Louie Bluie. Terry Zwigoff, 1985.
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Edition screened: Criterion DVD #532, released 2010. English language. Runtime approximately 60 minutes.
Summary: No depictions of violence or harm to animals.
A charming, entertaining film about Howard “Louie Bluie” Armstrong, also featuring the talents of well-known string band musicians Yank Rachell, “Banjo” Ikey Robinson, and Ted Bogan.
The Last Island. Marleen Gorris, 1990.
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Edition screened: Cult Epics Blu-ray, released 2023. Dutch language with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 101 minutes.
Summary: Animal killing is perceived as necessary in That Survival Lifestyle.
1) A survivor shoots a marsupial for food, 18:34-18:40.
2) A bird is shot, 24:02
3) A snake is beaten with a stick, 58:50.
4) A survivor carries a dead pig on his shoulders and slams it down on a table, 1:00:23.
Lady Snowblood 2: Love Song of Vengeance (Shura-yuki-hime: Urami Renga). Toshiya Fujita, 1974.
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Edition screened: Criterion Blu-ray # 791, included in The Complete Lady Snowblood, released 2016. Japanese language with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 89 minutes.
Summary: Dead and endangered animals
Details:
1) A trapper’s two dead rabbits can be seen during plot action, 7:10-7:29, and again 9:13-9:35.
2) A dog corpse floats in water, 32:42-32:50.
3) Chickens are trapped in a burning building, 1:14:58, with no resolution.
The Criterion set also contains Fujita’s original Lady Snowblood (1973).
Jacquot de Nantes. Agnès Varda, 1991.
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Edition screened: Included in Criterion Blu-ray box set The Complete Films of Agnès Varda (disc 10) released 2020. French language with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 118 minutes.
Summary: No particular depictions of violence or harm to animals.
I Live In Fear. Akira Kurosawa, 1955.
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Edition screened: Included in Criterion Eclipse Series 07: Postwar Kurosawa 5-DVD set, released 2007. Japanese language with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 103 minutes.
Summary: No depictions of violence or harm to animals.
Hell Behind Bars (Perverse oltre le sbarre). Gianni Siragusa (as Willy Regant), 1984.
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Edition screened: Watched online. English language. Runtime approximately 88 minutes.
Summary: No particular depictions of violence or harm to animals. 1/5❤
Gothic Fantastico: Four Italian Tales of Terror. Various directors, 1963-1966.
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Edition screened: Arrow 4-Blu-ray set, released 2022. Italian language with English subtitles. Combined runtime approximately 384 minutes.
Summary: The Third Eye and The Witch include scenes of animal violence. Click titles for details.
The Arrow set includes:
Lady Morgan’s Vengeance (Massimo Pupillo, 1965)
The Blancheville Monster (Alberto De Martino, 1963)
The Third Eye (Mino Guerrini, 1966)
The Witch in Love (Damiano Damiani, 1966)
Gas Pump Girls. Joel Bender, 1979.
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Edition screened: Watched online. English language. Runtime approximately 84 minutes.
Summary: No particular depictions of violence or harm to animals.
Dream Scenario. Kristoffer Borgli, 2023.
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Edition screened: Watched in a theatre. English language. Runtime approximately 102 minutes.
Summary: No particular depictions of violence or harm to animals.
The Disappearance of Alice Creed. J. Blakeson, 2009.
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Edition screened: Anchor Bay DVD, released 2010. English language. Runtime approximately 100 minutes.
Summary: No animals or references to animals in the film.
A Christmas Story Christmas. Clay Kaytis, 2022.
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Edition screened: Watched online. English language. Runtime approximately 98 minutes.
Summary: No particular depictions of violence or harm to animals.
Cemetery of Terror (Cementerio del terror). Rubén Galindo, Jr., 1985.
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Edition screened: Vinegar Syndrome Blu-ray #337, released 2020. Spanish language with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 91 minutes.
Summary: No animals or references to animals in the film.
Anyone But My Husband/‘Sweet Punkin’ I Love You. Roberta Findlay (as Robert Norman) 1975-1976.
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Edition screened: Vinegar Syndrome Blu-ray VS Peek-009, released 2022. English language. Cumulative runtime approximately 151 minutes.
Summary: No particular depictions of violence or harm to animals in either feature.
• Anyone But My Husband. 1975, approximately 70 minutes. 2.5/5❤
• ‘Sweet Punkin’ I Love You. 1976, approximately 81 minutes. 2/5❤
Agnès V. by Jane B. Walter Hart, 2020.
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Edition screened: Included in Criterion Blu-ray box set The Complete Films of Agnès Varda (disc 9) released 2020. French language with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 16 minutes.
Summary: No depictions of violence or harm to animals.
Afire (Roter Himmel). Christian Petzold, 2023.
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Edition screened: Watched online. German language with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 102 minutes.
Summary: Animals killed and suffering in a forest fire.
Details:
1) At 1:22:28 a baby boar runs down a hill with its back on fire. We then see what appears to be a small fox suffering and then die.
2) At 1:31:35 we see a dead baby deer(?) in the burnt woods.
