Create successful ePaper yourself
Turn your PDF publications into a flip-book with our unique Google optimized e-Paper software.
SHOWTIMES<br />
Saturday, Nov 21, 8:30, CP- Hollywood<br />
Sunday, Nov 22, 1pm, CP- Lauderdale<br />
AMERICAN<br />
INDIE<br />
FEATURE<br />
MOJAVE<br />
FLORIDA PREMIERE<br />
F<br />
64<br />
Director: William Monahan / USA / 2015 / 93 min / DCP / English<br />
In this electrifying and darkly comedic Hollywood neo-noir, an artist has an ominous encounter with a drifter in the desert, which gets taken to<br />
shocking surprises.<br />
Garret Hedlund plays Thomas, a brooding artist in a spiritual funk who leaves the comfort of his Hollywood Hills home to spend a few days in the Mojave<br />
desert. Before long, though, he meets Jack (Oscar Isaac), a dangerous, chameleon-like drifter who resents Thomas’ wealth and privilege.<br />
A thrilling combination of a twisty Hitchcockian thriller, modern-day Hollywood satire, and thought-provoking meditation on identity and fame,<br />
Mojave is the second feature directed by Academy Award winning screenwriter William Monahan (The Departed), and as a director he delivers<br />
the same skillful craftsmanship and tonal complexity that has always been a hallmark of his writing. The cast is uniformly excellent, with Oscar<br />
Isaac delivering another ingenious and completely distinctive performance, making Jack not only a fun, unpredictable, and scary villain, but<br />
also a provocative counterpoint to the lifestyle and world Thomas so thoroughly embodies.<br />
Written By: William Monahan / Produced By: William Monahan, Aaron L. Ginsburg, William Green, Justine Suzanne Jones / Starring: Oscar<br />
Isaac, Garrett Hedlund, Louise Bourgoin, Walter Goggins / Contact: A24<br />
THE DIRECTOR: Monahan was born in Dorchester, Massachusetts. He attended the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He moved to New York City and contributed<br />
to the alternative weekly newspaper New York Press and the magazines Talk, Maxim, and Spy. In 1997 Monahan won a Pushcart Prize for a short story.<br />
Monahan wrote a novel titled Light House: A Trifle, and Warner Bros. optioned the film rights. In 2001 20th Century Fox bought<br />
Monahan's spec script Tripoli, about William Eaton's epic march on Tripoli during the Barbary Wars, in a deal worth mid-six<br />
figures in American dollars, with Mark Gordon attached as producer. The script was given to Ridley Scott to direct.<br />
Monahan steadily secured work in the film industry throughout the 2000s. Brad Pitt's production company, Plan B,<br />
hired Monahan to write an adaptation of Hong Kong director Andrew Lau's gangster film Infernal Affairs. Monahan<br />
respun Infernal Affairs as a battle between Irish American gangsters and cops in Boston's Southie district, and Martin<br />
Scorsese directed the completed screenplay under the title The Departed for Warner Bros. Monahan's work on the<br />
film would later earn him two Best Adapted Screenplay awards, from the Writers Guild of America and the Academy<br />
of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Change language