100 Years of Olympic Films 1912-2012

100 Years of Olympic Films 1912-2012. Various directors, 1912-2012.

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Edition screened: Criterion Blu-ray box set #900, released 2007. Various languages with English subtitles. Cumulative runtime approximately 6,253 minutes.

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

The massive Criterion box set includes:

Stockholm 1912

• The Games of the V Olympiad Stockholm, 1912 (dir. Adrian Wood) 

Chamonix 1924

• The Olympic Games Held at Chamonix in 1924 (dir. Jean de Rovera) 

Paris 1924

• The Olympic Games as They Were Practiced in Ancient Greece (dir. Jean de Rovera) 
• The Olympic Games in Paris 1924 (dir. Jean de Rovera) 

St. Moritz 1928

• The White Stadium (dirs. Arnold Fanck, Othmar Gurtner) 

Amsterdam 1928

• The IX Olympiad in Amsterdam (dir. unknown)
• The Olympic Games, Amsterdam 1928 (dir. Wilhelm Prager) 

Garmisch-Partenkirchen 1936

• Youth of the World (dir. Carl Junghans) 

Berlin 1936

• Olympia Part One: Festival of the Nations (dir. Leni Riefenstahl)
• Olympia Part Two: Festival of Beauty (dir. Leni Riefenstahl) 

St. Moritz 1948

• Fight Without Hate (dir. André Michel) 

London 1948

• XIVth Olympiad: The Glory of Sport (dir. Castleton Knight) 

Oslo 1952

• The VI Olympic Winter Games, Oslo 1952 (dir. Tancred Ibsen) 

Helsinki 1952

• Where the World Meets (dir. Hannu Leminen)
• Gold and Glory (dir. Hannu Leminen)
• Memories of the Olympic Summer of 1952 (dir. unknown) 

Cortina d’Ampezzo 1956

• White Vertigo (dir. Giorgio Ferroni) 

Melbourne/Stockholm 1956

• Olympic Games, 1956 (dir. Peter Whitchurch)
• The Melbourne Rendez-vous (dir. René Lucot)
• Alain Mimoun (dir. Louis Gueguen)
• The Horse in Focus (dir. unknown) 

Squaw Valley 1960

• People, Hopes, Medals (dir. Heribert Meisel) 

Rome 1960

• The Grand Olympics (dir. Romolo Marcellini) 

Innsbruck 1964

• IX Olympic Winter Games, Innsbruck 1964 (dir. Theo Hormann) 

Tokyo 1964

• Tokyo Olympiad (dir. Kon Ichikawa)
• Sensation of the Century (prod. Taguchi Suketaro)

Grenoble 1968

• 13 Days in France (dirs. Claude Lelouch, François Reichenbach) 
• Snows of Grenoble (dirs. Jacques Ertaud, Jean-Jacques Languepin) 

Mexico City 1968

• The Olympics in Mexico (dir. Alberto Isaac) 

Sapporo 1972

• Sapporo Winter Olympics (dir. Masahiro Shinoda) 

Munich 1972

• Visions of Eight (dirs. Miloš Forman, Kon Ichikawa, Claude Lelouch, Yuri Ozerov, Arthur Penn, Michael Pfleghar, John Schlesinger, Mai Zetterling) 

Innsbruck 1976

• White Rock (dir. Tony Maylam) 

Montreal 1976

• Games of the XXI Olympiad (dirs. Jean-Claude Labrecque, Jean Beaudin, Marcel Carrière, Georges Dufaux) 

Lake Placid 1980

• Olympic Spirit (dirs. Drummond Challis, Tony Maylam) 

Moscow 1980

• O Sport, You Are Peace! (dir. Yuri Ozerov) 

Sarajevo 1984

• A Turning Point (dir. Kim Takal) 

Los Angeles 1984

• 16 Days of Glory (dir. Bud Greenspan) 

Calgary 1988

• Calgary ’88: 16 Days of Glory (dir. Bud Greenspan) 

Seoul 1988

• Seoul 1988 (dir. Lee Kwang-soo)
• Hand in Hand (dir. Im Kwon-taek)
• Beyond All Barriers (dir. Lee Ji-won) 

