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Michael Fassbender in Hunger (2008) dir. Steve McQueen

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In this shot from "Hunger," the extreme close-up of the ashtray highlights the film's meticulous attention to detail. Every cigarette butt, ash fragment, and smudge is carefully framed, transforming a seemingly insignificant object into a powerful symbol of decay and monotony. By focusing on such a small, intimate moment, the film emphasizes how even the tiniest details in the prison environment contribute to the overwhelming sense of dehumanization and confinement.

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Blog Post #4 - Hunger (2008) Review

Hunger (2008) is a movie about an IRA militan, Bobby Sands and his days in prision as a political prisoner. In the prision he stays, other prisoners have been practicing un-washing and blanket protests for years. When Bobby realizes that their resistance is not enough to convince the British, he goes on hunger strike. He dies at the 66th day of the hunger strike, while he was selected as a parlament member of IRA.

Hunger is a terrifying movie. It is true that Shame is an impressive film, but when I went back to watch the director's first feature, I thought that Shame made for a rather "easy" viewing experience. Hunger shocks you with its physical violence and bodily activities, which we usually see polished in cinema, starting in the first fifteen minutes. When the camera enters one of the cells, I couldn't believe my eyes, it was so hard to watch the traces of feces on the walls, the scraps of food piled up in a corner that wouldn't even be given to a dog, the miserable state of the political prisoners. Hunger is the story of men trying to resist with the only thing they have, their bodies, in an environment where there is no humanity - they are trying to get their rights with their urine, their feces, their skin, their vomit. The dialog between Fassbender's character and the man who comes to persuade him, a priest; the policeman who can't stand it and sobs on the sidelines while his colleagues beat the prisoners; Bobby's touching his ribs, which are now sharp as corners and seem as if they will break through his skin; the vulnerability of the people, and the camera's unflinching images as if it were a ghost walking around, Hunger is a very difficult film. I was very impressed by the director's success in portraying the "human condition" objectively in every aspect. Let me end this article with a sentence I saw in a review: "Beware, the facts you see in this movie may spoil your eyesight!

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Fassbender characters. challenge Who is going to win?

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Cadmium Hollow (2023) – 2 stars

Director: Abhishek Udaykumar Writer: Abhishek Udaykumar & Felix Jackson Cast: Felix Jackson, Shilpy, Anjali Hiregange, Ekta Singh, Santosh P, Umme Salma, Sri Ranjni T.S. Running time: 1hr 23mins A lot of what passes for ‘discourse’ on social media in the last decade has focused on the length of a film. It is disrespectful – no, arrogant – for filmmakers to expect people to go through a…

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hey so I put housemd into the hunger games simulator and I got some random things that I thought were either funny or I had a drawing idea for them.

anyways heres some drawing prompts from the game

(Debbie is that cat that supposedly predicted death btw!!! if u can't remember!! and Steve McQueen is the rat!!))

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Movies I watched this Week # 147 (Year 3/Week 43):

Loro ("Them"), my 7th decadent film by Paolo Sorrentino, the breakneck, modern-day Fellini. An epic, outrageous, over-the-top look into the outlandish life of charismatic billionaire king Silvio Berlusconi. MTV-style music video of power, sex, ultimate corruption and unlimited money. A sprawling saga of a modern day Citizen Kane, promiscuous, charming and greedy. As well as a young pimp who runs an escort service, and supplies him with a harem of girls.

I love noticing chronological symmetry in movies, for example, at the exact middle of the movie (starting at 1:11), there’s this central, electrifying scene of a telephone sales pitch, even better than DiCaprio selling 40,000 penny stock shares at 'The wolf of Wall Street'. Between serving as a prime minister and serving time, Tony Servillo's Berlusconi, the greatest salesman in Italy, is in a funk, and he needs to find his groove again. So late at night he opens a telephone book at random and calls some old lady from a listing, and in 6 minutes, he sells her an overpriced apartment that have not even been built yet. I wish I could find an isolated clip of that scene somewhere. Bellissimo!

And just today, I read about the real Berlusconi’s need to accumulate, his vast, 25,000 item art collection!

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"Fugayzi, fugazi. It's a whazy. It's a woozie. It's fairy dust..."

So - because of the scene above - I had to stop everything I do, and indulge, one more time with Scorsese's The wolf of Wall Street. A similarly decadent, excessive, cocaine-fueled roller coaster ride of money and addiction. With judge Fran Lebowitz, Spike Jonze as Dwayne, the broker above, and of course Palm Spring's Cristin Milioti as the first wife.

