Vivre sa vie: film en douze tableaux (My Life to Live). Jean-Luc Godard, 1962.
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Edition screened: Criterion Blu-ray #512, released 2010. French language with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 83 minutes.
Summary: No animals or references to animals in the film.
A 1956 Gottlieb Sea Belles in the café at 8:20. A different unidentified table is first seen at 29:52 with a better view of the left side of the backglass at 35:35.
Zatoichi the Outlaw (Zatōichi rōyaburi). Satsuo Yamamoto, 1967.
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Edition screened: In Criterion Blu-ray box set #679 Zatoichi: The Blind Swordsman, released 2013. Japanese language with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 95 minutes.
Summary: Killing of a moth.
Details: While showing off for a ganster, Zatoichi flicks a toothpick across the room and impales a large moth, 20:04–20:10. We see the skewered moth grounded and struggling
The sixteenth film in the Zatoichi series.
Too Much Too Often. Doris Wishman (as Louis Silverman), 1966.
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Edition screened: Included in AGFA Blu-ray set The Films of Doris Wishman: The Moonlight Years. English language. Runtime approximately 72 minutes.
Summary: No depictions of violence or harm to animals.
Snowpiercer. Bong Joon-ho, 2013.
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Edition screened: Lionsgate Blu-ray, released 2015. English language and other languages with unreliable subtitles. Runtime approximately 126 minutes.
Summary: At 46:00, a large dead fish is slit with an axe as a motivating act before a melee.
The Pick-Up. Lee Frost, 1968.
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Edition screened: Something Weird DVD, released 2003. English language. Runtime approximately 96 minutes.
Summary: No particular depictions of violence or harm to animals. 02.5/5❤
A surprise bonus in The Pick-Up is psycho-folk singer Jim Sullivan singing and playing a complete song while seated on the sofa in a mobster’s pad. Crazy, man, crazy.
Martial Arts of Shaolin (Nan bei Shao Lin). Liu Chia-Liang, 1986.
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Edition screened: Included in the Arrow Blu-ray box set Shawscope: Volume Two, released 2022. Mandarin language. Runtime approximately 94 minutes.
Summary: A living harmless snake is fastened to a thin tree branch by looping its neck around the branch and tying a knot with its body. It then is pulled taught, skinned alive, the body whacked from the head, hacked into pieces and cooked on a sizzling hot stone. Hokey Smokes. 16:52 - 17:26.
The film opens with an ethically irreconcilable scene in which two young Shaolin students save a nest of baby birds. They then get worms to feed the pre-fledglings and are interrupted by a senior monk who ruins Happy Baby Bird Time by asking if the birds’ lives are more important than the life of the worms?
Funky Forest: The First Contact (Naisu no mori). Katsuhito Ishii, Hajime Ishimine, & Shunichirô Miki, 2005.
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Edition screened: Third Window Blu-ray, released 2022. Japanese language with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 150 minutes.
Summary: No particular depictions of violence or harm to animals. Several small malicious fantasy creatures are handled roughly.
The Films of Doris Wishman: The Moonlight Years. 1965-1969.
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Edition screened: AGFA, released 2022. English language. Combined runtime of feature films approximately 632 minutes.
Summary: No particular depictions of violence or harm to animals.
Click on individual titles for additional information:
Bad Girls Go to Hell (1965)
The Sex Perils of Paulette (1965)
Another Day, Another Man (1966)
My Brother’s Wife (1966)
The Hot Month of August (1966)
A Taste of Flesh (1967)
Indecent Desires (1968)
Too Much Too Often (1968)
Passion Fever (1969)
The Family Stone. Thomas Bezucha, 2005.
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Edition screened: 20th Century DVD, released 2006. English language. Runtime approximately 103 minutes.
No animals or references to animals in the film.
Dune: Part Two. Denis Villeneuve, 2024.
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Edition screened: Included in Warner Dune 2-Film Collection 4K Blu-ray set, released 2004. English language. Runtime approximately 166 minutes.
Summary: Birds are incinerated in a small cave and fall to the ground charred and dead starting at 1:49:34, with recurring images during other action through 1:50:47.
Dune. Denis Villeneuve, 2021.
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Edition screened: Included in Warner Dune 2-Film Collection 4K Blu-ray set, released 2004. English language. Runtime approximately 155 minutes.
Summary: No particular depictions of violence or harm to animals.
Savage Sadists/Den of Dominance/Daughters of Discipline. Phil Prince, 1983.
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Edition screened: Included on Vinegar Syndrome Avon Triple Feature DVD #086, released 2015. English language. Cumulative runtime approximately 117 minutes.
Summary: No animals or references to animals in the films. 1/5❤
Vinegar Syndrome’s Avon Triple Feature demonstrates thrice that a 40-minute film can be scripted, cast, and produced in 50 minutes:
Savage Sadists. 1983, Phil Prince. Approximately 38 minutes. 0.05/5❤
Den of Dominance. 1983, Phil Prince. Approximately 37 minutes. 1/5❤
Daughters of Discipline. 1983, Phil Prince. Approximately 42 minutes. 1/5❤
