Our final episode for 2020! Steve McQueen’s Hunger is visceral, artistic, and a 96 minute exploration of the convictions of prisoners inside Northern Ireland’s Maze Prison in 1981. <a href="https://www.criterion.com/films/477-hunger">Hunger's Criterion Collection page</a> <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> Music: <a href="https://orcd.co/af_genevafreeport">“The Endless Scroll” by Absolutely Free</a> courtesy of Idée Fixe Records and Arts & Crafts Music Inc. Follow us online: Twitter: <a href= "https://twitter.com/SurprisingCrit">@SurprisingCrit</a> Instagram: <a href= "https://www.instagram.com/SurprisingCrit/">@SurprisingCrit</a>

5. Prisoners (2013)

Surprisingly Criterion - the podcast where we select and talk about the films that we're surprised are a part of the Criterion Collection, and the films we can't believe are not!
The Criterion Collection brands itself as a depository of important classic and contemporary films for film aficionados. Their collection features over a 1000 movies and counting! Surely all of these can't be important, can they? What does 'important' even mean!