Kagerô-Za

Kagerô-Za (Heat-Haze Theatre). Seijun Suzuki, 1981.

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Edition screened: Included in Arrow Blu-ray set The Taishō Roman Trilogy, released 2017. Japanese language with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 139 minutes.

Summary: Depictions of dead birds.

Details:

1) Depiction of a dead bird in a cage (unrealistic prop), after discussion of another bird killing it, 29:19-29:22.

2) Bird taxidermy specimens hang from a tree theatrically, 44:41-44:44.

The Karski Report

The Karski Report. (Le rapport Karski). Claude Lanzmann, 2010.

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Edition screened: Eureka! Masters of Cinema Blu-ray #103, included in the box set Shoah and 4 Films After Shoah, released 2015. English language. Runtime approximately 48 minutes.

Summary: No depictions of violence or harm to animals.

An extended interview with a Polish Resistance fighter who was sent to tell FDR what he had witnessed.

Katzelmacher

Katzelmacher. Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1969.

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Edition screened: Included on Arrow Blu-Ray The Early Works: The Rainer Werner Fassbinder Collection, released 2016. German language with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 88 minutes.

Summary: No depictions of violence toward animals.

KH-4

KH-4. John Schorstein, 1969.

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Edition screened: Included on BFI ‘Flipside’ Blu-ray #29 That Sinking Feeling, released 2014. Environmental sound but no dialogue in the audio portion. Runtime approximately 13 minutes.

Summary: No depictions of violence or harm to animals.

Kill! (Ozawa)

Kill! (Outlaw: Kill! / Burai barase!). Keiichi Ozawa, 1968.

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Edition screened: Included in Arrow Blu-ray box set Outlaw Gangster VIP: The Complete Collection released 2016. Japanese language with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 86 minutes.

Summary: No depictions of violence or harm to animals.

King of the Hill (Soderbergh)

King of the Hill. Steven Soderbergh, 1993.

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Edition screened: Criterion Blu-ray #698, released 2014. English language. Runtime approximately 103 minutes.

Summary: No depictions of violence or harm to animals.

The Criterion release also includes Soderbergh’s 1995 follow-up, The Underneath.

Kiss of the Vampire

Kiss of the Vampire. Don Sharp, 1962.

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Edition screened: Included in Universal Blu-ray set Hammer Horror: 8-Film Collection, released 2016. English language. Runtime approximately 89 minutes.

Summary: No depictions of violence or harm to animals.

Ladies Night/Her Wicked Ways

Ladies Night/Her Wicked Ways. Harry and Louis Lewis, 1980-1983.

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Edition screened: Vinegar Syndrome DVD #164 Peekarama: Ladies Night/Her Wicked Ways, released 2017. English language. Cumulative runtime approximately 154 minutes.

Summary: No depictions of violence or harm to animals in either feature.

Ladies Night. Harry Lewis and Ken Gibb (as Louis Lewis), 1980, 75 minutes. 1/5❤

Her Wicked Ways. Harry Lewis and Ken Gibb (as Louis Lewis), 1983, 79 minutes. 1/5❤

Two bad movies   like this are made.

Lady Cocoa

Lady Cocoa (Pop Goes the Weasel). Matt Cimber, 1975.

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Edition screened: Vinegar Syndrome Blu-ray #122 The Candy Tangerine Man/Lady Cocoa, released 2016. English language. Runtime approximately 93 minutes.

Summary: No depictions of violence or harm to animals.

The Last House on Dead End Street

The Last House on Dead End Street. Roger Michael Watkins (as Victor Janos), 1977.

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Edition screened: Included on Vinegar Syndrome Corruption Blu-ray #098, released 2015. English language. Runtime approximately 78 minutes.

Summary: Explicit slaughter house footage. The blood drains from the head of a just-killed cow, 9:59-10:35.

This bloody scene is real “found footage” cut into The Last House when a character mentions that he formerly worked in a slaughter house. It has nothing to do with the film and probably was included simply for shock value or to set a horrific tone early in the viewing experience.

The Last House on Dead End Street is Watkins’ first film and some aspects are substandard or amateurish, notably the impulse to include the unrelated cow killing. But many of the story ideas, visual compositions, and the creative use of props are among the finest examples found in this type of horror film. Through costuming, blocking, and minimal dialogue Watkins creates and sustains moods that are truly horrifying, perfectly nightmarish in a way we rarely see portrayed.

Note that The Last House on Dead End Street is included as a secret bonus on Vinegar Syndrome’s Corruption Blu-ray. Access the film by scrolling down to the bottom item on the main menu, then push ‘down’ six more times. The /t/in the title Corruption at the top of the screen will gain a shadow. Select and play.

The Last of the Unjust

The Last of the Unjust. (Le dernier des injustes). Claude Lanzmann, 2013.

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Edition screened: Eureka! Masters of Cinema Blu-ray #104, included in the box set Shoah and 4 Films After Shoah, released 2015. Various languages subtitles. Runtime approximately 218 minutes.

Summary: No particular depictions of violence or harm to animals.

A conclusive and definitive assessment of the Nazi “Final Solution” told through interview with the last president of the Theresienstadt Jewish Council.

Letter from Siberia

Letter from Siberia (Lettre de Sibérie). Chris Marker, 1957.

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Edition screened: Included in Soda Blu-ray/DVD set Chris Marker Collection, released 2014. English and French language with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 60 minutes.

Summary: Trapping and hunting.

Details:

1) A man carries a dead goose by its neck, 22:25-22:33.

