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| |   Posts Tagged ‘movie about magic’ Movie: Now you see me September 6, 2013. Raul Julia, Rusty Jedwab, Max von Sydow, The life of a magician isn't always a happy one. 75,888 Ni Yan, Not Rated | $2.23M, Not Rated Night of the Demon (1957) Jaques Tourneur. Sylvain Chomet Director: 129 min Drama, Fantasy, History. | 105 min Stars: 146 min | #134 of 355 The Best Rainy Day Movies#648 of 836 The Greatest Chick Flicks Ever Made, #20 of 364 The Best Movies Based On Books#2 of 103 The Very Best Movie Franchises, 14 Small, But Clever Details From 'Shazam!' Their ensuing adventure changes both their lives forever. 9,655 Stars: 89 min World's coolest nanny celebrates family and fun. | Gross: The Magician (1958) directed by Ingmar Bergman. 94 min That's a tall order and will of course become a list that will be challenged by many. Director: | 13,459 | Gross: Classic '80s animated fantasy has some scary moments. | Director: A TV talk-show hostess and her boyfriend investigate a shady magician whom has the ability to hypnotize and control the thoughts of people in order to stage gory on-stage illusions using his powers of mind bending. The Illusionist (2006) directed by Neil Burger and staring Ed Norton. The Illusionist (2006) 4 1. $2.59M, R 0. The story follows Presto DiGiotagione, a turn-of-the-century magician, who is famous for an astounding hat trick. | Gross: The Mad Magician was a 1954 horror film in 3D, starring Vincent Price and Eva Gabor. | $117.72M, PG-13 This article started out as an attempt to define the best 10 movies about magic of all time. Adventure, Comedy, Drama. Stars: The Great Buck Howard is a 2008 American comedy-drama film directed by Sean McGinly that stars... House of Games is David Mamet's 1987 directorial debut. Magic Man (2010) directed by Roscoe Lever stars Billy Zane who plays Darius, the Magic Man of the title. Mike Nussbaum, As the layers of illusion unfold, so too do the dark windows into Tatiana's past. The original and perhaps greatest version of this film the climax of which is takes place as in a theatre where a 'memory man' is performing. Stars: | Gross: 634,029 229,083 Penn Jillette, | Gross: The Illusionist is a 2006 American period drama film written and directed by Neil Burger and... Shazam! James Merendino Donzaleigh Abernathy, Votes: Harry, Ron, and Hermione search for Voldemort's remaining Horcruxes in their effort to destroy the Dark Lord as the final battle rages on at Hogwarts. Pure, sweet imagination for both kids and adults. Storm Reid, Özlem Tekin, | | Thomas J. Wright | Magic Movies: The Best Films About Magic and Magicians, ‘Magic Camp’ Trailer: Adam DeVine Does His Best Jack Black Impression in Disney+ Comedy, The Morning Watch: Brie Larson Gets Spicy on ‘Hot Ones’, Examining Christopher Nolan’s Visual Style & More, The Best Movies You’ve Never Seen About Magicians, Sequel Bits: ‘Harold and Kumar 4’, ‘F9’, ‘Clerks 3’, ‘Freddy vs Jason 2’, ‘Now You See Me 3’, Deceptive Practice: The Mysteries and Mentors of Ricky Jay, Magician: The Astonshing Life and Work of Orson Welles. As a sequel not shoddy, but perhaps not quite as fun as the first movie. Stars: $22.53M, R Directors: The Ten Commandments is a film I’ve watched hundreds of times since childhood. Luke Vanek, The 'brush with death' in a frozen river; the first performance of the 'straight jacket' at a Magicians Society dinner almost surely never happened - but the romance and innocence of the moment saves it. Woody Harrelson, Rupert Grint, Ricky Jay, A newcomer to a Catholic prep high school falls in with a trio of outcast teenage girls who practice witchcraft, and they all soon conjure up various spells and curses against those who anger them. | The film featured an all-star cast: Jesse Eisenberg, Mark Ruffalo, Woody Harrelson, Isla Fisher, Michael Caine, and Morgan Freeman, among them. Cillian Murphy, As Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) begins his sixth year at Hogwarts, he discovers an old book marked as "the property of the Half-Blood Prince" and begins to learn more about Lord Voldemort's (Ralph Fiennes') dark past. Director: I suppose it is worth mentioning in passing that in 1998 there was a TV movie about Houdini (directed by Pen Denshem) and an earlier attempt at a biopic remake in 1976 with Paul Michael Glaser in the title role (directed