Rabbit Hole. John Cameron Mitchell, 2010.
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Edition screened: Lionsgate DVD, released 2011. English language. Runtime approximately 92 minutes.
Summary: No depictions of violence or harm to animals.
Rage of Honor
Rage of Honor. Gordon Hessler, 1987.
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Edition screened: Arrow Blu-ray, released 2016. English language. Runtime approximately 98 minutes.
Summary: No depictions of violence or harm to animals.
The Rainbow Thief
The Rainbow Thief. Alejandro Jodorowsky, 1990.
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Edition screened: Included on AscotElite Blu-ray, released 2009. English language. Runtime approximately 87 minutes.
Summary: A chicken is held by its feet and plucked, 23:32-24:45.
Rainy Dog
Rainy Dog (Gokudô kuroshakai). Takashi Miike, 1997.
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Edition screened: Included in Arrow Blu-ray set The Black Society Trilogy, released 2017. Japanese and other languages with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 95 minutes.
Summary: The first few minutes of Rainy Dog show pig carcasses being transported in a truck and carried into a butchering facility. Lots of flesh, but nothing intentionally gruesome or bloody.
The Rambling Guitarist
The Rambling Guitarist (Guitar o motta wataridori). Buichi Saito, 1959.
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Edition screened: Included on Arrow Blu-ray Nikkatsu Diamond Guys Volume 1, released 2016. Japanese language with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 77 minutes.
Summary: Bird shooting.
Details: Jô Shishido shoots two seagulls and they are shown falling from the sky, 42:34-42:48.
Ray Harryhausen: Special Effects Titan
Ray Harryhausen: Special Effects Titan. Gilles Penso, 2011.
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Edition screened: Arrow Blu-ray, released 2016. English language. Runtime approximately 90 minutes.
Summary: Claymation and similar animated attacks on monsters and fantasy animals.
Red Pier
Red Pier (Akai hatoba). Toshio Masuda, 1958.
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Edition screened: Included on Arrow Blu-ray Nikkatsu Diamond Guys Volume 1, released 2016. Japanese language with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 100 minutes.
Summary: No particular depictions of violence or harm to animals.
The Red Queen Kills Seven Times
The Red Queen Kills Seven Times (La dama rossa uccide sette volte). Emilio P. Miraglia, 1972.
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Edition screened: Included in Arrow Blu-ray box set, Killer Dames: Two Gothic Chillers by Emilio P. Miraglia released 2016. English language with optional original Italian dub. Runtime approximately 100 minutes.
Summary: No particular depictions of violence or harm to animals.
The Red Violin
The Red Violin (Le violon rouge). François Girard, 1998.
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Edition screened: Lionsgate DVD, released 2008. English language. Runtime approximately 130 minutes.
Summary: No particular depictions of violence or harm to animals.
Redemption
Redemption. Miguel Gomes, 2013.
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Edition screened: Included on Kino Lorber Arabian Nights Blu-ray, released 2016. Portuguese language with English subtitles. Cumulative runtime approximately 26 minutes.
Summary: The film begins with the graphic spectacle of a calf being born, but there are no depictions of violence or harm to animals.
ReGoregitated Sacrifice
ReGoregitated Sacrifice. Lucifer Valentine, 2008.
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Edition screened: Included in MVD/Unearthed Films 4-DVD set The Vomit Gore Trilogy, released 2012. English language. Runtime approximately 65 minutes.
Summary: Desecration of animal bodies.
Details:
1) A live tarantula is used in a perverse torture and murder scene, 48:35-49:00. The implication is that the spider is killed, although we do not see it harmed.
2) A dead octopus is used first as a costume then later as a prop in this long not good scene, 53:32-57:12.
Return of the Killer Tomatoes
Return of the Killer Tomatoes. John De Bello, 1988.
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Edition screened: Arrow Blu-ray, released 2016. English language. Runtime approximately 98 minutes.
Summary: No depictions of violence or harm to animals.
I am equally surprised and glad that I gave this film a chance. It is the only film from the Killer Tomatoes franchise I have seen, and not what I was expecting at all. I was consistently entertained, occasionally charmed, never repulsed, and found Ro/tKT to have some style and concept notes not so dissimilar from Bruce Robinson and Terry Gilliam films of the same era.
Return of the War Room
Return of the War Room. Chris Hegedus and D.A. Pennebaker, 2008.
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Edition screened: Included on Criterion Blu-ray #602 The War Room, released 2012. English language. Runtime approximately 82 minutes.
