I Feel (Un)Seen

 

Happy Thursday, everyone!  No Trawling this week, as I'm planning something new, inspired by Garbo's idea.  For the foreseeable future, I'm going to alternate weeks.  One week will be my usual Trawling Through The Thrift Stores and then the next will be a new series where I do a deep dive on a classic book and the various adaptations that have happened through the years.  My first in this new series is going to start with the original novel of The Invisible Man from 1897 and then look at a ton of the movies that have come out of it.  To wit, the potential schedule is (and no, I'm not doing EVERY Invisible Man adaptation; no books this time around outside of the original book and I'm also ignoring the various TV series but I am including one TV movie because it sounds amazingly terrible).

February 2nd: The HG Wells novel

February 16th: The Invisible Man (James Whale, 1933)

March 2nd: The Invisible Man Returns (Joe May, 1940)

March 16th: The Invisible Woman (A. Edward Sutherland, 1940)

March 30th: Invisible Agent (Edwin L. Marin, 1942)

April 13th: The Invisible Man'a Revenge (Ford Beebe, 1944)

April 27th: Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man (Charles Lamont, 1951)

May 11th: The Invisible Man Appears (Nobuo Adachi, 1949)

May 25th: The Invisible Man vs. The Human Fly (Mitsuo Murayama, 1957)

June 8th: The Amazing Transparent Man (Edgar G. Ulmer, 1960)

June 22nd: The Invisible Kid (Avery Crounse, 1988)

July 6th: Memoirs of an Invisible Man (John Carpenter, 1992)

July 20th: The Invisible Man (Leigh Whannell, 2020)

All of this is of course subject to change based on availability of the various titles, but I'm absolutely concluding with the 2020 movie, which I think is one of the smartest and most horrifying films of recent years, anchored by Elisabeth Moss being her usual brilliant self.

So see you in a week for the original novel!  You can get it at your local library, your local independent bookstore or read it online from Project Gutenberg,

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My recommendation this week is Sarah Polley's Women Talking, which I fully recommend you go into not knowing anything.  I don't want to get into what's going on here but frankly, it's a masterpiece and Sarah Polley should have a Director nomination for it (a friend of mine made the serious case that Director is the hardest category to get a nomination in, but it still sucks that the movie got a Best Picture and Screenplay nod but Polley didn't).  Women Talking  is currently in theaters.