Arrival. Denis Villeneuve, 2016.
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Edition screened: Paramount Blu-ray, released 2017. English language. Runtime approximately 116 minutes.
Summary: No particular depictions of violence or harm to animals.
The Caller (Parkhill)
The Caller. Matthew Parkhill, 2011.
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Edition screened: Sony DVD, released 2011. English language. Runtime approximately 9 minutes.
Summary: No depictions of violence or harm to animals.
A surprisingly entertaining low-thought supernatural thriller, also surprising because the nice golden retriever we see throughout the film is not murdered by the violent ex-husband.
Colt 38 Special Squad
Colt 38 Special Squad (Quelli della calibro 38). Massimo Dallamano, 1976.
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Edition screened: Included on Arrow Blu-ray box set Years of Lead: Five Classic Italian Crime Thrillers 1973-1977, released 2021. Italian language with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 103 minutes.
Summary: No depictions of violence or harm to animals.
Deadly Games: Dial Code Santa Claus
Deadly Games: Dial Code Santa Claus (36.15 code Père Noël). René Manzor, 1989.
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Edition screened: Vinegar Syndrome Blu-ray #335, released 2020. French language with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 91 minutes.
Summary: Violent killing of a dog.
Details: An intruder dressed as Santa Claus is challenged by the family dog. Santa begins to kick the dog harshly at 35:22 then stabs the dog in the throat with a silver pie server. Intercut scenes of the dead dog through 35:44. At 1:1:05 we see the dog’s sentimental and mournful burial by the boy who witnessed the dog’s killing.
The VS release also includes Manzor’s very good 1981 animated short Synapses.
Long view of a pinball in the family game room, 43:12-43:39, unfortunately too unfocused to identify.
The Donut King
The Donut King. Alice Gu, 2020.
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Edition screened: Kino DVD, released 2021. English language and Cambodian with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 94 minutes.
Summary: No particular depictions of violence or harm to animals.
Dragons Forever
Dragons Forever (Fei lung mang jeung). Sammo Kam-Bo Hung and Corey Yuen, 1988.
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Edition screened: Submitted by a kind friend. Cantonese language with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 102 minutes.
Summary: No particular depictions of violence or harm to animals.
Gangs of New York
Gangs of New York. Martin Scorsese, 2002.
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Edition screened: Buena Vista DVD released 2003. English language. Runtime approximately 167 minutes.
Summary: Recurring images of dead rabbits, and a pig’s head.
Details:
1) The film begins with the Dead Rabbits gang assembling for a fight. Several times, and a few times later in the film, we see their battle standard of several dead rabbits hanging from a pike. These quick images have no clear view or anything intentionally gruesome.
2) A public wagering game in which a terrier is released in a fighting pit along with rats, and bets are placed on how many rats the dog will kill in a set amount of time. We do not see or hear any rat killing, and only understand what is happening from a few seconds of shouting among the spectators.
3) A more graphic scene of a rabbit impaled on an iron fence picket then the carcass on a table, 29:03-29:14
4) A bloody pig’s head on a tray, 47:30-47:44.
Goodfellas
Goodfellas. Martin Scorsese, 1990.
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Edition screened: Warner Blu-ray, released 2010. English language. Runtime approximately 145 minutes.
Summary: No depictions of violence or harm to animals.
A 1976 Bally Capt. Fantastic can be seen several times in the bar between 1 hour 36 minutes and 1 hour 44 minutes. A 1971 Gottlieb Astro and a 1980 Bally Nitro Ground Shaker are on the sidewalk at 2 hours 10 minutes.
The Irishman
The Irishman. Martin Scorsese, 2019.
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Edition screened: Criterion Blu-ray #1058, released date. English language. Runtime approximately 209 minutes.
Summary: One chicken killed off-screen
Details: In the back room of a city butcher shop, the owner pulls a chicken from a crate, grabs a straight razor in his other hand, and slits the chicken’s throat at 9:07. This happens, or the simulation of it happening, occurs barely below screen and what we really see is a spray of blood hitting the man. This one second of non-plot violence is easily skipped and not a reason to avoid the film.
Naked Girl Murdered in the Park
Naked Girl Murdered in the Park (Ragazza tutta nuda assassinata nel parco). Alfonso Brescia, 1972.
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Edition screened: Full Moon Blu-ray, released 2021. English dub over Italian. Runtime approximately 92 minutes.
Summary: No depictions of violence or harm to animals.
The only audio option is English dub over the original Italian, with substantial volume fluctuations. No subtitles or original Italian available.
