Wise old coots, opinionated colts, and the American frontier on display at westerns series ESSENTIAL WESTERNS, 1924-1962 March 4 through 31 Film Forum HOW THE WEST WAS SPUN Two rode together: Ford vs. Hawks In the matter of...

Texas District Court Judge Ted Poe has agreed to allow PBS's Frontline series to film jury deliberations in a murder trial, the first such filming in a trial for which the death penalty is being sought. The trial is on hold, however, while...

The special court trying former Liberian President Charles Taylor on war crimes charges cleared the way Tuesday for his trial to resume next month, more than six months after its chaotic adjournment.In a hearing lasting less than 10 minutes, the prosecution and defense agreed they...

The trial of two nursing home owners charged with negligent homicide in the deaths of 35 patients after Hurricane Katrina will probably be held outside of St. Bernard Parish.A state judge Thursday granted a defense motion to move the trial of Mabel and Salvador Mangano,...

Rare is the critic who can manage to look at a film like [The Trial] except through a kind of screen set up by the original work. No amount of consciousness about problems of adaptation, and all that, can gainsay this tendency—only ignorance is a real safeguard. Luckily, however, I have not read Kafka's novel for many years. Consequently, looking at Welles' Trial, I find it an interesting film, rather than a disappointing derivative. It is, of course, in many ways not only unKafka-like ...