Albertville 1992

• One Light, One World (dirs. Joe Jay Jalbert, R. Douglas Copsey) 

Barcelona 1992

• Marathon (dir. Carlos Saura) 

Lillehammer 1994

• Lillehammer ’94: 16 Days of Glory (dir. Bud Greenspan) 

Atlanta 1996

• Atlanta’s Olympic Glory (dir. Bud Greenspan) 

Nagano 1998

• Nagano ’98 Olympics: Stories of Honor and Glory (dir. Bud Greenspan)
• Olympic Glory (dir. Kieth Merrill) 

Sydney 2000

• Sydney 2000: Stories of Olympic Glory (dir. Bud Greenspan) 

Salt Lake City 2002

• Salt Lake City 2002: Bud Greenspan's Stories of Olympic Glory (dir. Bud Greenspan) 

Athens 2004

• Bud Greenspan's Athens 2004: Stories of Olympic Glory (dir. Bud Greenspan) 

Turin 2006

• Bud Greenspan's Torino 2006: Stories of Olympic Glory (dir. Bud Greenspan) 

Beijing 2008

• The Everlasting Flame (dir. Gu Jun) 

Vancouver 2010

• Bud Greenspan Presents Vancouver 2010: Stories of Olympic Glory (prods. Bud Greenspan)

London 2012

• First (dir. Caroline Rowland)

101 Acts of Love/Sessions of Love Therapy

101 Acts of Love/Sessions of Love Therapy. Eric Jeffrey Haims and John Flanders, 1970-1971.

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Edition screened: Vinegar Syndrome DVD #212 Peekarama: Sessions of Love Therapy/101 Acts of Love, released 2018. English language. Cumulative runtime approximately 157 minutes.

Summary: No depictions of violence or harm to animals.

• 101 Acts of Love. Eric Jeffrey Haims, 1970, 70 minutes.  0.5/5❤

• Sessions of Love Therapy. John Flanders, 1971, 87 minutes.  2/5❤

1408

1408. Mikael Håfström, 2007

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Edition screened: Dimension DVD, released 2007. English language. Runtime approximately 94 minutes.

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

2081

2081. Chandler Tuttle, 2009.

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Edition screened: Izzit DVD, released 2011. English language. Runtime approximately 25 minutes.

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

À propos de Nice

À propos de Nice. Jean Vigo, 1930.

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Edition screened: Included on Criterion Blu-ray #578, The Complete Jean Vigo, released 2011. Scored, no dialogue track. Runtime approximately 23 minutes.

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

Ace in the Hole

Ace in the Hole. Billy Wilder, 1951.

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Edition screened: Criterion Blu-ray #396, released 2014. English language. Runtime approximately 111 minutes.

Summary: No particular depictions of violence or harm to animals. Snake in a box.

The Criterion release also includes Annie Tresgot’s Billy Wilder biography Portrait of a ‘60% Perfect Man’ (Portrait d'un homme 'à 60% parfait': Billy Wilder, 1982, approximately 59 minutes).

The Act of Killing

The Act of Killing. Joshua Oppenheimer, 2012.

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Edition screened: Dogwoof, released 2015. English and Indonesian with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 115 minutes.

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

The Dogwood Blu-ray also includes the 260 minute Director’s cut, recommended.

The Act of Seeing with one’s own eyes

The Act of Seeing with one’s own eyes. Stan Brakhage, 1971.

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Edition screened: Included in Criterion Blu-ray box set #518 By Brakhage: An Anthology, Volumes One and Two, released 2010. Silent. Runtime 31 minutes, 50 seconds.

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

Adieu Philippine

Adieu Philippine. Jacques Rozier, 1961.

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Edition screened: Included in Potemkine DVD box set Jacques Rozier, released 2008. French language with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 106 minutes.

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

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. Alfred L. Werker, 1939.

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Edition screened: Included in MPI The Complete Sherlock Holmes Collection Blu-ray set, released 2011. English language. Runtime approximately 85 minutes.

Summary: Endangerment of a horse.

Details: Holmes flips the carriage he is driving over on one side, taking the poor horse with it. We see the horse struggle, but he is freed and able to stand and walk off. This happens toward the end of the film at the culmination of Homes’ reckless drive to the Tower of London.

