Hunger Articles

Per Oscarsson, Hunger The year of 2011 begins with a likely tragedy for the movie world: According to reports, a Friday, Dec. 31, house fire may have killed veteran Swedish actor Per Oscarsson, 83, winner of the Best Actor award at the 1966 Cannes Film Festival for his performance as a late-19th century, mentally unbalanced, starving writer in Henning Carlsen's Hunger. The remains of one [...]

2009 Toronto Film Critics Association Awards 2009 Toronto Film Critics winners: Dec. 15, 2009 2009 Toronto Film Critics' best Canadian film winner: January 12, 2010   Michael Fassbender in Hunger (top); Brad Pitt in Inglourious Basterds (bottom)   Best Picture (tie) – Hunger and Inglourious Basterds Best foreign-language film – The White Ribbon Best documentary – The Cove Best animated feature – Fantastic Mr. Fox [...]

You gotta respect the San Diego Film Critics Society. You may not agree with their choices, but the San Diego critics, perhaps more than any other US-based critics group, association, society, circle, rectangle or what have you, always offer a whole array of highly unusual choices. They've apparently been vaccinated against groupthink, and that's a good thing. In fact, that's a great (and quite rare) [...]

Dublin Film Critics Circle Awards 2009 2009 Dublin Film Critics Circle award winners: Jan. 2009   Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, who also adapted Sinclair Lewis' novel, There Will Be Blood stars Daniel Day-Lewis as a ruthless oil baron in the California of the early 20th-century.   BEST FILM There Will Be Blood Runners-up: Hunger The Diving Bell and the Butterfly No Country for Old [...]