The Trial (1962) RM4K 1080p BluRay x265 HEVC FLAC MULTI-SARTRE

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.


NOTE : The Studio Canal looked marginally better so I used it for the film and included the Criterion extras.

Extras

• Audio commentary with film historian Joseph McBride [Criterion]
• Original French Trailer
• 4K Restoration Trailer
• This is Orson Welles
• Deleted Scene
• Interview with Steven Berkoff
• Welles, Architect of Light
• Filming The Trial (1981) [Criterion]
• Vive le Cinema! (1972) [Criterion]