The Aesthetic of Violence

Культовое Кино An exploration of the various depictions of violence throughout cinema. TIMESTAMPS: 0:00 Introduction 1:36 The Lord of The Rings Trilogy (Dir: Peter Jackson) 3:19 Batman Begins (Dir: Christopher Nolan) 4:09 A Touch of Zen (Dir: King Hu) 5:21 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Dir: Ang Lee) 6:05 Hero (Dir: Zhang Yimou) 6:14 Chocolate (Dir: Prachya Pinkaew) 6:23 Ong-Bak (Dir: Prachya Pinkaew) 6:55 The Raid & The Raid 2 (Dir: Gareth Evans) 8:53 I Saw The Devil (Dir: Kim Jee-Woon) 10:42 Straw Dogs (Dir: Sam Peckinpah) 13:18 M (Dir: Fritz Lang) 14:55 Prisoners (Dir: Denis Villeneuve) 17:02 Natural Born Killers (Dir: Oliver Stone) 19:00 Battle Royale (Dir: Kinji Fukusaku) 20:41 Punishment Park (Dir: Peter Watkins) 22:11 Funny Games (Dir: Michael Haneke) 24:21 La Haine (Dir: Mathieu Kassovitz) 26:02 American History X (Dir: Tony Kaye) 27:03 Mississippi Burning (Dir: Alan Parker) 27:13 A Clockwork Orange (Dir: Stanley Kubrick) 27:45 Ichi The Killer (Dir: Takashi Miike) 29:29 Heroic Purgatory (Dir: Yoshishige Yoshida) 30:37 Martyrs (Dir: Pascal Laugier) 32:51 Army of Shadows (Dir: Jean-Pierre Melville) 34:41 Hardcore (Dir: Paul Schrader) 36:31 The Noisy Requiem (Dir: Yoshiko Matsui) 38:26 The Battle of Algiers (Dir: Gillo Pontecorvo) 38:45 Men Behind The Sun (Dir: T.F. Mou) 40:29 Benny’s Video (Dir: Michael Haneke) 41:30 Elephant (Dir: Gus Van Sant) 43:17 The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (Dir: Cristi Puiu) 44:10 In A Glass Cage (Dir: Agustí Villaronga) 45:38 Memories of Murder (Dir: Bong-Joon Ho) 47:06 Tyrranosaur (Dir: Paddy Considine) 48:41 Dogville (Dir: Lars Von Trier) 50:01 Audition (Takashi Miike) 51:11 A History of Violence (Dir: David Cronenberg) 52:44 Irreversible (Dir: Gaspar Noe) 54:38 A Short Film About Killing (Dir: Krzysztof Kieślowski) 56:04 Conclusion