. . . And Justice for All. Norman Jewison, 1979.
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Edition screened: Columbia DVD, released 2001. English language. Runtime approximately 120 minutes.
Summary: No particular depictions of violence or harm to animals.
A-Peeling We Go-Go
A-Peeling We Go-Go. Joseph W. Sarno, 1965.
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Edition screened: Included on Something Weird DVD Scream of the Butterfly, released 2003. Scored, no dialogue track. Runtime approximately 9 minutes.
Summary: No animals or references to animals in the film.
Three dancers rejected at auditions for Orgy of the Dead now compete for the title of Miss Horrible Performance, 1965. Will it be Miss Cornball with her traditional burlesque embarrassment? Miss Boring with her mechanical Stop-Stop dancing? Or Miss Awkward with her vaguely Egyptian shoulder contortions?
The Beatles: Get Back
The Beatles: Get Back. Peter Jackson, 2021.
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Edition screened: Walt Disney Blu-ray, released 2022. English language. Runtime approximately 467 minutes.
Summary: No animals or references to animals in the film.
Le beau Serge
Le beau Serge. Claude Chabrol, 1958.
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Edition screened: Criterion Blu-ray #580, released 2011. French language with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 99 minutes.
Summary: No particular depictions of violence or harm to animals.
Colette
Colette. Yannick Bellon, 1950.
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Edition screened: Included on Icarus DVD Remembrance of Things to Come, released 2008. French language with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 26 minutes.
Summary: No particular depictions of violence or harm to animals.
Le cousins
Le cousins. Claude Chabrol, 1959.
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Edition screened: Criterion Blu-ray #581, released 2011. French language with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 109 minutes.
Summary: No particular depictions of violence or harm to animals.
The Dutch Sex Wave Collection
The Dutch Sex Wave Collection. Pim de la Parra and Wim Verstappen, 1966-1975.
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Edition screened: Cult Epics Blu-ray set, released 2019. Dutch language with English dub and/or subtitles. Compiled runtime approximately 362 minutes.
The first four films are reasonably enjoyable feature-length dramas with erotic content typical of the era, not pornographic. The three shorts are interesting arthouse-style pieces without erotic content. The Cult Epic set includes:
- Obsessions. 1969, Pim de la Parra
- Frank & Eva. 1973, Pim de la Parra
- Blue Movie. 1971, Wim Verstappen
- My Nights with Susan, Sandra, Olga & Julie. 1975, Pim de la Parra
- Heart Beat Fresco (short). 1966, Pim de la Parra
- Joop (short). 1969, Pim de la Parra
- Joop Strikes Again (short). 1970, Wim Verstappen
Firefly: The Complete Series
Firefly: The Complete Series. Joss Whedon et al., 2002
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Edition screened: 20th Century Fox Blu-ray set, released 2008. English language. Cumulative runtime 0f 14 episodes approximately 625 minutes.
Summary: Occasional depictions of dead game animals at rural market and similar predictable images, but nothing intentionally grotesque or gleefully mean about animals. The spacecraft has no companion animal on board routinely threatened or put in perilous situations, as happens often in science fiction stories.
This three-disc set includes all aired and unaired episodes, totaling fourteen.
Frat House
Frat House. David Worth (as Sven Conrad), 1979.
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Edition screened: Vinegar Syndrome Blu-ray #343, released 2020. English language. Runtime approximately 81 minutes.
Summary: No animals or references to animals in the film. 2.5/5❤
Girl House
Girl House. Jon Knautz and Trevor Matthews, 2014
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Edition screened: Phase 4 Blu-ray released 2016. English language. Runtime approximately 99 minutes.
Summary: No animals or references to animals in the film.
The Hawks and the Sparrows
The Hawks and the Sparrows (Uccellacci e uccellini). Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1966.
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Edition screened: Masters of Cinema DVD #109, released 2003. Italian language with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 89 minutes.
Summary: A real crow is treated unkindly, then portrayed as incinerated.
Details:
1) A talking crow “follows” Totò and Ninetto around the outskirts of Rome, but the bird clearly is being dragged on a lead that sometimes is visible to the camera. Throughout the film, the bird’s gate is arhythmic and uncomfortable.
2) A hawk dives from the sky and kills a sparrow, 45:50-45:58. Legitimate nature footage.
3) The film concludes with Totò grabbing the crow to eat it. The crow apparently detonates in his hand and we see close ups of an incinerated crow carcass 1:26:51-1:27:13.
Jeepers Creepers
Jeepers Creepers. Victor Salva, 2001.
