As soon as it gets dark this Monday, Aug. 19, look up to experience a celestial event that occurs only once this year: a blue moon. What, exactly, is a blue moon? Is it really blue? And how did the ...

There’s something schematic—bordering on mechanical—about how Blue Moon sketches the contours of Larry’s public persona and ...

As an adolescent with basic cable in the pre-streaming era, I often found myself watching snippets of unidentified films on ...

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 ...

Ethan Hawke stars as lyricist Lorenz Hart on the night his former writing partner, Richard Rodgers, debuts his hit musical Oklahoma!. Blue Moon offers a canny take on professional jealousy.

Director Richard Linklater and actor Ethan Hawke discuss their new film Blue Moon, which focuses on one fateful night toward the end of lyricist Lorenz Hart's life.

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 ...

First there was Rodgers & Hart. Then there was Rodgers & Hammerstein. And that change, depicted in the new film 'Blue Moon,' signaled a shift in pop culture ...

In this meditative portrait on the human condition, standout performances by Ethan Hawke, Andrew Scott and Margaret Qualley ...

The well-renowned “Blue Moon of Kentucky” has an extensive history and has taken on many forms, from Bill Monroe’s original bluegrass version to Elvis Presley’s pop rendition. The popularity 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.