Long before there was Barbenheimer, there was the classic 2006 magician movie clash between The Prestige and The Illusionist.Christopher Nolan's The Prestige featured an outstanding cast led by ...

Bittersweet and melancholy are not the words usually associated with animation, but they are the ones that best fit “The Illusionist,” the new feature by French director Sylvain Chomet. As ...

The CW, which has Reign in its second season, is developing another period drama with roots in Western Europe – The Illusionist, based on the 2006 movie starring Ed Norton. The project, which ...

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This ain’t your average birthday party magician. “”The Illusionist”” hopes to mess with your head with its special effects, but sadly that’s pretty much all it’s got going for it. A ...

A rich, moving, animated film, 'The Illusionist' draws from a script by Jacques Tati and has a haunting Chaplinesque feel. Not to be missed.

This week's monthly offering from the 826 Valencia student program is the animation movie "The Illusionist," which was nominated this week for a best animation Academy Award. Directed by Sylvain ...

Movie review of ‘The Illusionist ... The animation reflects the movie’s 1959 setting with an aesthetic that’s more “Lady and the Tramp” than “Up,” and the story follows the last of a ...

This elegant fable of art, love and politics is set in Vienna circa 1900, all thoughts of Freud being strictly intentional. The Illusionist curls around you like a smoke ring, which only enhances ...

The soundtrack to The Illusionist is a driving force to the movie, comments director Neil Burger. There are many scenes and sequences without dialogue and it falls to the music to tell the story.

The movie, written and directed by Neil Burger, was loosely based on Steven Millhauser’s short story, Eisenheim The Illusionist, and is considered a fictionalized account of the Mayerling ...