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Edition screened: Included on Shout Factory Jeepers Creepers 1 and 2, released 2018. English language. Runtime approximately 90 minutes.
Summary: No particular depictions of violence or harm to animals. There is a tense scene at the front porch of a house with many cats, but no real threat or harm comes to the animals.
Jeepers Creepers 2
Jeepers Creepers 2. Victor Salva, 2003.
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Edition screened: Included on Shout Factory Jeepers Creepers 1 and 2, released 2018. English language. Runtime approximately 104 minutes.
Summary: No particular depictions of violence or harm to animals.
A predictably disappointing followup to the surprisingly good first film. Too much - way too much - about the piddly conflicts between high school students, and not enough of the excellent menace so effectively showcased in the first film.
Kristy
Kristy. Oliver Blackburn, 2014.
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Edition screened: Watched on Amazon. English language. Runtime approximately 86 minutes.
Summary: Off-screen murder of a dog.
Details: A dog charges attackers in the darkness to defend his companion human. We hear the dog yelping in pain, 47:04 - 47:15. His bloody collar is thrown to the man’s feet at 47:25.
Limite (Peixoto)
Limite. Mário Peixoto, 1931.
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Edition screened: Criterion Blu-ray #877 in box set #873 Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Project No. 2, released 2017. Scored and with several English intertitles; no dialogue track. Runtime approximately 118 minutes.
Summary: No depictions of violence or harm to animals.
The Criterion Blu-ray of this wondrous, beautiful film also includes a fourteen minute 2017 interview with Walter Salles, founder of the Mário Peixoto Archives. I could have listened to Salles’s charismatic discussion for an hour.
Lokis: A Manuscript of Professor Wittembach
Lokis: A Manuscript of Professor Wittembach (Lokis: Rekopis Profesora Wittembacha). Janusz Majewski, 1970.
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Edition screened: Included with Wilczyca (Disc 8) in Severin Blu-ray box set All the Haunts Be Ours: A Compendium of Folk Horror, released 2021. Polish language with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 100 minutes.
Summary: Poor treatment of animals throughout.
Details:
1) Street performers exhibiting a muzzled dancing bear, 7:52 - 8:47.
2) A white hen is used as bait to catch a hawk. We see the chicken tethered on short line at 32:48 as men sit nearby playing cards. A hawk dives and attacks the chicken at 33:32. We see the strike and feathers flying. The Count lunges for and captures the hawk at 33:36. The chicken is very angry and pecking but appears to be ok. The Count says to take the hawk to “the usual place.”
3) Through 35:29 we see examples of the Count’s taxidermy and understand the hawk’s fate.
4) Discussion of murdering a horse, 53:52 - 54:44.
5) Animals killed during a hunt are displayed beside the railroad tracks; foxes, rabbits, and a prominent bear, 1:37:23 - 1:37:52.
Note that while there is a general disregard for animals in the film, there are no actual scenes of harm or killing. That said, Lokis is an excellent film, suggesting the best of Visconcti or Pasolini.
Moonstruck
Moonstruck. Norman Jewison, 1987.
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Edition screened: Criterion Blu-ray #1056, released date. English language. Runtime approximately 102 minutes.
Summary: No particular depictions of violence or harm to animals.
My Nights with Susan, Sandra, Olga & Julie
My Nights with Susan, Sandra, Olga & Julie (Mijn Nachten met Susan, Olga, Albert, Julie, Piet & Sandra). Pim de la Parra, 1975.
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Edition screened: Included on Cult Epics The Dutch Sex Wave Collection, released 2017. Dutch language with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 85 minutes.
Summary: No particular depictions of violence or harm to animals. 3/5❤
The Portrait
The Portrait (Portret). Wladyslaw Starewicz, 1915.
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Edition screened: Included with Witchhammer (Disc 4) in Severin Blu-ray box set All the Haunts Be Ours: A Compendium of Folk Horror, released 2021. Russian intertitles with English translations; No audio track. Runtime approximately 16 minutes.
Summary: No animals in the film.
The Queen of Spades
The Queen of Spades (Pikovaya dama). Yakov Protazanov, 1916.
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Edition screened: Included with Witchhammer (Disc 4) in Severin Blu-ray box set All the Haunts Be Ours: A Compendium of Folk Horror, released 2021. Russian intertitles with English translations; No audio track. Runtime approximately 13 minutes.
Summary: No animals in the film.
Remembrance of Things to Come
Remembrance of Things to Come (Le souvenir d'un avenir). Chris Marker and Yannick Bellon, 2001.
