Hunger

[Dr Mindbender]

Film released recently about the Irish republican hunger strikers.

Anyone seen it yet?

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=dmVPCX0LxN8

[Dóchas]

that looks really good i presume it is not out in regular cinemas?

[Dr Mindbender]

that looks really good i presume it is not out in regular cinemas?

i think it is actually, if not on its way to dvd. There should be a torrent of it somewhere. I heard they were showing advance screenings of it on the falls rd before it was even in the cinema!

:lol:

[Dóchas]

oh right!! well ill keep an eye out for it, it looks really good!!

[Vanguard1917]

Yeah, it's not a bad film; definitely worth watching.

Good review of it here: A real Hunger for change (http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/site/article/5868/)

[Conghaileach]

It's a very powerful, harrowing film - I know several ex-prisoners who have trouble watching it - but I would recommend for anyone going to watch it that they should have some knowledege of the events before they do so, because the film doesn't provide much of a context in itself.

[Hit The North]

A strangely made film, obviously made by someone from the fine arts world (the director is a Turner Prize wining artist). The depiction of Bobby Sands starving to death is unarguably devastatingly done, but there is a curious lack of characterisation, a shallow emotional engagement and the politics are deliberately buried.

[brigadista]

It’s made by Steve mc queen who is a black british artist. There are interview with him on youtube about the film. He said the images of the hunger strikers during Thatcher’s reign made a huge impression on him at the time when he was a child. As part of his research for the film interviews were made with republicans who were imprisoned at the time-
Regarding "the politics are deliberately buried" check the scene of Bobby sands debating with the priest. Hardly buried politics- also this film puts some things happening at the time into perspective- a perspective that was deliberated misrepresented by the British media at the time.. its a major film..imho

[brigadista]

i forgot to add its a beautiful film about resistance - from the dirty protest to the smuggling in of items by visitors ..its very real