2105 – Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore (2022)

spacetime coordinates: 1932 China, England, New York City, Austria, Germany, Bhutan, Scotland

Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore is a 2022 fantasy film directed by David Yates from a screenplay by J. K. Rowling and Steve Kloves. The sequel to Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016) and Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018), it is the third instalment in the Fantastic Beasts film series and the eleventh overall in the Wizarding World franchise.

Its cast includes Eddie Redmayne, Jude Law, Ezra Miller, Dan Fogler, Alison Sudol, Callum Turner, Jessica Williams, Katherine Waterston, and Mads Mikkelsen. (wiki)

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2081 – Death on the Nile (2022)

spacetime coordinates: 1937 Egypt

Death on the Nile is a 2022 mystery film directed by Kenneth Branagh from a screenplay by Michael Green, based on the 1937 novel of the same name by Agatha Christie. The film is a sequel to Murder on the Orient Express (2017), Tom Bateman and Branagh returning from the first film as Bouc and Hercule Poirot. The film is the third screen adaptation of Christie’s novel, following the 1978 film and an episode of the television series Agatha Christie’s Poirot broadcast in 2004. (wiki)

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2038 – Nightmare Alley (2021)

timespace coordinates: 1939 traveling carnival / 1941 Buffalo, New York

Nightmare Alley is a 2021 American neo-noir psychological thriller film directed by Guillermo del Toro from a screenplay by del Toro and Kim Morgan, based on the 1946 novel of the same name by William Lindsay Gresham, being the second feature film adaptation of Gresham’s novel, following the 1947 version.

The film stars Bradley Cooper as a charming and ambitious carnival worker with a mysterious past who takes big risks to boost his career. Cate Blanchett, Toni Collette, Willem Dafoe, Richard Jenkins, Rooney Mara, Ron Perlman, Mary Steenburgen, and David Strathairn also star. A black-and-white version, subtitled Vision in Darkness and Light, was released in select cities starting on January 14, 2022. (wiki)

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2035 – Munich: The Edge of War (2021)

timespace coordinates: September 1938 – the context of the Munich Agreement.

Munich – The Edge of War is a 2021 German/British drama film, directed by Christian Schwochow, from a screenplay by Ben Power. It is based upon the 2017 novel Munich by Robert Harris. The film stars Jeremy Irons, George MacKay and Jannis Niewöhner. (wiki)

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2016 – The Electrical Life of Louis Wain (2021)

spacetime coordinates: 1880’s > 1900’s London / New York in 1907

The Electrical Life of Louis Wain is a 2021 biographical comedy-drama film directed by Will Sharpe, The film stars Benedict Cumberbatch (as Louis Wain), Claire Foy, Andrea Riseborough and Toby Jones. (wiki)

Wain, Louis 1860–1939. “Kaleidoskop-Katzen: Katzenmuster auf Grün”. Gouache auf Papier, 22,4 × 17,5 cm. London, Bethlem Art and History Coll.

L0026931 A cat in “gothic” style. Gouache by Louis Wain, 1925/1939. Credit: Wellcome Library, London. Wellcome Images images@wellcome.ac.uk http://wellcomeimages.org A cat in “gothic” style. Gouache by Louis Wain, 1925/1939. Gouache 1925/1939 By: Louis William WainPublished: – Copyrighted work available under Creative Commons Attribution only licence CC BY 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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2012

The first female bodybuilders and strongwomen showing off their gains, 1900s

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1949 – O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)

spacetime coordinates: 1937 rural Mississippi during the Great Depression

O Brother, Where Art Thou? is a 2000 crime comedy-drama film written, produced, co-edited and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen, and starring George Clooney, John Turturro, and Tim Blake Nelson, with Chris Thomas King, John Goodman, Holly Hunter, and Charles Durning in supporting roles.

The film is a modern satire loosely based on Homer‘s epic Greek poem The Odyssey that incorporates social features of the American South. The title of the film is a reference to the Preston Sturges 1941 film Sullivan’s Travels, in which the protagonist is a director who wants to film O Brother, Where Art Thou?, a fictitious book about the Great Depression. (wiki)

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