are yet to do 35 for South Africa up Mr Michael.I loved being part of the people’s lives you document
I started watching this series I think in the 70s or 80s, I started at the 7 and made it up to 14
It is sad that the director has passed away but I DO hope that they will make 70 Up! I have watched this series since it started and it is so fascinating - the human condition!
Really, a Huge Man, he was ! RIP
Such a brilliant breakthrough docuseries. A Sociologists dream.
I have just found out that Michel Apted was behind the programme regarding the lives of 14 children from different backgrounds through the years, that I've followed amongst other programes he has produced is a great loss to the entertainment industry. R I. P
From America been following on my BrittBox. The first reality Tv.
I find the series fascinating as I am the same age as the subjects
Michael Apted's reality-documentary spanned several generations, and in doing so, transmitted important information that was by merit of it's candour and longevity; simply above and immune, to the fabric of false-hoods conveyed to society at large. Regrettably, too few of us will grasp the certain feeling that such a project 'barring some unprecedented-turn-of-fate', is unlikely to continue; at least with any of the integrity that Michael Apted's senses required of it.
RIP MICHEAL❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🙏🏾
It was announced today Michael Apted had died. So sorry to see the end of his documentary series.
It is not "nostalgic" to recognize that things were better in the past, even if things weren't perfect.
I would like to hear from him, at what point in the series did he feel that his original thesis got proved? What is the class system's effect on the outcome of the children's lives? Was there any conclusions he came to?
My impression is that the idea is for us to come up with our own conclusions.
I saw the first episode of this series in early grade school and have seen each one since. I am the same age as these "kids."
It is hard to observe, because the world has changed so much, far beyond what we could have imagined in the sixties. Gays marrying, test tube babies, mobile phones, satellite TV, moon travel, these things have altered people's lives in a way he couldn't have known when he started the series. It is impossible to say how people's lives would have panned out, as the things surrounding us have changed completely, which has allowed people to take other paths which were not available before.
This guy is 85. Amazing.
I just checked and he is 79 :)
kaz coll he’s 77
I love the Up series, but actually their 63rd year is this year. Based on them being 7 in 1964
Weird. I think he looks younger and better now than in the 2006 interview!
RIP Michael Apted. He always came across so incredibly composed; very admirable. Didn't laugh, or even smile much though during these interviews.
Yes very sad , also I herd nick passed away but was wondering if you might khow
Rest in peace, Mr. Apted.
Can anyone help me to find episode 2 of the 63 Up series please? frustrating that I am unable to find this !!
I haven't been able to find it anywhere to watch it outside the UK
Excellent documentary series. When will 63 Up be available in the US?
It was showing in theaters last year
Would be more interesting to be able to watch the complete series than have him talking about it.
I'm In this with TONY. The kid av'ing a fight in the play ground. Good A!!?🇬🇧🇬🇪😈😀.
He was on Twitter for a bit and I chatted with him a few times, or just exchanged tweets, he'd "like" some of mine and I'd do likewise. He seemed decent.
He hints at not being in perfect health, and I wonder if his fidgetiness arises from a neurological condition. Compare with the 2006 interview by Roger Ebert.
Yes, i was thinking the whole time that it looks as though he has parkinsons. He fidgets in a similar way to michael j. fox and slurs his speech slightly. He grips the microphone with white knuckles as if trying to control his movements but all his other linbs are in constant motion. I suppose it could just be nerves though.
He's very ill. They almost did not made 63-Up.
Where on earth online can I watch 63 Up?
Amazon Prime
@@karliestevenson8866 also check your library. i saw all of them that way
R.I.P.
Sad to hear of the pasing of Michael, the 'Up' series was great, guess it's over now
It's not over , he even mentioned that if he passed away that someone will continue the series
@@mangococo8429 Ahh i really hope you're right, hope Suzy returns
My god, is that man's head narrow... If I was interviewing him every 7 years, this would be my first question:
"is your head still narrow?"
Michael Apted: "..."
"Ok, I think we're done."
RIP
Is There anyone there who could tell me where to find 42, 49, 53, and 60 ? I'm in Argentina and I'm not being able to find them, maybe beacause of rights. Thanks!
You can find the DVD collection for 7 up through 56 up on eBay occasionally. Being in South America, you would need a DVD formatted in Region 4, which is compatible there.
You can go on you tube
@@mangococo8429 , links???
Did the 7 up participants receive any payments?
From 28 Up they were paid
He's a great documentarian but he totally missed Jackie's point at 13:04. The perspective was quite sexist. He just doesn't get it.
Apted says that Jackie’s on-camera criticism of him related to interviews from years past was “impertinent.” What is he, her headmaster?
No, just another private school prat plus his institutionalized misogyny.
Dismissing Apted as "just another private school prat" is hypocritical. What justice is there in objecting to his classism by being even more classist in return? In fact, neither of his parents went to university, and they devoted what money they had to their children's education. Of course he and the films he made are products of their time, so elements of class, race, and sex undoubtedly influenced the original selection of subjects as well as their interviews. But the films betray little condescension in attitude toward them or their lots in life.
Nor should anyone label Apted as misogynistic. His sexism, which for example caused him to pointedly question the young women about boyfriends and marriage in the earlier films, was common in an era in which women were judged by the men they associated with. That's not right by our present-day standards, but it doesn't mean Apted hated women then or hates them now! It has always seemed to me that he genuinely likes the subjects of the Up Series. Moreover, he's generally quite liberal in his political and social views, as this interview makes clear.
