The title of this weblog post was correct, when I started writing it. It contained about 100 years of films from 1925 to 2025. In its final form it starts at 1900 and ends at 2029.
Yes, I am a creature of habit, even in terms of using the Internet. I obtain general/ political news from several sources: https://www.inderoyningen.no/ for local news from Inderøy. https://www.nrk.no for other Norwegian news; https://theguardian.com/europe for European and world news; and, https://www.news.google.com for world news with an American perspective. Yes, sometimes I also seek out Canadian news and perspectives from https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada . For technology related articles, I habitually use /. = https://slashdot.org/ , I will also mention, yet again, that my favourite social media site was ello.co, until it disappeared in 2023. Wikipedia has an article about it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ello_(social_network) .
Then there is kottke.org, founded in 1998, one of the oldest blogs on the web. It is written and produced by Jason Kottke (1973 – ) and covers the essential people, inventions, performances, and ideas that increase the collective adjacent possible of humanity. I begin reading its content, sometimes daily for up to several months. Then one day I forget, and it quickly disappears from view. At some point, I realize that I have not read it for some time, and I search for it again. I have an aversion of remembering its name, but know that it begins with a K.
Much of this post is based on content found at kottke.org when I began re-reading its posts again, on 2025-07-16. No, I cannot remember when I stopped reading it last, but my Firefox browser found it immediately after I typed in k.
One of its posts from 2025-07-08 names the films set during a century from 1925 to 2025, found in a youtube video. I have by no means watched all of these. Because I have an obsession with dates, here they are organized by decade. I have added additional films from 1900 to 1924 and from 2026 to 2029, that are not in the video. Sometimes a film’s setting in terms of time spans several years.
1900 – Call of the Wild (1935); 1901 – The Riddle of the Sands (1979); 1902 – 西洋鏡 = Shadow Magic (2000); 1903 – The Time Machine (2002); 1904 – Our Town (1940); 1905 – Броненосец «Потёмкин» = Battleship Potemkin (1925); 1906 – When the Earth Trembled (1913); 1906 – Madame Butterfly (1995); 1907 – A Room with a View (2007); 1908 – McCabe and Mrs Miller (1971); 1909 – Lady and the Tramp (1955).
1910 – Fanny and Alexander (1982); 1911 – Morte a Venezia = Death in Venice (1971); 1912 – Polyanna (1960); 1913 – The Wild Bunch (1969); 1914 – The 39 Steps (2008); 1915 – Nickelodeon (1976); 1916 – The Color Purple (1985); 1917 – The Time Machine (1960); 1918 – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008); 1919 – It’s a Wonderful Life (1946).
1920 – C’era una volta in America = Once Upon a Time in America (1984); 1921 – Legends of the Fall (1994); 1922 – The Great Gatsby (2013); 1923 – The Natural (1984); 1924 – Chicago (2002); 1925 – Ordet (1955); 1926 – Anastasia (1997); 1927 – Babylon (2022) & The Jazz Singer (1927); 1928 – Walt Before Mickey (2015); 1929 – Porco Rosso (1992).
1930 – Lucky Lady (1975); 1931 – Road to Perdition (2002); 1932 – The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014); 1933 – Mr. Jones (2019); 1934 – L’ultimo imperatore = The Last Emperor (1987); 1935 – The Aviator (2004); 1936 – Race (2016); 1937 – The Hindenburg (1975); 1938 – The Sound of Music (1965); 1939 – The Pianist (2002).
1940 – The Darkest Hour (2017); 1941 – Casablanca (1942); 1942 – The Thin Red Line (1998); 1943 – Come and See (1985); 1944 – Son of Saul (2015); 1945 – Oppenheimer (2023); 1946 – Godzilla Minus One (2023); 1947 – The Brutalist (2024); 1948 – Exodus (1960); 1949 – Trumbo (2015).
