Tony Walker and Michael Apted
signing autographs at IFC
(photo by T. Krever)
Every seven years rushing to the movie house to find out what happened next.
Then last time - 49 UP - we noticed there was a lot of gray hair in line. It was no longer a great series of documentaries. It was us.
And seven years after that, counting the days, rewatching 7, 14, 21, 28, 35, 42, 49 during a week long marathon, getting in line almost as long as Les Miserable (but way more interesting), talking to two thirty-something, they were still just watching a documentary, but we were waiting to re-visit our heroes, peek into a mirror, see familiar touchstones of daily life in the fifth or sixth decade of life.
And, maybe even get an autograph after....
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