Rian Johnson articles

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  Filmmaker Shane Carruth talks 'Upstream Color' and making movies like albums

  By Ross Miller on April 10, 2013 11:30 am + 25 comments

  As the story goes, Shane Carruth took $7,000 and made one of the trippiest time travel movies of all Continue reading…

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  Film review: 'Looper' reinvents the sci-fi film with a mix of humanity and adventure

  By Bryan Bishop on September 6, 2012 05:35 pm + 91 comments

  Time-travel movies traffic in upended expectations. From The Terminator's Michael Biehn fathering Continue reading…

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  Noir to near-future: 'Looper' director Rian Johnson talks sci-fi, Twitter, and the fate of film

  By Bryan Bishop on August 30, 2012 10:29 am + 47 comments

  Rian Johnson almost didn’t make it into film school. I first met the writer / director in 1993 at Continue reading…

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  Watch this: Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Bruce Willis in 'Looper'

  By Bryan Bishop on April 14, 2012 06:56 pm + 83 comments

  In Brick, writer-director Rian Johnson and Joseph Gordon-Levitt teamed up to create a stylized Continue reading…