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http://www.cinemarealm.com/feed/ (Free subscription) | 12/01/2008
Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire and Steve McQueen’s Hunger took home three trophies each at the 11th annual British Independent Film Awards (BIFA). The winners were announced at the Old Billingsgate Market in London on Sunday. The ceremony was hosted by James Nesbitt. Here is the complete list of the 2008 BIFA winners: Best British independent film: “Hunger” “In Bruges” “Man [...]
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The First Post (Free subscription) | 11/20/2008
The last time Chuck Palahniuk had a novel adapted for the big screen it was Fight Club (1999) - a tale of unbridled maleness and the thrill of good ol'…
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FILMdetail (Free subscription) | 11/11/2008
I have to admit that I missed David Cox’s article about Hunger on the Guardian’s film blog, which was published on November 3rd, and only discovered it retrospectively after seeing the reader’s editor piece on it. For those not familiar with the film, it deals with the 1981 IRA hunger strikes inside the Maze prison. It premiered to great [...]
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Blogocrats (Free subscription) | 11/10/2008
Steve McQueen’s film, Hunger, is a very powerful but draining telling of a sad moment in an even sadder history of Northern Ireland. Our initiation to the conflict starts with prison guard Raymond Lohan (Stuart Graham) checking his battered knuckles and his car for an IRA bomb. We are quickly introduced to the pattern of [...]
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Daily Express (Free subscription) | 11/03/2008
TURNER PRIZE-winning artist Steve McQueen has never made a feature film before but you wouldn't know it from Hunger.
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Scotsman.com Living - Books (Free subscription) | 10/31/2008
SEPARATING the cultural wheat from the chaff...
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Cinema Blend (Free subscription) | 10/31/2008
Hunger is an intimate portrayal of life in Northern Ireland's Maze Prison at the time of the 1981 IRA Hunger Strike, led by Bobby Sands. The film explores what happens when the morality of people, whether prisoners or prison guards, is tested to the limit, when the body itself is used as a weapon for people not being heard.
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Daily Mail (Free subscription) | 10/30/2008
The film-makers' sympathies throughout are with terrorists, naturally, and not their tens of thousands of victims who, unlike Bobby Sands, were not granted the choice to live or die.
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IndieLondon (Free subscription) | 10/29/2008
Website British Independent Film Awards to honour Michael Sheen British Independent Film Awards – Nominations in full Read our review of Hunger
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 10/19/2008
When Liam Cunningham was invited to audition for Hunger, Steve McQueen's film about the 1981 IRA hunger strike in Northern Ireland's Maze prison, his reaction was hardly one of delight. "As soon as Bobby Sands' name was mooted, I grimaced; it's still an open wound in Ireland," says the 47-year-old Dubliner.
