Who is peter apted

In he followed them up, as he subsequently and uniquely did every seven years until his death. The film, entitled Seven Up! The latest episode, the ninth in the series, follows the group now in their 60s.

Apted is The programme has no explicitly articulated thesis but points to the significance of class implicitly through its narrative techniques, the most obvious of which is the suggestive intercutting of shots of the different children in their everyday lives. The implied premise of Seven Up! Indeed, this proved largely to be true. While the uninitiated viewer may need to watch each episode from the beginning, the experience will not be time wasted.

Although the latest installment is not the most eventful of the series, the participants at age 63 are able to provide some insight into the changes that Britain has undergone over the course of the series. Something of the optimism of their youth still remains, but their worries for the future, especially for the generations to come, are more pronounced than before.

Life strikes the weak—and who is weaker than a child? All of the children go to schools determined by their class background. Some of them go to elite boarding schools, others to orphanages or public institutions. Nearly every place looks depressing and yet the children go about their lives apparently oblivious to what lies in store for them.

Along with its bleak and archaic surroundings, Britain in the s had a restless, combative working class that looked to the future with some confidence. Now in the third decade of the 21st century, despite all the surface improvements in life, nearly every person filmed expresses a degree of skepticism and anxiety about the state of the world. The series opens with Tony, a working-class boy from the East End of London. In the first episode, Tony wants to be a jockey when he grows up.

By 21 Up , Tony has given this dream up to become a taxi driver. Of all the characters, Tony was the only one to move out of his class, becoming financially comfortable and even dabbling professionally in acting. The latest episode, however, shows how Tony has abandoned his holiday home in Spain because of the global recession.

He remains in good spirits but expresses doubt about Brexit and the entire political establishment, telling Apted he might consider voting for the Green Party. His generally upbeat character leaves an impression.

I shall miss him. Narnia pic. It was an immeasurable honour to work with Michael. He had the wisdom of an elder without losing the heart of a young man.

Michael Apted. Thank you for The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. I was thrilled to get to watch you direct, and that I got to share my proposal to my wife with you. But it was his destiny to help create an epic ongoing masterpiece for the small screen with truly cinematic scope and beyond: current-affairs television which had the scale of cinema, combined with the Mass Observation Project and the Roman census.

Then it was updated every seven years, finally spanning 56 years. Seven Up! It had an incalculable effect on British social realist cinema from the early s to the present day — as well as the thinking of the British progressive left — as it asked us to ruminate on the inescapability or otherwise of class, and what narratives were possible for working people.