# Has anyone seen the film 35-up? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 24, 2002, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-seen-the-film-35-up/120601 "2002-07-24T17:14:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2007, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-seen-the-film-35-up/120601/21 "2007-01-17T16:18:11Z")
[QUOTE=Mahaloth] Yes they are. [/QUOTE] Please note that my post above was written in 2002. At that time, the early material was unavailable. That has changed, thankfully. I got to see _49 Up_ at last year’s Seattle film festival. It was the straight-from-British-TV version, before being re-edited into feature format. Had television breaks and everything. I don’t want to give anything away, but I will say, despite looking forward to this latest episode in the series for many years (note again the date of my post above), despite enormous anticipation, I wasn’t disappointed. Many of the people have made surprising turns in their lives; and many of them are equally surprising for their lack of turns. Further, there’s a new quality of “looking back on life” that wasn’t really present in the early installments. Two of the men, in fact, who hadn’t seen each other since they were in the first film, meet on a vacation/visit and spend a bunch of time catching up. Highly recommended. But please, see at least a couple of the previous ones before diving into this one. The time-lapse quality of the real-life narrative is one of the magical things about the films. ---
**Author:** ![jabiru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bbce88/32.png) [@jabiru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jabiru)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2007, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-seen-the-film-35-up/120601/22 "2007-01-17T21:45:26Z")
[QUOTE=Cervaise] Please note that my post above was written in 2002. At that time, the early material was unavailable. That has changed, thankfully. … Highly recommended. But please, see at least a couple of the previous ones before diving into this one. The time-lapse quality of the real-life narrative is one of the magical things about the films. [/QUOTE] I’m pleased to see that all the previous episodes are available on DVD (not locally, alas) so I might watch all of them again before _49 Up_ is released. I apologise again for resurrecting this thread. Thinking on it later, I should probably have started a new thread. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2007, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-seen-the-film-35-up/120601/23 "2007-01-17T21:52:19Z")
[QUOTE=jabiru] I apologise again for resurrecting this thread. [/QUOTE] Actually, given the theme of the films, it’s rather appropriate to hang the new part of the discussion directly from the bottom of the available history, don’t you think? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![jabiru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bbce88/32.png) [@jabiru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jabiru)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2007, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-seen-the-film-35-up/120601/24 "2007-01-17T22:06:21Z")
[QUOTE=Cervaise] Actually, given the theme of the films, it’s rather appropriate to hang the new part of the discussion directly from the bottom of the available history, don’t you think? 🙂 [/QUOTE] Thank you. I feel marginally less pit-worthy now. :o ---
**Author:** ![Martha\_Medea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/43a26b/32.png) [@Martha\_Medea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martha_Medea)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2007, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-seen-the-film-35-up/120601/25 "2007-01-17T22:13:13Z")
Strictly speaking you should have waited for seven years. 😉 I’m a huge fan of the Up series. I hope to be able to find some way of watching 49 up soon. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2007, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-seen-the-film-35-up/120601/26 "2007-01-17T23:27:27Z")
Could this type of ‘experiment’ ever be re-created? I mean, is there any sense in another director, probably fresh out of film school, in starting something like this today? ---
**Author:** ![Hippy\_Hollow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hippy_hollow/32/4841_2.png) [@Hippy\_Hollow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hippy_Hollow)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2007, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-seen-the-film-35-up/120601/27 "2007-01-17T23:49:50Z")
[QUOTE=adam yax] Could this type of ‘experiment’ ever be re-created? I mean, is there any sense in another director, probably fresh out of film school, in starting something like this today? [/QUOTE] If you go to the Wikipedia link upthread, you can read that there have been a few attempts to do this in other countries by other directors, including here in the US. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2007, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-seen-the-film-35-up/120601/28 "2007-01-18T06:28:04Z")
[QUOTE=PastAllReason] Unfortunately, it was on late at night, and I fell asleep [/QUOTE] Couldn’t stay sub[/sub] up? 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-seen-the-film-35-up/120601.md?page=1)