4. Hunger (2008)

<p>Our final episode for 2020! Steve McQueen’s <em>Hunger</em> is visceral, artistic, and a 96 minute exploration of the convictions of prisoners inside Northern Ireland’s Maze Prison in 1981.</p> <p><a href="https://www.criterion.com/films/477-hunger">Hunger's Criterion Collection page</a></p> <p><br /> <a href= "https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/08/20/movies/criterion-collection-african-americans.html"> New York Times interactive article about Black and African-American directors largely absent from the Criterion Collection</a></p> <p>Music:<br /> <a href="https://orcd.co/af_genevafreeport">“The Endless Scroll” by Absolutely Free</a><br /> courtesy of Idée Fixe Records and Arts & Crafts Music Inc.</p> <p>Follow us online:<br /> Twitter: <a href= "https://twitter.com/SurprisingCrit">@SurprisingCrit</a><br /> Instagram: <a href= "https://www.instagram.com/SurprisingCrit/">@SurprisingCrit</a></p>