A Night at the Roxbury
A Night at the Roxbury. John Fortenberry, 1998.
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Edition screened: Warner DVD, released 2007. English language. Runtime approximately 82 minutes.
Summary: No depictions of violence or harm to animals.
A 1978 Williams Disco Fever can be seen through an open door upstairs in the family house at 19:58.
Le notti bianche
Le notti bianche (White Nights). Luchino Visconti, 1957.
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Edition screened: Criterion DVD #296, released 2005. Italian language with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 101 minutes.
Summary: No depictions of violence or harm to animals.
Unidentified pinball machine seen twice in the “Bar Sport”, 20:52-20:33. The backglass shows what appears to be a duotone metropolitan intersection.
Reflections in a Golden Eye
Reflections in a Golden Eye. John Huston, 1967.
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Edition screened: Warner DVD, released 2006. English language. Runtime approximately 108 minutes.
Summary: Beating of a horse.
Details: Marlon Brando brutally beats Elizabeth Taylor’s horse with a small tree limb, leaving bloody gashes on the horses neck and head, 56:50-57:10. We later see the horse lying on his side and groaning while his wounds are dressed.
Some Kind of Heaven
Some Kind of Heaven. Lance Oppenheim, 2020.
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Edition screened: Magnolia DVD, released 2021. English language. Runtime approximately 81 minutes.
Summary: No particular depictions of violence or harm to animals.
A Star Is Born (Cooper)
A Star Is Born. Bradley Cooper, 2018.
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Edition screened: Warner Blu-ray, released 2019. English language. Runtime approximately 136 minutes.
Summary: No particular depictions of violence or harm to animals.
Synapses (Manzor)
Synapses. René Manzor, 1981.
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Edition screened: Included on Vinegar Syndrome Blu-ray #335 Deadly Games: Dial Code Santa Claus, released 2020. French language with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 6 minutes.
Summary: No animals or references to animals in this good animated short.
Tommy Boy
Tommy Boy. Peter Segal, 1995.
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Edition screened: Warner DVD, released 1995. English language. Runtime approximately 97 minutes.
Summary: Comedy about killing animals.
Details:
A gag ensues 42:00 - 47:00, in which a deer is hit by a car (off screen) and presumably killed, then it’s loaded into the back seat of the GTX, then it’s not really dead, trashes the car and escapes. We don’t see the car hit the deer. Or anything funny.
Veronica Mars
Veronica Mars. Rob Thomas, 2014.
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Edition screened:Warner Blu-ray, released 2014. English language. Runtime approximately 108 minutes.
Summary: No particular depictions of violence or harm to animals.
Wanda Whips Wall Street
Wanda Whips Wall Street. Larry Revene, 1982.
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Edition screened: Distribpix DVD, released 2014. English language. Runtime approximately 82 minutes.
Summary: No depictions of violence or harm to animals. 1.5/5❤
Wise Blood
Wise Blood. John Huston, 1979.
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Edition screened: Criterion DVD #470, released 209. English language. Runtime approximately 106 minutes.
Summary: No particular depictions of violence or harm to animals.
Zatoichi and the Chess Expert
Zatoichi and the Chess Expert (Zatōichi jigoku-tabi). Kenji Misumi, 1965.
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Edition screened: Included in Criterion Blu-ray box set #679 Zatoichi: The Blind Swordsman, released 2013. Japanese language with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 87 minutes.
Summary: No depictions of violence toward animals.
The twelfth film in the Zatoichi series.
Daimajin Triple Feature
Daimajin Triple Feature. Various directors, 1966.
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Edition screened: Mill Creek Daimajin Triple Feature 2-Blu-ray set, released 2012. Japanese language with English subtitles. Cumulative runtime approximately 230 minutes.
Summary: The first and third films have mild depictions of violence to animals. See individual titles for details.
The Mill Creek set, as well as the later Arrow set, include:
Daimajin (Kimiyoshi Yasuda, 1966)
Return of Daimajin (Kenji Misumi, 1966)
Wrath of Daimajin (Kazuo Mori, 1966)
Yokai Monsters Collection
Yokai Monsters Collection. Various directors, 1968, 1969 ,2005.
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Edition screened: Arrow Blu-ray box set, released 2021. Japanese language with English subtitles. Cumulative runtime approximately 392 minutes.
Summary: Most of the feature films include some violence to animals. See individual titles for details.
