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Val Kilmer and Dog from Thunderheart (1992)

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Happy Birthday to Denise Richards who played Christmas Jones in The world is not enough.

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#The World Is Not Enough #Pierce Brosnan #Robert Carlyle #Sophie Marceau #Denise Richards #Robbie Coltrane #Judi Dench #Michael Apted #1999

[gatutor]

Dustin Hoffman-Vanessa Redgrave "Agatha" 1979, de Michael Apted.

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THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH (1999) dir. Michael Apted 

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[greeneyezblackheart]

I am really hurtin’ over Loretta. 🥺💔

Coal Miner’s Daughter, 1980 dir. Michael Apted

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[petersonreviews]

Val Kilmer and Graham Greene in Thunderheart, 1992

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#Gorillas in the Mist The Story of Dian Fossey #Gorillas in the Mist #Dian Fossey #Sigourney Weaver #Michael Apted #Harold T.P. Hayes #Anna Hamilton Phelan #Tab Murphy #80s

[of-fear-and-love]

Graham Greene in Thunderheart (1992)

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[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)

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[myvinylplaylist]

Sting: Bring On The Night (1985)

A&M Records

Karl-Lorimar Feature Films

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