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Titles L – Z

9 Songs

9 Songs. Michael Winterbottom, 2004.

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Edition screened: Tartan DVD, released 2005. English language. Runtime approximately 69 minutes.


Summary: No animals or references to animals in the film.


Bob Marley: One Love

Bob Marley: One Love. Reinaldo Marcus Green, 2024.

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Edition screened: Paramount Blu-ray, released 2024. English language. Runtime approximately 107 minutes.


Summary: No particular depictions of violence or harm to animals.


The Chicken

The Chicken. Roberto Rossellini, 1952.

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Edition screened: Included on Criterion Blu-ray #675 Journey to Italy in Blu-ray set #672, 3 Films by Roberto Rossellini Starring Ingrid Bergman released 2013. English language. Runtime approximately 16 minutes.


Summary: Ingrid Bergman gets into a battle of wills with a chicken. The chicken is briefly shut in a cupboard but not injured.


The Chicken was Rossellini’s contribution to the omnibus film Siamo donne.


A Double Life

A Double Life. George Cukor, 1947.

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Edition screened: Olive DVD, released 2012. English language. Runtime approximately 104 minutes.


Summary: No particular depictions of violence or harm to animals.


The Dreaming

The Dreaming. Mario Andreacchio, 1988.

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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. English language. Runtime approximately 77 minutes.


Summary: Mutilated sea lion.


Details: A decapitated and partially disemboweled sea lion is found on the beach, 1:04:08-1:04:13. Cathy drags the carcass into a pit she has dug in the sand and buries it, 1:05:11-1:05:30.


The The Dreaming BD in the Severin box set also includes Kadaicha (1988 James Bogle).


Homicide

Homicide. David Mamet, 1991.

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Edition screened: Criterion DVD #486, released 2009. English language. Runtime approximately 101 minutes.


Summary: No particular depictions of violence or harm to animals.


Invincible Shaolin

Invincible Shaolin (Unbeatable Dragon/Nan Shao Lin yu bei Shao Lin). Chang Cheh, 1978.

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Edition screened: Included in the Arrow Blu-ray box set Shawscope: Volume Two, released 2022. Mandarin language with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 106 minutes.


Summary: No particular depictions of violence or harm to animals.


Joker

Joker. Todd Phillips, 2019.

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Edition screened: Warner Blu-ray, released 2020. English language. Runtime approximately 122 minutes.


Summary: No particular depictions of violence or harm to animals.


Journey to Italy

Journey to Italy (Viaggio in Italia). Roberto Rossellini, 1954.

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Edition screened: Criterion Blu-ray #675 included in 3-Blu-ray set #672, 3 Films by Roberto Rossellini Starring Ingrid Bergman released 2013. English language. Runtime approximately 85 minutes.


Summary: No particular depictions of violence or harm to animals.


The Journey to Italy BD includes good supplemental material, all free of animal violence although Ingrid Bergman does handle a chicken awkwardly through the last part of The Chicken.

  • My Dad Is 100 Years Old (Guy Maddin short film, 2005)
  • The Chicken (Roberto Rossellini short film, 1952)
  • The Rossellinis on Capri (Swedish newsreel, 1953)
  • Surprised by Death (James Quadt, 2013 film essay)
  • Living and Departed (Tag Gallagher film essay)
  • Ingrid Bergman Remembered (Gene Feldman comments, 1995)
  • Rossellini Through His Own Eyes (Walter Hart comments, 1992)
  • Comments by critic Adriano Apra
  • An interview with twin sisters Ingrid and Isabella Rossellini
  • Comments by Martin Scorsese

The Kid with the Golden Arm

The Kid with the Golden Arm (Jin bi tong). Chang Cheh, 1979.

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Edition screened: Included in the Arrow Blu-ray box set Shawscope: Volume Two, released 2022. Mandarin language with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 86 minutes.


Summary: No particular depictions of violence or harm to animals.


The Magnificent Ruffians

The Magnificent Ruffians (Mai ming xiao zi). Chang Cheh, 1979.

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Edition screened: Included in the Arrow Blu-ray box set Shawscope: Volume Two, released 2022. Mandarin language with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 106 minutes.


Summary: No particular depictions of violence or harm to animals.


My Dad Is 100 Years Old

My Dad Is 100 Years Old. Guy Maddin, 2005.

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Edition screened: Included on Criterion Blu-ray #675 Journey to Italy in Blu-ray set #672, 3 Films by Roberto Rossellini Starring Ingrid Bergman released 2013. English language. Runtime approximately 17 minutes.


Summary: No depictions of violence or harm to animals.


The Speech

The Speech (Le discours). Laurent Tirard, 2020.

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Edition screened: Warner Blu-ray, released 2021. French language with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 87 minutes.


Summary: No particular depictions of violence or harm to animals.


Ten Tigers of Kwangtung

Ten Tigers of Kwangtung (Guangdong shi hu xing yi wu xi). Chang Cheh, 1980.

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Edition screened: Included in the Arrow Blu-ray box set Shawscope: Volume Two, released 2022. Mandarin language with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 91 minutes.


Summary: No particular depictions of violence or harm to animals.


Truth or Die

Truth or Die (Truth or Dare). Robert Heath, 2012.

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Edition screened: Salient DVD, released 2012. English language. Runtime approximately 96 minutes.


Summary: No animals or references to animals in the film.