this post was submitted on 15 Feb 2025
30 points (100.0% liked)

Full movies on YouTube

2558 readers
1 users here now

Link to movies on YT or DailyMotion or Invidious or Piped here. We all need something new to watch.

Please make your Post titles like this:

Movie Name (Year resolution)

For example:

Star Wars: A New Hope (1977 720p)

Even if you've already seen a movie before, take a moment and tell us what you think about it, what's good / bad / etc... I'd love to see more conversation around the films we share here.

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 

In 1889 Vienna, Austria-Hungary, a magician named Eisenheim is arrested by Chief Inspector Walter Uhl of the Vienna Police during a magic show involving necromancy. Later, Uhl explains the story of Eisenheim's life to Crown Prince Leopold.

...

Jonathan Rosenbaum's review in The Chicago Reader praised Paul Giamatti's performance of "a character who feels sympathy for the magician but owes allegiance to Leopold and is therefore divided and compromised ... Giamatti's performance is subtle, expressive, and richly nuanced."[13] Stephen Holden, in his review for The New York Times, praised Edward Norton's role, which, according to him, "perfectly fits his disturbing inscrutability".[14] Variety wrote that Jessica Biel "is entirely stunning enough to fight to the death over".[15] Roger Ebert rated 3.5/4 and wrote that, "The movie sets up a fascinating parable about art, religion and politics, and the misty boundaries between them".[16]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Illusionist_(2006_film)

The link from above: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2krcvO3z1A

top 2 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[โ€“] Sergio@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 week ago

I'd heard about this movie before but kind of ignored it, dunno why...I'm interested in the time period and I've known some stage magicians so I should have been into it sooner. Once I watched like 10 minutes tho, even as background, I was really into it. The story's a little bit predictable but still satisfying... it's shot well too (cinematographer was nominated for an Oscar) and the soundtrack (by Philip Glass) is great... The movie reaches for a couple weighty themes and it ALMOST reaches them... or maybe it does, I dunno...

Anyway check it out, it's only been up 3 days tho I think the folks who put it up actually have licensed it tho who knows how long they'll keep it up anyways.

[โ€“] perishthethought@lemm.ee 4 points 1 week ago

Oof, this looks interesting but I just watched American History X. I think I've had my fill of Edward Norton being intense for one night.

But thanks for the post!