Evan Johnson

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Evan Johnson

Evan Johnson is a Canadian filmmaker from Winnipeg, Manitoba, most noted for his frequent collaborations with Guy Maddin. He was codirector of Maddin's The Forbidden Room, which was the winner of the Toronto Film Critics Association's Rogers Best Canadian Film Award at the Toronto Film Critics Association Awards 2015.

Known For

RumoursRumours · 2024
Rumours
★ 4.82024
MovieHorrorComedy
En route to the annual G7 summit, the seven leaders of the world’s wealthiest liberal democracies get lost in the woods and face increasing peril while attempting to draft a provisional statement regarding a global crisis.
The Forbidden RoomThe Forbidden Room · 2015
The Forbidden Room
★ 5.62015
MovieComedy
A submarine crew, a feared pack of forest bandits, a famous surgeon, and a battalion of child soldiers all get more than they bargained for as they wend their way toward progressive ideas on life and love.
The Green FogThe Green Fog · 2018
The Green Fog
★ 6.02018
MovieDocumentaryMystery
A tribute to a fascinating film shot by Alfred Hitchcock in 1958, starring James Stewart and Kim Novak, and to the city of San Francisco, California, where the magic was created; but also a challenge: how to pay homage to a masterpiece without using its footage; how to do it simply by gathering images from various sources, all of them haunted by the curse of a mysterious green fog that seems to cause irrepressible vertigo…
Lines of the HandLines of the Hand · 2015
Lines of the Hand
★ 7.02015
MovieMystery
An adaptation of an unrealized script by Jean Vigo (Les lignes de la main), starring his late daughter, the critic, programmer, and actress Luce Vigo
The Mother and the BearThe Mother and the Bear · 2026
The Mother and the Bear
★ 8.02026
MovieComedyDrama
When her daughter falls into a temporary coma after an accident at her home in Winnipeg, Sara, an overbearing Korean mother travels from Seoul to Canada and vows to keep her daughter safe forever by catfishing a husband for her online.
Stump the GuesserStump the Guesser · 2020
Stump the Guesser
★ 6.52020
MovieComedyFantasy
After a bad day at work, a fairground performer sets out to disprove the theory of heredity so that he can marry his sister.
Bring Me the Head of Tim HortonBring Me the Head of Tim Horton · 2015
Bring Me the Head of Tim Horton
★ 5.32015
MovieDocumentary
Guided by the spirit of “The Cuadecuc Manifesto” (coined by co-director Evan Johnson and inspired by Pere Portabella’s 1970 experimental cult documentary, Cuadecuc, vampir), Bring Me the Head of Tim Horton is a strange, stirring behind-the-scenes look at Paul Gross’s new feature, Hyena Road. Shot on location at CFB Shilo near Brandon, Manitoba, and in Aqaba, Jordan, the film mixes deep contrast black-and-white expressionism with wry and raw western revisionism reminiscent of Sam Peckinpah, as it summons unwieldy, psychedelic energy from the main event. [TIFF]
The Rabbit HuntersThe Rabbit Hunters · 2020
The Rabbit Hunters
★ 4.22020
MovieDramaFantasy
A deceased filmmaker experiences a posthumous dream in which he attempts to reunite with his wife. (Homage to Italian film director Federico Fellini in the year of the centennial celebration of his birth.)

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