This is the prologue of Richard Linklater’s new film, Blue Moon, his latest collaboration with Hawke and an expectedly poignant one from the prolific director.The film quickly waltzes from this rainy ...

Hawke’s elegiac performance is worth the price of admission alone. This is a truly stunning portrayal of someone whose ...

There’s something schematic—bordering on mechanical—about how Blue Moon sketches the contours of Larry’s public persona and inner life, and how his neuroses intersect with those of the people around ...

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

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 ...

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.

Lorenz Hart isn’t the most obvious subject for a biopic. What a lyricist does, even one as gifted as Hart, is heard rather than seen. Nor was his life a happy one. Hart was painfully short (“Five foot ...

By a quirk of scheduling, two movies about melancholic, albeit talented, figures in the world of music are playing in theaters. The first is “Blue Moon,” a delicious dark comedy ...

Blue Moon features a starry cast including Ethan Hawke as Hart and Andrew Scott as Richard Rodgers, along with Margaret Qualley and Bobby Cannavale. The film takes place at Sardi's Restaurant on March ...

"Every now and then you bump up against a part that presses you to the wall of your ability," Hawke says of playing lyricist ...