Read more about Apted and the series: www.nytimes.com/2019/11/27/magazine/63-up-michael-apted.html
Ron - Yes, that word jumped out. It was excellent that Jackie made those comments. But I would not condemn him on the basis of that one slip. There were a few places where he did not 100% make sense plus he seems fidgety and uncomfortable generally. He has stuck with the series and it is fabulous. Cheers to him and the participants.
I noticed that, its a shame I can't tell him xx
I actually listened to that part just now, and he said “well it was a bit impertinent, but I wanted to do it” - I took that to mean he is characterizing his own questions to Jackie and the others in 21 up as impertinent, NOT that her response or calling him out about it later was.
the interviewer doesnt seem to be aware that Brits didnt' so much as have it good but paid for it via higher taxes than US citizens paid. Im interested to see if the issue of moving the pension age to 60 and 67 yrs old is addressed. This group of people would be part of the first generation since the welfare state who expectations and life plans have been scuppered.
All that aside. We question present day and even in the experiment people question rather then seeing. What interested me of it and seeing it on youtube that people looked at it as a timepiece of what was and were empathetic. But surely in those times people wasnt (some but going along with it die to peer pressure) and so framed into the system and social media trends back then, no doubt there wasnt any empathy but stratigic generalist intelligenuals that pointed out comparison, but not seeing the person as watching one of them as I did. Even today people would judge. And what is judgement is it's a valid populer argument within that condition of a "community"
I see that people go through stuff. And it was a daring challange to show this. Becouse what it was like then and what it's like now.
I get the impression that we are all want to be accepted and loved and in this sociaty cold and calculated, as it is convenient and safe we are depending how the person feels. We are all different people. And we see people that changes over time with a photo time capsule. Its happy but sad. It's really showing how people feel inside if people really care? We do, but there is in the late 20s and 30s that are indifferent becouse just as everyone feels they cant express themselfs.
I feel that when we grow up. We are taught to not care about other people if that is unacceptable. It doesn't conceive that value but crushes it by its front and helping advice. What people don't do is fit the shoe where people live exactly and knowing what that could be done. People wont open up becouse of accusations and spiral controversial by audiances. Honestly, governments being dictators its audiances eyes and ears and how it conceives is, weary I for one don't trust and yet work among all relatives.
We love this series. However, this interviewer is terrible. He assumes everyone feels the same as he does about his irrelevant comments. If there is one hint of this kind of crap in the series, we will stop watching.
23:17 indeed behind the Americans, think about it why.
Why is the interviewer yelling at us the whole time?
Typical American loud mouth
He is annoying!
RIP Michael Apted. A great career and, of course, the UP series was and is an extraordinary, moving and very beautiful record of human existence. Though a remarkable film maker, Apted's political views were neither sophisticated, nor accurate nor attuned to the viewpoints of the British electorate, and far from opposing Brexit as he asserts, they embraced the idea of leaving the EU both in a national referendum, and in a general election primarily fought on this issue. Successful artists have no greater insights than anyone else on political matters, though you would never know this from their pronouncements on myriad issues.
Michael is not his usual strong articulate self - seems to be rambling and speaking in generalities. Such a heavy-handed anti-conservative stance from both participants - "conservatives have stripped away the social safet nets leaving the labor situation we have now , so one-sided, so slanted on both sides. And Michael saying education was better, if he's referring to equality of access - maybe, quality of education? well on this side of the pond i know college students who go to Princeton who don't know where rhode island the state is or even the most basic or simplest of things.
One of the participants told me that Michael Apted is seriously ill. There was a lot of uncertainty as to whether 63-Up would be made.
@@sjohnson1216 Do you know what is the matter with him, also do you know where we can view 63 up - only dvds avail on amazon not formatted for US. Thank you.
why are you yelling?
Granada tv
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why does he keep rubbing his right thigh
Someone didn't teach him how to hold a mic. Can't make out a thing.
Computerface Sounds good to me! He speaks well.
I found the volume very low on Michael's side too
He wasn't very well at the time
Wasted opportunity. Brilliant man sadly wasted with a subpar interviewer. May he rest in peace.
7:00 He talks about them as if they were lab rats. HIS lab rats. 11:30 They dared to criticism him because they had a bit of power and HE found it amusing...is he for real? How interesting that this man spent so much time making other people so self aware and he has none. Patronizing...unbebloodyleavable.
It was inevitable that the observer would become part of the experiment and I'm sure he must have been aware of this as the series grew from a ratings idea to a bona fide social experiment. Like all 'creators' he becomes defensive when criticized and perhaps he should be allowed this indiscretion. After all is said and done, and the last of these 'subjects' is gone, I think it will prove to be the most important documentary film about the end of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st ever to be produced. It isn't a stretch to think this will still be viewed in hundreds of years time and regarded as the most unbiased account of life in our times. And not just in the UK because the seismic political shifts away from a caring model to more ruthless and profit orientated societies are a global phenomena. I hope the program continues until the final one of the group dies because what happens to these people in their old age will provide the starkest evidence for what has become of an over optimistic plan to create a caring society.
I mean this is a sociological experiment in a many ways but I think he proves your opinion wrong at 28:50
He doesn't let his emotions overshadow their stories, and he allows them to be frank with him, I think that shows that he cares a great deal for these people, even if he doesn't come off as an emotional guy - I think he's just very direct.
Diana B Its a fine series, faithfully recorded. Poignant and sensitively filmed.
It's a great documentary, but Jackie has been right to call him out on some of the questioning. Even at 21 you can see her cringing when asked if she has met enough men, and as she got older she calls out the sexism for what it is. I think Apted does have some unconscious class and sex bias, and she's quick to spot it.
It's a social experiment. So they are subjects.