Thursday, October 5, 2006
the queen and 49 up
With no idea as to when those of us not getting our recreation on either coastline (a/k/a beautiful downtown NYC or LA), it's good to hear that The Queen is garnering rave reviews. Third Avenue (a Brit in NYC) and Normblog (a Brit in the UK) both wax rhapsodic, amazing when you consider that Brits are famously understated in their enthusiasm for their homeland (except during times of war) and that they are neither monarchists nor besotted Blairites. Interesting comments on Britain, in both, as well as about the film.
Meanwhile, hurray for the release in the U.S. of 49 Up, the seventh in Michael Apted's "Up" series (Seven Up (directed by Paul Almond in 1963), 7 plus Seven (1970), 21 Up (1977), 28 Up (1985), 35 Up (1991), 42 Up (1998)). Apted has had quite a career (read his biography and the list of his tv and movie work (Coronation Street, Coal Miner's Daughter, Gorillas in the Mist, Enigma, Gorky Park, etc.) and seems to be going strong, fortunately. 49Up is reviewed today and, not surprisingly, sounds as engrossing and wonderful as the others. I can't wait to see them now, 42 years later. And apparently Apted is already planning 56Up.
Meanwhile, hurray for the release in the U.S. of 49 Up, the seventh in Michael Apted's "Up" series (Seven Up (directed by Paul Almond in 1963), 7 plus Seven (1970), 21 Up (1977), 28 Up (1985), 35 Up (1991), 42 Up (1998)). Apted has had quite a career (read his biography and the list of his tv and movie work (Coronation Street, Coal Miner's Daughter, Gorillas in the Mist, Enigma, Gorky Park, etc.) and seems to be going strong, fortunately. 49Up is reviewed today and, not surprisingly, sounds as engrossing and wonderful as the others. I can't wait to see them now, 42 years later. And apparently Apted is already planning 56Up.
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