The Arrow box set includes four feature films:
• Yokai Monsters: 100 Monsters (1968, Kimiyoshi Yasuda)
• Yokai Monsters: Spook Warfare (1969, Yoshiyuki Kuroda)
• Yokai Monsters: Along with Ghosts (1969, Kuroda and Yasuda)
• The Great Yokai War (2005, Takashi Miike)
and four 2005 shorts by Miike, “Short Drama of Yokai” Episodes 1 & 2, and “Another Story of Kawatoro” Parts 1 & 2.
The Whirled
The Whirled (Four Shorts of Jack Smith). Ken Jacobs, 1963.
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Edition screened: Included on Keno Lorber Blu-ray Ken Jacobs Collection Vol. 1, released 2021. English language. Runtime approximately 20 minutes.
Summary: No depictions of violence or harm to animals.
The Whirled comprises four films starring Jack Smith:
• Saturday Afternoon Blood Sacrifice (1956, 4 minutes)
• Little Cobra Dance (1956, 2 minutes)
• TV Plug (1963, 7 minutes)
• The Death of P’Town (1961, 7 minutes)
Spook Warfare
Yokai Monsters: Spook Warfare (Yôkai daisensô). Yoshiyuki Kuroda, 1968.
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Edition screened: Included in Arrow Blu-ray box set, Yokai Monsters Collection, released 2021. Japanese language with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 79 minutes.
Summary: Off-screen killing of a dog.
Details: A small leashed dog barks at his master because the man is possessed by a monster. The formerly-kind man slashes down with his sword and we hear the dog howl (11:15).
Play Motel
Play Motel. Mario Gariazzo (as Roy Garrett), 1979.
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Edition screened: Raro Blu-ray, released 2015. Italian language with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 93 minutes.
Summary: No depictions of violence or harm to animals.
A hotel has a special room that can be rented for perverse encounters. But unbeknown to the guests, a secret uglystick hidden behind a mirror leads to blackmail, some very unlikely detective work, and viewer regret.
Orchard Street
Orchard Street. Ken Jacobs, 1955.
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Edition screened: Included on Keno Lorber Blu-ray Ken Jacobs Collection Vol. 1, released 2021. No dialogue track. Runtime approximately 27 minutes.
Summary: We see some hobo kitties including one little guy who is not doing well, but no depictions of violence or harm to animals.
Mill of the Stone Women
Mill of the Stone Women (Il mulino delle donne di pietra). Giorgio Ferroni, 1960.
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Edition screened: Arrow Blu-ray, released 2021. Italian language with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 96 minutes.
Summary: No particular depictions of violence or harm to animals.
Little Stabs at Happiness
Little Stabs at Happiness. Ken Jacobs, 1963.
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Edition screened: Included on Keno Lorber Blu-ray Ken Jacobs Collection Vol. 1, released 2021. English language. Runtime approximately 15 minutes.
Summary: No depictions of violence or harm to animals.
Little Stabs at Happiness comprises four short films, all shot between 1959 and 1963, with final editing and the addition of charming music from Jacobs’ record collection in 1963:
• In the Room
• They Stopped To Think
• It Began To Drizzle
• The Spirit of Listlessness (Jack Smith)
The Innocent (Visconti)
The Innocent (L’Innocente). Luchino Visconti, 1976.
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Edition screened: Cult Films Blu-ray, released 2017. English language with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 129 minutes.
Summary: No depictions of violence or harm to animals.
The Great Yokai War
The Great Yokai War (Yôkai daisensô). Takashi Miike, 2005.
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Edition screened: Included in Arrow Blu-ray box set, Yokai Monsters Collection, released 2021. Japanese language with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 124 minutes.
Summary: Physical abuse to a small, affectionate sprite.
Details:
1) A herd of kitty-bunnies wearing acrylic v-neck sweaters is netted and devoured by a tractor-dumpster mechagodzilla yokai (13:02-13:05), except for one who escapes but is stung with a whip and tumbles down concrete stairs (13:12-13:18).
2) The little kitty-bunny (the yokai who rubs your shin, we learn) is later shown bleeding honey-mustard dipping sauce as a result of his whip injury, but goes through most of the film as a key member of the Hero Team.
3) The little fellow is physically abused, 1:19:14-1:20:25, including being held in a machine’s vice grip, struck with harsh physical blows, and ultimately thrown into the vat of eternal disgust.
