Johnny Mnemonic in Black and White

Friday, October 11 - Sunday, October 13, 2024

Director Robert Longo’s preferred 2021 black and white version!

A data-courier with a secret stash of information stored in his mind must find a way to retrieve the information– or die in the process.

“Despite 25 years of dismissal and mockery, JOHNNY MNEMONIC remains a visionary forecast of the networked society. No pre-millennium Hollywood production captured the anxieties and exhaustion of living online so well, despite studio butchery that deprived audiences of writer William Gibson and director Robert Longo’s ambitious vision.” — Patrick Dahl, Screenslate

Screening as part of our series Burning Chrome: Cyberpunk After Dark

Previously screened as part of our Winter 2020 series, “Waverly Midnights: Hindsight is 2020s.”


  • Country Canada/USA
  • Year 1995
  • Running Time 96 minutes
  • Distributor 396
  • Director Robert Longo
  • Writer William Gibson (short story & screenplay)
  • Editor Ronald Sanders
  • Cinematographer Francois Protat
  • Cast Keanu Reeves, Dina Meyer, Ice-T, Takeshi Kitano
  • Accessibility Assistive Listening, T-Coil

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