Direction
Bernstein lets Jay perform himself—a perfect subject-director dance.
Editing
Seamless cuts between archive and present; the trick is the structure.
Acting
Jay's showmanship—every interview is another performance.
Director
Molly Bernstein
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Ricky Jay's personal library held over 10,000 rare books on magic, fraud, and unusual entertainments—he was as much historian as performer.
The film opens with Jay throwing playing cards at a watermelon, a stunt he performed on television exactly once in 1977—he hated being called 'the card guy' ever after.
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