About The Magic Movies
October 30, 2006
A friend writes
I found an interesting article about The Prestige and was going to send it to you because you gave it a good review a while back. But I could not find your review. I remembered you said something about how, given CGI, stage magic done in films loses its ability to surprise. Eventually I figured out that you had reviewed The Illusionist instead. I've seen neither so its hard to keep them straight!
He sings the cinema electric
The director of "Memento" discusses the mind-bending trickery in his latest film, "The Prestige," what he thinks of being called the new Hitchcock, and how movies restore mystery to our lives.
My review of The Illusionist