Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The movie, written and directed by Neil Burger, was loosely based on Steven Millhauser's short story, Eisenheim The Illusionist, ...

Bob May has 50 years experience in the performing arts and business in Southern California. He has been a stage and film actor and director. He has also been a producer, business consultant, ...

Eisenheim is an adept magician. He reunites with his longtime love, Sophie, by summoning her dead spirit in his magic shows. Sophie and Leopold are initially engaged. But during a heated argument, ...

The mangaka and anime filmmaker Satoshi Kon died suddenly in 2010, at the age of 46. He left behind a short and unfinished ...

The animation is wonderful and the tale, while tragic and melancholic at times, is engaging and enjoyable. If you're accustomed to (or enjoy) Hollywood's formulaic fare, The Illusionist may not be ...

This movie by the French film-maker Sylvain Chomet is an act of homage and an act of cinematic love: a classically conceived, hand-drawn animation based on an unproduced script by Jacques Tati, ...

If the tall man with the stiff, lurching walk and sad, baggy eyes in “The Illusionist” looks familiar, it’s because you may have seen him before, creating joyful pandemonium on the beach in “Mr. Hulot ...

The Illusionist is a film set in Vienna at the turn of the century in which mastermind magician Eisenheim (Edward Norton) dazzles audiences with his astonishing magic tricks while causing disruption ...

First of all, I must state that this is not The Illusionist, the brilliant film from 2006 with Edward Norton and Paul Giamatti, but the French animated film The Illusionist from 2010, that also ...

Edward Norton is at his best here, chalking up another boundary-stretching performance this year in the wake of the unfairly overlooked Down in the Valley. Norton plays Eisenheim, a master illusionist ...

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 will ...