Summary: No depictions of violence or harm to animals.
Return to Life
Return to Life. John Krish, 1960.
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Edition screened: Included in the BFI 4-DVD set Shadows of Progress: Documentary Film in Post-War Britain 1951-1977, released 2013. English language. Runtime approximately 29 minutes.
Summary: No depictions of violence or harm to animals.
A public service documentary focusing on a refugee family taking shelter in London. Well intended, but boring and off-putting except for a short section at the beginning about the history of refugees coming to England over the centuries.
Reunion
Reunion. Leonard Kirtman (as Jay West), 1976.
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Edition screened: Included on Vinegar Syndrome DVD #161 Peekarama: Sherlick Holmes/Reunion, released 2017. English language. Runtime approximately 69 minutes.
Summary: No depictions of violence or harm to animals. 2.5/5❤
The Road Warrior
The Road Warrior (Mad Max 2). George Miller, 1981.
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Edition screened: Included Warner Mad Max Trilogy 3-Blu-ray set, released 2013. English language. Runtime approximately 95 minutes.
Summary: Murdered animals.
Details:
1) Dead kangaroo lying along the road, 7:29-7:31.
2) Rabbit shot with an arrow, just to be mean, 31:48-31:50.
3) Pet dog shot off screen. We see the shooter and hear the cry, 1:07:26-1:07:27.
The Rolling Stones: Havana Moon
The Rolling Stones: Havana Moon. Paul Dugdale, 2016.
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Edition screened: Eagle vision Blu-ray, released 2016. English language. Runtime approximately 116 minutes.
Summary: No particular depictions of violence or harm to animals.
Rossellini’s History Films: Renaissance and Enlightenment
Rossellini’s History Films: Renaissance and Enlightenment. Roberto Rossellini, 1972-1974.
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Edition screened: Criterion Eclipse Series #14 DVD set, released 2008. Italian language with English subtitles. Collective runtime approximately 546 minutes.
This 14th volume in Criterion’s Eclipse Series includes the following films. Click individual titles for details as they are posted.
The Age of the Medici (1973)
Cartesius (1974)
Blaise Pascal (1972)
A Scandal in Paris
A Scandal in Paris. Douglas Sirk, 1946.
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Edition screened: Included along with Lured on Cohen Blu-ray “Two Films from Director Douglas Sirk” released 2016. English language. Runtime approximately 99 minutes.
Summary: Unnecessary snake beating.
Details: George Sanders clubs a snake on a tree limb as he rides by on horseback, 27:46-27:48.
What a ridiculous movie, nothing like the smoldering sophistication of Sirk’s later better films. I don’t know who is to blame, but the script is stupid, the costumes are hilariously dopey, the acting is hammy, and there is hardly a single prop in the film that is historically correct. Well, maybe the 19th-century criminal eating popcorn out of a red-and-white striped paper bag from a fireman’s carnival. And George Sanders’ felt leprechaun hat from the Hallmark Store. Those seem ok, but almost everything else is ridiculous.
The Scar
The Scar (Blizna). Krzysztof Kieślowski, 1976.
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Edition screened: Included in the Kino DVD box set The Krzysztof Kieślowski Collection, released 2005. Polish language with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 102 minutes.
Summary: No particular depictions of violence or harm to animals.
The Kino DVD also includes the short film Concert of Requests (1967).
Schramm
Schramm. Jörg Buttgereit, 1993.
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Edition screened: Included in the Cult Epic 4-Blu-ray set Sex Murder Art: The Films of Jörg Buttgereit, released 2016. German language with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 65 minutes.
Summary: No depictions of violence or harm to animals.
The Schramm BD also includes early short films by Buttgereit, click on each for details:
Horror Heaven (1984)
Mein Papi (1981-1995)
The Sea in Their Blood
The Sea in Their Blood. Peter Greenaway, 1983.
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Edition screened: Included on BFI Blu-ray A Zed & Two Noughts, released 2010. English language. Runtime approximately 28 minutes.
Summary: No particular depictions of violence or harm to animals.
A very good documentary about the people, aquatic animals, landscape, and architecture of seaside England.
Seconds
Seconds. John Frankenheimer, 1966.😿
Edition screened: Criterion Blu-ray, released 2013. English language. Runtime approximately 107 minutes.
Summary: Scene in a meat packing plant.
Details: Our main character is sent to a mysterious rendezvous at a meat packing plant where many dry-looking sides of beef are hanging from conveyor chains. There is no butchering, blood, or anything more gory that seeing cuts of beef at the grocery store. The scene (16:43-18:00) is easily skipped without consequence, as it is just another curious step in the protagonist getting to his real destination.
