#up series

[hayaomiyazaki]

Nicholas Hitchon, age 6 SEVEN UP! (1964) dir. Paul Almond

[hlsficart]

Book cover made by me for the fic '7 Up' by @cherrystreet

https://archiveofourown.org/works/5828539/chapters/13433071

This cover was inspired from the one @inkapaninka (on TikTok) made for this fic and the covers of the Up Series which this fic was inspired by.

Go see Inka’s work on TikTok, she isn’t active anymore but the work she has done in the past is just stunning and she’s the one who inspired me to do my own book covers. Sadly she isn’t on Twitter anymore so you cannot download her work, but you can still screenshot the ones she posted on her tiktok!

[georgefairbrother]

Remembering British film director, Michael Apted, who passed away January 7th, 2021, aged 79.

According to his obituary in The Guardian,

"He was a director who moved with ease between socially conscious documentaries and feature films with a special focus on female achievement".

His career began as a trainee at Granada Television, Manchester, where as a researcher he worked on the first of the ground-breaking documentary series, Seven Up, in 1964, originally conceived as a one-off episode as part of the World in Action programme. He also directed episodes of Coronation Street (he described Violet Carson and Pat Phoenix as 'the biggest divas in Britain'), and The Lovers, with Richard Beckinsale and Paula Wilcox, along with other television plays and programmes.

In Hollywood, he directed a number of acclaimed, diverse and successful movies, including Coal Miner’s Daughter (seven Oscar nominations with Cissy Spacek winning Best Actress), Gorky Park, Gorillas in the Mist, one James Bond (The World is not Enough), and Chronicles of Narnia - Voyage of the Dawn Treader.

He continued to steer the ‘Up’ documentary series each seven years, which checked in on the fate of a number of British children from different classes and backgrounds, from the age of seven. The most recent, 63 Up, screened in 2019. He said, "The series was an attempt to do a long view of English society. The class system needed a kick up the backside."  He described the series as the most important thing he had ever done.

According to The Guardian;

"...Though the Up films were internationally acclaimed, winning Apted the coveted Peabody award in 2012, he mourned their skewed portrait of women. "The change that’s gone around with women in the workplace and women’s place in society is the most significant socio-political event in contemporary culture," he said in 1995. "I missed it. I only had four women out of the 14 and all four of them settled into domestic life very quickly"... In his good-natured way he prodded and challenged the trio of working-class women in the show, who gave as good as they got..."

He intended to continue the 'Up' Series for as long as he was able, and 70 Up was proposed for 2026.

In 1995, Michael Apted appeared on a documentary by fellow director Stephen Frears, along with Alan Parker, A Personal History of British Cinema. He was typically forthright, did not seem to think particularly highly of David Lean's epics including Zhivago and Lawrence of Arabia, and opined that Ken Loach's Kes was the best British film since the war.

Perhaps fittingly, 63 Up was Michael Apted's final screen credit.

(Sources include IMDb, The Guardian, Washington Post, and the Stephen Frears documentary A Personal History of British Cinema)

[poncho-honcho]

RIP   Film Director   Michael Apted  ( 79 )   Jan. 8, 2021

[tgreiving]

The film "63 Up" is the latest in a series of documentaries following a group of British children — filmed every seven years beginning when they were 7 years old. They're now 63.

[maaarine]

MBTI & Writers Meg Wolitzer: ENFJ

“Meg Wolitzer (born May 28, 1959) is an American writer, known for The Wife, The Ten-Year Nap, The Uncoupling, The Interestings, and The Female Persuasion. (…)

Three films have been based on her work; This Is My Life, scripted and directed by Nora Ephron, the 2006 made-for-television movie, Surrender, Dorothy, and the 2017 drama The Wife, starring Glenn Close.”

Sources: video, wiki/Meg_Wolitzer

[citroncollective]

The boys of “Seven Up!”, the first of the “Up”’s, a documentary series following the lives of 14 British schoolchildren since they were 7 years old.