Welcome Home, Soldier Boys. Richard Compton, 1971.
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Edition screened: Information provided by our correspondent in Kathmandu. English language. Runtime approximately 91 minutes.
Summary: No particular depictions of violence or harm to animals.
The opening of the movie features a 1966 Bally Loop the Loop.
Valhalla Rising. Nicolas Winding Refn, 2009.
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Edition screened: IFC Blu-ray, released 2010. Danish language with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 93 minutes.
Summary: No particular depictions of violence or harm to animals.
The Trip to Greece. Michael Winterbottom, 2020.
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Edition screened: IFC Blu-ray, released 2020. English language. Runtime approximately 103 minutes.
Summary: No particular depictions of violence or harm to animals.
Nightmare Alley. Edmund Goulding, 1947.
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Edition screened: Criterion Blu-ray #1078, released 2021. English language. Runtime approximately 111 minutes.
Summary: Brief verbal references to “the Geek” biting chickens’ heads off, but no depictions of violence or harm to animals.
The Criterion Blu-ray includes Todd Robbins’ enjoyable 19-minute presentation about the history of side shows (produced by Jason Altman), as well as several relevant interviews.
An unidentifiable early wooden pinball machine is seen in ‘Lem’s Place’ first at 43:18 and again at 44:18.
My Dear Killer (Mio caro assassino). Tonino Valerii, 1972.
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Edition screened: Included in Vinegar Syndrome box set #339 Forgotten Gialli Volume 2, released 2020. Italian language with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 100 minutes.
Summary: No particular depictions of violence or harm to animals.
Like Rabid Dogs (Come cani arrabbiati). Mario Imperoli, 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 88 minutes.
Summary: No animals or references to animals in the film.
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Komola Rocket (The Orange Ship). Noor Imran Mithu, 2018.
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Edition screened: Streamed, 2021. Bengali language with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 95 minutes.
Summary: No particular depictions of violence or harm to animals.
Image by moviebuff.com, Fair use,
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=63942353
Hot Thrills and Warm Chills. Dale Berry, 1967.
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Edition screened: Included on Something Weird DVD Hip, Hot and 21/ Hot Thrills and Warm Chills, released 2005. English language. Runtime approximately 80 minutes.
Summary: No animals or references to animals in the film. 3/5❤
The plot is a badly-told heist preposterosity, but the manner in which the criminal women are portrayed and filmed is entertaining.
The Something Weird DVD also includes three tiresome nudie-cuties, Just Two Hot (1950, 15 minutes), Cherry Flip (1952, 13 minutes), and Muscles and Bustles (1955, 12 minutes).
Hip, Hot and 21. Dale Berry, 1966.
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Edition screened: Included on Something Weird DVD Hip, Hot and 21/ Hot Thrills and Warm Chills, released 2005. English language. Runtime approximately 87 minutes.
Summary: No animals or references to animals in the film. 2/5❤
Presumably to enhance the appeal of the two marquee features, the Something Weird DVD also includes three throw-away “Peepland” shorts: Just Two Hot (1950, 15 minutes), Cherry Flip (1952, 13 minutes), and Muscles and Bustles (1955, 12 minutes).
Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami. Sophie Fiennes, 2017.
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Edition screened: Kino Lorber Blu-ray, released 2018. English language. Runtime approximately 115 minutes.
Summary: No particular depictions of violence or harm to animals.
The French Sex Murders (Casa d’appuntamento). Ferdinando Merighi (as F.L. Morris), 1972.
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Edition screened: Included in Vinegar Syndrome box set #339 Forgotten Gialli Volume 2, released 2020. Original Italian or English dub. Runtime approximately 91 minutes.
Summary: No particular depictions of violence or harm to animals.
Forgotten Gialli Volume 2. Various directors, 1972-1974.
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Edition screened: Vinegar Syndrome dual format box set #339, released 2020. Italian language with English subtitles. Cumulative runtime approximately 277 minutes.
Summary: No particular depictions of violence or harm to animals.
The VS 3-volume set includes
The Girl in Room 2A (1974 William Rose and Dick Randall)
The French Sex Murders (1972 Ferdinando Merighi)
My Dear Killer (1972 Tonino Valerii)
Enter the Void. Gaspar Noé, 2009.
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Edition screened: IFC Blu-ray, released 2011. English language. Runtime approximately 161 minutes.
Summary: No animals or references to animals in the film.
Downhill. Nat Faxon and Jim Rash, 2020.
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Edition screened: 20th Century Fox Blu-ray, released 2020. English language. Runtime approximately 86 minutes.
Summary: No particular depictions of violence or harm to animals.
Downhill is the less complicated, happy ending, English-language remake of Östlund’s Force Majeure.
Climax. Gaspar Noé, 2018.
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Edition screened: Arrow Blu-ray, released 20198. Mostly French language with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 97 minutes.
Summary: No depictions of violence or harm to animals.
The Arrow Blu-ray also includes Noé’s 4-minute film Shoot from the 2014 “Short Plays” project, which invited prominent directors to contribute short films about soccer. Noé gives us the tumbling perspective of the ball during a casual street game.
All Night Long / Tapestry of Passion. Alan Colberg, 1976.
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Edition screened: Vinegar Syndrome DVD #045 Peekarama: All Night Long/Tapestry of Passion, released 2014. English language. Cumulative runtime approximately 163 minutes.
Summary: Hot magazine-on-plastic spider action! YYY!
All Night Long (83 minutes) is almost unwatchable. The long opening scene, a tiresome and too-familiar parody of an awards show with dumb jokes and vulgar clowning, is the least horrible part. 0.5/5❤
Tapestry of Passion (80 minutes). Half as horrible, which still is very ungood. From about 1:03:40 through 1:03:50, a black plastic spider is jiggled on a bed via fishing line before being beaten with a rolled magazine, a spectacle too lame to be considered as anything else. 1/5❤
All Ladies Do It (Così fan tutte). Tinto Brass, 1992.
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Edition screened: Arrow Blu-ray, released 2013. Italian language with English subtitles or English dub. Runtime approximately 97 minutes.
Summary: No animals or references to animals in the film. 2/5❤
