Movie Pick: Aging Lives Documented in 63 Up

For 63 Up, documentarian Michael Apted once again turns his compassionate yet unsentimental camera on the same group of British subjects he's been filming since 1964 at seven-year intervals. The Up? Series, as the project has come to be known, offers an unprecedented look at how people change over time ? their personalities more or less locked in place at age 7. At 63, the remaining interviewees who chose to participate ? Suzy, Sue, Tony, Paul, Symon, Nick and Neal ? consider retirement, contemplate mortality and reflect on the film project itself. Lynn, the children's librarian, passed away in 2013 after a short illness. Apted, who is now 78, hopes to make another installment in seven years. The question hanging over each episode is: Could it be the last?

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The Landmark, 10850 Pico Blvd., West L.A.; Fri., Dec. 6, various showtimes; $12-$15; (310) 470-0492, landmarktheatres.com.Also at Laemmle Playhouse (and Glendale and Town Center 5), 673 East Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, beginning Fri., Dec. 20, various showtimes; $9-$12. (310) 478-3836,laemmle.com.

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