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The Illusionist is a 2006 American romantic mystery film written and directed by Neil Burger and starring Edward Norton, Paul Giamatti, and Jessica Biel.Based loosely on Steven Millhauser's short story "Eisenheim the Illusionist", it tells the story of Eisenheim, a magician in turn-of-the-century Vienna, who reunites with his childhood love, a woman far above his social standing.
Isla Fisher as Henley Reeves: An escapist and stage magician. She is also Danny's former assistant and ex-lover. Dave Franco as Jack Wilder: A sleight of hand illusionist, street magician, and a talented impressionist of other people's voices. Additionally, he is a pickpocket, and is able to pick locks. In his early twenties, Jack is the ...
This is a category for films about magic and magicians. Films that fit this category prominently feature magicians performing seemingly impossible feats using classic techniques such as sleight-of-hand and misdirection.
Méliès himself plays the magician in the film, which takes advantage of his sense of rhythm, his tendency for elegant gestural movements, and his talent for mime. [3] The Four Troublesome Heads features one of the first known uses of multiple exposure of objects on a black background on film, a special effect Méliès went on to use prolifically.
The cast also includes: Jay Mohr as magician Rick the Implausible; [26] Michael Herbig as Lucius Belvedere, a magician with a German background and a thing for cats; [14] [27] Zachary Gordon as a bully from Wonderstone's youth; [28] Brad Garrett as Dom, Burt's accountant; [29] Gillian Jacobs as Miranda, a fan of magic who has a one-night stand ...
Magician Montag the Magnificent delivers hectoring speeches about the nature of reality to his audience and then performs mutilation tricks on female "volunteers". The women appear unharmed immediately afterward but later collapse, dead, in public or at home—mutilated in the same grisly fashion suggested by Montag's stage tricks (cut in half with a chainsaw, drilled through with a punch ...
Magic is a 1978 American psychological horror drama film directed by Richard Attenborough and starring Anthony Hopkins, Ann-Margret and Burgess Meredith. The screenplay is by William Goldman , who adapted his novel of the same title .
Ansiktet (lit. ' The Face ' [1]), also released as The Magician, is a 1958 Swedish film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman, starring Max von Sydow and Ingrid Thulin.The plot follows a traveling magician named Albert Vogler, whose allegedly supernatural live shows are challenged by the skeptical population of a small village.