We’ve all heard his songs “My Funny Valentine,” “The Lady Is a Tramp” and “Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered.” The melancholic movie is set entirely at New York’s famed Sardi’s restaurant, where ...

How influential was Lorenz Hart? The diminutive lyricist penned the words to Richard Rodgers’ early oeuvre, giving voice to a moon bearing witness to a lovesick soul, the sublime imperfections of a ...

Plenty of movies get described as feeling like a play. Blue Moon (2025) truly feels like a play, in the most exciting of ways., Directed by Richard Linklater and written by Robert Kaplow, Blue Moon is ...

For a filmmaker once synonymous with slackerdom, Richard Linklater has proven to be one of the most prodigious and consistently excellent American filmmakers. A small but rich vein of the two dozen ...

This, according to Lorenz Hart (Ethan Hawke), is the best line in “Casablanca.” At the beginning of Richard Linklater’s “Blue Moon,” Larry – a diminutive, walking cigar –swirls into Sardi’s, where the ...

The Texas actor is one of the most versatile, though least celebrated, major performers working in movies and television today. Though nominated in Oscars' best actor category twice, for "Training Day ...

Following the exclusive Gold Derby news that the upcoming Blue Moon, directed by Richard Linklater and starring Ethan Hawke, will compete in the Comedy/Musical category at the 2026 Golden Globes, the ...

Blue Moon (2025) Film Review from the 50th Annual Toronto International Film Festival, a movie directed by Richard Linklater, written by Robert Kaplow, and starring Ethan Hawke, Margaret Qualley, ...

There is a telling scene in “Blue Moon” that finds Ethan Hawke, playing the beleaguered lyricist Lorenz Hart, yammering about his triumphs and disappointments — as he does through much of the ...

Few know the name of Lorenz Hart (1895-1943) today, but along with his musical partner Richard Rodgers, they were the most famous Broadway songwriting duo in the first half of the twentieth century.