1950 – The Master (2012); 1951 – Brooklyn (2015); 1952 – Malcom X (1992); 1953 – The Death of Stalin (2017); 1954 – Blonde (2022); 1955 – The Notorious Bettie Page (2005); 1956 – Ed Wood (1994); 1957 – The Iron Giant (1999); 1958 – The Godfather Part II (1974); 1959 – In Cold Blood (1967).
1960 – Bridge of Spies (2015); 1961 – Hidden Figures (2016); 1962 – X-Men First Class (2011); 1963 – Jackie (2016); 1964 – One Night in Miami (2020); 1965 – Good Morning Vietnam (1987); 1966 – Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan (2019); 1967 – Platoon (1986); 1968 – Judas and the Black Messiah (2021); 1969 – First Man (2018).
1970 – Apollo 13 (1995); 1971 – Zodiac (2007); 1972 – Dog Day Afternoon (1975); 1973 – Elvis (2022); 1974 – Velvet Goldmine (1998); 1975 – Saturday Night (2024); 1976 – Dazed and Confused (1993); 1977 – Summer of Sam (1999); 1978 – Milk (2008); 1979 – Argo (2012).
1980 – American Made (2017); 1981 – Hunger (2008); 1982 – Waltz With Bashir (2008); 1983 – Heartbreak Ridge (1986); 1984 – 1984 (1984); 1985 – Bohemian Rhapsody (2018); 1986 – Straight Outta Compton (2015); 1987 – 1987: When the Day Comes (2017); 1988 – No (2012); 1989 – Good Bye Lenin! (2003).
1990 – Jarhead (2005) 1991 – Three Kings (1999) 1992 – 1992 (2022) 1993 – The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) 1994 – Hotel Rwanda (2004) 1995 – Invictus (2009) [World Cup] 1996 – Everest (2015) 1997 – Diana (2013) 1998 – Steve Jobs (2015) [Reveal of the iMac] 1999 – The Matrix (1999)
2000 – Strange Days (1995); 2001 – 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968); 2002 – Patlabor 2 (1993); 2003 – The Social Network (2010); 2004 – The Hurt Locker (2008); 2005 – Transformers The Movie (1986); 2006 – The Outpost (2019); 2007 – The Big Short (2015); 2008 – Killing Them Softly (2012); 2009 – Sully (2016).
2010 – Absolon (2003); 2011 – The Last Chase (1981); 2012 – I Am Legend (2007); 2013 – The Postman (1997); 2014 – Moon Child (2003); 2015 – End of Evangelion (1997); 2016 – Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011); 2017 – The Running Man (1987); 2018 – Rollerball (1975); 2019 – Blade Runner (1982).
2020 – Reign of Fire (2002); 2021 – Johnny Mnemonic (1995); 2022 – Soylent Green (1973); 2023 – X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014); 2024 – A Boy and His Dog (1975); 2025 – Pacific Rim (2013), 2026 – Metropolis (1927), 2027 – Robotech (1986), 2028 – Robocop (2014), 2029 – Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991).
Memories:
I was born on 1948-10-31. My memories start sometime around 1953 – 1955. In fact, I don’t even know if they are real or fake memories. Some time in that period I attended a kindergarten at First Baptist Church on 7th Avenue in New Westminster. I think I have a false memory of wearing a Cowichan sweater there. These sweaters are traditionally knitted by Coast Salish women on Vancouver Island, Canada. They are known for their thick, warm wool, distinctive patterns, and durability. I think this memory comes from seeing a photograph of myself in this sweater.
I attended the original John Robson School, on Queen’s Avenue, almost across the street from the kindergarten, and across the street from where my mother-in-law Margaret Joyce Commins, née Heaps, once lived, starting when she was 6 years old in 1913. I think I have real memories from attending school, but they are often mixed with false memories, such as those involving my short career as a fashion model that happened about that time. My most questionable memory has to do with the construction of Woodward’s store in Uptown, New Westminster, if only because I managed to get paint on my clothes from the fencing. It opened 1954-03-11. Was it a real or a false memory?