Movies: Rian Johnson

A group of disconnected people are brought together by a string of awkward events in post-9/11 Manhattan. A body-snatcher (Mia Tyler) is gathering dead bodies off the streets and no one seems to know why, especially the two detectives (Eddie Steeples...

A 12 year old boy who works on the MGM Lot in 1952, begins to create an imagined friendship with the legendary movie star Gene Kelly while working on his next film....

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A visual adaptation of page 439 of Joyce's Finnegans Wake. Created in one week, as challenged, with the collaboration of Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Ronen V....

Explore the mythology of the Force and why Rian Johnson chose to interpret its role in such a unique way....

Eric Cameron chronicles the relationship between Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi and the quaint town of Dingle, Ireland where it was filmed....

A sinister battle arises when a young man attempts to clean a pool. (Super8 student short film by Rian Johnson at USC, inspired by the works of Sam Raimi.)...

Anna is a Looper, and she has a plan to survive closing her Loop....

From the co-founder of Slamdance comes the story of a young man who returns home from a trip abroad to confront not just his peculiar family and friends, but also a pair of Colombian jewel thieves and a roving gang of Iowa kickboxers, culminating in ...

While sitting on the toilet one November morning, Ben Boyer receives a Jungian lesson on archetypal marketing....

A man is tormented by a seemingly possessed golf ball....

Soon after entering a course called "The Psychology of Dream Analysis," Lillian discovers she has been having another person's dreams all her life....

A hapless young man attempts to return a lost wallet to a woman as she ventures through the city of San Fransisco...

Director Rian Johnson explains his thought process behind the 2019 film Knives Out....

The Mountain Goats in solo and duo performance at Pomona College. In this film by Rian Johnson, John Darnielle performs The Life of the World to Come on piano and guitar. Shot in the same building where, as an eight-year-old piano student and new tra...

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