for television by Melvile Shavelson). Sean McGinly Jonathan Levit, | The cinematography is brilliant, the plot nicely involved and with, perhaps a few surprises. The movie charts the fall into insanity as the relationship Hopkins has with his dummy 'Fats'. Drama, Fantasy, Mystery. Expert Comedy. Stars: | Presto’s apprentice rabbit, Alec, however, is dissatisfied as he shares none of Presto’s wild success. | Gross: The magical advisor on this movie was Dunninger. | | Don Scardino Cem Yilmaz, Today on our list we have 7 movies all about magic. | | A psychiatrist comes to the aid of a compulsive gambler and is led by a smooth-talking grifter into the shadowy but compelling world of stings, scams, and con men. | | 122 min A budding producer searches for the country's best young magician. Directed by Andrew O Connor and with script written in collaboration with David Britland, Andy Nyman and Anthony Owen and others this is a magical tour de force. 58,062 | 14,511 Edward Norton, $3.85M, R Rufus Sewell, Votes: Stars: A young man, much to the chagrin of his father, becomes the new assistant to an illusionist in decline. Can CSI solve the mystery before there's a third victim? 93 min An impressive movie and perhaps one of the all time greatest examples of film noire. Bright, spirited, and edgy version of Willy Wonka. He also hand painted many of the black and white films he shot. 153 min On a tour of Britain in 1926, Harry Houdini (Guy Pearce) enters into a passionate affair with a psychic out to con him. The glittering Technicolor of the yellow brick road was just the beginning, as Mary Poppins, Willy Wonka, Atreyu, Gandalf, and Aslan showed us more fantastical worlds and faraway places over the years. As Roger Ebert once said, “the only responsibility of the script is to produce the best possible film. Of course the magicians out there will immediately see a link to a performer who used to go out under the name Rinaldo, but was better known professionally and now to mentalists' world wide as Stanton Carlisle. Director: Tom Hanks, | | Daniel von Bargen, Votes: Zendaya, Votes: Comedy, Drama, Mystery, In the years after the Revolution that overthrew the Qing Dynasty in China and established the republic, China broken up into fiefdoms held by warlords, who are busy fighting each other. Frank Tashlin Comedy. Obscure Horror Movies from the 1970s You Should Know About. Bertie Carvel, | Jesse Eisenberg, Duwayne Dunham Movies. Jacob Latimore, With their warning about Lord Voldemort's (Ralph Fiennes') return scoffed at, Harry (Daniel Radcliffe) and Dumbledore (Sir Michael Gambon) are targeted by the Wizard authorities as an authoritarian bureaucrat slowly seizes power at Hogwarts. | Jesse Eisenberg, 534,831 Drama, Family, Fantasy. $10.51M, TV-14 Paul Giamatti, Paul Mark Elliott, Not Rated Houdini, not only a great magician but a great entrepreneur embraced early cinema but to be quite honest he made little lasting contribution to cinematic art. Fairuza Balk, Action, Adventure, Comedy. 94 min Johnny Pacar, Teens chase magical dreams in inspiring documentary. Action, Adventure, Comedy. An F.B.I. Mimi Maynard Stars: As I've not seen it yet I can't comment - but maybe a future review of this list may see it included. Stars: Mazhar Alanson, Tammy Caplan, Thunder, an abandoned young cat seeking shelter from a storm, stumbles into the strangest house imaginable, owned by an old magician and inhabited by a dazzling array of automatons and gizmos. Daniel Radcliffe, | Gross: | Director: Fake faith healer Jonas Nightingale is stranded in a small town where he finds he can't fool all of the people all of the time. House of Games (1978) directed by David Mamet. | | 46 min Marc Warren, However, from a desire to expand the list of magician inspired or magically themed movies I have left these out as being 'too obvious'. Director: In 2013, the thriller movie Now You See Me, about a group of thieving illusionists, was released. | Gross: 89 min Xun Zhou, Jon M. Chu 96 min The Prestige (2006) Stars: Gunnar Björnstrand, Fred Ward, Shawn Hatosy, Of course the rash of Harry Potter films, the excellent Lord of the Rings trilogy and even Star Wars could be included. In this list I take a look at the best films about magic and magicians, ranked from 1953's Houdini to 2016's Now You Can See Me 2.

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