Topic: Rian Johnson

A frenzied Saturday auction on the Croisette has ended with FilmDistrict in final negotiations for U.S. distribution rights to Looper, the Rian ...
2005Writer/Director Rian Johnson came up with a brilliant gimmick for his debut feature film: Joseph Gordon-Levitt stars as Brendan, an brainy outsider at a California high school whose ex-girlfriend has just turned up murdered. Not only is she murdered, but Brendan ...

The 100 Best First Films

The Online Film Critics Society has published our list of the 100 best FIRST films. The list includes some neglected gems by directors who went on to make more widely lauded films as well as "L'Atlante by Jean Vigo, who made ...

Beatrix Aruna Pasztor Costume Designer

Costume designer Beatrix Aruna Pasztor has made an award-winning name for herself by designing costumes for renowned movies such as Gus Van Sant's Good Will Hunting (1997), starring Matt Damon. Some of her earliest projects, around the time of Good Will ...

Add to Queue: Big Reveals

My pick of the films in the new release section of Netflix's instant streaming service that is the modern classic Brick. Written and direction by The Brothers Bloom director Rian Johnson, Brick is a classic detective story, only set in a ...
With visual flair and heart, `The Brothers Bloom' is a blast of a con-man comedyWith his 2006 debut " If he's copying or borrowing liberally, to be more charitable at least he's made a better Anderson movie than Anderson himself has ...

The Brothers Bloom

Aggressively zany and precocious (but only half smart), The Brothers Bloom may be the first movie you'll feel like spanking, or at least strongly disciplining. We've only just finished defending writer-director Rian Johnson from charges of stuntiness in his 2005 ...
First up from my fairly random selection of films screened at this year's London film festival is Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist. This illuminating film follows the life of renowned "gonzo" journalist Hunter S Thompson, best known for his 1971 ...

The Brothers Bloom is short on substance

Adrien Brody and Mark Ruffalo, as Johnson's titular scam artists, occupy a timelessly chic storybook world of exotic European locations, Lamborghinis and steam ships, capes, cigar smoke and mute Oriental henchwomen. Ruffalo's Stephen is the mastermind who plots their schemes ...
A kiss is sometimes just a kiss, unless it's Adrien Brody smacking Halle Berry's lips after his Oscar win in 2002 for " "He's a wonderful kisser," Weisz told a press conference Tuesday of Brody. ""Unfortunately, he had to rehearse ...