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Film review: The Prestige


The craft of magic has had a sort of resurgence today with the proliferation of so-called street magicians who astound and regale via up-close-and-personal illusions. But even if we’ve seen David Blaine levitate on a city sidewalk on TV, we know there is a catch.
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[DatePublished] => 2006-11-02 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805321 [AuthorName] => Philip Cu-Unjieng [SectionName] => Entertainment [SectionUrl] => entertainment [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 365698 [Title] => Caine, Jackman and Bale on movies and magic tricks [Summary] => Last weekend, the US film industry was buzzing with excitement over something very unusual: three high-quality and Oscar-caliber films battled for supremacy at the box-office and emerged as that weekend’s top three grossing films. Industry stalwart Exhibitor Relations calls it an "extraordinary event never seen in a long time."
[DatePublished] => 2006-10-29 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1667848 [AuthorName] => Raymond de Asis Lo, L. A. Correspondent [SectionName] => Entertainment [SectionUrl] => entertainment [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 365777 [Title] => Malevolent magic [Summary] => Everyone remembers seeing their first magic trick. (At least I can remember mine: a bit of business in which my ginger-haired uncle detached his index finger from his hand, only to return it safely moments later.) What amazed us kids, usually, was bearing witness to the impossible. Didn’t matter that, later, our uncle showed us how the trick was done. As Borden, Christian Bale’s character in The Prestige, points out to us: "The secret means nothing; the trick means everything."
[DatePublished] => 2006-10-29 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 136008 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804693 [AuthorName] => Scott R. Garceau [SectionName] => Sunday Lifestyle [SectionUrl] => sunday-life [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 365886 [Title] => Caine, Jackman and Bale on movies and magic tricks [Summary] => Last weekend, the US film industry was buzzing with excitement over something very unusual: three high-quality and Oscar-caliber films battled for supremacy at the box-office and emerged as that weekend’s top three grossing films. Industry stalwart Exhibitor Relations calls it an "extraordinary event never seen in a long time."
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