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Hunger (2008, ****)
Hunger (2008, ****)
"I WANT THIS MOVIE TO BE LIKE A SMELL." English video artist Alexander McQueen said that about one of his early, prize-winning efforts, and he could have said it as well about his feature debut, Hunger, about life and death in Belfast, Ireland's Maze Prison during a 66-day hunger ...
Hunger
Hunger
deep-focus.com — In the opening shot of Hunger , a small army of protesters — hunger-strikers, perhaps — is bringing the noise by banging empty soup bowls loudly against the ground. That scene is followed, lyrically, by a scene depicting an older, staid-looking gentleman eating his breakfast, tiny crumbs ... (more) Hunger
Lionsgate Feasts on  The Hunger Games
Lionsgate Feasts on The Hunger Games
comingsoon.net — Lionsgate announced today that it has acquired worldwide distribution rights to the film version of Suzanne Collins' best-selling futuristic young adult novel The Hunger Games . Collins will adapt the screenplay from her novel, the first in a ... (more) Lionsgate Feasts on The Hunger Games
The Hunger Games; Hopefully NOT Battle Royale Light
The Hunger Games; Hopefully NOT Battle Royale Light
rowthree.com — Late last year a librarian friend recommended I read Suzanne Collins’ new novel “The Hunger Games”. Coming from the woman who also recommended the “His Dark Materials” trilogy I figured I couldn’t go wrong and thankfully, Collins’ novel didn’t ... (more) The Hunger Games; Hopefully NOT Battle Royale Light
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Links for the Day (March 23rd, 2009)
The House Next Door — ... Film Odyssey, which aired in the early to mid-‘70s and was one of my earliest cinema schools. Los Angeles Times critic Charles Champlin hosted the weekly show, which generously dipped into the Janus Films catalogue, long before it became the Criterion Collection. Speaking of which, it’s time to pull Film Odyssey out of the video vaults—if the videotapes still exist."] *** 4. Ray Pride digs Hunger. Four stars, in fact. ["Movies got confused in their first century. They forgot what ...

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This review originally ran during the New York Film Festival in 2008 . " Hunger " comes out in limited release this Friday on March 20 and has a strong 89% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. We highly recommend it. Impressionistic, lyrical and, at times, excruciatingly hard to watch, visual artist ...