Event Details
Two illusionists compete at the turn of the 20th century to create history’s greatest magic trick in this time-fracturing thriller from director/co-writer Christopher Nolan. Based on the 1995 novel by Christopher Priest, the film earned Oscar nominations for its cinematography (Wally Pfister) and art direction (Nathan Crowley, Julie Ochipinti), which cleverly used surviving Los Angeles picture palaces as key locations. The stellar cast includes Hugh Jackman and Christian Bale as the rivals, Michael Caine as their mentor, Scarlett Johansson and Rebecca Hall as the women in their lives, and a memorable cameo from David Bowie as the inventor Nikola Tesla.
Academy Museum film programming generously funded by the Richard Roth Foundation.
2006 | 130 min. | USA | Color | Scope | English | Rated PG-13 | 35mm
DIRECTED BY: Christopher Nolan
WRITTEN BY: Jonathan Nolan, Christopher Nolan
WITH: Hugh Jackman, Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Scarlett Johansson
Print courtesy of the Academy Film Archive.