"The Trial" on the Criterion Channel

[Steve Paradis]

Either a premiere, or I missed it.
https://www.criterionchannel.com/the-trial

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.

With extras: Filming The Trail, Welles on Vive le Cinema, Orson Welles, Architect of Light and the commentary by Joseph McBride--blurbed as

Produced in 2017, this interview features biographer and film historian Alan K. Rode (“Michael Curtiz: A Life in Film”) discussing THE BREAKING POINT and its director, Michael Curtiz.

[JMcBride]

Hey, Steve, Thanks for spotting this booboo. I did
too, but I am glad that now they have
it corrected and list me as the guy
who did the commentary.

Kafka and Welles get
credit as well for the film.

Joe McBride