Richard Linklater and Ethan Hawke Is up there with Martin Scorsese and De Niro, even Alfred Hitchcock and James Stewart, as one of the cinema’s iconic perennial pairing. From “Before” films and “Waking Life” to “Boyhood” (which received Hawke an Oscar nomination) and even Motel-Rum-Endast DV thriller “tape”, they work on an Alchemy Rare for colleagues on the screen.
Their latest project together is ”Blue moon“Who can distract at first for the bald Cap Hawke berries to play desperately, Boozing songwriter Lorenz Hart. But during the urgency of movie makeup magic is one of Hawke’s most boring, gripping performances, here as the great American lyricist who was half of Rodgers and Hart before a creative split.
“Blue moon“Is set during one night, in the iconic New York bar Sardis, at the after party for the 1943 premiere by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein’s stage music” Oklahoma! “Hart’s Personal and Professional Lives Dovetail and Unravel as Jealousy Seethes Over His Forms Creative Partner’s Success, His Own Sexuality Gets a bit Wobbly, and He Bonds with a Bright-Pirited Protégé (Margaret of the Jazza Like A Sads Charact Includes Andrew Scott as Richard Rodgers, Simon Delaney as Oscar Hammerstein, Cillian Sullivan As Stephen Sondheim and Bobby Cannavale as the charming barkeep trying not to serve Lorenz too much, or at all.
Sony Pictures Classics open film in New York and Los Angeles on October 17, with more places to follow on October 24. “Blue Moon” premiere first at the 2025 Berlin Film Festival, where Scott won the supportive actor Silver Bear for his performance as Rodgers.
Read IndieWire’s “Blue Moon” review here. The film has not yet appeared on any autumn festival set -ups, but we are investing in showing up in Telluride to help starting the prices for Hawke and Scott. Robert Kaplow, who wrote the book that inspired Linklaters Biopik “Me and Orson Welles”, wrote the script.
“You are preparing for a part like this by playing Macbeth,” Said Hawke at the Berlin Film Festival Press Conference. “What Robert Kaplow wrote for us, this quite beautiful script, that if it is right is basically a movie that is a scene … I can say that I prepared by shaving my head or preparing Lorenz Hart songs. It is not really true. It is a long time to find out how to arrange scenes and how to make a seven or 11-page Saint Sdyndamic Sdyndamic SdyndyNamis
Look at the trailer below.