The Affairs of Aphrodite

The Affairs of Aphrodite. Alain Patrick, 1970.

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Edition screened: Included on Vinegar Syndrome Blue Money Blu-ray #151, released 2017. English language. Runtime approximately 75 minutes.

Summary: No depictions of violence or harm to animals. 0/5❤

After Death

After Death. Evgeni Bauer, 1915.

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Edition screened: Included on Milestone DVD Mad Love: The Films of Evgeni Bauer, released 2002. Russian intertitles with English subtitles, no dialogue track. Runtime approximately 46 minutes.

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

Aguirre, the Wrath of God

Aguirre, the Wrath of God (Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes). Werner Herzog, 1972.

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Edition screened: Included in Shout! Factory Blu-ray box set Herzog: The Collection, released 2014. German language with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 94 minutes.

Summary: Rough handling of a monkey.

Details:
1) A pig is carried around very roughly then held down on the ground. Two men plan to slaughter it with a knife, an act fortunately not shown, 50:22-50:36.
2) A horse is violently frightened by a screaming Klaus Kinski and falls down, 53:36-53:46.
3) A horse that already is having trouble standing on the raft, is further freighted and stressed by a bunch of men,shouting and pushing it around. The horse falls several times and finally is being pushed off the raft and must try to swim to land. (1:07:54-1:09:03)
4) Mild fishing violence of bringing in one fish and a late stage of prep, 1:05:53-1:06:36, with other action simultaneous.
2) Klaus Kinski grabs a squirrel monkey roughly, lectures at it, then tosses it aside, 1:32:00-1:32:15.

Alice in the Cities

Alice in the Cities (Alice in den Städten). Wim Wenders, 1974.

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Edition screened: Criterion Blu-ray #814, included in The Road Trilogy box set #813 released 2016. German language with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 113 minutes.

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

This disc in The Road Trilogy also includes Wenders’ Same Player Shoots Again (1967, 12 minutes) and Silver City Revisited (1968, 25 minutes), both free of animal violence.

All the Sins of Sodom

All the Sins of Sodom. Joseph Sarno, 1968.

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Edition screened: Included with Vibrations on Film Movement’s Joseph W. Sarno Retrospect Series Vol. 2 Blu-ray, released 2017. English language. Runtime approximately 87 minutes.

Summary: No depictions of violence or harm to animals. 3/5❤

Along Came Polly

Along Came Polly. John Hamburg, 2003.

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Edition screened: Universal DVD, released 2004. English language. Runtime approximately 91 minutes.

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

American Honey

American Honey. Andrea Arnold, 2016.

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Edition screened: Lionsgate Blu-ray, released 2016. English language. Runtime approximately 162 minutes.

Summary: No depictions of violence or harm to animals. Star (the female lead played by Sasha Lane) helps small animals such as bees throughout the film.

The American Soldier

The American Soldier (Der Amerikanische Soldat). Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1970.

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Edition screened: Included in Arrow DVD box set The Rainer Werner Fassbinder: Commemorative Collection 69-72 Volume 1, released 2007. German language with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 77 minutes.

Summary: No depictions of violence toward animals.

Angels and Insects

Angels and Insects. Philip Haas, 1995.

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Edition screened: MGM DVD, released 2002. English language. Runtime approximately 116 minutes.

Summary: Entomological collections and similar natural history specimens.

Details: We see many specimens of insects and small animals throughout the film, mostly in the form of antique displays of insects pinned in boxes. We do not see killing or tormenting of animals.

Animal Crackers

Animal Crackers. Victor Heerman, 1930.

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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 99 minutes.

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

Animal Factory

Animal Factory. Steve Buscemi, 2000.

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Edition screened: Arrow Blu-ray, released 2017. English language. Runtime approximately 94 minutes.

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

The Animatrix

The Animatrix. Various directors, 2003.

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Edition screened: Included in Warner The Ultimate Matrix Collection Blu-ray box set, released 2008. English language. Runtime approximately 102 minutes.

Summary: Fleeting cartoon images of dead animals. 

Details:

1) Animated duotone ‘surveillance footage’ image of murdered pets in an apartment (The Second Renaissance Part I, 12:53:12:59 when viewed consecutively).

