Release date: September 19, 2023
Prices and Links:
Criterion- $39.96 (4K+Blu ray) , $31.96 (Blu ray only)
Amazon-$34.99 (4K)
DiabolikDVD- $36.99 (4K)
Director: Orson Welles
Writers: Orson Welles, Franz Kafka
Starring: Anthony Perkins, Orson Welles, Jeanne Moreau, Romy Schneider, Akim Tamiroff
A feverishly inspired take on Franz Kafka’s novel, Orson Welles’s The Trial casts Anthony Perkins as the bewildered office drone Josef K., whose arrest for an unspecified crime plunges him into a menacing bureaucratic labyrinth of guilt, corruption, and paranoia. Exiled from Hollywood and creatively unchained, Welles poured his ire at the studio system, the blacklist, and all forms of totalitarian oppression into this cinematic statement—a bold, personal film that he himself considered one of his greatest. Dizzying camera angles, expressionistic lighting, increasingly surreal locations—Welles unleashed the full force of his visual brilliance to convey the nightmarish disorientation of a world gone mad.
Prices and Links:
Criterion- $39.96 (4K+Blu ray) , $31.96 (Blu ray only)
Amazon-$34.99 (4K)
DiabolikDVD- $36.99 (4K)
Director: Orson Welles
Writers: Orson Welles, Franz Kafka
Starring: Anthony Perkins, Orson Welles, Jeanne Moreau, Romy Schneider, Akim Tamiroff
- France, Italy, Yugoslavia
- 1962
- 118 minutes
- Black & White
- 1.66:1
- English
A feverishly inspired take on Franz Kafka’s novel, Orson Welles’s The Trial casts Anthony Perkins as the bewildered office drone Josef K., whose arrest for an unspecified crime plunges him into a menacing bureaucratic labyrinth of guilt, corruption, and paranoia. Exiled from Hollywood and creatively unchained, Welles poured his ire at the studio system, the blacklist, and all forms of totalitarian oppression into this cinematic statement—a bold, personal film that he himself considered one of his greatest. Dizzying camera angles, expressionistic lighting, increasingly surreal locations—Welles unleashed the full force of his visual brilliance to convey the nightmarish disorientation of a world gone mad.
4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- One 4K UHD disc of the film and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
- New audio commentary featuring film historian Joseph McBride
- Filming “The Trial,” a 1981 documentary about the film’s production
- Archival interviews with Welles, actor Jeanne Moreau, and director of photography Edmond Richard
- Trailer
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- PLUS: An essay by author Jonathan Lethem
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