So far I’ve seen only about half of Scorsese’s 42 full features, so after ���Flower moon’ I’m going to deep dive, and watch all the ones I’ve missed.

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Another film I’ve been re-watching over and over, Paweł Pawlikowski's heartbreaking romance Cold War. When I saw it the first time, I thought it was very complex (maybe I was stoned), but it's actually extremely simple, accessible and direct. Joanna Kulig's ethereal beauty and the powerful life force of her character 'Zula' are unforgettable. 10/10.

[Waiting for his next film, The island, with Joaquin Phoenix and Rooney Mara.]

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John le Carré X 3:

🍿 Errol Morris's most recent documentary, The Pigeon Tunnel, a lengthy conversation with the fascinating writer le Carré. Based on his auto-biography of the same name. It's mostly about deceit and betrayals, as well as his tortured relationship with his larger-than-life conman father, "Ronnie". Lots of elaborate re-enactments, staged and fanciful. My best friend Danny (RIP) used to be an avid le Carré reader and fan.

🍿 First watch: The masterful The spy who came in from the cold. The first classic film adaptation and based on his spectacularly successful debut novel. Double and triple crossing in the dark days of the cold War. It was supposed to be the Anti-James Bond, and established a prolific genre of 'Flawed Spies', "a bunch of seedy squalid bastards like me, little men, drunkards, queers, henpecked husbands, civil servants playing 'Cowboys and Indians' to brighten their rotten little lives." Magnificent Richard Burton play.

[I also have to dig in and do a Martin Ritt marathon one day!]

🍿 Tinker, tailor, soldier, spy (the 2011 film, not the Alec Guinness TV series): A slow, melancholic and perfectly atmospheric thriller, with an all-star cast (Including a cameo of le Carré himself! Photo Above). Gary Oldman's vacant gaze got me to want watching his complete filmography. Also, it's funny how many movies open or end with Charles Trenet's La Mer!

Superb! 9/10.

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2 horror films from British director Steve McQueen:

🍿 While waiting for his latest ‘Occupied City’, I caught his horrifying directorial debut Hunger from 2008. A re-telling of the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike, where 10 IRA volunteers starved themselves to death, as a protest against the British government. It is told from inside the prison cells. Very few films were able to transfer the horror and hopelessness of being abused by ruthless authorities like this one.

And in the middle of this gruesome narrative, there's an astounding scene, unbroken and shot with a static camera on Bobby Sands and a priest who came to see him, talking that lasts for 17 minutes. Simply amazing.

Best and most chilling film experience of the week.

Like Norm McDonald used to say (about Hitler): 'The more I learn about Margaret Thatcher, the more I don't care for her'.

🍿 Western Deep, a 2002 short, an near-abstract poem about the workers / slaves who work at the world's deepest gold mine in South Africa. Dark, jarring and claustrophobic. 1/10.

[Now that I've seen McQueen's 4 features, I have to move on to his 'Small Axe' television anthology.]

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My first 2 films by Romanian Cristian Mungiu:

🍿 His latest contemplative drama R.M.N. is set in a backwater multi-ethnic village in Transylvania, where long-simmering tensions erupt over questions of national identity, globalization, prejudices and xenophobia. It opens with pig slaughtering, and ends with an old man who hangs himself in the forest. It's harsh, and coarse, and repressive. But it's told in a sublime style. And in the middle of all the ugliness and misogyny, a woman practices her cello by playing Yumeji's haunting theme from 'In the mood for love'. 9/10.

🍿 So I finally also saw his highly-acclaimed 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days from 2007, considered as 'one of the greatest films of the 21 century'. But the depressing story of a desperate young woman who's trying to obtain an illegal abortion in the last dark days of communist Romania, was as pleasant as a visit to Nicolae Ceaușescu's dungeon: Dingy, stressfully-ugly and miserable.

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“…Joey, do you like movies about gladiators?…”

Airplane!, another re-watch of this classic evergreen - the No. 1 modern American comedy on most lists? With cameos by Ethel Merman, young Mike Ehrmantraut and James Howe, one of the most prolific character actors of all time, as a Japanese general committing Harakiri. Isn't it strange that the guy who played Ted Striker never had a career in Hollywood after that?

Maybe it's time for Edgar Wright to re-make 'Airplane 2024!'?

