Surprisingly Criterion: 4. Hunger (2008)

4. Hunger (2008)

Dec 8, 2020

Our final episode for 2020! Steve McQueen’s Hunger is visceral, artistic, and a 96 minute exploration of the convictions of prisoners inside Northern Ireland’s Maze Prison in 1981.

Hunger's Criterion Collection page

New York Times interactive article about Black and African-American directors largely absent from the Criterion Collection

Music:
“The Endless Scroll” by Absolutely Free
courtesy of Idée Fixe Records and Arts & Crafts Music Inc.