Weekend Matinees at 11:30am
The Trial
directed by Orson Welles in English starring Anthony Perkins, Jeanne Moreau, Romy Schneider (1962)
A gripping adaptation of Franz Kafka’s tale of Joseph K (Anthony Perkins in an outstanding performance), a man arrested for a crime that is never explained to him. Though his neighbors all scorn him, no one seems willing or able to help him, not even his mysterious defense attorney. Filmed in an abandoned train station in Paris, the strange setting perfectly captured the bizarre and nightmarish world of Kafka’s mythical totalitarian state.
- From the Orson Welles: Hello Americans collection
F is for Fake
directed by Orson Welles in English starring Orson Welles, Oja Kodar, Joseph Cotten (1973)
In Orson Welles’s free-form documentary F for Fake, the legendary filmmaker (and self-described charlatan) gleefully engages the central preoccupation of his career—the tenuous line between truth and illusion, art and lies. Beginning with portraits of world-renowned art forger Elmyr de Hory and his equally devious biographer, Clifford Irving, Welles embarks on a dizzying cinematic journey that simultaneously exposes and revels in fakery and fakers of all stripes—not the least of whom is Welles himself.
- From the Orson Welles: Hello Americans collection

