Details: 2008, Ireland, UK, Cert 15, 90 mins, Drama, Dir: Steve McQueen
With: Liam Cunningham, Michael Fassbender, Stuart Graham
Summary: Drama about the events surrounding the 1981 hunger strike by IRA prisoners, led by Bobby Sands, over conditions at the Maze prison
Steve McQueen's film covers the events of 1980-81 which culminated in Bobby Sands's death
Hunger shows that McQueen is a real film-maker and his background in art has meant a fierce concentration on image
Michael Fassbender tells Esther Addley how he braved controversy and lost 16kg to play hunger striker Bobby Sands in Steve McQueen's new film
UK release date: October 31
Steve McQueen's award-winning dramatisation of the last days of hunger striker Bobby Sands
Held in the 70s in the notorious Northern Irish jail known as The Maze, The H Blocks or Long Kesh, Ronan Bennett recalls the gas attacks, the beatings, the smell - and the jokes - and applauds Steve McQueen's haunting new film about its best-known inmate, IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands
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Director Steve McQueen and actors Michael Fassbender and Liam Cunningham talk about their new drama based on Bobby Sands' hunger strike in Northern Ireland's Maze prison
Sean O'Hagan returns to the streets where he grew up during the Troubles, and speaks to prisoners who lived through the protests in the Maze Prison that culminated in the deaths of 10 men
He has won the Turner Prize, been a war artist in Iraq, and is campaigning to put the heads of dead British soldiers on stamps. Now Steve McQueen has made a stunning film about the harrowing lead-up to the starving to death of IRA prisoner Bobby Sands, including a scene that moved him to tears on the set. By Sean O'Hagan
The LPO and Glyndebourne Chorus perform festival highlights on two fantastic DVD sets.
From: £59.95
A down and dirty movie, full of gutter poetry and nods to Ford's The Searchers and Treasure of the Sierra Madre
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