Epinions Recent Reviews for mvie mu-1022001

mvie mu-1022001: Orson Welles: A Genius? Watch The Trial and decide for yourself

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 17:00:24 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author andaryl - It wasn’t very often that Orson Welles got to direct a movie, completely to his own liking and without studio interference. Citizen Kane was one example and the results are clearly legendary. Touch of Evil, another widely recognized Welles classic...

mvie mu-1022001: The Trial (1963)

Sun, 25 Nov 2001 18:42:05 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author BrianKoller - In retrospect, Orson Welles could have been the greatest director in film history, instead of settling for somewhere in the top ten. What separated his career from that of Hitchcock or Kubrick was his difficulty in obtaining funds for his next picture...

mvie mu-1022001: “We need not accept everything as true...only as necessary...”

Fri, 24 Aug 2001 02:04:19 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author filmlover - Orson Welles’ eccentric, ornery film adaptation of The Trial is a work charged with protean ironies and stark insights. The fifty years that separated the making of the film from the writing of the novel can account for much of...

mvie mu-1022001: The Weird and Kooky World of Kafka and Welles

Sat, 21 Jul 2001 00:04:14 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author Dani257 - The Trial is proof positive that genius is just some inner drug, because the two masterminds behind it (Franz Kafka, who wrote the book and Orson Welles, who brought it to the screen) had to be high to make the film.

The Trial is the story of...

mvie mu-1022001: Waiting for Justice? Get in Line, Buddy!

Fri, 13 Jul 2001 10:27:32 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Sloucho - Introduction: Of Alienation

It's a terribly easy thing to make a film about an alienated character, but terribly difficult to make a film about alienation. People will line up to sympathize with the shallow, histrionic disaffection of...