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5 more by female directors:

🍿 Elaine May's Mikey and Nicky, a dark dialogue-rich, two-person crime drama about old friendship and betrayal over one long night in Philadelphia. John Cassavetes is a small-time hood with a contract out on his life. And Peter Falk is his lifelong friend who may or may not be trying to help him escape his fate. A nuanced portrayal of fragile masculinity.

🍿 The royal hotel, my second film by Australian Kitty Green, and also starring Julia Garner, playing another powerless young woman suffering male abuse and exploitation (after 'The Assistant'). Two young backpackers take a job at an outback bar, in "the middle of nowhere". A scary, ominous thriller with escalating threats and an uncomfortable sense of mortal danger. Too unpleasant for me - 4/10.

🍿 Bus Girl is the first film directed by Jessica Henwick, who plays the 2nd girl in 'The Royal Hotel'. A cute little culinary fantasy, shot entirely on a cell phone. 6/10.

🍿 Aurora’s Sunrise, my second Armenian film (after ‘The colour of pomegranates’). An adult animated feature about the Albanian genocide, through the eyes of a real life young woman, who survived the hellish years, and escaped to America, where she became celebrated Hollywood star in 1919, when she played herself in 'Carnival of souls'.

Ethnic cleansing, mass murder, exterminations, cruelty and hatred ... Armenians, Jews, Palestinians, Uygurs, American Indians, Tutsis... It's always the same fucking thing!

(Via).

🍿 Affairs of the Art, a British-Canadian craziness by Joanna Quinn, nominated in 2021 for best animated short. Spectacular and surrealistic visuals about a 59-year-old lady, a zany artist at heart, and her fully-eclectic family. Very Roald Dahl. 9/10.

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On the fringe, a recent Spanish social drama with Penélope Cruz. Stressful and depressive story about folks that are being evicted from their homes. Focus on grey, marginalized and helpless people, ground up by bureaucracy, nickel and dimed by poverty, lack of time and resources is a tough watch. Especially when the story is not wrapped up with optimism or a happy end. 6/10.

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“I’m glad we had this conversation…”

Viking, an alternative, "indie" science fiction allegory, scientifically naive, and featuring low-low tech and drama. An odd, simulated Canadian proximation. In spite of mirroring some scenes from '2001' and 'The Shining', it's not close to either one. Meh. 2/10.

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"Kill the wabbit!"

Chuck Jones's What's Opera, Doc?, considered to be the greatest animated short film of all time. A 7 minutes riff on Wagner's Nibelung and Disney's Fantasia, and the first cartoon short to be selected for preservation for the National Film Registry. With Mel Blanc and Elmer Fudd.

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... No fellow could ignore / The little girl next door / She sure looked sweet in her first evening gown / Now there's a charge for what she used to give for free ... 

"Today, I learned" that satirist & mathematician Tom Lehrer is still alive, at ninety five! He was extremely popular in the 60's and basically retired in 1972. Also, that [like Jonas Salk] he transferred all the songs he ever recorded to the public domain - "For the greater good!"

In 1967, he recorded his excellent Copenhagen concert for posterity. Delightful!

2 extras: I got it from Agnes (which is about the spread of VD), and Bergman's actor Lars Ekborg’s singing I Tom Lehrers vackra värld in Swedish.

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The Insurrectionist next door, my first documentary by Alexandra Pelosi, Nancy's daughter. She was trying to humanize about a dozen individuals who participate in the January 6 attack, by befriending them and their their families, and by allowing all of them to explain that they were "just at the wrong place at the wrong time". In the end, it was just sad to see the poor children who had to cry goodbye when their father went to jail.

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(My complete movie list is here)

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have you seen hunger by steve mcqueen. i feel like you would enjoy it

No but I have it downloaded on my computer and keep intending to watch it. I have a bit more free time this week so I think I'll probably end up watching it within the next few days

