964 Pinocchio (Screams of Blasphemy). Shozin Fukui, 1991.
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Edition screened: Media Blasters Blu-ray, released 2023. Japanese language with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 97 minutes.
Summary: No particular depictions of violence or harm to animals.
Box Lunch. Gil Howard, 1966.
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Edition screened: Included on Something Weird DVD A Thousand Pleasures, released 2003. English language. Runtime approximately 18 minutes.
Summary: No animals or references to animals in the film.
Let’s see what Gil has packed into our box lunch: Three - possibly four, it’s hard to tell - vignettes of girls who smile at the camera while flopping around mostly outdoors in various stages of undress. The interesting angle to this common presentation is the voice-over parody of a smooth salesman advertising various domestic products. His corny patter contains a naughty double entendre in almost every line as the camera pans across the girls. Oh, my.
A Brighter Summer Day (Guling jie shaonian sharen shijian). Edward Yang 1991.
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Edition screened: Criterion Blu-ray #804, released 2016. Mandarin language with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 237 minutes.
Summary: No particular depictions of violence or harm to animals.
Hôtel du Nord. Marcel Carné, 1938.
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Edition screened: Criterion Blu-ray #1139, released 2022. French language with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 96 minutes.
Summary: Discussion of killing animals.
Details: A chicken shrieks as she is killed off-screen, while two people on the street provide other examples of the butcherer’s proclivity for killing animals 35:22- 36:00.
A small unidentified pinball machine is in the background of a dining scene, 18:30. We get a closer partial view of one side at 23:45.
Insiang. Lino Brocka, 1976.
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Edition screened: Criterion Blu-ray #874 in box set #873 Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Project No. 2, released 2017. Tagalog language with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 94 minutes.
Summary: Brutal pig killing and processing.
The film opens with graphic slaughter house scenes, primarily the poor pigs screaming as they are murdered. This ends by 2:48, with no further violence to animals.
This opening is a lazy and sensationalistic way to establish tone and foreshadowing about a character we will see later in the film. You can skip the opening and begin watching at 2:50, where we see Insiang’s mother working her stall at the marketplace.
The Last of England. Derek Jarman, 1987.
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Edition screened: Kino Lorber DVD, released 2012. (Submitted by a friend; Thank you!) English language. Runtime approximately 92 minutes.
Summary: No particular depictions of violence or harm to animals.
Let Us Prey. Brian O’Malley, 2014.
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Edition screened: Dark Sky Blu-ray, released 2015. English language. Runtime approximately 92 minutes.
Summary: No animals or references to animals in the film.
Monkey Business. Norman Z. McLeod, 1931.
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Edition screened: Included in Universal Blu-ray box set The Marx Brothers Silver Screen Collection, released 2016. English language. Runtime approximately 78 minutes.
Summary: No particular depictions of violence or harm to animals.
Nude a Go Go. Barry Mahon, 1965.
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Edition screened: Included on Something Weird DVD-R A Thousand Pleasures, released 2003. Scored, no dialogue track. Runtime approximately 10 minutes.
Summary: No animals or references to animals in the film.
Tammy, Gigi, Bunny, Lisa, and Be Be are five reasonably attractive girls who dance reasonably well in front of scenic backdrops. Library music from an album that I hope was called something like Twisting and Shouting for the Love of Pete plays throughout. The first music selection is a variation of “Twist and Shout”. The second music selection is the first four measure of “Twist and Shout” repeated for four minutes. The third is a different recording of the first four minutes of “Twist and Shout” repeated for four minutes, this time with a slightly different beat and in a different key.
Taipei Story (Qing mei zhu ma). Edward Yang, 1985.
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Edition screened: Criterion Blu-ray #879 in box set #873 Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Project No. 2, released 2017. Hokkien and Mandarin languages with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 110 minutes.
Summary: No particular depictions of violence or harm to animals.
A Woman Kills (La femme bourreau). Jean-Denis Bonan, 1968.
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Edition screened: Radiance Blu-ray, released 2023. (Submitted by a friend; Thank you!) French language with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 70 minutes.
Summary: No particular depictions of violence or harm to animals.
Women Talking. Sarah Polley, 2022.
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Edition screened: Universal Blu-ray, released 2023. English language. Runtime approximately 104 minutes.
Summary: No particular depictions of violence or harm to animals.