This disk in the Yokai Monsters Collection also includes four short films by Miike, tangentially related to the feature film and free of animal violence:
• Short Drama of Yokai, Episode 1: Whose Hotcakes Are These? (2005, 6 minutes)
• Short Drama of Yokai, Episode 2: Who's the Most Annoying? (2005, 8 minutes)
• Another Story of Kawatoro, Part 1 (2005, 7 minutes)
• Another Story of Kawatoro, Part 2 (2005, 10 minutes)
The Girlfriend Experience
The Girlfriend Experience. Steven Soderbergh, 2009.
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Edition screened: Magnolia DVD, released 2009. English language. Runtime approximately 77 minutes.
Summary: No particular depictions of violence or harm to animals.
Along with Ghosts
Yokai Monsters: Along with Ghosts (Journey with Ghost Along Yokaido Road / Tôkaidô obake dôchû). Yoshiyuki Kuroda and Kimiyoshi Yasuda, 1969.
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Edition screened: Included in Arrow Blu-ray box set, Yokai Monsters Collection, released 2021. Japanese language with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 78 minutes.
Summary: Crow killed by a snake.
Details: A crow lies on the forest floor, quivering and near death, with a black snake wrapped around its body (30:42-30:44).
100 Monsters
Yokai Monsters: 100 Monsters (Yôkai hyaku monogatari). Kimiyoshi Yasuda, 1968.
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Edition screened: Included in Arrow Blu-ray box set, Yokai Monsters Collection, released 2021. Japanese language with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 80 minutes.
Summary: No particular depictions of violence or harm to animals.
El Sur
El Sur. Victor Erice, 1983.
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Edition screened: Criterion Blu-ray #927, released 2018. Spanish language with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 94 minutes.
Summary: No depictions of violence or harm to animals.
The Criterion Blu-ray also includes an informative roundtable with four Spanish film critics about Erice in general and El Sur in particular.
Only God Forgives
Only God Forgives. Nicolas Winding Refn, 2012.
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Edition screened: Anchor Bay Blu-ray, released 2013. English language. Runtime approximately 90 minutes.
Summary: No particular depictions of violence or harm to animals.
Idiocracy
Idiocracy. Mike Judge, 2006.
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Edition screened: 20th Century Fox DVD, released 2007. English language. Runtime approximately 84 minutes.
Summary: No particular depictions of violence or harm to animals.
Partial view of an unidentified pinball machine in the White House, about 40 minutes into the movie.
L’humanité
L’humanité. Bruno Dumont, 1999.
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Edition screened: Submitted by a colleague, available as Criterion Blu-ray #981, released 2019. French language with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 148 minutes..
Summary: No particular depictions of violence or harm to animals.
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer. John McNaughton, 1986.
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Edition screened: Submitted by a colleague. English language. Runtime approximately 83 minutes.
Summary: No particular depictions of violence or harm to animals.
The Giant Claw
The Giant Claw. Fred F. Sears, 1957.
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Edition screened: Included in Arrow Blu-ray box set Cold War Creatures: Four Films from Sam Katzman, released 2021. English language. Runtime approximately 75 minutes.
Summary: No particular depictions of violence or harm to animals. Downing of the giant - sorry, “big as a battleship”, as we were told numerous times - prehistoric bird made of styrofoam antimatter just doesn’t count.
Double Suicide
Double Suicide (Shinjû: Ten no Amijima). Masahiro Shinoda, 1969.
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Edition screened: Criterion DVD #104, released 2001. Japanese language with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 105 minutes.
Summary: No animals in the film.
Train (Raff)
Train. Gideon Raff, 2008.
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Edition screened: Lionsgate DVD, released 2009. English language. Runtime approximately 94 minutes.
Summary: No animals or references to animals in the film.
The Snake Girl and the Silver-Haired Witch
The Snake Girl and the Silver-Haired Witch (Hebi musume to hakuhatsuma). Noriaki Yuasa, 1968.
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Edition screened: Arrow Blu-ray, released 2021. Japanese language with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 82 minutes.
Summary: Depicted killing of reptiles and amphibians.
Details: The Snake Girl handles a lot of plastic snakes and a large toad, with occasional superimposed stock footage of real snakes. The two most graphic examples are:
1) A large fake toad is held by his back legs and ripped in two, 36:00-36:06.
2) A plastic snake is suspended by clips in a vat of acid, 53:25-53:32. We return to see a snake skeleton on the clips.
We also see several snakes used as melee weapons, using similar film techniques: Snake Girl picks up an obviously rubber snake and hurls it at someone’s face . . . cut to image of a real snake crawling away from the body. I was interested to learn that a snake could be thrown with such force as to deck someone.
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