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2 of Cups ~ Bachus Tarot

  With the Two of Cups, it’s not just another circumstance or idea that you have to work into a balance, it’s a whole other person. A person with his or her own needs, desires, and ideas. The act of collaboration can be inspiring, or it can drive people insane. Rather than the muse dynamic, where one person is doing all of the work and the other person just has to exist, here each person has to see the other as an equal. The Two of Cups is traditionally a marriage card; a wholly egalitarian relationship. When we put it into the artistic context, it becomes a collaboration where each partner feels that his or her ideas are being heard, and each person gets equal credit. Certainly throughout time there have been men who have taken credit for their wives’ work, like the painter Walter Keane, who claimed that he’d painted his wife Margaret’s paintings of big-eyed children, which were a runaway success in the 1950s and ’60s. But with the Two of Cups, mutual respect is required. Collaboration has led to important work, such as the Wright Brothers’ experiments in flight, or Dutch fashion designers Viktor Horsting and Rolf Snoeren cocreating the successful and influential fashion house Viktor & Rolf. The performance artists Marina Abramović and Ulay were lovers as well as collaborators, and much of their work together explored what it is like for two people to become a single unit. Their androgynous and unified work, like their performance Relation in Time—where they sat back-to-back for seventeen hours, their long hair knotted together—expressed this idea of equality to the point where it was sometimes difficult to tell the two apart. The Two of Cups does not need to imply romance. There have certainly been many actor-and-director film collaborations that embody the Two of Cups dynamic, such as Michael Fassbender’s three films with director Steve McQueen, and Catherine Keener’s work with director Nicole Holofcener. But it does require respect, mutual admiration, and a level playing field. The Two of Cups asks you to take on another person and to allow him or her to work with you rather than for you. RECOMMENDED MATERIALS Rest Energy, short film (part of a series) by Marina Abramović and Ulay My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, recording by Brian Eno and David Byrne Hunger, film directed by Steve McQueen Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie, book by Lauren Redniss The Creative Tarot. Jessa Crispin

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Research on the background for the selected film brief ''12 years a slave''

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The filmmaker and author:

Filmmaker: Steve McQueen directed "12 Years a Slave," bringing his visual style and narrative senses to the film, earning critical acclaim and particularly for the raw emotional depth and historical accuracy depicted in the portrayal of Solomon Northup's idea. Author: Solomon Northup was the author of the memoir "Twelve Years a Slave", which was published in 1853. His firsthand experience of his memories as a free man kidnapped , enslaved in the South provided a powerful narrative for the brutal and inhuman act of slavery. Northup's memoir is set to serve as the basis for the film adaptation, offering a very crucial historical perspective on slavery in America.

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Going in depth on their contributions.

Steve McQueen:

Background + Style:

Steve McQueen is a British filmmaker quite known for his rigid approach to storytelling and his exploration of themes such as suffering, endurance, and human resilience. His previous films like "Hunger" and "Shame" had already given his reputation for taking on much difficult subjects with a stark and realism.

Direction and Vision:

Steve McQueen brought his distinctive visual style and narrative senses in directing using long takes and composed shots that lingered on the brutality and humanity of each character, creating a very deep and immersive as well as visceral experience for the audience.

His direction had been characterized with meticulous attention to the historical detail and emotional depth. He tried to depict the physical and psychological pain faced by Solomon Northup and other enslaved individuals in detailed accuracy.

Impact and Recognition:

Steve McQueen's direction of "12 Years a Slave" was widely praised and approved by critics and the audiences alike. Allowing the film to win numerous awards which also including the Academy Award for Best Picture. Steve McQueen himself also received the Academy Award for Best Director, becoming the first black filmmaker to win the award.

His ability to navigate through the complex issues of the story while maintaining a very high profound sense of humanity and empathy for the characters scored his skill as a director and storyteller.

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Solomon Northup:

Life and Memoir (autobiography):

Solomon Northup was born as a free man in New York on 1808. His memoir, "Twelve Years a Slave," was published in 1853, recounting his harrowing experience of being kidnapped in Washington, D.C., and then sold into slavery in Louisiana.

His memoir is not only a personal account of his life enslaved but also a detailed documentary of the daily life, customs, and injustices of slavery in the antebellum South. His narrative provided rare insight into the experiences of a free black man who was enslaved unjust.

Historical Significance of:

"Twelve Years a Slave" is that it is regarded as one of the most authentic and provocative slave narratives of the 19th century. Northup's ability to document his experiences with in depth detail contributed significantly to the abolitionist movement.

His memoir served as the primary source evidence/material for the film adaptation, which provided the foundation of truth and authenticity that resonated within the audience and critics alike.

Solomon Northup's courage in being able to document his experience and his resilience in surviving while eventually regaining his freedom is an enduring symbol of strength of human spirit in the face of unimaginable adversity.

His memoir continues to be studied and celebrated under its literary as well as historical significance. Offering a firsthand account of slavery that will remain relevant in discussions of race, identity, and human rights even today.

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