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."