2) Stagnant animated depiction of a dead cartoon monkey (Matriculated, 1:31:38-1:31:42 when viewed consecutively).

The Animatrix is a series of nine short animations that provide anecdotal backstory to the three Matrix films. Most were written or conceptualized by the Wachowskis, directors of the three original films. The Animatrix includes:

Final Flight of the Osiris (Andy Jones, approximately 17 minutes)

The Second Renaissance, Part I (Mahiro Maeda, approximately 9 minutes)

The Second Renaissance, Part II (Mahiro Maeda, approximately 9 minutes)

Kid’s Story (Shinichiro Watanabe, approximately 9 minutes)

Program (Yoshiaki Kawajiri, approximately 7 minutes)

World Record (Takeshi Koike, approximately 13 minutes)

Beyond (Koji Morimoto, approximately 17 minutes)

A Detective Story (Shinichiro Watanabe, approximately 10 minutes)

Matriculated (Peter Chung, approximately 16 minutes)

Anna Boleyn (Lubitsch)

Anna Boleyn. Ernst Lubitsch, 1920.

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Edition screened: Eureka! Masters of Cinema Blu-ray #179, included in the box set Lubitsch in Berlin: Fairy-Tales, Melodramas, and Sex Comedies, released 2017. Scored, with German intertitles and English subtitles, no dialogue track. Runtime approximately 118 minutes.

Summary: Brief kitchen montage of fish cleaning, a piglet on a spit, and a chicken being (discreetly, quickly) slaughtered, 22:12-22:55

Anonymous

Anonymous. Roland Emmerich, 2011.

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Edition screened: Sony Blu-ray, released 2012. English language. Runtime approximately 130 minutes.

Summary: Bear baiting.

Details: A bear baiting scene, 1:04:58-1:06:14, shows mostly dialogue among the crowd with cuts to snarling dogs, the swatting bear, and unspecific thrashing of fur. Still, the sense of violence and criminal brutality is present.

Arabic 12

Arabic 12. Stan Brakhage, 1982.

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Edition screened: Included in Criterion Blu-ray box set #518 By Brakhage: An Anthology, Volumes One and Two, released 2010. Silent. Runtime 17 minutes, 1 second.

Summary: No depictions of violence or harm to animals.

Aria Diva

Aria Diva. Agnieszka Smoczyńska, 2007.

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Edition screened: Included on Criterion Blu-ray The Lure #896, released 2017. Polish language with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 30 minutes.

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

A superb early work by an outstanding female director, making me recall the excitement of seeing Angela Arnold’s first short films.

Armageddon

Armageddon. Michael Bay, 1998.

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Edition screened: Buena Vista DVD, released 2005. English language. Runtime approximately 150 minutes.

Summary: A dog is imperiled.

Details: A small dog hangs by his harness and leash in a gaping chasm, 7:30-7:40.  This threat is softened by an attentive owner who stays with the dog at his own peril, promising the animal’s rescue.  We see the dog in his owner’s arms soon thereafter.

Around Trapeze Artists

Around Trapeze Artists. Agnès Varda, 2008.

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Edition screened: Included in Criterion Blu-ray box set The Complete Films of Agnès Varda (disc 15) released 2020. French language with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 10 minutes.

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

Art Flies Free

Art Flies Free. Ian Helliwell, 2000.

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Edition screened: Included in BFI Gazwrx: The Films of Jeff Keen Blu-ray/DVD set, released 2009. Scored and/or with sound effects track. Runtime approximately 3 minutes.

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

Artwar

Artwar. Jeff Keen, 1990s.

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Edition screened: Included in BFI Gazwrx: The Films of Jeff Keen Blu-ray/DVD set, released 2009. Scored and/or with sound effects track; no dialogue track.

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

The Artwar works include: 

• Artwar (1993, 6 minutes, some English narration in addition to sound effects)

• Artwar - The Last Frontier (1993, 20 minutes)

• Artwar Fallout and Artwar 3  -  a split-screen presentation known as Irresistible Attack in this assembled state (1993-1995, approximately 10 minutes).

• Artwar Loop 1 and Artwar Loop 2, each is a 1-minute full-screen continuous loop edit of Fallout and Artwar 3 (1990s).