MOVIE CLUB RETURNS, HAVING BEEN BAPTISED IN FIRE!

"Give me the child until he is seven and I will give you the man."

The Up Series is a series of documentary films that have followed the lives of fourteen British children since 1964, when they were seven years old. The children were selected to represent the range of socio-economic backgrounds in Britain at that time, with the explicit assumption that each child's social class predetermines their future. Every seven years, the director, Michael Apted, films new material from as many of the fourteen as he can get to participate.

The series has received extraordinary praise over the years, the epitome of which may be Roger Ebert's comments that it is "an inspired, even noble, use of the film medium", that the films "penetrate to the central mystery of life", and that the series is among his top ten films of all time.
Attempts have been made to repeat the series with subjects in the United States, the Soviet Union, Japan, and South Africa.

We shall have a fortnight to prepare for the premier of Seven Up!
It shall premier on Thursday 6th of August!

p.s. I have had a meeting with Movie Club Queue™, and it has agreed that it will consider returning if sufficient interest is shown in re-booting Movie Club.