This is a wonderfully entertaining film, with or without the packing plant scene.
Secret Honor
Secret Honor. Robert Altman, 1984.
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Edition screened: Criterion DVD #257, released 2004. English language. Runtime approximately 90 minutes.
Summary: No depictions of violence or harm to animals.
Secrets & Lies
Secrets & Lies. Mike Leigh, 1996.
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Edition screened: 20th Century Fox DVD, released 2004. English language. Runtime approximately 142 minutes.
Summary: No depictions of violence or harm to animals.
Seduced and Abandoned
Seduced and Abandoned (Sedotta e abbandonata). Pietro Germi, 1964.
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Edition screened: Criterion DVD #350, released 2006. Italian language with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 117 minutes.
Summary: No depictions of violence or harm to animals.
Sensual Encounters of Every Kind
Sensual Encounters of Every Kind. Richard Kanter, 1978.
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Edition screened: Vinegar Syndrome DVD #106, released 2016. English language. Runtime approximately 76 minutes.
Summary: No depictions of violence or harm to animals. 3/5❤
The September Issue
The September Issue. R.J. Cutler, 2009.
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Edition screened: Roadside Attractions DVD, released 2009. English language. Runtime approximately 90 minutes.
Summary: A lot of fur, but no depiction or acknowledgement of the inherent torture.
A Serbian Film
A Serbian Film (Srpski film). Srdjan Spasojevic, 2010.
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Edition screened: Contra DVD, released 2011. Serbian language with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 104 minutes.
Summary: No particular depictions of violence or harm to animals.
A Serious Man
A Serious Man. Ethan & Joen Coen, 2010.
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Edition screened: Focus/Universal DVD, released 2010. English language. Runtime approximately 96 minutes.
Summary: Display of killed deer.
Details: A one-minute conversation begins at 35:17 with the socially and mentally deficient next-door neighbor who has a dead deer strapped to the top of his car. That’s what they do.
The Serpent’s Egg
The Serpent’s Egg. Ingmar Bergman, 1977.
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Edition screened: Included in Criterion Blu-ray set Ingmar Bergman’s Cinema, released 2018. English language. Runtime approximately 120 minutes.
Summary: Butchering of a horse.
Details:
1) Brief narration of torturing a cat to death, 23:57-24:17.
2) At 1:29:30 through a:29:57 David Carradine comes across two men who are slicing flank meat off of a carriage horse that apparently has just died (or has been killed for food) on the cobblestone street. The camera dwells a bit on the horse’s head and the blood that spreads from it. At 1:38:30-1:38:41 we briefly return to the now fleshless and frost-covered carcass. The context of this food-gathering is the poverty and oppression of Berlin between the wars.
The Serpent’s Egg and The Touch share disc #21 of 30 in Ingmar Bergman’s Cinema (part of ‘Centerpiece 2’). Greg Carson’s Away from Home, a short 2004 interview program about The Serpent’s Egg, also is included on the disc.
Seven Samurai
Seven Samurai (Shichinin no samuria). Akira Kurosawa, 1954.
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Edition screened: Criterion Blu-ray #2, released 2010. Japanese language with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 207 minutes.
Summary: Fishing violence.
Details:
1) Toshirô Mifune catches a small fish in his bare hands at 1:06:32. He impales the live fish on a pole and holds it over a fire, 1:06:42-1:06:51.
2) Combat scenes have mild stunt work with horses. There is no indication of harm to the animals.
The Criterion Blu-ray also contains Marty Gross’s 2006 documentary Seven Samurai: Origins and Influences, free of animal violence.
The Seventh Seal
The Seventh Seal (Det sjunde inseglet). Ingmar Bergman, 1957.
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Edition screened: Criterion Blu-ray #11, included in Criterion Blu-ray set Ingmar Bergman’s Cinema, released 2018. Swedish language with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 97 minutes.
Summary: No particular depictions of violence or harm to animals.
The Seventh Seal is on disc #16 of 30 in Ingmar Bergman’s Cinema (part of ‘Centerpiece 2’), and is accompanied by a 2003 introduction by Bergman with Marie Nyreröd, Nyreröd’s 2006 documentary Bergman Island, a brief 1998 tribute by Woody Allen, Peter Cowie’s 2009 video essay Bergman 101 (35 minutes), and an 11-minute “afterward” video by Cowie.
