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What Happens Now to Michael Aptedâs Lifelong Project âUpâ?
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.
Michael Apted in 2012. His death last week left the fate of his decades-long project up in the air.Credit.Robert Yager for The New York Times
Jan. 14, 2021
Every seven years or so for more than half a century, the filmmaker Michael Apted returned to what he referred to as his lifeâs work: documenting the same ordinary people heâd known since they were 7 years old.
Nicola Shindler launches Quay Street Productions
Published: Thu 14 Jan 2021
Nicola Shindler launches Quay Street Productions
New drama production company based in Manchester.
Thursday 14
th January 2021: Prolific multi-winning producer Nicola Shindler OBE has launched her new scripted production company Quay Street Productions. Sitting within ITV Studios, the label will be based in central Manchester and focus on producing premium drama for the UK and international market.
The launch of Quay Street Productions marks a new chapter in Shindler’s stellar career and will focus on working with the best, new and critically acclaimed writers in the industry to create modern, innovative, and entertaining programming. Marking her passion for her Northern heritage, Quay Street Productions is named after the famous Manchester street where Granada Television was based and where Shindler spent a part of her early career. International distribution for Quay Street Producti
“When my agent said, ‘They want you, Bill’, I told him I didn’t want to do it. “Fortunately, he persuaded me that it was only going to run for 11 weeks and that in one of those weeks I would be on television Monday and Friday in
Coronation Street and mid-week in the play and it would be a great ‘shop window’ for me. “And then the minute Coronation Street hit the screen it just took off. We were all astounded at the effect that it had and then we realised we were part of this new realism that was sweeping through the theatre – you know (Marlon) Brando and James Dean in cinema, John Osborne with
British film director Michael Apted, who died January 7 aged 79, was responsible for a remarkable variety of work over his long career, from action thrillers to the documentaries that will probably stand as his most enduring legacy. Fascinated by the cinema from his teens, Apted worked with facility across a surprising range of material.
Michael Apted in 2013 (Photo: Peabody Awards Anders Krusberg)
There was a James Bond film,
The World Is Not Enough (1999), a solid biography of country singer Loretta Lynn (in fact, the best of the popular music biographies),
Coal Miner’s Daughter (1980), and
Amazing Grace (2006), about the abolitionist William Wilberforce.