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Oct 20, 2006 · It is a mock-gothic costume drama with more than a touch of Las Vegas extravagance, a larger-scale, flashier — if ultimately less haunting — relative of “The Illusionist,” another recent cinematic...
- Christopher Nolan
Oct 18, 2006 · Critics’ Picks: ‘The Gambler’. A. O. Scott reviews "The Prestige," a thriller directed by Christopher Nolan. (Produced by Gabriel Elias Johnson)
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- The New York Times
Sep 6, 2007 · We are instructed at the outset, in a briefing by Michael Caine, that every magic trick consists of three acts: (1) the Pledge, in which a seemingly real situation is set up, (2) the Turn, in which the initial reality is challenged, and (3) the Prestige, where all is set right again.
Nov 12, 2017 · 1. Puzzle Narrative. The film opens with two aspiring magicians, Robert Angier (Hugh Jackman) and Arthur Borden (Christian Bale), working as stooges for Milton the Magician. When Borden and Angier’s partner Julia (Piper Perabo) attempt a new knot for an aquarium escape trick the plan goes horribly wrong and Julia drowns to death.
Oct 13, 2006 · Highly theatrical and yet also intimate and informal, Sofia Coppola’s “Marie Antoinette” lets its story slink almost casually through its lovingly composed and rendered images.
- Sofia Coppola
Nov 7, 2006 · Based in turn-of-the-last-century London, the plot centres on two ambitious young illusionists: flashy, easygoing Robert Angier (Hugh Jackman, abetted, as in ‘Batman Begins’, by Michael Caine ...
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Nov 15, 2022 · The Midtown Manhattan seafood restaurant has held that rating, the Times’s highest, since it opened in 1986. That year, the Times critic Bryan Miller bestowed four stars. Three of his...
