Some 95 original Orson Welles drawings made for his 1962 film The Trial are currently on exhibit in Belgium. The exhibit at the Cultural Center Scharpoord in Knokke-Heist kicked off May 30 and runs through July 28. In addition to the exhibit of the artwork, organizers plan a screening of The Trial and Mark Cousins’ […]
Award-winning Italian film editor Roberto Perpignani (Il Postino, The Night of the Shooting Stars) began his career at the top. Speaking at the Fajr International Film Festival in Tehran, Iran, on April 21, Perpignani, 77, recalled his first cinematic jobs: Assistant editor on Orson Welles’ The Trial and later Nella Tierra de Don Quijote (In the Land of […]
Orson Welles sat down with the BBC’s Huw Wheldon to promote ‘The Trial” in 1962.
Welles once described her as “the greatest actress in the world.”
She was born Elisa Tia in Grosseto, Tuscany.
“A City of Film – A Factory of Dreams” runs through Nov. 2
YouTube user Citizen Welles has added another rarity to his impressive online collection. Ninety minutes of audience interview footage for the never completed “Filming The Trial” is online at youtube.com Shot by Gary Graver at the University of Southern California after a screening of “The Trial” in 1981, “Filming The Trial” finds Welles fielding questions […]
Jeanne Moreau appeared in four films that Orson Welles directed: The Trial Chimes At Midnight The Immortal Story The Deep Which is why I wonder why there has been no documentary about Miss Moreau, focused on her work with Welles. They also both appeared as actors in Tony Richardson’s The Sailor From Gibraltar, during a […]
While Orson Welles’s considered The Trial to be one of his greatest films, many critics didn’t agree with him. I must also say after I first saw the film, in 1978 (at Theater 80 St. Marks in the East Village), I didn’t much care for it, either. In fact, truth to be told, I fell […]