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Edition screened: Icarus DVD, released 2008. Dubbed English naration. Runtime approximately 42 minutes.
Summary: No particular depictions of violence or harm to animals.
The Icarus DVD of this remarkable and transcending film also includes Bellon’s Colette (1950, 26 minutes).
Satan Exultant
Satan Exultant (Satana likuyushchiy). Yakov Protazanov, 1917.
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Edition screened: Included with Witchhammer (Disc 4) in Severin Blu-ray box set All the Haunts Be Ours: A Compendium of Folk Horror, released 2021. No audio track. Runtime approximately 6 minutes.
Summary: No animals in the film.
Scream of the Butterfly
Scream of the Butterfly. Eber Lobato and Howard Veit, 1965.
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Edition screened: Something Weird DVD-R, released 2003. English language. Runtime approximately 78 minutes.
Summary: No animals or references to animals in the film. 2.5/5❤
The Something Weird release also includes Josephs Sarno’s 1965 burlesque short A-Peeling We Go-Go after a generous gallery of trailers following the film. While this project typically does not note trailers, these SW trailers enhance the theme and spirit of the feature presentation. Also, as these titles have become costly and difficult to obtain, it is convenient that the trailers contain most of the famous and interesting scenes and serve as satisfying synopses of the films.
- All Women Are Bad (1:18:18 - 1:21:28)
- She Came on the Bus (1:21:29 - 1: 23:41)
- Meeting on 69th Street (1:23:42 - 1:25:58)
- Mr. Mari’s Girls (1:25:59 - 1:28:02)
- Sex Club International (1:28:03 - 1:29:25)
- Infidelity American-Style (1:29:26 - 1:31:37)
- Hot Skin and Cold Cash (1:31:38 - 1:33:11)
- Scarf of Mist, Thigh of Satin (1:33:12 - 1:34:55)
- Some Like It Violent (1:34:56 - 1:37:12)
- [blank tape] (1:37:13 - 1:37:33)
- Stefania (1:37:34 - 1:39:19)
- The Immoral (1:39:20 - 1:42:28)
- Michelle (1:42:29 - 1:44:17)
- The Passionate Strangers (1:44:18 - 1:47:00)
- Sarno’s A-Peeling We Go-Go (1:47:01 - 1:55:53)
- Something Weird Promo compilations (1:55:54 - 2:00:00)
Serenity
Serenity. Joss Whedon, 2005.
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Edition screened: Universal Blu-ray, released 2008. English language. Runtime approximately 119 minutes.
Summary: No particular depictions of violence or harm to animals.
Serenity is an enjoyable and well-directed follow-up to the short TV series Firefly. The film focuses on Firefly’s most mysterious character, River, while providing resolution to relationships and the history of the Multiverse in which they travel.
A Thousand Pleasures
A Thousand Pleasures. Michael Findlay (as Julian Marsh), 1968.
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Edition screened: Something Weird DVD-R, released 2003. English language. Runtime approximately 70 minutes.
Summary: No animals or references to animals in the film. 3.5/5❤
After A Thousand Pleasures’ 70 minutes of unsettling violence the Something Weird release winds down with two lighthearted shorts, Nude a Go Go (1965 Barry Mahon) and Box Lunch (1966 Gil Howard).
Wilczyca (The Wolf)
Wilczyca (The Wolf). Marek Piestrak, 1983.
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Edition screened: Included in Severin Blu-ray box set All the Haunts Be Ours: A Compendium of Folk Horror, released 2021. Polish with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 103 minutes.
Summary: Graphic death of a dog.
Details:
1) The opening 20 seconds of the film show a raven pecking at meat on the head of a dead horse; not really the meat of the horse, more like some meat placed on the head of a dead horse.
2) Kacper finds and carries away his bloody dog that has been attacked by a wolf, 46:59 - 47:35. The dog appears to be genuinely wounded and dying, twitching and with tongue distended.
3) Kacper pursues and shoots at the wolf. We hear the wolf whimper after a gunshot at 1:1:49, then follow a trail of blood to see a bloody paw (and nothing more) at 1:20:18.
The Wilczyca BD in the Severin box set also includes Lokis: A Manuscript of Professor Wittembach (1970, Janusz Majewski).
The Women of Inferno Island
The Women of Inferno Island (Gefangene Frauen/Caged Women). Erwin C. Dietrich, 1980.
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Edition screened: Full Moon DVD, released 2018. English dub over original German. Runtime approximately 80 minutes.
Summary: No animals or references to animals in the film. 2.5/5❤
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