{"id":4902,"date":"2010-09-21T19:49:17","date_gmt":"2010-09-21T23:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=4902"},"modified":"2010-09-21T19:49:17","modified_gmt":"2010-09-21T23:49:17","slug":"filming-the-trial-1981-orson-welles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/4902","title":{"rendered":"Filming The Trial (1981, Orson Welles)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;A film should never be an illustration of a book or a play; it should be itself.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Welles is in a good place here &#8211; not a passive interview subject nor the hammy magician from <em>F For Fake<\/em> nor the self-important actor\/director, but some happy role in between those.  But I know Welles can be a suave, informative and entertaining fellow; what&#8217;s surprising here is that it&#8217;s a 90-minute Q&#038;A, seemingly unedited (except when the camera ran out of film) without being full of stupid questions from the audience.  The same day I watched this, Katy &#038; I attended a Q&#038;A with an author at the book festival at which ALL (or at least most) of the questions were stupid.  Somehow, some university found a group who was familiar with <em>The Trial<\/em> (maybe they&#8217;d just watched it), interested in the conversation, and not just raising their hands to ask &#8220;what are your influences?&#8221; in order to get themselves on camera.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image10\/filmingthetrial.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>So, a good interview, full of valuable material.  It&#8217;s inexcusable that this isn&#8217;t out on DVD alongside the film itself.  Welles was making great DVD extras twenty years before there were DVDs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;A film should never be an illustration of a book or a play; it should be itself.&#8221; Welles is in a good place here &#8211; not a passive interview subject nor the hammy magician from F For Fake nor the self-important actor\/director, but some happy role in between those. But I know Welles can be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[357,385,223],"class_list":["post-4902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1980s","tag-interview","tag-orson-welles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4902"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4978,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4902\/revisions\/4978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}