2) An arctic fox cub sits with its paw in a steel trap, 29:21-29:24.

3) Pans of a trapping camp with pelts and dead animals, 31:01-31:10.

4) Quick images of hunters shooting a squirrel and a deer, finishing with the deer rolling down a snowy bank, 33:24-33:30.

Ley Lines

Ley Lines (Nihon kuroshakai). Takashi Miike, 1999.

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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 105 minutes.

Summary: Implication of shooting a cat.

Details: We see a man sitting at a table and hear a cat outside. The second time we hear the cat, he shoots out the window with a pistol, 28:03.

Lifeforce

Lifeforce. Tobe Hooper, 1985.

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Edition screened: Arrow Blu-ray, released 2013. English language. Runtime of International Version, approximately 116 minutes.

Summary: No depictions of violence or harm to animals.

The Arrow release includes both the 116 International Version (also called the Director’s Cut) and the 14-minute-shorter Theatrical Release (also called the US Version). One might expect the shorter version to include substantially less nudity, but in fact the cuts largely are about pacing and remove many of the references to vampires.

Light Test

Light Test. Joshua Oppenheimer, 1995.

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Edition screened: Included on Second Run DVD #102 Joshua Oppenheimer: Early Works, released 2016. No audio track. Runtime approximately 1 minute.

Summary: No particular depictions of violence or harm to animals.

Lights Out

Lights Out. David F. Sandberg, 2016.

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Edition screened: Warner Blu-ray, released 2016. English language. Runtime approximately 81 minutes.

Summary: No depictions of violence or harm to animals.

The Lobster

The Lobster. Giorgos Lanthimos, 2015.

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Edition screened: Lionsgate Blu-ray released 2016. English language. Runtime approximately 118 minutes.

Summary: Animal murders

Details:

1) A donkey is shot and left lying in the field, 1:32-1:56.

2) A woman describes how she has just kicked a dog to death, 50:47-51:23, followed by a prolonged view of the dog’s bloody body on the floor, 51:40-51:46.

3) Rabbit hunting with display of bloody bodies, 1:07:21-1:08:19.

Lone Wolf and Cub: The Complete Baby Cart Series

Lone Wolf and Cub: The Complete Baby Cart Series. Kenji Misumi, Saito Buichi, and Kuroda Yoshiyuki, 1972-1974.

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Edition screened: Criterion Blu-ray box set #841, released 2016. Japanese language with English subtitles. Cumulative runtime of all features approximately 591 minutes.

Summary: No particular depictions of violence or harm to animals.

Click on each title for details:

Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance (1972)

Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart at the River Styx (1972)

Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart to Hades (1972)

Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in Peril (1972)

Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons (1973)

Lone Wolf and Cub: White Heaven in Hell (1974)

In addition to the six original films of the Baby Cart series, the Criterion release also includes Robert Houston’s Shogun Assassin (1980), and the 1939 documentary Sword of the Samurai.

Love Is Colder Than Death

Love Is Colder Than Death (Liebe Ist Kälter Als Der Tod). Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1969.

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Edition screened: Included on Arrow Blu-Ray The Early Works: The Rainer Werner Fassbinder Collection, released 2016. German language with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 85 minutes.

Summary: No depictions of violence toward animals.

The gang is in a pinball hall with several lines of machines beginning 1:15:43. A few are not discernible because only slivers of the backglasses are shown, but identifiable are a 1964 Gottlieb Ship-Mates, a 1955 Bally Broadway, a 1969 Gottlieb College Queens, a 1968 Bally Cosmos and a 1967 Williams Jolly Roger.

Love Meetings

Love Meetings (Comizi d’amore). Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1964.

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Edition screened: Included with Eureka! Masters of Cinema Blu-ray #31, Accattone, released 2012. Italian language with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 90 minutes.

Summary: No depictions of violence or harm to animals.

The Love Slaves

The Love Slaves. Bob Chinn (as Robert Husong), 1976.

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Edition screened: Vinegar Syndrome DVD #154, released 2017. English language. Runtime approximately 88 minutes.

Summary: No depictions of violence or harm to animals. 2.5/5❤

Lucy (Besson)

Lucy. Luc Besson, 2014.

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Edition screened: Universal Blu-ray, released 2016. English language. Runtime approximately 89 minutes.

Summary: Animals killing in nature.

Details: A cheetah catches and kills a gazelle, 7:41-7:47.

Ludwig

Ludwig. Luchino Visconti, 1972.

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Edition screened: Arrow Blu-ray, released 2017. Original English or Italian language with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 257 minutes.

Summary: No depictions of violence or harm to animals.

Ludwig is an exceptionally fine film; well acted, tasteful, and sumptuous. The costumes and interior decoration are very good, every courtly uniform and item of jewelry appearing to be the real thing. Sets in palaces and castles are fabulously lush and indulgent.

Like some other films by Visconti and other Italian directors of the era, the “original” soundtrack is an Italian language dub despite the fact that the actors are speaking English. For Ludwig, as in many cases, an alternate soundtrack was released which is the actual English dialogue recorded at the time of filming. Arrow offers the opportunity to watch Ludwig with the “original” Italian dub and English subtitles, or the much more satisfying option to see and hear Helmut Berger, Trevor Howard, and Romy Schneider speaking English in synchronization with their lips and actions.

Lured

Lured. Douglas Sirk, 1947.

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Edition screened: Included along with A Scandal in Paris on Cohen Blu-ray “Two Films from Director Douglas Sirk” released 2016. English language. Runtime approximately 103 minutes.

Summary: No depictions of violence or harm to animals.